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
Jasper Rine Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology biology, cell biology, DNA replication, gene regulation, saccharomyces cerevisiae, genetic analysis, genome, cholesterol biosynthetic pathway, modification of proteins, prenylated proteins
Henry Washington Jr. Dept of African American Studies 19th and 20th century African American literature, Black intellectual history, Black feminist theory, Black trans theory, Black visual culture and aestetics, performance theory
Nicholas Baer Dept of German film theory and history, digital media, aesthetics, critical theory, philosophy of history, technics, media theory and archaeology
Brandi Wilkins Catanese Dept of African American Studies Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies critical race theory, African American theater, non-traditional casting, racial performativity, gender studies, sexuality studies, American popular culture
Prasad Raghavendra Division of Computer Science (EECS) theory(THY), optimization, complexity theory, approximation algorithms
Venkatesan Guruswami Dept of Mathematics Division of Computer Science (EECS) theoretical computer science, coding theory, approximate optimization, randomness in computation, computational complexity
Martin P. Head-Gordon Dept of Chemistry theoretical chemistry, electronic structure calculations, development of novel theories and algorithms, quantum mechanics
Kannan Ramchandran Division of Computer Science (EECS) Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) statistical and sparse signal processing, adversarial and distributed machine learning, coded computing, privacy and security, scalable distributed video-on-demand delivery, coding theory, communications, information theory, peer-to-peer networking, blockchains
Sarah Song Dept of Political Science School of Law political theory, citizenship and migration studies, feminist theory, American immigration law and policy, democratic theory, First Amendment law
Kent Puckett Dept of English critical theory, narrative & the novel, 19th century British literature, poetry, film, literary theory, sociability, psychoanalysis
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
Constantin Teleman Dept of Mathematics algebraic geometry, Lie groups, topology, topological quantum field theory
Gabriel Goldberg Dept of Mathematics set theory, large cardinals, inner model theory, infinite combinatorics
Avishay Tal Division of Computer Science (EECS) theory(THY), complexity theory, analysis of Boolean functions, randomness in computation, quantum computation
Anne-lise Francois Dept of English Dept of French popular culture, English, comparative literature, the modern period, comparative romanticisms, lyric poetry, the psychological novel, novel of manners; gender, critical theory; literature, philosophy; fashion
Negar Mehr Dept of Mechanical Engineering robotics, control theory, artificial intelligence, game theory, machine learning
Daniel Rokhsar Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology genetics and genomics, evolution of animals, genetic diversity in animals and plants
Petr Horava Dept of Physics cosmology, physics, quantum geometry, particle physics, string (and M-) theory, quantum gravity
Henry Ravenhall Dept of French medieval French literature, Rare Books and Manuscripts, critical theory, French literature, medieval Occitan literature
Rachel Brem Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology molecular evolution, ecological genetics, genetics and genomics, fungal genetics