Townsend Working Groups

The Townsend Working Groups bring together faculty and graduate students from various fields and departments with shared research interests. For information about a specific group, please contact the Fellowships Coordinator at townsend_fellowships@berkeley.edu.

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Ancient Philosophy

Coordinators:
Derin McLeod
and
Justin Vlasits

Anglophonia! Literatures in English

Coordinators:
Jessica Crewe
and
Sarah Chihaya

Animal Studies

Coordinators:
Rasheed Tazudeen

Anthropological Inquiry

Coordinators:
Sultan Doughan
and
David Marcus

Asian Art and Visual Cultures

Coordinators:
William Ma
and
Cristin Sethi

Asian Cultural Studies

Coordinators:
Amy Lee

Berkeley-Stanford British Studies

Coordinators:
Tehila Sasson
and
James Vernon

Berkeley-Stanford City Group: Critical Urbanisms

Coordinators:
Matt Wade
and
Ilaria Giglioli

BTWH: The Emergence of German Modernity

Coordinators:
Erik Born
and
Tara Hottman

California Studies

Coordinators:
Richard Walker
and
Charles Wollenberg

Clio's Scroll

Coordinators:
Caitlin Ellis
and
Cindy Kok

Colloquium in the Studies of Music

Coordinators:
Ulrike Petersen
and
Sumitra Ranganathan

Colonial Latin American Art, Literature, and Visual Culture

Coordinators:
Dexter Hough-Snee
and
Jessica Stair

Consortium on the Novel

Coordinators:
Leila Mansouri
and
Margaret Kolb

Contemporary Art

Coordinators:
Laura Richard
and
Aglaya K. Glebova

Contemporary Drama Working Group

Coordinators:
Joshua Williams
and
Takeo Rivera

Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Coordinators:
Samia Rahimtoola
and
Jane Gregory

Critical Perspectives on Human Rights

Coordinators:
Zachary Manfredi
and
Genevieve Painter

Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture

Coordinators:
Elaine Yau
and
Anthony Bak Buccitelli

Culture and History of East Central Europe

Coordinators:
William Jenkins
and
Michael Dean

Dance Studies

Coordinators:
Sima Belmar
and
Lisa Wymore

Digital Humanities

Coordinators:
Aditi Muralidharan
and
Scott McGinnis

Early Modern Studies

Coordinators:
Stephanie Moore
and
Jason Rozumalski

Eighteenth Century Studies

Coordinators:
Janet Sorensen
and
Ian Thomas-Bignami

Folklore Roundtable

Coordinators:
Shakthi Nataraj
and
Hector Beltran

Found in Translation

Coordinators:
Jonathan Haddad
and
Usree Bhattacharya

Francophone Studies

Coordinators:
Maria Vendetti
and
Caitlin Scholl

Frankfurt School of Aesthetics and Political Theory

Coordinators:
Erin Greer
and
Megan O'Connor

Gender and Queer Theory in South and Southeast Asia

Coordinators:
Paige Johnson
and
Darren Arquero

Graduate Film

Coordinators:
Patrick Ellis
and
Rielle Navitski

Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley

Coordinators:
Marcos Garcia
and
Erik Born

History of Emotions

Coordinators:
Padma Maitland
and
Greg Castillo

History of the Book

Coordinators:
Jane Raisch
and
Shannon Chamberlain

International Organizations in the Twentieth Century

Coordinators:
Christopher Casey
and
Albert Wu

James Joyce

Coordinators:
Jocelyn Rodal
and
Rasheed Tazudeen

Kroeber Anthropological Society Round Table Series

Coordinators:
Andrew Halley
and
Alexis Taylor

Labor, Philosophy, and Change

Coordinators:
Abhijeet Paul
and
Penny Edwards

Late Antique Religions et Society

Coordinators:
Susanna Elm
and
Eli Weaverdyck

Latin American History Studies

Coordinators:
Andra Chastain
and
David Tamayo

Making UC Futures

Coordinators:
Catherine Cole

Medieval Philosophy

Coordinators:
R. D. Perry
and
Spencer Strub

Medievalisms

Coordinators:
Kenneth Fockele
and
Marcos Garcia

Migration and Diaspora: A Reading Group of Historical Scholarship

Coordinators:
Brendan Shanahan
and
Peiting Lee

Modern Jewish Culture

Coordinators:
Francesco Spagnolo
and
John Efron

Muslim Identities and Cultures

Coordinators:
Tala Khanmalek
and
Huma Dar

New Media

Coordinators:
Christopher Goetz
and
Tiffany Ng

Nineteenth Century and Beyond British Cultural Studies

Coordinators:
Marisa Palacios Knox
and
Slavica Naumovska

Phenomenology and Language, Body, and Mind

Coordinators:
Bradford Taylor
and
Christopher Patrick Miller

Qui Parle

Coordinators:
Marta Figlerowicz
and
Simon Porzak

Romance Linguistics

Coordinators:
Michael Arrigo
and
Jenelle Thomas

Russian History "Kruzhok"

Coordinators:
Joseph Kellner
and
Emiliana Kissova

Secularization

Coordinators:
Max Staley
and
Ari Edmundson

Slavic Literature "Kruzhok"

Coordinators:
Piper Wheeler
and
Thomas Dyne

Smart Cities

Coordinators:
Mariana Torres
and
Brian Cavagnolo

Society for Cultural Heritage, Arts, and the Law

Coordinators:
Bryan Cockrell
and
William Coleman

Sound Studies

Coordinators:
Serena Le
and
Eric Falci

Speculative Fiction and Political Imagination

Coordinators:
Mandy Cohen
and
Kfir Cohen

Subjectivity and Culture

Coordinators:
Raphaelle Rabanes

Tourism Studies

Coordinators:
Jennifer Ann Devine
and
Nelson Graburn

Transit

Coordinators:
Erik Born
and
Alex Lambrow

Transnational & Ethnic American Studies

Coordinators:
Aristides Dimitriou
and
Daniel Valella
and
Katie Fleishman

Urban History Working Group

Coordinators:
Katherine Eady
and
Erica Lee

Urban Political Ecologies

Coordinators:
Nancy Peluso
and
Jia Ching Chen

Visual and Material Cultures

Coordinators:
Daniel Clinton
and
Benjamin Cannon

Visual Cultures

Coordinators:
Linda Williams

VoxTap: Voice in Theory, Art & Practice

Coordinators:
Caitlin Marshall
and
James Davies
and
Robert Beahrs

What Benjamin Read (& Saw)

Coordinators:
Michelle Ty
and
Munira Lokhandwala

Funding Deadlines

June 1, 2013
Townsend Working Groups

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