G. Cristina Mora | Research UC Berkeley

Research Expertise and Interest

classification, organizations, race and ethnicity, Latino Migration

Research Description

G. Cristina Mora is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses mainly on questions of racial and ethnic categorization, organizations, and culture. Her dissertation, De Muchos, Uno: the Institutionalization of Latino Panethnicity, won the 2010 ASA Distinguished Dissertation Award, and provides a socio-historical account of the emergence and diffusion of a “Hispanic/Latino” panethnic category in the United States. She is currently developing this project into a book manuscript, and plans to use some of the insight gleaned on racial/ethnic classification to shed new light on the production of medical and scientific knowledge. In addition, Professor Mora’s research on culture focuses on immigrant religion, as well as on the diffusion of Pentecostalism in Latin America.

In the News

At a 1957 civil rights protest, scores of Black men in a black & white photo carry signs reading "I Am a Man"

Most Californians Oppose Cash Reparations for Slave Descendants, IGS Poll Finds

Voter attitudes suggest campaigns for compensation "will face a steep uphill climb.”

A phalanx of police officers prepared for a night-time demonstration

Californians favor police reform, support Black Lives Matter, poll finds

With tensions continuing to flare across the U.S. after the police killing of George Floyd, California voters are broadly worried about race relations and support reforms to reduce police violence, says a new poll from UC Berkeley’s Institute for Governmental Studies (IGS).

Structural Racism and COVID19: The Political Divide, Re-Opening the Society and Health Impacts on People of Color

At a time when the pandemic is being politicized, a panel of UC Berkeley scholars called on Friday for bridging among different social and racial groups to help recognize their common interests and to emerge from COVID-19 more unified.

COVID-19: California poll findings and what they mean for our future

UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies and the California Initiative for Health Equity & Action (Cal-IHEA) recently completed the largest survey of Californians to date regarding opinions and attitudes related to COVID-19.

Man wearing medical mask in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Pandemic poses greater risks, stresses for California racial minorities, poll finds

People of color in California face elevated health and economic risks in the COVID-19 pandemic, with less freedom to work from home and more anxiety over paying for necessities and medical care, reports a new poll from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS).

Researchers unveil new initiative on human migration

UC Berkeley researchers today announced the launch of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, a joint project of faculty, researchers and students that will explore such timely issues as refugee crises, human rights, mmigration, nativism and border control concerns.

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