Staff

David J. Harding

Faculty Director
Sociology, D-Lab, UC Berkeley
Professor, Sociology, UC Berkeley Faculty Director, D-Lab, UC Berkeley

David J. Harding is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director of the D-Lab, which supports data-intensive research in the social sciences and humanities. Dr. Harding studies poverty and inequality, urban neighborhoods, education, adolescents and young adults, incarceration, and prisoner reentry. He uses both qualitative and quantitative methods. His current projects include the social and economic reintegration of former prisoners, the transition to adulthood after prison, the effects of incarceration on crime,...

Harpreet Mangat

Executive Director
CRELS, UC Berkeley

Dr. Harpreet Mangat is Executive Director of CRELS. She has held various leadership positions on campus at the Berkeley Institute of Migration Initiative, Goldman School of Public Policy, the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues. She was also a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar at Cal. Prior to coming to the United States, Harpreet was a professor in the department of Political Science at Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar, Punjab. In India, she conducted research on the Indo-Pakistan border,elections, and diaspora nationalism...