Faculty

Sandrine Dudoit

Professor
Department of Statistics

Sandrine Dudoit is Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics and professor in the Division of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health. She obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from Carleton University, Ottawa, before coming to Berkeley to earn her Ph.D. in statistics.

Professor Dudoit's methodological research interests regard high-dimensional inference and include exploratory data analysis (EDA), visualization, loss-based estimation with cross-validation (e.g., density estimation, classification, regression, model selection), and multiple...

John G. Flanagan

Dean and Professor
School of Optometry

John G. Flanagan is the dean and professor of the Berkeley School of Optometry. He graduated in optometry and vision sciences from Aston University, Birmingham, UK in 1980, where he later earned his Ph.D. in 1985. From 1985 to 2014 he was Professor at the School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Waterloo and for the latter 25 years was seconded 75% to the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada, where he was a professor and director of the Glaucoma Research Unit, Toronto Western Research Institute and a Senior Scientist at the Toronto...

Cecil S. Giscombe

Professor and Robert Hass Chair in English
Department of English

Cecil S. Giscombe is a professor and Robert Hass Chair in English. An award-winning poet and essayist, he is the author or coauther of fourteen books. His work frequently centers themes of identity, race, nature, and place.

Giscombe's writing on Canada addresses aspects of the historical and continuing Black presence in British Columbia, and in particular the story of the nineteenth-century Jamaican miner and explorer John Robert Giscome, a possible relative of the author. His 1998 poetry collection Giscome Road, which explored the history of locales in northern Canada...

Alison Gopnik

Professor
Department of Psychology

Alison Gopnik is a professor in the Department of Psychology, an expert in child development, and author of several popular books including The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby, and The Gardener and the Carpenter. Professor Gopnik was raised in Montreal and obtained her bachelor's degree from McGill University and her Ph.D. at Oxford. She joined the Berkeley faculty in 1988 after teaching at the University of Toronto.

Professor Gopnik's research explores how young children come to know about the world around them. The work is informed by the "theory theory" -...

Nelson H. Graburn

Professor emeritus
Department of Anthropology

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,...

Bruce S. Hall

Associate professor
Department of History

Bruce S. Hall is an associate professor of history at UC Berkeley. Born in Canada, he received his B.A. from the University of Toronto and his M.A. from Queen's University, Ontario. He completed his graduate work in the United States, receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Professor Hall studies the intellectual and social history of a region of West Africa called the Sahel, which straddles the southern edge of the Sahara Desert and encompasses the modern countries of Mauritania, Mali and Niger. His work is located at the intersection between West...

Hidetaka Hirota

Interim Program Co-Director and associate professor
Department of History

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....

G. Mathias Kondolf

Professor
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...

Rebecca McLennan

Preston Hotchkis Chair in the History of the United States I
Department of History

Rebecca McLennan is an associate professor in the Department of History and Preston Hotchkis Chair in the History of the United States. Her research has included studies of the Bering Sea Dispute between the United States and the United Kingdom and Canada during the late 19th century. The dispute centered on claims by the United States to exclusive rights to sealing in the Bering Sea, which led to the impounding of several Canadian vessels. These claims were contested by Britain, then responsible for Canada's foreign policy, and ultimately denied in international arbitration. Professor...

Beth Piatote

Associate professor, Native American Studies
Department of Ethnic Studies

Beth Piatote is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature. Her research interests fall within Native American literature, history, law and culture; Native American/Aboriginal literature and federal Indian law in the United States and Canada; American literature and cultural studies; Ni:mi:pu: (Nez Perce) language and literature.

Dr. Piatote co-created and currently chairs the Designated Emphasis in Indigenous Language Revitalization at Berkeley. She also currently serves as the Director of the Arts Research Center, where she has established the...