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Department

Dept of Sociology

anticolonial politics, empire, racism, global and transnational sociology, historical sociology, social theory

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

Mark Danner

Dept of English

School of Journalism

foreign affairs, voting and elections, journalism, Central America, politics, Balkans, Haiti, documentaries, terrorism, the Middle East, contemporary literature, modernist writers, contemporary literature and film

photographed in front of the blackboard in his office

Dan-Virgil Voiculescu

Dept of Mathematics

operator algebras, free probability theory, random matrices, K-theory of operator algebras, single operator theory

Marion Fourcade

Dept of Sociology

culture, social theory, political sociology, economic sociology, comparative methods, knowledge and science

Yuichiro Kamada

Haas School of Business

game theory, social networks, search, Market Design, communication, political economy, marketing

artificial intelligence, law and technology, intellectual property law, contemporary art and law, gender and sexuality

Darian Longmire

Dept of Art Practice

mixed media, printmaking, Abstraction, Black studies, Black contemporary art

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Islam (social and intellectual history)

Dept of History of Art

global modern art, the Middle East, theories of decolonization, visual culture, contemporary art

School of Social Welfare

development, social development, social policy, community development, International social welfare, global poverty and inequality

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

Calvin Morrill smiling

sociology of law, organizational theory, ethnography, social movements, youth culture and conflict, sociology of culture, entrepreneurship

Areej Sabbagh-Khoury

Dept of Sociology

political sociology, historical sociology, knowledge production, social theory, colonialism and settler colonialism, citizenship

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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

Zamansele Nsele standing in outdoor setting

Zamansele Nsele

Dept of History of Art

modern & contemporary African diaspora visual art, modern & contemporary African visual art, Black art, Black & African feminisms, critical theories of Blackness, African modernism, theories of nostalgia and melancholia, visual activism

Steven P. Segal

School of Social Welfare

psychiatry, methodology, social welfare, mental health and social policy

George A. Akerlof

George A. Akerlof

Dept of Economics

macroeconomics, monetary theory, behavioral economics, sociology and economics, theory of unemployment, asymetric information, staggered contract theory, money demand, labor market flows, theory of business cycles, economics of social customs, measurement of unemployment, economics of discrimination

School of Information

social informatics, digital transformation, knowledge, social and cultural studies

Winnie Wong

Dept of Rhetoric

art and law, modern and contemporary art, Chinese art, Qing Empire, Hong Kong

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Tina Sacks

School of Social Welfare

racial disparities in health, social disparities of health, race and class and gender, poverty and inequality

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

immigration and migration, medical anthropology with foci on social theory and ethnography, social studies of medicine and science, social difference related to race, social difference related to socioeconomic status, social difference related to citizenship, social difference related to gender, social difference related to sexuality, the naturalization and normalization of social hierarchies and health disparities, social suffering and symbolic violence, urban and rural Latin America and North America, population health with focus on global health, population health with focus on health disparities, population health with focus on social determinants of health

Photo by Diamela Cutiño

Courtney Desiree Morris

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black women's social movement, state violence and authoritarianism, racial formations in Latin American, racial formations in the Caribbean, racial formations in the U.S., feminist and queer theory, environmental ethics, Black visual culture and aestetics

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

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of History

History and anthropology of South Asia, social and cultural theory, history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, globalization