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 Fellowships Coordinator Bridgette Lehrer at blehrer@berkeley.edu.
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Ancient Philosophy :: Coordinators: Vanessa deHarven and Joseph Barnes
Apostille :: Coordinators: Melissa Fabros and Joseph Jordan
Asian Art and Visual Cultures :: Coordinators: Kristopher Kersey and Michelle Wang
Asian Cultural Studies :: Coordinator: Amy Lee
Asian Pacific American Studies :: Coordinator: Marguerite Nguyen
Berkeley-Stanford British Studies :: Coordinators: Radhika Natarajan and Thomas Laqueur
The Berkeley-Stanford CityGroup :: Coordinators: Javier Arbona and Hiba Bou Akar
BTWH: The Emergence of German Modernity :: Coordinators: Michael Huffmaster and Russell Bucher
California Studies :: Coordinators: Richard Walker and Delores Dillard
Central Eurasia Studies :: Coordinator: Erik Scott
Chicana/o Cultural Studies :: Coordinators: Marcelle Maese-Cohen and Gabriela Erandi Rico
Children's Literature :: Coordinators: Hannah Emery and Catherine Cronquist Browning
Chronicle of the University of California :: Coordinator: Carroll Brentano
Clio's Scroll :: Coordinators: Sangeeta Prakash and Albert Wu
Consortium on the Novel :: Coordinators: Dan Clinton and Ruth Baldwin
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics :: Coordinators: Charles Legere and Hilary Gravendyk Burrill
Critical Filipina/o Studies :: Coordinators: Ligaya Domingo and Ethel Regis
Critical Sense :: Coordinators: Ben Krupicka and Tim Fisken
Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture :: Coordinators: Joy Tang and Tok Thompson
Culture and History of East Central Europe :: Coordinators: Mark Aaron Keck-Szajbel and Sarah Cramsey
Dance Studies :: Coordinators: Lisa Wymore and Chia-Yi Seeto
Early Modern Studies :: Coordinators: Stephanie Bahr, Fiona Smythe, and Rebecca Munson
Eighteenth Century Studies :: Coordinator: Bradford Boyd
Excalibur: Readings in the Arthurian Tradition :: Coordinators: Jessica Crewe and Sarah Chihaya
Folklore Roundtable :: Coordinators: Joy Tang and Michelle Hwang
Frankfurt School of Aesthetics and Politics :: Coordinators: Jessie Hock and Jill Richards
German Idealism :: Coordinator: Ayon Roy
Graduate Film :: Coordinators: Laura Horak and Damon Young
Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley ::
Coordinators: Benjamin Saltzman and Chad Crosson.
Website: www.graduatemedievalists.org
Harvest Moon :: Coordinators: Alex Kozak and Evan Langinger
Hip-Hop Studies :: Coordinators: Kendra Salois and Ryan Rideau
History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics and Science :: Coordinators: Fabrizio Cariani and Branden Fitelson. Website: hplms.berkeley.edu.
Interdisciplinary Marxism :: Coordinators: Jasper Bernes and Annie McClanahan
James Joyce :: Coordinators: Sarah Townsend and Paul Kerschen
Website: jamesjoyce.berkeley.edu.
Journal of Associated Graduates in Near Eastern Studies (JAGNES) :: Coordinators: Cyrus Zargar and Jean Li
Language Spread :: Coordinators: Julia McAnallen and Johanna Nichols
Late Antique Religions et Society (LARES) :: Coordinators: Susanna Elm and Alan Fahrani
Latin American History Studies :: Coordinators: Sarah Selvidge and Pablo Palomino
Legal Theory :: Coordinators: Sarah Poppy Alexander and Teresa K-Sue Park
Linguistic Anthropology :: Coordinators: Terra Edwards and Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas
Linguistics and the Language Arts :: Coordinators: Jeremy Ecke and Zachary Gordon
Literary Translation :: Coordinators: Andrew Leong and Patrick Luhan
Literature and Psychoanalysis :: Coordinators: Teresa K-Sue Park and Damon Young
Website: webfiles.berkeley.edu/~psylit_readingroup.
Lucero :: Coordinators: Anna Hiller and Gustavo Buenrostro
Marxism in the Third World :: Coordinators: Chi Thuc and Ha Scott
Memory and Identity in the Ancient World :: Coordinators: Niek Veldhuis and Jean Li
Modern Southeast Asia :: Coordinators: Isabel Esterman and Sean Callanan
Modernism and Culture :: Coordinators: Paul Kerschen and Aaron Bady
Muslim Identities and Cultures :: Coordinators: Huma Dar, Tala Khanmalek, and Paola Bacchetta
Neuroscience and Philosophy :: Coordinators: James Stazicker and Ariel Rokem
New Media :: Coordinator: Alenda Chang
Nineteenth Century and Beyond British Cultural Studies :: Coordinators: Catherine Cronquist Browning and Marisa Knox
Orientalism :: Coordinators: Bharat Venkat and Patricia Kubala
Play Studies :: Coordinators: Dragan Trninic and Timothy Charoenying
Post-Communist Politics and Societies :: Coordinators: Theocharis Grigoriadis and Alexander Beliaev
qui parle :: Coordinators: Diana Anders and Nima BassiriWebsite: ocf.berkeley.edu/~quiparle/.
Reading Medieval Theology :: Coordinators: Alex Dubilet and David Kangas
repercussions :: Coordinators: Noel Verzosa and Camille Peters
Representations :: Coordinator: Jean Day
Russian History "kruzhok" :: Coordinator: Nicole Eaton
Slavic Literatures "kruzhok" :: Coordinators: Jessica Merrill and Katya Balter
Socialisms and Sexualities :: Coordinators: Anastasia Kayiatos and Nina Renata Aron
Tourism Studies :: Coordinators: Jenny Chio and Alexis Bunten. Website: tourismstudies.org.
Transit :: Coordinators: Kurt Beals and Paul Dobryden. Website: german.berkeley.edu/transit.
Transnational American Studies :: Coordinator: Monica Huerta and Sookyoung Lee
Voice in Theory, Art, and Practice (VoxTAP) :: Coordinators: Caitlin Marshall and Robert Beahrs
Website: voxtap.wordpress.com/
Urban Peripheries: South-South Dialogues :: Coordinators: Teresa Caldeira and Gautam Bhan
Visuality and Alterity :: Coordinators: Dalida Maria Benfield and Annie Fukushima