Institute Staff

[Danya Lagos]

Danya Lagos is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on how gender is changing in the twenty-first century. She is particularly interested in the social demography of LGBTQ populations. Her work has been published in the American Sociological Review, Demography and the Annual Review of Sociology. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago in April of 2019. During the 2019-2020 academic year, she was an NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin’s Population Center.

[Christopher Muller]

Christopher Muller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies the political economy of incarceration in the United States from Reconstruction to the present, with a focus on how agricultural labor markets, migration, and struggles over land and labor have affected incarceration and racial and class inequality in incarceration. His work has appeared in numerous journals including the American Journal of Sociology, Science, Demography, Annual Review of Sociology, and Social Forces. He is currently working on a project examining long-run patterns in the incarceration of Black Americans.

[Neil Fligstein]

Neil Fligstein is the Class of 1939 Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Director of the Center for Culture, Organization, and Politics. He is Co-Chair with Steve Vogel of the Network for a New Political Economy. His main research interests lie in the field of economic sociology, political economy, and organizational theory. He has made research contributions to the fields of economic sociology, organizational theory, political sociology, and social stratification. He is the author of numerous articles and eight books including The Transformation of Corporate Control (Harvard University Press, 1993), The Architecture of Markets (Princeton University Press, 2001), Euroclash (Oxford University Press, 2008), A Theory of Fields (with Doug McAdam, Oxford University Press, 2012) and most recently The Banks Did It: An Anatomy of the Financial Crisis (Harvard University Press, 2021)

[Steven Vogel]

Steven K. Vogel is Chair of the Political Economy Program, the Il Han New Professor of Asian Studies, and a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in the political economy of the advanced industrialized nations, especially Japan. His most recent book, entitled Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work (Oxford, 2018), argues that markets do not arise spontaneously but are crafted by individuals, firms, and most of all by governments. Vogel is also the author of Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism (Cornell, 2006) and co-editor (with Naazneen Barma) of The Political Economy Reader: Contending Perspectives and Contemporary Debates (Routledge, 2022). His first book, Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries (Cornell, 1996), won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize.

[Eva Seto]

Eva Seto is Associate Director of the Social Science Matrix. She leads the Research Development Team. Her education and many years of experience working in research institutes on the Berkeley campus provide Matrix with knowledge about the social-science landscape on campus, as well as the management skills to help successfully administer the programs, centers, and projects of Matrix. Eva earned her M.A. and B.A in Economics from UC Berkeley.

[Evelyn Kim]

Evelyn Jiyun Kim is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Travers Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley, focusing on American Politics. She graduated with Honors from the University of Michigan, majoring in Political Science. Her research interests are the influence of socioeconomic status on political participation and political attitudes, youth political engagement, and meritocracy. Her recent MA thesis focuses on how the discrepancy between individual's expected and realized socioeconomic status influences the level of political particiapation of various forms.

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