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Richard K Hernandez

Richard K. Hernandez

School of Journalism

journalism, new media, Mobile, visual storytelling, virtual reality, film/video production, photojournalism

Chiyuma Elliott

Chiyuma Elliott

Dept of African American Studies

poetry and poetics, African American literature, intellectual history - 1920s to the present, Black geography/cultural geography

Nikki Jones Head Shot

Nikki Jones

Dept of African American Studies

African American communities, policing, racial/gender disparities and the criminal justice system, violence and violence interventions

Alexander von Rospatt

Alexander von Rospatt

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

ritual studies, Nepalese studies, Buddhist traditions of South Asia, doctrinal history, Newar Buddhism, art

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, cognition, attention, visual perception, vision, visually guided action, human factors

A person with long wavy black hair sits facing forward

Dept of Art Practice

performance art, video, sculpture, new genres, feminist and queer theory, Latin American and U.S. Chicana/Latino performance

Nadia Ellis seated on an easy chair looking at the camera

Nadia Ellis

Dept of English

Black diaspora literature and culture, Caribbean, gender and sexuality

Mark Danner

Dept of English

School of Journalism

foreign affairs, voting and elections, journalism, Central America, politics, Balkans, Haiti, documentaries, terrorism, the Middle East, contemporary literature, modernist writers, contemporary literature and film

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

Dept of African American Studies

African American history, Black feminist theory, carceral studies, disability studies, racial formation in Arabic-speaking communities

Keynote Address Region Nine Head Start Association Family Engagement and Cultural Effectiveness Conference, Kona, HI.

Travis J. Bristol

Dept of African American Studies

School of Education

race and gender, urban schooling, organizational contexts of teachers' work, educational equity, African American students in schools

Jonathan Zwicker

Jonathan Zwicker

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan

Brandi Catanese

Brandi Wilkins Catanese

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

critical race theory, African American theater, non-traditional casting, racial performativity, gender studies, sexuality studies, American popular culture

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

Turner with digital reconstruction of Villa Farnesina in 1512

James Grantham Turner

Dept of English

gender, sexuality, English, 16th-18th century English, Italian and French literature, art and literature, 17th century political writing, landscape and the city, Enlightenment materialism, sexuality in Renaissance Italian art and Antiquity, ecocriticism in literature and art

Rowland Taylor in lab

School of Optometry

mammalian visual system, retinal function

Steven Lee

Dept of English

twentieth-century American literature, comparative ethnic studies, diaspora, Korean studies, Soviet and post-Soviet studies

Dept of Art Practice

art, digital media installations, photography, data science, new technology, video games

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Dept of History

slavery, African-American History, Women's History, Women and the Law, Slavery and the Law

Desmond Jagmohan

Desmond Jagmohan

Dept of Political Science

history of political thought, American political thought, African American political thought, race and American political development

Dept of African American Studies

Atlantic slave trade, historical demography, African history and political economy, oil and gas policy

Bruno Olshausen

Bruno Olshausen

Dept of Neuroscience

School of Optometry

visual perception, computational neuroscience, computational vision

contemporary German literature and media, theories of the contemporary, aesthetics and politics, transnationalism and translation, digital writing, European Jewish literature, literary and cultural theory, theories of the novel

Ken Goldberg in front of a projection of robotic arm

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

robotics, art, social media, new media, automation