Alan Karras, Ph.D.

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Special Assistant to Dean Ray
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Alan Karras, Ph.D., serves as the Special Assistant to Social Sciences Dean Raka Ray. Professor Karras is also UC Berkeley’s Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Programs’ Associate Director. His research and teaching interests are in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, and global interactions more broadly, especially as they relate to transnational crimes such as smuggling, fraud and corruption.