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Headshot of James Pitman James Pitman
Dept of Statistics
fragmentation, statistics, mathematics, Brownian motion, distribution theory, path transformations, stochastic processes, local time, excursions, random trees, random partitions, processes of coalescence
Eric Biber Eric Biber
School of Law
environmental law, natural resources law, energy law, land-use law, federal Indian law, administrative law, property
Image of a white disabled woman in her forties. She is speaking into a microphone giving a presentation. Image is of Sunaura Taylor. Sunaura Taylor
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
disability studies, disability crip theory, ableism, animal studies, animal ethics, multispecies justice, environmental humanities, ecofeminism, environmental justice
headshot of Dora Silva Santana Dora Silva Santana
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
Black trans studies, Black queer and trans feminist theory, global south epistemologies, Black poets, visual culture - media - and technology
Photo in office Murat Arcak
Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
control, intelligent systems and robotics, Cyber-Physical Systems, networks, transportation, applications of system theory to aerospace problems, Systems and Synthetic Biology
William Lester, Jr. William A. Lester, Jr.
Dept of Chemistry
theoretical and physical chemistry, advances in basic theory, computational methods, study of molecular electronic structure, quantum Monte Carlo method, Born-Oppenheimer approximation
headshot of Trond Petersen Trond Petersen
Dept of Sociology
Haas School of Business
organizations, social stratification, inequality, economic sociology, comparative studies, quantitative methods, comparative gender in the workplace, hiring, promotions, wages
headshot of Holly Doremus Holly Doremus
School of Law
environmental law, natural resource law, law and science, biodiversity conservation, public and private land management, property rights
Headshot in front of bookshelves. Paula Varsano
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
Raka Ray in outdoor setting Raka Ray
Dept of Sociology
Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies
feminist theory, gender, masculinity, middle-class, social movements, South and Southeast Asian studies, relations between dominant subaltern groups in India, women¹s movements in India
Lawrence Hall Lawrence Hall
Dept of Physics
physics, standard model of particle physics, symmetries of nature, the symmetry of the electroweak interaction, spacetime symmetries: weak scale supersymmetry, constrained theories for the quark and charged lepton masses, supersymmetric theory
David Bates David Bates
Dept of Rhetoric
artificial intelligence, enlightenment, early Modern European intellectual history, 20th century European and American intellectual history, history and theory of media and technology, history of political thought
Jake Kosek Jake Kosek
Dept of Geography
cultural politics of nature and difference, cultural geography, Science and Technology studies, critical race theory, critical cartography, biopolitics, human and the non-human, environmental politics
Placeholder image Daniel Warren
Dept of Philosophy
philosophy, Kant, history and philosophy of science
headshot of Ann Swidler Ann Swidler
Dept of Sociology
religion, culture, Africa, AIDS, political sociology, theory, development, NGOs, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research
Laura Waller Laura Waller
Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
computational optical imaging, light field cameras, metrology and inspection, phase retrieval, inverse problems in imaging, optical coherence theory, 3D imaging and display
Gordon Rausser Gordon Rausser
Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics
agricultural and environmental and resource economics, public and regulatory policy, political economy, bargaining theory, futures markets, law and economics, industrial organization and antitrust analysis
headshot of Alexei Yurchak Alexei Yurchak
Dept of Anthropology
social and political theory, communism and post-communism, language philosophy, the image, the body, avant-garde artistic experiments, science studies, ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society
Abigail De Kosnik Abigail De Kosnik
Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
new media, performance studies, performance theory, performance, media studies, fan studies, digital culture, social networks, film, television, social media, Internet culture, digital humanities, data science, race/ethnicity, gender and sexuality, nationality, transnationalism, Filipino American studies, Asian American studies, archives, cultural memory, piracy, distribution
Lilla Balint Lilla Balint
Dept of German
contemporary German literature and media, theories of the contemporary, aesthetics and politics, transnationalism and translation, digital writing, European Jewish literature, literary and cultural theory, theories of the novel
Matthew Potts Matthew Potts
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
carbon removal, climate change mitigation, nature based climate solutions, forest management, biofuels, plantation agriculture, land use planning, land use policy, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, tropical ecology, environmental economics, public impact research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships
Harsha Ram speaking at the Parajanov Anniversary Symposium at BAMPFA, Berkeley, November 2024. Harsha Ram
Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures
The Russian and European Enlightenment, Russian and European romanticism and modernism, Russian and European avant-gardes, Russian, European, Italian literature, Georgian history and literature, theories of world literature, literary theory, comparative poetics, genre theory, literary history, comparative modernisms and modernities, vernacular and high culture, cultural and political history of Russia-Eurasia and the Caucasus, postcolonial studies, theories of nationalism, imperialism and cosmopolitanism, urban studies, the city and literature
Moriel Vandsburger Moriel Vandsburger
Dept of Bioengineering
bioengineering, molecular MRI, MRI
Alice M. Agogino Alice M. Agogino
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
intelligent learning systems, information retrieval and data mining, multiobjective and strategic product design, nonlinear optimization, probabilistic modeling, intelligent control and manufacturing, sensor validation and fusion and diagnostics, wireless sensor networks, multimedia and computer-aided design, design databases, design theory and methods, MEMS Synthesis and CAD, artificial intelligence and decision and expert systems, gender equity
Sanjay Govindjee Sanjay Govindjee
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
finite element analysis, Theoretical and computational solid mechanics, constitutive theory, micromechanics, polymer mechanics, elastomer modeling, battery modeling, thermomechanics, continuum mechanics, failure analysis
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