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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

Jack Gallant in outdoor setting

Jack L. Gallant

Dept of Neuroscience

computational neuroscience, vision science, attention, fMRI, language, natural scene perception, brain encoding, brain decoding

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

Cameron Anderson

Haas School of Business

status hierarchies, psychology of power, self and interpersonal perception, team dynamics, influence processes, personality, emotions, groups and teams

Teresa Puthussery in lab setting with pink filtered lighting and machinery in background.

Teresa Puthussery

School of Optometry

retinal neurobiology, retinal neurophysiology, ion channels, glutamate receptor, glaucoma, retinal degeneration, cell biology of photoreceptors, retinitis pigmentosa

Gerald Westheimer

Gerald Westheimer

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neurobiology; psychophysics, primate visual cortex, neural circuits, brain mechanisms, response modifications, active perception, learning, stereoscopic vision, optometryoptics of the eye, ophthalmic instrumentation

A photo of Keltner teaching

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

Oliensis delivering a lecture at Princeton University

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Latin Literature, psychoanalysis, literary form

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

immigration and migration, medical anthropology with foci on social theory and ethnography, social studies of medicine and science, social difference related to race, social difference related to socioeconomic status, social difference related to citizenship, social difference related to gender, social difference related to sexuality, the naturalization and normalization of social hierarchies and health disparities, social suffering and symbolic violence, urban and rural Latin America and North America, population health with focus on global health, population health with focus on health disparities, population health with focus on social determinants of health

Munis D. Faruqui

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Mughal India, Delhi Sultanate, Islam in South Asia/India, Urdu

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

landscape architecture and environmental planning, urban design, urban ecology, surface hydrology, groundwater, sea level rise, climate change, adaptation, environmental justice, adaptation to flooding, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, social justice research, client-based studio teaching, community-based studio teaching

Mario Telò at a desk with books in the background

Mario Telò

Dept of Rhetoric

Greek literature, Roman drama, critical theory, continental philosophy

Junko Habu

Dept of Anthropology

Japan, anthropology, archaeology, climate change, sustainability, East Asia, Jomon hunter-gatherers

Gloria Brar

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

meiosis, translation, sORFs, stress responses

Mia Fuller standing in outdoor setting

Mia Fuller

Dept of Italian Studies

anthropology, Italy, fascism, urban design, architecture, Italian colonialism

Prof. Vinod K. Aggarwal picture

Vinod K. Aggarwal

Dept of Political Science

political science, negotiations, trade policy, international organizations, international debt rescheduling

Pradeep Chhibber

Pradeep Chhibber

Dept of Political Science

political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India

Mark Blum talk at VESAK Celebration 2023

Mark Blum

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Buddhism, Japan, culture and society, modernization

Chiyuma Elliott

Chiyuma Elliott

Dept of African American Studies

poetry and poetics, African American literature, intellectual history - 1920s to the present, Black geography/cultural geography

Dept of History

Ottoman history, Arab history, U.S.-Arab relations, U.S. missionary work in the Middle East

Dept of African American Studies

Atlantic slave trade, historical demography, African history and political economy, oil and gas policy

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

Mark A. Csikszentmihalyi

Mark A. Csikszentmihalyi

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

early China, Confucianism, Taoism, Daoism, Comparative Religion

Photo of Grace Erny in front of table with archaeological ceramics

Grace Erny

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

archaeology, archaeology and history of Greece and the Aegean, inequality in the ancient world, archaeology survey and the rural Mediterranean, analysis of archaeological ceramics, archaeological ethics, public archaeology