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Department

Dept of History

Africa

Rebecca M. McLennan

Rebecca McLennan

Dept of History

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

Rauri C.K. Bowie

Dept of Integrative Biology

ornithology, Africa, evolutionary biology

Ayesha S. Mahmud

Ayesha S. Mahmud

Dept of Demography

Infectious disease dynamics, disease ecology, mathematical models, Asia, Africa, Central America, climate change

Dept of Anthropology

anthropology, historical archaeology, oral history, material culture and ethnic identity, family and gender relations, North America, Northern California, Caribbean, Bahamas, African consumerism, creolization, multi-ethnic community

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

Dept of History

North America, Native American history, indigenous methodologies, Tewa philosophy, community-based research, oral history, history of physics, colonialism

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Africa, disease ecology, wildlife conservation, resource management

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

Karl Britto

Dept of Comparative Literature

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

Jennifer Johnson-Hanks

Jennifer Johnson-Hanks

Dept of Demography

Dept of Sociology

culture, population, social action, intentions, Africa, gender, fertility, marriage

Prof. Hannah Sande interacting with children during a research trip in Gnagbodougnoa, Côte d'Ivoire

Dept of Linguistics

phonology, phonological processes, morphology, Kru languages, West Africa, tone and prosody

john powell at lectern

john powell

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, needs of citizens in a democratic society

Mariane C. Ferme

Dept of Anthropology

Material culture and agrarian landscapes, gender, historical anthropology, Sierra Leone, contemporary Africa, political culture, transitional justice in post-conflict societies

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

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

Dept of Economics

Africa, education, development economics, human capital, health, ethnic divisions, social capital, civil conflict, war, pre-analysis plans, water

Dept of African American Studies

Atlantic slave trade, historical demography, African history and political economy, oil and gas policy

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

Zamansele Nsele standing in outdoor setting

Zamansele Nsele

Dept of History of Art

modern & contemporary African diaspora visual art, modern & contemporary African visual art, Black art, Black & African feminisms, critical theories of Blackness, African modernism, theories of nostalgia and melancholia, visual activism

Dept of African American Studies

20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Latin America, Jewish Latin America, Andes, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Guatemala, Holocaust, genocide, race, nationalism, Spanish, mestizaje, indigeneity, Quechua

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

immigration and migration, medical anthropology with foci on social theory and ethnography, social studies of medicine and science, social difference related to race, social difference related to socioeconomic status, social difference related to citizenship, social difference related to gender, social difference related to sexuality, the naturalization and normalization of social hierarchies and health disparities, social suffering and symbolic violence, urban and rural Latin America and North America, population health with focus on global health, population health with focus on health disparities, population health with focus on social determinants of health

Dept of African American Studies

public history, African diaspora in Europe, British imperialism, community-engaged research/scholarship

Dept of African American Studies

social movements, visual culture, memory, photography, African American history and culture

Dept of Art Practice

photography, contemporary art, Art Pedagogy, performance, postcolonial studies, gender, queer, trans studies, contemporary African Art, South Asian Art, art of the Global South, global modernisms