Hannah Sande Dept of Linguistics phonology, phonological processes, morphology, Kru languages, West Africa, tone and prosody
Mariane C. Ferme Dept of Anthropology Material culture and agrarian landscapes, gender, historical anthropology, Sierra Leone, contemporary Africa, political culture, transitional justice in post-conflict societies
Sukanya Banerjee Dept of English 19th century British, South Asian, critical theory, cultural studies, narrative and the novel
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
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
Nicholas Dirks Dept of Anthropology Dept of History History and anthropology of South Asia, social and cultural theory, history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, globalization
Edward Miguel Dept of Economics Africa, education, development economics, human capital, health, ethnic divisions, social capital, civil conflict, war, pre-analysis plans, water
Aila Matanock Dept of Political Science post-conflict elections, policing, peace processes, civil conflict, foreign intervention, armed actor governance, armed actor social support, counterinsurgency, survey experiments, mixed-method research design, Central America, Colombia, Solomon Islands, West Africa
G. Ugo Nwokeji Dept of African American Studies Atlantic slave trade, historical demography, African history and political economy, oil and gas policy
Zamansele Nsele Dept of History of Art modern & contemporary African diaspora visual art, modern & contemporary African visual art, Black art, Black & African feminisms, critical theories of Blackness, African modernism, theories of nostalgia and melancholia, visual activism
Matthew Shutzer Dept of History environmental history, modern South Asia, energy history, Science and Technology studies, histories of development and decolonization, empire, political economy, comparative history, historical sociology, social theory
Ula Y. Taylor Dept of African American Studies 20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism
Laurie Wilkie 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
Aarti Sethi Dept of Anthropology agrarian anthropology, ruralism, feminist anthropology, political economy, Comparative Religion, South Asia, debt and capitalism, climate change, cinema and media culture, caste, socio-economic inequality, the politics of knowledge, multi-species ethnography
Rebecca McLennan Dept of History North America: 1763-present, law & society, crime & punishment, prisons, society & culture, capitalism, global foodways
Estelle Tarica Dept of Spanish and Portuguese Latin America, Jewish Latin America, Andes, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Guatemala, Holocaust, genocide, race, nationalism, Spanish, mestizaje, indigeneity, Quechua
Micah Khater Dept of African American Studies African American history, Black feminist theory, carceral studies, disability studies, racial formation in Arabic-speaking communities
Stephen Small Dept of African American Studies public history, African diaspora in Europe, British imperialism, community-engaged research/scholarship
Tabitha Kanogo Dept of History colonialism, nationalism, women and gender, childhood and youth, activism and environmental conservation, agricultural labor history
Leigh Raiford Dept of African American Studies social movements, visual culture, memory, photography, African American history and culture
Nikki Jones Dept of African American Studies African American communities, policing, racial/gender disparities and the criminal justice system, violence and violence interventions
Donna Jones Dept of English critical theory, English, modernism, literature and philosophy, literature of the Americas, literature of the African Diaspora, postcolonial literature and theory, narrative and historiography
Chiyuma Elliott Dept of African American Studies poetry and poetics, African American literature, intellectual history - 1920s to the present, Black geography/cultural geography
Tianna Paschel Dept of African American Studies Dept of Sociology racial ideology, politics, globalization, Latin America
Ianna Hawkins Owen Dept of Gender and Women's Studies African American studies, African diaspora, queer studies