Berkeley Social Sciences: New Faculty 2025-2026
Charlotte Williams, Anthropology
Research interests: Cultural Heritage; History of Archaeology; Archaeological Labor; Museums and Collections; American Imperialism; Colonialism; Territory and Landscape; Cultural Property Law; Ownership; Dispossession; Material Culture; Memory; Archives; Central and South America.
Wilbur Townsend, Economics
Research interests: Wage-setting, Job Quality, Immigration, Structural Methods.
Liliana Rodriguez, Ethnic Studies
Research interests: Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, Latinx Sociology, Immigrant Youth, Inequality.
Ida Yalzadeh, Ethnic Studies
Research interests: Asian American Studies; Diplomatic History; Transnational American Studies; Critical SWANA Studies.
H. Yumi Kim, History
Research interests: East Asian History; Women and Gender Studies; Colonialism and Empire; History of Medicine; History of Religion.
Xiaobu Lu, Political Science
Research interests: Chinese Politics; Authoritarian Politics; Party Building; Distributive Politics of Social Spending and Taxation.
Jasmin Brooks Stephens, Psychology
Research interests: Race and Racism; Racial Trauma; Suicide Prevention; Black Youth and Families; Risk and Resilience; Mental Health; Culture; Identity; Community-Based Participatory Research.
Darlène Dubuisson, African American Studies
Research interests: Apocalyptic Anthropology; Black Feminist Theory; Black Intellectual History; Caribbean Studies; Haitian Diaspora; Immigration and Migration; Transnationalism and Diaspora; Speculation; Inequality and Crisis; Crises and Futures.
Brandi Bushman, Ethnic Studies
Research interests: Native American and Indigenous Studies; California Indian Studies; Literary and Critical Theory; Native American Literature; Histories of Social Movements; Settler Colonialism; Race and Racialization; Decolonization.
Cheryl Suzack, Ethnic Studies
Research interests: Indigenous Law and Literature; Transnational Indigenous Studies; Indigenous Feminisms; Transitional Justice; Settler Colonial and Decolonial Studies.
Charmaine Chua, Geography
Research interests: Global Supply Chains; Political Economy; Southeast Asia; Science and Technology Studies; Colonialism and Empire; Political and Social Theory.
Jaime Sánchez, Jr., History
Research interests: American History, Identity Politics, Latino Studies, Political Parties, Presidential Elections, Race Relations, Social Movements.
Hunter Rendleman, Political Science
Research interests: Group Cohesion and Solidarity; Elite Political Behavior and Careers; Organizational Design and Workplace Dynamics; Policy Feedback and Political Behavior.
Luis Flores, Sociology
Research Interests: Political Economy; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Labor and Housing; Law; Social Theory.
Giacomo Lanzani, Economics
Research interests: Economic Theory
Ikaika Ramones, Ethnic Studies
Research interests: Indigenous Studies, Political Economy, Critical Theory, Class, Media.
Kathleen Whiteley, Ethnic Studies
Research interests: Native American History; California Indian
Studies; Women and Gender Studies; American Indian Law; American Studies.
Emma Fraser, Geography
Research interests: Digital Culture; Space and Place; Modern Ruins; Visual Media in Relation to Urban Experience; Digital Media Methods; Digital Storytelling; Game Studies; New Media Theory.
Alan Yu, Linguistics
Research interests: Behavioral, Psychological and Neural Mechanisms Underlying Human Speech Perception and Production; Language Variation and Change (esp. in Hong Kong and Mainland China); Linguistics of Autism and Other Speech and Language Disorders.
Giovanni Ramos, Psychology
Research interests: Mental Health Equity, Culturally Robust Mental Health Services, Digital Mental Health, Implementation Science, Latinx Mental Health.
Jeffrey Lockhart, Sociology
Research interests: Computational Social Science; Science, Knowledge and Technology; Sex/Gender; Sexualities.