Tapan Parikh is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Tapan's research interests include human-computer interaction (HCI), mobile computing, voice user interfaces and information systems for microfinance, smallholder agriculture and global health. For the past ten years, Tapan has been designing, developing and deploying information systems in the rural developing world - initially in India, and now also in Latin America and Africa. Tapan's dissertation project, CAM, was the first integrated mobile phone framework for rural data collection, specifically adapted for device, user and infrastructure constraints. While in India, Tapan co-founded ekgaon technologies (www.ekgaon.com), a management and technology company serving rural communities. He holds a Sc.B. degree in Molecular Modeling with Honors from Brown University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Washington, where he won the William Chan award for best Ph.D. dissertation. Tapan was also named Technology Review magazine's Humanitarian of the Year in 2007, for his work bringing accessible mobile data services to microfinance groups in rural India.
Junior Faculty Fellowships
Spring 2011
Saira Mohamed’s primary interests are in the areas of international law, human rights, and international criminal law. Her research focuses on the function of international law in situations of violent conflict or atrocity. Prior to joining Berkeley Law, she was the James Milligan Fellow at Columbia Law School.
Katerina Linos’ research and teaching interests include international law, comparative law, European Union law, employment law and health care law. To address questions in these fields, her work combines legal analysis with empirical methods.
Abigail De Kosnik is an Assistant Professor in the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) and the Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies (TDPS). She co-edited The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era, which was published by the University Press of Mississippi in December 2010. Her book Illegitimate Media: Minority Discourse and Digital Remix Culture, is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press. She teaches courses on Performance and Technology, the History and Theory of New Media, Asian/American Performance Across Media, and Sound Design & Media Theater.
Robert Kaufman received both his B.A. in English and his J.D. from UC Berkeley. After practicing labor and employment-discrimination law for several years, he returned to UCB to take a Ph.D. in English. He then joined the English Department faculty at McGill University in Montréal, moving soon thereafter to Stanford University, where he was assistant professor of English and affiliated assistant professor of German Studies and of Modern Thought and Literature. He joined Berkeley’s Comparative Literature faculty in July, 2007, and also became a Core Faculty member of UCB's Program in Critical Theory. Professor Kaufman works in several interrelated areas: 20th-21st-century American poetry and its dialogues with modern Latin American, German, French, and British poetry; Romantic and nineteenth-century poetry and poetics; philosophical aesthetics, literary theory, and the history of criticism (especially since Kant and Romanticism); and Frankfurt School Critical Theory and the arts (poetry and the other literary genres; music; cinema; painting, etc.). His current research involves a book-project titled Why Poetry Should Matter-to the Left. The books shows how recent, urgent dialogues among poets across several countries have contributed to and altered a longer modern history in which poetic art's formal aesthetic experiments, by stretching past existing socio-conceptual determinations or boundaries, have enabled people to begin glimpsing or articulating crucial aspects of twentieth and twenty-first century historical experience that might otherwise remain unapprehended.
Keith P. Feldman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies. His research focuses on transnational circuits of cultural production—particularly between the United States, North Africa, and the Middle East—and the theories of race, empire, diaspora, and comparison that both animate and circumscribe such circuitry. He received his PhD in 2008 from the University of Washington’s Department of English.
Nadia Ellis specializes in the literature and culture of the African Diaspora. She was educated at the University of the West Indies, Oxford, and Princeton, where she received her PhD in English with a dissertation on the affective undercurrents to political ties between Britain and the West Indies in the run-up to and the wake of decolonization. Her current research includes a book project, Territories of the Soul, which considers the interplay between materiality and immateriality in formulations of black diaspora, particularly in relation to Caribbean independence movements from the 1930's to the present. Previous archival and field research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council and the Princeton Reunion Fund for LGBT Research.
James Davies is an Assistant Professor of music at UC Berkeley. He was born in Cape Town, taking his first degree (majoring in piano performance) in Johannesburg. As a post-graduate, he worked at Gonville & Caius College at the University of Cambridge, where he was later Junior Research Fellow in Music. He has published on such topics as colonial melodrama, diva-concepts, aging castrati, musical gift albums, histories of pianistic touch, township opera and danced Beethoven symphonies. His latest research involves musical performers and performance in European cosmopolitan capitals around 1830.
Pages
University of California, Berkeley
215 Moses Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
social-media
