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Maurice Obstfeld

Maurice Obstfeld

Dept of Economics

economics, monetary and fiscal remedies for deflation, open-market purchases in a liquidity trap, exchange rates, monetary policy, international finance, open-economy macroeconomics, macroeconomic history

Dept of African American Studies

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

Dept of Philosophy

theory of meaning, philosophy of mind, causation in psychology

Joseph S. Shapiro

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

Dept of Economics

trade and the environment, water pollution, Clean Water Act, air pollution, climate change

Dept of African American Studies

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

Gloria Brar

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

meiosis, translation, sORFs, stress responses

Todd Hickey

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

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

Dept of African American Studies

public history, African diaspora in Europe, British imperialism, community-engaged research/scholarship

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

transcription regulation during cellular differentiation, gene expression control mechanism, biophysical rules of nuclear organization

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

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

School of Social Welfare

child welfare, poverty

Dept of Psychology

couple relationships, family factors in children's development, parenting, fatherhood, preventive intervention with families

john powell at lectern

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

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, bio-organic chemistry, diabetes, protein phosphorylation, fundamental signal transduction pathways in cells and whole organisms, kinase, drug development, asthma, multiple forms of cancer, neurological disorders, drug addiction

School of Education

Dept of African American Studies

educational policy, charter schools, politics of education, race and education, school choice, desegregation, philanthropy and education, advocacy

Justin Bashares in lab with taxidermy animals

Justin Brashares

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

wildlife, biodiversity, ecology, conservation, sustainability, climate change, human livelihoods

Cailin Slattery

Haas School of Business

public finance, political economy, industrial organization, state and local government

Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey

Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey

Dept of Economics

Mechanism Design, matching and marketing design, industrial organization, bounded rationality

David Sraer

Dept of Economics

Haas School of Business

finance economics, macro-finance, behavioral finance, economics of organization, entrepreneurship

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Sociology

racial ideology, politics, globalization, Latin America

Sameer B. Srivastava in lecture setting

Sameer Srivastava

Haas School of Business

culture, cognition, social networks, social capital, organizational sociology, formal organizations, social influence

Nikki Jones Head Shot

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