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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

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

Aarti Sethi

Dept of Anthropology

agrarian anthropology, ruralism, feminist anthropology, political economy, Comparative Religion, South Asia, debt and capitalism, climate change, cinema and media culture, caste, socio-economic inequality, the politics of knowledge, multi-species ethnography

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

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

James Q. Davies

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

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

Lok Siu

Dept of Ethnic Studies

diaspora, transnational migration, un/belonging and citizenship, racial/ethnic/gender formation, food, ethnography, Chinese diaspora, hemispheric Asian American studies

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

Dept of African American Studies

African American history, Black feminist theory, carceral studies, disability studies, racial formation in Arabic-speaking communities

Haas School of Business

housing price indices, real estate price dynamics, mortgage valuation models: prepayment and default, mortgage contract design, mortgage backed security trading and valuation, executive stock option valuation, energy efficient mortgage underwriting, climate risk

Deborah Orel-Bixler

Deborah Orel-Bixler

School of Optometry

optometry, vision science, visual abilities in infants, children and special-needs population, visual evoked potentials, vision screening, photorefraction

Olga Holtz

Dept of Mathematics

numerical analysis, matrix and operator theory, approximation theory, wavelets and splines, orthogonal polynomials and special functions, analysis of algorithms and computational complexity

Frederic Theunissen

Frederic Theunissen

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

behavior, cognition, brain, psychology, birdsong, vocal learning, audition, neurophysiology, speech perception, computational neuroscience, theoretical neuroscience

Goldman School of Public Policy

School of Social Welfare

psychology, mental health, criminal justice, risk assessment, intervention

Dept of Anthropology

anthropology, historical archaeology, oral history, material culture and ethnic identity, family and gender relations, North America, Northern California, Caribbean, Bahamas, African consumerism, creolization, multi-ethnic community

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

Ken Ueno

music composition, decolonizing music, noise, sound installations, music of Japan, extended vocal techniques, overtone singing, musical culture of Japan, experimental improvisation

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

biogeochemistry, iron reduction, metals and contaminants, soil aggregates, selenium kinetics of organic matter degradation, nitrate reduction, soil and environmental biogeophysics, biogeochemical cycles, fate and transport of nutrients, sulfate reduction, wetland soils, littoral sediments, spatial variation in biogeochemical processes

Stephanie L Canizales

Dept of Sociology

international migration, immigrant integration, inequality and mobility, qualitative methods, children-youth-and families

Sarah Anzia wearing brown blazer in outside environment

Sarah Anzia

Dept of Political Science

Goldman School of Public Policy

American politics, public policy, interest groups, state politics, local politics, election timing, voter turnout, public pensions, public sector unions, collective bargaining

Mark Sandberg sitting in outside setting

Dept of Film and Media

Dept of Scandinavian

silent film, late nineteenth-century visual culture, theater history, comedy, Scandinavian design, serial television, film historiography, Scandinavian film history, Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian literature, Nordic literary history

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, infrastructure, soil/structure interaction, monitoring, heritage conservation, masonry structures

artificial intelligence, law and technology, intellectual property law, contemporary art and law, gender and sexuality

Dept of Statistics

fragmentation, statistics, mathematics, Brownian motion, distribution theory, path transformations, stochastic processes, local time, excursions, random trees, random partitions, processes of coalescence

Pradeep Chhibber

Pradeep Chhibber

Dept of Political Science

political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India

Dr. Worrell with CAL Prep Students

Frank C. Worrell

School of Education

development, education, cognition, academic talent development, adolescence, African American, at-risk youth, English-speaking Caribbean, ethnic identity, gifted, psychosocial development, racial identity, school psychology, teacher effectiveness, Trinidad and Tobago, time perspective