COD (Schools and Colleges)

Daniel Chatman examines how transportation systems and land use jointly shape travel behavior, economic opportunity, and urban equity, with a focus on policies that are intended to reduce driving and increase the use of sustainable travel modes. He is best known for empirical studies that disentangle built environment effects from residential self-selection, evaluations of congestion-priced parking and transit-oriented development programs, recent work on ride-hailing and pandemic-era transit use, and efforts by California state agencies to estimate how affordable housing developments reduce...

Sara Guyer is the Irving and Jean Stone Dean of the Division of Arts & Humanities within the College of Letters and Science at UC Berkeley. Guyer’s faculty appointment is in the Department of English.

As the Dean of one of the largest and most diverse divisions in the University, Guyer leads initiatives and priorities that center the roughly 18,000 students who enroll in arts and humanities courses every semester, 250 senate faculty, and 137 staff. She prioritizes fundraising efforts to grow the division’s $100 million dollar budget in order to support student access, inclusive excellence...

A leader in the field of computational materials science, Mark Asta is widely regarded for his accomplishments in academia and administration, as well as in research.

Born in Tucson, Arizona, Asta was raised in California’s Central Valley, a region his family has made home for five generations. He is a “triple bear,” having received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UC Berkeley in 1988, 1990 and 1993, respectively. He spent time as a staff scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, before turning to academia in 2010. He held faculty appointments at Northwestern...

Laurie Wilkie is a feminist historical and contemporary archaeologist whose research focuses on experiences of families and communities in the recent past. She studies how everyday objects and domestic spaces reveal the lived experiences of marginalized communities in the US and Caribbean. Wilkie’s work combines excavation, archival research, and oral history to illuminate people often excluded from or misrepresented in written records. Her scholarship highlights how archaeology contributes to understanding race, gender, disability and inequality in the modern world.

She is Professor of...

Dr. Agarwal is a Professor and Chair of the Dept. of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her interests are focused broadly upon the age, sex and gender-related changes in bone quantity and quality, particularly the application of biocultural and developmental/life course approaches to the study of bone maintenance, fragility, and stress. She is engaged in the application of research in bone maintenance to dialogues of social identity and inequality, embodiment, developmental plasticity, disability, and health. She has examined age- and growth-related changes in cortical...

Michelle D. Young, Ph.D., is the Dean of the Berkeley School of Education. Throughout her career, she has developed and sustained a reputation as an innovative, civic-minded, ethical leader with a strong commitment to diversity and social justice. Young has served in a variety of leadership positions in higher education, the nonprofit sector and for the US government, including almost 20 years as executive director of the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA), an international consortium of more than 100 research institutions with master’s and doctoral level programs in...

David C. Wilson, Ph.D is Dean of the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy and Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Wilson is a political psychologist specializing in the use of survey-based experiments to study political behavior and policy preferences. His scholarship focuses on the psychology of political opinion about policies, contentious social issues, and political figures. He is drawn to investigate justice-related biases in political preferences created by judgements of others.

He is the author of 2022 book, Racial Resentment in...

Susan Stone is the Dean for Berkeley Social Welfare as well as the Catherine Mary and Eileen Clare Hutto Professor of Social Services in Public Education at the School of Social Welfare.

Her research agenda focuses on understanding and advancing the conditions and practices of school social work and other related service provision in educational settings to support the school experiences and trajectories of K-12 students, with a particular focus on equitable school policies, routines, and practices. She is interested in partnered research approaches, in which research questions and procedures...

I am a sociologist with interests in gender and feminist theory, postcolonial sociology and the emerging middle classes. My site of research is India. My interest in gender is fundamental to my work as a scholar, even as how I study gender has continually evolved. Here’s a brief description of my areas of work:

Social Movements: My first book, Fields of Protest, argued that the differences in the women’s movements of two Indian cities (Kolkata and Mumbai) could be attributed to the shape of their political fields, and argued that the success or failure of politically affiliated and autonomous...

Eric T. Meyer is Dean of the School of Information at Berkeley, which he joined in 2024. His research looks at the changing nature of knowledge creation in science, medicine, social science, arts, and humanities as technology is embedded in everyday practices, as described in his 2015 book with co-author Ralph Schroeder “Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities.” His research has included both qualitative and quantitative work with blockchain developers, marine biologists, genetics researchers, physicists, digital humanities scholars, social scientists using...