Sanjit Seshia Division of Computer Science (EECS) Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) formal methods, computational logic, electronic design automation, computer security, dependable computing, Cyber-Physical Systems, programming languages
Per F. Peterson Dept of Nuclear Engineering nuclear engineering, heat and mass transfer, reactor thermal hydraulics, nuclear reactor design, radioactive waste, nuclear materials management
Henrike C. Lange Dept of History of Art art, architecture, literature, afterlife of antiquity, middle ages & Renaissance / early modern age, Giotto, Donatello, Mantegna, Botticelli, Raphael, 19th and 20th century historiography, Aby Warburg, total solar eclipses, theology, creativity and interdisciplinarity
Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli Division of Computer Science (EECS) biosystems and computational biology, artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems and design automation, human-computer interaction, signal processing, intelligent systems and robotics
Brandi Wilkins Catanese Dept of African American Studies Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies critical race theory, African American theater, non-traditional casting, racial performativity, gender studies, sexuality studies, American popular culture
Celeste Langan Dept of English 19th century British literature, critical theory, disability studies, poetry, Wordsworth, Carlyle, Hardy, Rousseau, the French Revolution, Marxist theory
Liwei Lin Dept of Mechanical Engineering nanotechnology, MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems), design and manufacturing of microsensors, microactuators, development of micromachining processes, silicon surface/bulk micromachining, micromolding process
Judith Butler Dept of Comparative Literature critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature, 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, social and political thought, philosophy and literature
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
Laurie Wilkie Dept of Anthropology anthropology, historical archaeology, oral history, material culture and ethnic identity, family and gender relations, North America, Northern California, Caribbean, Bahamas, African consumerism, creolization, multi-ethnic community
Arpad Horvath Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering life cycle assessment, LCA, sustainability, green design, buildings, transportation, water, construction, biofuels, energy, environmental management, infrastructure systems
Julia Fawcett Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies performance history/historiography, British performance 1650-1800, British literature 1650-1800, disability, gender, social geography, set design
Ling Hon Lam Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures pre-modern drama and fiction, women's writing, sex and gender, history and theory of emotion, 19th and 20th century media culture, critical theory
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
Karen Feldman Dept of German critical theory, aesthetics, literary theory, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin, 18th-20th century German thought, Hegel, Adorno
Barbara Romanowicz Dept of Earth and Planetary Science earth & planetary science, deep earth structure & dynamics, earthquake processes & scaling laws, real time estimation of earthquake parameters, development of modern broadband seismic and geophysical observatories, planetary seismology
Sabeeha Merchant Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology chloroplast, photosynthesis, algae, trace metals, genomics, synthetic biology, designer lipids, Chlamydomonas, Auxenochlorella, Dunaliella
Elora Shehabuddin Dept of Gender and Women's Studies transnational feminism, history and politics of feminist movement, activism, critical approaches to development, political economy, South Asia, Middle East, Global South, United States
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
Nathaniel Wolfson Dept of Spanish and Portuguese Brazilian literature and culture, Latin American literature and culture, Latin American Art History, media studies, critical theory, environmental humanities, Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, visual studies
Anne-lise Francois Dept of English Dept of French popular culture, English, comparative literature, the modern period, comparative romanticisms, lyric poetry, the psychological novel, novel of manners; gender, critical theory; literature, philosophy; fashion
Marié Abe Dept of Music sound and space, ethnography, human geography, sound studies, music and social movements, affect and the body, Japanese popular performing arts, critical ocean studies, public ethnomusicology
Rizvana Bradley Dept of Film and Media aesthetic theory, art history, Black studies, contemporary art, contemporary film theory, critical theory, moving image installation, postcolonial studies, race and the philosophy of media
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
Andrew Way Leong Dept of English 19th century American literature, 20th and 21st century American literature, Asian American, Pacific, critical theory, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies