Faculty & Fellows

Christine Rosen

Associate Professor
Hass School of Business

Christine Rosen's interests include both historical perspectives on the problem of industrial pollution and contemporary strategies for reducing business's environmental impacts. She is investigating the history of the American cultural responses to industrial pollution, the development of technologies and public policies for abating industrial pollution, the role of the courts in mediating society's response to industrial pollution, and the evolution of knowledge (both medical and popular) about the hazardous impacts of industrial pollution since the 1840s. She also does research and...

Caitlin Rosenthal

Associate Professor
Department of History

Caitlin Rosenthal is a historian of 18th- and 19th-century U.S. history. Her work focuses on the development of management practices, and seeks to blend methods and insights from business history, economic history, and labor history. Her current book project, tentatively titled From Slavery to Scientific Management (under contract at Harvard University Press) investigates the complex relationship between slavery and capitalism in American history. Traditional narratives in business and economic history...

Pamela Samuelson

Professor
School of Law
School of Information
Center for Law and Technology
Pamela Samuelson's principal area of expertise is intellectual property law. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies are posing for public policy and traditional legal regimes and is an advisor for the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic. Since 2002, she has also been an honorary professor at the University of Amsterdam. She was the principal organizer of a conference cosponsored by the School of Information Management and Systems, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal on the "Law...

AnnaLee Saxenian

Professor
School of Information
Department of City & Regional Planning

AnnaLee Saxenian is an internationally recognized expert on regional economic development and information technology; and has published extensively on the social and economic organization of production in technology regions like Silicon Valley. Her current research explores how immigrant engineers and scientists are transferring technology entrepreneurship to regions in Asia. Her publications include Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard University Press, 1994), Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Public Policy Institute of...

Nathan Sayre

Professor
Department of Geography

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...

Harry N. Scheiber

Professor Emeritus
School of Law

Stefan A. Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History (Emeritus)
Chancellor's Emeritus Professor
Faculty Director, Institute for Legal Research

Harry Scheiber's interests include research on history of fisheries oceanography; on history of technology and law in the US; and on contemporary questions of marine biodiversity and of scientific management for sustainability of marine resources in international law. His primary books include Law of the Sea: The Common Heritage and Emerging Challenges; Legal Cultures and the Legal Profession; Inter-Allied Conflict and Modern Ocean Law...

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Professor Emerita
Department of Anthropology

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,...

Jonathan Sheehan

Professor
Department of History
Degrees PhD :: University of California, Berkeley (1999)
BA :: Brown University (1991)

Jonathan Sheehan is a professor of early modern European history at the University of California, Berkeley. His work concerns broadly the histories of religion, scholarship, and science in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Most recently, he is coauthor, with Dror Wahrman, of Invisible Hands: Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 2015). His previous book, The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture (Princeton, 2005), won the George Mosse Prize...

David J. Teece

Professor
Haas School of Business

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...

Stacey Van Vleet

Assistant Professor
Department of History

Stacey Van Vleet is a historian of Tibet and Inner Asia. Her research is concerned with transformations in knowledge, economy, culture, and governance between the early modern and modern period. She teaches the history of science, technology, and medicine in the broader sphere of East Asia.

Her book in progress, The World the Medicine Buddha Built: Tibetan Medical Technologies and Infrastructure in Qing Inner Asia, examines the rise of a vast network of Tibetan medical institutions across Inner Asia during the period of Qing Empire (1644-1911), and its central role in...