Ethan Ligon Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics economics, insurance, agricultural contracts, risk sharing, intra-household allocation, welfare, demand analysis
Samuel Otter 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
David Whitney Dept of Psychology cognitive neuroscience, cognition, attention, visual perception, vision, visually guided action, human factors
Lisa A. Pruitt Dept of Mechanical Engineering tissue biomechanics, biomaterial science, fatigue and fracture micromechanisms, orthopedic polymers for total joint replacement, synthetic cartilage
Jonathan Shewchuk Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) scientific computing, computational geometry (especially mesh generation, numerical robustness, surface reconstruction, numerical methods, machine learning, physically-based animation
Benjamin Hermalin Dept of Economics contract theory, corporate governance, executive compensation, economics of leadership and organization, competitive strategy, industrial organization
Kristin Hanson Dept of English linguistics, English, poetry, meter, rhyme, alliteration, textsetting, phonological theory, English grammar and usage
David H. Raulet Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology biology, cancer immunology, natural killer (NK) cells, T-cell development and function, pathogens, viruses, lymphocyte receptors, microorganisms, cancer cells, tumor immunity, immunotherapy of cancer
Laura J Enriquez Dept of Sociology development in Latin America, Latin American emigration to Europe, rural sociology, political sociology, social movements
Seung-Wuk Lee Dept of Bioengineering nanotechnology, bio-inspired nanomaterials, synthetic viruses, regenerative tissue engineering materials, drug delivery vehicles
Eric Paulos Division of Computer Science (EECS) human-computer interaction, new media arts, digital fabrication, epidermal and wearable electronics
Matthew Hough Dept of Music music composition, music theory, popular music, music performance, music pedagogy
Darya Kavitskaya Dept of Linguistics Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures phonological theory, phonetics/phonology interface, historical phonology, Slavic, Turkic, Uralic
Joshua Blumenstock School of Information machine learning, development economics, poverty and public policy, inequality and crisis
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
Kate O'Neill Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management wastes and the circular economy, global environmental governance, climate change politics, globalization, environmental politics and policy, environmental movements
Eyitayo Opabola Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering civil infrastructure systems, climate change impact, multihazard risk, community resilience, adaptive climate risk mitigation
Samantha Lewis Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial genome inheritance, organelle assembly, DNA replication, cell metabolism, interactions between membrane-bound organelles
Xin Liu Dept of Anthropology history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, social/cultural anthropology, comparative societies, capitalism and culture, America and China/East Asia
Ula Y. Taylor Dept of African American Studies 20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism
Ming Gu Dept of Mathematics mathematics, scientific computing, numerical linear algebra, convex optimization
Dorian Liepmann Dept of Bioengineering Dept of Mechanical Engineering bioengineering, mechanical engineering, bioMEMS, biosensors, microfluid dynamics, experimental biofluid dynamics, hemodynamics, valvular heart disease, cardiac flows, arterial flows
Jimmy A. McGuire Dept of Integrative Biology historical biogeography, evolutionary biology, Southeast Asia, population genetics, hummingbirds, functional morphology, vertebrate systematics, phylogenetic analysis, life history evolution, Bayesian methods, Southeast Asian flying lizards