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Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

carbon removal, climate change mitigation, nature based climate solutions, forest management, biofuels, plantation agriculture, land use planning, land use policy, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, tropical ecology, environmental economics, public impact research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships

Reinhard Genzel

Dept of Physics

physics, existence and formation of black holes in galactic nuclei, the nature of the power source, the evolution of (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies, gas dynamics, the fueling of active galactic nuclei, the properties evolution of starburst galaxies

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

algorithms, fluid mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, atmospheric flows, convection, ocean flows, numerical analysis, wind energy, Bayesian optimization, neural networks, turbulence, planet formation, internal gravity waves, inertial waves, desalination, protoplanetary disks

Fiona McFarlane

Fiona McFarlane

Dept of English

Creative Writing, narrative and the novel, the short story

Dept of Anthropology

historical archaeology, African American archaeology, historic preservation, heritage conservation, community based participatory research

Paolo D'Odorico wearing a blue shirt, with unfocused greenery in background

Paolo D'Odorico

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

hydrology, ecohydrology, water resources, Water and Society, environmental sciences, Drylands, Desertification

Elena A. Schneider

Elena A. Schneider

Dept of History

Latin America, Caribbean, Atlantic World, cuba, comparative colonialism and slavery

Alex Zettl

Dept of Physics

physics, condensed matter physics, fullerenes, condensed matter experiments, characterize novel materials with unusual electronic and magnetic ground states, low-dimensional and nanoscale structures, superconductors, giant magnetoresistance materials, nanotubes, graphene, boron nitride nanostructures, neural probes, NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems)

Dept of History

Dept of History

Russia, Late Modern Europe

Yumi Kim

Dept of History

Japan, Korea, women's studies, gender studies, medicine, religion, colonialism, Asian diaspora

Stacey Van Vleet

Stacey Van Vleet

Dept of History

Tibet, Inner Asia

Dept of History

Africa

Thomas Dandelet

Thomas Dandelet

Dept of History

Renaissance Italy and Europe, Spanish Empire, early modern Mediterranean

Dept of History of Art

ancient art, Modern Art, art theory

Diliana Angelova

Diliana Angelova

Dept of History

Dept of History of Art

late antique art, Byzantine art, gender, representations of Roman imperial power, the emperor Constantine, the Virgin Mary, Roman art and visual culture, ancient Mediterranean cities, textiles, ivories, mythology in Byzantine art, romantic love in antiquity and the middle ages

Dept of History of Art

global modern art, modern and contemporary South and Southeast Asian art

Zamansele Nsele standing in outdoor setting

Zamansele Nsele

Dept of History of Art

modern & contemporary African diaspora visual art, modern & contemporary African visual art, Black art, Black & African feminisms, critical theories of Blackness, African modernism, theories of nostalgia and melancholia, visual activism

Jun Hu

Dept of History of Art

Chinese art and architecture

Todd Olson

Dept of History of Art

early modern art

Dept of History of Art

global modern art, the Middle East, theories of decolonization, visual culture, contemporary art

Dept of History

Christine Hastorf

Christine Hastorf

Dept of Anthropology

anthropology, archaeology, paleoethnobotany/archaeobotany, ancient plant use, foodways, Andean South America, indigenous ontologies, agriculture

Gloria Brar

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

meiosis, translation, sORFs, stress responses