Sara McMains Dept of Mechanical Engineering geometric and solid modeling, general purpose computation on the GPU (GPGPU), CAD/CAM, computational geometry, computer graphics and visualization, tool path planning, additive manufacturing, computer vision, Deep Learning
Julia Fawcett Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies performance history/historiography, British performance 1650-1800, British literature 1650-1800, disability, gender, social geography, set design
Reinhard Genzel Dept of Physics physics, existence and formation of black holes in galactic nuclei, the nature of the power source, the evolution of (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies, gas dynamics, the fueling of active galactic nuclei, the properties evolution of starburst galaxies
Nicholas Jewell School of Public Health Dept of Statistics AIDS, statistics, epidemiology, infectious diseases, dengue fever, Wolbachia, Ebola Virus Disease, SARS, H1N1 influenza, adverse cardiovascular effects of pharmaceuticals, counting civilian casualties during conflicts
Nikki Jones Dept of African American Studies African American communities, policing, racial/gender disparities and the criminal justice system, violence and violence interventions
Nicholas Sitar Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering geotechnical earthquake engineering, wireless sensors, seismic slope stability, seismic earth pressure, rock erosion, groundwater remediation, numerical modeling of solid-fluid interaction, geotechnical engineering, geological engineering
Chiyuma Elliott Dept of African American Studies poetry and poetics, African American literature, intellectual history - 1920s to the present, Black geography/cultural geography
Salar Mameni Dept of Ethnic Studies art, aesthetics and visual culture, transnational feminist and queer of color theories, Arab diaspora, Muslim diaspora, militarism, critical race theory, critical postcolonial theory, Anthropocene, extractive economies and petrocultures
Rhiannon Noel Welch Dept of Italian Studies Italian literature, film and media, Italian colonialism, critical theories of race and racialization, borders and mobilities, biopolitics, postcolonial and decolonial theory
Peidong Yang Dept of Chemistry materials chemistry, solid state chemistry, nanoscience, energy science, semiconductor nanowires, nanophotonics, artificial photosynthesis, electrochemistry, photoelectrochemistry, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis
Leslie Salzinger Dept of Gender and Women's Studies sociology of gender, capitalism, theories of neoliberalism, political economy, Gender and Work, Latin America, Mexico, ethnography, Marxian political economy, social reproduction
Kim Shelton Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies ceramics, classical civilization and archaeology, Aegean prehistory, religion/mythology
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
George F. Smoot Dept of Physics cosmology, physics, astrophysics experiments, observational astrophysics, observing our galaxy, the cosmic background radiation, ground-based radio-telescope observations, balloon-borne instrumentation, satellite experiments, the NASA cosmic background
Lydia Sohn Dept of Mechanical Engineering micro-nano engineering, bioengineering, biomedical devices biomedical numerical analysis, microfluidics and nanofluidics, bioanalytical separations and disease diagnostics, stem cells, cancer
Panayiotis Papadopoulos Dept of Mechanical Engineering continuum mechanics, computational mechanics, contact mechanics, computational plasticity, materials modeling, solid mechanics, applied mathematics, dynamics of pseudo-rigid bodies
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
Jeffrey R. Long Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Dept of Chemistry inorganic and materials chemistry, synthesis of inorganic molecules and higher dimensional solids, precise tailoring of chemical and physical properties, gas storage, molecular separations and catalysis in porous materials, magnetic and conductive materials
Timmia Hearn DeRoy Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies anti-colonial theatre practice, Caribbean theatre, social justice, disability justice, practice as research
Wayne P. Sousa Dept of Integrative Biology community ecology, estuarine host-parasite interactions, canopy gaps, Caribbean coast of Panama
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