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two images set side by side to show the contrast between different housing in Bangkok, Thailand. On the left is rundown housing on stilts in the water; on the right is a new upgraded neighborhood made possible by the government's

Humanities

The U.S. housing crisis looms large. Could a Thai model help solve it?

As a UC Berkeley Ph.D. student, Hayden Shelby took advanced Thai courses to gain the fluency needed to study a world-renowned program that treats housing as a collective right.

Tyler Lee-Wynant stands among shelves lined with boxes of archival materials in the California Language Archive

Humanities

For 50 years, she recorded her Pomo language. Her voice is helping this student reclaim his culture.

A stack of six tan-colored notebooks labeled

Profiles

23 boxes and a suitcase full of tapes: How a linguist’s lifelong work is shaping Indigenous language today

a map with 3D shadowing. The countries of the Middle East are in an orange hue whereas the other countries are black, and the ocean is blue. Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Iraq, and Jordan are a paler shade.

Humanities

How scholars in the Middle Eastern languages and cultures department understand a complex region

Two images side by side: on the left, two knights fight each other on horseback; on the right, the knight ask a woman for forgiveness after he killed her husband

Why did medieval readers kiss, smudge and deface their books?

Why Berkeley’s Center for Jewish Studies teaches three Jewish languages

Audience members at a rally in support of Ukraine wave Ukrainian flags and the United States flag

With $3 million gift, Berkeley prepares to build premier Ukrainian studies program

Student aims to improve AI for underserved languages and communities

Justin Davidson as a toddler smiles as he rides a horse and his mom smiles and holds him on the saddle.

Berkeley Voices: One brain, two languages

Rachel Jeantel on the stand during her testimony in the trial of George Zimmerman

Berkeley Voices: A language divided

Natalie walks on UC Berkeley's campus with her mom and younger brother.

Berkeley Voices: A linguist’s quest to legitimize U.S. Spanish

Saagar, with short dark hair and glasses, wearing a powder blue suit, holds a viola to his chin while standing in a courtyard

Berkeley Voices: Medieval song holds clues to lost dialects

a child rides on mom's back as she works outside standing in water

Berkeley Talks: How we learn language across communities and cultures

La traducción automática podría poner la ciencia al alcance de todos

Traduza seu trabalho para o idioma local

A tradução automática poderia tornar a ciência em língua inglesa acessível a todos

A gépi fordítás mindenki számára hozzáférhetővé teheti a kizárólag angol nyelvű tudományt

All language