Dr. Peter Bartu teaches courses at the University of California, Berkeley on Political Transitions in the Middle East, the Gulf States, and International Organizations & Global Governance. In 2011 he was a member of the UN’s stand-by mediation team and worked in Benghazi and Tripoli during the Libyan revolution among other assignments in Djibouti, Iraq and Malawi. In 2008-2009 he led a United Nations team that produced a seminal report on the disputed internal boundaries between the Arabs and the Kurds in Iraq including Kirkuk. From 2001-2003 he was a political advisor to the UN...
Professor Bhangoo Randhawa received her Ph.D. from the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. She is a scholar-practitioner of international conflict resolution, designing and delivering cross-cultural and conflict resolution training for a variety of public and private groups in the United States and internationally including healthcare organizations, university administration, social service programs and county departments. She has conducted facilitations for city planning processes, immigrant rights policy initiatives and dialogue...
Crystal Chang received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, her M.A. from UC San Diego’s Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, and her B.A. from Stanford University. She teaches a variety of courses in the Global Studies and Political Economy programs, with a geographical focus on Silicon Valley and Asia.
Professor Gottreich is a historian of North Africa and the Middle East. Her courses include “Current Events in the MENA” (GLOBAL 24), “Survey of World History” (Global 45), “Jews and Muslims” (Global 142), “North Africa: History, Culture, Society” (Global 154), Her research interests revolve around cities and urban life in the Middle East and North Africa, Maghrib social history, Muslim-Jewish relations, and constructions of Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Arab Jewish identity.
She holds a Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies...
Clara Nicholls is a Colombian agronomist with a PHD from UC Davis. She has taught “Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Development in Latin America” at UC Berkeley, Stanford University and Santa Clara University since 2002. She also teaches at various universities in Colombia, Brazil, Nicaragua, Argentina, Spain and Italy. She teaches future professionals involved in rural development to understand that the challenges of agriculture go beyond technical problems and include socioeconomic, environmental, cultural and political dimensions. Solutions may involve activities at all levels from...
Tiffany Linton Page received her BA in Economics, MA in Sociology, and PhD in Sociology from U.C. Berkeley. Her research has focused on rural development and politics in Latin America. She teaches courses on Latin America, development and climate change, migration, and critical thinking.
Noam Schimmel is a Lecturer in Global Studies in the Interdisciplinary Social Science Programs and a Lecturer on the Master’s in Development Practice at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He researches and teaches in the areas of human rights, humanitarian aid, development, African Studies, post-genocide reparative justice in Rwanda, global governance, global justice, and global ethics. He earned a Masters in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University, a Masters in Philosophy, Policy, and Social Value from the London School of...
Elora Shehabuddin is Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Global Studies. She was Professor of Transnational Asian Studies and Core Faculty in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University prior to moving to Berkeley in 2022. She was Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Political Science at UC Irvine in 1999–2001. She received her A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard University and Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University.
She is the author of Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism (...
