Haiyan Huang Dept of Statistics applied statistics, functional genomics, translational bioinformatics, high dimensional and integrative genomic/genetic data analysis, network modeling, hierarchical multi-lable classification
Colleen Lye Dept of English postcolonial theory, marxism, critical theory, cultural studies, Asian American literature, 20th and 21st century literature, world literature
Sharad Chari Dept of Geography geography as history of the present and as earthly/oceanic writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic studies, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean
Tesha Sengupta-Irving School of Education STEM education, learning sciences, inequality & resistance, politics of learning, case study & design-based research
Sarah E. Vaughn Dept of Anthropology anthropology, Science and Technology studies, environment, Expertise, climate change, historicism, theories of liberalism, Caribbean/Latin America
Nicholas Dirks Dept of Anthropology Dept of History History and anthropology of South Asia, social and cultural theory, history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, globalization
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
Kate Heslop Dept of Scandinavian Medieval Studies, Old Norse literature, Viking and medieval Scandinavia, cultural memory, media theory
Chenxi Tang Dept of German German literature and thought, European literature and thought, Chinese intellectual history, Comparative study of Europe and China, Law and Literature
Karl Britto Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of French Africa, cultural studies, the Caribbean, literature, francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial literature, Vietnam, gender and identity
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
Wen-hsin Yeh Dept of History history, East Asian studies, Qing and Modern China, Maritime Asia, Taiwan, Pacific Rim societies
Edward C. Morse Dept of Nuclear Engineering applied plasma physics: fusion technology: microwaves, experimental investigation of RF plasma heating, experimental studies of compact toroids spectral method for magnetohydrodynamic stability
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
Margaret Crawford Dept of Architecture history of architecture, architecture and urban design, urban history and theory, US built environment studies, urbanism in China
Daniel Klein Division of Computer Science (EECS) unsupervised language acquisition, efficient algorithms for NLP, linguistically rich models of language, integrating symbolic and statistical methods for NLP, organization of the web, machine translation, information extraction
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
Scott Saul Dept of English 20th and 21st century American literature, African American literature, cultural studies, drama, film
Larry M. Hyman Dept of Linguistics linguistics, phonological theory, typology, African languages, the Niger-Congo family, especially the comparative and historical study of the Bantu language family
James Q. Davies Dept of Music 19th century music, political ecology, performance studies, pianism, vocal knowledge, medical anthropology, historical materialism
Mariusz Wodzicki Dept of Mathematics algebra, Homological Algebra, analysis, mathematics, Non-commutative and algebraic geometry, K-theory, ballet studies, history of ballet
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
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
Cori Hayden Dept of Anthropology Latin America, Mexico, social and cultural anthropology, kinship, anthropology of science, technology, medicine, post-colonial science, gender, queer studies
Celeste Langan Dept of English 19th century British literature, critical theory, disability studies, poetry, Wordsworth, Carlyle, Hardy, Rousseau, the French Revolution, Marxist theory