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 the performance of NLP for underserved domains like literature (including LitBank and BookNLP) and exploring the affordances of empirical methods for the study of...
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 in the American Journal of Sociology, the Annual Review of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the American Sociological Review, Theory and Society, and Social Forces. My first book, "Protectors of Pluralism," tries to explain why some local communities step up to protect victims of...
Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor in Folkloristics
Anthropology Department
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 with patients, parents, doctors, nurses, healers, and epidemiologists to figure out why so many people die from preventable diseases. My concern with infectiousness spreads from microbes to narratives, to thinking about how stories about cholera, rabies, H1N1, Ebola, diabetes, and COVID-19 are produced and...
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 theories of new media, film and television, social media, fan studies, piracy studies, cultural memory, and archive studies. She is particularly interested in how issues of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and transnationalism intersect with new media studies and performance studies.
Queen Beatrix Professor in Dutch Studies / Head Graduate Advisor
German and Dutch Studies
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 Faculty Academic Director of Berkeley Study Abroad and is chair of the UCEAP Faculty Directors group. Dewulf also serves as a member of the UC Berkeley International Activities Coordination Group and represents the UC Berkeley Dean of Extended Education at the...
Gladyce Arata Terrill Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies
Italian Studies
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 colonies, winning an International Planning History Society book prize for Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities, and Italian Imperialism...
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 to the Anatolian branch (such as Hittite and Lycian). He has also worked on the history and (British) dialects of English, on comparative Austronesian and on the Ohlone language Rumsen (spoken around Carmel and Monterey).
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 through 21st-century memories (from Muslims in Morocco and Jews who had immigrated to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s) of Amazigh (Berbe) oral traditions. These traditions, once integral to the daily lives of Atlas Mountain villagers, offer a unique framework for addressing issues of boundaries and...
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, France, and North America from the seventeenth century to the present. She received her PhD in American Studies at Yale, and has taught as Visiting Professor in the History of Art departments at Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Having begun her teaching career at Yale,...
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 Women’s Studies Department at Berkeley from 2008-2010 and the Chair of the Women’s Studies Department at San Francisco State University from 2001-2006.
Professor Moallem is the author of Persian Carpets: The Nation As a Transnational Commodity, Routledge, 2018; Between Warrior...
