Sabrina C. Agarwal is a professor in the Department of Anthropology. She obtained her bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, where she worked in both the Department of Anthropology and the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto. She spent the following two years as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University, and subsequently was a faculty member for one year at the University of Toronto before coming to UC Berkeley.
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...
Irene Bloemraad (Ph.D. Harvard; M.A. McGill) studies the nexus between immigration and the political system. She is the author of Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada (University of California Press, 2006), which argues that the United States’ lack of general integration policies has led to lower levels of citizenship among immigrants in the United States compared to Canada, and poorer outcomes in political incorporation. Professor Bloemraad’s work suggests that any effective immigration policy must examine not just border control, but...
Professor Graburn was educated in Classics at King's, Canterbury and Natural Sciences and Anthropology at Cambridge, McGill, and University of Chicago. He has carried out ethnographic research with the Inuit and Naskapi of Canada, Alaska and Greenland since 1959, in Japan since 1974, and China since 1991.
Professor Graburn has taught at Berkeley since 1964, with visiting appointments at the National Museum of Civilization, Ottawa; the Centre des Hautes Études Touristiques, Aix-en-Provence; the National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) in Osaka; the Research Center for Korean Studies,...
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
G. Mathias Kondolf is a fluvial geomorphologist and professor of environmental planning in UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, director of the Sustainable Environmental Design major, and former chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and the College of Environmental Design Faculty. He teaches courses in hydrology, river restoration, environmental science, and environmental planning. He researches human-river interactions, including managing flood-prone lands, urban rivers, sediment in rivers and reservoirs, and river restoration, topics on...
Dr. Richard A. Rhodes is the interim director of the Canadian Studies Program, and holds the Thomas Garden Barnes Chair in Canadian Studies. 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 the College of Letters &...