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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed

Dept of Comparative Literature

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

optoelectronics, quantum optics, optimization, Antennas, Biophysics and Sensing

Jonathan Glater

Jonathan Glater

education law, social justice, racial justice

Picture of Professsor Bacchetta

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

Dept of African American Studies

20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism

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

Armando Fox

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

online education, MOOC, blended learning, parallel programming, software engineering, Web development

Sarah E. Vaughn

Dept of Anthropology

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

Raúl Briceño in outdoor setting

Dept of Physics

nuclear physics, particle physics

Laurent Coscoy sitting in outdoor setting

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

immunology, viruses, viral infection, immune responses, immune evasion

Raka Ray in outdoor setting

Raka Ray

Dept of Sociology

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

feminist theory, gender, masculinity, middle-class, social movements, South and Southeast Asian studies, relations between dominant subaltern groups in India, women¹s movements in India

Dept of English

critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, Pacific, 19th century British literature, cultural studies

Robert Birgeneau

Dept of Physics

Goldman School of Public Policy

physics, phase transition behavior of novel states of matter

Dept of Political Science

Goldman School of Public Policy

civil litigation

Dept of History

20th century U.S. history, with a focus on political economy, civil rights, education, law, the west

labor law

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Statistics

evolution, molecular evolution, population genetics, human variation, human genetics, phylogenetics, applied statistics, genetics, evolutionary processes, evolutionary biology

Jonah B. Gelbach

civil procedure, statutory interpretation, law and economics, event study methodology, securities litigation, economics of crime, public assistance, statistical methods

Michael Mascarenhas

Michael Mascarenhas

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

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

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

intellectual property, privacy, copyright, artists' rights, free expression, notice and takedown, free and open source licensing, defensive patent licensing, DMCA, patent, how technical and policy design affect privacy and other social values

Dept of Sociology

genocide, Ethnic Conflict, religion

Lester Hu

Europe, East Asia, Inner Asia, music, history of music theory

artificial intelligence, law and technology, intellectual property law, contemporary art and law, gender and sexuality

Dylan Penningroth

Dylan Penningroth

Dept of History

African American history, U.S. socio-legal history