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Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

landscape architecture and environmental planning, urban design, urban ecology, surface hydrology, groundwater, sea level rise, climate change, adaptation, environmental justice, adaptation to flooding, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, social justice research, client-based studio teaching, community-based studio teaching

Xi Wu

Haas School of Business

securities regulation, corporate governance, capital markets, FinTech

Haas School of Business

marketing, industrial organization, political economy, digital and political advertising, pink tax, e-commerce pricing, supply responses to government policy

Dept of Sociology

poverty, inequality, causal inference, mixed methods, incarceration, prisoner reentry, education, neighborhoods, urban, community, adolescence, public impact research/scholarship

Prof. Kenneth Bamberger

Kenneth A. Bamberger

technology, government regulations, corporate compliance

Ramón Grosfoguel

Ramón Grosfoguel

Dept of Ethnic Studies

global cities, international migration, ethnic studies, race/ethnicity, latino studies, Caribbean Studies, Latin American Studies, international comparative development, political-economy of the world-systems, urban sociology

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

critical race theory, performance theory, American studies, U.S. histories of popular performance, U.S. urban development, globalization studies

Dept of Architecture

memory, visionary architecture, the unbuilt, paper architecture, heritage conservation, architectural representation, urban representation, diagrams, history of professions, historiography, world's fairs, expositions, California architecture, themed environments

Julian Chun-Chung

Julian Chun-Chung Chow

School of Social Welfare

East Asian studies, social welfare, community practice and service delivery in urban poverty, ethnic, immigrant neighborhoods, community analysis and needs assessment, program planning and development, cultural competency services

Neil Tsutsui standing in Woo Fai Han Hall with net draped over his back

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

insect behavior, evolutionary biology, ants, genetics, genomics, Argentine ants, kidnapper ants, chemical ecology, pheromones, urban parks, East Bay Regional Parks

Maya Carrasquillo

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

infrastructure justice, food-energy-water systems, urban water infrastructure, equitable decision-making, environmental justice, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

Photo of Professor Justin Remais

School of Public Health

Infectious disease dynamics, methodological issues in infectious disease surveillance, infectious diseases, infectious disease epidemiology, global environmental change, climate change, global change, urbanization, mathematical modeling, computational modeling

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

wastes and the circular economy, global environmental governance, climate change politics, globalization, environmental politics and policy, environmental movements

Mathias Kondolf wearing hat and holding notebook at the Bill Williams River in Arizona

G. Mathias Kondolf

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

environmental planning, fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, flood risk management, river restoration, urban rivers, environmental impact assessment, river corridor management, sediment management, hydropower, strategic dam planning, integrating energy planning and river management

Ofer Eldar environmental shot

Ofer Eldar

business associations, corporate finance and securities regulation, law and economics, corporate governance, entrepreneurial finance, social impact

Dept of City & Regional Planning

Affordable housing, homelessness, access to credit, community development, the Community Reinvestment Act, neighborhood change, homeownership and mortgage finance (with a focus on low-income and minority households)

Dept of Political Science

political economy or comparative political economy, market governance, regulation, the Japanese model of capitalism, Japanese politics, political science

Kris D. Gutiérrez

Kris D. Gutiérrez

School of Education

designed learning environments, Cultural dimensions of learning, language and literacy learning for dual language learners, biliteracy, new media literacies, the social organization of learning, ethnographic methodology and qualitative approaches to inquiry, design experiment/social design experiments, education of Latino, immigrant, migrant youth, urban education, teacher learning, educational and language policy

john powell at lectern

john powell

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Civil rights and civil liberties, structural racialization, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, needs of citizens in a democratic society

Amy Lerman

Dept of Political Science

Goldman School of Public Policy

American government, public opinion, civic engagement, criminal justice, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership

Christopher Ansell

Dept of Political Science

political science, social movements, political sociology, network analysis, organization theory, public administration, political parties, Western Europe

David Singh Grewal

David Singh Grewal

legal theory, political theory, intellectual history, global economic governance, international trade law, intellectual property law and biotechnology, law and economics

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

marine ecology, land-sea connectivity, coastal resilience, geospatial data, ocean policy and governance, social-ecological dynamics, coral reef, California current system

Karen Trapenberg Frick

Karen Trapenberg Frick

Dept of City & Regional Planning

political polarization, politics of infrastructure, transportation policy and planning

Shawn Kim in outside setting

Shawn Kim

Haas School of Business

determinants and consequences of voluntary disclosure, corporate governance, insider trading, accounting information and capital markets, capital markets, incentives, corporate social responsibility, sustainability, climate change