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Research Expertise and Interest

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Dept of Art Practice

photography, contemporary art, Art Pedagogy, performance, postcolonial studies, gender, queer, trans studies, contemporary African Art, South Asian Art, art of the Global South, global modernisms

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

Keith Johnson at lectern

Dept of Linguistics

phonetics

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

Lab principal investigator wearing a hard hat carrying a cooler of samples in a forest

Benjamin Wong Blonder

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

climate change, science education

A photo of Keltner teaching

Dept of Psychology

culture, conflict, behavior, love, psychology, emotion, social interaction, individual differences in emotion, negotiation, embarrassment, desire, juvenile delinquency, laughter, anger, social perception, negotiating morality

Dept of Geography

critical cartography, media geographies, critical GIS and data studies, cultural memory and landscape, politics of representation - textualization - and visuality, digitalities

Nina Maggi Kelly

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

remote sensing, drones, ecosystem sciences, forests, geoinformatics, participatory web, GIS

Ignacio Navarrete

Ignacio Navarrete

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Spanish literature: poetry; poetic theory; narrative; and culture, history of the book, Cervantes, Don Quixote, Celestina, everyday life, medieval and early modern Spanish literature, modern Spain

Paul Fine

Dept of Integrative Biology

speciation, plant ecology, plant evolutionary biology, floristics and phytogeography

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

Prof. Iris D. Tommelein in Sutardja Dai Hall

Iris D. Tommelein

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

lean construction, lean production, design management, sustainability, supply-chain management, life-cycle engineering, civil infrastructure systems, adaptive project leadership, engineering project management, megaproject delivery, construction process engineering, integrated project delivery IPD, building information modeling BIM, virtual design and construction VDC

Akash Kumar

Dept of Italian Studies

medieval Italian literature, history of science, history of philosophy, Mediterranean studies, digital humanities

Michael Marletta

Michael A. Marletta

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

chemical biology, molecular biology, structure/function relationships in proteins, catalytic and biological properties of enzymes, cellular signaling, nitric oxide synthase, soluble guanylate cyclase, gas sensing, cellulose degradation, polysaccharide monooxygenases

Jake Kosek

Dept of Geography

cultural politics of nature and difference, cultural geography, Science and Technology studies, critical race theory, critical cartography, biopolitics, human and the non-human, environmental politics

Michael Lucey delivering a lecture.

Dept of Comparative Literature

the novel, sexuality studies, comparative literature, French, French literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British literature and culture, social and literary theory, cultural studies of music, studies of language in use, linguistic anthropology, theories of practice, twentieth-century American literature

Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre

Dept of Geography

geospatial representation, political economy, critical environments, social mapping, political ecology, historical and political geography, environmental history, indigenous/campesino ontologies and epistemologies, Latin American geographies, videography

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Dept of History

Modern German and European History, Human Rights and Internationalism, global urban history, critical theory

Cover image of Disorientation: France, Vietnam, and the Ambivalence of Interculturality

Karl Britto

Dept of Comparative Literature

Africa, cultural studies, the Caribbean, literature, francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial literature, Vietnam, gender and identity

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

earth & planetary science

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

Theoretical Fluid Dynamics, Nonlinear Wave Mechanics, ocean and coastal waves phenomena, ocean renewable energy (wave, Tide and Offshore Wind Energy), Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Fluid Flow Control, ocean renewable energy

Pamela Samuelson

Pamela Samuelson

public policy, intellectual property law, new information technologies, traditional legal regimes, information management, copyright, software protection and cyberlaw, AI govenance

Niklaus Largier sitting in office

Niklaus Largier

Dept of Comparative Literature

theology, anthropology and literature, literature and the visual arts, philosophical anthropology, ritual and religion, religious practice, literature

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neural basis of perception, neuroscience, neurobiology

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

China, lyric poetry, Chinese literature, Chinese culture, poetic theory