Faculty & Fellow

Nathan Sayre is Professor in the Department of Geography. His interests include political economy and political ecology; environmental history; the history of rangeland science, management and administration; conservation of endangered species and biodiversity; and exurban and suburban development in the western US. He received his initiation into ranching as a student at Deep Springs College, then completed his BA at Yale and his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He subsequently held a post-doctoral research position with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service-Jornada...

Nancy Scheper-Hughes works in critical medical anthropology, the anthropology of violence, madness and culture, inequality and marginality, and childhood and the family. She has conducted research, written on, and been politically engaged in topics ranging from mother love and child death (Death Without Weeping, 1993), schizophrenia as a projection of cultural political themes in rural Ireland (Saints, Schlars and Schizophrenics, 2000 ), AIDS and human rights in Cuba and Brazil, death squads and the extermination of street kids in Brazil, popular justice and human rights in South Africa,...

Brandi Thompson Summers is an Associate Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia in 2024, Dr. Summers was an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines the relationship between and function of race, space, urban infrastructure, and architecture. She is a contributing writer for Places Journal, and has published several articles and essays that analyze the relationship...

David Teece is the Tusher Chair of Global Business at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley, where he also directs the Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization. Professor Teece has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has held teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University. He also has four honorary doctorates. Professor Teece has authored over 200 publications in the areas of the economics of technological change, technology policy, and technology and intellectual property strategy. His books...