Katerina Linos teaches international business transactions, international law, European Union law, and international organizations.
She is best known for her research on the diffusion of ideas around the world. Her book “The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion: How Health, Family and Employment Laws Spread Across Countries(opens in a new tab)” won three national awards. She documents that laws don’t spread only through expert networks, but also through popular movements. Politicians can win elections by advocating for tried-and-true, mainstream models. Therefore, the same law...
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography
I am Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa (Duke University Press). I study Black people's lived experience of racial capitalism and underdevelopment. My research, both in Jamaica and Tulsa, OK, has been centrally concerned with the question of reparations as a means of understanding the historical constitution, but also the future, of Blackness...
Ayesha Mahmud is a demographer, who is broadly interested in the interplay between human population changes, environmental factors, and infectious disease dynamics. Her research draws on theory and methods from demography and disease ecology, to answer questions such as - why do outbreaks occur at certain times of the year? How and why does the mortality burden of infectious diseases vary over time? How do population travel patterns drive the spatial dynamics of outbreaks? How will global environmental and demographic changes alter the landscape of infectious disease burden in the future?...
How do legalization and cultural accommodation policies shape the integration of immigrants? What are the consequences of immigrant successful integration for politics and intergroup relations? Stephanie Zonszein's research investigates how policies influence ethnic minority immigrants' cultural maintenance and their integration into the host society's economic, social, and political life in the U.S. and Europe, and the electoral and social responses from dominant groups to the accession of members of ethnic minority immigrant groups to political office.
Bryan Wagner is a Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on African American expression in the context of slavery and its aftermath, and he has interests in legal history and vernacular culture. His books include Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery (Harvard University Press, 2009), The Tar Baby: A Global History (Princeton University Press, 2017), The Wild Tchoupitoulas (Bloomsbury, 33 1/3 Series, 2019), The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé: The Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled the Swamp,...
How should liberal democracies respond to the cultural practices of immigrant communities? How should legal regimes respond to noncitizens whose experiences do not track the trajectory of legal admission, naturalization, and full civic membership? Leti Volpp's research studies the relationship between migration, culture, identity and citizenship. Listen to an interview with Leti Volpp.
Professor Khatharya Um is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, and Program Coordinator of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley. Besdies bein a Faculty Affiliate of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, she is also affiliated faculty of Global Studies, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Race and Gender, and the Berkeley Human Rights Center, and serves on the UC system-wide Faculty Advisory Board on Southeast Asia. She was a Chancellor Public Scholar ans is one of the founding faculty members of the Critical Refugee Studies Collective...
Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Political Science
If people wish to migrate across borders in search of a better life, why shouldn’t they be able to? States exercise power over borders, but what legitimates this power? What are the moral and legal grounds and limits of the modern state’s power over immigration? Sarah Song's research explores the normative foundations of state control over immigration and the rights of migrants. Listen to Sarah Song discuss borders and nations.
How do lower skilled immigrants fit into the technology ecosystem of Silicon Valley and other regions throughout California? This is the question that currently drives Professor Annabelle Saxenian’s research. Her past projects include examination of highly skilled immigration to California, and the social, economic, and political links these immigrants have built to their home countries through “brain circulation.”
Debarati Sanyal is Professor of French and Director of the Consortium for Interdisciplinary Research (CIR). She grew up in France and received her BA in English and Modern Languages from Oxford. She came to the United States for a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures at Princeton and held a junior faculty position at Yale before joining the Berkeley French Department in 2000. She received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award in 2014, and was a Guggenheim Fellow (2021-2022). She is affiliated with Critical Theory, the Center for Race and Gender, and European Studies. Her...
