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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

School of Social Welfare

family policy, child and family poverty, child abuse and neglect, foster care, kinship care, Child welfare services

School of Public Health

ethnography and qualitative methods, stress and chronic disease, social determinants of health and health disparities, health systems research and healthcare access, social difference and power and inequality, criminal justice as a determinant of health, urban transportation, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships

Scott Moura

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

control systems, optimization, data science, batteries, electric vehicles, energy systems

Dept of Political Science

political economy, ethnic politics, comparative clientelism in developing countries, research design, causal inference, statistical methods, multi-method research

Dept of Philosophy

political philosophy, legal philosophy, ethics, social philosophy, political authority and power, democracy and equality, private law

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

School of Social Welfare

civic participation, community based research, visual methods, aging, immigration, Latinx older adults, Black older adults, intersectional life course perspective, systems of oppression, access to healthcare

john powell at lectern

john powell

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Civil rights and civil liberties, structural racialization, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, needs of citizens in a democratic society

Haas School of Business

sharing economy operations, economics of operations management, social responsibility in operations management, supply chain management, marketing-operations interface

Yuichiro Kamada

Haas School of Business

game theory, social networks, search, Market Design, communication, political economy, marketing

Ofer Eldar environmental shot

Ofer Eldar

business associations, corporate finance and securities regulation, law and economics, corporate governance, entrepreneurial finance, social impact

Anna Stilz

Dept of Political Science

history of political thought, nationalism, collective agency, migration, environmental and climate justice

Brian A. Barsky

Brian A. Barsky

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

School of Optometry

computer science, geometric design and modeling, computer graphics, computer aided cornea modeling and visualization, medical imaging, virtual environments for surgical simulation

School of Social Welfare

aging, caregiving, long-term care, workplace rights, health policy, LGBTQ+

Goldman School of Public Policy

labor and employment, race, poverty, inequality, economics of education, health disparities, social welfare policy

Sarah E. Vaughn

Dept of Anthropology

anthropology, Science and Technology studies, environment, Expertise, climate change, historicism, theories of liberalism, Caribbean/Latin America

Seth Yalcin

Dept of Philosophy

philosophy of language, cognitive science, semantics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical logic

Eric Yue Ma

Dept of Physics

atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter physics and materials science

Streets in his Stanley Hall Laboratory. Photo credit: Michelle Tran

Dept of Bioengineering

bioengineering, computational biology, biophysics, data science, microfluidics, microscopy, genomics

Dept of Political Science

public policy, political economy, American politics

Andrea Roth in outside setting

Andrea Roth

forensic science, criminal procedure, criminal law, DNA, evidence law, criminal justice

Dept of Political Science

American politics, Congress, political parties, public opinion

Andrea A. diSessa

School of Education

education, cognition, conceptual development, science education, design of technology for education, computational literacies

School of Public Health

environmental health sciences, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

cultural connections and exchanges between Russia and China, early Soviet culture, socialist internationalism, post-socialism, politics and aesthetics