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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

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

China, lyric poetry, Chinese literature, Chinese culture, poetic theory

Deborah Orel-Bixler

Deborah Orel-Bixler

School of Optometry

optometry, vision science, visual abilities in infants, children and special-needs population, visual evoked potentials, vision screening, photorefraction

Dept of Neuroscience

School of Optometry

cognitive neuroscience, pharmacology, psychedelics, learning, attention, visual perception, neuroimaging

Calvin Morrill smiling

sociology of law, organizational theory, ethnography, social movements, youth culture and conflict, sociology of culture, entrepreneurship

Yang Dan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neuronal circuits, mammalian visual system, electrophysiological, imaging, prefrontal cortex, sleep

Wali Ahmadi

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Persian literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history, Afghanistan

Laura E. Pérez

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Chicana/Latina feminist & queer literary, visual, performance arts, US women of color thought, decolonial aestetics and decolonial spiritualities

Jonathan Zwicker

Jonathan Zwicker

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan

Mt. Seorak, 2021

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Korean literature and culture, comparative literature, critical theory, marxism, posthumanism, psychoanalysis

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

Vasugi Kailasam

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Tamil studies, film and digital culture, South Asia, South and Southeast Asian studies, cultural studies of Southeast Asia, South Asian Literature and Culture

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

Gerald Westheimer

Gerald Westheimer

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neurobiology; psychophysics, primate visual cortex, neural circuits, brain mechanisms, response modifications, active perception, learning, stereoscopic vision, optometryoptics of the eye, ophthalmic instrumentation

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

geometric and solid modeling, general purpose computation on the GPU (GPGPU), CAD/CAM, computational geometry, computer graphics and visualization, tool path planning, additive manufacturing, computer vision, Deep Learning

William F. Hanks

William F. Hanks

Dept of Anthropology

social and cultural anthropology, linguistics, shamanism, language, Yucatan Mexico, Maya culture

Egyptian Museum Turin, facsimile of the Book of the Dead of Iuefankh

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Egyptology, Egyptian, afrofuturism, magic, demonology, digital humanities, 3D modeling, virtual reality, prison higher education, ritual and religion

Olga Matich

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Slavic languages and literatures, Russian symbolism and post-Stalin literature, women in Russian literature, Zinaida Gippius, Russian emigre literature, conceptualization of love in Russian culture, theory and practice of private life

Déborah A. Blocker

Early modern French and Italian literature, history and culture, Comparative literature cultural studies, Social and political history of literature, aesthetics, philology, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Archival Studies

Dept of History

modern East and Central European political and social history, comparative education, history of nationalism and racism, history of Catholicism, Late Modern Europe

Sophie Volpp standing in outside setting.

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Chinese literature, Ming and Qing fiction and drama, material culture, pre-modern women poets and dramatists

Robert Levenson at Davos

Robert W. Levenson

Dept of Psychology

aging, gender, culture, brain, psychology, emotion, psychophysiology, marriage, clinical science, interpersonal interactions, dementia, relationships, neurodegenerative disease

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Dept of Comparative Literature

classics, Greek literature and culture, archaic Greek poetry, Herodotus, Aesop, Ancient Greek popular culture

Margaretta Markle Lovell

Dept of History of Art

cultural history, American art, architecture, design

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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