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
Reem Nemmassi | Clay Lemar
Fanon Illustration

Afterlives of Fanon

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

Ancient Philosophy

Coordinators
G.R.F. (John) Ferrari | Timothy Clarke
Anthropological Inquiry

Anthropological Inquiry

Coordinators
Elena Peterman | Nicole Mabry
Boaters Observed through Rainy Window

Armchair Ethnography

Coordinators
Ajung Ryoo | Lorena Hildebrandt
Tank Half Buried in Sand Photo

Art and Ethnography

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

Art Histories of South and Southeast Asia

Coordinators
Ellie Penner | Kevin Morales-Bernabe
Man with Camera Speaking to a Cat in Window B&W Photo

Art of Translation

Coordinators
Emma Lloyd | Lianbi Ji
Wifredo Lam, La Jungla, Painting, 1943

Berkeley Latin American & Caribbean History (BLACH)

Coordinators
Adrian Bermudez Perez | Carolina Wanderly Van Parys de Wit
Phonology Schematic Illustration

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

Coordinators
Kai Schenck | Lindsay Hatch
Bilad al-Sham Map

Bilad al-Sham Histories

Coordinators
Samira Bechara | Joanna Korey
BTWH: The Emergence of German Modernity

BTWH: The Emergence of German Modernity

Coordinators
Linus Mao | Andrew Blough
Caribbean Forrested Cliff Landscape Image

Caribbean Studies

Coordinators
Anna Palmer | J'Anna Lue
Clio, Muse of History, Painting (detail) by Charles Meynier, 1800, Cleveland Museum of Art

Clio's Scroll

Coordinators
Malayna Chang | Aodhan Coyne
Hertz Hall Stained Glass

Colloquium in the Studies of Music

Coordinators
Flannery McIntyre | Soren Nyhus
Consortium on the Novel

Consortium on the Novel

Coordinators
Pamela Weidman | Coe Carvour
Cuban Ministry of the Interior Building

Contemporary Cuban Studies

Coordinators
Laura Barber | Lydia Millhon
(Nude Woman Covered in White Flowers in a Shallow Rock Pit) by Ana Mendieta, Imagen de Yagul, from the Series Silueta Works in Mexico 1973-1977, 1973

Contemporary Feminism

Coordinators
Ericka Highbee | Hannah Kirwan
Avant Garde Poem Layout on Book Pages

Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Coordinators
Violet Spurlock | Katherine Franco
Ominous Shadowy Knight over Global Map with Digital Symbols Overlay

Contours of Techno-Authoritarianism

Coordinators
J. Lee Crandall | Alexis E. Wood
Spinoza Painting

Counterdisciplinary Spinoza Studies

Coordinators
Joseph Serrano | Kristin Primus
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
(Writing Head in Hands Resting on Emtpy Table), Franz Kafka Ink B&W Drawing

Death of the Author

Coordinators
Pia Sazani | Caleb Murray-Bozeman
Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities

Coordinators
Tim Tangherlini | David Bamman
Castor & Pollux Humorous Illustration (Corpulent Men Drinking)

Eighteenth-Century Studies

Coordinators
Evan Strouss | Natalie Ruby
Bay Area Salt Flats Aerial Image

Environmental Humanities

Coordinators
Pia Sazani | Chloé Mauvais
Tri-People painting by Banjo Satorre Jr., Museo Dabawenyo, Philippines

Filipinx and Philippine Studies

Coordinators
Piper Prolago | Veronica Sison
Small Axe Film Still of Couple Hugging on Sidewalk with Red Double Decker Bus in Background, 2020, Steve McQueen, Director

Film Practice as Social Science Method

Coordinators
Naomi Etsehiywot | Rahel Fischer
Interior Surveillance Tower, Presidio Modelo Prison Project, Cuba (Panopticon)

Foucault on Crime, Law, and Society

Coordinators
Rahel Fischer | Jonathan Simon
Found in Translation

Found in Translation

Coordinators
Vesna Rodic | Michael Arrigo
Francophone Studies

Francophone Studies

Coordinators
Karl Britto | Soraya Tlatli
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
Lilly Callender | Helen Fortescue-Poole
Painting of Hegel

Hegel and Adorno

Coordinators
Thel Maude-Griffin | Andy Haas
Mughal Empire Map

Histories of South Asia

Coordinators
Mohammad Azeem Khan | Joanna Korey
History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science (HPLMS)

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

Coordinators
Paolo Mancosu | Snow Zhang
Portrait of Thomas Moore, 1527, Hans Holbein the Younger, Frick Collection

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Political Thought

Coordinators
Antonia Alksnis | Yiwei Yang
Capital Smashed by Anvil Poster Image

Interdisciplinary Marxist Working Group

Coordinators
Naima Karczmar | Matthew Grumbach
Interdisciplinary Research Group on Privacy

Interdisciplinary Research Group on Privacy

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

Italian Migration Studies

Coordinators
Michele Segretario | Maria Grazia De Luca
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
Philippine Vegetable Street Market

Land and Agrifood Research Collective

Coordinators
Mairi Creedon | Kristida Chhour
Teaching Vocabulary on Bulletin Board with Cut-out Figures

Language Revitalization

Coordinators
Anna Macknick | Julia Peck
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
Isabel Peñaranda | Flávia Leite
Law and Contemporary Theory

Law and Contemporary Theory

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

Legal Geography and Racial Capitalism

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

Media Studies in East Asia

Coordinators
Josh Feng | Christine Lee
European Emigrant Population Map with Target Country Flags

Migration Studies

Coordinators
Emily Martin | Carlotta Wright de la Cal
Black and White Photo of Standing Woman Speaking in a Cafeteria

Museum Studies

Coordinators
Hanna Jasper | Piper Prolago
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 | Leif Wood
Occitan Regions Flags in Flowers Illustration

Occitan Studies

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

Palestine Studies

Coordinators
Adam Hasan | Antony Wood
Racially Charged Swimming Pool Sign B&W Photo

Pensamento Racial Brasileiro [Brazilian Racial Thought]

Coordinators
Luiza Baston Lages | Maria Victoria Ribeiro Ruy
Post-Human Illustration (Man's Head with Computer Circuitry in Open Brain)

Post Humanist Inquiry

Coordinators
Joseph Rager | Paz Regeiro
Multistory Traditional African Mud-Brick Dwellings

Pre-Modern North Africa

Coordinators
Jason Silvestri | Reem Nemmassi
Alfred North Whitehead Sepia Photo

Process Philosophy

Coordinators
Joel Auerbach | Dylan Furcall
Psychoanalysis Black and White Photograph

Psychoanalysis

Coordinators
Tom Maude-Griffin | Tommaso Bernardini
Qui Parle

Qui Parle

Coordinators
Londiwe Gamedze | Kyra Sutton
Russian History "Kruzhok"

Russian History "Kruzhok"

Coordinators
Yasyn Abdullaev | Victoria Frede-Montemayor
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
The Black Geographic Book Cover

The Sound Space

Coordinators
Cherise Michelle | Isaiah Blake
Andean Red Woven Blanket

Thinking Andean Studies: Landscape, Language, Culture

Coordinators
Emily Fjaellen Thompson | Sydney Moss
Tourism Studies

Tourism Studies

Coordinators
Mahlon Chute | Swetha Vijayakumar
Transnational and Ethnic American Studies

Transnational & Ethnic American Studies

Coordinators
Libby Kao | Miguel Samano
Yiddish Teaching Seminar around a Table with Male and Female Students B&W Photo

Yiddish Forum

Coordinators
Isaac Bleaman | Roni Masel