Affiliated Faculty

Mahesh Srinivasan

Associate Professor
Psychology
My research focuses on linguistic and cognitive development, and I also study social cognitive development across different cultural contexts. My research on language and cognition spans topics such as word learning, lexical semantics, pragmatics, linguistic relativity, historical semantic change and cross-linguistic typology. My research in social cognitive development focuses on intergroup attitudes, social norms, moral reasoning, and religious cognition.

Clare Talwalker

Lecturer
International and Area Studies
Global Poverty and Practice

Clare Talwalker is a continuing lecturer in Global Studies and Political Economy, and also core faculty of the Global Poverty and Practice Minor. Trained in cultural anthropology, her research focuses on India, social inequalities, the modern public sphere, and postcoloniality. She has also written about student engagement in aid and anti-poverty work. She offers classes on global poverty and practice, political economy, economic anthropology, and India. Talwalker grew up in Mumbai, India. She earned her B.A. at Dartmouth College and her Ph.D. at Duke University.

Stacey Van Vleet

Assistant Professor
History

I am a historian of Tibet and Inner Asia. My research and teaching are concerned with the place of Tibet in regional and global histories, and with how Tibetan historiography - and relatedly, that of contemporary states including China, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Mongolia, and Russia - has been shaped by modern transformations in knowledge, economy, culture, and governance.

My book in progress, The World the Medicine Buddha Built: Tibetan Medical Technologies and Infrastructure in Qing Inner Asia, examines the rise of a vast network of Tibetan medical institutions across...

Alexander von Rospatt

Professor
South and Southeast Asian Studies

Alexander von Rospatt is Professor for Buddhist and South Asian Studies, and Director of the Group in Buddhist Studies. He specializes in the doctrinal history of Indian Buddhism, and in Newar Buddhism, the only Indic Mahayana tradition that continues to persist in its original South Asian setting (in the Kathmandu Valley) right to the present. His first book sets forth the development and early history of the Buddhist doctrine of momentariness. His new book “The Svayambhu Caitya and its Renovations” deals with the historical renovations of the Svayambhū Stupa of Kathmandu. Based on Newar...

Julie Rodrigues Widholm

Executive Director
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Darren Zook

Lecturer
Political Science

Darren C. Zook teaches in Political Science and International and Area Studies. His research interests include human rights, comparative Asian politics, international law, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. He is currently at work on a book-length manuscript on the legal and political dimensions of decolonization and its legacy for global politics.