Folklore Faculty
The faculty is drawn from a broad range of departments and schools across the university.
Faculty
David Bamman
David Bamman is an associate professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, where he works in the areas of natural language processing and cultural analytics, applying NLP and machine learning to empirical questions in the humanities and social sciences. His research focuses on improving...Read more about David Bamman
Robert Braun
I received my PhD from Cornell University in 2017. Before joining Berkeley, I taught sociology and political science at Northwestern University. My research focuses on civil society and intergroup relationships in times of social upheaval and has been published
...Read more about Robert BraunCharles L. Briggs
I am interested in philosophical and ethnographic issues regarding how bodies, media, viruses and bacteria, narratives and songs, and race constantly get mixed up, sometimes fatally. I have engaged these issues by investigating epidemics of cholera and rabies in Venezuela, collaborating
...Read more about Charles L. BriggsAbigail De Kosnik
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
Jeroen Dewulf
Jeroen Dewulf is Queen Beatrix Professor in Dutch Studies at the UC Berkeley Department of German and a Professor at Berkeley’s Folklore Program. He is also the ...Read more about Jeroen Dewulf
Mia Fuller
Mia Fuller is a cultural anthropologist and urban-architectural historian whose research concerns the interplays of physical space with political power. Combining fieldwork with archival and bibliographic research, she has published extensively on architecture and city planning in the Italian...Read more about Mia Fuller
Andrew Garrett
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 Levin
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
Margaretta Lovell
Margaretta M. Lovell is a cultural historian working at the intersection of history, art/architectural history, and anthropology. She holds the Jay D. McEvoy, Jr., Chair in the History of American Art at U. C. Berkeley, and studies material culture, painting, architecture, and design in England...Read more about Margaretta Lovell
Minoo Moallem
Minoo Moallem is a professor of Gender and Women's Studies.
Professor Moallem received her MA and BA from the University of Tehran and her Ph.D. from Université de Montréal. She has also done postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She was the Chair of Gender and...Read more about Minoo Moallem
Asta Mønsted
Asta Mønsted is a prehistoric archaeologist educated at the University of Copenhagen. She joined the Berkeley faculty in 2024. Asta was born and raised in Uummannaq, North Greenland. She has done field work in both North, West and South Greenland, but also in Denmark, Germany, and Japan.Read more about Asta Mønsted
Christine Palmer
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
Poulomi Saha
Candace Slater
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 Srivastava
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.
His research uses computational methods to: (1) unpack the complex interrelationships
...Read more about Sameer SrivastavaJun Sunseri
My research focuses on colonialism, foodways, landscapes, historical archaeology, preservation and heritage in the western US and northern South Africa. Members of my research cluster bring together complementary lines of evidence of varied types and spatial scales, including analysis of...Read more about Jun Sunseri
Timothy Tangherlini
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
Leti Volpp
Bryan Wagner
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
Laurie A. Wilkie
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