African American & African Diaspora Studies
Michael J. Dumas
Assistant Professor
Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
The intersection(s) of the cultural politics of Black education, the cultural political economy of urban education, and the futurity of Black childhood(s).
Michael Cohen
Associate Teaching Professor
Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Cultural and political history of the United States from the Civil War to the Present. Teaching Areas: US Cultural History from the Civil War to the Present; Work and Labor History; World War II; Race, class and American popular culture; Cultural Studies and Marxist Theory; Drugs and Alcohol in US History
Darieck Scott
Professor
Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
20th and 21st century African American literature; creative writing; queer theory, and LGBTQ studies; race, gender and sexuality in fantasy, science fiction, and comic books.
john a. powell
Director
Othering & Belonging Institute
Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion
Professor
Joint Appointments, Departments of African American & African Diaspora Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, and School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
civil rights and civil liberties and a wide range of issues including race, structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty, and democracy
Tianna Paschel
Associate Professor
Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Intersection of racial ideology, politics, and globalization in Latin America.
Chiyuma Elliott
Associate Professor
Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Poetry and poetics, African American literature, intellectual history from the 1920s to the present, and Black Geography/Cultural Geography.
Brandi Wilkins Catanese
Associate Dean
Graduate Division
Associate Professor
Joint Appointment, Departments of African American & African Diaspora Studies, and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
African American Theater and Popular Culture, Performance Theory, Performance and Politics, Performance and Diaspora, Black Theater Workshop
Ula Taylor
1960 Chair of Undergraduate Education
Professor
Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
African American History (1890 – 1980), Black Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Black Feminist Theory, African American Women’s History, Civil Rights and Black Power
Stephen Small
Professor
Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Social scientific analysis of contemporary racial formations, and addresses links between historical structures and contemporary manifestations of racial formations.
Leigh Raiford
Professor
Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Race, Gender, Justice and Visuality
Nikki Jones
H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Professor and Department Chair
Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Urban ethnography, urban sociology, race and ethnic relations and criminology and criminal justice, with a special emphasis on the intersection of race, gender, and justice.
Robert Allen
Professor Emeritus
Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Life and work of C.L. Dellums, a leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Union. Social movements, labor studies, and race & gender studies.
Anthropology
Nicholas Laluk
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Decolonization and Indigenization, Indigenous Methodologies, Tribal sovereignty-driven research
William (Bill) A. White III
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Historical archaeology
Karen Nakamura
Haas Distinguished Chair of Disability Studies
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Cultural anthropology; Disability Studies; LGBT movements; minority social movements and identity politics; visual anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking, Japan
Cori Hayden
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Anthropology of science, technology, and medicine; Latin America (particularly Mexico); post-colonial science studies; kinship, gender, and queer studies.
Laurie Wilkie

Department of Anthropology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Historical and Contemporary Archaeology, Preservation and Heritage, Household archaeology, US and Caribbean
Sarah E. Vaughn
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Cultural Anthropology; (Post)colonial Science Studies; Environment; Expertise; Climate Change; Vulnerability; Critical Theories of Race and Racialization; Theories of Liberalism; Caribbean/Latin America.
Stefania Pandolfo
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Cultural Anthropology, theories of subjectivity, postcolonial criticism, anthropology and literature; Islam, Middle East and the Maghreb
Donald Moore
Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Cultural politics; race, ethnicity, and identity; spatiality and power; governmentality; development; environment; postcolonial theory; Africa.
Charles Hirschkind

Department of Anthropology
Research Interests / Specializations:Religion, anthropology of the senses, media theory, language and performance, Islam and the Middle East.
Daniel Fisher

Department of Anthropology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Social Cultural Anthropology; Media; Music and Sound; Photography and Cinema; Australia
Lawrence Cohen
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Social Cultural Anthropology, Medical and Psychiatric Anthropology, Critical Gerontology, Lesbian and Gay Studies and Feminist and Queer Theory.
Aihwa Ong
Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Science, Technology, & Society; Anthropology of Citizenship, Neoliberalism, Modernity; Contemporary Chinese Art; Selected interests in Southeast Asia, China, and U.S.A.
Margaret (Meg) W. Conkey
Professor Emerita
Department of Anthropology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Prehistoric archaeology, hunter-gatherers, prehistoric art and symbolism, gender studies in archaeology; Old World, Southwestern Europe.
Charles Briggs
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Social/cultural anthropology, especially as relating to linguistic and medical anthropology, narrative, media and mediatization, folklore and performance, racialization, and violence.
Architecture
Ronald Rael
Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture
Professor
Department of Architecture
Research Interests / Specializations:
Connecting indigenous and traditional material practices to contemporary technologies and issues and he is considered to be a design activist, author, and thought leader within the topics of additive manufacturing, borderwall studies, and earthen architecture.
C. Greig Crysler
Arcus Chair of Gender, Sexuality & The Built Environment
Professor
Department of Architecture
Research Interests / Specializations:
Focus on two areas of investigation. The first examines the institutions and practices of architectural theory in the context of the changing social, economic and political forces of the global present.
Art History
Atreyee Gupta
Assistant Professor
Department of Art History
Research Interests / Specializations:
Global Modern Art; Modern and Contemporary South and Southeast Asian Art
Lauren Kroiz
Associate Professor
Department of Art History
Research Interests / Specializations:
20th Century American Art, History and theory of photography and new media, race and ethnic studies, and the relationships between regionalism, nationalism and globalism.
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Professor
Department of Art History
Research Interests / Specializations:
18th- through early 20th-century French and American art and visual and material culture, particularly in relation to the politics of race and colonialism.
Julia Bryan-Wilson
Doris and Clarence Malo Professor
Department of Art History
Research Interests / Specializations:
Theories of artistic labor, feminist and queer theory, performance, production/fabrication, craft histories, photography, video, visual culture of the nuclear age, and collaborative practices.
Art Practice
Stephanie Syjuco
Associate Professor of Sculpture
Department of Art Practice
Research Interests / Specializations:
Exploring the tension between the authentic and the counterfeit, challenging deep-seated assumptions about history, race, and labor.
Al-An deSouza
Professor of Photography
Department of Art Practice
Research Interests / Specializations:
Examining and restaging colonizing legacies through strategies of humor, fabulation, and (mis)translation.
Asma Kazmi
Assistant Professor
Department of Art Practice
Research Interests / Specializations:
Combines virtual and material objects to explore simultaneity—a tug of more than one time and place. Work involves long-term engagement with cities, architecture, plants, animals, stones, and other matter to locate vestiges of relations forged by the legacies of colonialism and post-colonial contexts.
Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies
Carolyn Chen
Associate Professor
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Religion, Asian American Religion, Ethnicity, Immigration, Sociology of Work
Sau-Ling C. Wong
Professor Emeritus
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Construction of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and national & cultural membership in Asian American literature, esp. Chinese American literature and Chinese-language immigrant literature and film.
Ling-Chi Wang
Professor Emeritus
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Asian American history, Asian American civil rights issues; Overseas Chinese; U.S. foreign policies in Asia; bilingual education; and Asian Americans in higher education.
Khatharya Um
Associate Professor
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Politics of memory and commemoration in post conflict communities, Transnationalism and diaspora, Colonial and postcolonial studies, Community Studies and Oral History, Southeast Asia and Southeast American communities, Youth and second generation issues, Human rights, human security, and social justice, Genocide studies, Wars, empires and refugees, Education
Lok Siu
Associate Professor
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Transnationalism; Migration; Cultural Citizenship; Un/Belonging; Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Formation; Asians in the Americas; Cultural Politics of Food; Ethnography
Michael Omi
Professor Emeritus
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Racial Theory and Politics, Racial/Ethnic Classification and Identity, Comparative Racialization, Asian Americans and racial stratification, racial and ethnic categories and the U.S. Census, and both racist and anti-racist social movements.
Elaine Kim
Professor of the Graduate School (Emerita)
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Asian American literature and visual art, Korean American literary and cultural studies, representations of gender and ethnicity, sites of conflict and collaboration among racialized groups, and U.S. public education.
Catherine Ceniza Choy
Professor
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Asian American History; Philippine and Filipino American Studies; Adoption; Nursing; Migration; Gender
Business
Laura Kray
Faculty Director
Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership
Chair, Management of Organizations Group
Haas School of Business
The Ned and Carol Spieker Chair in Leadership
Professor
Haas School of Business
Research Interests / Specializations:
Gender Bias, Motivated Cognition, Mindsets, Groups and Teams, Ethics and Morality, Negotiations and Conflict Resolution
Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies
Ramon Grosfoguel
Associate Professor
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Decoloniality; International Migration; Political-Economy of the World-System; Racism; Islamophobia
Alex Saragoza
Professor Emeritus
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Intersections with immigration to the USA, especially Mexico and Cuba, Historical interface between processes of racialization and inequity in Latin America.
Laura E. Pérez
Chair
Latinx Research Center
Professor
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Decolonial aesthetics, Decolonial spiritualities, Latina/o literary + visual + performance arts, Post-sixties US Women of Color Feminist and Queer Thought
Beatriz Manz
Professor of the Graduate School (Emerita)
Joint Appointment, Departments of Geography and Comparative Ethnic Studies, Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Interested in Mayan populations, refugees, migration to the US, Latin America; Peasantry; Migrations; Social movements; Human Rights; Political/Social/Ethnic Conflict
Raúl Coronado
Associate Professor
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Histories of sexuality & of the academic disciplines, Latina/o intellectual & literary history, The comparative history of writing in the colonial and 19th century Americas, Theories of modernity & postcolonialism
City and Regional Planning
Charisma Acey
Associate Professor
Department of City & Regional Planning
Research Interests / Specializations:
Sustainable urbanism in the U.S. and the developing world; environmental justice; environmental behaviors and governance; water and sanitation infrastructure; food systems planning and food security, political economy of poverty reduction and access to basic services; social equity and participatory decision making; public participation GIS and spatial analysis.
Jason Corburn
Director
Institute of Urban and Regional Development
Professor
Joint Appointment, Department of City & Regional Planning and School of Public Health
Research Interests / Specializations:
Environmental policy & planning; environmental health; urban environmental justice; social & spatial epidemiology; health impact assessment; science & technology studies; social theory; environmental dispute resolution.
Comparative Ethnic Studies
john a. powell
Director
Othering & Belonging Institute
Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion
Professor
Joint Appointments, Departments of African American & African Diaspora Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, and School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
civil rights and civil liberties and a wide range of issues including race, structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty, and democracy
Salar Mameni
Assistant Professor
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Art, Aesthetics and Visual Culture, Transnational Feminism, Queer of Color Critique, Arab/Muslim Disapora, Militarism, Critical Race and Postcolonial Theory, Anthropocene, Extractive Economies and Petrocultures
Christian Paiz
Assistant Professor
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Comparative historical studies of race, gender and class and their intersections in relation to immigration, labor markets, and citizenship, Comparative Latino Studies, Historical Methods, Immigration, Labor, Philippine and Filipino American Studies, Social Movement History, United States History
Keith Feldman
Associate Professor
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Arab and Arab American Studies, Critical Race Theory, Cultural Theory, Cultures of US Imperialism, Diaspora Studies, Transnational American Studies, Visual Culture Studies
Juana María Rodríguez
Professor and Department Chair
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Critical legal theory, Latinx media and popular culture, LGBTQ activisms, Racialized gender and sexuality
Mario Barrera
Professor Emeritus
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Class, Ethnic Minority Films, Race, Theories of Ethnicity
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Founding Director
Center for Race & Gender
Professor of the Graduate School (Emerita)
Joint Appointment, Departments of Gender and Women’s Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Political economy of households, the intersection of race and gender, immigration, and citizenship. My current project is a historical comparative study of the transnational race and gender division of caring labor, which examines historical continuities in the association between unequal citizenship and caring labor.
Comparative Literature
Beth H. Piatote
Associate Professor
Joint Appointment, Departments of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Native American/Indigenous literature, history, law and culture, Global Indigenous Literature, Native American visual art, American literature and cultural studies, Nez Perce language and literature, indigenous language revitalization, creative writing.
Anne-Lise Francois
Associate Professor
Joint Appointment, Departments of Comparative Literature and English
Research Interests / Specializations:
Convergence of literary and environmental studies. In areas as diverse as contemporary food and farming politics and debates on climate change and the temporality of environmental violence, she continues to seek alternatives to Enlightenment models of heroic action, productive activity, and accumulation, and to identify examples of the ethos of recessive fulfillment and non-actualization theorized in Open Secrets.
Karl Britto
Associate Professor
Joint Appointment, Departments of Comparative Literature and French
Research Interests / Specializations:
Francophone colonial and postcolonial literatures of Vietnam, Africa and the Caribbean.
Chana Kronfeld
Bernie H. Williams Professor of Modern Hebrew, Yiddish and Comparative Literature
Joint Appointment, Departments of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, and Comparative Literature, and the Designated Emphasis in Jewish Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Modernism in Hebrew, Yiddish and English poetry, intertextuality, translation studies, theory of metaphor, literary historiography, stylistics and ideology, gender studies, political poetry, marginality and minor literatures, literature & linguistics, negotiating theory and close reading.
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Andrew Jones
Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese
Professor and Department Chair
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests / Specializations:
Modern Chinese literature and media culture, music, cinema, and media technology, modern and contemporary fiction, children’s literature, and the cultural history of the global 1960s.
Economics
Jesse Rothstein
Faculty Director
California Policy Lab
Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy and Economics
Goldman School of Public Policy
Research Interests / Specializations:
Education and tax policy, and particularly on the way that public institutions ameliorate or reinforce the effects of children’s families on their academic and economic outcomes.
Education
Patricia Baquedano-Lopez
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Education
Research Interests / Specializations:
Indigenous Latinx Students, Critical Research Methodologies, Discourse Analysis, Parent Engagement in Schools
Cati V. de los Ríos
Assistant Professor of Literacy, Reading and Bi/Multilingual Education
Graduate School of Education
Research Interests / Specializations:
Ethnographic, community-based, and participatory research is situated at the axes of literacy studies, educational anthropology, sociolinguistics, folklore studies and ethnic studies, with an emphasis on studying the unitary linguistic and semiotic repertoires that Latina/o/x youth and families deploy and develop across sociocultural settings
Tesha Sengupta-Irving
Associate Professor of Learning Sciences & STEM Education
Graduate School of Education
Research Interests / Specializations:
Sociocultural, disciplinary, and political dimensions of children’s mathematics learning.
Thomas M. Philip
Professor
Graduate School of Education
Research Interests / Specializations:
How teachers make sense of power and hierarchy in classrooms, schools, and society. How teachers act on their sense of agency as they navigate and ultimately transform classrooms and institutions toward more equitable, just, and democratic practices and outcomes. Teacher education. Learning as Political & Ethical.
Travis J. Bristol
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Education
Research Interests / Specializations:
The role of educational policies in shaping teacher workplace experiences and retention; District and school-based professional learning communities; The role of race and gender in educational settings
Tina Trujillo
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Education
Research Interests / Specializations:
The instructional and political implications of private intermediary organizations as technical assistance providers for public school districts.
Janelle Scott
Professor
Graduate School of Education
Research Interests / Specializations:
The relationship between education, policy, and equality of opportunity, and centers on three related policy strands: the racial politics of public education, the politics of school choice, marketization, and privatization, and the role of elite and community-based advocacy in shaping public education.
Jabari Mahiri
William and Mary Jane Brinton Family Chair in Urban Education
Professor
Graduate School of Education
Research Interests / Specializations:
Adolescence. Alternative Schooling, At-Risk Youth, Computer-Mediated Learning, Cultural Studies, Curriculum Development, Diversity, Educational Equity, Ethnic Issues, Learning, Literacy, Multicultural Education, School and non-school Learning Contexts, School-University Collaboration, Teacher Development, Teacher Education and Certification, Technology and Schools, Urban Schooling, Writing and Literature
Zeus Leonardo
Professor
Graduate School of Education
Research Interests / Specializations:
Study of ideologies and discourses in education with respect to structural relations of power. Relationship between schooling and social relations, such as race, class, culture, and gender.
Kris D. Gutiérrez
Associate Dean
Graduate School of Education
Carol Liu Professor of Education
Graduate School of Education
Research Interests / Specializations:
Critical approach to the Learning Sciences and to Cultural Historical Activity Theory, examining the cultural dimensions of learning in designed learning environments, with attention to students and families from non-dominant and translingual communities.
Frank C. Worrell
Professor
Graduate School of Education
Research Interests / Specializations:
Academic talent development/gifted education, at-risk youth, cultural identities, scale development and validation, teacher effectiveness, time perspective, and the translation of psychological research findings into school-based practice. The role of psychosocial constructs as risk and protective factors in relation to students’ educational and psychological functioning.
Daniel Perlstein
Professor
Graduate School of Education
Research Interests / Specializations:
The relationship of democratic aspirations to social inequalities in American schools and life.
Lisa García Bedolla
Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division
Professor
Graduate School of Education
Research Interests / Specializations:
Using the tools of social science to reveal the causes of educational and political inequalities in the United States, considering differences across the lines of ethnorace, gender, class, geography, et cetera.
English
Anne-Lise Francois
Associate Professor
Joint Appointment, Departments of Comparative Literature and English
Research Interests / Specializations:
Convergence of literary and environmental studies. In areas as diverse as contemporary food and farming politics and debates on climate change and the temporality of environmental violence, she continues to seek alternatives to Enlightenment models of heroic action, productive activity, and accumulation, and to identify examples of the ethos of recessive fulfillment and non-actualization theorized in Open Secrets.
John Alba Cutler
Associate Professor
Department of English
Research Interests / Specializations:
Chicanx and/or Latinx, Poetry
Kathleen Donegan
Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. Chancellor’s Distinguished Chair in Writing
Associate Professor
Department of English
Research Interests / Specializations:
Atlantic, Caribbean, Early American, Native American
Hertha Sweet Wong
Associate Dean of Arts & Humanities
College of Letters & Science
Professor
Department of English
Research Interests / Specializations:
19th Century American, 20th and 21st Century American, Native American, Cultural Studies
Susan Schweik

Department of English
Research Interests / Specializations:
Scott Saul
Professor
Department of English
Research Interests / Specializations:
20th and 21st Century American, African American, Cultural Studies, Drama
Steven Lee

Department of English
Research Interests / Specializations:
American literature, comparative ethnic studies, Soviet and post-Soviet studies, and Northeast Asia during the interwar years.
Donna Jones

Department of English
Research Interests / Specializations:
Nadia Ellis

Department of English
Research Interests / Specializations:
Stephen M. Best
Professor
Department of English
Research Interests / Specializations:
American and African-American literature and culture, cinema and technology, rhetoric and the law, and critical theory.
Bryan Wagner
Professor
Department of English
Research Interests / Specializations:
African American expression in the context of slavery and its aftermath, and he has secondary interests in legal history and vernacular culture.
Poulomi Saha
Associate Professor
Department of English
Research Interests / Specializations:
Intersections of psychoanalytic critique, feminist and queer theory, postcolonial studies, and ethnic American literature, research spans eastward and forward from the late 19th century decline of British colonial rule in the Indian Ocean through to the Pacific and the rise of American global power and domestic race relations in the 20th century.
Colleen Lye
Associate Professor
Department of English
Research Interests / Specializations:
20th and 21st-century literature, Marxism and postcolonial theory, Critical Theory, and Asian American Studies
Abdul R. JanMohamed
Professor
Department of English
Research Interests / Specializations:
Critical Theory, African American, Cultural Studies
Marcial González
Associate Professor
Department of English
Research Interests / Specializations:
Chicana/o literature, migrant and immigrant literature, farm labor social movements, and Marxist literary theory
Elizabeth Abel
John F. Hotchkis Chair in English
Professor
Department of English
Research Interests / Specializations:
Gender and sexuality, psychoanalysis, and twentieth-century fiction (with a focus on Virginia Woolf). Race, cultural studies, and visuality.
Environmental Design
Danielle Zoe Rivera
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture + Environmental Planning
College of Environmental Design
Research Interests / Specializations:
Environmental Justice, Climate Justice, Environmental Planning, Community Design, Mexican American and Puerto Rican Studies
Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Elizabeth Hoover
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
Research Interests / Specializations:
Native American food systems, food sovereignty, Native American environmental health movements, heirloom seeds, Indigenous uses of fire, Native American museum curation, community based participatory research, environmental justice, food justice
Christopher Schell
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
Research Interests / Specializations:
Urban ecology, animal behavior, endocrine mechanisms, human-wildlife conflict, social-ecological systems, environmental justice, mammalogy
Jeffrey M. Romm
Professor of the Graduate School
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
Research Interests / Specializations:
Natural resource and environmental policy
Michael Mascarenhas
Professor
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
Research Interests / Specializations:
Postcolonial theory and development studies, environmental justice and critical race theory, and science and technology studies
Rachel Morello-Frosch
Professor
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
Research Interests / Specializations:
Race and class determinants of the distribution of health risks associated with air pollution among diverse communities in the United States.
Seth Holmes
Co-Chair
Berkeley Center for Social Medicine
Professor
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, and
Research Interests / Specializations:
Medical anthropology, transnational im/migration and refugeeism, critical food studies, racialization and racism, gender and queer theory, naturalization and normalization of social and health inequalities, Latin America, the United States, and Europe.
Claudia J. Carr
Associate Professor Emerita
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
Research Interests / Specializations:
International and rural resource development; public policy and international rural development; water resources and public policy; African natural resources and development; river basin development and conservation; pastoralism and development
Film & Media
Natalia Brizuela
Class of 1930 Chair
Center for Latin American Studies
Professor
Joint Appointment, Departments of Spanish & Portuguese and Film & Media
Research Interests / Specializations:
Photography, film and contemporary art, critical theory and aesthetics of both Spanish America and Brazil.
Linda Williams
Professor Emerita
Departments of Rhetoric and Film & Media
Research Interests / Specializations:
Film history and genre, Melodrama and pornography, Feminist theory, Visual culture
French
Karl Britto
Associate Professor
Joint Appointment, Departments of Comparative Literature and French
Research Interests / Specializations:
Francophone colonial and postcolonial literatures of Vietnam, Africa and the Caribbean.
Debarati Sanyal
Professor
Department of and French
Research Interests / Specializations:
Critical refugee studies; aesthetics and biopolitics; human rights and humanitarianism; postwar French and Francophone culture; transcultural memory studies; Holocaust studies; critical theory; 19th-century French literature
Gender & Women's Studies
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Founding Director
Center for Race & Gender
Professor of the Graduate School (Emerita)
Joint Appointment, Departments of Gender and Women’s Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Political economy of households, the intersection of race and gender, immigration, and citizenship. My current project is a historical comparative study of the transnational race and gender division of caring labor, which examines historical continuities in the association between unequal citizenship and caring labor.
Courtney Morris
Assistant Professor
Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Black women’s social movements, State violence and authoritarianism, Racial formations in Latin America, the Caribbean and the US, Critical race theory, Feminist and queer theory, Environmental ethics, Black visual culture and aesthetics
Eric A. Stanley
Associate Professor
Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Prison abolition, Radical queer/trans movements, Anarcha-feminism, Architectures of attack, gentrification, displacement
Alisa Bierria
Associate Director (2010 – 2018)
Center for Race & Gender
Assistant Professor
UCLA, Department of Gender Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Racialized gender violence and critical acts of survival. Black Feminist Theory, Gender Violence and Redress, Feminist and Queer Carceral Studies, Agency and Intentionality, Feminist Epistemology.
Leslie Salzinger
Associate Professor
Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Gender and capitalism, Feminist theory, Political economy and transnational processes. Ethnography, mostly focused on Latin America, especially Mexico. The cultural constitution of economic processes and the creation of subjects within political economies.
Laura Nelson
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Gender, medicine, and politics: Cultural, political, and experiential aspects of breast cancer in South Korea. How, why, and to what effect constructions of gender, class, and race are mobilized and manipulated in South Korea. Structures of cultural temporality (future, present, or past orientation) and anti-poverty policies (U.S. and South Korea).
Minoo Moallem
Professor
Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Postcolonial and Transnational Feminist Theories, Immigration and Diaspora Studies, Feminist Cultural Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Iranian Cultural Politics and Diasporas
Mel Y. Chen
Associate Professor
Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Queer and gender theory, animal studies, critical race theory, disability studies, and critical linguistics.
Paola Bacchetta
Co-Chair of the Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative
Center for Race & Gender
Professor
Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Queer and gender theory, animal studies, critical race theory, disability studies, and critical linguistics.transnational feminist theory; gender, sexuality, race, religion; nationalisms (especially Hindu nationalism); religious, ethnic and political conflict; social movements (feminist, lesbian, anti-racism, and right-wing); space; postcolonial theory; qualitative methods (discourse analysis and ethnography). Geographic areas of specialization outside the United States: India and France.
Geography
Brandi Thompson Summers
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
Research Interests / Specializations:
Black geographies, urban geography, racial aesthetics, design, planning, and architecture, cultural politics of difference
Jovan Scott Lewis
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
Research Interests / Specializations:
Black Geographies, Economic geography, Caribbean Thought, decoloniality, reparations and repair, poverty and inequality, race (blackness), the Caribbean (Jamaica) African-American communities (Tulsa, OK),
Jake Kosek
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
Research Interests / Specializations:
Cultural politics of nature and difference; cultural geography, science and technology studies; critical race theory; critical cartography; biopolitics; human and the non-human; and environmental politics
Sharad Chari
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
Research Interests / Specializations:
Geography as history of the present and as Earth/world-writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor and work, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic humanities, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean.
Beatriz Manz
Professor of the Graduate School (Emerita)
Joint Appointment, Departments of Geography and Comparative Ethnic Studies, Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Interested in Mayan populations, refugees, migration to the US, Latin America; Peasantry; Migrations; Social movements; Human Rights; Political/Social/Ethnic Conflict
German
Deniz Göktürk
Professor
Department of German
Research Interests / Specializations:
Cultural and media studies with a focus on moving images, multilingual literature, and theories of migration, social interaction and aesthetic intervention in a global horizon
Jeroen Dewulf
Director
Institute of European Studies
Director
Center for Portuguese Studies
Queen Beatrix Professor in Dutch Studies
Professor
Department of German
Research Interests / Specializations:
Transatlantic slave trade; Dutch and Portuguese colonial history; Dutch and German literature; Low Countries Studies; Swiss literature and culture; European politics and culture
History
Rebecca Herman
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Research Interests / Specializations:
Exploring twentieth-century Latin American social and political history in a global context, probing the intersections between grand narratives and local history.
Bernadette Pérez
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Research Interests / Specializations:
Histories of Latinx and Indigenous peoples in the West. Work is situated at the intersection of multiple subfields of history, from race and environment to labor, migration, and colonialism. Empire and capitalism in action.
Dylan Penningroth
Professor
Joint Appointment, Department of History and School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
African American history and in U.S. socio-legal history, Law and Society, Legal History, Racial and Social Justice
Elena Schneider
Associate Professor
Department of History
Research Interests / Specializations:
Cuba and the Caribbean, comparative colonialism and slavery, and the Black Atlantic
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
Chancellor’s Professor of History, 2021-2024
Associate Professor
Department of History
Research Interests / Specializations:
Gender and American slavery, colonial and 19th century legal and economic history, especially as it pertains to women, systems of bondage, and the slave trade.
Brian DeLay
Preston Hotchkis Chair in the History of the United States
Associate Professor
Department of History
Research Interests / Specializations:
US and the World, American West, 19th-century Americas, transnational history, US-Mexico Borderlands, Native American History, International Arms Trade
Waldo E. Martin
Alexander F. & May T. Morrison Professor of American History & Citizenship
Department of History
Research Interests / Specializations:
Modern African American Cultural Politics: 1945-1980. Examining the cultural impact and significance of the Civil Rights and Black Power struggles on the Black Freedom Struggle specifically, and postwar American Culture more generally.
David A. Hollinger
Preston Hotchkis Professor Emeritus
Department of History
Research Interests / Specializations:
Impact of foreign missionary project (2/3 female) on American culture and politics; theories of race and identity.
Integrative Biology
Tyrone B. Hayes
Professor and Department Co-Chair
Department of Integrative Biology
Research Interests / Specializations:
The role of steroid hormones in amphibian development and conduct both laboratory and field studies in the U.S. and Africa. The two main areas of interest are metamorphosis and sex differentiation, growth (larval and adult) and hormonal regulation of aggressive behavior.
Italian Studies
Rhiannon Noel Welch
Associate Professor
Department of Italian Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Modern Italian literature, film, and critical theory
Journalism
William (Bill) J. Drummond
Permanent Faculty
Graduate School of Journalism
Research Interests / Specializations:
Prison Policy, Incorporating stress-reduction techniques into journalism education.
Law
Osagie K. Obasogie
Haas Distinguished Chair
Professor of Law and Professor of Bioethics
Joint Appointment, School of Law and School of Public Health, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program
Research Interests / Specializations:
Constitutional law, policing and police use of force, sociology of law, bioethics, race and inequality in law and medicine, and reproductive and genetic technologies. The role of science, medicine, and medical professionals in hindering the ability to hold police officers accountable when they use excessive force; analyzes the legacy of the American eugenics movement and its contemporary impact on law, science, medicine, and technology; studies how legal doctrine produces police violence; and exposes the often overlooked limitations of DNA databases when they are used in criminal investigations.
john a. powell
Director
Othering & Belonging Institute
Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion
Professor
Joint Appointments, Departments of African American & African Diaspora Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, and School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
civil rights and civil liberties and a wide range of issues including race, structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty, and democracy
Jennifer M. Chacón
Professor
School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Criminal Justice, Critical Legal Theory, Immigration, Racial and Social Justice
Asad Rahim
Assistant Professor
School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Critical Legal Theory, Law and Society, Racial and Social Justice
Abbye Atkinson
Class of 1965 Assistant Professor of Law
School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
Law of debtors and creditors as it affects marginalized communities.
Khiara Bridges
Professor
School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
Race, class, reproductive rights, and the intersection of the three.
Victoria Plaut
Director
Culture, Diversity & Intergroup Relations Lab
Claire Sanders Clements Dean’s Professor of Law
School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
Projects on diversity include studies related to diversity climate, diversity resistance, perceptions of inclusion, colorblind vs. multicultural models of diversity, models of deafness and disability, and gender diversity and recruitment, among others. Cultural psychology, including cultural models of success, self, well-being, relationship, and law. Incorporating empirical psychological research related to issues of diversity and culture into the design of legal institutions and organizations.
Taeku Lee
Associate Dean of Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program
School of Law
The George Johnson Professor of Law, and Professor of Political Science
Joint Appointment, School of Law and The Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
Research Interests / Specializations:
Racial and ethnic politics, public opinion and survey research, identity and inequality, and deliberative and participatory democracy.
Kathryn Abrams
Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law
School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
Feminist jurisprudence, voting rights and constitutional law. Questions of employment discrimination, minority vote dilution, campaign finance, constitutional law, and law and the emotions, but it has focused most centrally on feminist jurisprudence. Feminist methodology and epistemology, the jurisprudence of sexual harassment, and cultural and theoretical constructions of women’s agency.
Sarah Song
The Milo Rees Robbins Chair in Legal Ethics Professor of Law, and Professor of Political Science and Philosophy
School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
Issues of democracy, citizenship, migration, and inequality. Political and legal philosophy, citizenship and migration, and feminist theory and jurisprudence.
Dylan Penningroth
Professor
Joint Appointment, Department of History and School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
African American history and in U.S. socio-legal history, Law and Society, Legal History, Racial and Social Justice
Sonia Katyal
Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research
School of Law
Co-Director
Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
Distinguished Haas Chair
Professor
School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
Intersection of technology, intellectual property, and civil rights (including antidiscrimination, privacy, and freedom of speech). Artificial intelligence and intellectual property; the intersection between the right to information and human rights; trademark law and branding; and a variety of projects on the intersection between museums, cultural property and new media. Matters regarding law, gender and sexuality.
Russell Robinson
Faculty Director
Center on Race, Sexuality & Culture
Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law
School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
Anti-discrimination law, race and sexuality, law and psychology, constitutional law, and media and entertainment law.
Jonathan Simon
Lance Robbins Professor of Criminal Justice Law
School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
Role of crime and criminal justice in governing contemporary societies, risk and the law, and the history of the interdisciplinary study of law. Criminal law, criminal procedure, criminology, legal studies and the sociology of law. Human Rights of Prisoners.
Ian Haney López
Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law
School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
Race and constitutional law. How racism has evolved since the civil rights era, the connection between racial divisions in society and growing wealth inequality in the United States. Dog Whistle Politics
Laurel E. Fletcher
Clinical Program Director
School of Law
Co-Director
International Human Rights Law Clinic
Co-Faculty Director
Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law
Chancellor’s Clinical Professor of Law
School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
Human rights, humanitarian law, international criminal justice, and transitional justice.
Catherine Fisk
Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law
School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
Employment Law, Labor Law, Civil Procedure, and Understanding the U.S. Legal Profession. Intersection of antitrust, labor, and copyright law in structuring labor relations in American theatre, the crafting of New Deal era labor and social welfare legislation, social movement lawyering, free speech rights of worker organizations and in the workplace, new forms of labor organizing, and police unions.
Christopher Edley, Jr.
The Honorable William H. Orrick, Jr. Distinguished Professor
School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
Administrative law, civil rights, education policy, and domestic public policy.
Lauren Edelman
Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law, and Professor of Sociology
School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
The interplay between organizations and their legal environments, focusing on employers’ responses to and constructions of civil rights laws, workers’ mobilization of legal rights, the impact of management practices on law and legal institutions, dispute resolution in organizations, school rights, empirical critical race studies, empirical sociolegal studies, and employer accommodations of disabilities in the workplace.
Catherine Albiston
Faculty Director
Center for the Study of Law and Society
The Jackson H. Ralston Professor of Law, and Professor of Sociology
School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
Employment Discrimination, Sociology of Law, Social Movements and Law, Research Design, and the Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing Workshop on Law. The relationship between law and social change through a variety of empirical projects.
Leti Volpp
Director
Center for Race & Gender
Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice
School of Law
Research Interests / Specializations:
Legal understandings of the relationship between culture, migration and identity, and on theories of citizenship. Asian American racialization and in the culturalization of racism, especially as it is expressed through concern about cultural forms of gendered subordination.
Linguistics
Richard A. Rhodes
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies
Co-Director
Canadian Studies Program
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
Research Interests / Specializations:
The intersection of language, history, and geography.Algonquian languages (Ojibwe/Ottawa, Cree), Mixe-Zoquean languages (Sayuleño), mixed languages (Métchif), language contact, language spreads, pronominal systems
Leanne Hinton
Professor Emerita
Department of Linguistics
Research Interests / Specializations:
Language death and language revitalization, and thus the politics of language.
Mechanical Engineering
Alice M. Agogino
Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair in Mechanical Engineering
Product Design Concentration Founder and Head Advisor
MEng Program
Professor of the Graduate School
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations:
Intelligent learning systems; information retrieval and data mining; multiobjective and strategic product design; nonlinear optimization; probabilistic modeling; intelligent control and manufacturing; sensor validation, fusion and diagnostics; wireless sensor networks; multimedia and computer-aided design; design databases; design theory and methods; MEMS Synthesis and CAD; artificial intelligence and decision and expert systems; gender equity.
Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Chana Kronfeld
Bernie H. Williams Professor of Modern Hebrew, Yiddish and Comparative Literature
Joint Appointment, Departments of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, and Comparative Literature, and the Designated Emphasis in Jewish Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Modernism in Hebrew, Yiddish and English poetry, intertextuality, translation studies, theory of metaphor, literary historiography, stylistics and ideology, gender studies, political poetry, marginality and minor literatures, literature & linguistics, negotiating theory and close reading.
Native American Studies
Thomas Biolsi
Professor
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Race-Making, Indian Law & Policy, Governmentality
Shari Huhndorf
Class of 1938 Professor
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Interdisciplinary Native American studies, Alaska Native studies, contemporary literary and visual culture, cultural studies, gender studies, and American studies.
Beth H. Piatote
Associate Professor
Joint Appointment, Departments of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Native American/Indigenous literature, history, law and culture, Global Indigenous Literature, Native American visual art, American literature and cultural studies, Nez Perce language and literature, indigenous language revitalization, creative writing.
Nuclear Engineering
Daniel Kammen
Director
Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL)
Professor of Energy
Joint Appointment, Goldman School of Public Policy’s Energy and Resources Group, and Department of Nuclear Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations:
Climate Change, Engineering, Environment, Energy, Renewable and Clean Energy, Energy Forecasting, Health and Environment, International R&D Policy, Race and Gender, Rural Resource Management
Political Science
Cecilia Hyunjung Mo
Judith E. Gruber Associate Professor
The Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
Research Interests / Specializations:
Behavioral political economy, comparative political behavior, the political economy of development, and social policy research. Contemporary challenges to development and moral issues of today like cultivating democratic citizenship, understanding and addressing the negative consequences of rising inequality, combatting modern day slavery, and reducing prejudice.
Desmond Jagmohan
Assistant Professor
The Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
Research Interests / Specializations:
The history of African American and American political thought, the politics of deception; theories of property, slavery, and domination; and the ideas of nationalism and self-determination in black political thought.
Wendy Brown
Professor Emeritus
The Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
Research Interests / Specializations:
The history of political theory, nineteenth and twentieth century Continental theory, critical theory and theories of contemporary capitalism.
Taeku Lee
Associate Dean of Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program
School of Law
The George Johnson Professor of Law, and Professor of Political Science
Joint Appointment, School of Law and The Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
Research Interests / Specializations:
Racial and ethnic politics, public opinion and survey research, identity and inequality, and deliberative and participatory democracy.
Psychology
Jason Okonofua
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Mindsets; stereotypes; education-based motivation; large-scale psychological intervention; social cognition; teacher-student relationships; school-to-prison pipeline; discipline in K-12 schooling
Ann M. Kring
Professor
Department of Psychology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Developmental predictors of clinical, social, cognitive, and emotional functioning in middle age; Emotional features of schizophrenia, the linkage between emotion, cognitive and social deficits in schizophrenia
Dacher Keltner
Co-Director
Greater Good Science Center
Professor
Department of Psychology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Social/Personality: emotion; social interaction; individual differences in emotion; conflict and negotiation; culture
Stephen Hinshaw
Vice-Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychology
Distinguished Professor, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Department of Psychology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Developmental psychopathology; externalizing behavior dimensions and disorders; family, peer, and neuropsychological risk factors; mechanisms of change via clinical trials; stigma and mental illness
Public Health
Jason Corburn
Director
Institute of Urban and Regional Development
Professor
Joint Appointment, Department of City & Regional Planning and School of Public Health
Research Interests / Specializations:
Environmental policy & planning; environmental health; urban environmental justice; social & spatial epidemiology; health impact assessment; science & technology studies; social theory; environmental dispute resolution.
Amani M. Allen
Executive Associate Dean
School of Public Health
Professor of Community Health Sciences and Epidemiology
School of Public Health
Research Interests / Specializations:
Race and socioeconomic health disparities and the measurement and study of racism as a social determinant of health.
Denise Herd
Community Health Sciences Divison Chair
Director of Health and Social Behavior
Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences
School of Public Health
Research Interests / Specializations:
Racialized disparities in health outcomes, spanning topics as varied as images of drugs and violence in rap music, drinking and drug use patterns, social movements, and the impact of corporate targeting and marketing on popular culture among African American youth.
Osagie K. Obasogie
Haas Distinguished Chair
Professor of Law and Professor of Bioethics
Joint Appointment, School of Law and School of Public Health, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program
Research Interests / Specializations:
Constitutional law, policing and police use of force, sociology of law, bioethics, race and inequality in law and medicine, and reproductive and genetic technologies. The role of science, medicine, and medical professionals in hindering the ability to hold police officers accountable when they use excessive force; analyzes the legacy of the American eugenics movement and its contemporary impact on law, science, medicine, and technology; studies how legal doctrine produces police violence; and exposes the often overlooked limitations of DNA databases when they are used in criminal investigations.
Susan Ivey
Director of Research
Health Research for Action
Adjunct Professor
School of Public Health, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program
Research Interests / Specializations:
Health services research including design and evaluation of health interventions, particularly for low-income populations, recent immigrants and Asian Americans.
Public Policy
Claire Montialoux
Assistant Professor
Goldman School of Public Policy
Research Interests / Specializations:
Labor economics, public finance and inequality. How labor market policies affect wage inequality.
Steven Raphael
James D. Marver Chair in Public Policy
Professor
Goldman School of Public Policy
Research Interests / Specializations:
Economics of low-wage labor markets, housing, and the economics of crime and corrections. Social consequences of the large increases in U.S. incarceration rates and racial disparities in criminal justice outcomes. Immigration policy, research questions pertaining to various aspects of racial inequality, the economics of labor unions, social insurance policies, homelessness, and low-income housing.
Rucker Johnson
Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy
Goldman School of Public Policy
Research Interests / Specializations:
Economics of education, considering the role of poverty and inequality in affecting life chances. Applied econometrics and topical courses in race, poverty & inequality.
Daniel Kammen
Director
Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL)
Professor of Energy
Joint Appointment, Goldman School of Public Policy’s Energy and Resources Group, and Department of Nuclear Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations:
Climate Change, Engineering, Environment, Energy, Renewable and Clean Energy, Energy Forecasting, Health and Environment, International R&D Policy, Race and Gender, Rural Resource Management
Rhetoric
Linda Williams
Professor Emerita
Departments of Rhetoric and Film & Media
Research Interests / Specializations:
Film history and genre, Melodrama and pornography, Feminist theory, Visual culture
Fumi Okiji
Assistant Professor
Department of Rhetoric
Research Interests / Specializations:
Black Study, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Sound and Music Studies, Performance Studies, Black Feminist Thought
Samera Esmeir
Co-Director of Projects
International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs
Associate Professor
Department of Rhetoric
Research Interests / Specializations:
Intersection of legal and political thought, Middle Eastern history and colonial and post-colonial studies. Examinig how late-modern colonialism has introduced liberal juridical logics and grammars that in turn shaped modalities of political praxis, and how those have persisted in the post-colonial era and have traveled in different countries in the Middle East.
Nasser Zakariya
Associate Professor
Department of Rhetoric
Research Interests / Specializations:
Science and narrative, as well as varied topics in the history and philosophy of science. Interrelated collaborative research, including studies of the genealogy and structure of technoscientific futurist imaginaries, the relationship between narratological categories and scientific explanatory modes, social-scientific/game-theoretic analyses of voting, and social scientific legal studies of consumer discrimination.
Marianne Constable
Professor
Department of Rhetoric
Research Interests / Specializations:
Written dialogue form, in the rhetoric of environment and administration, and in awareness and movement and their relations to learning. Legal rhetoric and philosophy, Theories of interpretation, Social and political thought, Anglo-American legal traditions Continental philosophy, Contemporary law and society.
Shannon Jackson
Associate Vice Chancellor of Arts + Design
Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Chair in the Humanities
Professor of Rhetoric and of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
1) Collaborations across visual, performing, and media art forms and 2) the role of the arts in social institutions and in social change.
Scandinavian
Linda H. Rugg
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
Professor of Swedish Literature
Department of Scandinavian
Research Interests / Specializations:
Issues related to self-construction and self-representation, particularly in textual autobiography and visual media. Authorship is another strong allied research interest, with special attention to the authorships and authorial personae of August Strindberg, Mark Twain, Ingmar Bergman, and a range of art cinema directors who perform as authors.
Social Welfare
Linda Burton
Dean
School of Social Welfare
Eugene and Rose Kleiner Chair for the Study of Processes, Practices and Policies in Aging
Professor
School of Social Welfare
Research Interests / Specializations:
Child welfare and poverty whose program of research is conceptually grounded in life course, developmental, and ecological perspectives and focuses on three themes concerning the lives of America’s poorest urban, small town, and rural families: (1) intergenerational family structures, processes, and role transitions; (2) the meaning of context and place in the daily lives of families; and, (3) childhood adultification and the accelerated life course.
Erin M. Kerrison
Assistant Professor
School of Social Welfare
Research Interests / Specializations:
Legal epidemiological framework, wherein law and legal institutions condition structural determinants of health. Specifically, through varied agency partnerships, her mixed-method research agenda investigates the impact that compounded structural disadvantage, concentrated poverty, and state supervision has on service delivery, substance misuse, violence and other health outcomes for individuals and communities marked by criminal legal system intervention.
Tina Sacks
Associate Professor
School of Social Welfare
Research Interests / Specialization:
Racial inequities in health, social determinants of health, and poverty and inequality. How macro-structural forces, including structural discrimination and immigration, affect women’s health. The persistence of racial and gender discrimination in health care settings among racial/ethnic minorities who are not poor.
Kurt Organista
Harry and Riva Specht Chair for Publicly Supported Social Services
Professor
School of Social Welfare
Research Interests / Specialization:
Social work practice within the Latino community, Dr. Organista’s research focuses on psychosocial problems within the Chicano and Latino communities, acculturation and adjustment of ethnic minorities to American societies, minority mental health, cognitive behavioral therapy, depression in Latinos and HIV prevention with Mexican migrant laborers/Latinos.
Julian Chun-Chung Chow
Hutto-Patterson Charitable Foundation Professor
School of Social Welfare
Research Interests / Specializations:
Community practice. Why racial/ethnic and immigrant minorities struggle to access available services, aiming to identify ways to transform social services for the underserved and improve service delivery for immigrant populations and communities. Social services for China’s migrant populations as well as social work education and its development in China.
Sociology
Mara Loveman
Professor
Department of Sociology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Ethnoracial politics, nationalism, and the state. Sociology of development, the demography of ethnoracial difference and inequality, and human rights, with a regional focus on Latin America.
Christopher Muller
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Research Interests / Specializations:
The political economy of incarceration in the United States from Reconstruction to the present. How agrarian transitions, migration, and struggles over land and labor have affected racial and class inequality in incarceration. Ccauses and effects of environmental inequality and inequality in death from infectious disease.
Cybelle Fox
Professor and Department Chair
Department of Sociology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Race and Ethnic Relations, American Welfare State, Immigration, Historical Sociology, and Political Sociology.
Loïc Wacquant
Professor
Department of Sociology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Incarnation, the penal state, comparative urban inequality and marginality, “race” as a principle of social vision and division, extreme social systems, politics of reason, social epistemology, classical and contemporary social theory.
Martín Sánchez-Jankowski
Chair
Center for Ethnographic Research
Professor
Department of Sociology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Sociology of poverty, race and ethnicity, social violence, methodology.
John Lie
C.K. Cho Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Research Interests / Specializations:
Social theory. Rethink the categories of modern peoplehood – race, ethnicity, and nation. Social theory, political economy, East Asia.
Irene Bloemraad
Thomas Garden Barnes Chair of Canadian Studies
Director
Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative
Class of 1951 Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Research Interests / Specializations:
How immigrants become incorporated into political communities and the consequences of their presence on politics and understandings of membership. The intersection of immigration studies and political sociology, with a strong interdisciplinary (and international) scope. Citizenship & Multiculturalism, Immigrant Community Organizations, Political Socialization in Mixed-Status Families, Diversity & Democracy.
Spanish & Portuguese
Natalia Brizuela
Class of 1930 Chair
Center for Latin American Studies
Professor
Joint Appointment, Departments of Spanish & Portuguese and Film & Media
Research Interests / Specializations:
Photography, film and contemporary art, critical theory and aesthetics of both Spanish America and Brazil.
Estelle Tarica
Professor
Departments of Spanish & Portuguese
Research Interests / Specializations:
Study of racial ideologies and how these are linked to discourses of cultural decolonization, especially in Mexico, the Andes and the French Caribbean. Questions of novelistic form and language as a means to approach the dynamics of modern subjectivity in highly racialized societies.
Daylet Domínguez
Associate Professor of Caribbean and Latin American Literatures and Cultures
Departments of Spanish & Portuguese
Research Interests / Specializations:
Modern travel cultures and costumbrismo; empire, nation and revolution; slavery, race and colonialism.
Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies
Shannon Jackson
Associate Vice Chancellor of Arts + Design
Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Chair in the Humanities
Professor of Rhetoric and of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
1) Collaborations across visual, performing, and media art forms and 2) the role of the arts in social institutions and in social change.
Philip Kan Gotanda
Professor
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Investigating the Japanese American family writing a cycle of works in theater, film, song and opera that chronicle Japanese America from the early 1900s to the present.
Shannon Steen
Associate Dean for Programs & Planning
College of Letters & Science
Associate Professor
Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Race and performance, primarily in the intersection of the African American and Asian American worlds. Critical Race and Performance Theory, American Studies, US Histories of Popular Performance, US Urban Development, Globalization Studies.
Abigail De Kosnik
Director
Berkeley Center for New Media
Associate Professor
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Popular media, particularly digital media, film and television, and fan studies. How issues of feminism, queerness, ethnicity, and transnationalism intersect with new media studies and performance studies.
SanSan Kwan
Associate Professor and Department Vice Chair
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Dance studies, Asian American studies, theories of space and kinesthesia, and interculturalism.
Brandi Wilkins Catanese
Associate Dean
Graduate Division
Associate Professor
Joint Appointment, Departments of African American & African Diaspora Studies, and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
African American Theater and Popular Culture, Performance Theory, Performance and Politics, Performance and Diaspora, Black Theater Workshop
Angela Marino
Associate Professor
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Research Interests / Specializations:
Intersection of politics and performance in the Americas. Popular culture, fiesta and carnival, U.S. Latina/o and Latin American plays, history and performance.