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Research Expertise and Interest

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Ken Ueno

music composition, decolonizing music, noise, sound installations, music of Japan, extended vocal techniques, overtone singing, musical culture of Japan, experimental improvisation

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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

intellectual property, privacy, copyright, artists' rights, free expression, notice and takedown, free and open source licensing, defensive patent licensing, DMCA, patent, how technical and policy design affect privacy and other social values

N. Cecilia Martinez-Gomez

Norma Cecilia Martinez-Gomez

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbial physiology, one-carbon metabolism, microbial molecular biology, bacteria, enzymes, enzyme activity, enzymology, enzyme kinetics, protein biochemistry, protein characterization

Alessandra Lanzara

Dept of Physics

materials science, ultrafast science, quantum materials, sustainable materials, topological phases of matter

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

medical imaging, biotechnology, biomedical engineering, low temperature biology, micro and nano bionic technologies, electrical impedance tomography, bio-electronics, biomedical devices biomedical numerical analysis, bio-heat and mass transfer, electroporation light imaging

Charlan Jeanne Nemeth

Charlan Jeanne Nemeth

Dept of Psychology

decision making, jury decision making, influence and persuasion, creativity in small groups, managing innovation in organizations, psychology of creative scientists and entrepreneurs, corporate cultures, diversity of team members, brainstorming, psychology and law

Areej Sabbagh-Khoury

Dept of Sociology

political sociology, historical sociology, knowledge production, social theory, colonialism and settler colonialism, citizenship

Robert O. Ritchie

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

structural materials, mechanical behavior in biomaterials, creep, fatigue and fracture of advanced metals, intermetallics, ceramics

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Dept of Political Science

political science, social policy, comparative political economy, West European politics, French politics, relationship between partisanship and welfare reform in contemporary Western Europe

Tom McEnaney in outside setting

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Latin American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, media studies, radio, 20th century American literature, architecture, linguistic anthropology, digital humanities

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

microscopy, nanomaterials, Nuclear materials, material science, radiation damage, corrosion in liquid metals, materials development, materials under extremes, nuclear applications, ion beam microscopy, nanoscale mechanical testing

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

Dept of Physics

physics, lasers, x-rays, plasma physics, materials, atomic physics, ultrafast science

Eric Yue Ma

Dept of Physics

atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter physics and materials science

Christopher E. Dames

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

nanostructured materials, thermal rectification, graphene, microscale heat transfer, nano scale heat transfer

Kameshwar Poolla

Kameshwar Poolla

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

modeling, control, estimation, smart grids, renewable energy, electricity markets, transportation networks, integrated circuit design and manufacturing

Dept of Political Science

American political institutions, bureaucratic organizations, executive branch, public administration, political economy, statistical modeling

Michael Lucey delivering a lecture.

Dept of Comparative Literature

the novel, sexuality studies, comparative literature, French, French literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British literature and culture, social and literary theory, cultural studies of music, studies of language in use, linguistic anthropology, theories of practice, twentieth-century American literature

Gary Karpen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

gene expression, cell biology, chromosome structure and function, drosophila melanogaster, centromere identity and function, biophysics, condensed phases

Kevin J. O'Brien

Dept of Political Science

social movements, Chinese politics, peasant politics

ARE PhD students and Sofia Villas-Boas

Sofia Villas-Boas

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

economics, industrial organization and applied econometrics, agricultural & resource economics, consumer behavior and decision making

Matthew B. Francis

Matthew B. Francis

Dept of Chemistry

materials chemistry, drug delivery, organic chemistry, Protein modification, artificial photosynthesis, water purification

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

developmental biology, Xenopus laevis, Spemann's organizer, cortical rotation, cell cycle after fertilization, vegetal materials, blastula stage, egg cytoplasm

Dmitry Taubinsky

Dmitry Taubinsky

Dept of Economics

behavioral economics, tax policy, soda taxes, payday loans, household consumption and portfolio choice, energy policy, health, gambling, state-run lotteries, inflation expectations, nudges