Micah Khater Dept of African American Studies African American history, Black feminist theory, carceral studies, disability studies, racial formation in Arabic-speaking communities
Jonathan Zwicker Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan
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
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
Stephen Best Dept of English film, English literature, African American literature, literary culture, legal culture
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
Greg Niemeyer Dept of Art Practice art, digital media installations, photography, data science, new technology, video games
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Dept of History slavery, African-American History, Women's History, Women and the Law, Slavery and the Law
Desmond Jagmohan Dept of Political Science history of political thought, American political thought, African American political thought, race and American political development
G. Ugo Nwokeji Dept of African American Studies Atlantic slave trade, historical demography, African history and political economy, oil and gas policy
Stephen Small Dept of African American Studies public history, African diaspora in Europe, British imperialism, community-engaged research/scholarship
Bruno Olshausen Dept of Neuroscience School of Optometry visual perception, computational neuroscience, computational vision
Lilla Balint Dept of German 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 Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research robotics, art, social media, new media, automation
Shari Huhndorf Dept of Ethnic Studies interdisciplinary Native American studies, Alaska Native studies, cultural studies, gender studies, American studies, literary and visual culture
Scott Saul Dept of English 20th and 21st century American literature, African American literature, cultural studies, drama, film
Deborah Orel-Bixler School of Optometry optometry, vision science, visual abilities in infants, children and special-needs population, visual evoked potentials, vision screening, photorefraction
Robert Sharf 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
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
Xin Liu Dept of Anthropology history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, social/cultural anthropology, comparative societies, capitalism and culture, America and China/East Asia
Mariane C. Ferme Dept of Anthropology Material culture and agrarian landscapes, gender, historical anthropology, Sierra Leone, contemporary Africa, political culture, transitional justice in post-conflict societies
Dennis M. Levi School of Optometry optometry, vision science, pattern vision, abnormal visual development
William White Dept of Anthropology historical archaeology, African American archaeology, historic preservation, heritage conservation, community based participatory research