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Anne Nesbet

Dept of Film and Media

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

culture, film studies, Slavic languages, early Soviet culture, Sergei Eisenstein, silent film, Soviet film, GDR history, children's literature & Stalinism, the Soviet Union

17th and 18th century French literature and culture, history and theory of the novel, quantitative literary history and digital humanities, history of aesthetics, cinema (French New Wave)

Prasad Raghavendra in outdoor setting

Prasad Raghavendra

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

theory(THY), optimization, complexity theory, approximation algorithms

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Roni Masel

Dept of Comparative Literature

Hebrew literature, Yiddish literature, Jewish history, queer theory, postcolonial theory

Dept of Ethnic Studies

interdisciplinary Native American studies, Alaska Native studies, cultural studies, gender studies, American studies, literary and visual culture

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

C. Greig Crysler

C. Greig Crysler

Dept of Architecture

architecture, geopolitics of architectural discourse, globalization and social production of the built environment, architecture and identity

Haas School of Business

social networks, entrepreneurship, innovation, strategy

Martin P. Head-Gordon

Martin P. Head-Gordon

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical chemistry, electronic structure calculations, development of novel theories and algorithms, quantum mechanics

Olga Matich

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Slavic languages and literatures, Russian symbolism and post-Stalin literature, women in Russian literature, Zinaida Gippius, Russian emigre literature, conceptualization of love in Russian culture, theory and practice of private life

Kevin J. O'Brien

Dept of Political Science

social movements, Chinese politics, peasant politics

Patrice Douglass

Patrice D. Douglass

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black feminist theory, Afro-pessimism, feminist philosophy, gender and sexual violence, feminist legal theory, legal theory, political philosophy, Black political thought

School of Education

resilience, risk, culture, teacher wellness, school climate, school violence and school climate, children and adolescents, mental health, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

Venkatesan Guruswami

Venkatesan Guruswami

Dept of Mathematics

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

theoretical computer science, coding theory, approximate optimization, randomness in computation, computational complexity

Nadia Ellis seated on an easy chair looking at the camera

Nadia Ellis

Dept of English

Black diaspora literature and culture, Caribbean, gender and sexuality

Timothy Hampton in an outdoor setting

Timothy Hampton

Dept of Comparative Literature

culture, politics, English, comparative literature, popular music, history of emotion, French, renaissance and early modern European culture, the romance languages, the ideology of literary genre, the literary construction of nationhood, the rhetoric of historiography

Constantin Teleman

Constantin Teleman

Dept of Mathematics

algebraic geometry, Lie groups, topology, topological quantum field theory

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Dept of Rhetoric

Classical Studies, classical reception studies, philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Auerbach, Jewish intellectual thought

Gabriel Goldberg

Gabriel Goldberg

Dept of Mathematics

set theory, large cardinals, inner model theory, infinite combinatorics

Samuel Lucas at podium

Dept of Sociology

research methods, demography, sociology, social stratification, sociology of education, research statistics

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Daniel Lee

Dept of Political Science

political theory, history of political thought, jurisprudence

Timothy Tangherlini

Timothy Tangherlini

Dept of Scandinavian

School of Information

folklore, Danish culture, Danish cinema, Danish literature, 19th and 20th Century Scandinavian literature, digital humanities, culture analysis, machine learning, networks, Korean culture, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship

Avishay Tal

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

theory(THY), complexity theory, analysis of Boolean functions, randomness in computation, quantum computation

Mariane C. Ferme

Dept of Anthropology

Material culture and agrarian landscapes, gender, historical anthropology, Sierra Leone, contemporary Africa, political culture, transitional justice in post-conflict societies

Abhay Aneja

law and economics, law and society, consumer law and protection, international and comparative law, racial and social justice