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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Rhona S. Weinstein

Rhona S. Weinstein

Dept of Psychology

community psychology, educational inequality and the achievement gap, teacher expectations and self-fulfilling prophecies, classroom and school reform

School of Education

Dept of Psychology

Problem solving, knowledge representation & reorganization, explanatory coherence & inference, conceptual change, societal implications, science instruction, global climate change psychology, numeracy in journalism, naïve/informal physics, computational models of cognition, perceptual-cognitive interactions, intelligent tutoring systems, understandings of biological evolution, Reasoning, qualitative & quantitative thinking

Antonio Montalban

Antonio Montalban

Dept of Mathematics

mathematical logic

Stephen Hinshaw

Stephen Hinshaw

Dept of Psychology

psychology, child clinical, developmental psychopathology, risk factors for attentional, conduct disorders, child psychopharmacology, multimodality interventions, diagnostic validity of disorders, peer relationships, stigma of mental illness, community-engaged research/scholarship

Goldman School of Public Policy

School of Social Welfare

psychology, mental health, criminal justice, risk assessment, intervention

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

Native American studies

Alex Zettl

Dept of Physics

physics, condensed matter physics, fullerenes, condensed matter experiments, characterize novel materials with unusual electronic and magnetic ground states, low-dimensional and nanoscale structures, superconductors, giant magnetoresistance materials, nanotubes, graphene, boron nitride nanostructures, neural probes, NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems)

Dept of Political Science

comparative politics, Russian politics, democracy, religion and politics, legislative process

John MacFarlane

John MacFarlane

Dept of Philosophy

ancient philosophy, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology

Dylan John Riley

Dylan John Riley

Dept of Sociology

political sociology, comparative historical sociology, social theory

Dept of Sociology

Haas School of Business

organizations, social stratification, inequality, economic sociology, comparative studies, quantitative methods, comparative gender in the workplace, hiring, promotions, wages

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Wesley Holliday

Dept of Philosophy

logic, social choice theory

Daniel McFadden

Daniel McFadden

Dept of Economics

latent variable models, choice modeling, econometric modeling, sampling theory, production theory, consumer theory

Scott Saul

Dept of English

20th and 21st century American literature, African American literature, cultural studies, drama, film

Dept of Mathematics

mathematical logic

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

Raúl Coronado standing in outside setting

Dept of English

Latina/o literary and intellectual history, histories of sexuality and of the academic disciplines, comparative history of writing in the colonial and 19th century Americas, modernity, postcolonialism

photo of Amitai Shenhav

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, motivation, decision-making, executive functions, computational modeling

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Djordje Popović

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literature, critical theory, comparative literature

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Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

comparative genomics, bioinformatics, ecology, mycology

Dept of Political Science

political economy, ethnic politics, comparative clientelism in developing countries, research design, causal inference, statistical methods, multi-method research

William (Bill) D. Thompson

Dept of Psychology

cognition, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, learning, Problem solving, Reasoning, decision-making, Bayesian statistics, natural language processing, machine learning, computational modeling, collective decision-making, social networks

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Dept of Philosophy

moral psychology, moral philosophy, feminist philosophy, history of philosophy

Dept of Psychology

attention, curiosity, learning, computational modeling, cognitive development, machine learning, belief formation

Steven Lee

Dept of English

twentieth-century American literature, comparative ethnic studies, diaspora, Korean studies, Soviet and post-Soviet studies