The Faculty Advisory Board, representing diverse disciplines and departments across campus, advises the CLACS Chair on programmatic and research priorities.
Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic
Berkeley Law School
Roxanna Altholz ’99 is an international human rights lawyer and scholar with extensive experience in international and national fora. Altholz has won several ground-breaking judgments from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, provided expert testimony before UN human rights groups, and...Read more about Roxanna Altholz
Teresa Caldeira is Professor of City and Regional Planning at the College of Environmental Design, and an affiliate of the Department of Geography and Global Metropolitan Studies program. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences and Master of Arts in Political
Jeff Chambers is a Professor in the Geography Department, University of California, Berkeley, a Faculty Scientist in the Earth Sciences Division at LBNL, and Director of DOE’s Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE) Tropics.
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Dr. Alejandra Echeverri Ochoa is a biodiversity conservation scientist, professor, science communicator, and advocate for women, Latinx, and youth in STEM. Dr Echeverri’s research sits at the intersection of Neotropical ornithology, conservation psychology, environmental policy, and community...Read more about Alejandra Echeverri Ochoa
Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Nadia Ellis received her PhD in English from Princeton University in 2008, specializing in postcolonial and modern British literature. She also has an MPhil in English from Oxford University and a BA in Literatures in English from the University of the West Indies (Mona) Jamaica.Read more about Nadia Ellis
Mara Loveman is a political and comparative-historical sociologist with broad interests in ethnoracial politics, nationalism, and the state. Her research interests also include the sociology of development, the demography of ethnoracial difference and inequality, and human rights, with a...Read more about Mara Loveman
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz was born and raised in Chicago. He is an associate professor of sociology and co-directs the Latinx Social Science Pipeline initiative and the Anticolonial Lab. Michael joined Berkeley's faculty as part of the Latinx and Democracy cluster.
Juan David Rubio Restrepo is an artist/scholar focusing on Latin American popular musics and global experimental practices. He is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research explores the intersection between sound technologies, alterity, and...Read more about Juan David Rubio Restrepo
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
