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Colleen Lye

Dept of English

postcolonial theory, marxism, critical theory, cultural studies, Asian American literature, 20th and 21st century literature, world literature

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

advanced structural systems, structural dynamics, structural design, earthquake engineering, isolation and other high performance systems, use of novel materials in design

Areej Sabbagh-Khoury

Dept of Sociology

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

Sarah E. Vaughn

Dept of Anthropology

anthropology, Science and Technology studies, environment, Expertise, climate change, historicism, theories of liberalism, Caribbean/Latin America

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Henrike C. Lange

Dept of History of Art

art, architecture, literature, afterlife of antiquity, middle ages & Renaissance / early modern age, Giotto, Donatello, Mantegna, Botticelli, Raphael, 19th and 20th century historiography, Aby Warburg, total solar eclipses, theology, creativity and interdisciplinarity

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

Gabriel Goldberg

Gabriel Goldberg

Dept of Mathematics

set theory, large cardinals, inner model theory, infinite combinatorics

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, model theory, applications to number theory

Alva Noë

Dept of Philosophy

cognitive science, phenomenology, consciousness, philosophy, theory of perception, theory of art, Wittgenstein, analytic philosophy origins

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Eric Naiman

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

sexuality, history, comparative literature, Slavic language, ideological poetics, history of medicine, Soviet culture, the gothic novel

Dept of Statistics

statistics, machine learning, semiparametric models, asymptotic theory, hidden Markov models, applications to molecular biology

Rhiannon Noel Welch

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

Dept of Film and Media

feminist theory, cultural theory, archaeology of media technology, film and modernity, film theory, psychoanalytic theory

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

Ori Ganor

Dept of Physics

string (and M-) theory, quantum field theory, mathematical physics

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

Cyber-Physical Systems, embedded software, modeling and design of systems, real-time and concurrent system, theory of current systems

Henry Washington Jr.

Dept of African American Studies

19th and 20th century African American literature, Black intellectual history, Black feminist theory, Black trans theory, Black visual culture and aestetics, performance theory

Dept of Psychology

learning, decision making, computational modeling, executive functions

critical theory, aesthetics, literary theory, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin, 18th-20th century German thought, Hegel, Adorno

Constantin Teleman

Constantin Teleman

Dept of Mathematics

algebraic geometry, Lie groups, topology, topological quantum field theory

Miryam Sas in outdoor environment

Miryam Sas

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Dept of Film and Media

20th century avant-gardes, Japanese literature, film, theater and dance, East Asia, media theory, contemporary art, critical theory, gender theory, memory studies

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

theoretical ecology, stochastic processes, optimal control, decision theory, ecoinformatics, data science, tipping points

Dean Sara Guyer sitting in library setting.

Sara Guyer

Dept of English

19th century British, critical theory, poetry

William H. Miller

William H. Miller

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical chemistry, chemical dynamics, quantum mechanical and semiclassical theories, dynamical chemical processes at the molecular level, photodissociation, femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy, calculations of rate constants for chemical reactions

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Rizvana Bradley

Dept of Film and Media

aesthetic theory, art history, Black studies, contemporary art, contemporary film theory, critical theory, moving image installation, postcolonial studies, race and the philosophy of media