Vinod K. Aggarwal Dept of Political Science political science, negotiations, trade policy, international organizations, international debt rescheduling
Wali Ahmadi Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Persian literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history, Afghanistan
Robert Ashmore Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures China, lyric poetry, Chinese literature, Chinese culture, poetic theory
Paola Bacchetta Dept of Gender and Women's Studies gender and sexuality, global racialities, social theory, postcolonial and decolonial theory, alliances, right-wing movements; geographic specializations outside the U.S.:France, India
Janaki Bakhle Dept of History intellectual history of religion, politics and modern India, South Asia
Sukanya Banerjee Dept of English 19th-century British, South Asian, critical theory, cultural studies, narrative and the novel
Andrew Barshay Dept of History social thought, modernism, social sciences in modern Japan, marxism, Japanese history, Japanese-Russian relations
Gašper Beguš Dept of Linguistics computational linguistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, Generative AI, Deep Learning, speech processing, NLP, phonology, articulatory and acoustic phonetics, historical linguistics, Indo-European linguistics
Robert G. Bergman Dept of Chemistry organic and inorganic chemistry: synthesis and reaction mechanisms, organotransition metal compounds, homogeneous catalysis
Stefano M Bertozzi Berkeley Public Health HIV/AIDS, HIV prevention, HIV treatment programs, reproductive health, health economics, anti-poverty programs, impact evaluation
Mark Blum Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Buddhism, Japan, culture and society, modernization
Dana Buntrock Dept of Architecture architecture, construction industry, East Asian studies, architectural practice in Japan
Jennifer Bussell Dept of Political Science Goldman School of Public Policy democratic politics in economically developing states
Claudia Carr Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology international rural development and conservation; international resource policy, water resources, international aid policy. extractive industries in developing countries/global south.
Christopher J. Chang Dept of Chemistry Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute chemistry, inorganic chemistry, neuroscience, bioinorganic chemistry, general physiology, organic chemistry, new chemical tools for biological imaging and proteomics, new metal complexes for energy catalysis and green chemistry, chemical biology
Sharad Chari Dept of Geography geography as history of the present and as earthly/oceanic writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic studies, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean
Pheng Cheah Dept of Rhetoric world literature, human rights, nationalism, legal philosophy, feminism, 18th-20th century continental philosophy & contemporary critical theory, postcolonial theory & anglophone postcolonial literatures, cosmopolitanism & globalization, social & political thought
Mel Y Chen Dept of Gender and Women's Studies queer and feminist theory, disability theory, critical animal studies, materiality studies, cultural politics of race and sexuality and ability and immigration, critical linguistics, paradigms of inter and transdisciplinarity
Pradeep Chhibber Dept of Political Science political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India
Julian Chun-Chung Chow School of Social Welfare East Asian studies, social welfare, community practice and service delivery in urban poverty, ethnic, and immigrant neighborhoods, community analysis and needs assessment, program planning and development, and cultural competency services