Find UC Berkeley Faculty

Research Expertise and Interest

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

Name

Department

Dept of Anthropology

historical archaeology, African American archaeology, historic preservation, heritage conservation, community based participatory research

Juana María Rodríguez

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

Rebecca M. McLennan

Rebecca McLennan

Dept of History

North America: 1763-present, law & society, crime & punishment, prisons, society & culture, capitalism, global foodways

Cihan Tugal

Dept of Sociology

political sociology, social movements, religion, Islam and the Middle East, culture, poverty and class, social theory, ethnography

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

Lisa Maher

Dept of Anthropology

archaeology, hunter-gatherers, prehistory, geoarchaeology, landscape use, stone tools technology, emergence of social complexity, ancient technology

Mark Sandberg sitting in outside setting

Dept of Film and Media

Dept of Scandinavian

silent film, late nineteenth-century visual culture, theater history, comedy, Scandinavian design, serial television, film historiography, Scandinavian film history, Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian literature, Nordic literary history

School of Education

development, education, cognition, human development, development of social judgments and action, the development of moral reasoning, children’s conceptions of authority, rules in school settings, culture and social development

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, cell culture, biocatalyst engineering, microsystems, extremozymes, genomics of extremophiles, metabolic flux analysis, enzyme technology, bioactive materials

Prof. Angela Marino

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

Latin American Studies, performance studies, Venezuela, Chicanx Latinx studies, Chicano Latino theater, political cultures, Populism, Festival and Carnival Studies, democracy, Latin America

Dora Silva Santana

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black trans studies, Black queer and trans feminist theory, global south epistemologies, Black poets, visual culture - media - and technology

Dept of Anthropology

decolonization, indigenization, indigenous methodologies, tribal sovereignty-driven research, Indigenous Archaeologies, Southwest U.S.

Dept of Economics

Dept of Political Science

Institutions and development, culture and economics, political institutions and economic outcomes, European Parliament and European institutions, reforms in China/North Korea/Eastern Europe

Henry Washington Jr.

Dept of African American Studies

19th and 20th century African American literature, Black intellectual history, Black feminist theory, Black trans theory, Black visual culture and aestetics, performance theory

Benjamin Porter

Benjamin Porter

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology, Middle East, Arid Environments, Heritage, tourism, museum studies

Ignacio Navarrete

Ignacio Navarrete

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Spanish literature: poetry; poetic theory; narrative; and culture, history of the book, Cervantes, Don Quixote, Celestina, everyday life, medieval and early modern Spanish literature, modern Spain

Charlan Jeanne Nemeth

Charlan Jeanne Nemeth

Dept of Psychology

decision making, jury decision making, influence and persuasion, creativity in small groups, managing innovation in organizations, psychology of creative scientists and entrepreneurs, corporate cultures, diversity of team members, brainstorming, psychology and law

Ken Ueno

music composition, decolonizing music, noise, sound installations, music of Japan, extended vocal techniques, overtone singing, musical culture of Japan, experimental improvisation

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)

Olga Matich

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Slavic languages and literatures, Russian symbolism and post-Stalin literature, women in Russian literature, Zinaida Gippius, Russian emigre literature, conceptualization of love in Russian culture, theory and practice of private life

A photo of Keltner teaching

Dept of Psychology

culture, conflict, behavior, love, psychology, emotion, social interaction, individual differences in emotion, negotiation, embarrassment, desire, juvenile delinquency, laughter, anger, social perception, negotiating morality

Dept of Ethnic Studies

art, aesthetics and visual culture, transnational feminist and queer of color theories, Arab diaspora, Muslim diaspora, militarism, critical race theory, critical postcolonial theory, Anthropocene, extractive economies and petrocultures

Glynda Hull

School of Education

language, culture, society, education, literacy, writing in and out of schools, multi-media technology, new literacies, adult learning, work, community, school, university collaborations

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

Dept of History of Art

18th through 20th century French, 18th through 20th century French and American art, history of slavery, colonialism, race, gender, visual and material culture