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Marianne Constable

Marianne Constable

Dept of Rhetoric

law and language, legal rhetoric and philosophy, social and political thought, Anglo-American legal history, continental philosophy, law and society

Deniz Göktürk

German literature, German cinema, transnational cinemas, German-Turkish-European-American intersections in cinema, performance and spectatorship and reception, intertextuality and intermediality and translation, the politics and poetics of migration and globalization, urban imaginaries and mediations of place, theories of diversity and nationalism, comedy and community, modern rituals of regulating identity and authority and mobility

Dept of History

Ottoman history, Arab history, U.S.-Arab relations, U.S. missionary work in the Middle East

Ayelet Shachar in office with book titled "The Shifting Boarder" on table in foreground

law and religion, citizenship and immigration law and policy, comparative and international law, legal theory, anti-discrimination law

Dept of City & Regional Planning

environmental planning, climate planning, sustainability and resilience, environmental and climate justice, geographic and spatial analysis, urban policy and political economy, global environmental governance, community engagement

criminal law, international law, human rights, International Criminal Law

Picture of Professor Gray outside the physics department.

Dept of Physics

particle physics, machine learning, algorithms, quantum algorithms, general purpose computation on the GPU (GPGPU)

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry, enzymology, synthetic biology, biophysics

Sugata Ray

Dept of History of Art

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

climate change, early modern, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean, art history, environment, globalization, ecology, Eco Art History, global art history

Dept of Ethnic Studies

interdisciplinary Native American studies, Alaska Native studies, cultural studies, gender studies, American studies, literary and visual culture

Gregory W. Aponte

Gregory W. Aponte

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

health and nutrition, nutritional sciences, signaling between the gut and the brain, neuropeptides, G-protein coupled receptors

film theory and history, digital media, aesthetics, critical theory, philosophy of history, technics, media theory and archaeology

Dylan Penningroth

Dylan Penningroth

Dept of History

African American history, U.S. socio-legal history

artificial intelligence, intellectual property law, law and technology, criminal justice

Prof. Iris D. Tommelein in Sutardja Dai Hall

Iris D. Tommelein

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

lean construction, lean production, design management, sustainability, supply-chain management, life-cycle engineering, civil infrastructure systems, adaptive project leadership, engineering project management, megaproject delivery, construction process engineering, integrated project delivery IPD, building information modeling BIM, virtual design and construction VDC

Robert Birgeneau

Dept of Physics

Goldman School of Public Policy

physics, phase transition behavior of novel states of matter

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

transportation, wireless communications, inertial navigation for vehicle systems

Stuart Russell in outdoor environment

Stuart J. Russell

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

artificial intelligence, computational biology, algorithms, machine learning, real-time decision-making, probabilistic reasoning

Dept of Architecture

architecture, urban design

Dept of Anthropology

media, music, Indigenous Australia, ethnographic film, cinema, urban studies, fire ecology

Eric Paulos

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

human-computer interaction, new media arts, digital fabrication, epidermal and wearable electronics

Stephen Collier

Stephen Collier

Dept of City & Regional Planning

urban vulnerability and resilience, insurance and climate change, Soviet urban planning and post-Soviet urban and social welfare transformation, infrastructure and politics, neoliberalism and governmental rationality, emergency government in the United States

Gloria Brar

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

meiosis, translation, sORFs, stress responses

Dept of City & Regional Planning

Affordable housing, homelessness, access to credit, community development, the Community Reinvestment Act, neighborhood change, homeownership and mortgage finance (with a focus on low-income and minority households)

Zamansele Nsele standing in outdoor setting

Zamansele Nsele

Dept of History of Art

modern & contemporary African diaspora visual art, modern & contemporary African visual art, Black art, Black & African feminisms, critical theories of Blackness, African modernism, theories of nostalgia and melancholia, visual activism