Paola Bacchetta Dept of Gender and Women's Studies transnational feminist and queer theory, decolonial feminist and queer theory, activisms / artivisms / practices / movements /alliances / right-wings, geographic specializations: U.S.; France; India; Italy; Brazil
Miryam Sas Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Dept of Film and Media 20th century avant-gardes, Japanese literature, film, theater and dance, East Asia, media theory, contemporary art, critical theory, gender theory, memory studies
Carl Boettiger Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management theoretical ecology, stochastic processes, optimal control, decision theory, ecoinformatics, data science, tipping points
Chris Shannon Dept of Economics Dept of Mathematics mathematics, applied mathematics, economics, mathematical economics, economic theory
Alva Noë Dept of Philosophy cognitive science, phenomenology, consciousness, philosophy, theory of perception, theory of art, Wittgenstein, analytic philosophy origins
Ling Hon Lam Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures pre-modern drama and fiction, women's writing, sex and gender, history and theory of emotion, 19th and 20th century media culture, critical theory
Jonathan Shewchuk Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) scientific computing, computational geometry (especially mesh generation, numerical robustness, surface reconstruction, numerical methods, machine learning, physically-based animation
Patrice D. Douglass Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Black feminist theory, Afro-pessimism, feminist philosophy, gender and sexual violence, feminist legal theory, legal theory, political philosophy, Black political thought
Javad Lavaei Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research control theory, optimization, power systems
Thomas Courtade Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) information theory, probability, data compression, communications, computer science
Nika Haghtalab Division of Computer Science (EECS) artificial intelligence, machine learning, theoretical computer science, game theory and mechanism design
Robert Ashmore Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures China, lyric poetry, Chinese literature, Chinese culture, poetic theory
Rhiannon Noel Welch Dept of Italian Studies Italian literature, film and media, Italian colonialism, critical theories of race and racialization, borders and mobilities, biopolitics, postcolonial and decolonial theory
Kannan Ramchandran Division of Computer Science (EECS) Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) statistical and sparse signal processing, adversarial and distributed machine learning, coded computing, privacy and security, scalable distributed video-on-demand delivery, coding theory, communications, information theory, peer-to-peer networking, blockchains