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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

amino acids, determinants of protein structure and folding, biophysical, structural and computational techniques, translocation, protein synthesis

Ann Swidler

Dept of Sociology

religion, culture, Africa, AIDS, political sociology, theory, development, NGOs, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

Robert B. Reich

Goldman School of Public Policy

economic inequality, industrial policy, macroeconomic policy, public management and leadership

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

Adair Morse

Haas School of Business

household finance, climate finance, sustainable and impact investing, entrepreneurship and small business, pension asset management

Marianne Constable

Marianne Constable

Dept of Rhetoric

law and language, legal rhetoric and philosophy, social and political thought, Anglo-American legal history, continental philosophy, law and society

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

cardiovascular biomechanics, computational mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, thrombosis, medical image processing, dynamical systems, fluid dynamics, Lagrangian coherent structures, mathematical modeling

Dept of Political Science

comparative politics, Russian politics, democracy, religion and politics, legislative process

Mark Blum talk at VESAK Celebration 2023

Mark Blum

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Buddhism, Japan, culture and society, modernization

Carlos Bustamante

Carlos Bustamante

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Physics

nanoscience, structural characterization of nucleo-protein assemblies, single molecule fluorescence microscopy, DNA-binding molecular motors, the scanning force microscope, prokaryotes

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

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

landscape architecture and environmental planning, urban design, urban ecology, surface hydrology, groundwater, sea level rise, climate change, adaptation, environmental justice, adaptation to flooding, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, social justice research, client-based studio teaching, community-based studio teaching

Michael Mascarenhas

Michael Mascarenhas

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

environmental justice, critical race theory, Post-colonial theory, Science and Technology studies

Alain de Janvry

Alain De Janvry

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

economics, labor management and policy

Pheng Cheah

Dept of Rhetoric

world literature, human rights, nationalism, legal philosophy, feminism, 18th-20th century continental philosophy & contemporary critical theory, postcolonial theory & anglophone postcolonial literatures, cosmopolitanism & globalization, social & political thought

Jennifer Doudna holding an model of CRISPR.

Jennifer A. Doudna

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

RNA machines, hepatitis C virus, RNA interference, ribosomes, x-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing

Dept of Psychology

sleep, insomnia, circadian rhythms, mental illness, comorbidity, implementation science, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-academic partnership

Richard E. Borcherds

Richard Borcherds

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, lie algebras, vertex algebras, automorphic forms

Dept of Political Science

Goldman School of Public Policy

civil litigation

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Sociology

racial ideology, politics, globalization, Latin America

Hiroshi Nikaido

Hiroshi Nikaido

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

membrane biochemistry, bacterial physiology, bacteria, channel-forming proteins of the outer membrane, the diffusion of lipophilic compounds, mechanism and regulation of multidrug efflux transport systems, mycobacterial cell wall

Dan Fletcher holding equipment

Daniel Fletcher

Dept of Bioengineering

bioengineering, optical and force microscopy, microfabrication, biophysics, mechanical properties of cells

Renee in dean's office

Dept of Architecture

urban design, architectural design

Kathleen Donegan

Kathleen Donegan

Dept of English

Colonial America, early America, Native America, early Caribbean