Professor and Leir Chair of Environmental Humanities, Clark University
Christina Gerhardt is the Leir Chair and Professor. She is also the Co-founding CoDirector of the Environmental Humanities at Clark University; former Barron Visiting Professor of Environmental Humanities at the High Meadows Environment Institute at Princeton University (2021-2022); and a former Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center (2022).
Professor Gerhardt is the author or editor of five books including, most recently, Sea...
Chris Jackson is an instructor at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley. Previously he has taught at UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. He was raised in California, and received his Bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Master’s and PhD in history from Harvard University, with a dissertation directed by Charles Maier entitled “Industrial Labor between Revolution and Repression: Labor Law and Society in Germany, 1918-1945.” He has received...
Allan Little was born in South West Scotland and studied Politics and Modern History at the University of Edinburgh (MA, 1982). He joined the BBC in 1983 and has been an on-air correspondent since 1985, specialising in foreign affairs since 1989. He reported the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe in 1989. He covered the first Gulf War from the Iraqi capital Baghdad in 1990 and 1991. He then spent four years, from 1991-1995 reporting the breakup of Yugoslavia, where he co-authoroed (with Laura Silber) a book on the conflict (Death of Yugoslavia, Penguin, 1995).
Martin Nettesheim is currently a professor of law at the University of Tuebingen Law School in Germany. He serves as head of the Tuebingen University Center for International Economic Law. Previously he has taught at Free University in Berlin and at Potsdam University Law School. He is Member of the Board of the European Law Institute, Co-Chair of the Gesellschaft für Rechtspolitik (GfR) and served as Secretary General of the Societas Iuris Publici Europaei (SIPE). He served as Dean of Tuebingen University Law School.
Nettesheim is a specialist on European Union Law and...
Professor of Leadership and Governance, University of St Andrews, UK
Kevin Orr is a Senior Fellow in the Institute of European Studies. He is Professor of Leadership and Governance at the University of St Andrews, UK. Orr is a Fulbright Scholar and was hosted by the IES and the Center for British Studies at UC Berkeley as a Visiting Scholar in 2017-2018. During that time he led collaborative projects on political leadership and governance, austerity and crisis, and on several public policy areas. Orr is a recipient of the Louis Brownlow Prize from the American Society for Public Administration for work on academic-practitioner collaborative research. He has...
Prof. Marianne Riddervold is a Research Professor at ARENA - Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is also a Research Professor (part time) at the Norwegian Institute of European Affairs (NUPI) and a senior fellow at the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies (IES). Riddervold holds a PhD in Political Science from ARENA, where she later worked as a postdoctoral fellow and a researcher. Before going back to ARENA, Riddervold was a full professor of International Relations at Innlandet University, Norway.
Continuing Lecturer, Berkeley Law; Specialist-Curator, Department of Music
Carla Shapreau is a Continuing Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she teaches art and cultural property law. She also is a Senior Fellow in the Institute of European Studies, where she is conducting cultural property research. In the Department of Music, she is Curator of the Ansley K. Salz Collection. While earning her Juris Doctor, Carla Shapreau was a judicial extern for the Honorable Chief Judge Robert F. Peckham, U.S. District Court, San Francisco, before becoming an intellectual property, art, and cultural property law...
Edith Sheffer is a historian of twentieth-century German Europe and a prize-winning author. Her book, Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna was published in May 2018 with W. W. Norton. It investigates Hans Asperger’s creation of the autism diagnosis in the Third Reich, examining Nazi psychiatry's emphasis on social spirit and Asperger's involvement in the...
Dean and Professor, IE School of Science & Technology, Madrid; Founding Director, UC Berkeley SCET; Fellow in Entrepreneurship & Technology
Ikhlaq Sidhu has been the Dean of the School of Science and Technology at IE University in Madrid since 2022 and the founding faculty director of UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology since 2005. He is the author of Innovation Engineering and the creator of the Data-X Course at Berkeley. He holds over 60 patents in internet communication technologies and developed the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship, a framework used at UC Berkeley within the Entrepreneurship & Technology area.
Sidhu received the IEEE Major Education Innovation Award in...
Matthew Specter is an intellectual historian of modern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is the author of two monographs: The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States(Stanford UP, 2022) and Habermas: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge UP, 2010). Since 2014, he has served as Associate Editor of the leading international journal in the theory of history, History & Theory. A native of New York City, he was educated at Harvard, Brown (BA magna cum laude) and Duke, earning the Ph.D. in History from...
