Find UC Berkeley Faculty

Research Expertise and Interest

Use quotes to search for an exact phrase. Example: "computational biology"

Name

Department

critical theory, English, modernism, literature and philosophy, literature of the Americas, literature of the African Diaspora, postcolonial literature and theory, narrative and historiography

Charles L Briggs

Dept of Anthropology

social cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, folklore and performance, racialization, linguistic anthropology

Jake Kosek

Dept of Geography

cultural politics of nature and difference, cultural geography, Science and Technology studies, critical race theory, critical cartography, biopolitics, human and the non-human, environmental politics

David Henkin

Dept of History

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

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

Karl Britto

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of French

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

Scott Saul

Dept of English

20th and 21st century American literature, African American literature, cultural studies, drama, film

Jacob Dalton

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

religion, ritual, Tibet, Buddhism, Tantra, Dunhuang

Paula Varsano

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

classical Chinese poetry and poetics (3rd-11th centuries), traditional Chinese literary theory, phenomenology, translation, comparative literature, aesthetics, epistemology

Jan Engelmann

Dept of Psychology

developmental psychology, comparative psychology, cross-cultural psychology

Laura C. Nelson

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

gender and medicine and politics, breast cancer in South Korea, cultural impacts of ultra-low fertility, demographic undertow, structures on cultural temporality and anti-poverty policies in the U.S. and South Korea

Juana María Rodríguez

Dept of Ethnic Studies

race and sexual politics, LGBTQ communities, Latino/a/x and Caribbean literatures and cultures, women of color feminisms, queer activism in the Americas, transgender studies, sex work

Eric T. Meyer

School of Information

social informatics, digital transformation, knowledge, social and cultural studies

Justin Hosbey

Dept of City & Regional Planning

cultural and political economy of racism, Black ecologies, racial capitalism, digital humanities

Jonas Wellendorf

Dept of Scandinavian

Old Norse language and literature, Scandinavian mythology, Scandinavian cultural history (Viking Age and Middle ages)

Louise Mozingo

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

urban design and planning, design history, social and cultural factors in landscape design

Kate Heslop

Dept of Scandinavian

Medieval Studies, Old Norse literature, Viking and medieval Scandinavia, cultural memory, media theory

Matthew Shutzer

Dept of History

environmental history, modern South Asia, energy history, Science and Technology studies, histories of development and decolonization, empire, political economy, comparative history, historical sociology, social theory

Mary Ann Doane

Dept of Film and Media

feminist theory, cultural theory, archaeology of media technology, film and modernity, film theory, psychoanalytic theory

Yoko Hasegawa

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Japanese linguistics, syntax/semantics, pragmatics, phonetics, cognitive linguistics

Mark A. Csikszentmihalyi

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

early China, Confucianism, Taoism, Daoism, Comparative Religion

Daena Funahashi

Dept of Anthropology

Political anthropology, democratic theory, critical theory, Crisis of Legitimacy, stress, Burnout, death, the uncanny, economy of excess, scientific authority, Nordic Welfare, Southeast Asia

Archaeologists confer at the Yarumela site in Honduras

Rosemary A. Joyce

Dept of Anthropology

Latin America, anthropology, cultural heritage, gender, archaeology, sexuality, museums, ethics, Central America, feminism

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

Julianna Deardorff

School of Public Health

adolescent health, puberty, sexual development, cultural factors, contextual factors, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships

Grace Lavery

Dept of English

critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, Pacific, 19th century British literature, cultural studies

Berkeley Expertise Finder Assistant

[]

Disclaimer: This service is experimental and available for a limited time on a trial basis only. It is not intended for private or confidential information. Send us your feedback.

Find UC Berkeley Faculty

Secure Funding

Ensure Compliance

Locate Facilities

For VCR Units