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 initiated legal actions on behalf of human rights victims in U.S. federal courts. She has also developed advocacy and research initiatives to address human rights violations suffered by asylum seekers and migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, to examine the human rights impacts of unsolved murders in...
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 Science at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, and went on to receive her PhD in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
A majority of Professor Caldeira’s research focuses on predicaments of urbanization, such as spatial segregation, social discrimination, and the uses of public space in cities...
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.
His research is focused on forest impacts from climate change and other disturbances (hurricanes, drought, fire), biogeography, and land-atmosphere interactions. Methods employed to address these questions include ecological and physiological field measurements, remote sensing image analyses, and simulation modeling. Much of his work has taken place in...
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 ecology. Dr Echeverri’s lab integrates biological field work (such as bird surveys) with quantitative social surveys and qualitative content analysis to understand human relationships with nature. Specifically, she studies how people's behaviors towards the environment (such as habitat conversion)...
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.
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 regional focus on Latin America. Mara Loveman joined the UC-Berkeley sociology department in Fall of 2013. From 2003-2013, she was a faculty member in the sociology department at UW-Madison. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from UCLA and her B.A. in Political Economy of Industrial Societies,...
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.
He received his PhD (Sociology) from Brown University, his MA (Sociology) from the University of Illinois-Chicago, and his BA (Political Science and Mexican and Caribbean Studies) from Northeastern Illinois University. His research and teaching explore the politics of race, knowledge, and temporality, primarily in Latinx...
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 power with a thematic scope that ranges from Pan-American cumbia practices to robotic/AI music-making. His research situated in Latin America considers how time- and site-specific racial formations are articulated and disturbed through music and sound. His current book project focuses on Ecuadorian...
