Faculty

Amanda Goldstein

Associate Professor
English

Goldstein specializes in Enlightenment and Romantic literature and science, with particular interests in rhetoric and poetics, pre-Darwinian biology and materialist theories of history, poetry and nature. Their first book, Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life(link is external) (University of Chicago Press, 2017), shows how writers from William Blake...

Marcial González

Professor Emeritus
English

Marcial González received a B.A. in English from Humboldt State University in 1992, an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Utah in 1994 and a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University in 2000. He is the author of Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form: Race, Class, and Reification (U Michigan, 2009) and is currently writing a book on representations of migrant farm laborers in Chicana/o literature. He is also the co-editor of Dialectical Imaginaries: Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism (U...

David Singh Grewal

Professor
UC Berkeley School of Law

David Singh Grewal is Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. His teaching and research interests include legal and political theory; intellectual history, particularly the history of economic thought; global economic governance and international trade law; intellectual property law and biotechnology; and law and economics. His first book, Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization, was published by Yale University Press in 2008. His second book, The Invention of the Economy, was published by Harvard University Press in 2010...

Suzanne Guerlac

Distinguished Professor Emerita
French

Professor Guerlac’s principal areas of research include 19th- and 20th-century literature and thought. Her interests include the examination of cultural ideologies and articulations between literature and philosophy, and literature and the visual arts. Her most recent project, Proust and Photography (2020), examines time, vision and the production of experience in A La Recherche du Temps Perdu.

Jocelyne Guibault

Professor
Music

Guibault is an ethnomusicologist and popular music studies scholar teaching at Berkeley since 1999. From 1984 to 1998, she taught at the University of Ottawa. Her educational background includes bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Université de Montréal in my native Quebec, Canada, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Stressing a multidisciplinary approach, her research and teaching engage critical theoretical and methodological issues in ethnomusicology and popular music studies. She locates these issues in the scholarly intersections of music, anthropology, cultural...

Gillian Hart

Professor Emerita
Geography

Hart began her academic career as an economist but quickly came under the influence of anthropologists during 19 months of fieldwork in a Javanese village from 1975-76. These interdisciplinary tendencies intensified after she finished her PhD and turned to working on agrarian change in Bangladesh and Malaysia. In the 1980s, she also became involved in a broader collaborative project on transformations of major rice-growing regions across Southeast Asia in the face of rapid technological change. Focusing on questions of power, this body of work reflects her enduring interest in how in-depth...

Charles Hirschkind

Professor
Anthropology

Hirschkind's research interests concern religious practice, media technologies and emergent forms of political community in the Middle East, North America and Europe. He gives particular attention to diverse configurations of the human sensorium, and the histories, ethics and politics they make possible. Taking contemporary developments within the traditions of Islam as his primary focus, he has explored how various religious practices and institutions have been revised and renewed both by modern norms of social and political life and by the styles of consumption and culture linked to...

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman

Associate Professor
History

Hoffman is a historian of German, European and International History from the late 18th century to the present. He also has an ongoing interest in social, legal and political thought, as well as in the theory of history.

His most recent book is an intellectual biography of Reinhart Koselleck and an exploration of his premise that 20th-century experiences of time require a new theory of history. Currently, he is working on two research projects: a book-length essay on human rights internationalism from imperial beginnings to our global present, and a monograph on...

Seth Holmes

Chancellor's Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and Medical Anthropology
Anthropology
Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Seth Holmes is Chancellor's Professor in the UC Berkeley Division of Society and Environment, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. He is a faculty member in the Graduate Program in Medical Anthropology and affiliated with the Department of Anthropology and the School of Public Health. He is co-director (with Ian Whitmarsh) of the MD/PhD Track in Medical Anthropology coordinated between UCSF and UC Berkeley and co-chair (with Charles Briggs) of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine. A medical anthropologist and physician, Holmes works on social hierarchies, health...

Shannon Jackson

Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor; Chair, Department of History of Art
History of Art
Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Rhetoric

Shannon Jackson is the Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor of the Arts & Humanities, Department Chair of History of Art and former Associate Vice Chancellor for the Arts + Design. Jackson’s research focuses on two overlapping domains: 1) collaborations across visual, performing, and media art forms and 2) the role of the arts in social institutions and in social change. Her most recent books are Back Stages: Essays Across Art, Performance, and the Social (Northwestern University Press, 2022), and The Human Condition: Media Art from the Kramlich Collection (Thames & Hudson, 2022)....