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Department

Xin Liu

Dept of Anthropology

history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, social/cultural anthropology, comparative societies, capitalism and culture, America and China/East Asia

Mariane C. Ferme

Dept of Anthropology

Material culture and agrarian landscapes, gender, historical anthropology, Sierra Leone, contemporary Africa, political culture, transitional justice in post-conflict societies

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Liesl Yamaguchi

poetics, linguistics, literary theory, 19th century literature, modern poetry

Nathaniel Wolfson

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

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

francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial studies, literature and psychoanalysis, twentieth-century continental philosophy

Cortez in front of installation

Iggy Cortez

Dept of Film and Media

world cinema, contemporary art, global cities, aesthetic theory, global cinema, transnationalism and diaspora, night, cinema, Indie Film, screen performance, acting, asian art, asian-american art, asian diasporic culture, psychoanalysis, affect theory

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Kristen Whissel

Dept of Film and Media

Cinema and technological change, cinema and modernity, computer-generated images and contemporary cinema, digital visual effects, stereoscopic 3D cinema and media, the history and theory of special effects, cinema in transition, American film history, modernity and early cinema, cinema and globalization, cinema and the environment/elements

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Russian poetry from the 18th century to contemporary, lyric theory, nature lyric, Pushkin, Russian literature and art of the 18th and 19th centuries, Derzhavin, Turgenev, history and literataure, historical novel

Carla Hesse

Dept of History

France, modern Europe, history of women, legal history

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Karl Britto

Dept of Comparative Literature

Africa, cultural studies, the Caribbean, literature, francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial literature, Vietnam, gender and identity

Damon Young standing in front of book shelves full of reading material

Damon Young

Dept of Film and Media

film theory, digital media, global art cinema, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory

Ethan Katz

Dept of History

Jewish history, modern France, empire, Jewish-Muslim relations, secularism

Katherine Snyder

Katherine Snyder

Dept of English

19th through 21st century Literature in English, narrative and the novel, gender studies, post-traumatic and post-apocalyptic fiction

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Albert Ruhi

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

freshwater ecology, biodiversity conservation, global change biology, Drought

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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

Raveevarn Choksombatchai

Raveevarn Choksombatchai

Dept of Architecture

architecture, landscape design, space design, media and its effect upon design through filmic techniques and video investigations

Bryan D. McCloskey

Bryan D. McCloskey

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

electrochemical energy storage, electrocatalysis, molecular and ionic transport through polymers

Dept of Economics

minimum wage, living wages, labor market segmentation, low wage labor markets

Dept of Political Science

American political institutions, bureaucratic organizations, executive branch, public administration, political economy, statistical modeling

Jeffrey Q. Chambers

Dept of Geography

forests, climate change, trees, tropical forests, remote sensing, Drought, hurricanes, fires

Dept of Geography

climate change, endangered species, rangelands, political ecology, pastoralism, ranching, environmental history, suburbanization, human-environment interactions, environmental geography, range science and management, Southwestern US, scale, community-based conservation

Matthew B. Francis

Matthew B. Francis

Dept of Chemistry

materials chemistry, drug delivery, organic chemistry, Protein modification, artificial photosynthesis, water purification

Francis Macdonald

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

tectonics, climate, biological evolution

Robert B. Reich

Goldman School of Public Policy

economic inequality, industrial policy, macroeconomic policy, public management and leadership