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Jason Wittenberg

Dept of Political Science

dictatorship, democratic backsliding, ethnic politics, Eastern Europe, religion and politics, voting behavior

Walter Hood

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

urban design, community development, landscape architecture, environmental planning, landscape design, citizen participation, design of architecture and landscape

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

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

literary theory, South and Southeast Asian studies, Sanskrit literature, Indian epic studies, psychoanalytically oriented cultural studies

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Niklaus Largier

Dept of Comparative Literature

theology, anthropology and literature, literature and the visual arts, philosophical anthropology, ritual and religion, religious practice, literature

Dept of Ethnic Studies

education, memory, Southeast Asian Studies, Asian American histories and communities, Southeast Asian diaspora, refugees, international migration, transnational and diaspora studies, genocide studies

Dept of City & Regional Planning

environmental planning, climate planning, sustainability and resilience, environmental and climate justice, geographic and spatial analysis, urban policy and political economy, global environmental governance, community engagement

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Ramsey McGlazer

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

Native American studies

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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

School of Education

ideologies and discourses in education, education

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Dept of English

film, English literature, African American literature, literary culture, legal culture

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, physiology of adipogenesis, thermogenesis, lipogenesis and lipolysis

Cori Hayden

Dept of Anthropology

Latin America, Mexico, social and cultural anthropology, kinship, anthropology of science, technology, medicine, post-colonial science, gender, queer studies

Juana María Rodríguez

Juana María Rodríguez

Dept of Ethnic Studies

race and sexual politics, LGBTQ communities, Latino/a/x and Caribbean literatures and cultures, women of color feminisms, queer activism in the Americas, transgender studies, sex work

Areej Sabbagh-Khoury

Dept of Sociology

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

Dept of English

English, 19th century American literature, 17th and 18th century American literature, African American literature, Herman Melville, race in American culture, literature and history, discourse and ideology, word and image studies, close reading

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

economics, algorithms, financial engineering, risk management, planning, optimization, operation of electric power systems, market based coordination of network systems, trading instruments

School of Education

educational equity, urban schooling, educational leadership, high stakes accountability, school improvement, educational policy, educational management and administration

Dept of Geography

racial geographies, environmental justice, earth system science

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Joshua Gang

Dept of English

20th century Irish and British literature, literature and philosophy, 20th century literature, history of literary theory, the novel, literature and the sciences of mind, close reading, philosophy of literature, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy

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Andreja Novakovic

Dept of Philosophy

19th and 20th century European philosophy, G.W.F. Hegel

School of Public Health

ethnography and qualitative methods, stress and chronic disease, social determinants of health and health disparities, health systems research and healthcare access, social difference and power and inequality, criminal justice as a determinant of health, urban transportation, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships

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Nicole Starosielski

Dept of Film and Media

communications infrastructure

Shirshendu Ganguly

Shirshendu Ganguly

Dept of Statistics

probability theory, statistical mechanics