G. Cristina Mora She/Her/ella

G. Cristina Mora is Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology and the Co-Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley. Her award winning research focuses mainly on Latino immigration, inequality, 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 socio-historical account of the rise of the “Hispanic/Latino” category in the United States.

Mora has received numerous accolades 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, the LA TImes, 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. Her forthcoming book, Normalizing Inequality: How Californians Make Sense of the Growing Divide, examines the politics of inequality in the nation’s most diverse and unequal state.