Faculty

Daniel Aldana Cohen

Assistant professor
Department of Sociology

Daniel Aldana Cohen is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, where he is director of the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2, and serves as a faculty affiliate in the graduate program on Political Economy. He is also founding co-director of the Climate and Community Project. He is a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar (2021-23). In 2018-19, he was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Cohen is the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green Deal (Verso 2019). He is currently completing a book project called Street...

Lawrence Cohen

Professor
Department of Anthropology

Lawrence Cohen is a professor in anthropology and South and Southeast Asian studies and the co-director of the Medical Anthropology Program. His research in South Asia has included the following: aging, postcoloniality, and rhetorics of family decline; Ayurveda and its contemporary transformations; the popular folklore of Ganesh; and AIDS prevention and the emergence of kothi identities. His award-winning book, No Aging in India: Alzheimers, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things, appeared in 1998. He is currently writing a book on homosexuality, politics, and commodity...

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 Giscombe is a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a poet and essayist, and his recognitions include the Stephen Henderson Award, an American Book Award, the Carl Sandburg Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fund for Poetry, the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, and the Canadian Embassy. His recent books include Prairie Style, Ohio Railroads, and Border Towns. Similarly—collected poetry and new work—will appear in 2021 as will Train Music, a work in...

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,...

Junko Habu

Professor
Department of Anthropology

Dr. Habu recieved her Ph.D. in anthropology from McGill University in Canada. She was also a part-time faculty lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at McGill. She co-authored an article about an excavation of a prehistoric Thule settlement on Somerset Island (Habu, J. and Savelle, J.M. 1994, "Construction, use and abandonment of a Thule Eskimo whale bone house, Somerset Island, Arctic Canada". Quaternary Research3(1):1-18. [Japan Association for Quaternary Research]). She is currently the project leader of a transdisciplinary project...

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

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....