Professor Bielefeldt specializes in East Asian Buddhism, with particular emphasis on the intellectual history of the Zen tradition. He is the author of Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation and other works on early Japanese Zen, and serves as co-editor of the Soto Zen Text Project, a multivolume set of annotated translations of the complete scriptural canon of the Sôtôshû. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Judith Goldstein, Sakurako and William Fisher Family Director in Humanities and Sciences, is Professor of Political Science and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. She has served as Cognizant Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in the School of H&S, as Director of the Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies and as Director of the Program in International Relations. She is a specialist in international trade policy and has written extensively about economic relations among advanced industrial nations as well as about international institutions, especially the GATT/WTO. She is a recipient of the Dean’s Teaching Award.

Professor Gregg specializes in the history of Christianity to the year 700 and concentrates research and teaching in early Jewish, Christian and Muslim interpretations of a number of biblical and qur'anic "sacred stories" which the Hebrew Bible, Christian Bible and the Qur'an have in common. Social and political interactions between Jews, "pagans," Christians and Muslims in the late antique and early Byzantine periods are central interests in his historical work, as are developments internal to the Christian movement in its opening centuries: appropriations of Greek and Roman philosophy, disputes over orthodox and heterodox teachings, formation of the canon of Christian scriptures, emergence of ritual practices, creeds, and church institutions. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Haber’s research focuses on the relationship between political organization and economic growth. Most of this research has focused on Latin America, particularly Mexico and Brazil. His most recent work is on market failure and distributional conflict in international political economy, and the historical practices of sovereignty especially with regard to domestic autonomy and non-intervention. He is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the director of the Social Science History Institute. He is the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. His teaching insterests include Comparative Politics, Economic History, and the Economic Consequences of Authoritarianism.

Professor Klein is the author of some 17 books and 145 articles in several languages on Latin America and on comparative themes in social and economic history. Among these books are four comparative studies of slavery, the most recent of which are The Atlantic Slave Trade (1999) and Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo, 1750-1850 (co-author) (2003), as well as four books on Bolivian history. His long-term interests are in comparative economic and social history, and he is currently working on 20th century social change in Latin America and the United States. Aside from courses on Latin America, he teaches methodology classes on quantitative methods in historical research and demographic history. He has been a Guggenheim fellow, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Fulbright Lecturer several times and was a post-doctoral fellow at Yale and Oxford. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago. He is currently the director of the Center for Latin American Studies.

Professor Morris’ research interests include ancient economic history and ancient empires and the Mediterranean. With support from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, he has written on freedom and economic growth in ancient Greece. He also co-authored a textbook called The Greeks. With Joe Manning, he has co-edited The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models. Professor Morris also directs the excavation of Monte Polizzo, a sixth-century BC indigenous Sicilian town, examining imperialism and cultural interaction. He received his PhD from Cambridge University.

Professor Pencavel’s research has focused on labor economics with particular interest in work behavior and wages, worker-owned firms and labor unions. Recent publications include, “A Cohort Analysis of the Association between Work Hours and Wages among Men,” Journal of Human Resources, Spring 2002 and “Worker Participation: Lessons from the Worker Co-ops of the Pacific Northwest,” Russell Sage Foundation, 2001. He received his Ph.D. Princeton University and is a member of the American Economic Association, the Industrial Relations Research Association. His teaching interests include labor economics, microeconomics and econometrics. He is currently the Director of the Stanford Center for International Development.

Professor Weinstein is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. He is also a faculty affiliate for the Center for Democracy Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethinicity (CCSRE) and the Center for African Studies. His research interests range across the fields of comparative politics, international relations and political economy. Most of his current research examines the organization and behavior of non-state actors in internal conflict, but has also written about ethnic politics, democratic transition and humanitarian intervention.