Ula Y. Taylor Dept of African American Studies 20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism
Roshanak Kheshti Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies race, gender, queer theory, anthropology, sound studies, film, performance studies, diaspora, psychoanalysis
Michael Nylan Dept of History gender, history, East Asian studies, early China, the fifth century BC to the fifth century AD, with an emphasis on the sociopolitical context, aesthetic theories and material culture, belief
Iggy Cortez Dept of Film and Media world cinema, contemporary art, global cities, aesthetic theory, global cinema, transnationalism and diaspora, night, cinema, Indie Film, screen performance, acting, asian art, asian-american art, asian diasporic culture, psychoanalysis, affect theory
Desiree Fields Dept of Geography economic geography, urban theory, financialization, digital platforms, property, geographical political economy, housing justice, digital capitalism
Cindy Cox Dept of Music composition, music analysis and theory, post-tonal music, piano, music and live electronics, text-setting
Nicholas Dirks Dept of Anthropology Dept of History History and anthropology of South Asia, social and cultural theory, history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, globalization
Alan Tansman Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Modern Japanese Literature, literary and cultural theory, aesthetics and politics, Comparative Responses to Violence, literary history
Joseph Farrell Dept of Economics economics, price theory models of anticompetitive exclusive dealing, switching costs, network effects, formal standardization
Matthew Shutzer Dept of History environmental history, modern South Asia, energy history, Science and Technology studies, histories of development and decolonization, empire, political economy, comparative history, historical sociology, social theory
Marvin L. Cohen Dept of Physics nanoscience, semiconductors, nanotechnology, physics, condensed matter physics, new properties of condensed matter systems, superconductivity, applications of BCS theory, superluminal velocities
Leslie Salzinger Dept of Gender and Women's Studies sociology of gender, capitalism, theories of neoliberalism, political economy, Gender and Work, Latin America, Mexico, ethnography, Marxian political economy, social reproduction
Micah Khater Dept of African American Studies African American history, Black feminist theory, carceral studies, disability studies, racial formation in Arabic-speaking communities
James Casey Dept of Bioengineering Dept of Mechanical Engineering continuum mechanics, finite elasticity, continuum thermodynamics, plasticity, theories of elastic-plastic materials, history of mechanics, dynamics
Xin Liu Dept of Anthropology history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, social/cultural anthropology, comparative societies, capitalism and culture, America and China/East Asia
Judith Butler Dept of Comparative Literature critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature, 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, social and political thought, philosophy and literature
Xiao-Jun Zhang Haas School of Business security valuation, financial statement analysis, accounting theory, corporate disclosure, auditing, international accounting, machine learning and asset pricing
Ian Duncan Dept of English English, the novel, British literature 1750-1900, Scottish literature, history and theory of fiction, Scottish enlightenment/romanticism, Scott, literature and the human sciences, Darwin
Alexei Yurchak Dept of Anthropology social and political theory, communism and post-communism, language philosophy, the image, the body, avant-garde artistic experiments, science studies, ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society
Edward A. Lee Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) Cyber-Physical Systems, embedded software, modeling and design of systems, real-time and concurrent system, theory of current systems
Xin Guo Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research stochastic control and games, theory of machine learning and applications to medical and financial data analysis, applied probability and stochastic models
Ernesto Dal Bó Haas School of Business applied microeconomic theory, political economy, corruption and influence, collective decision-making, coercion, quality of politicians, state capabilities
Marc A. Rieffel Dept of Mathematics mathematics, operator algebras, non-commutative geometry, non-commutative harmonic analysis, quantum geometry, quantum information theory
Masayoshi Tomizuka Dept of Mechanical Engineering robotics, mechatronics, control systems theory, digital control, dynamic systems, mechanical vibrations, adaptive and optimal control, motion control
David J. Steigmann Dept of Mechanical Engineering finite elasticity, mechanics, continuum, shell theory, variational methods, stability, surface stress, capillary phenomena, mechanics of thin films