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Dept of Ethnic Studies

art, aesthetics and visual culture, transnational feminist and queer of color theories, Arab diaspora, Muslim diaspora, militarism, critical race theory, critical postcolonial theory, Anthropocene, extractive economies and petrocultures

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

landscape architecture, arid landscapes, visualization, urban design, urbanism

Dept of History

enlightenment, Russian intellectual history, sentimentalism, eighteenth and nineteenth century, anti-religious thought, romanticism, history of friendship

Dora Silva Santana

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black trans studies, Black queer and trans feminist theory, global south epistemologies, Black poets, visual culture - media - and technology

Photo by Diamela Cutiño

Courtney Desiree Morris

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black women's social movement, state violence and authoritarianism, racial formations in Latin American, racial formations in the Caribbean, racial formations in the U.S., feminist and queer theory, environmental ethics, Black visual culture and aestetics

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

Zamansele Nsele standing in outdoor setting

Zamansele Nsele

Dept of History of Art

modern & contemporary African diaspora visual art, modern & contemporary African visual art, Black art, Black & African feminisms, critical theories of Blackness, African modernism, theories of nostalgia and melancholia, visual activism

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

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 History

Late Modern Europe, Soviet History, Central Asian History

Rowland Taylor in lab

School of Optometry

mammalian visual system, retinal function

Todd Hickey

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

classics, papyrology, Greek, Egyptian, social and economic history, late antiquity

Daylet Domínguez

Daylet Domínguez

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures

Aditya Parameswaran

Aditya Parameswaran

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

School of Information

database management systems, human-computer interaction, data science, information visualization

Stephen Best standing at desk with shelves full of book in the background.

Dept of English

film, English literature, African American literature, literary culture, legal culture

Bruno Olshausen

Bruno Olshausen

Dept of Neuroscience

School of Optometry

visual perception, computational neuroscience, computational vision

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Psychology

visual perception, face processing, comparative neuroanatomy, development, translational applications for patient populations

Andrew F. Jones

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian languages and cultures, Chinese popular music, sonic culture, media technology, modern Chinese fiction, children's literature, literary translation

Leti Volpp

citizenship, law and culture, identity (especially race and gender), immigration and migration, Asian American studies

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

Robert Sharf standing with group of students in library, holding a plague and flowers

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian languages and cultures, medieval Chinese Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, Buddhist philosophy, methodological issues in the study of religion

Waldo E. Martin

Dept of History

African American history, modern American culture

Dennis Levi wearing optical machinery

School of Optometry

optometry, vision science, pattern vision, abnormal visual development

Jinsoo An

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Korean cinema, Korean culture