Faculty Affiliate

Dorothy Kronik

Assistant Professor
Goldman School of Public Policy

Dorothy Kronick is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at Berkeley. She studies contemporary Latin American politics, focusing on Venezuelan politics and the politics of crime and policing. Her work has been published in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Science, and Science Advances, among other outlets. Her commentary on Venezuelan politics has appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post.

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

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

Ian Haney Lopez

Director, Racial Politics Project, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society; Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law
Berkeley Law School

Ian Haney López teaches in the areas of race and constitutional law. One of the nation’s leading thinkers on how racism has evolved since the civil rights era, his current research emphasizes the connection between racial divisions in society and growing wealth inequality in the United States. In Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class (2014), Haney López detailed the fifty-year history of how politicians exploit racial pandering to fracture social solidarity and ultimately to convince many voters to support rule by the...

Mara Loveman

Professor
Department of Sociology

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,...

Luis Madrigal

Lecturer
Department of Film and Media Studies
Luis Madrigal is a scholar of contemporary Mexican culture and film. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University and a PhD in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies from the University of Chicago. His current book project explores the intersection of politics and aesthetics during Mexico City’s transition to democracy, and the transformation of the capital’s contemporary image within and beyond Mexico. His research and teaching focuses on 20th and 21st century Mexican literature, photography, and film, but his interests include Latin American and Spanish cultural production,...

Beatriz Manz

Professor Emerita
Department of Ethnic Studies
Geography Department

Professor Beatriz Manz was born in rural southern Chile. She obtained her university studies in the United States. The ethnographic research for her PhD in Social Anthropology was based on fieldwork in the highlands of Guatemala. Her Latin American roots have shaped much of her framework and research interest in rural communities. The focus of her research has remained contemporary Mayan communities in Guatemala. Her book Refugees of a Hidden War: the Aftermath of Counterinsurgency in Guatemala examined the displacement and human rights abuses committed by the Guatemalan military against...

Angela Marino

Associate Professor
Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies

Angela Marino is author of Populism and Performance in the Bolivarian Revolution (Northwestern University Press, 2018); co-editor of Festive Devils in the Americas (Seagull Press/University of Chicago Press, 2015) and is published in the Latin American Theater Review (2008); Harvard Revista (2014); e-misférica Journal of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (2013); and Cultural Anthropology (2014). Prof. Marino works as Affiliate Faculty with the Latinx Research Center (formerly known as the Center for Latino Policy Research), and is advisor to the Teatro Lab project, an...