Affiliated Faculty

Eric Brewer

Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in EECS from MIT, and a B.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley. He was named a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum, by the Industry Standard as the "most influential person on the architecture of the Internet" by InfoWorld as one of their top ten innovators, by Technology Review as one of the top 100 most influential people for the 21st century (the "TR100"), and by Forbes as one of their 12 "e-mavericks", for which he appeared on the cover. Dr. Brewer focuses on all aspects of Internet-based systems; including technology, strategy, and government...

Vikram Chandra

Teaching Professor
English

Writer, teacher. Avid amateur student of pre-modern Indian literature, aesthetics, philosophy, Sanskrit, languages, and history. Programmer.

Sharad Chari

Associate Professor
Geography

I am an interdisciplinary geographer, and I remain puzzled by ‘geography’ as earthly/oceanic writing. After finishing a PhD in Geography at Berkeley, I was a fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan (2000-03), a Lecturer of Human Geography at the London School of Economics (2004-12), and an Associate Professor at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa and the Department of Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa (2013-16), where I remain affiliated to the Wits Institute for Social and Economic...

Angana P. Chatterji

Founding Chair and Research Anthropologist
Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative
Center for Race and Gender

Angana P. Chatterji is Founding Chair and Research Anthropologist, Initiative on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights at the Center for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley. A cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scholar of South Asia, Chatterji’s work is rooted in local knowledge, witness to post/colonial, decolonial conditions of grief, dispossession, agency, and...

Swapan Chattopadhyay (Chaterji)

Lecturer
Physics

I am a particle and particle accelerator physicist. Throughout my career, I have worked on innovative high energy particle colliders, exotic light sources, free electron lasers and “ultra-fast” sciences. Recently, I have turned my attention to Quantum Science and Technology and working closely with the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science, helped establish a DOE Quantum Science program in the US in 2017.


Saikat Chaudhuri

Teaching Professor
Mechanical Engineering

Saikat Chaudhuri is the inaugural Faculty Director of the Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) Program, a flagship dual-degree program in engineering and business at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also the inaugural Faculty Director of the Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Hub, a startup incubator that aims to make entrepreneurship accessible and easier for everyone across the campus. He holds the Grimes M.E.T. Chancellor’s Chair at the university, with a joint faculty appointment in the Entrepreneurship & Innovation as well as Management of...

Pradeep Chhibber

Professor
Political Science

Pradeep Chhibber studies the politics of India, political parties and party systems. His recent research is on the influence of ideology on party system change, religion and politics, elections and parties, and the politics of development in India.

Lawrence Cohen

Professor
Anthropology
South and Southeast Asian Studies

My current work is on large genealogical platforms and on the discovery of unknown kin as a mode of relatedness, with attention in particular to how kinship was digitized and monetized before the advent of genetic relatedness platforms. Like my work on Indian surveillance and platform capitalism, the focus is on “de-duplication” as an emergent rationality of both relationship and of truth.

Much of this work has been centered in urban north and central India, particularly in Delhi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Patna, and Varanasi.

John M. Colford Jr.

Professor
Epidemiology

John M. Colford Jr. is a Professor of Epidemiology who has served as the Principal Investigator for numerous randomized field trials and observational studies evaluating the impact of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in India, Bolivia, Guatemala, Bangladesh, Kenya, Mexico and the United States.

Jacob Dalton

Professor
South and Southeast Asian Studies

Jacob Dalton works on tantric ritual, Nyingma religious history, and the Dunhuang manuscripts. He is co-author of Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Stein Collection at the British Library (Brill, 2006) and author of The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism (Yale University Press, 2011), Through the Eyes of the Compendium of Intentions: The History of a Tibetan Ritual Tradition(Columbia University Press, 2016), and Conjuring the Buddha: Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism (Columbia...