BERKELEY

Our purpose is captured in our name: we provide an organizational framework-a "matrix"-that supports cross-disciplinary research pursued by social scientists across the University of California, Berkeley campus and beyond... Social Science Matrix traces its origins back to 2012, when Carla Hesse, Dean of the Social Sciences Division, recognized the need for new research infrastructures to support emerging scholarship. She envisioned two complementary entities. The first would be a center dedicated to data-intensive methods of analysis; this later became D-Lab. The second would be a research institute devoted to the advancement of multidisciplinary inquiry; this would become the Institute for Integrative Social Science (IISS), subsequently renamed Social Science Matrix. In January 2013, Professor William F. Hanks agreed to serve as the founding director, a position he held until 2019. Professor Michael Watts served as Interim Director from 2019-2020, and Professor Marion Fourcade has..

Primary location: Berkeley United States