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Erin Kerrison Erin Michelle Turner Kerrison
School of Social Welfare
crime, criminal justice, drug control, gender, health disparities, inequality, law, mass incarceration, mental health, mixed methods, policing, policy, poverty, prisons, punishment, race, risk, reentry, substance abuse, trauma, violence, race and gender, artificial intelligence, data science, social work and education, social work, public impact research/scholarship, social justice research
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
Mel Y Chen headshot 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
Abby Dernburg Abby Dernburg
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
chromosome structure and function, higher order chromosome structure, cell cycle controls, chromosome remodeling and reorganization during meiosis, spatial pattern formation in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, genome mapping, eukaryotic genomes, whole-genome analysis
Hidetaka Hirota Hidetaka Hirota
Dept of History
US immigration history, American immigration law and policy, Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 19th century United States, Asian American history, U.S. and the world, Global Migration, Transnational History
headshot of Van P. Carey Van P. Carey
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
mechanical engineering, use of machine learning to develop high performance energy conversion and thermal management technologies, micro-to-nanoscale modeling of the thermophysics of multiphase systems, waste plastic transport in environmental watersheds, waste plastic recycling
Lauren Kroiz Lauren Kroiz
Dept of History of Art
art history, Modern Art, Art of the United States, American art, visual culture, material culture studies, photography, Race and Visuality, regionalism, Art Education, creativity, Amateurism
Evan R. Williams Evan R. Williams
Dept of Chemistry
spectroscopy, molecular structure and dynamics, analytical chemistry, biophysical chemistry, structure and reactivity of biomolecules and biomolecule/water interactions, mass spectrometry, separations, protein conformation, protein and DNA sequencing
Ignacio Navarrete Ignacio Navarrete
Dept of Spanish and Portuguese
Spanish literature: poetry; poetic theory; narrative; and culture, history of the book, Cervantes, Don Quixote, Celestina, everyday life, medieval and early modern Spanish literature, modern Spain
Photo Berkeley Library Gašper Beguš
Dept of Linguistics
computational linguistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, Generative AI, Deep Learning, speech processing, NLP, phonology, articulatory and acoustic phonetics, historical linguistics, Indo-European linguistics
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
headshot of Christine Wildsoet smiling Christine Wildsoet
School of Optometry
optometry, vision science, myopia, refractive errors, accommodation, aberrations, eye growth, ocular therapeutics, optical myopia control, pharmacological myopia control, ocular tissue engineering, ocular stem cells, basic and clinical research with social implications
Nicholas Jewell Nicholas Jewell
School of Public Health
Dept of Statistics
AIDS, statistics, epidemiology, infectious diseases, dengue fever, Wolbachia, Ebola Virus Disease, SARS, H1N1 influenza, adverse cardiovascular effects of pharmaceuticals, counting civilian casualties during conflicts
Faculty Photo, Clayton R. Critcher, 09/27/23 Clayton Critcher
Haas School of Business
moral psychology, consumer behavior and decision making, self and social judgment
Julianna Deardorff Julianna Deardorff
School of Public Health
adolescent health, puberty, sexual development, cultural factors, contextual factors, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships
Faculty profile Salar Mameni
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
Brent Mishler doing fieldwork on the youngest Galapagos Island, Fernandina, with the endemic lava cactus Brachycereus nesioticus Brent D. Mishler
Dept of Integrative Biology
evolutionary biology, development, ecology, systematics, phylogeny, comparative genomics, green plants, bryophytes, mosses, reproductive biology, phylogenetics, chloroplast DNA, classification, species concepts, biodiversity, Darwin, conservation biology
headshot of Debarati Sanyal Debarati Sanyal
Dept of French
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
Headshot of Daarcy Grimaldo Grigsby Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Dept of History of Art
18th through 20th century French, 18th through 20th century French and American art, history of slavery, colonialism, race, gender, visual and material culture
Professor Tackett in China examining a recently excavated ninth-century funerary epitaph. Nicolas Tackett
Dept of History
Chinese history (Tang, Song, Liao dynasties), global middle ages, sino-steppe relations, aristocracies, meritocracy, elites, political culture, death ritual, premodern cities, premodern empires, imperialism, ethnicity, nationalism, national identity, social networks, frontiers, boundaries and borderlands, digital methodologies
Hans-Rudolf Wenk Hans-Rudolf Wenk
Dept of Earth and Planetary Science
crystallography, earth & planetary science, structural geology & rock deformation, seismic anisotropy
photographed in front of the blackboard in his office Dan-Virgil Voiculescu
Dept of Mathematics
operator algebras, free probability theory, random matrices, K-theory of operator algebras, single operator theory
Dr. Seung-Wuk Lee reviewing bio-inspired materials in a library Seung-Wuk Lee
Dept of Bioengineering
nanotechnology, bio-inspired nanomaterials, synthetic viruses, regenerative tissue engineering materials, drug delivery vehicles
Prof. Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos standing on a damaged levee in Grand Isle, LA, following Hurricane Ida. Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
civil infrastructure systems, geosystems, geotechnical engineering, landslides, drones, satellites, earthquakes, natural hazards, infrastructure resilience, bioinformatics, engineering justice
Edward Arens Edward Arens
Dept of Architecture
indoor environment, thermal comfort, occupant surveys, building environmental control, ventilation, wind, architectural aerodynamics
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