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What is Doug Boyer's research?

In his most recent research, he studied how grooming claws in apes dictated their place in the social hierarchy. He hopes his research will reveal more on how monkeys, apes, and humans have developed over time.

Who is Aaron Fisher?

Faculty: Psychology at UC Berkeley Aaron Fisher studied how large data sample populations are actually not representative of many different people as a whole. Fisher determined this through his research on emotions, behavior, and physiology and how they vary greatly between people. Fisher is applying his research findings to creating more individualized treatment plans for mental health patients.

Who is Angela Marino?

Angela Marino is author of Populism and Performance in the Bolivarian Revolution (Northwestern University Press, 2018); co-editor of Festive Devils in the America s (Seagull Press/University of Chicago Press, 2015) and is published in the ...

Where did Wendy Wisely get her BA?

Wendy Wisely received her BA in Theatre from University of Washington, and an MFA in Performance from San Jose State University. She has been a Theatre Arts educator for over 30 years, highlighted by teaching two semesters abroad in London and Firenze, Italy. Wendy received the Chancellors ...#N#Read more about Wendy Wisely

What is Sansan's research interest?

SanSan’s research interests include dance studies, Asian American studies, theories of space and kinesthesia, and interculturalism. She is author of Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces (Oxford UP, 2013), as well as...#N#Read more about SanSan Kwan

Where did Lisa Wymore go to college?

Lisa Wymore performed her graduate study at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where she was awarded a Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship, an Outstanding Achievement Award, and a Moe Family Award for her creativity...#N#Read more about Lisa Wymore

Who is Joe Goode?

Joe Goode. Professor, Department Chair. B.A. in Theater Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University. Professor Goode is Artistic Director of Joe Goode Performance Group with whom he has performed in the U.S., Canada, Africa, South America, and the Middle East.

Where did Michael Socrates Moran go to college?

Michael Socrates Moran grew up in Richmond, California before attending Boston University where he pursued his BFA. He has worked as a professional actor in regional theaters in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and at an off-Broadway house in New York City. He recently graduated from UC San Diego’...

Who is Shannon Jackson?

Shannon Jackson. Ph.D. in Performance Studies, Northwestern University. Shannon Jackson is the Associate Vice Chancellor for the Arts + Design at UC Berkeley where she is also the Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor of Rhetoric and of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies.

Who is the Dean of UC Berkeley?

Michael C. Lu, the current Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, has a deep-rooted passion for health equity and social justice. He has dedicated his research to the development, testing and translation of a new theory on the origins of maternal and child health disparities.

Who is John Levine?

John Levine joined the UC Berkeley College Writing Programs faculty in 1997. In 2005, he co-developed the course design and began teaching Introduction to Public Speaking and, later, Advanced Public Speaking. He also coordinates the long-running Berkeley Write#N#(link is external)

Who is Carol Christ?

Carol Christ began her term as the 11th chancellor of the University of California, Berke ley on July 1, 2017. A celebrated scholar of Victorian literature, Christ is also well known as an advocate for quality, accessible public higher education, a proponent of the value of a broad education in the liberal arts and sciences, ...

Who is Maximilian Auffhammer?

Maximilian Auffhammer is the George Pardee Jr. Professor of International Sustainable Development and Associate Dean in the Division of Social Sciences at UC Berkeley. Professor Auffhammer received his B.S. in environmental science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1996, a M.S. in environmental and resource economics at the same institution in 1998 and a Ph.D. in economics from UC San Diego in 2003. He joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2003. His research focuses on environmental and resource economics, energy economics and applied econometrics. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Energy and Environmental Economics group, a Humboldt Fellow, and a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). His research has appeared in The American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Economic Journal, the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, The Energy Journal and other academic journals. Professor Auffhammer is the recipient of the 2017 Cheit Teaching Award in the Haas School of Business, the 2009 Campus Distinguished Teaching Award the 2007 Cozzarelli Prize awarded by the National Academies of Sciences, and the 2007 Sarlo Distinguished Mentoring Award.

Who is Alex Budak?

Lecturer, Management of Organizations. Alex Budak is a social entrepreneur and professional faculty member at Berkeley Haas. Budak created and teaches a transformative course called “Becoming a Changemaker,” and is Executive Director of the Berkeley Haas Global Access Program.

Who is Carmen Acevedo Butcher?

Carmen Acevedo Butcher is on the faculty in U.C. Berkeley’s College Writing Programs. She is an author, teacher, and an award-winning translator. Her dynamic work around the evolution of language and the necessity of just and inclusive language has garnered interest from various media, including the BBC and NPR’s Morning Edition. A Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year, she was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at Sogang University, a Fulbright Scholar at the University of London, and a Rotary Graduate Scholar at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.

Who is Dean Burton?

Prior to her arrival at Berkeley in 2019, Dean Burton was the James B. Duke Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University. In her role as dean of Social Sciences at Duke University's Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, she was responsible for handling all matters relative to 239 faculty members in 14 departments and programs, including African/African American Studies, Economics, History, Political Science, and Women's Studies. She simultaneously co-directed the undergraduate program on International Comparative Studies, was co-chair of the university's Task Force on Bias and Hate Issues, and served on the university's union bargaining team in negotiations with the Service Employees' International Union (SEIU) on behalf of Duke's adjunct professors. Prior to joining Duke, she was a faculty member at Penn State for over 20 years and served as director of its Center for Human Development and Family Research in Diverse Contexts from 1998 to 2006. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Southern California. For a detailed bio, please click here#N#(link is external)#N#.

How many women are in Berkeley Haas?

This fall, Berkeley Haas welcomes a diverse and international group of nine new professors, including a record five women. The new faculty members include one full professor, two associate professors, and six new assistant professors, who are from Italy, Argentina, France, China, Canada, and California.

Where is Luyi Yang?

Luyi Yang, a native of Shanghai, China, joins Haas from Johns Hopkins University, where he was an assistant professor at the Carey Business School for the past three years. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago Booth School of Management in 2017.

Where did Matilde Bombardini grow up?

Though Matilde Bombardini grew up in Imola, a city in Northern Italy, UC Berkeley has long had a special place in her life and career. It’s where she came as an undergraduate student on an exchange program in 1998-99.

Where is Ricardo Perez-Truglia from?

Ricardo Perez-Truglia grew up in the Ciudadela neighborhood near Buenos Aires, Argentina, moving to the U.S. for a PhD in economics from Harvard University. He joins Berkeley Haas from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, where he was an assistant professor of economics for four years.

Where is Sydnee Caldwell?

Sydnee Caldwell, who grew up in Fallbrook, Calif., is coming “home” to Cal. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a double bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and economics in 2008, before earning her PhD in economics from MIT in 2019. She joins Berkeley Haas after serving a year as a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England.

Where is Biwen Zhang from?

Biwen Zhang is from Nanchang, the capital and largest city of Jiangxi Province, China. She completed her PhD in accounting in 2020 from Simon Business School at the University of Rochester.

Where is Xi Wu from?

Xi Wu is originally from Beijing, China. She received her PhD in accounting from New York University’s Stern School of Business after studying mathematics and economics as an undergrad at Cornell University.

Back to Berkeley

Xinyue's first few weeks in the program, she was already making the best of her time here. She loved the university’s environment and all of her courses.

Preparing for a Legal Future

Although difficult, Xinyue enjoyed the program's core courses, such as Law Technology and Entrepreneurship and Supreme Court and Public Policy. By taking these courses at the Berkeley Law school, she was able to get a new perspective and compare Chinese and American law.

Graduate Success

Although Xinyue’s time in Berkeley was only for one semester, the experience truly changed her future in law. After months of studying American law and learning new vocabulary, her English language skills have greatly improved. This is a plus, as she believes Chinese law firms are more likely to hire applicants with high-level English skills.