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poverty

James Midgley

School of Social Welfare

development, social development, social policy, community development, International social welfare, global poverty and inequality

Dana Miller-Cotto

School of Education

educational equity, early childhood education, cognitive processes, early math learning, social contexts of education

Calvin Morrill smiling

sociology of law, organizational theory, ethnography, social movements, youth culture and conflict, sociology of culture, entrepreneurship

Ekédi Mpondo-Dika

Dept of Sociology

emotions, poverty, family and personal relationships, mental health

Laura C. Nelson

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

gender and medicine and politics, breast cancer in South Korea, cultural impacts of ultra-low fertility, demographic undertow, structures on cultural temporality and anti-poverty policies in the U.S. and South Korea

field work

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

disease transmission, water, public health surveillance, zoonotic infectious disease, community-acquired antimicrobial resistance

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john powell

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Civil rights and civil liberties, structural racialization, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, and the needs of citizens in a democratic society

Gautam Rao

Dept of Economics

Haas School of Business

economics of mental health, developing countries

Steven Raphael

Goldman School of Public Policy

crime, public policy, employment discrimination, labor economics, racial inequality, urban economics, and criminal justice policy

Carolina Reid

Dept of City & Regional Planning

Affordable housing, homelessness, access to credit, community development, the Community Reinvestment Act, neighborhood change, homeownership and mortgage finance (with a focus on low-income and minority households)

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Tina Sacks

School of Social Welfare

racial disparities in health; social determinants of health; race, class and gender; and poverty and inequality.

Martin Sánchez-Jankowski

Martín Sánchez-Jankowski

Dept of Sociology

crime, sociology of poverty, sociology of violence, race and ethnic relations

Jeff Selbin

criminal justice reform, Access to Justice, legal services, community lawyering

Cihan Tugal

Cihan Tugal

Dept of Sociology

political sociology, social movements, religion, Islam and the Middle East, culture, poverty and class, social theory, ethnography

Laura D'Andrea Tyson

Laura D'Andrea Tyson

Dept of Economics

Haas School of Business

high-technology competition, US industrial and technology policies, international economy, US trade policy, US competitiveness, emerging market economies, multinational companies in the US economy, gender gap (economic participation, educational attainment, political empowerment and health), research and development tax credit

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Kim Voss

Dept of Sociology

sociology, labor, social movements, inequality, higher education

Loic Wacquant

Dept of Sociology

sociology