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Michael Mascarenhas

Michael Mascarenhas

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

environmental justice, critical race theory, Post-colonial theory, Science and Technology studies

School of Education

language, culture, society, literacy, literacy learning of urban youth, African American students in schools, writing development, effective teaching, learning strategies in multicultural urban schools and communities, studies of race - class - and gender, Leaders for Equity and Democracy EdD - LEAD

Daniel Aldana Cohen

Daniel Aldana Cohen

Dept of Sociology

politics of climate change, political economy, social inequality, urban studies, Latin America

Michael Iarocci in outside environmental setting

Michael Iarocci

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

modern Spanish literature and culture, critical theory, geopolitics of literature, aesthetics, transatlantic Hispanic studies, theory of the lyric, visual culture

Daniel Stolper in lab setting

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

biogeochemistry, earth history, geobiology, global climate studies, organic geochemistry, stable isotope geochemistry

Dept of Geography

geography as history of the present and as earthly/oceanic writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic studies, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean

francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial studies, literature and psychoanalysis, twentieth-century continental philosophy

Dept of Physics

experimental study of quantum magnetism in nanostructures, condensed matter physics, materials science experimentation

Sarah E. Vaughn

Dept of Anthropology

anthropology, Science and Technology studies, environment, Expertise, climate change, historicism, theories of liberalism, Caribbean/Latin America

Cover image of Disorientation: France, Vietnam, and the Ambivalence of Interculturality

Karl Britto

Dept of Comparative Literature

Africa, cultural studies, the Caribbean, literature, francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial literature, Vietnam, gender and identity

Colleen Lye

Dept of English

postcolonial theory, marxism, critical theory, cultural studies, Asian American literature, 20th and 21st century literature, world literature

Tesha Sengupta-Irving

School of Education

STEM education, learning sciences, inequality & resistance, politics of learning, case study & design-based research

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of History

History and anthropology of South Asia, social and cultural theory, history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, globalization

Dept of Sociology

Haas School of Business

organizations, social stratification, inequality, economic sociology, comparative studies, quantitative methods, comparative gender in the workplace, hiring, promotions, wages

Kate Heslop in office setting

Kate Heslop

Dept of Scandinavian

Medieval Studies, Old Norse literature, Viking and medieval Scandinavia, cultural memory, media theory

Chenxi Tang standing in outdoor setting

Chenxi Tang

German literature and thought, European literature and thought, Chinese intellectual history, Comparative study of Europe and China, Law and Literature

john powell at lectern

john powell

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Civil rights and civil liberties, structural racialization, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, needs of citizens in a democratic society

Dept of Geography

critical cartography, media geographies, critical GIS and data studies, cultural memory and landscape, politics of representation - textualization - and visuality, digitalities

Edward C. Morse

Edward C. Morse

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

applied plasma physics: fusion technology: microwaves, experimental investigation of RF plasma heating, experimental studies of compact toroids spectral method for magnetohydrodynamic stability

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

machine learning, society, decision-making

Margaret Crawford

Dept of Architecture

history of architecture, architecture and urban design, urban history and theory, US built environment studies, urbanism in China

Dept of Political Science

School of Information

political science, international security, international political economy, information science

Thomas M. Philip

Thomas M. Philip

School of Education

power and hierarchy in classrooms and schools and society

Scott Saul

Dept of English

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

Receiving the ASA's 2022 Distinguished Book Award

Armando Lara-Millan

Dept of Sociology

economy & society, law, Healthcare, political economy, prisons