Faculty

Initiated in 1986, the annual Prytanean Alumnae Faculty Enrichment award recognizes a tenure track woman faculty member for outstanding scholarship, teaching, mentoring, leadership, and service to UC Berkeley and the community. Dr. Vasugi Kailasam (2024) and Dr. Youjin Chung (2025) were each chosen from over twenty exceptional applicants representing diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Selection committee members include Prytanean Alumnae Board members; Dr. Sheila Humphreys, inaugural UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering Director of Diversity;...

Darlène Dubuisson is the newest faculty member in UC Berkeley’s Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies. In this first-person narrative, she shares how her unconventional educational path ultimately led her to her current field of study at Berkeley.

My academic story is a strange one.

Before college, I had not been taught by a teacher in a classroom since the first grade. My mother was an immigrant from Haiti, and we were a single-parent, working-...

On the first day of his seminar on the history of love, sex and marriage in the United States, David Henkin introduces UC Berkeley students to a Frank Sinatra song: “Love and marriage / Go together like a horse and carriage / This I tell you, brother / You can’t have one without the other,” Sinatra croons.

Then Henkin asks his students to compare the 1955 tune with a very different text: Chief Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion in...

A Sloan Research Fellowship is one of the most prestigious awards available to early-career researchers.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today announced the names of the 126 early-career researchers selected to receive 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships, including seven from UC Berkeley.

The fellowships honor exceptional scholars in the U.S. and Canada whose creativity, innovation and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders. It is one of the most prestigious...