Stanley Brandes has studied Mexico's Day of the Dead from an historical and ethnographic perspective, including Latin America, Europe, and the U.S. He is also the author of work on Alcoholics Anonymous in Mexico City, an intensive study over nearly two years of a single group of
Professor Glazer is a professional director and playwright whose adaptations and collaborations include Woody Guthrie’s American Song, Heart of Spain: A Musical of the Spanish Civil War, O’Carolan’s Farewell to Music, Michael, Margaret, Pat & Kate, and...Read more about Peter Glazer
Professor Emeritus, Norma and Sam Dabby Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies
Near Eastern Studies
Professor Hendel has been a member of the Berkeley faculty since 1999 and has served as chair of Jewish Studies, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and the Graduate Program in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology. Hendel approaches the Hebrew Bible from a variety of angles –...Read more about Ron Hendel
The questions I examine all arise from considering the way that things make people and people make things. Understanding materiality, I argue, requires attention to repetition over time, making historical anthropology and archaeology critical parts of understanding materiality as emergent and...Read more about Rosemary Joyce
Professor Lindow’s research focuses on two areas. Within the Old Norse-Icelandic literary tradition, he is particularly interested in myth and religion and the texts and genres that reflect them. In his research on the folklore of northern Europe, Lindow has specialized in the stories of the...Read more about John Lindow
