Faculty & Fellows

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.

Mel Chen

Associate Professor
Department of Gender & Women's Studies

Mel Y. Chen is Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies at U.C. Berkeley and an affiliate of the Center for Race and Gender and the Institute for Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences.

Their research and teaching interests include queer and gender theory, animal studies, critical race theory and Asian American studies, disability studies, science studies, and critical linguistics. Chen’s 2012 book, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Duke University Press, winner of Alan Bray Award from Modern Language Association’s GL/Q Caucus), explores...

Youjin Chung

Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Youjin B. Chung is a rural sociologist and feminist political ecologist who research examines the relationship between gender, intersectionality, development, and socio-ecological change in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Tanzania. Her research program is animated by the question of how global capitalist and technoscientific processes that aim to deliver various sustainability outcomes come into friction with local power dynamics and reshape rural landscapes and livelihoods in uneven and unexpected ways. She uses ethnographic, historical, and participatory visual methods, including...

Lawrence Cohen

Professor
Department of Anthropology

Lawrence Cohen is Associate Professor of Anthropology and of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Medical Anthropology Program. Since 1993 he has been studying the relation between sex and understandings of political and market forms in north India, along with a linked study of relations between science and cosmopolitanism in the constitution of the emergent gay social movement in urban north India. His 1998 book No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things uses a study of the constitution of senility as...

Stephen Collier

Professor
Department of City & Reigional Planning

Professor, Department of City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Santa Cruz

Degrees Ph.D. Anthropology :: University of California, Berkeley (2001)
M.A. Anthropology :: University of California, Berkeley (1996)
B.A. Anthropology :: University of California, Santa Cruz (1994)

Stephen J. Collier is Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies city planning and urban governance from the broad perspective of the critical...

Elena Conis

Professor
Schoool of Journalism

Elena Conis is a writer and historian of medicine, health, and the environment. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, Elena was a history professor and the Mellon Fellow in Health and Humanities at Emory University, the Cain Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and an award-winning health columnist for the Los Angeles Times. She holds a PhD in history from UCSF (where she is an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine), masters degrees in journalism and public health from Berkeley, and a bachelors...

Marianne Constable

Professor
Department of Rhetoric

Marianne Constable has published broadly on a range of topics in legal rhetoric and philosophy. She is working on two projects: a history of the "new unwritten law," which ostensibly exonerated women who killed their husbands in Chicago a century ago; and a book on legal speech acts. She is the author of Just Silences: The Limits and Possibilities of Modern Law (2005). Her earlier book, The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changes in Conceptions of Citizenship, Law and Knowledge (1994), won the Law and Society Association's J. Willard Hurst Prize in Legal History.

She is also...

Frederick Dolan

Professor Emeritus
Department of Rhetoric

Frederick M. Dolan taught at UC-Berkeley in the areas of philosophy, political theory, aesthetics, and hermeneutics. He studied and taught for several years in Irvine, New York, Princeton, and Paris, and earned his Ph.D. from the Program in Political Philosophy at Princeton University. His primary interests are the relationship of modern political theory to the philosophical tradition and its critics, modernity and post-modernity, the worldly dimensions of imaginative literature, Western religious and spiritual discourses, American political theory, philosophy, literature, film,...

Sandra Eder

Director of CSTMS
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
Department of History

Associate Professor, Department of History
Director, MEDS
University of California, Berkeley

Sandra Eder works on the history of medicine with a specific focus on gender and sexuality, clinical practice, patient records, and the circulation of knowledge. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Making Gender: Sex, Body, and Norm in American Medicine and Science, which explores the development of our modern concept of gender within 1950s medical practices and American culture.