In 2023, the Anglo-American Studies Program joined the Institute of European Studies and its Center for British Studies. The underlying purpose of the Program is to widen and deepen campus interest and knowledge of British political, legal, and cultural affairs and their implications for the United States and the broader Commonwealth of Nations.
The program supports faculty and graduate student research, conducts scholarly conferences, and features an annual R. Kirk Underhill lecture at UC Berkeley by a leading figure from political or scholarly circles.
In addition, the program offers the R. Kirk Underhill Graduate Fellowships.
The Program is funded by a generous gift made in December 2012 from the Anglo-California Foundation in memory of R. Kirk Underhill.
Currrent Graduate Fellows
Tak-Huen Chau (Political Science)
"Who Belongs To The Nation? How Immigration and Diversity Shape National Identity in the UK and the US"
Matthew Kovac (History)
"One Struggle: A Global History of the Irish Republican Movement, 1956-1994"
Alex Yong Kang Chow (Geography)
"Decolonial Moments of British Hong Kong from the 1960s to 1990s"