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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Evelyn Nakano Glenn

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

labor, citizenship, undocumented students, caring work, settler colonialism, skin color bias

Matilde Bombardini presenting at a conference

Matilde Bombardini

Haas School of Business

international trade, trade and labor, interest groups, lobbying, corporate charitable giving

Anastassia Fedyk

Anastassia Fedyk

Haas School of Business

finance, behavioral economics, labor and finance, role of information technology in financial markets

Goldman School of Public Policy

labor and employment, race, poverty, inequality, economics of education, health disparities, social welfare policy

Bernadette Pérez

Bernadette Pérez

Dept of History

history, United States, Latinx, American West, indigenous history, migration, labor, agriculture, Borderlands, the Americas, colonialism, environment

Dept of Economics

Goldman School of Public Policy

poverty, inequality, economic policy, Social Safety Net, labor economics, public economics, Food Insecurity, COVID-19

Haas School of Business

economic development, labor and organizational economics, health economics, wage determination, corporate social responsibility

Jocelyne Guilbault

Jocelyne Guilbault

power relations, global industrialization, labor practices, work ethics in Caribbean popular musics, diaspora, cultural entrepreneurship

Dept of History

colonialism, nationalism, women and gender, childhood and youth, activism and environmental conservation, agricultural labor history

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

globalization, sustainability, labor and environmental policy, supply chains, consumers, information-based regulation, environmental justice, sustainability transitions, disruptive innovation

School of Social Welfare

poverty and inequality, Social Safety Net Programs, Unemployment and Labor Studies, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, social justice research

Costas Grigoropoulos

Costas P. Grigoropoulos

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

heat transfer, laser materials processing, nano-manufacturing, energy systems and technology

Dept of Physics

physics, lasers, x-rays, plasma physics, materials, atomic physics, ultrafast science

Rui Wang

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

theoretical polymer, soft materials, electrostatic double layer

Austin Roorda standing with an adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope.

Austin John Roorda

School of Optometry

adaptive optics, eye, vision, ophthalmoscopy, scanning laser ophthalmoscope, ophthalmology

Lisandro Claudio

Lisandro Claudio

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Philippines, theories of liberalism, history and culture of Southeast Asia, austerity in the global south

George A. Akerlof

George A. Akerlof

Dept of Economics

macroeconomics, monetary theory, behavioral economics, sociology and economics, theory of unemployment, asymetric information, staggered contract theory, money demand, labor market flows, theory of business cycles, economics of social customs, measurement of unemployment, economics of discrimination

Gabor A. Somorjai

Gabor A. Somorjai

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, catalysis, surface science, low-energy electron diffraction, solid state chemistry, macroscopic surface phenomena, adhesion, lubrication, biocompatibility, bonding, reactivity at solid surfaces, scanning tunneling

Dept of Geography

geography as history of the present and as earthly/oceanic writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic studies, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean

Dept of Economics

international trade, development economics

Ori Ganor

Dept of Physics

string (and M-) theory, quantum field theory, mathematical physics

Eli Yablonovitch

Eli Yablonovitch

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

optoelectronics, physical electronics, high speed optical communications, nanocavity lasers, photonic crystals at optical and microwave frequencies, quantum computing and communication

Sarah E. Vaughn

Dept of Anthropology

anthropology, Science and Technology studies, environment, Expertise, climate change, historicism, theories of liberalism, Caribbean/Latin America

Hannes Bajohr in outdoor setting

digital writing technologies, language and literature, German philosophical tradition in the 20th century, liberal and republican political theory

Fred Wilt

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

molecular embryology, cell biology, regulation of gene expression, sea urchin embryos, blastomeres, endoskeletal spicule of the larva, glycoproteins, immunoelectron microscopy, fluorescent labeling