Dr. Kim Voss

Biography

Kim Voss is a Professor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has been a faculty member since 1986. She holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and specializes in social movements, labor, inequality, higher education, and comparative-historical sociology. Her current research focuses on immigrant social movements from a historical comparative perspective. She employs survey experiments to examine the resonance and framing of contemporary social movements while analyzing the dilemmas faced by the U.S. labor movement. Additionally, Voss has investigated shifts in the landscape of higher education in the United States. She has published extensively in reputable academic journals across sociology, political science, and demography and has authored or edited six influential books, including 'Rallying Immigrant Rights' (2011), 'Hard Work: Remaking the American Labour Movement' (2006), and 'Rebuilding Labor: Organizing the Organizers in the New Union Movement' (2004).

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