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
SanSan Kwan Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies dance studies, performance studies, Asian American studies
Christina Romer Dept of Economics economics, the federal reserve, monetary shocks, the great depression
Mark Danner Dept of English School of Journalism foreign affairs, voting and elections, journalism, Central America, politics, Balkans, Haiti, documentaries, terrorism, the Middle East, contemporary literature, modernist writers, contemporary literature and film
Megan Martik Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology neural crest gene regulatory network, vertebrate embryonic development, regeneration of tissue
Ming Wu Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) silicon photonics, MEMS, photonic integrated circuits, data center networks, 3D sensing, solid state LiDAR, optofluidics
Daniel O'Neill Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures East Asian literatures and cinema, gender and sexuality studies, environmental humanities and media theory
Charles Hirschkind Dept of Anthropology Islam, anthropology, religious practice, media technologies, political community, Middle East, Europe
H. Mack Horton Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures performativity, East Asian languages and cultures, classical poetry, diary literature, cultural context, anthology of vernacular poetry, Man'yôshû, poetry and poetics
Junko Habu Dept of Anthropology Japan, anthropology, archaeology, climate change, sustainability, East Asia, Jomon hunter-gatherers
Anneka Lenssen Dept of History of Art global modern art, the Middle East, theories of decolonization, visual culture, contemporary art
Ussama Makdisi Dept of History Ottoman history, Arab history, U.S.-Arab relations, U.S. missionary work in the Middle East
Benjamin Porter Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology, Middle East, Arid Environments, Heritage, tourism, museum studies
Wen-hsin Yeh Dept of History history, East Asian studies, Qing and Modern China, Maritime Asia, Taiwan, Pacific Rim societies
Robert Sharf 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
Andrew F. Jones Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures East Asian languages and cultures, Chinese popular music, sonic culture, media technology, modern Chinese fiction, children's literature, literary translation
Cihan Tugal Dept of Sociology political sociology, social movements, religion, Islam and the Middle East, culture, poverty and class, social theory, ethnography
Stefania Pandolfo Dept of Anthropology cultural anthropology, Islam, Middle East, theories of subjectivity, postcolonial criticism, anthropology and literature, the Maghreb, mental illness
Dacher Keltner Dept of Psychology culture, conflict, behavior, love, psychology, emotion, social interaction, individual differences in emotion, negotiation, embarrassment, desire, juvenile delinquency, laughter, anger, social perception, negotiating morality
Christine Philliou Dept of History Mediterranean, Modern Greece and Turkey, Middle East, Ottoman Empire political and social history, Turkey and Greece as parts of the post-Ottoman world
Minoo Moallem Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Transnational and Postcolonial Feminist Studies, cultural studies, Commodity Cultures, Visual and Material Cultures of Religion, Immigration and Diaspora Studies, Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies
Xin Liu Dept of Anthropology history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, social/cultural anthropology, comparative societies, capitalism and culture, America and China/East Asia
Neil Tsutsui Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management insect behavior, evolutionary biology, ants, genetics, genomics, Argentine ants, kidnapper ants, chemical ecology, pheromones, urban parks, East Bay Regional Parks