Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for British Studies; Chair of IES Faculty Advisory Committee
Mark Bevir is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for British Studies at IES. He holds concurrent appointments as Professor in Political Economy, King's College, London, and Professor of Governance, United Nations University (MERIT). Professor Bevir has consulted for governmental organizations in Asia, Europe, and North America, as well as the United Nations and its agencies. Currently he serves as the general editor of The Oxford History of Political Thought, and has served as editor of Journal of the Philosophy of History and associate...
Associate Professor of English; Director, Irish Studies Program
Catherine Flynn works on British and Irish modernist literature in a European avant-garde context. Her book, James Joyce and the Matter of Paris, was published with Cambridge University Press in 2019. She is currently at work on a volume titled New Joyce Studies: Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions, as well as a book on Flann O'Brien/Myles na gCopaleen/Brian O'Nolan's comic, ployglot Irish Times column, Cruiskeen Lawn.
Catherine Flynn joined the UC Berkeley Department of English in 2012. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s...
Associate Professor of Italian Studies; Director, Program for the Study of Italy
Mia Fuller is the Gladyce Arata Terrill Distinguished Associate Professor of Italian Studies. Combining fieldwork with archival and bibliographic research, she has published extensively on architecture and city planning in the Italian colonies, winning an International Planning History Society book prize for Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities, and Italian Imperialism(Routledge, 2006). She is also the co-editor...
Professor of Linguistics; Director, France-Berkeley Fund
Larry Hyman is Professor in the Department of Linguistics, and the Executive Director of the France-Berkeley Fund. Except for a two-year leave with a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science (U.C. Berkeley, 1973-1975), he taught at the University of Southern California from 1971 to 1988. He came to Berkeley's Department of Linguistics in 1988, which he chaired from 1991 to 2002. He has worked extensively on phonological theory and other aspects of language structure particularly as concerns the history and description of the Niger-Congo languages of...
Professor, Department of Political Science; Director, Center of Excellence in French and Francophone Studies
Jonah D. Levy received his Ph.D. in political science from MIT in 1994. He teaches courses in the areas of comparative political economy, French and West European politics, and welfare policy. Levy is Vice-Chair of the Department of Political Science as well as Director of Undergraduate Studies; he serves as a Faculty Liaison for the Disabled Students Program (DSP); and he is the Director of Berkeley's Center of Excellence in French Studies. Levy has a forthcoming book entitled Contested Liberalization: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Conflict in...
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese; Director, Spanish Studies Program
Ignacio Navarrete is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, with research interests focusing on poetry, poetics, and historiography of the Spanish Golden Age as well as on literary theory. Professor Navarrete received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1985. In the past, his research has focused on Italo-Iberian cultural relations and on the metalanguages of early-modern culture, which cut across national boundaries. He is also interested in specifically Iberian literary and cultural issues such as lyric poetry and poetics; national identity and transnational empire; and...
Professor of Sociology; Director, Peder Sather Center
Trond Petersen is Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Haas School of Business, and Director of the Peder Sather Center. Petersen does research in the areas of social inequality and quantitative methods. He has investigated the role of employer discrimination in creating inequality in wages, hiring, and promotions between men and women, as well as the role of family adaptations in this. He draws on large-scale quantitative data from the U.S. and Scandinavia, including quantitative data on large firms.
Associate Professor of History; Director, Modern Greek and Hellenic Studies Program
Christine Philliou is Associate Professor in the Department of History. She specializes in the political and social history of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey and Greece as parts of the post-Ottoman world. Her research interests and publications have had to do with comparative empires across Eurasia, various levels of transitions from an “Ottoman” to a “post-Ottoman” world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and political and cultural interfaces in the eastern Mediterranean, Middle East, and Balkans in the early modern and modern eras. She directs the Modern Greek and Hellenic...
Professor of Film and Media; Professor of Scandinavian; Chair, Nordic Center
Mark Sandberg is a professor in the Department of Film and Media and the Department of Scandinavian. Much of his research and teaching engages with film and theater history in the context of its surrounding visual culture. His film specialties include Scandinavian cinema history, certain Scandinavian directors (Sjöstrom, Stiller, Dreyer, Bergman, von Trier). He has published books on the contributions of Scandinavian museology to the paracinematic visual culture around the birth of cinema, and on Ibsen and the uncanny. He regularly teaches courses on Film Historiography, Pre-cinema/...