Sabrina C. Agarwal is a professor in the Department of Anthropology. She obtained her bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, where she worked in both the Department of Anthropology and the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto. She spent the following two years as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University, and subsequently was a faculty member for one year at the University of Toronto before coming to UC Berkeley.
Chancellor Emeritus and the Silverman Professor of Physics, MSE and Public Policy
Department of Physics
Robert. J. Birgeneau is Chancellor Emeritus and the Silverman Professor of Physics, MSE and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to Berkeley he served as president of the University of Toronto. Prof. Birgeneau grew up and was educated in Toronto up to the level of his B.Sc. and then came to the U.S. (Yale) for his Ph.D. Professor Birgeneau's physics research is primarily concerned with the phases and phase transition behavior of novel states of matter. These include one and two dimensional quantum magnets, two dimensional liquids and solids, liquid...
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....
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...
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...
