Faculty

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)....

Abdul JanMohamed

Professor Emeritus
English

Born and raised in Kenya and educated in the United States (University of Hawaii, BA; Brandeis University, PhD), Abdul JanMohamed has taught in the English Department at UC Berkeley since 1983. His publications include Manichean Aesthetics: The Politics of Literature in Colonial Africa; The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse (co-edited with David Lloyd); The Death-Bound-Subject: Richard Wright's Archaeology Of Death; (ed.) Reconsidering Social Identification: Race, Gender, Class, and Caste. He was the founding editor (along with Donna Przybylowicz...

Martin Jay

Ehrman Professor of European History Emeritus
History
Jay is an American intellectual historian whose research interests include European intellectual history, visual culture and critical theory. Having received his B.A. from Union College in 1965, he went on to earn his doctorate from Harvard in 1971 before first joining Berkeley's faculty that same year.

Donna Jones

Associate Professor
English

Professor Jones serves as core faculty for the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory and the Science, Technology and Society Center. She is on the Advisory Board for the Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major and is also affiliated with Gender and Women's Studies.

Anton Kaes

Class of 1939 Professor of German and Film & Media
German
Film & Media Studies

After receiving his PhD from Stanford University in 1973, Professor Kaes taught German and comparative literature as well as film studies at the University of California, Irvine, serving as director of Comparative Literature from 1978 to 1981. In Berkeley since 1981, he holds a joint appointment between the German and Film & Media Studies departments. He served as director of the Film Studies Program from 1990-98 and was Chair of the German Department from 2001-06.

Kaes was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Research Grant (1978); an Alexander v. Humboldt Foundation...