Frederik Braüner is a PhD student in Architecture at the College of Environmental Design. His research focuses on the history and theory of modern welfare state architecture in the Nordics and the wider Arctic region, looking into social housing, public institutions, urban development, infrastructure, etc. Frederik holds a B.A. in Art history from Copenhagen University and a M.A. in Architecture from the Royal Danish Academy, where his thesis ‘An Intersectional Architecture’ won the Danish Commonwealth Thesis Award, 2021. As a licensed architect in Denmark, he has worked in architectural...
Blaze Joel is a Ph.D. student in the Late Modern Europe field in the Department of History at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on nationalism, memory, violence, and national identity in twentieth century Europe. Blaze studies these issues in the successor states of the former Yugoslavia and in an international, trans-European framework. His secondary field is the Global Cold War.
Ph.D. student in Romance Languages and Literatures
Marguerite Morlan is a Ph.D. student in the Romance Languages and Literatures program. She earned a B.A. in Spanish and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, as well as an M.A. in Spanish Linguistics from New Mexico State University. Prior to her doctorate, she was a Fulbright visiting researcher at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. Her research explores language attitudes and identity among autochthonous and foreign residents in the Catalan Countries. She also investigates the interplay among language policy, language ideologies, and...
Alberto Sanchez Sanchez is a PhD candidate in the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley. His research explores the construction of the idea of rurality in modern Spain (1939-present) and his areas of interest include modern and vernacular architecture, infrastructures and public works, historic preservation, anthropology, demography, human rights, and public policy. Alberto holds a professional degree in Architecture from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University, where he studied as a Fulbright scholar. A licensed architect in...
I am in my third year in the PhD program in Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL) at UC Berkeley. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the RLL program, I am involved not only with my home department of Italian Studies, but also with the departments of Spanish & Portuguese and French. My main research interests have to do with the transition period from dictatorship to democracy in twentieth-century Italy, Spain, and Portugal, with particular attention paid to the treatment of national history and memory in transition-era literature and film. My other interests include Translation...
Verena Wolf is a Ph.D. candidate in German Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her Magistra Artium and Erstes Staatsexamen (Master’s of Education) in History, English, and Education from the Goethe University Frankfurt (2016), and her Master of Arts in German Studies from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (2013). She was the recipient of various scholarships offered by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)...
