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School of Education

Dept of African American Studies

educational policy, charter schools, politics of education, race and education, school choice, desegregation, philanthropy and education, advocacy

Caitlin Rosenthal

Caitlin Rosenthal

Dept of History

American history, capitalism, economic history, slavery, human resources

Dept of Political Science

American politics, elections, voter behavior, democratic accountability, campaigns

Debarati Sanyal

Border studies, race, postcolonialism, politics of aesthetic form, nineteenth-century French studies, memory studies, World War Two, Holocaust studies, critical refugee studies, contemporary fiction and film

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Japanese linguistics, syntax/semantics, pragmatics, phonetics, cognitive linguistics

Amy Lerman

Dept of Political Science

Goldman School of Public Policy

American government, public opinion, civic engagement, criminal justice, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership

Dept of History

intellectual history of religion, politics and modern India, South Asia

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Old and Middle Iranian languages, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Arabic dialectology, sociolinguistics, philology, Libyan Studies, archives

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

Daniella Cádiz Bedini standing in outside setting

Daniella Cádiz Bedini

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

hemispheric American literature, literary exchanges, anticolonial activism, migration, border crossings, translation, linguistic exchange

Cori Hayden

Dept of Anthropology

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

Margaret Larkin

Margaret Larkin

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Near Eastern studies

Dept of History

Byzantine studies

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Megan Mills-Novoa

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

climate change adaption, energy transitions, political ecology of global change, critical development studies, water justice, participatory mixed methods, Latin America

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

Ahmad Diab

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Arabic literature, translation studies, Arabic philology, postcolonial studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern Cinema

Fumi Okiji

Dept of Rhetoric

Black study, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, sound and music studies, aesthetics

Sophie Volpp standing in outside setting.

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Chinese literature, Ming and Qing fiction and drama, material culture, pre-modern women poets and dramatists

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William M Burton

French literature, gender, sexuality, intellectual history, translation studies, Quebec studies, feminism

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

classical Chinese poetry and poetics (3rd-11th centuries), traditional Chinese literary theory, phenomenology, translation, comparative literature, aesthetics, epistemology

Mark A. Csikszentmihalyi

Mark A. Csikszentmihalyi

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

early China, Confucianism, Taoism, Daoism, Comparative Religion

Jonathan Zwicker

Jonathan Zwicker

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan

Dept of Political Science

American politics, political behavior, political psychology, public opinion, voting and elections, political socialization, research design and empirical methods

Dept of Film and Media

media studies, computer graphics, history of technology, Science and Technology studies, queer theory, new media, art and technology

Rebecca M. McLennan

Rebecca McLennan

Dept of History

North America: 1763-present, law & society, crime & punishment, prisons, society & culture, capitalism, global foodways