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Research Expertise and Interest

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A photograph of Abhishek Kaicker

Abhishek Kaicker

Dept of History

South Asia, Mughal, early modern, cities, history, Persian, India, politics, Asia

Yan Long

Dept of Sociology

globalization, social movements, authoritarian politics, international development, organizations, public health, technology

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Peter Jenks

Dept of Linguistics

syntax, semantics, morphology, linguistic theory, Thai, Southeast Asian languages, African languages

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

chemicals policy and politics, sustainable food systems, environmental STS, sustainability transitions, sustainability learning and societal change

Tesha Sengupta-Irving

School of Education

STEM education, learning sciences, inequality & resistance, politics of learning, case study & design-based research

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

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

Dept of Linguistics

linguistics, phonological theory, typology, African languages, the Niger-Congo family, especially the comparative and historical study of the Bantu language family

Dept of History

history, U.S. History, urban history, cultural history, History of Time

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Geeta Anand

School of Journalism

journalism, health care, equity, social justice, politics, ethics, media, disinformation, India, international affairs

Dept of Geography

critical cartography, media geographies, critical GIS and data studies, cultural memory and landscape, politics of representation - textualization - and visuality, digitalities

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

cultural connections and exchanges between Russia and China, early Soviet culture, socialist internationalism, post-socialism, politics and aesthetics

Stephen Collier

Stephen Collier

Dept of City & Regional Planning

urban vulnerability and resilience, insurance and climate change, Soviet urban planning and post-Soviet urban and social welfare transformation, infrastructure and politics, neoliberalism and governmental rationality, emergency government in the United States

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 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

Tyrone B. Hayes

Tyrone B. Hayes

Dept of Integrative Biology

genetics, amphibians, developmental endocrinology, steroid hormones, metamorphosis, sex differentiation, hormonal differentiation, African clawed frog, Japnanes Kajika, Pine Barrens treefrog

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

photo of Professor Smart

opera and politics, music and data, music and language, theater, gender, opera, performance, singers, voice, staging of opera, 19th century music, 19th century Italy

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

immigration and migration, medical anthropology with foci on social theory and ethnography, social studies of medicine and science, social difference related to race, social difference related to socioeconomic status, social difference related to citizenship, social difference related to gender, social difference related to sexuality, the naturalization and normalization of social hierarchies and health disparities, social suffering and symbolic violence, urban and rural Latin America and North America, population health with focus on global health, population health with focus on health disparities, population health with focus on social determinants of health

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

Laura C. Nelson

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

gender and medicine and politics, breast cancer in South Korea, cultural impacts of ultra-low fertility, demographic undertow, structures on cultural temporality and anti-poverty policies in the U.S. and South Korea

Timothy Hampton in an outdoor setting

Timothy Hampton

Dept of Comparative Literature

culture, politics, English, comparative literature, popular music, history of emotion, French, renaissance and early modern European culture, the romance languages, the ideology of literary genre, the literary construction of nationhood, the rhetoric of historiography

john powell at lectern

john powell

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Civil rights and civil liberties, structural racialization, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, needs of citizens in a democratic society

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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

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