The Bernard Moses Memorial Lectureship in the Social Sciences was established by the President and the Regents of the University in 1937. The lectureship honors the memory of the late Bernard Moses, who taught all of California's social sciences courses for his first seven years at the University. From his classes grew the Departments of History, Economics, Political Science, and Jurisprudence. As of 2024, this lecture is succeeded by the Berkeley Distinguished Faculty Lectures in the Social Sciences.

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Title	Lecturer	Year
The Social Safety Net as an Investment in Children	Hilary Hoynes	2022
DEEP SOUL: Twentieth-Century African American Freedom Struggles and the Making of the Modern World	Waldo E. Martin, Jr.	2019
Neoliberalism’s Scorpion Tail: Markets and Morals Where Democracy Once Was	Wendy Brown	2018
Strangers in Their Own Land: Challenges Climbing the “Empathy Wall”	Arlie Hochschild	2017
Can We Create Good Institutions?	Ann Swidler	2016
The Children of the Revolution	Yuri Slezkine	2014
Where the Wild Genes Are	Aihwa Ong	2014
Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower	Mary Ann Mason	2013
Income Inequality: Evidence and Implications	Emmanuel Saez	2012
Everyday Life and Learning	Jean Lave	2011
Environmentalism: From the Control of Nature to Partnership	Carolyn Merchant	2010
The Humvee and the Apple Tree: Globalization or Americanization?	Ken Jowitt	2004
Sex and Death on the Edge of Europe: Slavonian Demography 1683-1900	Eugene A. Hammel	1998
Metaphors of Causation	George Lakoff	1995
The Inca Civil War and the Establishment of Spanish Power in Peru	John H. Rowe	1990
The Intellectual’s Role in the Modern World	Reinhard Bendix	1986
Half Empty or Half Full: Observations on Soviet Historiography	Nicholas V. Riasanovsky	1985
My Life with Lincoln	Kenneth M. Stampp	1983
In Quest of National Interest: The Foreign Policy of the People’s Republic of China	Robert A. Scalapino	1982
Unions, Economists, and Anti-Intlation Policy	Lloyd Ulman	1981
Planned Change: The Creation of a New Society	Elizabeth Colson	1981
The Economics of Virtuous Haste: A Half-Century of Soviet Industrialization	Gregory Grossman	1980
America’s Musical Awareness of the Other Americas (to 1900)	Robert Stevenson	1979
The Inscrutable Chinese-Can We Understand Them?	Wolfram Ebhard	1979
Five Centuries of Food Production and Consumption in Central Mexico	Woodrow Borah	1978
Hippocates’ Latin American Legacy: Problems and Puzzles of the Hot/Cold Dichotomy	George M. Foster	1977
Words and Ideas: “Patria” and “Nacion” in Pre-Independence Peru	Luis Monguio	1977
Belgian Dream of Empire in South America	Hilgard O'Reilly Sternberg	1976
The Presidency In The Political System	Aaron Wildavsky	1974
The Dialectic of Fact and Value: Foundations of a Humanist Social Science	Philip Selznick	1973
Conceptions of Sex Role: Some Cross Cultural and Longitudinal Perspectives	Jeanne H. Block	1972
Berkeley in the 1960’s: A Historian’s Point of View	Henry F. May	1970
The American Republic in Transition	Peter H. Odegard	1963
What is Justice?	Hans Kelsen	1952
The Ancient Maya and the Recently Discovered Frescos of Bonampak	A. V. Kidder	1951
Two Thousand Years in Native Peru: A Story of Cultural Rise and Fall	A. L. Kroeber	1947
Inclinations and Obligations	Alexander Meiklejohn	1947
What is Wrong with International Law?	Edwin D. Dickinson	1946
Hypothesis and Practical Judgment in Economics and Ethics	Griffith C. Evans	1944
El Dorado: The Coronado Expedition in Perspective	Herbert E. Bolton	1941
The Employment of the Human Document in the Social Sciences	William I. Thomas	1940
The Problem of Controversial Issues in the Teaching of the Social Sciences	Dexter M. Keezer	1938
Our Basic Economic Problem	Adolph C. Miller	1937