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Department

Dept of Economics

Dept of Political Science

Institutions and development, culture and economics, political institutions and economic outcomes, European Parliament and European institutions, reforms in China/North Korea/Eastern Europe

Haas School of Business

marketing, industrial organization, political economy, digital and political advertising, pink tax, e-commerce pricing, supply responses to government policy

Frederico Finan

Frederico Finan

Dept of Economics

development economics, political economy

Kei Kawai

Dept of Economics

industrial organization, political economy

Ramón Grosfoguel

Ramón Grosfoguel

Dept of Ethnic Studies

global cities, international migration, ethnic studies, race/ethnicity, latino studies, Caribbean Studies, Latin American Studies, international comparative development, political-economy of the world-systems, urban sociology

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

Haas School of Business

monetary policy, macroeconomy and housing, securitization and political economy

Leslie Salzinger

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

sociology of gender, capitalism, theories of neoliberalism, political economy, Gender and Work, Latin America, Mexico, ethnography, Marxian political economy, social reproduction

Jacob (Jake) Grumbach

Goldman School of Public Policy

democracy, labor and employment, racial justice, quantitative methods, public policy, political economy, federalism

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

Receiving the ASA's 2022 Distinguished Book Award

Armando Lara-Millan

Dept of Sociology

economy & society, law, Healthcare, political economy, prisons

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

Charles Hirschkind

Charles Hirschkind

Dept of Anthropology

Islam, anthropology, religious practice, media technologies, political community, Middle East, Europe

Jonathan Weigel

Haas School of Business

political economy, state capacity, development, corruption, taxation, religion

Dept of Philosophy

moral philosophy, political philosophy, practical reason, applied ethics

Dept of History

intellectual history of religion, politics and modern India, South Asia

Guo Xu

Haas School of Business

development economics, political economy, Organizational Economics, economic history

Dept of African American Studies

Atlantic slave trade, historical demography, African history and political economy, oil and gas policy

Alan Tansman in outdoor setting

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Modern Japanese Literature, literary and cultural theory, aesthetics and politics, Comparative Responses to Violence, literary history

John Lie

Dept of Sociology

social theory, political economy, East Asia

Dept of History

20th century U.S. history, with a focus on political economy, civil rights, education, law, the west

Dept of Anthropology

anthropology, historical archaeology, oral history, material culture and ethnic identity, family and gender relations, North America, Northern California, Caribbean, Bahamas, African consumerism, creolization, multi-ethnic community

Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

Dept of Sociology

race and ethnicity, sociology of knowledge and culture, Latinx politics and identify, political sociology, Du Boisian sociology, ethnographic methods, qualitative methods, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

Laura Enriquez in classroom setting

Laura J Enriquez

Dept of Sociology

development in Latin America, Latin American emigration to Europe, rural sociology, political sociology, social movements

Aarti Sethi

Dept of Anthropology

agrarian anthropology, ruralism, feminist anthropology, political economy, Comparative Religion, South Asia, debt and capitalism, climate change, cinema and media culture, caste, socio-economic inequality, the politics of knowledge, multi-species ethnography