Western Faculty Profile: Dr. Shawn Whitehead

Profile: Dr Simon Sinclair

a spiky intelligent bird, looking for a worm to pounce on. Useful in the context of a participant-observer study of medical acculturation which he published as Making Doctors (1997). This laser beam of anthropological analysis was recently cited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ President Simon Wessely as the book all doctors should read. Sinclair has now turned his attention to a crucial ...

Faculty Profile: Jeremy Magruder

Jeremy Magruder joined the faculty of the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley as an assistant professor in July 2007. Jeremy earned his Ph.D., M. Phil., and M.A. in Economics at Yale University, after completing his B.A. in Economics at Michigan State. Jeremy’s dissertation, “Unemploy­ ment, AIDS, and Schooling Decisions in South Africa,” included three essays on th...

Anatomical Variation in White Grub from Four Fish Hosts Presenter : Shane Mason Faculty Mentor : Shawn Meagher

Profile of Bruce Western.

On a summer afternoon in the late 1990s in New York City’s Tompkins Square Park, sociologist Bruce Western and his colleague Katherine Beckett engaged in a conversation that would change the course of their research. At the time, Western studied the social programs of European welfare states. Against the backdrop of a park that had seen a surge in drug dealing and homeless encampment in the 198...

Dirk Zeller Æ Shawn Booth

Fisheries catches from Pacific Island coral reefs are rarely recorded in official statistics. Reconstruction of catch estimates with limited hard data requires interpolation and assumptions, justifiable only by the unsatisfactory alternative of continued substitution of zero catches, a common policy interpretation for ‘no data’. Uncertainties associated with reconstructions are high, requiring ...