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...
Co-Director Spanish Studies Program, Associate Professor of Hispanic and Romance Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Justin Davidson is an Associate Professor of Hispanic and Romance Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. His main research agenda is guided by questions that primarily address language variation and language change in contact situations, specifically as linked to the empirical assessment of linguistic influence (via language contact), incorporating a variety of linguistic frameworks and methodologies. In particular, he has explored bi-directional effects of language contact between Spanish and Catalan manifested phonetically in the speech of the diverse community of...
Deniz Göktürk is Professor of German at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on cultural and media studies with a focus on film, multilingual literature, and migration. She has held awards and grants from the DAAD, the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council (ESRC) in the UK, the Institute for European Studies, the Institute for International Studies, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Digital Humanities at Berkeley. She has been an invited fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz and the Center for Cinepoetics...
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas is Professor of Economics and the Angela Chan Professor of Global Management at the Haas School of Business. He received his PhD in 1996 from MIT and taught at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Princeton University before joining the Berkeley economics department in 2003. He is a Research Associate with NBER and a Research Fellow with CEPR (London) and the International Growth Center (London).Professor Gourinchas is editor of the IMF Economic Review. He is also associate editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association and a member of the...
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...
Katerina Linos’ research and teaching interests include international law, comparative law, European Union law, employment law and migration law. Linos’ book The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion: How Health, Family, and Employment Laws Spread Across Countries (Oxford University Press, 2013), explains the politics of legal transplantation. Linos also focuses on the law and politics of the European Union. In 2017, Linos was awarded a Carnegie fellowship to study the European refugee crisis. She is Co-Faculty Director of the Miller...
Professor of History; Director of Modern Greek and Hellenic Studies Program; Chair of the Middle Eastern Languages Cultures Department (MELC)
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...
Co-Director Spanish Studies Program, Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media
Alex Saum-Pascual is a digital artist, poet, and associate professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media. She is author of #Postweb! Crear con la máquina y en la red (Iberoamericana-Vervuert 2018) and numerous articles, special issues and book chapters on digital media and literature in the Spanish-speaking world, being featured in The Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos,Digital Humanities Quarterly, and Electronic Book Review among others. Her work has been supported by...
