Faculty

The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality announced its plans for its 2026 Summer Institute. Each year, UC Berkeley’s prestigious institute organizes an intensive four-day program at UC Berkeley to introduce outstanding Ph.D. students from around the world to frontier research on economic inequality.

Participants attend small-group lectures and seminar presentations by UC Berkeley...

Fifty unpublished texts and extensive notes on Inuktun, the language of the Inuit people in northwestern Greenland, were recently uncovered by UC Berkeley Linguistics Professor Andrew Garrett. They predate all previously known documentation of the language by more than two generations and are changing the way linguists understand Inuktun.

While looking through UC Berkeley archives, Garrett discovered the little-known notebooks and recognized their significance for linguists and Inuit communities. He analyzed the texts in a study titled “...

Minoo Moallem was getting her master’s degree at Tehran University when the Iranian revolution swept the country. At first, she enjoyed new civil liberties, but as those were curtailed, Moallem left to pursue her Ph.D. abroad.

Moallem is now a professor of gender and women’s studies and the new faculty director for the UC Berkeley Initiative for Iranian Studies.

Phillip Cleves is looking forward to finishing his lab’s renovations in February so he can finally invite his fellow professors over to enjoy cold liquid running straight from the tap: fresh, artificial seawater.

Crews are currently installing pipes in Koshland Hall to service the six 200-gallon coral tanks and 600 anemone racks that will occupy his new lab. All told, Cleves will be able to create 1,000 gallons of...