Jacob Dalton Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies religion, ritual, Tibet, Buddhism, Tantra, Dunhuang
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.
Penny Edwards Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies political and cultural history of Southeast Asia, French colonialism, British imperialism, French India, British India, comparative colonialism, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Chinese diaspora, cinema and theatre, Material and Visual Culture, travel and translation, gender, nationalism, Buddhism, economic history, global history
Deniz Göktürk Dept of German German literature, German cinema, transnational cinemas, German-Turkish-European-American intersections in cinema, performance and spectatorship and reception, intertextuality and intermediality and translation, the politics and poetics of migration and globalization, urban imaginaries and mediations of place, theories of diversity and nationalism, comedy and community, modern rituals of regulating identity and authority and mobility
William F. Hanks Dept of Anthropology social and cultural anthropology, linguistics, shamanism, language, Yucatan Mexico, Maya culture
Christine Hastorf Dept of Anthropology anthropology, archaeology, paleoethnobotany/archaeobotany, ancient plant use, foodways, Andean South America, indigenous ontologies, agriculture
Geoffrey Koziol Dept of History medieval history, History of Medieval Christianity, Medieval Political Institutions
Leslie Kurke Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies Dept of Comparative Literature classics, Greek literature and culture, archaic Greek poetry, Herodotus, Aesop, Ancient Greek popular culture
Niklaus Largier Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of German theology, anthropology and literature, literature and the visual arts, philosophical anthropology, ritual and religion, religious practice, literature
Rita Lucarelli Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Egyptology, Egyptian, afrofuturism, magic, demonology, digital humanities, 3D modeling, virtual reality, prison higher education, ritual and religion
Lisa Maher Dept of Anthropology archaeology, hunter-gatherers, prehistory, geoarchaeology, landscape use, stone tools technology, emergence of social complexity, ancient technology
Minoo Moallem Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Transnational and Postcolonial Feminist Studies, cultural studies, Commodity Cultures, Visual and Material Cultures of Religion, Immigration and Diaspora Studies, Middle East Studies, and Iranian Studies
Laura E. Pérez Dept of Ethnic Studies Chicana/Latina Feminist & Queer literary, visual, performance arts; US women of color thought; decolonial aesthetics and decolonial spiritualities
john powell Berkeley Law Dept of African American Studies Dept of Ethnic Studies Civil rights and civil liberties, structural racialization, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, and the needs of citizens in a democratic society
T. Carlis Roberts Dept of Music performance studies, interracial musical collaboration, music of enslaved Africans in the U.S. and Caribbean, intercultural percussion performance, women's drumming communities, diaspora connection in African American and Afro-Caribbean folkloric traditions, queer and trans popular music making, technology and politics of spiritual musical practice
Poulomi Saha Dept of English postcolonial studies, Asian American, South Asian, critical theory, gender and sexuality, cultural studies
Aarti Sethi Dept of Anthropology agrarian anthropology, ruralism, feminist anthropology, political economy, Comparative Religion, South Asia, debt and capitalism, cinema and media culture, ercstatic experience, embodiment and aestetics, theory of mind, theory of subjectivity, caste, socio-economic inequality
Robert Sharf Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures East Asian languages and cultures, medieval Chinese Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, Buddhist philosophy, methodological issues in the study of religion
Kim Shelton Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies ceramics, classical civilization and archaeology, Aegean prehistory, religion/mythology