Find UC Berkeley Faculty

Research Expertise and Interest

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

Name

Department

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Dept of History

Modern German and European History, Human Rights and Internationalism, global urban history, critical theory

Eric Stover

human rights, war, International Criminal Law, Forensic Sciences, International Criminal Justice

Susan Maslan in crowded interior space

French, early modern French literary, political history, the enlightenment, human rights

criminal law, international law, human rights, International Criminal Law

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Dept of Geography

Latin America, human rights, peasantry, migrations, social movements, political conflict, Mayan communities in Guatemala, issues of memory, grief

Khiara Bridges standing in an outdoor setting.

Khiara M. Bridges

race, class, reproductive rights

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

cultural connections and exchanges between Russia and China, early Soviet culture, socialist internationalism, post-socialism, politics and aesthetics

Pheng Cheah

Dept of Rhetoric

world literature, human rights, nationalism, legal philosophy, feminism, 18th-20th century continental philosophy & contemporary critical theory, postcolonial theory & anglophone postcolonial literatures, cosmopolitanism & globalization, social & political thought

Kathryn Abrams standing in outside setting.

law, feminist jurisprudence, voting rights, constitutional law

Anca Dragan in outside setting

Anca Dragan

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

robotics, human-robot interaction, human-compatible artificial intelligence

Ian Haney Lopez

Ian F. Haney Lopez

constitutional law, race relations, civil rights, race in politics, Latinos

School of Social Welfare

aging, caregiving, long-term care, workplace rights, health policy, LGBTQ+

Priya Moorjani standing in front of map of the world

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Human evolutionary genetics, human genetics, ancient DNA, population genetics, statistical genetics

Dept of History

20th century U.S. history, with a focus on political economy, civil rights, education, law, the west

Dept of Psychology

cognition, human brain function, development

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

Jamie H. D. Cate

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

protein synthesis by the ribosome, RNA, antibiotics, human translation, escherichia coli

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Statistics

evolution, molecular evolution, population genetics, human variation, human genetics, phylogenetics, applied statistics, genetics, evolutionary processes, evolutionary biology

environmental law, natural resource law, law and science, biodiversity conservation, public and private land management, property rights

Robert P. Merges

antitrust, intellectual property, property rights, patent law, law and economics, copyright law, digital content, online contracts

Hany Farid

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

School of Information

digital forensics, forensic science, misinformation, human perception

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

School of Information

design, human-computer interaction, user experience research

Dept of Demography

human populations, migration, fertility and fecundity, environmental change

Jeffrey MacKie-Mason

Jeffrey MacKie-Mason

Dept of Economics

School of Information

information systems, digital content, human behavior, online behavior