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Faculty Highlight: Nancy Kwak

Spring 2016

Congratulations to Associate Professor Nacy Kwak whose book, "A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid" has been awarded the 2016 Kenneth Jackson Award for the best book in North American urban history.

Faculty Highlight: Frank Biess

Spring 2016

Congratulations to Professor Frank Biess who has been appointed as Faculty Director for the UC-Education Abroad Program Northern Europe (Denmark, Sweden, Germany) with residency in Berlin. His two-year appointment will begin in July 2017.

Faculty Highlight: Wendy Matsumura

Spring 2016

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Wendy Matsumura who received the Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award for her book, The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations of Community.