G. Cristina Mora
G. Cristina Mora is Associate Professor of Sociology and the Co-Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses mainly on immigration, categorization, and racial and political attitudes in the United States. Her first book, Making Hispanics, was published by the University of Chicago Press and provides the first historical account of the rise of the “Hispanic/Latino” category in the United States. Mora has received numerous awards from the American Sociological Association, and her research has been the subject of various national media segments in venues like the Atlantic, the New Yorker, NPR, and Latino USA. In 2020, she helped to oversee the largest survey on Covid-19 and partisan politics in California and published some of the state’s first briefs and academic articles on the subject. She is currently working on her next book, California Color Lines, which examines inequality and political attitudes in California.
In 2021 and 2022, she received the UCB Graduate Mentoring Award, the Chancellors Award for Advancing Excellence and Equity, and led UC Berkeley’s first social-science cluster hire on the issue of “Latinos and Democracy.” In 2023, Mora received the nation’s first “Latino Social Science Pipeline” award from the Department of Education to advance research opportunities in Latino Social Science at UCB.
