At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.
I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.
After receiving my Ph.D. in 1957, I worked at Columbia and then from 1959 to 1966 at Berkeley.
At Berkeley, you wore a hoodie and pajamas and Birkenstocks, and that’s swag. I was so thrown off. What I thought was cool wasn’t cool no more, so I thought about what I actually liked. I started experimenting. I started wearing Birkenstocks. I wanted to dive into the culture.
I obtained a Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Fellowship and entered the graduate program in History at the University of California. With no Greek or French and minimal Latin and German, I was in no position to pursue my classical interests, so I began work at Berkeley with little more than an open mind.
I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart and very motivated and worked very hard, but they were still humans, whereas before they were kind of mythical creatures to me.
The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.
My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now – we all moved there four years ago.
In the mid-’60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.
I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it’s just that the acting thing worked out.
My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.
I love Berkeley.
When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.
The idea of ‘Voice of Witness’ is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.
I was an American Studies student at Berkeley as an undergraduate, and pretty much as a graduate student, too.
You can’t help your background or innate talents. But anyone can graft: that’s why there are success stories like that of Tony Pidgley, the founder and owner of Berkeley Homes.
I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.
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