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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Mary K. Firestone

Mary K. Firestone

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

soils, miicrobial biology, environmental science

Utqiagvik Alaska tundra sampling

Robert Rhew

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Geography

trace gases, biogeochemistry, stratospheric ozone depletion, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, atmospheric chemistry and composition, biogenic VOCs, terrestrial ecosystems, halocarbons, methyl halides, greenhouse gases

Dept of Sociology

sociology

Maurice Obstfeld

Maurice Obstfeld

Dept of Economics

economics, monetary and fiscal remedies for deflation, open-market purchases in a liquidity trap, exchange rates, monetary policy, international finance, open-economy macroeconomics, macroeconomic history

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Dept of Geography

continuum mechanics, climate, geomorphology, glaciers, glaciology, climate history, stable isotopes, geographical thought

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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

C. Greig Crysler

C. Greig Crysler

Dept of Architecture

architecture, geopolitics of architectural discourse, globalization and social production of the built environment, architecture and identity

Photo of Catherine Ceniza Choy

Catherine Ceniza Choy

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American history, Filipino American studies, race and gender, migration, nursing history, adoption studies, public impact research/scholarship, social justice research

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

social cultural anthropology, medical and psychiatric anthropology, critical gerontology, lesbian and gay studies, feminist and queer theory

Archaeologists confer at the Yarumela site in Honduras

Rosemary A. Joyce

Dept of Anthropology

Latin America, anthropology, cultural heritage, gender, archaeology, sexuality, museums, ethics, Central America, feminism

Kai Vetter

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

nuclear physics, radiation detection, nuclear instrumentation, nuclear measurements, multi-sensor systems and data fusion, radiological resilience

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

Lester Hu

Europe, East Asia, Inner Asia, music, history of music theory

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

political economy of development, historical and feminist political ecology, critical food and agrarian studies, Science and Technology studies, feminist theory, African studies, Tanzania, critical ethnography, participatory research

Rauri C.K. Bowie

Dept of Integrative Biology

ornithology, Africa, evolutionary biology

AnnaLee Saxenian

AnnaLee Saxenian

School of Information

innovation, information management, entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley, regional economic development, high skilled immigration, Asian development

Dept of City & Regional Planning

water, sanitation, basic services delivery, food justice, urban agriculture, poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, environmental justice, urban governance, participatory planning, community-based development, international development, development planning, sustainable development, African studies

Laureano Gherardi

Laureano Gherardi

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

plant ecology

Dept of Economics

inequality, wealth, taxation

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

Nicole Starosielski standing in outdoor setting

Nicole Starosielski

Dept of Film and Media

communications infrastructure

Paolo D'Odorico wearing a blue shirt, with unfocused greenery in background

Paolo D'Odorico

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

hydrology, ecohydrology, water resources, Water and Society, environmental sciences, Drylands, Desertification

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Roni Masel

Dept of Comparative Literature

Hebrew literature, Yiddish literature, Jewish history, queer theory, postcolonial theory

Sai Balakrishnan

Sai Balakrishnan

Dept of City & Regional Planning

spatial forms of urbanization, land-use changes

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

TB, mycobacterium tuberculosis, M. tuberculosis, genetics, proteomics, transcriptional profiling, host-pathogen interactions, host-directed therapy