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...
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.
Katherine Snyder is an associate professor of English at UC Berkeley, specializing in 19th through 21st century American and British fiction. Her first book, Bachelors, Manhood, and the Novel, 1850-1925, considered the rise of British and American modernist narrative in relation to the history of masculinity. Her current research and teaching focuses on contemporary fiction, with a particular interest in post-apocalyptic, post-traumatic, and post-9/11 novels. She has written several analyses of the imagery in Margaret Atwood's dystopian MaddAddam Trilogy, and has taught a course on...
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...
Nathaniel Wolfson is an assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese and affiliated faculty of the Program in Critical Theory. He specializes in 20th and 21st-century Brazilian literature, with a focus on poetry and poetics, media studies and critical theory. His research and teaching emphasize comparative approaches, including exchanges between Latin America, the Lusophone world, Europe and the United States; literary theory and criticism; language theory; visual art; the history of technology and media; and architecture and urban studies.
