Supporting the Humanities at UC Berkeley

Snow Zhang Photo

Snow Zhang is a new faculty member in Philosophy who specializes in formal epistemology. Her research interests include philosophy of probability and statistics, decision theory, philosophy of science, and Chinese philosophy.

She received her PhD from Princeton University, and she served as a Bersoff Faculty Fellow at New York University before coming to Berkeley.

This semester she teaches Theory of Knowledge, an undergraduate course that asks what knowledge is and how we acquire it.

 

 

Arts Building Sign in Cyrillic Text

The Critical Approaches to Russia's "Peripheries" working group focuses on the relationship of Russia to its so-called "peripheries."

It considers the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and post-Soviet countries alongside Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Siberia/the Russian Far East, to query the linkages and discontinuities that constitute Russia’s “near abroad.”

 

Faculty Books

Grace Nelligan Photo by E. Kotila

Bear's-Eye View is a chronicle of students' engagement with the vibrant humanities culture at the Townsend Center and across the Berkeley campus. Each semester our undergraduate humanities writer soaks up the wealth of humanities events and writes about what they've learned.

Our Fall 2024 writer was Grace Nelligan, a senior from San Francisco. She tackled topics including the unsung Dust Bowl writer Sanora Babb, Weimar cinema, and art historian Alexander Nemerov.