Faculty & Fellows

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-...

William Kastenberg

Professor Emeritus
Department of Nuclear Engineering

William E. Kastenberg is currently the Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Kastenberg has taught courses in risk assessment and risk management, ethics and the impact of technology on society, and nuclear reactor safety. Professor Kastenberg's research interests include the development and application of risk assessment and risk management methods for complex technological and natural systems. More recently, he has focused on ethical issues concerning the development of new technologies (e.g. biotechnology,...

Sharon Kaufman

Professor Emerita
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society

Chair, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF
University of California, San Francisco

Sharon Kaufman is Chair, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at UCSF. Areas of research include the following:

the ways in which life-extending medical procedures in later life are changing medical knowledge and societal expectations about longevity and the time for death; the relationship of biotechnology to ethics, governance and...

Shreeharsh Kelkar

Lecturer
Interdisciplinary Studies Field
Degrees Ph.D. History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society :: MIT (2016)
M.S. Electrical Engineering :: Columbia University (2003)
B.E. Electronics Engineering :: University of Mumbai (2002) Research Areas

Social studies of algorithms, data, and AI; History and anthropology of computing; Science and technology studies; Social studies of work, labor, and expertise

Shreeharsh Kelkar is an interpretive social scientist interested in understanding how our new computing infrastructures of humans, algorithms, software, and data (or “AI”) are...