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School of Information

natural language processing, machine learning, digital humanities, computational social science, data science

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

ancient Mediterranean, Ethiopic studies

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

digital humanities, intellectual history, Sumerian, cuneiform, Mesopotamia

School of Journalism

Documentary Film, television, Investigative Reporting, International Reporting

Margaret Larkin

Margaret Larkin

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Near Eastern studies

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Iggy Cortez

Dept of Film and Media

world cinema, contemporary art, global cities, aesthetic theory, global cinema, transnationalism and diaspora, night, cinema, Indie Film, screen performance, acting, asian art, asian-american art, asian diasporic culture, psychoanalysis, affect theory

Susan Maslan in crowded interior space

French, early modern French literary, political history, the enlightenment, human rights

Daena Funahashi

Daena Funahashi

Dept of Anthropology

Political anthropology, democratic theory, critical theory, Crisis of Legitimacy, stress, Burnout, death, the uncanny, economy of excess, scientific authority, Nordic Welfare, Southeast Asia

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

Song Mei

Dept of Statistics

data science, statistics, machine learning

Henry Brady

Dept of Political Science

Goldman School of Public Policy

comparative politics, public policy, electoral politics, political participation, survey research, program evaluation, statistical methods in the social sciences, social welfare policy, Soviet Union, inequality in America

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Dept of Integrative Biology

paleobiology, paleoecology, paleoenvironments, mass extinctions, marine ecosystems

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

Jocelyne Guilbault

Jocelyne Guilbault

power relations, global industrialization, labor practices, work ethics in Caribbean popular musics, diaspora, cultural entrepreneurship

Nasser Meerkhan in outside environment.

Nasser Meerkhan

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Medieval Iberia, transcultural text, transtermporal text, translinguistic text

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

pre-modern drama and fiction, women's writing, sex and gender, history and theory of emotion, 19th and 20th century media culture, critical theory

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

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Justin Davidson

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Spanish linguistics, romance linguistics, contact linguistics, bilingualism, Catalan, sociophonetics, language variation and change, quantitative methods

Jonathan S. Gould

politics and law, Congress

Lester Hu

Europe, East Asia, Inner Asia, music, history of music theory

Dept of Sociology

anticolonial politics, empire, racism, global and transnational sociology, historical sociology, social theory

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Latin America, Jewish Latin America, Andes, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Guatemala, Holocaust, genocide, race, nationalism, Spanish, mestizaje, indigeneity, Quechua

Dept of Anthropology

anthropology, historical archaeology, oral history, material culture and ethnic identity, family and gender relations, North America, Northern California, Caribbean, Bahamas, African consumerism, creolization, multi-ethnic community

Mairi McLaughlin

Mairi McLaughlin

Dept of Italian Studies

French linguistics, translation studies, language of the media, language contact, syntax, romance linguistics, History of the Romance Languages, Italian language, history of French, History of the Press, Speech Reporting, Metalinguistic texts

Lynn Huntsinger

Lynn Huntsinger

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

conservation biology, ecosystems, rangeland ecology and management, natural resources, Native American history, livestock, China