Faculty and Staff

Ronelle Alexander, Ph.D. (Slavic Languages and Literature)

Ronelle Alexander is a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. Her recent publications include Revitalizing Bulgarian Dialectology and In Honor of Diversity, the Linguistic Riches of the Balkans.

Stanley Brandes, Ph.D. (Anthropology)

Stanley Brandes is a Professor of Social Cultural Anthropology at UC Berkeley. His recent publications include Staying Sober in Mexico City and Iconography in Mexico's Day of the Dead: Origins and Meaning.

Charles Briggs, Ph.D. (Anthropology)

Professor Charles Briggs is Chair of the UC Berkeley Folklore Department and Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor of Folklore. Some of his recent publications include Voices of Modernity and Stories in the Time of Cholera.

Benjamin Brinner, Ph.D. (Music)

Benjamin Brinner is a Professor in the Department of Music, as well as an Executive committee member for the Center for Southeast Asia Studies and Center for Middle East Studies, U.C. Berkeley. Some of his recent publications include "Beyond Israelis vs. Palestinians or Jews vs. Arabs: The Social Ramifications of Musical Interaction" and The Music of Central Java: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture.

Joseph Duggan (French and Comparative Literature)

Ronald Hendel, Ph.D. (Near Eastern Studies)

Professor of Hebrew Bible Biblical Literature, Religion, and History, Northwest Semitic Philology, Comparative Mythology

Shannon Jackson, Ph.D. (Performance)

Shannon Jackson is the department chair of Berkeley's Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Department and is also a professor in the Rhetoric department. Her research includes performance theory, experimental visual art and performance, American studies, sex/gender/race studies, history of disciplines and higher education, solo performance, oral history, and adaptation. Jackson is currently principal investigator for a community oral history and arts installation project in Richmond and Berkeley.

John Lindow, Ph.D. (Scandinavian)

Professor Lindow is a Professor in the Scandinavain Department. Recent publications include Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs and Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs.

Daniel Melia, Ph.D. (Rhetoric)

Daniel Melia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and the Program in Celtic Studies, as well as Secretary of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate. His publications include Orality and Aesthetics in Aristotle's "Rhetoric and Poetics" and Celtic Language, Celtic Culture.

Candace Slater, Ph.D. (Spanish and Portugese)

Candace Slater is Professor of Spanish and Portugese at UC Berkeley. She has also served as the Director of the Doreen B. Townsend Center of the Humanities. Recent publications include In Search of the Rain Forest (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century) and Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon.

Bonnie Wade, Ph.D. (Music)

Bonnie Wade is the Chair of the Music Department as well as the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair for Interdisciplinary Studies at UC Berkeley. Publications include Music in Japan; Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture; Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art and Culture in Mughal India; Khyal: Creativity within North India's Classical Music Tradition; Music in India: The Classical Tradition; and Tegotomono: Music for the Japanese Koto.

Laurie Wilkie (Anthropology)

Laurie Wilkie is a Professor in the Anthropology Department. She is an anthropological archaeologist who conducts research at the intersection of archaeology and documentary history.  She is currently involved in a study of African consumerism and creolization during the period of enslavement in the Bahamas.

Joanne Conrad

Lee Haring

Jay Mechling

Renata Limón

Renata Limon is the Archivist at the UC Berkeley Folklore Archive (110 Kroeber Hall) and a second year graduate student in the Folklore Program.

Ned Garrett

Ned Garrett is the Graduate Student Affairs Officer for the Folklore program and the Anthropology department.