Staff

Tomás Lane

Program Coordinator

Tomás is the Canadian Studies program manager. He earned his B.A. in history from UC Berkeley in 2015.

Tomás previously worked in the Deans’ Office of the College of Letters & Science, where he coordinated events and fundraising for undergraduate programs.

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 &...