Long Le-Khac Dept of Ethnic Studies relational race studies, literatures of Asian Americans and Latinxs
Venkatesan Guruswami Dept of Mathematics Division of Computer Science (EECS) theoretical computer science, coding theory, approximate optimization, randomness in computation, computational complexity
Robert Birgeneau Dept of Physics Goldman School of Public Policy physics, phase transition behavior of novel states of matter
Catherine Flynn Dept of English modernism, Irish, British, comparative literature, critical theory, Avant-Gardes, James Joyce, Flann O'Brien
Xavier Darzacq Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology transcription regulation during cellular differentiation, gene expression control mechanism, biophysical rules of nuclear organization
Gregory W. Aponte Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology health and nutrition, nutritional sciences, signaling between the gut and the brain, neuropeptides, G-protein coupled receptors
Mark Blum Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Buddhism, Japan, culture and society, modernization
Elora Shehabuddin Dept of Gender and Women's Studies transnational feminism, history and politics of feminist movement, activism, critical approaches to development, political economy, South Asia, Middle East, Global South, United States
Ahmad Diab Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Arabic literature, translation studies, Arabic philology, postcolonial studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern Cinema
Joel Fajans Dept of Physics astrophysics, plasma processing, physics, basic plasma physics, non-neutral plasmas, basic plasma physics experiments, pure electron plasma traps, cyrogenic plasmas, plasma bifurcations, basic non-linear dynamics, autoresonance
Steven E. Brenner Dept of Bioengineering Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology molecular biology, computational biology, evolutionary biology, bioengineering, structural genomics, computational genomics, cellular activity, cellular functions, personal genomics
Qiang Zhou Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology biochemistry of HIV gene expression, transcriptional elongation, Tat activation, stage of transcriptional elongation, HIV replication, anti-HIV therapy
Daniel Rokhsar Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology genetics and genomics, evolution of animals, genetic diversity in animals and plants
Judith Butler 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
Ivonne del Valle Dept of Spanish and Portuguese colonial period in México, internal colonialism in Mexico, Jesuits (Loyola, Acosta, Baegert), Baroque and Enlightenment from a colonial perspective, technology and environment, drainage of Mexico City lakes, Christianity and pre-Hispanic religions
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
Gary Karpen Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology gene expression, cell biology, chromosome structure and function, drosophila melanogaster, centromere identity and function, biophysics, condensed phases