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Department

Jacob (Jake) Grumbach

Goldman School of Public Policy

democracy, labor and employment, racial justice, quantitative methods, public policy, political economy, federalism

Mahasin Mujahid

Mahasin Mujahid

School of Public Health

Multi-level determinants of racial/ethnic health disparities, neighborhood environments and cardiovascular health, breast cancer treatment and survivorship Methods in social epidemiology, population health

Dept of Geography

geography as history of the present and as earthly/oceanic writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic studies, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean

Nikki Jones Head Shot

Nikki Jones

Dept of African American Studies

African American communities, policing, racial/gender disparities and the criminal justice system, violence and violence interventions

Nathaniel Wolfson

Nathaniel Wolfson

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Brazilian literature and culture, Latin American literature and culture, Latin American Art History, media studies, critical theory, environmental humanities, Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, visual studies

Anna Livia Brand

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

urban planning, urban design, community development, environmental planning, racial geographies, race and urban development, citizen participation

Professor David C. Wilson on stage

David C. Wilson

Goldman School of Public Policy

political psychology, politics, race and public policy, race, racial justice, public opinion research, survey research methods

Brandi Catanese

Brandi Wilkins Catanese

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

critical race theory, African American theater, non-traditional casting, racial performativity, gender studies, sexuality studies, American popular culture

Andrew Wooyoung Kim

Andrew Wooyoung Kim

Dept of Anthropology

intergenerational trauma, culture and mental health, psychiatric epidemiology, stress physiology, epigenetics, developmental origins of health and disease, biocultural anthropology, racial justice, critical and decolonial approaches to biological anthropology

Michael Frenklach

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

chemical kinetics, computer modeling, uncertainty quantification, combustion chemistry, pollutant formation (carbon black, soot), chemical vapor deposition of diamond films, homogeneous nucleation of silicon, diamond and graphene, diamond powders; interstellar dust formation

Dept of Psychology

attention, curiosity, learning, computational modeling, cognitive development, machine learning, belief formation

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

planetary science, theoretical astrophysics, dynamics, planet formation, circumstellar disks

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, black hole, dark matter, cosmology, formation and evolution of galaxies, cosmic microwave background radiation

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

cosmology, formation of structure in the universe, dark energy, expansion of the universe, cosmic microwave background, quasars, redshift surveys

Lange faculty portrait

Henrike C. Lange

Dept of History of Art

art, architecture, literature, afterlife of antiquity, middle ages & Renaissance / early modern age, Giotto, Donatello, Mantegna, Botticelli, Raphael, 19th and 20th century historiography, Aby Warburg, total solar eclipses, theology, creativity and interdisciplinarity

Dept of Physics

physics, theoretical condensed matter, topological phase transitions, high-temperature superconductivity, organization principles enabling microscopic degrees of freedom to behave cooperatively, matter and their formation mechanisms, low dimensional quantum magnets, strongly correlated Fermi and Bose fluids

Prof. Jessica Lu and the Keck Observatory Laser-Guided Adaptive Optics System.

Jessica Lu

Dept of Astronomy

black holes, star and cluster formation, galactic centers, adaptive optics, astronomy, instrumentation, infrared instrumentation, astrometry

Dept of Sociology

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

Shannon Jackson

Shannon Jackson

Dept of History of Art

Dept of Rhetoric

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

rhetoric, performance studies, American studies, 20th century art movements and critical theory, local culture and intercultural citizenship in turn-of-the-century United States, history and theory of theatre and performance art

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

Alessandro Chiesa

Alessandro Chiesa

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

security, theory(THY)

Reinhard Genzel

Dept of Physics

physics, existence and formation of black holes in galactic nuclei, the nature of the power source, the evolution of (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies, gas dynamics, the fueling of active galactic nuclei, the properties evolution of starburst galaxies

Kurt C. Organista

Kurt C. Organista

School of Social Welfare

social welfare, race/ethnicity, HIV prevention, social behavior

Tom McEnaney in outside setting

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Latin American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, media studies, radio, 20th century American literature, architecture, linguistic anthropology, digital humanities

School of Social Welfare

social welfare, comparative welfare state analysis, child welfare, evaluation research, family policy, social security