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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Anna Livia Brand

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

urban planning, urban design, community development, environmental planning, racial geographies, race and urban development, citizen participation

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Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Chinese literature, Ming and Qing fiction and drama, material culture, pre-modern women poets and dramatists

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Jill Miller

Dept of Art Practice

visual arts

Andrew Wooyoung Kim

Andrew Wooyoung Kim

Dept of Anthropology

intergenerational trauma, culture and mental health, psychiatric epidemiology, stress physiology, epigenetics, developmental origins of health and disease, biocultural anthropology, racial justice, critical and decolonial approaches to biological anthropology

Lisa Maher

Dept of Anthropology

archaeology, hunter-gatherers, prehistory, geoarchaeology, landscape use, stone tools technology, emergence of social complexity, ancient technology

Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

18th century and Romantic British literature, Milton, literature and the history of science, especially medicine

Todd Dawson

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Integrative Biology

physiological plant ecology, evolutionary plant ecology, ecosystem processes, adaptations of plants, carbon, water, nitrogen

Ronald Dahl

School of Public Health

adolescence, brain development, behavioral and emotional health, pubertal maturation, affective neuroscience, social neuroscience

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, algebraic geometry, diophantine geometry, Nevanlinna theory, Arakelov theory

Colleen Lye

Dept of English

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

Vernadette Gonzalez

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American literacy and cultural studies, culture of U.S. Imperialism, gender and sexuality, Philippine and Filipino American studies, transnational American studies

Zamansele Nsele standing in outdoor setting

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

Daniel A. Portnoy

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbiology, bacteriology, infectious diseases, intracellular pathogens, innate immunity, adaptive immunity, vaccines, cell biology

Dept of City & Regional Planning

water, sanitation, basic services delivery, food justice, urban agriculture, poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, environmental justice, urban governance, participatory planning, community-based development, international development, development planning, sustainable development, African studies

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

classical Chinese poetry and poetics (3rd-11th centuries), traditional Chinese literary theory, phenomenology, translation, comparative literature, aesthetics, epistemology

Jonathan Zwicker

Jonathan Zwicker

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry, biophysics, Structural Biology

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

earth & planetary science

Jasper Rine

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biology, cell biology, DNA replication, gene regulation, saccharomyces cerevisiae, genetic analysis, genome, cholesterol biosynthetic pathway, modification of proteins, prenylated proteins

Jun Hu

Dept of History of Art

Chinese art and architecture

Jennifer Redfearn

Jennifer Redfearn

School of Journalism

documentary filmmaking

Dept of Ethnic Studies

interdisciplinary Native American studies, Alaska Native studies, cultural studies, gender studies, American studies, literary and visual culture

Jennifer Chayes

Jennifer Chayes

Dept of Mathematics

Dept of Statistics

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

phase transitions in computer science, structural and dynamical properties of networks, graphons, machine learning, ethical decision making, climate change

Dept of Bioengineering

stem cell niche engineering, tissue repair, stem cell aging and rejuvenation