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Research Expertise and Interest

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Dept of Art Practice

photography, contemporary art, Art Pedagogy, performance, postcolonial studies, gender, queer, trans studies, contemporary African Art, South Asian Art, art of the Global South, global modernisms

Dept of City & Regional Planning

Affordable housing, homelessness, access to credit, community development, the Community Reinvestment Act, neighborhood change, homeownership and mortgage finance (with a focus on low-income and minority households)

photo of Susan Hyde

Susan Hyde

Dept of Political Science

election fraud, democracy promotion, elections, election violence, international norms, field experiments, foreign aid, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership

School of Public Health

public health, bioethics, patient autonomy

Jake Kosek

Dept of Geography

cultural politics of nature and difference, cultural geography, Science and Technology studies, critical race theory, critical cartography, biopolitics, human and the non-human, environmental politics

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

political economy of development, historical and feminist political ecology, critical food and agrarian studies, Science and Technology studies, feminist theory, African studies, Tanzania, critical ethnography, participatory research

ARE PhD students and Sofia Villas-Boas

Sofia Villas-Boas

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

economics, industrial organization and applied econometrics, agricultural & resource economics, consumer behavior and decision making

Seth Yalcin

Dept of Philosophy

philosophy of language, cognitive science, semantics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical logic

Seth Davis in outside setting

Seth Davis

federal litigation, public administration

Pamela Samuelson

Pamela Samuelson

public policy, intellectual property law, new information technologies, traditional legal regimes, information management, copyright, software protection and cyberlaw, AI govenance

Goldman School of Public Policy

crime, public policy, employment discrimination, labor economics, racial inequality, urban economics, criminal justice policy

Britt Glaunsinger photo, credit Elene Zhukova

Britt Glaunsinger

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

virology, gene expression, herpesvirus

Michael Marletta

Michael A. Marletta

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

chemical biology, molecular biology, structure/function relationships in proteins, catalytic and biological properties of enzymes, cellular signaling, nitric oxide synthase, soluble guanylate cyclase, gas sensing, cellulose degradation, polysaccharide monooxygenases

Meredith Fowlie

Meredith Fowlie

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

energy markets, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, air pollution

Dept of History of Art

global modern art, modern and contemporary South and Southeast Asian art

John Chiang

Dept of Geography

climate change, climate dynamics, ocean-atmosphere interactions, paleoclimate

Dept of Statistics

fragmentation, statistics, mathematics, Brownian motion, distribution theory, path transformations, stochastic processes, local time, excursions, random trees, random partitions, processes of coalescence

Joshua Goldstein

Joshua Goldstein

Dept of Demography

mortality, fertility, aging, social inequality, mathematical demography, economic demography, quantitative methods, United States, Europe

Todd Hickey

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

classics, papyrology, Greek, Egyptian, social and economic history, late antiquity

Phillip Messersmith

Phillip Messersmith

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

adhesion, polymers, regenerative medicine, sustainable polymers, biomimetics, medical devices

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

geometric and solid modeling, general purpose computation on the GPU (GPGPU), CAD/CAM, computational geometry, computer graphics and visualization, tool path planning, additive manufacturing, computer vision, Deep Learning

Burkhard Militzer

Burkhard Militzer

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

density functional methods, equation of state calculations, planetary interiors, materials at high pressure, theoretical mineral physics, path integration Monte Carlo, planet formation, quantum Monte Carlo method

Dept of Economics

economics, law, tax policy, public finance

Bin Yu

Dept of Statistics

machine learning, trustworthy data science and AI, interdisciplinary research in biomedicine, neuroscience, climate science

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