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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Dept of Economics

Africa, education, development economics, human capital, health, ethnic divisions, social capital, civil conflict, war, pre-analysis plans, water

Dept of Linguistics

meaning, grammar, endangered languages, Native American languages, semantics, syntax, word structure, language universals, language variation, Nez Perce language

Poulomi Saha standing in front of decorative wood panels, hands in pockets

Dept of English

Asian American studies, critical theory, postcolonial theory, spirituality, comparative race and gender, cults

Russell Robinson

Russell Robinson

anti discrimination law, race and sexuality, law and psychology, constitutional law, media and entertainment law

Pradeep Chhibber

Pradeep Chhibber

Dept of Political Science

political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India

Gloria Brar

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

meiosis, translation, sORFs, stress responses

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biology, cell motility, the role of the actin cytoskeleton in cell locomotion, shape change, actin filament assembly, bacterial and viral pathogens

Areej Sabbagh-Khoury

Dept of Sociology

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

Eva Nogales in lab

Eva Nogales

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cryo-EM, biochemistry, complex biological assemblies, structure and regulation of the cytoskeleton, microtubule dynamics, human transcriptional initiation machinery, epigenetics, gene silencing, biophysics

David H. Raulet

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biology, cancer immunology, natural killer (NK) cells, T-cell development and function, pathogens, viruses, lymphocyte receptors, microorganisms, cancer cells, tumor immunity, immunotherapy of cancer

A photo of Keltner teaching

Dept of Psychology

culture, conflict, behavior, love, psychology, emotion, social interaction, individual differences in emotion, negotiation, embarrassment, desire, juvenile delinquency, laughter, anger, social perception, negotiating morality

John W. Morris, Jr

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

structural materials, computational materials, the limits of strength, deformation mechanisms, non-destructive testing with SQUID microscopy, mechanisms of grain refinement in high strength steels, lead-free solders for microelectronics

Dr. Ünal in the lab

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

gametogenesis, biology of aging, gene regulation, genetics, genomics and development

School of Education

Dept of African American Studies

educational policy, charter schools, politics of education, race and education, school choice, desegregation, philanthropy and education, advocacy

Dept of Physics

physics, quantum mechanics, gravity, unified description of nature, string theory, quantum properties of black holes, the geometry of spacetime, covariant entropy bound, cosmological constant

Desmond Jagmohan

Desmond Jagmohan

Dept of Political Science

history of political thought, American political thought, African American political thought, race and American political development

Lisa Garcia Bedolla

Lisa Garcia Bedolla

School of Education

Dept of Political Science

politics, immigration, race, gender, inequality, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships

School of Journalism

incarceration, race, Haiti, imprisonment, prisons and policing, prisons, mental illness, mental health, juvenile delinquency

Anastasios Melis

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

photosynthesis, Metabolic Engineering, synthetic biology, bioproduction R&D

Dept of Physics

physics, theoretical condensed matter, topological phase transitions, high-temperature superconductivity, organization principles enabling microscopic degrees of freedom to behave cooperatively, matter and their formation mechanisms, low dimensional quantum magnets, strongly correlated Fermi and Bose fluids

Eileen A. Lacey

Dept of Integrative Biology

evolutionary biology, population, mammals, behavioral ecology, vertebrates, molecular genetics, subterranean rodents, Argentina, Chile

Katherine A. Yelick

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

high performance computing, partitioned Global Address Space programming, communication-avoiding algorithms, automatic performance tuning, high performance data analytics, computational biology

Kristie Boering in her UC Berkeley laboratory with graduate student Katie Mar

Kristie Boering

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

physical chemistry, climate change, atmospheric chemistry, environmental chemistry, ozone, earth and planetary science, isotopic compositions of atmospheric trace gases, stratospheric ozone, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, molecular hydrogen, methane

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 Ethnic Studies

critical theory, U.S. cultural studies, Israel-Palestine, theories of race and ethnicity, comparative diaspora studies, public humanities