Working Groups

Townsend Center Working Groups bring together faculty and graduate students from various fields and departments with shared research interests.

 

Traditional Mud-Brick Mosque in Niger

African History

Coordinators
Sabrina Amrane | Antony Wood
Fanon Illustration

Afterlives of Fanon

Coordinators
Adam Hasan | Sibahle Ndwayana
School of Athens, Vatican Museum

Ancient Philosophy

Coordinators
G.R.F. (John) Ferrari | Sara Magrin | Timothy Clarke | Kinch Hoekstra
Anthropological Inquiry

Anthropological Inquiry

Coordinators
Elena Peterman | Nicole Mabry
Boaters Observed through Rainy Window

Armchair Ethnography

Coordinators
Robyn Taylor-Neu | Ajung Ryoo
Tank Half Buried in Sand Photo

Art and Ethnography

Coordinators
Ryan Gourley | Chris Chan
Al-An DeSouza, Art Desi, 2019, Courtesy the Artist and Talwar Gallery, New York and New Delhi

Art Histories of South Asia

Coordinators
Brishti Modak | Kevin Morales-Bernabe
Wifredo Lam, La Jungla, Painting, 1943

Berkeley Latin American and Caribbean History (BLACH)

Coordinators
Mira Wasserman | Evan Fernandez
Phonology Schematic Illustration

Berkeley Phonetics, Phonology, and Psycholinguistics Forum ("Phorum")

Coordinators
Amber Galvano | Noah Macey
Burle Marx Grey Moon Painting, Organization of American States Museum

Brazilian Studies

Coordinators
Ana Lopes | Tessa Wood
BTWH: The Emergence of German Modernity

BTWH: The Emergence of German Modernity

Coordinators
Michael Sandberg | Sean Lambert
Hertz Hall Stained Glass

Colloquium in the Studies of Music

Coordinators
Flannery McIntyre | Soren Nyhus
Consortium on the Novel

Consortium on the Novel

Coordinators
Gabrielle Elias | Pedro Ortiz
Cuban Ministry of the Interior Building

Contemporary Cuban Studies

Coordinators
Laura Barber | Lydia Millhon
Magali Lara Self Portrait Painting

Contemporary Feminism

Coordinators
Annabel Barry | Jadie Stillwell
Avant Garde Poem Layout on Book Pages

Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Coordinators
Violet Spurlock
Spinoza Painting

Counterdisciplinary Spinoza Studies

Coordinators
Joseph Serrano | Nejat Kedir
Philippine Vegetable Street Market

Critical Agrifoods

Coordinators
Mairi Creedon | Kathyrn De Master
Building with Serbian Word Hope in Cyrillic Letters

Critical Approaches to Russia's "Peripheries"

Coordinators
David Kurkovskiy | Sophie Lockey
Black & White Photograph of Laura Bridgeman

Critical Disability Studies and Medical Humanities

Coordinators
Andrew David King | Tom Maude-Griffin
Morandi Still Life, 1960

Critical Times

Coordinators
Cheng-Chai Chiang | Amanda Su
East-Central Europe Map

Culture and History of East-Central Europe

Coordinators
Jacob Smiley |
Manuscript with Angel Drawing

Death of the Author

Coordinators
pê feijó | Jae-Min Yoo
Peering over Berlin Wall Photograph

Der Kreis: German History Working Group

Coordinators
AJ Solovy | Noah Bender
Castor & Pollux Humorous Illustration (Corpulent Men Drinking)

Eighteenth-Century Studies

Coordinators
Christopher Geary | Abigail Struhl
Bay Area Salt Flats Aerial Image

Environmental Humanities

Coordinators
Ben Beitler | Elizabeth Sun
Fieldwork Forum

Fieldwork Forum

Coordinators
Alexander Elias | Julianne Kapner
Tri-People painting by Banjo Satorre Jr., Museo Dabawenyo, Philippines

Filipinx and Philippine Studies

Coordinators
Joshua Acosta | Vincent Pacheco
Found in Translation

Found in Translation

Coordinators
Vesna Rodic | Michael Arrigo
Francophone Studies

Francophone Studies

Coordinators
Karl Britto | Soraya Tlatli
Abstract Painting

Global Queer Studies

Coordinators
Elizabeth Sun | Be Schierenberg
Black & White Water Buffalo Image

Global Vietnam Studies

Coordinators
Sydney Van To | Rachael Park
Graduate Film

Graduate Film

Coordinators
Jonathan Mackris | Osarugue Otebele
Illuminated Manuscript Detail

Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley

Coordinators
Flannery Mcintyre | Atineh Movesian
Mughal Empire Map

Histories of South Asia

Coordinators
Amar Zaidi | Joanna Korey
History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science (HPLMS)

History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science (HPLMS)

Coordinators
Paolo Mancosu | John MacFarlane
Line Drawing of Musical Instrument

Iberian Studies

Coordinators
Anahit Manoukian
Capital Smashed by Anvil Poster Image

Interdisciplinary Marxist Working Group

Coordinators
Alex Walton | Lindsay Choi
Interdisciplinary Research Group on Privacy

Interdisciplinary Research Group on Privacy

Coordinators
Naniette H. Coleman
Red People Floating on Inner Tubes Photograph

Italian Migration Studies

Coordinators
Michele Segretario | Sean Wyer
Lewis Hine Photo of Child Laborers

Labor, Philosophy and Change

Coordinators
Joseph Serrano | Dylan Fagan
Map of Sephardic Migration in Europe and the Mediterranean

Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group

Coordinators
Julia Peck | Julian Vargo
Teaching Vocabulary on Bulletin Board with Cut-out Figures

Language Revitalization

Coordinators
Måsi Santos | Cynthia (Tzintia) Montano-Ramirez
Lexical Distance Illustration

Language Variation and Change

Coordinators
Justin Davidson | Isaac Bleaman
Illustration of Person Speaking

Languages and AI

Coordinators
Emily Hellmich | Kayla van Kooten
Latin American Dense City Skyline with Cloud Cover

Latin American Cities

Coordinators
Flávia Leite | Laura Belik
Law and Contemporary Theory

Law and Contemporary Theory

Coordinators
Yael Plitmann | Eva Vaillancourt
Aerial Photo of Fence on US-Mexico Border

Legal Geography

Coordinators
Andrea Lara-Garcia | Rahel Fischer
Japanese Anthroporphic Media Figure Illustration

Media Studies in Japanese

Coordinators
Josh Feng | Christine Lee
New Media

New Media

Coordinators
Caleb Murray-Bozeman | Jaclyn Zhou
Yugoslav Component Areas Map

New Yugoslav Studies

Coordinators
Filip Sestan | Antje Postema
Nineteenth Century and Beyond British Cultural Studies

Nineteenth Century and Beyond British Cultural Studies

Coordinators
Lara Meintjes | Natalie Ruby
Occitan Regions Flags in Flowers Illustration

Occitan Studies

Coordinators
Oliver Whitmore | Landon Kramer
Illustration of Palestinian Facing Break in Concrete Wall

Palestinian Studies

Coordinators
Adam Hasan | Antony Wood
Alexander the Great Mosaic

Philosophies of History

Coordinators
Alara Ucak | Helen Fortescue-Poole
Multistory Traditional African Mud-Brick Dwellings

Pre-Modern North Africa

Coordinators
Jason Silvestri | Sabrine Amrane
Psychoanalysis Black and White Photograph

Psychoanalysis

Coordinators
Tom Maude-Griffin | Tommaso Bernardini
Qui Parle

Qui Parle

Coordinators
Londiwe Gamedze | Kyra Sutton
Portuguese Blue and Yellow Patterned Tile

Romance Studies

Coordinators
Cameron Flynn | Oliver Whitmore
Russian History "Kruzhok"

Russian History "Kruzhok"

Coordinators
Yasyn Abdullaev | Victoria Frede-Montemayor
Umbrella

Sex Work

Coordinators
Lena Chen | Kassandra Sparks
Slavic Literature "Kruzhok"

Slavic Literature "Kruzhok"

Coordinators
Hugh Zimmerbaum | David Kurkovskiy
Sound Studies

Sound Studies

Coordinators
Sibahle Ndwayana | Nicholas Byers
Bengali Language Typography

South and Southeast Asia Graduate Student Research Round Table

Coordinators
Alexandra Ciolac | Akshita Todi
Andean Red Woven Blanket

Thinking Andean Studies: Landscape, Language, Culture

Coordinators
Emily Fjaellen Thompson | Sydney Moss
Tourism Studies

Tourism Studies

Coordinators
Nelson Graburn | Mahlon Chute | Swetha Vijayakumar
Stylized Artistic Photo of Multistory Building

Transecological Imaginations: Spatial Theory and Transformative Practices

Coordinators
Chandra Laborde | Maria Silk
Transnational & Ethnic American Studies

Transnational & Ethnic American Studies

Coordinators
Libby Kao | Miguel Samano