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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Dept of Political Science

American politics, political behavior, political psychology, public opinion, voting and elections, political socialization, research design and empirical methods

Haluk Ergin

Dept of Economics

economic theory

Avishay Tal

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

theory(THY), complexity theory, analysis of Boolean functions, randomness in computation, quantum computation

Damon Young standing in front of book shelves full of reading material

Damon Young

Dept of Film and Media

film theory, digital media, global art cinema, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory

Jonathan Shewchuk

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

George A. Akerlof

George A. Akerlof

Dept of Economics

macroeconomics, monetary theory, behavioral economics, sociology and economics, theory of unemployment, asymetric information, staggered contract theory, money demand, labor market flows, theory of business cycles, economics of social customs, measurement of unemployment, economics of discrimination

Michael Mascarenhas

Michael Mascarenhas

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

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

Michael Zaletel

Michael Zaletel

Dept of Physics

condensed matter theory

David E. Wemmer

Dept of Chemistry

nuclear magnetic resonance, nucleic acids, biophysical chemistry: proteins, NMR spectroscopy, magnetic resonance methods, structure of proteins and DNA, conformational fluctuations, biopolymers

Dept of Mathematics

Dept of Physics

string theory, mathematical physics

Dept of English

critical theory, narrative & the novel, 19th century British literature, poetry, film, literary theory, sociability, psychoanalysis

Mark Bevir

Dept of Political Science

social and political theory

Haas School of Business

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

Ian Wang

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

genetics and genomics, genomics, landscape genetics, evolution, population genetics, conservation, herpetology, GIS, spatial analysis, statistical methods, epigenetics

Shirshendu Ganguly

Shirshendu Ganguly

Dept of Statistics

probability theory, statistical mechanics

Eric Neuscamman

Eric Neuscamman

Dept of Chemistry

Electronic Structure Theory, Quantum Chemistry

Patrice Douglass

Patrice D. Douglass

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black feminist theory, Afro-pessimism, feminist philosophy, gender and sexual violence, feminist legal theory, legal theory, political philosophy, Black political thought

Michael Iarocci in outside environmental setting

Michael Iarocci

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

modern Spanish literature and culture, critical theory, geopolitics of literature, aesthetics, transatlantic Hispanic studies, theory of the lyric, visual culture

Dept of Mathematics

algebra, arithmetic geometry, number theory

Alva Noë

Dept of Philosophy

cognitive science, phenomenology, consciousness, philosophy, theory of perception, theory of art, Wittgenstein, analytic philosophy origins

Dept of Sociology

poverty, inequality, causal inference, mixed methods, incarceration, prisoner reentry, education, neighborhoods, urban, community, adolescence, public impact research/scholarship

Dept of Architecture

architecture and urban design and theory

Jonah B. Gelbach

civil procedure, statutory interpretation, law and economics, event study methodology, securities litigation, economics of crime, public assistance, statistical methods

Luca Victor Iliesiu

Dept of Physics

quantum field theory, quantum gravity

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