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Dept of Linguistics

meaning, grammar, endangered languages, Native American languages, semantics, syntax, word structure, language universals, language variation, Nez Perce language

Felix Owusu

Goldman School of Public Policy

public policy, criminal legal system

James Quail leaning over a park sign that reads "QUAIL"

James Q. Davies

19th century music, political ecology, performance studies, pianism, vocal knowledge, medical anthropology, historical materialism

Prof. Vinod K. Aggarwal picture

Vinod K. Aggarwal

Dept of Political Science

political science, negotiations, trade policy, international organizations, international debt rescheduling

James A. Sethian

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, applied mathematics, partial differential equations, computational physics, level set Methods, computational fluid mechanics and materials sciences, fast marching methods

Dylan Penningroth

Dylan Penningroth

Dept of History

African American history, U.S. socio-legal history

Dept of Art Practice

photography, contemporary art, Art Pedagogy, performance, postcolonial studies, gender, queer, trans studies, contemporary African Art, South Asian Art, art of the Global South, global modernisms

Hidetaka Hirota

Hidetaka Hirota

Dept of History

US immigration history, American immigration law and policy, Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 19th century United States, Asian American history, U.S. and the world, Global Migration, Transnational History

N. Cecilia Martinez-Gomez

Norma Cecilia Martinez-Gomez

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbial physiology, one-carbon metabolism, microbial molecular biology, bacteria, enzymes, enzyme activity, enzymology, enzyme kinetics, protein biochemistry, protein characterization

Nina Maggi Kelly

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

remote sensing, drones, ecosystem sciences, forests, geoinformatics, participatory web, GIS

Dept of History of Art

global modern art, modern and contemporary South and Southeast Asian art

Hitoshi Murayama

Dept of Physics

physics, particle physics, the universe, fundamental constituents of matter, Higgs boson, anti-matter, neutrino oscillations, finite value of the cosmological constant, triple coincidence of energy densities

Dean Toste

Dept of Chemistry

organometallic chemistry, organic, development of new synthetic methods, enantioselective catalysts, strategies for the synthesis of natural products, synthesis of complex molecules, formation of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds, olefins, Supramolecular Chemistry, redox flow batteries, medicinal chemistry, bioconjugation, homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, biomass, fluorination

ARE PhD students and Sofia Villas-Boas

Sofia Villas-Boas

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

economics, industrial organization and applied econometrics, agricultural & resource economics, consumer behavior and decision making

Haas School of Business

behavior economics, economic analysis, Online Markets, economics, strategy

Turner with digital reconstruction of Villa Farnesina in 1512

James Grantham Turner

Dept of English

gender, sexuality, English, 16th-18th century English, Italian and French literature, art and literature, 17th century political writing, landscape and the city, Enlightenment materialism, sexuality in Renaissance Italian art and Antiquity, ecocriticism in literature and art

Luanne Redeye holding a portrait of a man in a black sweatshirt

Dept of Art Practice

art, painting, Native communities

Osagie K. Obasogie

Osagie K. Obasogie

School of Public Health

law, bioethics, reproductive and genetic technologies, race

Professor David C. Wilson on stage

David C. Wilson

Goldman School of Public Policy

political psychology, politics, race and public policy, race, racial justice, public opinion research, survey research methods

Dept of Geography

racial geographies, environmental justice, earth system science

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)

Dept of History

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

Dept of Architecture

architecture, high-performance buildings, energy use, indoor environmental quality, post-occupancy evaluation, comfort and adaptation in buildings, natural ventilation and mixed mode

Robert Sharf standing with group of students in library, holding a plague and flowers

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian languages and cultures, medieval Chinese Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, Buddhist philosophy, methodological issues in the study of religion

Elora Shehabuddin

Elora Shehabuddin

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

transnational feminism, history and politics of feminist movement, activism, critical approaches to development, political economy, South Asia, Middle East, Global South, United States