Charles D. Weisselberg School of Law law reform, criminal procedure, police interrogation, federal prisons
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.
Kristen Whissel Dept of Film and Media Cinema and technological change, cinema and modernity, computer-generated images and contemporary cinema, digital visual effects, stereoscopic 3D cinema and media, the history and theory of special effects, cinema in transition, American film history, modernity and early cinema.
Martin White Dept of Astronomy Dept of Physics cosmology, formation of structure in the universe, dark energy, expansion of the universe, cosmic microwave background, quasars, redshift surveys
Clancy Wilmott Dept of Geography critical cartography, media geographies, critical GIS and data studies, cultural memory and landscape, politics of representation - textualization - and visuality, digitalities
Mark Wilson School of Education measurement, psychometrics, assessment, development of assessment resources, assessment systems
Mariusz Wodzicki Dept of Mathematics algebra, Homological Algebra, analysis, mathematics, Non-commutative and algebraic geometry, K-theory, ballet studies, history of ballet
Nathaniel Wolfson Dept of Spanish and Portuguese Brazilian literature and culture, Latin American literature and culture, Latin American Art History, media studies, critical theory, environmental humanities, Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, visual studies
Winnie Wong Dept of Rhetoric labor and creativity, Modern Art, contemporary art, contemporary art and law, China studies
John Wright Division of Computer Science (EECS) quantum state learning, quantum complexity theory, property testing, approximation algorithms
Jonathan Wurtele Dept of Physics physics, stability, plasma theory, advanced accelerator concepts, intense laser-plasma interaction, the basic equilibrium, radiation properties of intense charged particle beams, simulation and the development of proof-of-principle experiments
Liesl Yamaguchi Dept of French poetics, linguistics, literary theory, 19th century literature, modern poetry
Damon Young Dept of Film and Media Dept of French film theory, digital media, global art cinema, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory
Michelle Young School of Education educational leadership, policy analysis, critical theory, educational equity
Bin Yu Dept of Statistics machine learning, trustworthy data science and AI, interdisciplinary research in biomedicine, neuroscience, and climate science.
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
Emily Zazulia Dept of Music musicology, music theory, history of music theory, history of ideas, Medieval Studies, renaissance and early modern European culture, the renaissance
Hannah Zeavin Dept of History history of human sciences, history of technology and media, feminist science and technology studies, media theory
Dora Zhang Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of English narrative & the novel, 20th and 21st century Britain, 20th and 21st century U.S., Asian American literature, affect theory, critical theory, philosophy and literature
Xueyin (Snow) Zhang Dept of Philosophy Bayesian epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of probability, Chinese philosophy
Nikita Zhivotovskiy Dept of Statistics mathematical statistics, applied probability, statistical learning theory
Michael W. Zuerch Dept of Chemistry collective phenomena in material, chemical material dynamics in surfaces and interfaces, symmetry-broken states and their emergence in condensed-phase systems, dynamical properties in artificial and correlated superlattices, ultrafast spectroscopy from THz to X-rays
Maciej Zworski Dept of Mathematics mathematics, partial differential equations, mathematical physics, mathematical aspects of quantum mechanics, scattering theory, microlocal analysis