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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Rebecca M. McLennan

Rebecca McLennan

Dept of History

North America: 1763-present, law & society, crime & punishment, prisons, society & culture, capitalism, global foodways

Cihan Tugal

Dept of Sociology

political sociology, social movements, religion, Islam and the Middle East, culture, poverty and class, social theory, ethnography

Brandi Catanese

Brandi Wilkins Catanese

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

critical race theory, African American theater, non-traditional casting, racial performativity, gender studies, sexuality studies, American popular culture

Mark Sandberg sitting in outside setting

Dept of Film and Media

Dept of Scandinavian

silent film, late nineteenth-century visual culture, theater history, comedy, Scandinavian design, serial television, film historiography, Scandinavian film history, Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian literature, Nordic literary history

Dora Silva Santana

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black trans studies, Black queer and trans feminist theory, global south epistemologies, Black poets, visual culture - media - and technology

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

Diliana Angelova

Diliana Angelova

Dept of History

Dept of History of Art

late antique art, Byzantine art, gender, representations of Roman imperial power, the emperor Constantine, the Virgin Mary, Roman art and visual culture, ancient Mediterranean cities, textiles, ivories, mythology in Byzantine art, romantic love in antiquity and the middle ages

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, cell culture, biocatalyst engineering, microsystems, extremozymes, genomics of extremophiles, metabolic flux analysis, enzyme technology, bioactive materials

Denise Herd

School of Public Health

public health, epidemiology, specialty area in multicultural health, behaviorial science, social movements, race and ethnicity, medical anthropology, American popular culture

Dept of Economics

Dept of Political Science

Institutions and development, culture and economics, political institutions and economic outcomes, European Parliament and European institutions, reforms in China/North Korea/Eastern Europe

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Transnational and Postcolonial Feminist Studies, cultural studies, Commodity Cultures, Visual and Material Cultures of Religion, Immigration and Diaspora Studies, Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies

Ken Ueno

music composition, decolonizing music, noise, sound installations, music of Japan, extended vocal techniques, overtone singing, musical culture of Japan, experimental improvisation

School of Education

development, education, cognition, human development, development of social judgments and action, the development of moral reasoning, children’s conceptions of authority, rules in school settings, culture and social development

Weihong Bao

Dept of Film and Media

late 19th century visual and performance culture, Chinese language cinema, transnational genre cinema, comparative media history and theory, propaganda theory and history(10988)

Ann Swidler

Dept of Sociology

religion, culture, Africa, AIDS, political sociology, theory, development, NGOs, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

Glynda Hull

School of Education

language, culture, society, education, literacy, writing in and out of schools, multi-media technology, new literacies, adult learning, work, community, school, university collaborations

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

17th and 18th century French literature and culture, history and theory of the novel, quantitative literary history and digital humanities, history of aesthetics, cinema (French New Wave)

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

A photo of Keltner teaching

Dept of Psychology

culture, conflict, behavior, love, psychology, emotion, social interaction, individual differences in emotion, negotiation, embarrassment, desire, juvenile delinquency, laughter, anger, social perception, negotiating morality

Anne-Lise Francois

Anne-lise Francois

Dept of English

popular culture, English, comparative literature, the modern period, comparative romanticisms, lyric poetry, the psychological novel, novel of manners; gender, critical theory; literature, philosophy; fashion

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

Dept of Anthropology

social and political theory, communism and post-communism, language philosophy, the image, the body, avant-garde artistic experiments, science studies, ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society

Olga Matich

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Slavic languages and literatures, Russian symbolism and post-Stalin literature, women in Russian literature, Zinaida Gippius, Russian emigre literature, conceptualization of love in Russian culture, theory and practice of private life