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Department

School of Social Welfare

civic participation, community based research, visual methods, aging, immigration, Latinx older adults, Black older adults, intersectional life course perspective, systems of oppression, access to healthcare

David Bamman in office setting with bookcase in background

School of Information

natural language processing, machine learning, digital humanities, computational social science, data science

Areej Sabbagh-Khoury

Dept of Sociology

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

Dept of Geography

geography as history of the present and as earthly/oceanic writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic studies, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

social cultural anthropology, medical and psychiatric anthropology, critical gerontology, lesbian and gay studies, feminist and queer theory

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

Evelyn Nakano Glenn

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

labor, citizenship, undocumented students, caring work, settler colonialism, skin color bias

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

urban design and planning, design history, social and cultural factors in landscape design

Mahesh Srinivasan

Mahesh Srinivasan

Dept of Psychology

flexible and pragmatic uses of language, representation of abstract concepts, linguistic relativity, social cognitive development in different cultural contexts

Rachel Morello-Frosch

Rachel Morello-Frosch

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

environmental health, environmental justice, climate change and health, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

Goldman School of Public Policy

labor and employment, race, poverty, inequality, economics of education, health disparities, social welfare policy

Ofer Eldar environmental shot

Ofer Eldar

business associations, corporate finance and securities regulation, law and economics, corporate governance, entrepreneurial finance, social impact

Joshua Goldstein

Joshua Goldstein

Dept of Demography

mortality, fertility, aging, social inequality, mathematical demography, economic demography, quantitative methods, United States, Europe

Dept of Anthropology

social and political theory, communism and post-communism, language philosophy, the image, the body, avant-garde artistic experiments, science studies, ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society

Sylvia Guendelman

Sylvia Guendelman

School of Public Health

public health, maternal & child health, health and social behavior, health policy and management, specialty area in multicultural health

Yuichiro Kamada

Haas School of Business

game theory, social networks, search, Market Design, communication, political economy, marketing

Dept of Philosophy

political philosophy, legal philosophy, ethics, social philosophy, political authority and power, democracy and equality, private law

David Kirp

Goldman School of Public Policy

public policy, law, social policy, higher education policy, politics and policy, primary and secondary education policy, race and ethnicity, early childhood policy

School of Social Welfare

adolescent violence and victimization, polyvictimization rates among vulnerable adolescents, bullying involvement roles and mental health, sexual orientation and gender identity microaggressions, impact of family-level microaggressions and microaffirmations on mental health, disability, anti-ableism

Dept of Economics

Goldman School of Public Policy

poverty, inequality, economic policy, Social Safety Net, labor economics, public economics, Food Insecurity, COVID-19

HEARTs Research Group

Amani Nuru-Jeter

School of Public Health

health inequities, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic position, stress and health, place and health, social determinants of health, cardiometabolic risk, birth outcomes

Haas School of Business

sharing economy operations, economics of operations management, social responsibility in operations management, supply chain management, marketing-operations interface

Dept of History of Art

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Soviet art, photography, European avant-gardes, global modern art

Miryam Sas in outdoor environment

Miryam Sas

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Dept of Film and Media

20th century avant-gardes, Japanese literature, film, theater and dance, East Asia, media theory, contemporary art, critical theory, gender theory, memory studies

Dana Miller-Cotto

School of Education

educational equity, early childhood education, cognitive processes, early math learning, social contexts of education