Chancellor Emeritus and the Silverman Professor of Physics, MSE and Public Policy
Department of Physics
Robert. J. Birgeneau is Chancellor Emeritus and the Silverman Professor of Physics, MSE and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to Berkeley he served as president of the University of Toronto. Prof. Birgeneau grew up and was educated in Toronto up to the level of his B.Sc. and then came to the U.S. (Yale) for his Ph.D. Professor Birgeneau's physics research is primarily concerned with the phases and phase transition behavior of novel states of matter. These include one and two dimensional quantum magnets, two dimensional liquids and solids, liquid...
William M. Burton is an assistant professor in the Department of French. Professor Burton's research examines how 'literary' authors position their work with regard to other disciplines and domains in the 18th and 20th centuries. These authors are concerned with imaginative writing's political potential and its capacity to produce knowledge. In their often formally daring, genre-defying texts, they both adopt and contest philosophical, political and scientific concepts to articulate their views on what we now call 'literature'. Professor Burton's current project, The End of...
Hidetaka Hirota is a social and legal historian of the United States specializing in immigration. His major areas of research are the nineteenth-century United States; American immigration law and policy; the U.S. and the world; and transnational history. He is particularly interested in the history of American nativism and immigration control, from the antebellum period to the Progressive Era. Adopting a social and legal history approach, his scholarship pays equal attention to the legal dimension of immigration control and the practical implementation of immigration laws on the ground....
Dr. Richard A. Rhodes directed the Canadian Studies Program from 2023 to 2025. He had previously served as co-director with Professor Irene Bloemraad for several years. He is a professor emeritus of linguistics, specializing in North American Indigenous languages. He received his Ph.D. in from the University of Michigan, where he also taught for ten years. Professor Rhodes joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1986, and taught in the Department of Linguistics until his retirement in 2021. In addition to his teaching, he also served as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies in...
Professor Suzack is a Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. A member of the Batchewana First Nation (Ojibwe), her teaching and research focus on Indigenous law and literature, with a particular emphasis on writing by Indigenous women. She comes to Berkeley from the University of Toronto, where she held joint appointments in English, Indigenous Studies, and Law.
Professor Suzack received her PhD from the University of Alberta and has held visiting fellowships at the University of Naples, Smith College, and McGill University. In 2018, she was a...
Claire Tomlin is a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley, where she holds the Charles A. Desoer Chair in Engineering. Raised in Canada, she received her B.A.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo in Ontario. She later earned an M.Sc. from Imperial College in London, and completed her Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley.
Professor Tomlin was an assistant, associate, and full professor at Stanford from 1998-2007, and joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 2005. She received the Erlander Professorship...
