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Tadiwa Madenga

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

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

Doris Tsao

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

visual perception

Oskar Hallatschek

Dept of Physics

biophysics, evolutionary dynamics, soft matter, statistical physics, theory and experiments

Jinsoo An

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Korean cinema, Korean culture

Joseph L. Napoli

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

metabolism, nutritional biochemistry, fat-soluble vitamins, retinoids, retinoic acid, retinol, vitamin A, vitamin D, analytical biochemistry

Koushil Sreenath

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

nonlinear control, Legged Robotics, Aerial Robotics

Eric Betzig

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Physics

imaging microscopy, biophysics

Paula Varsano

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

classical Chinese poetry and poetics (3rd-11th centuries), traditional Chinese literary theory, phenomenology, translation, comparative literature, aesthetics, epistemology

Amy E. Herr in foreground with microfluidic data in background

Amy Herr

Dept of Bioengineering

microfluidics, bioanalytical separations, diagnostics, electrokinetic transport, engineering design

Eli Yablonovitch

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

optoelectronics, physical electronics, high speed optical communications, nanocavity lasers, photonic crystals at optical and microwave frequencies, quantum computing and communication

Steven Kahn

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, cosmology, optical astrophysics

Michael Pollan

School of Journalism

agriculture, environment, obesity, science, nutrition, journalism, food, cooking, gardening

Liz Gálvez

Dept of Architecture

design, architecture and environment, materials, heating and cooling, building technologies, sustainable design

Janet Napolitano

Goldman School of Public Policy

education, leadership and management, politics

Janelle Scott

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

Leti Volpp

School of Law

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

Michael Mascuch

Dept of Rhetoric

rhetoric, photography, autobiography, narrative and culture, media and society, documentation, early modern Britain

James Quail leaning over a park sign that reads "QUAIL"

James Q. Davies

Dept of Music

19th century music, political ecology, performance studies, pianism, vocal knowledge, medical anthropology, historical materialism

Khiara Bridges standing in an outdoor setting.

Khiara M. Bridges

School of Law

race, class, reproductive rights

David Harding

Dept of Sociology

poverty, inequality, causal inference, mixed methods, incarceration, prisoner reentry, education, neighborhoods, urban, community, adolescence, public impact research/scholarship

Kenneth Ayotte

School of Law

bankruptcy, corporate finance, law and economics

Robert J. Full

Dept of Integrative Biology

energetics, comparative biomechanics, arthropod, adhesion, comparative physiology, locomotion, neuromechanics, biomimicry, biological inspiration, reptile, gecko, amphibian, robots, artificial muscles

Junko Habu

Dept of Anthropology

Japan, anthropology, archaeology, climate change, sustainability, East Asia, Jomon hunter-gatherers

Frances Hellman

Dept of Physics

condensed matter physics and materials science

Joseph Orenstein

Dept of Physics

optical properties of quantum materials, magnetism, superconductivity, spin transport

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