Professor Baker’s research focuses on intellectual history and the history of political culture, as well as the marquis de Condorcet, the philosopher of progress and social science who was one of the great figures of the French Enlightenment and Revolution. His research on the cultural and political origins of the French Revolution has made important contributions to the development of a new understanding of that event and of its significance for the creation of modern politics. Baker received his B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge University and his Ph.D. from University College, London, and the Institute for Historical Research, London. He served for almost a decade as co-editor of the Journal of Modern History, the leading English-language quarterly for research in modern European history. Baker has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, has been named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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.

Professor Buc's research has been concerned with religion and power in pre-modern western Europe. His current research project studies the intersections between three cultural forms -- holy war, martyrdom, and terror -- in the longue durée of Western History, from 70 CE to the present. It is both an analysis in cultural continuities -- for instance the French terrorists' debt to Catholic martyrdom, universalism, and theories of coercion -- and in the reflexive and reflective use of the premodern past by participants in modern terror, martyrdom, or holy war. He is the recipient of the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching. He received his PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He has taught in Heidelberg (Germany) and been a Fellow at the Dutch Institute for Advanced Studies [NIAS].

Prof. Fonrobert specializes in classical Judaism, particularly talmudic Judaism. Much of her work has dealt with the ways gender operates in this literature, with the relationship between Judaism and Christianity and with the connection between religion and space or territory. She has published a number of articles in academic journals, anthologies and encyclopedias. Her first book, Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender (2000) received the Salo Wittmayr Baron Prize for a best first book in Jewish Studies, awarded by the American Academy of Jewish Research, and was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award in Jewish Scholarship. She co-edited the Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature (2007) and is currently working on a manuscript entitled Replacing the Nation: Judaism, Diaspora and Neighborhood. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in 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 Hess’ research has focused on Hinduism, particularly the poetry of North India's great 15th and 16th-century "poet-saints," their ongoing popularity and influence, and modes of performing their works. Research and teaching interests include poetry of religious experience, gender, performance, and reception of religious texts and practices by people in different social and historical circumstances. Publications include The Bijak of Kabir (translations and essays) and articles on interpretation and performance of the Ramayana. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

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.

Current Research: Micro-empirical research on povety and inequality in developing countries, human capital investments, public goods.

Professor Milani is a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. His expertise is U.S.-Iran relations as well as Iranian cultural, political, and security issues. Milani is the author of The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution (Mage, 2000); Modernity and Its Foes in Iran (Gardon Press, 1998).). His latest book is Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Persian Modernity in Iran in English (Mage 2004) and Persian (Ketob Corp. 2004). Milani has also translated numerous books and articles into Persian and English. His s articles have been published in journals, magazines, and newspapers including The Washington Quarterly, the Encyclopedia Iranica, the Hoover Digest, Iranshenasi, the Journal of the Middle East, Middle East Journal, and the New York Review of Books.

Professor Rodrigue is a historian of modern Jewish history, and specializes in the history and culture of Sephardic Jews. His research interests also extend to France, the Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean region. He received his PhD from Harvard. His books include Sephardi Jewry: A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community, 14th-20th Centuries (with Esther Benbassa), Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000; Jews and Muslims: Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries, 1860-1939, Seattle: University of Washington Press: 2003. Rodrigue was the Ina Levine Senior Scholar in Residence at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003-2004, and received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1998-99; a Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship, 1998-99; and a National Jewish Book Council Honor Award in Sephardic Studies, 1994. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research and is the Chairman for the department of history.

Professor Safran holds a PhD from Princeton University in Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1998. Dissertation: "Narratives of Jewish acculturation in the Russian Empire: Bogrov, Orzeszkowa, Leskov, Chekhov." Adviser: Caryl Emerson She attended Yale University, earning a B.A., magna cum laude, with honors in Soviet and East European Studies, 1990.

Research Interests : Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian literature; Polish literature; Yiddish literature; Jewish Studies; folklore; Realism; the aesthetics of ethnicity; the relationship between sacred and secular writing.

Professor Schultz is a specialist in International Relations, with particular interest in the impact of domestic politics on international conflict and conflict resolution. His current research seeks to understand how states settle long-running international rivalries. He is the author of Democracy and Coercive Diplomacy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) and numerous journal articles. In 2003, he received the Karl Deutsch Award, given by the International Studies Association to a scholar under the age of 40 who has made a significant contribution to the study of international conflict. He received his PhD from Stanford University.

Vered Shemtov’s research focuses on Hebrew Language and Literature. She is currently working on a book entitled Verse and Place: Poetic Form Between Home and Exile in Modern Hebrew Literature. Her recent publications include articles on Jewish and Israeli Perspectives of Space in Yehuda Amichai’s poetry, Web-Based Assignments for Promoting Proficiency in LCTL, Discontinuous Spaces in A. B Yehoshua’s work, and the Bible in Contemporary Israeli Literature. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Stedman’s research addresses the future of international organizations and institutions. In the fall of 2003 he was recruited to serve as the research director of the U.N. High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change to analyze global security threats and propose far-reaching reforms to the international system. He also served at the U.N. as a special advisor with the rank of assistant secretary-general, to help gain worldwide support in implementing the panel's recommendations. He was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, where he studied the negotiations for a new constitution. He was an election observer in Angola in 1992 and in South Africa in 1994. He has served as a consultant to the United Nations on issues of peacekeeping in civil war, light weapons proliferation and conflict in Africa, and preventive diplomacy. Stedman has taught courses on international conflict management, war in the twentieth century, and the Rwandan genocide.

Professor Sun studies Chinese linguistics, morphosyntactic changes in the history of Chinese, sociolinguistics, and Chinese syntax. His books include, Chinese: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006 and Studies on Chinese Historical Syntax and Morphology Co-editor. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Center de Recherces linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale, Paris, 1999. He teaches Classicial Chinese, Structure of Chinese and Seminar on Chinese morphosyntactic changes. He has been president of the Chinese Language Teachers' Association of California and is the Director, Board of Directors, Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies, Berkeley, 2002-present.

Professor Weiner’s research concerns Soviet history with an emphasis on the interaction between totalitarian politics, ideology, nationality, and society. His first book, Making Sense of War analyzed the role and impact of the cataclysm of the Second World War on Soviet society and politics. His current project, Wild West, Window to the West engages the territories between the Baltic and Black Seas that were annexed by the Soviet Union in 1939-40, from the initial occupation to present. Professor Weiner has taught courses on modern Russian history; the Second World War; the Origins of Totalitarianism; War and Society in Modern Europe; Modern Ukrainian History; and History and Memory. He received his PhD from Columbia University.

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.