People
UC Berkeley Faculty
UC Berkeley Graduate Students
Affiliates of CBS
This site provides the names, email addresses, and
research interests of faculty, graduate students, visiting
scholars,
and others at UC Berkeley and area institutions affiliated
with The Center for British Studies.

UC Berkeley Faculty
Replace the [at] with an @ symbol for the correct
email address.
Anthony Adamthwaite, Dept. of History; EU and European
international relations;
adamthwa [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
Janet Adelman, Dept. of English; Early-modern literature,
especially Shakespeare, Jews in early modern England, and
British object-relations psychoanalysis;
adelman [at] berkeley.edu
Mark Bevir, Political Science; Acting Director for CBS, January 2006-January 2007. British intellectual history (especially political thought), and British
politics and governance.
mbevir [at] berkeley.edu
http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/faculty/bio/permanent/Bevir,M/
Thomas Brady, Dept. of History; Early Modern Europe: Reformation
Germany.
tabrady [at] berkeley.edu
Marianne Constable, Dept. of Rhetoric; Legal history, law
and literature, law and social theory;
mc [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
John A. Douglass, Senior Research Fellow - Public Policy
and Higher Education
Center for Studies in Higher Education
CSHE Website
douglass [at] uclink.berkeley.edu
Ian Duncan, Dept. of English; the
novel, British literature and culture 1740-1900, Scottish Enlightenment
and Romanticism;
iduncan [at] uclink.berkeley.edu
Catherine Gallagher, Dept. of English; 18th, 19th, 20th
century British literature; literature and history of Empire;
cgallagr [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
Kevis Goodman, Dept. of English; 18th century literature,
Romanticism, Milton, Media Theory, representations of the
Holocaust;
kgoodman [at] uclink4.berkeley.edu
Honig, Elizabeth, History of Art;
Dutch and Flemish painting, prints, architecture and urban
planning. Elizabethan painting and architecture. Gender
and representation in Europe, c.1450-1700.
elizahonig [at] yahoo.com
Ernest B. Hook, School of Public Health; British medicine
and science, Early modern England;
ebhook [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
Nicholas Howe, Dept. of English; Anglo-Saxon England (pre-1100CE)
-- literature, history and cultural geography -- and in
writing about place and travel; medieval literature; the
History of the English Language.
nhowe [at] socrates
Phoebe Janes, Doe Library, Research Reference and Collections
(specialty: Britain and Europe);
pjanes [at] library.berkeley.edu
Victoria Kahn, Dept. of English;
English Renaissance Literature 1500-1660. Critical Theory;
vkahn [at] berkeley.edu
Alan Karras, International and Area Studies Teaching Program;
British Caribbean, British Empire, Scottish migration
karras [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
Celeste Langan, Dept. of English; 19th century British literature;
clangan [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
Thomas W. Laqueur, Dept. of History; 18th & 19th century
Britain; cultural history;
tlaqueur [at] library.berkeley.edu
Marc Levin, Assistant Director, Institute of Governmental
Studies; British politics and history;
marcl [at] uclink.berkeley.edu
David Lieberman, Chair and Associate Dean, Jurisprudence
and Social Policy Program;
History of political and social thought, English and Scottish
legal history;
dlieb [at] law.berkeley.edu
Patricia Y.C.E. Lin, Lecturer, History & International
Studies; Modern Britain, War and Society, Ethnicity and Race;
drplinucb [at] berkeley.edu AND plin [at] psr.edu
Margaretta Lovell, Dept. of History of Art; British painting,
architecture, decorative arts, city planning;
mmlovell [at] uclink4.berkeley.edu
Michael Mascuch, Dept. of Rhetoric; Early modern British
culture and society;
mascuch [at] uclink.berkeley.edu
Sarah Maxim, Vice-Chair, Center for Southeast Asia Studies;
maxims [at] berkeley.edu
Dan Melia, Rhetoric and Celtic Studies;
Medieval narrative; orality; Celtic philology;
dmelia [at] berkeley.edu
Thomas Metcalf, Dept. of History (emeritus); history of the British
Empire;
tmetcalf [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
Morton Paley, Dept. of English (emeritus); British literature;
romanticism; millenarianism; literature and visual arts;
mpaley [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
Gautam Premnath, Dept. of English; postcolonial studies and
20th century British literature;
gautam_premnath [at] berkeley.edu
Sheldon Rothblatt, Dept. of History (emeritus); comparative
history of universities; Britain since 1688;
srothbla [at] uclink.berkeley.edu
Michael Rubenstein, Dept. of English;
20th-Century British Literature. Postcolonial & World Literature. Narrative & the Novel;
mdru [at] berkeley.edu
Barbara Shapiro, Grad. Dept. of Rhetoric (emeritus); Early
modern English intellectual and cultural history;
history of political thought and history of science;
bshapiro [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
D. Paul Thomas, Dept. of Political Science; Political theory,
marxism, socialism;
pt [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
Robert Tracy, Dept. of English (emeritus); Irish literature, including early material in the Irish language as well as
Irish literature in English; Irish history and folklore; Victorian fiction,
especially Dickens; Anglo- Russian literary relations
rtracy [at] berkeley.edu
Martin Trow, Goldman School of Public Policy (emeritus);
Comparative higher education; history and organization of
British higher education;
trow [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
James Vernon, Dept. of History; Director of The Center for
British Studies; 19th century British politics and culture;
Empire; imperial Britain and the problem of hunger;
jvernon [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
J. Nicholas Ziegler, Dept. of Political Science; Western
European politics; comparative political ideologies; Germany;
nziegler [at] socrates.berkeley.edu

UC Berkeley Graduate Students
Mike Buckley, Dept. of History, Modern Britain;
Mbuckley [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
Elizabeth Chang, Dept. of English; 19th century British
literature, visual culture, China;
echang [at] uclink4.berkeley.edu
Antoinette Chevalier, Dept. of History; Victorian literature,
black Victorians, cultural studies, post-colonial theory;
nette [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Dept. of Political Science; European
political economy; welfare state;
tobysc [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
Kathryn Evans, Dept. of English; 16th century poetry;
ksevans [at] berkeley.edu
Desmond FitzGibbon, Dept. of History;
dfitzgib [at] hotmail.com
Ben Graves, Department of English; Post-1945 Britain; British
cultural studies;
bgraves [at] uclink4.berkeley.edu
Ian Greenspan, Department of History;
ggreens [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
Simon Grote, Dept. of History; 17th-18th C Scottish and German moral philosophy, theology, and aesthetics; intellectual history of late Roman empire;
sgrote [at] berkeley.edu
Alysia Han, Dept. of History; history of science and medicine;
British Empire; China;
ahan [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
Jeff Hoppes, Dept. of History; Modern Britain;
Jthoppes [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
Sarah Horowitz, Dept. of History; Modern British cultural
and social history, French history
shorowitz [at] berkeley.edu
Kevin Huang, Dept. of East Asian Languages; comparative
historiography;
grimace [at] uclink4.berkeley.edu
Penelope Gwynn Ismay, Dept. of History; Modern British
cultural & intellectual
History;
pennyismay [at] hotmail.com
Andrew Keating, Dept. of History
andrewpk [at] berkeley.edu
Sarah Matthews, Dept. of Political Science; Western European
politics;
sgmatt [at] uclink.berkeley.edu
Ryan McDermott, Dept. of English; Victorian and Romantic
literature; theories of gay male sexuality;
rpmcdermott [at] hotmail.com
Kaarin Michaelson, Dept. of History; 19th&20th century
Britain and Empire; women’s and urban history;
history of science and medicine;
slick [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
Alan Mikhail, Dept. of History; Cultural History of Medicine
and Science, British Orientalism, Eighteenth and Nineteenth-
Century British and Egyptian Social History;
amikhail [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
Catherine Mitchell, Dept. of English; late 19th-early
20th century literature;
cam2 [at] uclink4.berkeley.edu
Fredric Mintz, Dept. of History; miners’ lung diseases
and relationship to social policy;
fmintz [at] uclink4.berkeley.edu
Fiona Murphy, Dept. of English; British women writers 1650-1740;
fmurphy [at] berkeley.edu
Slavica Naumovska, Dept. of English; Romantic and Victorian
literature; elegies;
slavica [at] uclink4.berkeley.edu
Suzie Park, Dept. of English; 18th century and Romantic
British literature; women writers; cyborgs and narrative
theory;
ashapark [at] yahoo.com
Joseph Ring, Dept. of English; early modern aesthetics of
astonishment;
jring [at] berkeley.edu
Caroline Shaw, Department of History; 19th century cultural
and political identity/representation of the self; empire;
shawcaroline [at] yahoo.com
Daniel Ussishkin, Dept. of History; Modern British and French
History; History of medicine.;
ussishki [at] socrates.Berkeley.EDU
Vlasta Vranjes, Dept. of English; Victorian novel;
vlasta [at] uclink.berkeley.edu
Leslie Walton, Dept. of English; Pedagogical Desire in the
18th and 19th-Century British Novel; Janeitism and Other
Cultural appropriations of Austen and her novels; The History
and Cultural Significance of British and American Romantic
Comedy;
lawalton [at] berkeley.edu
Travis D. Williams, Dept. of English; Rhetoric and mathematics
in 16th- and 17th-century Britain; Shakespeare, Jonson, and
Renaissance drama;
travisdw [at] socrates.Berkeley.EDU
Nicholas Hoover Wilson, Dept. of Sociology; Imperialism and State Formation, Historical Sociology, Sociology of Knowledge, Political Sociology
nwilson [at] berkeley.edu

Affiliates of CBS
Mark Allison, Asst. Prof., Dept. of English, Ohio Wesleyan University; 19th century British literature and political culture
Jennifer Andersen, Dept. of English, faculty,
CSU San Bernadino; history of the book/ history of reading;
ecclesiastical and
political contexts of literature; clerical and anti-clerical
satire;
janderse [at] csusb.edu
Jeffrey Auerbach, Dept. of History, faculty and Graduate
Coordinator, California State University; Modern Britain,
British empire, exploration and travel, and cultural history;
jeffrey.auerbach [at] csun.edu
Brad Barber, Assistant Vice President, University of California;
political history, 1688-present;
Brad.Barber [at] ucop.edu
Susan Groag Bell, Senior Scholar, Institute for Research
on Women and Gender, Stanford University; Early modern
and modern British history; gender and women;
groagbel [at] stanford.edu
Crisi Benford, Dept. of English (PhD candidate), Stanford
University; 19th century British novel; narrative theory;
film;
crisi [at] stanford.edu
Harriet Blodgett, Ph.D., Dept. of English, Caifornia State
University, Stanislaus (at Turlock); British women writers;
blodgett [at] toto.csustan.edu
Adolph T. Brugger, Retired Lecturer in Art; University Dean
of Students; UC Riverside; U.S. and British book arts;
atbrugger [at] att.net
Anthony Brundage, Prof. of History Emeritus, Cal Poly Pomona;18th-20th
century social policy; Victorian and early 20th century
historians;
albrundage [at] csupomona.edu
Todd Cereghino, Dept. of History (PhD candidate) Sonoma State
University; Twentieth Century Britain, esp. Winston Churchill,
economic history from 19th through first half of 20th centuries,
World Wars/ Holocaust, and trends in British historiography
- post-modernism;
cereghin [at] sonoma.edu
Arianne Chernock, Asst. Prof., Dept. of History, Boston University; gender and the Enlightenment; men who campaigned for women’s rights in 18th century;
Lisa Forman Cody, Dept. of History, faculty, Claremont McKenna
College; Britain, 1660-1870; gender, medicine, sexuality,
visual arts, culture;
lisa.cody [at] claremontmckenna.edu
David Como, Dept. of History, faculty, Stanford University;
Early Modern Britain; religion; politics; print; puritanism;
dcomo [at] stanford.edu
Sandra Dawson, Dept. of History (PhD. candidate),University
of California, Santa Barbara; Modern British Popular Culture;
sdrn [at] umail.ucsb.edu
Colin Dixon, Chairman of Royal British legion Branchof N.
California;
colin.dixon [at] fco.gov.uk
Lori Anne Ferrell, Claremont Graduate University and Claremont
School of Theology, faculty; Reformation and Early Modern
British Studies;
Lori.Ferrell [at] cgu.edu
Katherine Fullagar, Post-doc, Dept. of History, University of Sydney; 18th century Britain; history of commerce, civility, and social culture;
Denise Gigante, Dept. of English, faculty, Stanford University;
British Romanticism; aesthetics; science;
dgigante [at] leland.stanford.edu
Paula Gillett, Professor Emerita of Humanities, San Jose
State University
pgillett [at] aya.yale.edu Bryanne Gray, Dept. of English (PhD
candidate), UC Davis; 19th century literature; representations
of missionaries in 19thc literature;
by [at] ucdavis.edu
Alan Gutterman, Independent author, attorney, consultant;
management practices in UK and U.S.; legal publishing;
AlanGutterman [at] aol.com
Sara Guyer, Faculty Fellow, Dept. of English and Comparative
Literature; UC Irvine; Romanticism; Rhetoric; lyric poetry;
Wordsworth;
seguyer [at] socrates.berkeley.edu
Helen Hartnell, Golden Gate University School of Law; EU;
courts and politics; law;
ilonka [at] uclink4.berkeley.edu
Deana Heath, Dept. of History (faculty) UC Hayward; censorship
in Australia and India, 1880-WWII
Jen Hill, Dept. of English, faculty, University of Nevada,
Reno; 19th c. British Literature, Nationalism, Imperialism,
Gender, Cultural Studies
jmhill [at] unr.edu
Donald Jordan, Dept. of History; Vice President of Academic
Affairs; Menlo College; 19th century Ireland;
djordan [at] menlo.edu
Dennis Kavanagh, School of Politics and Communications Studies,
Liverpool, England; contemporary British history;
dennis [at] kavanagh41.fsnet.co.uk
Steven Kendall, University of California, Santa Barbara
(PhD Candidate); 19th century British painting, The Arts
and Crafts Movement in Britain and America, The French and
British Academies in the 19th century;
skendall [at] umail.ucsb.edu
Benjamin Fidel Klein, Lecturer, Dept. of History, University
of San Francisco; late Stuart England;
bkklein [at] lmi.net
Norma Landau, Dept. of History; UC Davis,
faculty; legal history, administrative history, political
history, economic andsocial history, 15-19th c England;
nblandau [at] ucdavis.edu
Benjamin Lawrance, Department of History; UC Davis; British
West Africa; Pan-Africanism in the UK and Europe; colonialism
and indirect rule;
bnl [at] ucdavis.edu
Philippa Levine, Dept. of History, faculty,University of
Southern California; British Empire and modern Britain;
race; medicine; gender and sexuality
philippa [at] usc.edu
Norman Macleod, Attorney and President of Saint Andrews
Society of San Francisco; British history; current affairs;
macleodesq [at] aol.com Diane Sachko Macleod, Dept. of Art History
(faculty) UC Davis; 18th and 19th century British art and
culture; history of collecting and patronage;
dsmacleod [at] ucdavi.edu
Molly McClain, Dept. of History (faculty),University
of San Diego; Britain, 17-18th century Europe, Biography;
mmcclain [at] sandiego.edu
Elaine Musgrave, Dept. of English (PhD candidate), UC Davis;
British imperialism in literature;
ekmusgrave [at] ucdavis.edu
Jason Nice, Dept of History (faculty), California State University, Chico
Carol Pal, Dept. of History (PhD candidate), Stanford University;
Early modern Britain/Europe; history of science; gender;
cpal [at] stanford
Dorothy Porter, History of Health Sciences, Dept. of Anthropolgy,
History & Social Medicine (faculty) UC San Francisco;
Social history of the health sciences;
dporter [at] itsa.ucsf.edu
Erika Rappaport, Dept. of History, faculty, UC Santa Barbara;
19th and 20th century British cultural history; history
of gender, urban history, consumer cultures and globalization;
rappaport [at] history.ucsb.edu
Catherine Robson, Dept. of English, faculty, UC Davis; 19th
century British literature and culture; the memorized poem
in Victorian culture;
cmrobson [at] ucdavis.edu
Michael Saler, Dept. of History, faculty, UC Davis; Modern
European intellectual/cultural history;
mtsaler [at] ucdavis.edu
Priya Satia, Dept. of History (faculty) Stanford University;
19th and 20th Century Britain and Empire;
psatia [at] stanford.edu
Laura Schattschneider, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow,
Humanities Consortium, UC Los Angeles; Comparative literature;
18th-19th century England, Germany, France;
schattla [at] earthlink.net
Cynthia Scheinberg, Chair, Dept. of English, Mills College;
19th century British literature; women’s poetry; Jewish
studies;
cyns [at] mills.edu
Paul S. Seaver, Dept. of History, 4Professor of History
emeritus, Stanford University; early modern England, London,religion
and society; seaver [at] stanford.edu
Meeta Sinha, Dept of History, UC Davis (PhD Student)
Late 19th/early 20th century Imperial Britain, British India, enchantment and empire.
msinha [at] ucdavis.edu
Reba N. Soffer, Professor of History Emeritus, California
State University, Northridge; 20th-century intellectual history;
rsoffer [at] csun.edu
Peter Stansky, Dept. of History, faculty, Stanford University;
Britain 1851-1956; intersections of art, society, politics,
and ideas;
stansky [at] stanford.edu
Kara Olsen Theiding, PhD, UC Berkeley (2002), History of Art, "Through the Looking Glass: Engagements with History and the Decorative Arts in England, 1875-1920"
Karen Tongson, Dept. of Gender Studies and English (faculty)University
of Southern California;Victorian aesthetics; Lesbian and
Gay studies; Critical theory;
ktongson [at] uclink4.berkeley.edu
Dominick Tracy, Dept. of History (PhD candidate), UC Davis;
19th century Britain; Ireland; post-colonial/empire; nationalism;
sentimentalism;
dotracy [at] ucdavis.edu
Michelle Tusan, Dept. of History, faculty, University
of Nevada Las Vegas; Modern Britain: Social and cultural
history of gender and empire, print culture;
michelle.tusan [at] ccmail.nevada.edu
Mary Waters, Faculty Fellow, Dept. of English, UC Davis;
18thc and Romantic British literature; women writers;
mawaters [at] ucdavis.edu
Robert Woods, Depart. of History, faculty, Pomona College;
15th & 16th century English legal culture; Early Modern
Britain;
Robert_Woods [at] Pomona.Edu
Susan Zieger, Postdoctoral Fellow,
Introduction to the Humanities, Stanford University; 19th
century British literature and
culture; history of medicine and science; cultural studies;
szieger [at] stanford.edu