Faculty

Chris Batterman Cháirez is an ethnographer, anthropologist, and ethnomusicologist from Mexico City. His work deals with the intercalations of music, difference, and power in Latin America and, broadly speaking, with the politics of sound. He thinks about the ways music reveals latent registers...Read more about Chris Batterman Cháirez

Abigail De Kosnik is an Associate Professor in the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) and the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS), and an affiliated faculty member of Gender & Women’s Studies, Film & Media, and Folklore. She researches histories and...Read more about Abigail De Kosnik

Across a range of ethnographic and other projects my work focuses on questions of indeterminacy and those aspects of social and material worlds that lend insight into their unfinished, plastic character. In part this has meant an ethnographic and analytical focus on the political,...Read more about Daniel Fisher

Andrew Garrett is the Nadine M. Tang and Bruce L. Smith Chair in Cross-Cultural Social Sciences and a professor in the Department of Linguistics. He works on Karuk and Yurok (languages of northern California) and on early Indo-European languages, especially Greek, Latin, and languages belonging...Read more about Andrew Garrett

Sarah Frances Levin received her PhD in Jewish Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Folklore from UC Berkeley in 2017. Her current book project, “Poetry Duels, Tales, and Jokes: Moroccan Atlas Mountain Muslims and Jews Remember Each Other,” examines 20th-century Jewish-Muslim relations...Read more about Sarah Levin

Angela Marino's teaching and research focuses on performance and political cultures of the Southwest, Caribbean, and Latin America. She teaches classes on theater and performance studies theory, methods, and a praxis class called Teatro Lab. She also leads an interdisciplinary research...Read more about Angela Marino

Christine Palmer is the Associate Director of the Program in American Studies, where her research and teaching focus on the interplay between race, visual culture, literature,...Read more about Christine Palmer

Candace Slater is an American academic and researcher specializing in Brazilian literature and culture.

Her primary area of research has been folk and popular traditions in Brazil...Read more about Candace Slater

Sameer B. Srivastava is the Ewald T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He is also affiliated with UC Berkeley Sociology.

Professor Tangherlini’s research focuses on folklore and aspects of informal culture in Scandinavia, with a primary focus on Denmark. A folklorist and ethnographer by training, he has worked extensively on understanding the circulation of informal storytelling in both agrarian and urban...Read more about Timothy Tangherlini

Bryan Wagner is Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on African American expression in the context of slavery and its aftermath, and he has specific interests in legal history, vernacular culture, urban studies, and digital...Read more about Bryan Wagner

My work has always been closely engaged with stakeholder communities. I have long been concerned about how to make archaeological knowledge accessible and widely available to a range of interdisciplinary and public audiences. I have worked closely with community heritage groups in Louisiana,...Read more about Laurie A. Wilkie

Winnie Wong is an art historian with a special interest in fakes, forgeries, and counterfeits. Her work explores authorship, property, and likeness through interdisciplinary inquiry, while her research is animated by the global reach of artists in and from the cities of Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and...Read more about Winnie Wong