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...
Professor of History; Co-Director Austrian Studies Program
Professor Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professorship of European History Education
PhD, 1994, Harvard University, History MA, 1988, Harvard University, History BSFS, 1982, Georgetown University, International Relations, magna cum laude
Research Interests Modern East and Central European Political and Social History Comparative Education History of Nationalism and Racism History of Catholicism Academic Honors & Awards
Humanities Research Fellowship, University of California, Spring 2007 Membership, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2002-03 George L....
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...
Professor of German and Queen Beatrix Professor of Dutch Studies
Jeroen Dewulf is a Professor at the UC Berkeley Department of German & Dutch Studies. As the incumbent of the Queen Beatrix Chair, he is director of Berkeley’s Dutch Studies Program. He is also Chair of the Faculty Advisory Board on Study Abroad. He currently also serves as interim director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Portuguese Studies.
Since 2017, Dewulf is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium and, since 2020, he is member of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde (Society of Dutch Literature). As an affiliated member of the Center for...
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...
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 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/...
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...
