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critical theory, aesthetics, literary theory, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin, 18th-20th century German thought, Hegel, Adorno

Ilan Adler

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

mathematical programming, computational game theory, applied probability

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Paola Bacchetta

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

transnational feminist and queer theory, decolonial feminist and queer theory, activisms / artivisms / practices / movements /alliances / right-wings, geographic specializations: U.S.; France; India; Italy; Brazil

Weihong Bao

Dept of Film and Media

late 19th century visual and performance culture, Chinese language cinema, transnational genre cinema, comparative media history and theory, propaganda theory and history(10988)

David Singh Grewal

David Singh Grewal

legal theory, political theory, intellectual history, global economic governance, international trade law, intellectual property law and biotechnology, law and economics

Nikita Zhivotovskiy

Dept of Statistics

mathematical statistics, applied probability, statistical learning theory

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

critical race theory, performance theory, American studies, U.S. histories of popular performance, U.S. urban development, globalization studies

Dept of Statistics

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

machine learning, statistical learning theory, adaptive control

Haas School of Business

microeconomic theory, Mechanism Design, experimental economics

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Gina Garcia

School of Education

educational equity, educational justice, organizational theory

Dylan John Riley

Dylan John Riley

Dept of Sociology

political sociology, comparative historical sociology, social theory

School of Education

Dept of Psychology

Problem solving, knowledge representation & reorganization, explanatory coherence & inference, conceptual change, societal implications, science instruction, global climate change psychology, numeracy in journalism, naïve/informal physics, computational models of cognition, perceptual-cognitive interactions, intelligent tutoring systems, understandings of biological evolution, Reasoning, qualitative & quantitative thinking

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

China, lyric poetry, Chinese literature, Chinese culture, poetic theory

Thomas Courtade

Thomas Courtade

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

information theory, probability, data compression, communications, computer science

Daena Funahashi

Daena Funahashi

Dept of Anthropology

Political anthropology, democratic theory, critical theory, Crisis of Legitimacy, stress, Burnout, death, the uncanny, economy of excess, scientific authority, Nordic Welfare, Southeast Asia

Petr Horava

Dept of Physics

cosmology, physics, quantum geometry, particle physics, string (and M-) theory, quantum gravity

Federico Echenique

Federico Echenique

Dept of Economics

economic theory, economics and computation, mathematical economics, discrete allocation problems

Dept of English

19th century British literature, critical theory, disability studies, poetry, Wordsworth, Carlyle, Hardy, Rousseau, the French Revolution, Marxist theory

Dept of Physics

condensed matter theory, Materials Physics, nanoscience, physical chemistry, Electronic Structure Theory, Transport, Hard-Soft Interfaces, Complex Oxides, renewable energy, energy conversion

Xueyin (Snow) Zhang sitting in a chair working on laptop

Xueyin (Snow) Zhang

Dept of Philosophy

Bayesian epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of probability, Chinese philosophy

Dept of Political Science

game theory, authoritarian politics, political beliefs, protest

Dept of Political Science

comparative politics, international relations, formal theory and methods

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Sara Guyer

Dept of English

19th century British, critical theory, poetry

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Dept of Political Science

comparative politics, methodology & formal theory, Latin America

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Djordje Popović

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literature, critical theory, comparative literature