Faculty & Fellows

Amani M. Allen

Associate Professor
School of Public Health
Research Areas

• Health disparities
• Race, stress, health
• Racism and health
• Mixed methods research

Other affiliations:

Institute for the Study of Societal Issues ♦ Institute for Personality and Social Research ♦ Health Disparities Cluster ♦ Othering and Belonging Institute ♦ UC Berkeley Population Center ♦ UCSF Center on Social Disparities in Health

Amani M. Allen is Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences and Epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, where her research focuses on race...

Morgan Ames

Associate Director of Research
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
School of Information

Chair of the Designated Emphasis in STS
Assistant Adjunct Professor, School of Information

University of California, Berkeley

Degrees Ph.D. Communication; Minor in Anthropology :: Stanford University (2013)
M.S. Information Management and Systems :: University of California, Berkeley (2006)
B.A. Computer Science :: University of California, Berkeley (2004)

Morgan G. Ames researches the ideological origins of inequality in the technology world, with a focus on utopianism, childhood, and learning. The...

Nicholas Baer

Assistant Professor
Department of German
Degrees Ph.D., Film & Media and Critical Theory :: University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Cinema and Media Studies :: University of Chicago

Nicholas Baer received his B.A. in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in Film & Media and Critical Theory from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago, and he held faculty appointments at the State University of New...

David Bates

Professor
Department of Rhetoric

David Bates' current project explores the problem of "human insight" in the rationalist tradition. He is particularly interested in rhetorical conceptions of knowledge in Enlightenment scientific epistemology, in logic and science in 19th-century thought, and in theories of insight at the intersections of 20th-century psychology, philosophy of science, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence research.

Charles Briggs

Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor
Department of Anthropology

Professor Briggs focuses on linguistic and medical anthropology, social theory, modernity, citizenship and the state, race, and violence. He has studied the tension between modernity and traditionality as socio-political processes in performance, focusing on jokes, proverbs, legends, myths, anecdotes, gossip, curing songs, and ritual wailing, along with how constructions of language and tradition have shaped the politics of modernity. He has conducted research with Latino/a populations in the Southwestern US and in Latin America. Current projects focus on revolutionary health care in...

Clair Brown

Professor Emerita
Department of Economics
Climate and Society Center

Clair Brown has published research on many aspects of the labor market, including unemployment, labor market institutions, the standard of living, and firm employment systems and firm performance. The industries she has studied include semiconductors, telecommunications, consumer electronics, and automobiles. She is the author of American Standards of Living, 1918-1988 (Blackwell, 1994) and the editor of Competitive Semiconductor Manufacturing: Human Resources Analysis (University of California, Berkeley, Fall 1997).Brown heads the human resources group of Sloan Semiconductor Program at U....

Jenna Burrell

Associate Professor
School of Information

Jenna Burrell's areas of interest include Technology and Socio-Economic Development, Material Culture and Theories of Consumption, and Transnationalism and Diaspora Studies. Her research examines the appropriation of new information and communication technologies in urban and rural locations in West and East Africa. She has carried out research on youth in the Internet cafes of urban Ghana and more recently on the diffusion and circulation of mobile phones in rural Uganda. Her book Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana is forthcoming with the MIT Press.

William Burton

Assistant Professor
Department of French
Degrees Ph.D., Department of French and Romance Philology :: Columbia University (2020)
M.A., French and Romance Philology :: Columbia University (2015)
B.A., Lettres et traduction françaises :: McGill University (2010)

William (Will) M. Burton is an assistant professor in the Department of French. Professor Burton's research examines how 'literary' authors position their work with regard to other disciplines and domains in the 18th and 20th centuries. The authors that Burton studies are concerned with imaginative writing's political potential and its capacity to...

Cathryn Carson

Professor
Department of History

Websites:

Cathryn Carson: http://history.berkeley.edu/people/cathryn-carson

D-Lab: http://dlab.berkeley.edu/

Data Science Education Program: https://data.berkeley.edu/academics/undergraduate-programs/data-science-major

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James Casey

Professor Emeritus
Department of Mechanical Engineering

James Casey is interested in the history of mechanics, elasticity, fluid mechanics, plasticity, and continuum mechanics, and in the history of civil and mechanical engineering generally.