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Department

Dept of History of Art

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Soviet art, photography, European avant-gardes, global modern art

Dept of Architecture

architecture and urban design and theory

Ethan Katz

Dept of History

Jewish history, modern France, empire, Jewish-Muslim relations, secularism

Eliza Brown

Dept of Sociology

economic sociology, gender and sexualities, medicine, reproduction, Science and Technology studies

Professor David C. Wilson on stage

David C. Wilson

Goldman School of Public Policy

political psychology, politics, race and public policy, race, racial justice, public opinion research, survey research methods

Kristofer Pister

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

micro robotics, synthetic insects, smart dust

17th and 18th century French literature and culture, history and theory of the novel, quantitative literary history and digital humanities, history of aesthetics, cinema (French New Wave)

Chiyuma Elliott

Chiyuma Elliott

Dept of African American Studies

poetry and poetics, African American literature, intellectual history - 1920s to the present, Black geography/cultural geography

Photo Berkeley Library

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

School of Social Welfare

family policy, child and family poverty, child abuse and neglect, foster care, kinship care, Child welfare services

Ivonne del Valle

Ivonne del Valle

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

colonial period in México, internal colonialism in Mexico, Jesuits (Loyola, Acosta, Baegert), Baroque and Enlightenment from a colonial perspective, technology and environment, drainage of Mexico City lakes, Christianity and pre-Hispanic religions

Liesl Yamaguchi in motion in front of chalk board

Liesl Yamaguchi

poetics, linguistics, literary theory, 19th century literature, modern poetry

School of Journalism

incarceration, race, Haiti, imprisonment, prisons and policing, prisons, mental illness, mental health, juvenile delinquency

Akash Kumar

Dept of Italian Studies

medieval Italian literature, history of science, history of philosophy, Mediterranean studies, digital humanities

Dept of History

Latin American history

Mark Danner

Dept of English

School of Journalism

foreign affairs, voting and elections, journalism, Central America, politics, Balkans, Haiti, documentaries, terrorism, the Middle East, contemporary literature, modernist writers, contemporary literature and film

Stephen Best standing at desk with shelves full of book in the background.

Dept of English

film, English literature, African American literature, literary culture, legal culture

Dept of Demography

Haas School of Business

School of Public Health

health economics, public health, health care financing, economic development, industrial organizaition

Teresa Caldeira

Teresa Caldeira

Dept of City & Regional Planning

urbanization in the global south, peripheries: urban violence and spatial segregation, urban change, ethnography and qualitative methods

civil procedure, conflict of laws, legal remedies

Dept of History

Africa

Daylet Domínguez

Daylet Domínguez

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures

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

Photo of Kim Voss

Kim Voss

Dept of Sociology

sociology, labor, social movements, inequality, higher education