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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Ethan H. Shagan

Dept of History

British history, early modern European history, history of religion

Daniel Aldana Cohen

Daniel Aldana Cohen

Dept of Sociology

politics of climate change, political economy, social inequality, urban studies, Latin America

Dept of Anthropology

historical archaeology, African American archaeology, historic preservation, heritage conservation, community based participatory research

Oliensis delivering a lecture at Princeton University

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Latin Literature, psychoanalysis, literary form

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

Dept of English

English literature, Shakespeare, English renaissance, Spenser, drama, theater, American film history, film theory and production, critical theory, imperialism, nationalism, mass entertainment, authorship

Peter B. Zinoman

Dept of History

Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnamese literature, Southeast Asian history, communism, nationalism, colonialism

Alex Saum-Pascual

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

digital literature, Transatlantic Literature, Spanish, Spain, electronic literature, contemporary literature, digital humanities, new media, Latin America

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

critical race theory, performance theory, American studies, U.S. histories of popular performance, U.S. urban development, globalization studies

Christine Philliou

Christine Philliou

Dept of History

Mediterranean, Modern Greece and Turkey, Middle East, Ottoman Empire political and social history, Turkey and Greece as parts of the post-Ottoman world

Ken Goldberg in front of a projection of robotic arm

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

robotics, art, social media, new media, automation

Dept of History

gender, history, East Asian studies, early China, the fifth century BC to the fifth century AD, with an emphasis on the sociopolitical context, aesthetic theories and material culture, belief

Cori Hayden

Dept of Anthropology

Latin America, Mexico, social and cultural anthropology, kinship, anthropology of science, technology, medicine, post-colonial science, gender, queer studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies

Puck Engman

Dept of History

history of socialism, social revolution, law and state, historical justice, political communication, bureaucratic process

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Dept of Geography

Latin America, human rights, peasantry, migrations, social movements, political conflict, Mayan communities in Guatemala, issues of memory, grief

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Dept of History

Modern German and European History, Human Rights and Internationalism, global urban history, critical theory

Mark Goble

Dept of English

American literature

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

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Kristen Whissel

Dept of Film and Media

Cinema and technological change, cinema and modernity, computer-generated images and contemporary cinema, digital visual effects, stereoscopic 3D cinema and media, the history and theory of special effects, cinema in transition, American film history, modernity and early cinema, cinema and globalization, cinema and the environment/elements

Susanna Elm

Dept of History

history of the Later Roman Empire, pagan - Christian interactions, ancient medicine, slavery and the evolution of Christianity, leadership and empire, gender and imperial rule, reception of antiquity

Jonathan Sheehan

Jonathan Sheehan

Dept of History

intellectual history, religion, Christianity, Europe, history of science, secularism, Secularization

Dept of History

history of human sciences, history of technology and media, feminist science and technology studies, media theory

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Islam (social and intellectual history)

Stephen Best standing at desk with shelves full of book in the background.

Dept of English

film, English literature, African American literature, literary culture, legal culture