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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Dept of Rhetoric

critical theory, Middle Eastern Studies, Legal and political thought, law and humanities, law and society, legal histories, colonialism and post-colonialism, anti-colonialism

Dept of Chemistry

single-molecule spectroscopy, quantum optics, colloidal semiconductor nanostructures, optoelectronics, bio-nanophotonics, materials chemistry

Mel Y Chen

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

queer and feminist theory, disability theory, critical animal studies, materiality studies, cultural politics of race and sexuality and ability and immigration, critical linguistics, paradigms of inter and transdisciplinarity

Robert Sharf standing with group of students in library, holding a plague and flowers

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian languages and cultures, medieval Chinese Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, Buddhist philosophy, methodological issues in the study of religion

John Chiang

Dept of Geography

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

Lu Liang gave a talk

Lu Liang

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

geospatial science, urban environment modeling, low-cost monitoring, air pollution, agricultural irrigation mapping

Kirk Bansak

Dept of Political Science

causal inference, experimental design and analysis, algorithmic decision-making, refugee resettlement and asylum politics, public opinion, survey methodology

Dept of Economics

inequality, taxation, redistribution

David Kirp

Goldman School of Public Policy

public policy, law, social policy, higher education policy, politics and policy, primary and secondary education policy, race and ethnicity, early childhood policy

Mt. Seorak, 2021

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Korean literature and culture, comparative literature, critical theory, marxism, posthumanism, psychoanalysis

Dept of City & Regional Planning

urban spatial politics, ecological design, environmental hazards of climate change, Affordable housing, shared equity housing, manufactured housing, adaptation to flooding

Dept of Architecture

architecture, high-performance buildings, energy use, indoor environmental quality, post-occupancy evaluation, comfort and adaptation in buildings, natural ventilation and mixed mode

Photo Berkeley Library

Dept of Linguistics

computational linguistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, Generative AI, Deep Learning, speech processing, NLP, phonology, articulatory and acoustic phonetics, historical linguistics, Indo-European linguistics

Dept of City & Regional Planning

water, sanitation, basic services delivery, food justice, urban agriculture, poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, environmental justice, urban governance, participatory planning, community-based development, international development, development planning, sustainable development, African studies

Prof. David Bilder

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics, cancer, Drosophila, cell biology, cell polarity, tumor suppressor, epithelial architecture, polarity, proliferation control, tumor-host interaction, morphogenesis

Mariane C. Ferme

Dept of Anthropology

Material culture and agrarian landscapes, gender, historical anthropology, Sierra Leone, contemporary Africa, political culture, transitional justice in post-conflict societies

School of Education

language, culture, society, literacy, literacy learning of urban youth, African American students in schools, writing development, effective teaching, learning strategies in multicultural urban schools and communities, studies of race - class - and gender, Leaders for Equity and Democracy EdD - LEAD

Dept of Anthropology

anthropology, historical archaeology, oral history, material culture and ethnic identity, family and gender relations, North America, Northern California, Caribbean, Bahamas, African consumerism, creolization, multi-ethnic community

Dept of Geography

China, geography, political economy of development in East Asia, the process of international economic restructuring, cultural and institutional configuration in the processes of Taiwanese direct investment, growth in Chinese cities, business networks

Cori Hayden

Dept of Anthropology

Latin America, Mexico, social and cultural anthropology, kinship, anthropology of science, technology, medicine, post-colonial science, gender, queer studies

Dept of History

modern East and Central European political and social history, comparative education, history of nationalism and racism, history of Catholicism, Late Modern Europe

Ken Ueno

music composition, decolonizing music, noise, sound installations, music of Japan, extended vocal techniques, overtone singing, musical culture of Japan, experimental improvisation

Xin Liu

Dept of Anthropology

history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, social/cultural anthropology, comparative societies, capitalism and culture, America and China/East Asia

Dana Miller-Cotto

School of Education

educational equity, early childhood education, cognitive processes, early math learning, social contexts of education

Neil Tsutsui standing in Woo Fai Han Hall with net draped over his back

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

insect behavior, evolutionary biology, ants, genetics, genomics, Argentine ants, kidnapper ants, chemical ecology, pheromones, urban parks, East Bay Regional Parks