Maximilian Auffhammer is the George Pardee Jr. Professor of International Sustainable Development and Associate Dean in the Division of Social Sciences at UC Berkeley. Professor Auffhammer received his B.S. in environmental science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1996, a M.S. in environmental and resource economics at the same institution in 1998 and a Ph.D. in economics from UC San Diego in 2003. He joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2003. His research focuses on environmental and resource economics, energy economics and applied econometrics. He is a Research...
Senior Lecturer and Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Social Science Programs
Alan Karras is Associate Director of, and Senior Lecturer in, ISSP. He received a BA/MA in History from Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania. In his more than twenty-five years at Berkeley, he has taught courses on world history, classical political economy, Caribbean history, and the history of transnational crime. His research interests are in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, and global interactions more broadly, especially as they relate to transnational transgressions like smuggling, fraud, and corruption. He is the author of “Smuggling:...
