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Hiroshi Nikaido Hiroshi Nikaido
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
membrane biochemistry, bacterial physiology, bacteria, channel-forming proteins of the outer membrane, the diffusion of lipophilic compounds, mechanism and regulation of multidrug efflux transport systems, mycobacterial cell wall
John Connelly John Connelly
Dept of History
modern East and Central European political and social history, comparative education, history of nationalism and racism, history of Catholicism, Late Modern Europe
Samera Esmeir Samera Esmeir
Dept of Rhetoric
critical theory, Middle Eastern Studies, Legal and political thought, law and humanities, law and society, legal histories, colonialism and post-colonialism, anti-colonialism
You-tien Hsing You-tien Hsing
Dept of Geography
China, geography, political economy of development in East Asia, the process of international economic restructuring, cultural and institutional configuration in the processes of Taiwanese direct investment, growth in Chinese cities, business networks
Daena Funahashi Daena Funahashi
Dept of Anthropology
Political anthropology, democratic theory, critical theory, Crisis of Legitimacy, stress, Burnout, death, the uncanny, economy of excess, scientific authority, Nordic Welfare, Southeast Asia
Ramón Grosfoguel Ramón Grosfoguel
Dept of Ethnic Studies
global cities, international migration, ethnic studies, race/ethnicity, latino studies, Caribbean Studies, Latin American Studies, international comparative development, political-economy of the world-systems, urban sociology
Gordon Rausser Gordon Rausser
Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics
agricultural and environmental and resource economics, public and regulatory policy, political economy, bargaining theory, futures markets, law and economics, industrial organization and antitrust analysis
headshot of Alexei Yurchak Alexei Yurchak
Dept of Anthropology
social and political theory, communism and post-communism, language philosophy, the image, the body, avant-garde artistic experiments, science studies, ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society
H. Mack Horton 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
Maurice Obstfeld Maurice Obstfeld
Dept of Economics
economics, monetary and fiscal remedies for deflation, open-market purchases in a liquidity trap, exchange rates, monetary policy, international finance, open-economy macroeconomics, macroeconomic history
Headshot in front of bookshelves. Paula Varsano
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
headshot of Ann Swidler Ann Swidler
Dept of Sociology
religion, culture, Africa, AIDS, political sociology, theory, development, NGOs, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research
Lawrence Hall Lawrence Hall
Dept of Physics
physics, standard model of particle physics, symmetries of nature, the symmetry of the electroweak interaction, spacetime symmetries: weak scale supersymmetry, constrained theories for the quark and charged lepton masses, supersymmetric theory
Jack Glaser Jack Glaser
Goldman School of Public Policy
policing, criminal justice, research methods, public policy, experimental social psychology, hate crime, political psychology, stereotyping, racial profiling, prejudice & discrimination, nonconscious social cognition
photo of Susan Hyde Susan Hyde
Dept of Political Science
election fraud, democracy promotion, elections, election violence, international norms, field experiments, foreign aid, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership
Sharad Chari Sharad Chari
Dept of Geography
geography as history of the present and as earthly/oceanic writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic studies, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean
Candace Yano Candace Yano
Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
Haas School of Business
supply chain management, service systems management, production-quality interface issues, marketing-production interface issues
Neil Fligstein Neil Fligstein
Dept of Sociology
sociology
Robert Sharf standing with group of students in library, holding a plague and flowers 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
Turner with digital reconstruction of Villa Farnesina in 1512 James Grantham Turner
Dept of English
gender, sexuality, English, 16th-18th century English, Italian and French literature, art and literature, 17th century political writing, landscape and the city, Enlightenment materialism, sexuality in Renaissance Italian art and Antiquity, ecocriticism in literature and art
Penny Edwards in Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2016 Penny Edwards
Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies
political and cultural history of Southeast Asia, French colonialism, British imperialism, French India, British India, comparative colonialism, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Chinese diaspora, cinema and theatre, Material and Visual Culture, travel and translation, gender, nationalism, Buddhism, economic history, global history
Scott L. Stephens Scott L. Stephens
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
fire, forestry, fire ecology, fire behavior, environmental biology/ecology, forest policy
Professor Tackett in China examining a recently excavated ninth-century funerary epitaph. Nicolas Tackett
Dept of History
Chinese history (Tang, Song, Liao dynasties), global middle ages, sino-steppe relations, aristocracies, meritocracy, elites, political culture, death ritual, premodern cities, premodern empires, imperialism, ethnicity, nationalism, national identity, social networks, frontiers, boundaries and borderlands, digital methodologies
Niyogi checking plants in the Oxford Tract greenhouse. Photo credit: Mathew Burciaga. Krishna K. Niyogi
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
genetics, plant and microbial biology, algae, photosynthesis, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, carbon sequestration
Aila Matanock at work in Berkeley Aila Matanock
Dept of Political Science
post-conflict elections, policing, peace processes, civil conflict, foreign intervention, armed actor governance, armed actor social support, counterinsurgency, survey experiments, mixed-method research design, Central America, Colombia, Solomon Islands, West Africa
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