Shannon Steen Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies critical race theory, performance theory, American studies, U.S. histories of popular performance, U.S. urban development, globalization studies
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
Karen Feldman Dept of German critical theory, aesthetics, literary theory, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin, 18th-20th century German thought, Hegel, Adorno
Peter Bartlett Dept of Statistics Division of Computer Science (EECS) machine learning, statistical learning theory, adaptive control
Dylan John Riley Dept of Sociology political sociology, comparative historical sociology, social theory
Robert Ashmore Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures China, lyric poetry, Chinese literature, Chinese culture, poetic theory
Thomas Courtade Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) information theory, probability, data compression, communications, computer science
Daena Funahashi Dept of Anthropology Political anthropology, democratic theory, critical theory, Crisis of Legitimacy, stress, Burnout, death, the uncanny, economy of excess, scientific authority, Nordic Welfare, Southeast Asia
Petr Horava Dept of Physics cosmology, physics, quantum geometry, particle physics, string (and M-) theory, quantum gravity
Mel Y Chen Dept of Gender and Women's Studies queer and feminist theory, disability theory, critical animal studies, materiality studies, cultural politics of race and sexuality and ability and immigration, critical linguistics, paradigms of inter and transdisciplinarity
Federico Echenique Dept of Economics economic theory, economics and computation, mathematical economics, discrete allocation problems
Xandra Ibarra Dept of Art Practice performance art, video, sculpture, new genres, feminist and queer theory, Latin American and U.S. Chicana/Latino performance
Jeffrey Neaton Dept of Physics condensed matter theory, Materials Physics, nanoscience, physical chemistry, Electronic Structure Theory, Transport, Hard-Soft Interfaces, Complex Oxides, renewable energy, energy conversion
Xueyin (Snow) Zhang Dept of Philosophy Bayesian epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of probability, Chinese philosophy
James Porter Dept of Rhetoric Classical Studies, classical reception studies, philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Auerbach, Jewish intellectual thought
Andrew Little Dept of Political Science game theory, authoritarian politics, political beliefs, protest
Scott Straus Dept of Political Science comparative politics, international relations, formal theory and methods
Vadim Gorin Dept of Mathematics Dept of Statistics integrable probability, random matrices, asymptotic representation theory
Hillel Soifer Dept of Political Science comparative politics, methodology & formal theory, Latin America
Djordje Popović Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literature, critical theory, comparative literature
Karl Kullmann Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Landscape and urban design, landscape and urban theory, digital representation
Wali Ahmadi Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Persian literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history, Afghanistan