Faculty Affiliate

Vinod Aggarwal

Distinguished Professor and Alann P. Bedford Chair in Asian Studies
The Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science

Vinod (Vinnie) Aggarwal is Travers Family Senior Faculty Fellow and Professor in the Department of Political Science, Affiliated Professor in the Business and Public Policy group in the Haas School of Business, and Director of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) at the University of California at Berkeley. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Business and Politics, and Co-Chair of the U.S. Consortium of APEC Study Centers...

Daniel Aldana Cohen

Assistant Professor and Director of Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative
Department of Sociology

Daniel Aldana Cohen is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is Director of the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2, and serves as a faculty affiliate in the graduate program on Political Economy. He is also Founding Co-Director of the Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank. He is a CIFAR Azrieli...

Roxanna Altholz

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...

Miguel Altieri

Professor Emeritus
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Miguel A . Altieri received a BS in Agronomy from the University of Chile and a Ph.D in Entomology from the University of Florida. He has been a Professor of Agroecology at UC Berkeley since 1981 in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management ( www.agroeco.org and www.cnr.berkeley.edu). Dr. Altieri served as a Scientific Advisor to the Latin American Consortium on Agroecology and Development (CLADES) Chile an NGO network promoting agroecology as a strategy for...

Milton Azevedo

Professor Emeritus
Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Patricia Baquedano-López

Associate Professor
Graduate School of Education

Professor Patricia Baquedano-López is faculty at the Graduate School of Education. She is a linguistic anthropologist of education interested in migration from Latin America to the United States. She investigates the relationship between migration, academic development, and educational policy. Her most recent projects examine the academic support and development of young students of the Maya diaspora Yucatan-California (funded by the Spencer Foundation) and an ongoing study of return migration and transnational families (funded by UC MEXUS-CONACyT).

Amelia Barili

Senior Lecturer
Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Dr. Amelia Barili holds a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Spanish and Portuguese Department and taught previously at the Spanish Department at UC Davis. She has been distinguished with many awards and honors such as the UCB Chancellor’s Award for Public Service, a Fulbright Scholarship, the East Bay Sanctuary Distinguished Partnership award, the Chancellor’s Community Partnership Grant, three UC Berkeley Language Center Fellowships, several Teaching Lecturer Fellowships and Professional Development...

Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre

Assistant Professor
Geography

As a geographer, my interests are at the intersections of political and historical geographies, political ecologies, and critical cartographies. My work focuses on peoples’ relation to their land/territory/landscape while engaging wide-reaching environmental policies, colonialism, and statism. My research is grounded on collaborative methods, mainly social mapping, and videography, highlighting the multiple geographies and ways of knowing that can inform epistemic and social justice efforts. I have worked closely with communities in Oaxaca for over a decade on a range of issues, such as...

Lowell Bergman

Emeritus Reva and David Logan Distinguished Chair in Investigative Journalism
Graduate School of Journalism

Lowell Bergman is the Emeritus Reva and David Logan Distinguished Chair in Investigative Journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism where he taught its first class in investigative reporting in 1991. That evolved into a seminar and then the school’s Investigative Reporting Program (IRP) which he founded in 2006. Retiring from the chair in 2019, he continues as President of the board of Investigative Studios. Founded in 2017 this unique nonprofit production company formally affiliated with UC Berkeley is dedicated to supporting the IRP, and continuing the tradition of wedding creating...

Emilie L. Bergmann

Professor Emerit
Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Professor Bergmann’s current research projects include gender and sexuality in early modern Spain and colonial Spanish America, and optics in Hispanic baroque poetry. Recent articles on: madness and poetry in Cervantes; the visual and the aural in the poetry of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz; representations of the nurturing body in early modern Spain; and cross-dressing, gender transgression and violence in early modern Spanish theater.