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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Kathleen Donegan

Kathleen Donegan

Dept of English

Colonial America, early America, Native America, early Caribbean

Dept of History

Africa

School of Education

Dept of African American Studies

educational policy, charter schools, politics of education, race and education, school choice, desegregation, philanthropy and education, advocacy

Dept of Ethnic Studies

relational race studies, literatures of Asian Americans and Latinxs

Elena A. Schneider

Elena A. Schneider

Dept of History

Latin America, Caribbean, Atlantic World, cuba, comparative colonialism and slavery

Rauri C.K. Bowie

Dept of Integrative Biology

ornithology, Africa, evolutionary biology

Hillel David Soifer in outdoor setting

Dept of Political Science

comparative politics, methodology & formal theory, Latin America

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Latin America, Jewish Latin America, Andes, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Guatemala, Holocaust, genocide, race, nationalism, Spanish, mestizaje, indigeneity, Quechua

Aila Matanock at work in Berkeley

Dept of Political Science

post-conflict elections, policing, peace processes, civil conflict, foreign intervention, armed actor governance, armed actor social support, counterinsurgency, survey experiments, mixed-method research design, Central America, Colombia, Solomon Islands, West Africa

Margaret Chowning

Margaret Chowning

Dept of History

Mexico, history, gender, women, Latin America

Dept of Sociology

comparative and historical sociology, political sociology, ethnoracial politics, development, demography, Latin America

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Africa, disease ecology, wildlife conservation, resource management

Ann Swidler

Dept of Sociology

religion, culture, Africa, AIDS, political sociology, theory, development, NGOs, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

Dept of Economics

Africa, education, development economics, human capital, health, ethnic divisions, social capital, civil conflict, war, pre-analysis plans, water

Sarah E. Vaughn

Dept of Anthropology

anthropology, Science and Technology studies, environment, Expertise, climate change, historicism, theories of liberalism, Caribbean/Latin America

Daniel Aldana Cohen

Daniel Aldana Cohen

Dept of Sociology

politics of climate change, political economy, social inequality, urban studies, Latin America

Jennifer Johnson-Hanks

Jennifer Johnson-Hanks

Dept of Demography

Dept of Sociology

culture, population, social action, intentions, Africa, gender, fertility, marriage

Cover image of Disorientation: France, Vietnam, and the Ambivalence of Interculturality

Karl Britto

Dept of Comparative Literature

Africa, cultural studies, the Caribbean, literature, francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial literature, Vietnam, gender and identity

Dept of History

history, U.S. History, urban history, cultural history, History of Time

Raúl Coronado standing in outside setting

Dept of English

Latina/o literary and intellectual history, histories of sexuality and of the academic disciplines, comparative history of writing in the colonial and 19th century Americas, modernity, postcolonialism

Prof. Hannah Sande interacting with children during a research trip in Gnagbodougnoa, Côte d'Ivoire

Dept of Linguistics

phonology, phonological processes, morphology, Kru languages, West Africa, tone and prosody

Drew Jacoby-Senghor

Drew Jacoby-Senghor

Haas School of Business

intergroup processes, diversity, prejudice & discrimination, implicit bias, intergroup relations, inequality in America

Pradeep Chhibber

Pradeep Chhibber

Dept of Political Science

political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Dept of Geography

Latin America, human rights, peasantry, migrations, social movements, political conflict, Mayan communities in Guatemala, issues of memory, grief