Affiliated Faculty

Vasugi Kailasam

Assistant Professor
South and Southeast Asian Studies

Vasugi Kailasam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies. Her research concerns global Tamil literatures, postcolonial literature and filmic and digital cultures of contemporary South Asia and its diasporas. Specifically, her work examines narrative forms and its connections to South Asian cultural identity formations, race and ethnic politics. Before arriving at UC Berkeley, Professor Kailasam was a lecturer of Tamil Studies at the South Asian Studies Programme (SASP) in the National University of Singapore from 2015- 2019. In AY 2023-24,...

Daniel M. Kammen

Professor
Energy and Natural Resources

Dr. Daniel M. Kammen is a Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, with parallel appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy where he directs the Center for Environmental Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL; rael.berkeley.edu), and was Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center from 2007 – 2015.

Sonia Katyal

Associate Dean; Professor
Law

Professor Sonia Katyal’s work focuses on the intersection of technology, intellectual property, and civil rights (including antidiscrimination, privacy, and freedom of speech).

Professor Katyal’s current projects focus on artificial intelligence and intellectual property; trademark law, branding and advertising; the intersection between the right to information and human rights; and a variety of projects on the intersection between art law, cultural heritage and new media. As a member of the university-wide Haas LGBTQ Citizenship Cluster, Professor Katyal also works on matters...

Mallika Kaur

Lecturer
Law

Mallika Kaur is an author, lawyer, teacher and community organizer who focuses on human rights with a specialization in gender and minority issues. She has worked with victim-survivors of gendered violence for two decades, including as an emergency room crisis counselor, expert witness on domestic violence and sexual violence, researcher, and attorney. Mallika is the co-founder and Executive Director (as of 2021) of Sikh Family Center, the only Sikh American organization focused on gender-based violence.

Supreet Kaur

Associate Professor
Economics

I am an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley. I am a development economist, with overlap in my work with behavioral and labor economics. The first strand of my research focuses on the functioning of labor markets in poor countries. My work documents frictions in labor markets, studies the causes of unemployment, and examines the impact of inequality on labor productivity. The second strand of my research explores how psychological forces--such as the limits of human cognition and social norms--can affect individual behavior and market equilibria....

Asma Kazmi

Associate Professor
Art Practice

Asma Kazmi is a research-based artist who combines virtual and material objects to explore simultaneity—a tug of more than one time and place. Her work involves long term engagement with cities, architecture, plants, animals, stones, and other matter to locate vestiges of relations forged by the legacies of colonialism and post-colonial contexts.

Umair Khan

Visiting Faculty
L&S Arts and Humanities Division

Nora Koa

Lecturer
South and Southeast Asian Studies

Nora Koa works as a Lecturer of Hindi language and literature in the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies. She studied Hindi, Sanskrit, and Second Language Teaching in Czech Republic and Germany. She taught Czech language and literature at Delhi University, and Hindi language and literature at Charles University in Prague. At present, her research focuses mainly on Second language teaching and acquisition. Her other research interests and publications center around Early Modern languages and literature of North India, and modern Theravada Buddhism.

Zachary Lamb

Assistant Professor
City and Regional Planning

Zachary Lamb is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning. His research focuses on the role of urban planning and design in shaping uneven vulnerability and resilience in the face of climate change. In 2018, Professor Lamb completed his PhD at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. His dissertation focused on the role of design in shaping urban flood infrastructure and the changing spatial politics of urban flooding through two case study cities, New Orleans, Louisiana and Dhaka, Bangladesh. His current book project, Making and Unmaking the Dry...

David I. Levine

Professor
Business Administration

David I. Levine is a Professor of Business Administration at Berkeley Haas. Dr. Levine’s research focuses on understanding and overcoming barriers to improving health in poor nations. This research has examined both how to increase demand for health-promoting goods such as safer cookstoves and water filters, and how to change health-related behaviors such as handwashing with soap. He has also written extensively on organizational learning (and failures to learn).