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Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

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

Steven Lee

Dept of English

twentieth-century American literature, comparative ethnic studies, diaspora, Korean studies, Soviet and post-Soviet studies

Dept of History

Byzantine studies

Lok Siu

Dept of Ethnic Studies

diaspora, transnational migration, un/belonging and citizenship, racial/ethnic/gender formation, food, ethnography, Chinese diaspora, hemispheric Asian American studies

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William M Burton

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

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

Native American studies

Margaret Larkin

Margaret Larkin

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Near Eastern studies

J. Theodore Peña

J. Theodore Peña

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Roman archaeology, Roman and pre-Roman Italy, city of Rome, Pompeii, ancient economy, ceramic analysis, material culture studies

Eric A. Stanley

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

critical prison studies, queer/trans social movements, anti-colonial feminism, gentrification, California housing market, critical theory

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

Ahmad Diab

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

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

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

social cultural anthropology, medical and psychiatric anthropology, critical gerontology, lesbian and gay studies, feminist and queer theory

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

ancient Mediterranean, Ethiopic studies

Shannon Jackson

Shannon Jackson

Dept of History of Art

Dept of Rhetoric

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

rhetoric, performance studies, American studies, 20th century art movements and critical theory, local culture and intercultural citizenship in turn-of-the-century United States, history and theory of theatre and performance art

Yumi Kim

Dept of History

Japan, Korea, women's studies, gender studies, medicine, religion, colonialism, Asian diaspora

School of Social Welfare

civic participation, community based research, visual methods, aging, immigration, Latinx older adults, Black older adults, intersectional life course perspective, systems of oppression, access to healthcare

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Dept of Rhetoric

Classical Studies, classical reception studies, philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Auerbach, Jewish intellectual thought

Dept of Film and Media

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

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

Dept of English

critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, Pacific, 19th century British literature, cultural studies

Jennifer Miller

Jennifer Miller

Dept of English

Old English language and literature, textual criticism, drama, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, Scottish literature, Renaissance and Early Modern literature, Middle English literature

Julian Chun-Chung

Julian Chun-Chung Chow

School of Social Welfare

East Asian studies, social welfare, community practice and service delivery in urban poverty, ethnic, immigrant neighborhoods, community analysis and needs assessment, program planning and development, cultural competency services

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Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

disability studies, disability crip theory, ableism, animal studies, animal ethics, multispecies justice, environmental humanities, ecofeminism, environmental justice

Michael Lucey delivering a lecture.

Dept of Comparative Literature

the novel, sexuality studies, comparative literature, French, French literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British literature and culture, social and literary theory, cultural studies of music, studies of language in use, linguistic anthropology, theories of practice, twentieth-century American literature

Michael Frenklach

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

chemical kinetics, computer modeling, uncertainty quantification, combustion chemistry, pollutant formation (carbon black, soot), chemical vapor deposition of diamond films, homogeneous nucleation of silicon, diamond and graphene, diamond powders; interstellar dust formation