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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

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Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial genome inheritance, organelle assembly, DNA replication, cell metabolism, interactions between membrane-bound organelles

Joanna M Picciotto

Joanna M Picciotto

Dept of English

Renaissance literature, early modern literature, 18th century British literature

Denis Titov

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

metabolism, aging, systems biology, computational biology

Steven N. Evans

Dept of Mathematics

Dept of Statistics

large random combinatorial structures, random matrices, superprocesses & other measure-valued processes, probability on algebraic structures -particularly local fields, applications of stochastic processes to biodemography, mathematical finance, population genetics, phylogenetics & historical linguistics

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

interactions between bacteria and their viral predators

Christopher Kutz

Christopher Kutz

criminal law, moral, legal and political philosophy

Reed Walker with arms crossed and natural background setting

Reed Walker

Dept of Economics

Haas School of Business

environmental economics, public economics, labor economics

Dylan John Riley

Dylan John Riley

Dept of Sociology

political sociology, comparative historical sociology, social theory

Ann Swidler

Dept of Sociology

religion, culture, Africa, AIDS, political sociology, theory, development, NGOs, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

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Dept of Political Science

political science, social policy, comparative political economy, West European politics, French politics, relationship between partisanship and welfare reform in contemporary Western Europe

William (Bill) D. Thompson

Dept of Psychology

cognition, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, learning, Problem solving, Reasoning, decision-making, Bayesian statistics, natural language processing, machine learning, computational modeling, collective decision-making, social networks

Anna Stilz

Dept of Political Science

history of political thought, nationalism, collective agency, migration, environmental and climate justice

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Krishna K. Niyogi

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

genetics, plant and microbial biology, algae, photosynthesis, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, carbon sequestration

Justin Bashares in lab with taxidermy animals

Justin Brashares

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

wildlife, biodiversity, ecology, conservation, sustainability, climate change, human livelihoods

Dept of Sociology

sociology

Susan Maslan in crowded interior space

French, early modern French literary, political history, the enlightenment, human rights

Robert A. Kagan

Dept of Political Science

environmental law, corporations, labor law, labor relations

David Card

Dept of Economics

education, immigration, unemployment, inequality, race and gender, program evaluation

Dept of Political Science

American politics, political behavior, political psychology, public opinion, voting and elections, political socialization, research design and empirical methods

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

School of Education

biostatistics, educational statistics, latent variable models, missing data methods, multilevel models, generalized linear latent and mixed models, hierarchical models, longitudinal data, Item response models, structural equation models

Todd Hickey

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

classics, papyrology, Greek, Egyptian, social and economic history, late antiquity

School of Education

ideologies and discourses in education, education

Teresa Caldeira

Teresa Caldeira

Dept of City & Regional Planning

urbanization in the global south, peripheries: urban violence and spatial segregation, urban change, ethnography and qualitative methods

Haas School of Business

behavior economics, economic analysis, Online Markets, economics, strategy

School of Social Welfare

civic participation, community based research, visual methods, aging, immigration, Latinx older adults, Black older adults, intersectional life course perspective, systems of oppression, access to healthcare