Faculty

Shari Huhndorf

Class of 1938 Professor in Native American Studies
Department of Ethnic Studies

Professor Huhndorf is the author of two books, Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination (Cornell University Press, 2001) and Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture (Cornell University Press, 2009), and a co-editor of Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture (University of British Columbia Press, 2010), winner of the Canadian Women's Studies Association Prize for Outstanding Scholarship. Her research and teaching focus on Indigenous issues in the U.S. and Canada, including the Arctic...

Daniel M. Kammen

Professor
Energy and Resources Group

Daniel Kam­menis the found­ing direc­tor of RAEL and pro­fes­sor of Energy, with appoint­ments in the Energy and Resources Group, The Gold­man School of Pub­lic Pol­icy, and the Depart­ment of Nuclear Engi­neer­ing at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley. Kam­men directs the Renew­able and Appro­pri­ate Energy Lab­o­ra­tory (RAEL). Dur­ing 2010 – 2011 Kam­men served as the World Bank Group’s first Chief Tech­ni­cal Spe­cial­ist for Renew­able Energy and Energy Effi­ciency. He now serves as a Fel­low of the U. S. State Department’s Energy and Cli­mate Part­ner­ship for the Amer­i­...

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...

Gabriel Lenz

Professor
Department of Political Science

Gabriel Lenz's research primarily focuses on voters’ ability to control their elected officials. His aim is to further our understanding of when voters succeed in holding politicians accountable, when they fail, and how to help them avoid failures. Although specializing in American democracy, he also conducts research on Canada.

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...

Veronica Miller

Adjunct professor
School of Public Health

Veronica Miller is an adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She developed and teaches a course on FDA and drug development based on case studies from the Forum for Collaborative Research’s rich history in facilitating drug development to Berkeley and Bay Area graduate students and post-docs. She mentors interns and fellows pursuing regulatory, biotech, and translational medicine careers. Dr. Miller serves on numerous industry and government advisory boards, publishing over 100 peer-reviewed publications on HIV treatment strategies and regulatory strategies for HIV...

Beth Piatote

Associate professor, Native American Studies
Department of Ethnic Studies

Dr. Piatote's 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.

John D. Radke

Professor Emeritus, City & Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design
College of Environmental Design

John D. Radke is an associate professor of city and regional planning, landscape architecture and environmental planning, and urban design. Professor Radke is an internationally recognized expert in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). His research includes the development of metrics to assist scientists and professionals in constructing and applying spatial interaction models to real world problems, such as assessing potential fire risk in the wild-land urban interface; assessing environmental risk in highly-erodible terrains; measuring and predicting landscape hazards; and responding to...

Richard A. Rhodes

Interim program director and professor emeritus
Department of Linguistics

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 &...

Ayelet Shachar

Professor of Law
School of Law

Ayelet Shachar (LL.M., J.S.D, Yale Law School) is the Irving G. and Eleanor D. Tragen Chair in Comparative Law. She joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 2023. Previously, she held the R.F. Harney Chair in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies at the University of Toronto. From 2015-2020, she was a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society - one of the foremost research organizations in the world - and Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.

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