Affiliated Faculty

Alain de Janvry

Professor
Agriculture and Resource Economics

Alain de Janvry is a Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. His area of interest is international economic development, with expertise principally in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle-East, and the Indian subcontinent. His fields of work include poverty analysis, rural development, quantitative analysis of development policies, impact analysis of social programs, technological innovations in agriculture, and the management of common property resources.

Al–An deSouza

Professor
Art Practice

Al-An deSouza works across different disciplines, including photography, digital media, text, performance, and pedagogy. Their work examines and restages colonizing legacies through strategies of humor, fabulation, and (mis)translation. deSouza has shown extensively in the US and internationally, including at SF Camerawork; the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Krannert Museum, IL; Blaffer Museum, TX; Pompidou Centre, Paris; Mori Museum, Tokyo; African Photography Encounters Biennale, Bamako, Mali; Gwangju Biennale, Korea; and Guangzhou Triennale, China.

Nicholas Dirks

Professor
History

Nicholas B. Dirks was named the 10th chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley on November 8, 2012, and served in that role between June 1, 2013 and July 1, 2017. An internationally renowned historian and anthropologist, he is a leader in higher education and well-known for his commitment to and advocacy for accessible, high-quality undergraduate education, to the globalization of the university, and to innovation and collaboration across the disciplines and between universities and outside partners.

Thad Dunning

Professor
Political Science

Thad Dunning is Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and directs the Center on the Politics of Development. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on comparative politics, political economy, and methodology. His substantive research in Latin America, Africa, and India has focused on ethnic voting, the consequences of political representation for minority groups, the role of intermediaries in distributing benefits in clientelist systems, and the consequences of natural resource wealth for democracy. His methodological writings focus on...

Penny Edwards

Professor
South and Southeast Asian Studies

Penny Edwards is a cultural historian specializing in Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia and Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia. She is the Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, and a leading authority on cultural nationalism and colonial encounters in Southeast Asia.

Ashok Gadgil

Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ashok Gadgil is the Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Chair Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation and a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. Gadgil’s research focuses on computational fluid dynamics of indoor air and pollutant flows, simulation of entry and transport of indoor radon, building energy efficiency, and methods to treat drinking water to make it potable. Gadgil holds a concurrent appointment as a Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He has more than 150 refereed archival journal papers,...

Paul J. Gertler

Professor
Economics

Paul Gertler is the Li Ka Shing Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds appointments at the Haas School of Business and the School of Public Health. He is the Faculty Director of the Institute for Business & Social Impact, and he is also the Scientific Director of the Center for Effective Global Action. Gertler is an internationally recognized expert in impact evaluation. He was Chief Economist of the Human Development Network of the World Bank from 2004-2007 and the Founding Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Initiative for...

Atreyee Gupta

Assistant Professor
History of Art

Atreyee Gupta’s area of expertise is Global Modernism, with a special emphasis on the aesthetic and intellectual flows that have cut across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America from the twentieth century onwards. Her research and teaching interests cluster around visual and intellectual histories of twentieth-century art; the intersections among the Cold War, the Non-Aligned Movement, and art after 1945; new media and experimental cinema; and the question of the global as materially, intellectually, and politically constellated around decolonization.

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Ganesh Iyer

Professor
Business Administration

Ganesh Iyer is the Edgar F. Kaiser Professor of Business Administration at Berkeley Haas. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto, and he was previously on the faculty at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently a Senior Editor for Marketing Science and has been an Associate Editor for Marketing Science, Management Science, and Quantitative Marketing and Economics. He was also a member of the Board of the Informs Society for Marketing Science as Secretary of the Board from 2012-2016. He has served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and...

Abhishek Kaicker

Associate Professor
History

I am an historian of Persianate South Asia (c. 1200-1900) with expertise in the history of the Mughal empire. I am interested in questions of intellectual history and the history of concepts; early modern global history; religion, politics and the city; and more generally in the continuities between precolonial and postcolonial south Asia.

My first book, The King the People: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi (OUP 2020) shows how ordinary urbanites emerged as assertive political subjects in the Mughal capital of Shahjahanabad (Delhi) over the turn of the...