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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

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Chicanix history, gender, oral history, race and empire

Dept of African American Studies

Atlantic slave trade, historical demography, African history and political economy, oil and gas policy

Todd Hickey

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

classics, papyrology, Greek, Egyptian, social and economic history, late antiquity

Nicholas Vargas

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Laura E. Pérez

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Chicana/Latina feminist & queer literary, visual, performance arts, US women of color thought, decolonial aestetics and decolonial spiritualities

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

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

Evelyn Nakano Glenn

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

labor, citizenship, undocumented students, caring work, settler colonialism, skin color bias

Jinsoo An

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Korean cinema, Korean culture

Dept of Italian Studies

Renaissance Europe, early modern Europe, Atlantic History, History of Books and Reading, colonialism, history of science and technology

Dept of Ethnic Studies

art, aesthetics and visual culture, transnational feminist and queer of color theories, Arab diaspora, Muslim diaspora, militarism, critical race theory, critical postcolonial theory, Anthropocene, extractive economies and petrocultures

Dept of African American Studies

20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Native Americans, American Indians, governmentality

Dept of African American Studies

social movements, visual culture, memory, photography, African American history and culture

Dept of African American Studies

public history, African diaspora in Europe, British imperialism, community-engaged research/scholarship

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

Leslie Salzinger

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

sociology of gender, capitalism, theories of neoliberalism, political economy, Gender and Work, Latin America, Mexico, ethnography, Marxian political economy, social reproduction

Prof. Vinod K. Aggarwal picture

Vinod K. Aggarwal

Dept of Political Science

political science, negotiations, trade policy, international organizations, international debt rescheduling

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Dept of History

social thought, social sciences in modern Japan, marxism, Japanese history, Japanese-Russian relations

Kristie Boering in her UC Berkeley laboratory with graduate student Katie Mar

Kristie Boering

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

physical chemistry, climate change, atmospheric chemistry, environmental chemistry, ozone, earth and planetary science, isotopic compositions of atmospheric trace gases, stratospheric ozone, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, molecular hydrogen, methane

Rahul Parson in front of the Campanile.

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Hindi Literature

School of Social Welfare

child welfare, poverty

Henry Washington Jr.

Dept of African American Studies

19th and 20th century African American literature, Black intellectual history, Black feminist theory, Black trans theory, Black visual culture and aestetics, performance theory

Gloria Brar

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

meiosis, translation, sORFs, stress responses