Faculty & Fellow

Jodi Halpern

Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities
School of Public Health and the Joint Medical Program

Jodi Halpern uses philosophical methods to analyze concepts at the intersection of philosophy and psychology. She has focused on complex interpersonal barriers to genuine empathy in her book From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice (Oxford University Press, New York, 2001) and in more recent papers, including a paper on social reconciliation after mass trauma. She is currently engaged in a fundamental critique of existing models of health decision-making that presume that people can predict their future emotional states under varying health conditions. For example,...

Carisa Harris

Associate Adjunct Professor
School of Public Health

Assistant Professor, School of Public Health
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Ergonomics Graduate Training Program
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, San Francisco

Carisa Harris, PhD, CPE received her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley and teaches a variety of classes including Occupational Biomechanics and Industrial Engineering Human Factors Design. Dr. Harris and her team performs research in a variety of areas...

John Harte

Professor
Energy and Resources Group
Degrees Ph.D. Theoretical Physics :: Uni­ver­sity of Wis­con­sin (1965)
B.A. Physics :: Harvard University (1961)

John Harte's research focuses on the effects of human actions on, and the linkages among, biodiversity, ecosystem structure and function, and climate. This work spans a range of scales, from plot to landscape to global, and utilizes field manipulation experiments, the analysis of patterns in nature, and mathematical modeling. Two specific current goals are to understand the extent to which ecosystem responses to climate change may result in feedbacks to...

Cori Hayden

Professor
Department of Anthropology

My research focuses on the anthropology of the biochemical sciences, global pharmaceutical politics, and postcolonial engagements with intellectual property and the politics of innovation and appropriation. These themes animated my 2003 book, When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico, which examined the consequences of novel drug discovery partnerships linking global drug companies, Latin American research scientists, and indigenous communities. A key theme emerging from that work was how new deployments of the idioms of intellectual property serve as...

Seth M. Holmes

Chancellor's Professor
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Martin Sisters Endowed Chair, Associate Professor, School of Public Health
Co-Director, MD/PhD Track in Medical Anthropology, Department of Anthropology
Co-Chair, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine

Physician and anthropologist Seth Holmes joined the School of Public Health faculty in the Fall as an assistant professor of Health and Social Behavior. Among other things, his current work examines HIV death disparities among immigrants and other marginalized groups in the Bay Area. Broader interests include medical...

Elizabeth Hoover

Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Degrees Ph.D Anthropology :: Brown University (2010)
M.A. Museum Studies :: Brown University (2003)
B.A. Anthropology and Psychology :: Williams College (2001) Research Areas

Native American food systems, food sovereignty, Native American environmental health movements, heirloom seeds, Indigenous uses of fire, environmental justice, food justice, Native American museum curation

My research focuses on Native American environmental health and food sovereignty movements. My first book The River is In Us; Fighting Toxins in a Mohawk Community, (...

Alastair Iles

Professor of Sustainability Transitions
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

In brief, his research and teaching objectives are: To develop research on the intersections of science, technology and environment that contributes to public policy, community welfare, environmental justice and increased democracy in societal governance; To encourage undergraduate and graduate students to develop a critical understanding of, and the ability to participate eventually in helping shape, STE developments; and To promote service-oriented education in which students and faculty collaborate with community organizations, policy-makers, leading companies and other actors to...

Jennifer Johnson-Hanks

Professor
Department of Geography and Sociology

My work focuses on between population rates and social practice. How are individual actions coordinated into stable population rates? Do population rates have causes? What roles do individual intentions and strategies play in the formation of rates? What is the social structure of intentions? is this structure transformed by the experience of pervasive uncertainty? I approach these theoretical questions using a combination of ethnographic and demographic methods. The empirical object of my work is kinship, and particularly reproduction: childbearing, contraceptive use, abortion,...

Donna V. Jones

Associate Professor
Department of English

Donna Jones' interests are in postcolonial theory & subaltern studies, Vitalism/Lebensphilosophie, Historiography & Narrative, Critical Theory, Literature of the African Diaspora, Literature of the Americas, Science and Literature. Professor Jones is currently working on a project entitled The Ambiguous Promise of European Decline: Race and Historical Pessimism in the Era of the Great War.

Rosemary Joyce

Professor
Department of Anthropology

Rosemary Joyce is a professor of anthropology at UC Berkeley and an archeologist who has conducted fieldwork in Honduras since 1977. Her research interests include ceramic analysis, household archaeology, and sex, gender and the body, interests unified under the heading of social archaeology. She is "very enthusiastic about teaching, mentoring and making other contributions to the program." As a museum anthropologist, Joyce has worked with curated collections in both North America and Honduras. Joyce has participated in field research in northern Honduras since 1977, and is currently co-...