Hannes Bajohr Dept of German digital writing technologies, language and literature, German philosophical tradition in the 20th century, liberal and republican political theory
Jennifer Urban School of Law intellectual property, privacy, copyright, artists' rights, free expression, notice and takedown, free and open source licensing, defensive patent licensing, DMCA, patent, how technical and policy design affect privacy and other social values
Peter Jenks Dept of Linguistics syntax, semantics, morphology, linguistic theory, Thai, Southeast Asian languages, African languages
James Pitman Dept of Statistics fragmentation, statistics, mathematics, Brownian motion, distribution theory, path transformations, stochastic processes, local time, excursions, random trees, random partitions, processes of coalescence
Joel Moore Dept of Physics physics, condensed matter theory, electron-electron interactions, zero-temperature phase transitions, interaction effects in nanoscale devices, quantum phase transitions
Cindy Cox Dept of Music composition, music analysis and theory, post-tonal music, piano, music and live electronics, text-setting
Jacob Gaboury Dept of Film and Media media studies, computer graphics, history of technology, Science and Technology studies, queer theory, new media, art and technology
Sung-Hou Kim Dept of Chemistry computational genomics, Genomic susceptibility of common diseases, Genomic Tree of Life, Demography of human genome diversity
Eric A. Stanley Dept of Gender and Women's Studies critical prison studies, queer/trans social movements, anti-colonial feminism, gentrification, California housing market, critical theory
Ula Y. Taylor Dept of African American Studies 20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism
John Arnold Dept of Chemistry organometallic chemistry, organometallic catalysis, materials chemistry, coordination chemistry
Samera Esmeir Dept of Rhetoric critical theory, Middle Eastern Studies, Legal and political thought, law and humanities, law and society, legal histories, colonialism and post-colonialism, anti-colonialism
Roshanak Kheshti Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies race, gender, queer theory, anthropology, sound studies, film, performance studies, diaspora, psychoanalysis
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
Michael Nylan Dept of History gender, history, East Asian studies, early China, the fifth century BC to the fifth century AD, with an emphasis on the sociopolitical context, aesthetic theories and material culture, belief
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
Nicholas Dirks Dept of Anthropology Dept of History History and anthropology of South Asia, social and cultural theory, history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, globalization
Alan Tansman Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Modern Japanese Literature, literary and cultural theory, aesthetics and politics, Comparative Responses to Violence, literary history
Joseph Farrell Dept of Economics economics, price theory models of anticompetitive exclusive dealing, switching costs, network effects, formal standardization
Scott Shenker Division of Computer Science (EECS) computer science, internet architecture, software-defined networking, network function virtualization, game theoretic approaches to resource allocation, large-scale distributed systems, edge computing
Marvin L. Cohen Dept of Physics nanoscience, semiconductors, nanotechnology, physics, condensed matter physics, new properties of condensed matter systems, superconductivity, applications of BCS theory, superluminal velocities
Leslie Salzinger Dept of Gender and Women's Studies sociology of gender, capitalism, theories of neoliberalism, political economy, Gender and Work, Latin America, Mexico, ethnography, Marxian political economy, social reproduction
Micah Khater Dept of African American Studies African American history, Black feminist theory, carceral studies, disability studies, racial formation in Arabic-speaking communities
Judith Butler Dept of Comparative Literature critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature, 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, social and political thought, philosophy and literature
James Casey Dept of Bioengineering Dept of Mechanical Engineering continuum mechanics, finite elasticity, continuum thermodynamics, plasticity, theories of elastic-plastic materials, history of mechanics, dynamics