Paola Bacchetta Dept of Gender and Women's Studies transnational feminist and queer theory; decolonial feminist and queer theory; activisms, artivisms, practices, movements, alliances; right-wings; geographic specializations outside the U.S., France, India, Italy, Brazil.
Doris Bachtrog Dept of Integrative Biology evolution of sex and recombination, Y degeneration, dosage compensation, sexually antagonistic variation
Nicholas Baer Dept of German film theory and history, digital media, aesthetics, critical theory, philosophy of history, technics, media theory and archaeology
Erica R. Bailey Haas School of Business authenticity, self-perception, personality, social cognition, social movements and activism
Olivia Bailey Dept of Philosophy moral psychology, moral philosophy, feminist philosophy, history of philosophy
Hannes Bajohr Dept of German digital writing technologies, language and literature, German philosophical tradition in the 20th century, liberal and republican political theory
Janaki Bakhle Dept of History intellectual history of religion, politics and modern India, South Asia
Dennis Baldocchi Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management biometeorology, climate change and ecosystems, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, agricultural meteorology, ecosystem ecology, carbon cycle, evaporation, ecohydrology, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship
Stuart Bale Dept of Physics experimental space physics, plasma astrophysics, solar physics, low frequency radio astronomy
Lilla Balint Dept of German contemporary German literature and media, theories of the contemporary, aesthetics and politics, transnationalism and translation, digital writing, European Jewish literature, literary and cultural theory, theories of the novel
Nitash P. Balsara Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering electrochemical energy conversion, polymer properties, small angle scattering, nanoscale and microscale sciences
David Bamman School of Information natural language processing, machine learning, digital humanities, computational social science, data science
Sukanya Banerjee Dept of English 19th-century British, South Asian, critical theory, cultural studies, narrative and the novel
Jill Banfield Dept of Earth and Planetary Science Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management genomics, geomicrobiology, biogeochemistry, carbon cycling, minerology
Kirk Bansak Dept of Political Science causal inference, experimental design and analysis, algorithmic decision-making, refugee resettlement and asylum politics, public opinion, survey methodology
Weihong Bao Dept of Film and Media late 19th century visual and performance culture, Chinese language cinema, transnational genre cinema, comparative media history and theory, propaganda theory and history(10988)
Patricia Baquedano-López School of Education immigration and diaspora from Latin America to the U.S., Latinos and education, race and language, Indigenous language revitalization