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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

adaptation, evolutionary biology, genomics, genetics, toxicology, insect biology, plant biology, microbiology, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing

Archaeologists confer at the Yarumela site in Honduras

Rosemary A. Joyce

Dept of Anthropology

Latin America, anthropology, cultural heritage, gender, archaeology, sexuality, museums, ethics, Central America, feminism

Sydnee Caldwell

Sydnee Caldwell

Dept of Economics

Haas School of Business

personnel economics, labor economics, gender wage gap, applied microeconomics

Catherine Albiston

Catherine Albiston

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Dept of Sociology

inequality, social change, law, employment, legal profession, public interest law, community-engaged research/scholarship, gender, work and family issues

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William M Burton

French literature, gender, sexuality, intellectual history, translation studies, Quebec studies, feminism

Clayton J. Radke

Clayton J. Radke

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, surface & colloid science technology, protein/polymer/surfactant adsorption from solution, two-phase enzymatic catalysis, interfacial surfactant transport, electrokinetics, pore-level fluid mechanics, contact-lens & eye mechanics

Patrice Douglass

Patrice D. Douglass

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black feminist theory, Afro-pessimism, feminist philosophy, gender and sexual violence, feminist legal theory, legal theory, political philosophy, Black political thought

Steven E. Brenner

Steven E. Brenner

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

molecular biology, computational biology, evolutionary biology, bioengineering, structural genomics, computational genomics, cellular activity, cellular functions, personal genomics

Dept of English

critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, Pacific, 19th century British literature, cultural studies

photo of Tadiwa Madenga

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

African and Black diaspora literature, gender and sexuality, print culture, Festival and Carnival Studies

Patrick Hsu in the lab

Patrick Hsu

Dept of Bioengineering

generative biology, language models, virtual cell models, genome mining and editing, synthetic biology, AI agents for science

Leti Volpp

citizenship, law and culture, identity (especially race and gender), immigration and migration, Asian American studies

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian literatures and cinema, gender and sexuality studies, environmental humanities and media theory

Terry E. Machen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

physiology pathophysiology secretory epithelial cells, airway, ion transport, cell regulationm, imaging microscopy, calcium pH redox, electrophysiology, green fluorescent protein, genetic targeting, innate immune defense

Professor Gronert in Front of a Mass Spectrometer

Karsten Gronert

School of Optometry

inflammatory diseases, innate immune responses, lipid mediators, lipidomics, leukocytes, inflammatory resolution, eicosanoids, omega-3 PUFA, Dry Eye, lipxoygenase, cycloooxygenase, resolution pharmacology, neuroprotection, adaptive immunity, glaucoma

Damon Young standing in front of book shelves full of reading material

Damon Young

Dept of Film and Media

film theory, digital media, global art cinema, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory

Jorge Otero-Millan

Jorge Otero-Millan

School of Optometry

ocular motor control, vision while moving, measuring eye movements, eye movements for diagnosis

Poulomi Saha standing in front of decorative wood panels, hands in pockets

Dept of English

Asian American studies, critical theory, postcolonial theory, spirituality, comparative race and gender, cults

artificial intelligence, law and technology, intellectual property law, contemporary art and law, gender and sexuality

Dean Toste

Dept of Chemistry

organometallic chemistry, organic, development of new synthetic methods, enantioselective catalysts, strategies for the synthesis of natural products, synthesis of complex molecules, formation of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds, olefins, Supramolecular Chemistry, redox flow batteries, medicinal chemistry, bioconjugation, homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, biomass, fluorination

Heather Haveman

Heather Haveman

Dept of Sociology

Haas School of Business

organizations, economic sociology, entrepreneurship, China, careers and social mobility, gender, social history

Susanna Elm

Dept of History

history of the Later Roman Empire, pagan - Christian interactions, ancient medicine, slavery and the evolution of Christianity, leadership and empire, gender and imperial rule, reception of antiquity

Cover image of Disorientation: France, Vietnam, and the Ambivalence of Interculturality

Karl Britto

Dept of Comparative Literature

Africa, cultural studies, the Caribbean, literature, francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial literature, Vietnam, gender and identity