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headshot of Hannah Zeavin Hannah Zeavin
Dept of History
history of human sciences, history of technology and media, feminist science and technology studies, media theory
Professional photograph of Rizvana Bradley Rizvana Bradley
Dept of Film and Media
aesthetic theory, art history, Black studies, contemporary art, contemporary film theory, critical theory, moving image installation, postcolonial studies, race and the philosophy of media
Nadia Ellis seated on an easy chair looking at the camera Nadia Ellis
Dept of English
Black diaspora literature and culture, Caribbean, gender and sexuality
Raphael Bousso Raphael Bousso
Dept of Physics
physics, quantum mechanics, gravity, unified description of nature, string theory, quantum properties of black holes, the geometry of spacetime, covariant entropy bound, cosmological constant
Kathryn Abrams standing in outside setting. Kathryn Abrams
School of Law
law, feminist jurisprudence, voting rights, constitutional law
Photo of Jovan Scott Lewis Jovan Scott Lewis
Dept of Geography
Jamaica and the USA, constructions and inffrastructures of poverty, inequality, race (blackness), economy, reparations
photo of Tadiwa Madenga Tadiwa Madenga
Dept of Comparative Literature
Dept of English
African and Black diaspora literature, gender and sexuality, print culture, Festival and Carnival Studies
Poulomi Saha standing in front of decorative wood panels, hands in pockets Poulomi Saha
Dept of English
Asian American studies, critical theory, postcolonial theory, spirituality, comparative race and gender, cults
Mario Telò at a desk with books in the background Mario Telò
Dept of Rhetoric
Greek literature, Roman drama, critical theory, continental philosophy
Raka Ray in outdoor setting Raka Ray
Dept of Sociology
Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies
feminist theory, gender, masculinity, middle-class, social movements, South and Southeast Asian studies, relations between dominant subaltern groups in India, women¹s movements in India
JH Justin Hosbey
Dept of City & Regional Planning
cultural and political economy of racism, Black ecologies, racial capitalism, digital humanities
Juana María Rodríguez Juana María Rodríguez
Dept of Ethnic Studies
race and sexual politics, LGBTQ communities, Latino/a/x and Caribbean literatures and cultures, women of color feminisms, queer activism in the Americas, transgender studies, sex work
Chung-Pei Ma Chung-Pei Ma
Dept of Astronomy
Dept of Physics
astrophysics, black hole, dark matter, cosmology, formation and evolution of galaxies, cosmic microwave background radiation
Alex Filippenko Alex Filippenko
Dept of Astronomy
supernovae, active galaxies, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, expansion of the universe
Photo of Olivia Bailey Olivia Bailey
Dept of Philosophy
moral psychology, moral philosophy, feminist philosophy, history of philosophy
Robert Kaufman Robert Kaufman
Dept of Comparative Literature
modern poetry, aesthetics, literary theory, history of criticism, Frankfurt School Critical Theory
Shafi Goldwasser Shafi Goldwasser
Division of Computer Science (EECS)
cryptography, computational number theory, complexity theory, fault tolerant distributed computing, probabilistic proof systems, approximation algorithms, theory(THY)
headshot of Reinhard Genzel Reinhard Genzel
Dept of Physics
physics, existence and formation of black holes in galactic nuclei, the nature of the power source, the evolution of (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies, gas dynamics, the fueling of active galactic nuclei, the properties evolution of starburst galaxies
Prof. Jessica Lu and the Keck Observatory Laser-Guided Adaptive Optics System. Jessica Lu
Dept of Astronomy
black holes, star and cluster formation, galactic centers, adaptive optics, astronomy, instrumentation, infrared instrumentation, astrometry
Sharad Chari Sharad Chari
Dept of Geography
geography as history of the present and as earthly/oceanic writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic studies, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean
Vera Serganova Vera Serganova
Dept of Mathematics
mathematics, Super-representation theory
Chiyuma Elliott Chiyuma Elliott
Dept of African American Studies
poetry and poetics, African American literature, intellectual history - 1920s to the present, Black geography/cultural geography
Cori Hayden Cori Hayden
Dept of Anthropology
Latin America, Mexico, social and cultural anthropology, kinship, anthropology of science, technology, medicine, post-colonial science, gender, queer studies
Kannan Ramchandran Kannan Ramchandran
Division of Computer Science (EECS)
Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
statistical and sparse signal processing, adversarial and distributed machine learning, coded computing, privacy and security, scalable distributed video-on-demand delivery, coding theory, communications, information theory, peer-to-peer networking, blockchains
Olga Holtz Olga Holtz
Dept of Mathematics
numerical analysis, matrix and operator theory, approximation theory, wavelets and splines, orthogonal polynomials and special functions, analysis of algorithms and computational complexity
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