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Dept of Ethnic Studies

critical theory, U.S. cultural studies, Israel-Palestine, theories of race and ethnicity, comparative diaspora studies, public humanities

Dept of Ethnic Studies

comparative Latino studies, United States history, social movement history, historical methods

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Catherine Ceniza Choy

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American history, Filipino American studies, race and gender, migration, nursing history, adoption studies, public impact research/scholarship, social justice research

Laura C. Nelson

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

gender and medicine and politics, breast cancer in South Korea, cultural impacts of ultra-low fertility, demographic undertow, structures on cultural temporality and anti-poverty policies in the U.S. and South Korea

Dept of History

intellectual history of religion, politics and modern India, South Asia

Scott Saul

Dept of English

20th and 21st century American literature, African American literature, cultural studies, drama, film

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Rizvana Bradley

Dept of Film and Media

aesthetic theory, art history, Black studies, contemporary art, contemporary film theory, critical theory, moving image installation, postcolonial studies, race and the philosophy of media

Akash Kumar

Dept of Italian Studies

medieval Italian literature, history of science, history of philosophy, Mediterranean studies, digital humanities

Dept of Political Science

history of political philosophy

Dept of History

20th century U.S. history, with a focus on political economy, civil rights, education, law, the west

Dept of City & Regional Planning

cultural and political economy of racism, Black ecologies, racial capitalism, digital humanities

Timothy Hampton in an outdoor setting

Timothy Hampton

Dept of Comparative Literature

culture, politics, English, comparative literature, popular music, history of emotion, French, renaissance and early modern European culture, the romance languages, the ideology of literary genre, the literary construction of nationhood, the rhetoric of historiography

Ethan Katz

Dept of History

Jewish history, modern France, empire, Jewish-Muslim relations, secularism

Dept of Economics

minimum wage, living wages, labor market segmentation, low wage labor markets

Dept of Film and Media

feminist theory, cultural theory, archaeology of media technology, film and modernity, film theory, psychoanalytic theory

Michael Lucey delivering a lecture.

Dept of Comparative Literature

the novel, sexuality studies, comparative literature, French, French literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British literature and culture, social and literary theory, cultural studies of music, studies of language in use, linguistic anthropology, theories of practice, twentieth-century American literature

Charles L Briggs

Charles L Briggs

Dept of Anthropology

social cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, folklore and performance, racialization, linguistic anthropology

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

Dept of African American Studies

20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism

Todd Hickey

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

classics, papyrology, Greek, Egyptian, social and economic history, late antiquity

Dept of History

inequality, financial crisis, central banking, economic history, early modern Europe

Chenzi Xu

Dept of Economics

economic history, finance, international economics

Archaeologists confer at the Yarumela site in Honduras

Rosemary A. Joyce

Dept of Anthropology

Latin America, anthropology, cultural heritage, gender, archaeology, sexuality, museums, ethics, Central America, feminism

A photograph of Abhishek Kaicker

Abhishek Kaicker

Dept of History

South Asia, Mughal, early modern, cities, history, Persian, India, politics, Asia

Dept of English

English, 19th century American literature, 17th and 18th century American literature, African American literature, Herman Melville, race in American culture, literature and history, discourse and ideology, word and image studies, close reading