Sarah E. Vaughn Dept of Anthropology sociocultural anthropology, Science and Technology studies, environment, climate change, new materialism, historicism, theories of liberalism, Caribbean/Latin America
Kai Vetter Dept of Nuclear Engineering nuclear physics, radiation detection, nuclear instrumentation, nuclear measurements, multi-sensor systems and data fusion, radiological resilience
J. Miguel Villas-Boas Haas School of Business economics, competitive strategy, industrial organization, marketing strategy, customer relationship management, internet strategies, information acquisition, marketing
Sofia Villas-Boas Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics economics, industrial organization and applied econometrics, agricultural & resource economics, consumer behavior and decision making
Yasmin Vobis Dept of Architecture architecture, design, construction, vernacular architecture, industrial and non-industrial building methods, sustainable construction
Steven Vogel Dept of Political Science political economy or comparative political economy, market governance, regulation, the Japanese model of capitalism, Japanese politics, political science
Leti Volpp School of Law citizenship, law and culture, identity (especially race and gender), immigration and migration, Asian American studies
Bryan Wagner Dept of English community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships
Katherine Wagner Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics public finance, environmental and energy economics
Martin J. Wainwright Dept of Statistics Division of Computer Science (EECS) statistical machine learning, statistics, Optimization and algorithmss., artificial intelligence
Johan Walden Haas School of Business finance, asset pricing, investments, financial modeling, heavy-tailed risks, insurance
Reed Walker Dept of Economics Haas School of Business environmental economics, public economics, labor economics
Edward Wasserman School of Journalism media ethics, economics and politics of news, professional standards, media history, journalism, press
Steven Weber Dept of Political Science School of Information political science, international security, international political economy, information science
David Weisblat Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology leech embryo, evolution & development, cell fate determination, lineage tracing, specification of neuronal phenotypes, genome evolution
Jonas Wellendorf Dept of Scandinavian Old Norse language and literature, Scandinavian mythology, Scandinavian cultural history (Viking Age and Middle ages)
David E. Wemmer Dept of Chemistry nuclear magnetic resonance, nucleic acids, biophysical chemistry: proteins, NMR spectroscopy, magnetic resonance methods, structure of proteins and DNA, conformational fluctuations, biopolymers
Hans-Rudolf Wenk Dept of Earth and Planetary Science crystallography, earth & planetary science, structural geology & rock deformation, seismic anisotropy, investigating development of preferred orientation under expreme conditions using neutron diffraction, synchrotron x-rays, & electron microscopy
Rebecca Wexler School of Law evidence law, criminal procedure, privacy, intellectual property protection