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Political anthropology, democratic theory, critical theory, Crisis of Legitimacy, stress, Burnout, death, the uncanny, economy of excess, scientific authority, Nordic Welfare, Southeast Asia

Rebekah Ramsay

Dept of History

Late Modern Europe, Soviet History, Central Asian History

Saul Perlmutter

Dept of Physics

cosmology, dark energy, physics, astrophysics experiments, observational astrophysics, supernovae, accelerating universe

Todd Hickey

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

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

William F. Hanks

Dept of Anthropology

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

Martin White

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

cosmology, formation of structure in the universe, dark energy, expansion of the universe, cosmic microwave background, quasars, redshift surveys

Sara McMains

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

Chung-Pei Ma

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, black hole, dark matter, cosmology, formation and evolution of galaxies, cosmic microwave background radiation

William H. Miller

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical chemistry, chemical dynamics, quantum mechanical and semiclassical theories, dynamical chemical processes at the molecular level, photodissociation, femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy, calculations of rate constants for chemical reactions

Sophie Volpp

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

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David L. Sedlak

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

fate and transport of and transformation of chemicals in the aquatic environment, water reuse and water recycling, urban water infrastructure, engineered treatment wetlands

Scott Saul

Dept of English

20th and 21st century American literature, African American literature, cultural studies, drama, film

David Weisblat

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

leech embryo, evolution & development, cell fate determination, lineage tracing, specification of neuronal phenotypes, genome evolution

Jack Glaser

Goldman School of Public Policy

policing, criminal justice, research methods, public policy, experimental social psychology, hate crime, political psychology, stereotyping, racial profiling, prejudice & discrimination, nonconscious social cognition

Jennifer Chayes

Dept of Mathematics

Dept of Statistics

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

phase transitions in computer science, structural and dynamical properties of networks, graphons, machine learning, ethical decision making, climate change

Barbara Meyer

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cell fate determination, chromosome architecture, developmental biology, gene expression, genetic determination of sex, regulatory genes, chromosome dynamics, X-chromosome

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

Dept of Economics

Haas School of Business

economics, exchange rate, lending booms, consumption, capital flows, global imbalances, external adjustment, international prices, international portfolios, financial crises, eurozone crisis

John Connelly

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

Burkhard Militzer

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

density functional methods, equation of state calculations, planetary interiors, materials at high pressure, theoretical mineral physics, path integration Monte Carlo, planet formation, quantum Monte Carlo method

Ling Hon Lam

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

Priya Moorjani

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Human evolutionary genetics, human genetics, ancient DNA, population genetics, statistical genetics

James Pitman

Dept of Statistics

fragmentation, statistics, mathematics, Brownian motion, distribution theory, path transformations, stochastic processes, local time, excursions, random trees, random partitions, processes of coalescence

Evan R. Williams

Dept of Chemistry

spectroscopy, molecular structure and dynamics, analytical chemistry, biophysical chemistry, structure and reactivity of biomolecules and biomolecule/water interactions, mass spectrometry, separations, protein conformation, protein and DNA sequencing

Jeffrey Knapp

Dept of English

English literature, Shakespeare, English renaissance, Spenser, drama, theater, American film history, film theory and production, critical theory, imperialism, nationalism, mass entertainment, authorship

Ellen Robey

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

fate determination in the T-lymphocyte lineage, T cell development in the mouse, thymic development, cellular maturation, parasitic infection, chronic infection, host-pathogen interactions, Toxoplasma gondii

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