Brandi Wilkins Catanese Dept of African American Studies Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies critical race theory, African American theater, non-traditional casting, racial performativity, gender studies, sexuality studies, American popular culture
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann Dept of History Modern German and European History, Human Rights and Internationalism, global urban history, critical theory
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
Larry M. Hyman Dept of Linguistics linguistics, phonological theory, typology, African languages, the Niger-Congo family, especially the comparative and historical study of the Bantu language family
Peter Bickel Dept of Statistics statistics, machine learning, semiparametric models, asymptotic theory, hidden Markov models, applications to molecular biology
Ramona Naddaff Dept of Rhetoric rhetoric, aesthetics, theory of the novel, ancient Greek philosophy and literature, history of philosophy, contemporary French thought
Jennifer Chayes Dept of Mathematics Dept of Statistics Division of Computer Science (EECS) phase transitions in computer science, structural and dynamical properties of networks, graphons, machine learning, ethical decision making, climate change
Jelani Nelson Division of Computer Science (EECS) theory, algorithms, streaming algorithms, dimensionality reduction, randomized algorithms, machine learning, privacy
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury Dept of Sociology political sociology, historical sociology, knowledge production, social theory, colonialism and settler colonialism, citizenship
Michelle Young School of Education educational leadership, policy analysis, critical theory, educational equity
Manxi Wu Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering game theory, multi-agent learning, transportation systems analysis
Adityanand Guntuboyina Dept of Statistics nonparametric and high-dimensional statistics, shape constrained statistical estimation, empirical processes, statistical information theory
Kate Heslop Dept of Scandinavian Medieval Studies, Old Norse literature, Viking and medieval Scandinavia, cultural memory, media theory
Stuart J. Russell Division of Computer Science (EECS) artificial intelligence, computational biology, algorithms, machine learning, real-time decision-making, probabilistic reasoning
Jeffrey Knapp Dept of English English literature, Shakespeare, English renaissance, Spenser, drama, theater, American film history, film theory and production, critical theory, imperialism, nationalism, mass entertainment, authorship
Anneka Lenssen Dept of History of Art global modern art, the Middle East, theories of decolonization, visual culture, contemporary art
Anne-lise Francois Dept of English Dept of French popular culture, English, comparative literature, the modern period, comparative romanticisms, lyric poetry, the psychological novel, novel of manners; gender, critical theory; literature, philosophy; fashion
Sukanya Banerjee Dept of English 19th century British, South Asian, critical theory, cultural studies, narrative and the novel
Grace Lavery Dept of English critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, Pacific, 19th century British literature, cultural studies
Sofia Villas-Boas Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics economics, industrial organization and applied econometrics, agricultural & resource economics, consumer behavior and decision making
Leif Nelson Haas School of Business consumer well being, consumer preferences and choices, human judgement, decision-making, consumption experience
Calvin Morrill School of Law sociology of law, organizational theory, ethnography, social movements, youth culture and conflict, sociology of culture, entrepreneurship
Oskar Hallatschek Dept of Physics biophysics, evolutionary dynamics, soft matter, statistical physics, theory and experiments
Hannah Zeavin Dept of History history of human sciences, history of technology and media, feminist science and technology studies, media theory
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