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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Dept of African American Studies

Atlantic slave trade, historical demography, African history and political economy, oil and gas policy

Jonathan Weigel

Haas School of Business

political economy, state capacity, development, corruption, taxation, religion

Dept of Philosophy

moral philosophy, political philosophy, practical reason, applied ethics

Dept of History

intellectual history of religion, politics and modern India, South Asia

Alan Tansman in outdoor setting

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Modern Japanese Literature, literary and cultural theory, aesthetics and politics, Comparative Responses to Violence, literary history

Guo Xu

Haas School of Business

development economics, political economy, Organizational Economics, economic history

Dept of History

20th century U.S. history, with a focus on political economy, civil rights, education, law, the west

Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

Dept of Sociology

race and ethnicity, sociology of knowledge and culture, Latinx politics and identify, political sociology, Du Boisian sociology, ethnographic methods, qualitative methods, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

John Lie

Dept of Sociology

social theory, political economy, East Asia

Raka Ray in outdoor setting

Raka Ray

Dept of Sociology

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

feminist theory, gender, masculinity, middle-class, social movements, South and Southeast Asian studies, relations between dominant subaltern groups in India, women¹s movements in India

Dept of Sociology

anticolonial politics, empire, racism, global and transnational sociology, historical sociology, social theory

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

A photograph of Abhishek Kaicker

Abhishek Kaicker

Dept of History

South Asia, Mughal, early modern, cities, history, Persian, India, politics, Asia

Yan Long

Dept of Sociology

globalization, social movements, authoritarian politics, international development, organizations, public health, technology

Louise Fortmann

Louise P. Fortmann

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

natural resource sociology, political ecology, rural development, gender

Aarti Sethi

Dept of Anthropology

agrarian anthropology, ruralism, feminist anthropology, political economy, Comparative Religion, South Asia, debt and capitalism, climate change, cinema and media culture, caste, socio-economic inequality, the politics of knowledge, multi-species ethnography

David Montejano

David Montejano

Dept of Ethnic Studies

social change, historical sociology, political sociology, community studies, race & ethnic relations

Dept of Anthropology

citizenship, Brazil, architecture, law, planning, the United States, cities, democracy, political and social anthropology, urban ethnography, the Americas

Edward Wasserman

Edward Wasserman

School of Journalism

media ethics, economics and politics of news, professional standards, media history, journalism, press

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

rhetoric, comparative literature, Renaissance literature, poetics, early modern political theory, the Frankfurt School

Carlos F. Noreña

Dept of History

Roman history

Mark Danner

Dept of English

School of Journalism

foreign affairs, voting and elections, journalism, Central America, politics, Balkans, Haiti, documentaries, terrorism, the Middle East, contemporary literature, modernist writers, contemporary literature and film

Marion Fourcade

Dept of Sociology

culture, social theory, political sociology, economic sociology, comparative methods, knowledge and science

Aila Matanock at work in Berkeley

Dept of Political Science

post-conflict elections, policing, peace processes, civil conflict, foreign intervention, armed actor governance, armed actor social support, counterinsurgency, survey experiments, mixed-method research design, Central America, Colombia, Solomon Islands, West Africa

Cailin Slattery

Haas School of Business

public finance, political economy, industrial organization, state and local government