new faculty

Chris performs pirekua in Michoacán with a music group of five members

Arts & culture

‘Always in motion’: New professor studies the flow of music across borders and cultures

This fall, incoming assistant professor of ethnomusicology Chris Batterman Cháirez is teaching the course Music, Movement and Migration in Latin America.

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Campus news

Four new faculty hires are a quantum leap for experimental physics

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People

For new Berkeley professor, solving homelessness requires data, direction — and belief

Mind & body

On the forefront of genetics, mental illness and trauma’s lasting effects

Laura Balzer smiles at the camera in the sun

Meet our new faculty: Laura Balzer, biostatistics

Vadim Gorin smiles at the camera wearing grey

Meet our new faculty: Vadim Gorin, mathematics and statistics

Meet our new faculty: Federico Echenique, economics

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Meet our new faculty: Andrew Wooyoung Kim, biological anthropology

Laureano (Lau) Gherardi smiles at the camera standing in front of cacti

Meet our new faculty: Laureano (Lau) Gherardi, ecology

Matthew Backus smiles outside with his arms folded

Meet our new faculty: Matthew Backus, economics

Ryan Tibshirani smiles at the camera wearing a collard shirt

Meet our new faculty: Ryan Tibshirani, statistics

Carolyn Stein, wearing black, smiles at the camera

Meet our new faculty: Carolyn Stein, economics

Meet our new faculty: Hidetaka Hirota, history

Meet our new faculty: Xiongtao Dai, statistics

Meet our new faculty: Nano Barahona, economics

Meet our new faculty: Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey, economics

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