Faculty Affiliate

Donna Jones

Associate Professor
English Department

Donna Jones is Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley and the author of The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism and Modernity (Columbia UP, 2010). She is currently working on two two projects, The Ambiguous Promise of European Decline: Race and Historical Pessimism in the Era of the Great War and The Tribunal of Life: Reflections on Vitalism, Race and Biopolitics.

Rosemary A. Joyce

Professor and CLAS Interim Chair, January-June 2021
Department of Anthropology

Rosemary Joyce, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, received the PhD in Anthropology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1985. A curator and faculty member at Harvard University from 1985 to 1994, she moved to Berkeley in 1994. She conducted archaeological fieldwork in Honduras from 1977 to 2009, and continues research on Honduran collections in museums throughout Europe and the Americas. She is the editor of nine books, most recently Revealing Ancestral Central America (2013), and author of ten books, including Cerro Palenque...

Daniel Kammen

Professor
Goldman School of Public Policy
Energy and Resources Group
Department of Nuclear Engineering

Daniel M. Kammen is Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) and the co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment. Kammen is the Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center. Kammen received his undergraduate (Cornell A., B. ’84) and graduate (Harvard M. A. ’86, Ph.D. ’88) training is in physics After...

Alan Karras

Associate Director, Senior Lecturer
Department of Global Studies

Alan Karras is Associate Director of International and Area Studies; he has taught at Berkeley for nearly 25 years, and has been honored both locally and nationally for his teaching and service. A former chair of the College Board’s AP World History committee, and the author of several books and articles on subjects as diverse as migration, transnational crime (including smuggling and piracy), he is also an author of one of the leading World History textbooks. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA/MA from The Johns Hopkins University, where he decided not to become...

Robert Kaufman

Professor
Department of Comparative Literature

Robert Kaufman’s teaching and research emphasize several interrelated areas: 20th-21st-century American poetry and its dialogues with modern Latin American, German, French, and British poetry; romantic and 19th-century poetry and poetics; philosophical aesthetics, literary theory, and the history of criticism (esp. since Kant and romanticism); and Frankfurt School Critical Theory and the arts (poetry and the other literary genres; music; cinema; painting, etc.).

Eileen A. Lacey

Professor
Department of Integrative Biology
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (Curator of Mammals)

Porfessor Lacey research program explores the evolution of behavioral diversity among vertebrates, with emphasis on studies of mammals. Specifically, by combining field studies of behavior, ecology, and demography with molecular genetic analyses of kinship and population structure, I seek to identify the causes and consequences of variation in mammalian social behavior. Although she is broadly interested in social behavior and sponsor students working on a variety of vertebrate taxa, her current research focuses on studies of subterranean rodents from Argentina and Chile.

Michel S. Laguerre

Professor
Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies

Phuoc Le

Assistant Professor
School of Public Health

Phuoc Le graduated from Dartmouth in 2000 with a double major in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures. He then matriculated at Stanford Medical School where he earned his MD. During his time at Stanford, Phuoc also obtained a Master’s of Public Health from UC Berkeley with a focus on global health. He completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Global Health Equity at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. During residency he has worked with the NGO Partners in Health (PIH) to...

Jovan Scott Lewis

Associate Professor
Geography Department

Jovan Scott Lewis is an associate professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He co-leads the Economic Disparities research cluster in Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute. He received his PhD in anthropology from the London School of Economics. Jovan’s research is concerned with the articulations of racialized poverty, which he examines through questions of racial capitalism, underdevelopment, and radical terms of repair. He has conducted research in Jamaica on these topics, which culminated in his monograph, Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in...

Enrique Lima

Continuing Lecturer
Department of Ethnic Studies