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....
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 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/...
Lecturer at UC Berkeley French Department; Director, Center of Excellence in French & Francophone Studies
Lecturer at UC Berkeley French Department Member of the "Training and Professional Learning" Lab (AgroSup Dijon, CNAM Paris, and Ensta Bretagne, France) and of the "ADEF" Lab (Aix-Marseille University, France)
A French native, Claire Tourmen was trained in humanities, philosophy and political sciences at La Sorbonne (Paris I) before becoming an associate professor of Education at AgroSup Dijon-University of Burgundy, where she specialized in professional/intercultural learning and evaluation. Claire did her PhD research within a consulting firm in Lyon while performing public program...
