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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Dept of African American Studies

public history, African diaspora in Europe, British imperialism, community-engaged research/scholarship

Nathaniel Wolfson

Nathaniel Wolfson

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Brazilian literature and culture, Latin American literature and culture, Latin American Art History, media studies, critical theory, environmental humanities, Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, visual studies

Desmond Jagmohan

Desmond Jagmohan

Dept of Political Science

history of political thought, American political thought, African American political thought, race and American political development

Dept of African American Studies

social movements, visual culture, memory, photography, African American history and culture

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Greek and Roman history, Roman religion, early Christianity, Jews in the Greco-Roman world, Latin Literature, Latin epigraphy

Timothy Hampton in an outdoor setting

Timothy Hampton

Dept of Comparative Literature

culture, politics, English, comparative literature, popular music, history of emotion, French, renaissance and early modern European culture, the romance languages, the ideology of literary genre, the literary construction of nationhood, the rhetoric of historiography

James Casey

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

continuum mechanics, finite elasticity, continuum thermodynamics, plasticity, theories of elastic-plastic materials, history of mechanics, dynamics

Anne Nesbet

Dept of Film and Media

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

culture, film studies, Slavic languages, early Soviet culture, Sergei Eisenstein, silent film, Soviet film, GDR history, children's literature & Stalinism, the Soviet Union

Heather Haveman

Heather Haveman

Dept of Sociology

Haas School of Business

organizations, economic sociology, entrepreneurship, China, careers and social mobility, gender, social history

Ronald Amundson

Ronald Amundson

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

soils, environmental science, isotope biogeochemistry, pedology, environmental history & ethics, soilsbiogeochemistry, ecosystems

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

critical race theory, performance theory, American studies, U.S. histories of popular performance, U.S. urban development, globalization studies

Fei Xu

Dept of Psychology

cognitive development, language development, learning mechanisms, statistical learning and statistical inference, conceptual development, developmental psychology, word learning, physical reasoning, social cognition in infants and children, learning in infants and young children, computational models of cognitive development, cognitive development and AI models, psychology and philosophy

David Singh Grewal

David Singh Grewal

legal theory, political theory, intellectual history, global economic governance, international trade law, intellectual property law and biotechnology, law and economics

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

pre-modern drama and fiction, women's writing, sex and gender, history and theory of emotion, 19th and 20th century media culture, critical theory

Lynn Huntsinger

Lynn Huntsinger

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

conservation biology, ecosystems, rangeland ecology and management, natural resources, Native American history, livestock, China

Jonas Wellendorf

Jonas Wellendorf

Dept of Scandinavian

Old Norse language and literature, Scandinavian mythology, Scandinavian cultural history (Viking Age and Middle ages)

Areej Sabbagh-Khoury

Dept of Sociology

political sociology, historical sociology, knowledge production, social theory, colonialism and settler colonialism, citizenship

Xin Liu

Dept of Anthropology

history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, social/cultural anthropology, comparative societies, capitalism and culture, America and China/East Asia

Dept of Architecture

memory, visionary architecture, the unbuilt, paper architecture, heritage conservation, architectural representation, urban representation, diagrams, history of professions, historiography, world's fairs, expositions, California architecture, themed environments

Jere Lipps

Dept of Integrative Biology

ecology, paleontology, molecular phylogenetics, evolution of marine biotas, paleoenvironments, coral reef, Antarctic habitats, seismic histories, astrobiology, Charles Darwin

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Juliana Schroeder

Haas School of Business

social cognition, judgment and decision making, interpersonal and intergroup processes, social psychology, organizational performance, negotiations, morality, decision-making, conversation/communication

Dept of Rhetoric

critical theory, Middle Eastern Studies, Legal and political thought, law and humanities, law and society, legal histories, colonialism and post-colonialism, anti-colonialism

Elora Shehabuddin

Elora Shehabuddin

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

transnational feminism, history and politics of feminist movement, activism, critical approaches to development, political economy, South Asia, Middle East, Global South, United States

Dept of English

English, 19th century American literature, 17th and 18th century American literature, African American literature, Herman Melville, race in American culture, literature and history, discourse and ideology, word and image studies, close reading

Photo of Grace Erny in front of table with archaeological ceramics

Grace Erny

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

archaeology, archaeology and history of Greece and the Aegean, inequality in the ancient world, archaeology survey and the rural Mediterranean, analysis of archaeological ceramics, archaeological ethics, public archaeology