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Michael J. Austin

School of Social Welfare

strategic planning, social welfare, social service management, organizational development

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Dept of English

feminist theory, psychoanalysis, British and American Modernism, Virginia Woolf, race and gender

David Card

Dept of Economics

education, immigration, unemployment, inequality, race and gender, program evaluation

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Courtney Desiree Morris

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black women's social movement, state violence and authoritarianism, racial formations in Latin American, racial formations in the Caribbean, racial formations in the U.S., feminist and queer theory, environmental ethics, Black visual culture and aestetics

Leti Volpp

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

Cori Hayden

Dept of Anthropology

Latin America, Mexico, social and cultural anthropology, kinship, anthropology of science, technology, medicine, post-colonial science, gender, queer studies

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

performance history/historiography, British performance 1650-1800, British literature 1650-1800, disability, gender, social geography, set design

School of Social Welfare

poverty and inequality, Social Safety Net Programs, Unemployment and Labor Studies, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, social justice research

Andrew Scharlach

Andrew Scharlach

School of Social Welfare

aging, social welfare, family issues, aging-friendly communities, long-term care policies

Sandra Eder

Dept of History

gender, sexuality, medicine, science, US History 20th century, popular culture

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

Laura C. Nelson

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

gender and medicine and politics, breast cancer in South Korea, cultural impacts of ultra-low fertility, demographic undertow, structures on cultural temporality and anti-poverty policies in the U.S. and South Korea

School of Social Welfare

adolescent violence and victimization, polyvictimization rates among vulnerable adolescents, bullying involvement roles and mental health, sexual orientation and gender identity microaggressions, impact of family-level microaggressions and microaffirmations on mental health, disability, anti-ableism

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

Isha Ray

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

water and development, sanitation and development, gender and technology and society

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Islam (social and intellectual history)

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

Eric A. Stanley

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

critical prison studies, queer/trans social movements, anti-colonial feminism, gentrification, California housing market, critical theory

Emmeline Chuang

Emmeline Chuang

School of Social Welfare

inter-organizational relationships, frontline health and human service workers, implementation science, coordination of health and social services

Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton

Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton

Dept of Psychology

diversity, intergroup relations, education, prejudice, stigma

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Laura Kray

Haas School of Business

gender, negotiations, stereotypes, decision making, mindsets, motivated cognition

School of Social Welfare

mental health, social welfare, race/ethnicity, organization of health services

Martin Sánchez-Jankowski

Martín Sánchez-Jankowski

Dept of Sociology

crime, sociology of poverty, sociology of violence, race and ethnic relations

Dept of Ethnic Studies

relational race studies, literatures of Asian Americans and Latinxs

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Catherine Ceniza Choy

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American history, Filipino American studies, race and gender, migration, nursing history, adoption studies, public impact research/scholarship, social justice research