Global / Transnational

Research Interest

Trevor Jackson

Associate Professor of History and Political Economy
History and Political Economy

Trevor Jackson is assistant professor of History and Political Economy. He studies capitalism, inequality, and financial crisis, mostly but not exclusively in early modern Europe.

Laurel Fletcher

Clinical Professor of Law and Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic
Law

Laurel Fletcher is Clinical Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the International Human Rights Law Clinic and co-directs The Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law. She studies human rights, humanitarian law, international criminal justice, and transitional justice.

Robert Braun

Associate Professor
Sociology

Robert Braun is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies civil society and intergroup relationships in times of social upheaval, with a particular focus on racism and antisemitism, altruism and social solidarity, and clandestine collective action networks.

Rebecca Herman

Associate Professor
History

Rebecca Herman is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She has received grants and fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Council on Library and Information Resources. Prof. Herman studies modern Latin America, along with U.S.-Latin American relations, environmental and international history.

Sébastien Malo

Ph.D. Student
Environmental Science, Policy, & Management

Sébastien Malo is pursuing a PhD in climate policy. His research focuses on the intersection of the international political economy of decarbonization and international security.

Bethany L. Goldblum

Associate Professor

Bethany L. Goldblum is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and the executive director of the Nuclear Science & Security Consortium at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a staff scientist in the Nuclear Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Goldblum studies fundamental and applied nuclear physics, proliferation detection, and nuclear weapons policy.

Susan Hyde

Professor
Political Science
Center on the Politics of Development

Susan D. Hyde is the Robson Professor of Political Science at University of California, Berkeley, where she was Chair of the Department of Political Science (AY 2021-2024) and is co-director of the Institute of International Studies (2021- ). She studies international...

Michaela Mattes

Professor
Political Science

Michaela Mattes is a Professor in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She was a Co-Principal Investigator (Co-Pi) on a National Science Foundation-funded data collection project and is currently a Co-PI on a DoD Minerva-funded project. Prof. Mattes studies international conflict and cooperation, with a particular focus on how adversaries manage and resolve disagreements and the role of domestic politics in countries’ foreign policy behavior.

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Professor
History

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann is a Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. An historian of German, European and International History from the late 18th century to the present, he also has an ongoing interest in the history of human rights.

Brian DeLay

Professor
History

Brian DeLay is a Professor of History at UC Berkeley. He studies the 18th- and 19th-centuries, focusing on international history, U.S.-Latin American relations, borderlands, and Indigenous history. He is writing a book about the arms trade and American revolutions.