Daniel Klein Division of Computer Science (EECS) unsupervised language acquisition, efficient algorithms for NLP, linguistically rich models of language, integrating symbolic and statistical methods for NLP, organization of the web, machine translation, information extraction
Carolina Reid Dept of City & Regional Planning Affordable housing, homelessness, access to credit, community development, the Community Reinvestment Act, neighborhood change, homeownership and mortgage finance (with a focus on low-income and minority households)
David Montejano Dept of Ethnic Studies social change, historical sociology, political sociology, community studies, race & ethnic relations
Rhiannon Noel Welch Dept of Italian Studies Italian literature, film and media, Italian colonialism, critical theories of race and racialization, borders and mobilities, biopolitics, postcolonial and decolonial theory
Leti Volpp School of Law citizenship, law and culture, identity (especially race and gender), immigration and migration, Asian American studies
Desmond Jagmohan Dept of Political Science history of political thought, American political thought, African American political thought, race and American political development
Rucker Johnson Goldman School of Public Policy labor and employment, race, poverty, inequality, economics of education, health disparities, social welfare policy
Stephanie Zonszein Dept of Political Science immigrant integration, intergroup relations, causal inference, race and ethnic politics, political behavior
Michael Mascarenhas Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management environmental justice, critical race theory, Post-colonial theory, Science and Technology studies
Patricia Baquedano-López School of Education migration, diaspora, Indigenous language revitalization, decolonization, race and language, qualitative methods, ethnography
Poulomi Saha Dept of English Asian American studies, critical theory, postcolonial theory, spirituality, comparative race and gender, cults
Lisa Garcia Bedolla School of Education Dept of Political Science politics, immigration, race, gender, inequality, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships
Matthew Welch Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology biology, cell motility, the role of the actin cytoskeleton in cell locomotion, shape change, actin filament assembly, bacterial and viral pathogens
Koushik Sen Division of Computer Science (EECS) computer science, programming systems, software engineering, programming languages, computational logic, software testing, verification, model checking, runtime monitoring, performance evaluation
Miryam Sas Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Dept of Film and Media 20th century avant-gardes, Japanese literature, film, theater and dance, East Asia, media theory, contemporary art, critical theory, gender theory, memory studies
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
Keith Feldman Dept of Ethnic Studies critical theory, U.S. cultural studies, Israel-Palestine, theories of race and ethnicity, comparative diaspora studies, public humanities
Estelle Tarica Dept of Spanish and Portuguese Latin America, Jewish Latin America, Andes, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Guatemala, Holocaust, genocide, race, nationalism, Spanish, mestizaje, indigeneity, Quechua
Lisa Armstrong School of Journalism incarceration, race, Haiti, imprisonment, prisons and policing, prisons, mental illness, mental health, juvenile delinquency
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
Anna Livia Brand Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning urban planning, urban design, community development, environmental planning, racial geographies, race and urban development, citizen participation
Lawrence Hall Dept of Physics physics, standard model of particle physics, symmetries of nature, the symmetry of the electroweak interaction, spacetime symmetries: weak scale supersymmetry, constrained theories for the quark and charged lepton masses, supersymmetric theory
Yaniv Konchitchki Haas School of Business Monetary economics, macroeconomics, macro-finance, Financial-based solutions to world’s grand challenges, capital markets research, financial accounting, FinTech, financial technology and innovation, financial statement analysis, asset pricing, macro-accounting
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
Janelle Scott School of Education Dept of African American Studies educational policy, charter schools, politics of education, race and education, school choice, desegregation, philanthropy and education, advocacy
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