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headshot of Laurie Wilkie Laurie Wilkie
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
Photo Jennifer Skeem
Goldman School of Public Policy
School of Social Welfare
psychology, mental health, criminal justice, risk assessment, intervention
Chunyan Yang Chunyan Yang
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
headshot of Christine Wildsoet smiling Christine Wildsoet
School of Optometry
optometry, vision science, myopia, refractive errors, accommodation, aberrations, eye growth, ocular therapeutics, optical myopia control, pharmacological myopia control, ocular tissue engineering, ocular stem cells, basic and clinical research with social implications
George A. Akerlof George A. Akerlof
Dept of Economics
macroeconomics, monetary theory, behavioral economics, sociology and economics, theory of unemployment, asymetric information, staggered contract theory, money demand, labor market flows, theory of business cycles, economics of social customs, measurement of unemployment, economics of discrimination
Philip B. Stark Philip B. Stark
Dept of Statistics
elections, astrophysics, law, statistics, litigation, causal inference, inverse problems, geophysics, uncertainty quantification, educational technology, soil science, race and gender bias and discrimination, nonparametrics, climate, natural disasters, sustainable food systems, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research, research in the public interest, active transportation, earthquake hazard mitigation, natural hazards
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz
Dept of Sociology
race and ethnicity, sociology of knowledge and culture, Latinx politics and identify, political sociology, Du Boisian sociology, ethnographic methods, qualitative methods, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research
Kristina Hill Kristina Hill
Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
landscape architecture and environmental planning, urban design, urban ecology, surface hydrology, groundwater, sea level rise, climate change, adaptation, environmental justice, adaptation to flooding, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, social justice research, client-based studio teaching, community-based studio teaching
Aila Matanock at work in Berkeley Aila Matanock
Dept of Political Science
post-conflict elections, policing, peace processes, civil conflict, foreign intervention, armed actor governance, armed actor social support, counterinsurgency, survey experiments, mixed-method research design, Central America, Colombia, Solomon Islands, West Africa
Pradeep Chhibber Pradeep Chhibber
Dept of Political Science
political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India
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Dept of Art Practice
art, sculpture, photography, archives, social practice, craft, activism, material culture, ceramics, digital culture, zines, alternative publishing, libraries, museums, museum display, postcolonial studies, Asian American studies, empire, textiles, ethnography, 1904 World's Fair, Filipino and Filipino American studies, whiteness studies, camouflage, DIY culture
headshot of Raja Sengupta Raja Sengupta
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
transportation, wireless communications, inertial navigation for vehicle systems
Andrew Garrett Andrew Garrett
Dept of Linguistics
linguistics, language change, Indo-European languages, historical linguistics, Indigenous California languages, Indigenous language revitalization
Professor Tackett in China examining a recently excavated ninth-century funerary epitaph. Nicolas Tackett
Dept of History
Chinese history (Tang, Song, Liao dynasties), global middle ages, sino-steppe relations, aristocracies, meritocracy, elites, political culture, death ritual, premodern cities, premodern empires, imperialism, ethnicity, nationalism, national identity, social networks, frontiers, boundaries and borderlands, digital methodologies
Ajay Pillarisetti setting at desk with computer monitor and microphone in background Ajay Pillarisetti
School of Public Health
energy use, health effects of air pollution, climate change, exposure assessment, global health, health impacts of energy use, heat and health, air pollution measurement, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research
Adrian Aguilera standing in an office Adrian Aguilera
Computational Precision Health Program
School of Social Welfare
digital health, depression interventions, cognitive behavioral therapy, health equity, machine learning, implementation science
Sonia Katyal Sonia Katyal
School of Law
artificial intelligence, law and technology, intellectual property law, contemporary art and law, gender and sexuality
JH Justin Hosbey
Dept of City & Regional Planning
cultural and political economy of racism, Black ecologies, racial capitalism, digital humanities
Ronald Amundson Ronald Amundson
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
soils, environmental science, isotope biogeochemistry, pedology, environmental history & ethics, soilsbiogeochemistry, ecosystems
Steven Raphael Steven Raphael
Goldman School of Public Policy
crime, public policy, employment discrimination, labor economics, racial inequality, urban economics, criminal justice policy
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
Timothy Bowles Timothy Bowles
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
agroecology, soil ecology, biogeochemistry, plan-soil-microbe interactions
Kent Puckett Kent Puckett
Dept of English
critical theory, narrative & the novel, 19th century British literature, poetry, film, literary theory, sociability, psychoanalysis
Matt F. Traxler Matt F. Traxler
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
bacterial interspecies interactions, specialized metabolism
Tianna Paschel Tianna Paschel
Dept of African American Studies
Dept of Sociology
racial ideology, politics, globalization, Latin America
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