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Nicholas Mathew

Nicholas Mathew

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music in Europe and its colonies, music and politics, the political economy of sound media, pianos and pianism, music and materialism, Beethoven, Haydn, music in Vienna, London, aesthetics, piano performance, historical performance practices

James A. Sethian

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, applied mathematics, partial differential equations, computational physics, level set Methods, computational fluid mechanics and materials sciences, fast marching methods

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Kristen Whissel

Dept of Film and Media

Cinema and technological change, cinema and modernity, computer-generated images and contemporary cinema, digital visual effects, stereoscopic 3D cinema and media, the history and theory of special effects, cinema in transition, American film history, modernity and early cinema, cinema and globalization, cinema and the environment/elements

17th and 18th century French literature and culture, history and theory of the novel, quantitative literary history and digital humanities, history of aesthetics, cinema (French New Wave)

James Quail leaning over a park sign that reads "QUAIL"

James Q. Davies

19th century music, political ecology, performance studies, pianism, vocal knowledge, medical anthropology, historical materialism

Mario Telò at a desk with books in the background

Mario Telò

Dept of Rhetoric

Greek literature, Roman drama, critical theory, continental philosophy

School of Education

ideologies and discourses in education, education

Mark Danner

Dept of English

School of Journalism

foreign affairs, voting and elections, journalism, Central America, politics, Balkans, Haiti, documentaries, terrorism, the Middle East, contemporary literature, modernist writers, contemporary literature and film

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dept of Geography

hydroecology, geomorphology, complex systems, restoration ecology, environmental modeling, wetlands, sediment transport, environmental fluid mechanics

Daniel A. Farber

environmental law, constiutional law, freedom of speech

Lew Feldman in the Botanical Garden's Carnivorous Plant Greenhouse

Lewis J. Feldman

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

plant biology, plant physiology, Plant

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

eukaryotic molecular biology; biochemistry, cellular differentiation, chromatin function, RNA synthesis, single cell imaging, single molecule imaging

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

fluid mechanics, mechanics in computer technology, tribology in hard-disk drives, laser measurement systems, numerical simulations, static and dynamic problems in solid mechanics

Dora Silva Santana

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black trans studies, Black queer and trans feminist theory, global south epistemologies, Black poets, visual culture - media - and technology

Weihong Bao

Dept of Film and Media

late 19th century visual and performance culture, Chinese language cinema, transnational genre cinema, comparative media history and theory, propaganda theory and history(10988)

Dept of Statistics

statistics, machine learning, semiparametric models, asymptotic theory, hidden Markov models, applications to molecular biology

Haas School of Business

ecommerce, contracts and procurement, economics of organization, game theory, theory of the firm and industrial organization

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

rhetoric, comparative literature, Renaissance literature, poetics, early modern political theory, the Frankfurt School

Receiving the ASA's 2022 Distinguished Book Award

Armando Lara-Millan

Dept of Sociology

economy & society, law, Healthcare, political economy, prisons

Richard H. Kramer

Dept of Neuroscience

Neurons, synaptic transmission, photopharmacology, ion channels, action potentials, optical imaging, vision, learning and memory, retina, neurodegenrative disease(1551)

Faculty Photo, Clayton R. Critcher, 09/27/23

Clayton Critcher

Haas School of Business

moral psychology, consumer behavior and decision making, self and social judgment

Steven E. Brenner

Steven E. Brenner

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

molecular biology, computational biology, evolutionary biology, bioengineering, structural genomics, computational genomics, cellular activity, cellular functions, personal genomics

Andrew F. Jones

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian languages and cultures, Chinese popular music, sonic culture, media technology, modern Chinese fiction, children's literature, literary translation

Dora Zhang in outside environment

Dora Zhang

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

narrative & the novel, 20th and 21st century Britain, 20th and 21st century U.S., Asian American literature, affect theory, critical theory, philosophy and literature

Nicole Starosielski standing in outdoor setting

Nicole Starosielski

Dept of Film and Media

communications infrastructure