Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor: Sociology
PhD, New York University
Research interests: Politics of climate change, investigating the intersections of climate change, housing, political economy, social movements, and inequalities of race and class in the United States and Brazil
Patrice Douglass, Assistant Professor: Gender & Women’s Studies
PhD, UC Irvine
Research interests: Black Feminist Theory, Gender and Sexual Violence, Afropessimism, Political Philosophy
Additional website: https://berkeley.academia.edu/PatriceDouglass
Puck Engman, Assistant Professor: History
PhD, University of Freiburg
Research interests: History of postwar China with a particular emphasis on socialism
Erin Hartman, Assistant Professor: Political Science
PhD, UC Berkeley
Research interests: Causal Inference, Quantitative Social Science, Survey Methodology
additional website: www.erinhartman.com
Scott Straus, Professor: Political Science
PhD, UC Berkeley
Research interests: Political violence, genocide, human rights, recovery after war, African politics, and political representation of Africa
Alternate website: https://sites.google.com/view/scott-straus/home
Hannah Sande, Assistant Professor: Linguistics
PhD, UC Berkeley
Research interests: Language documentation, West African languages, tone, phonology, morphology, linguistic typology
Stacy Van Vleet, Assistant Professor: History
PhD, Columbia University
Research interests: History of Tibet and Inner Asia; Sino-Tibetan relations; history of science, technology, and medicine; history of religion and secularism; race and ethnicity; institutions; popular culture; manuscripts and printing; borderlands and networks; governance under imperial and national formations
Peter Nelson, Assistant Professor: Ethnic Studies & ESPM
PhD, UC Berkeley
Research interests: Indigenous archaeology, Indigenous environmental studies, geophysics, settler colonialism, heritage preservation
Nicholas Laluk, Assistant Professor: Anthropology
PhD, University of Arizona
Research interests: Decolonization, indigenization, indigenous methodologies, Tribal sovereignty-driven research, Indigenous Archaeologies, Southwest U.S.