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A retired UC Berkeley professor was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Oakland on Monday. He was identified as Michael Burawoy, 77, of Oakland, who was regarded as an influential sociology professor ...

On Tuesday, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Coroner Bureau identified the deceased victim as 77-year-old Michael Burawoy. Burawoy was a professor of sociology at UC Berkeley for nearly half a century.