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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Jinsoo An

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Korean cinema, Korean culture

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Ramsey McGlazer

Dept of Comparative Literature

Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of African American Studies

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

Evelyn Nakano Glenn

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

labor, citizenship, undocumented students, caring work, settler colonialism, skin color bias

Todd Hickey

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

classics, papyrology, Greek, Egyptian, social and economic history, late antiquity

Placeholder image for Andrew Barshay

Dept of History

social thought, social sciences in modern Japan, marxism, Japanese history, Japanese-Russian relations

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Native Americans, American Indians, governmentality

Gloria Brar

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

meiosis, translation, sORFs, stress responses

Elora Shehabuddin

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

Rahul Parson in front of the Campanile.

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Hindi Literature

Dept of African American Studies

social movements, visual culture, memory, photography, African American history and culture

Laura C. Nelson

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

gender and medicine and politics, breast cancer in South Korea, cultural impacts of ultra-low fertility, demographic undertow, structures on cultural temporality and anti-poverty policies in the U.S. and South Korea

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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

Henry Washington Jr.

Dept of African American Studies

19th and 20th century African American literature, Black intellectual history, Black feminist theory, Black trans theory, Black visual culture and aestetics, performance theory

Rhiannon Noel Welch

Rhiannon Noel Welch

Dept of Italian Studies

Italian literature, film and media, Italian colonialism, critical theories of race and racialization, borders and mobilities, biopolitics, postcolonial and decolonial theory

Dept of Comparative Literature

modern poetry, aesthetics, literary theory, history of criticism, Frankfurt School Critical Theory

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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

Dept of African American Studies

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Nikki Jones

Dept of African American Studies

African American communities, policing, racial/gender disparities and the criminal justice system, violence and violence interventions

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 Ethnic Studies

art, aesthetics and visual culture, transnational feminist and queer of color theories, Arab diaspora, Muslim diaspora, militarism, critical race theory, critical postcolonial theory, Anthropocene, extractive economies and petrocultures

Lisandro Claudio

Lisandro Claudio

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Philippines, theories of liberalism, history and culture of Southeast Asia, austerity in the global south

Kim Shelton

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

ceramics, classical civilization and archaeology, Aegean prehistory, religion/mythology

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Vinod K. Aggarwal

Dept of Political Science

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