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headshot of Deborah Blocker Déborah A. Blocker
Dept of French
Early modern French and Italian literature, history and culture, Comparative literature cultural studies, Social and political history of literature, aesthetics, philology, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Archival Studies
David Bates David Bates
Dept of Rhetoric
artificial intelligence, enlightenment, early Modern European intellectual history, 20th century European and American intellectual history, history and theory of media and technology, history of political thought
Matthew Shutzer in outdoor setting Matthew Shutzer
Dept of History
environmental history, modern South Asia, energy history, Science and Technology studies, histories of development and decolonization, empire, political economy, comparative history, historical sociology, social theory
Zoé Hamstead Zoé Hamstead
Dept of City & Regional Planning
environmental planning, climate planning, sustainability and resilience, environmental and climate justice, geographic and spatial analysis, urban policy and political economy, global environmental governance, community engagement
You-tien Hsing You-tien Hsing
Dept of Geography
China, geography, political economy of development in East Asia, the process of international economic restructuring, cultural and institutional configuration in the processes of Taiwanese direct investment, growth in Chinese cities, business networks
headshot of Alexei Yurchak 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
Mel Y Chen headshot Mel Y Chen
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
queer and feminist theory, disability theory, critical animal studies, materiality studies, cultural politics of race and sexuality and ability and immigration, critical linguistics, paradigms of inter and transdisciplinarity
Jack Glaser Jack Glaser
Goldman School of Public Policy
policing, criminal justice, research methods, public policy, experimental social psychology, hate crime, political psychology, stereotyping, racial profiling, prejudice & discrimination, nonconscious social cognition
headshot of Omar Wasow Omar Wasow
Dept of Political Science
American politics, race and ethnic politics
Nathan Sayre Nathan Sayre
Dept of Geography
climate change, endangered species, rangelands, political ecology, pastoralism, ranching, environmental history, suburbanization, human-environment interactions, environmental geography, range science and management, Southwestern US, scale, community-based conservation
Pheng Cheah Pheng Cheah
Dept of Rhetoric
world literature, human rights, nationalism, legal philosophy, feminism, 18th-20th century continental philosophy & contemporary critical theory, postcolonial theory & anglophone postcolonial literatures, cosmopolitanism & globalization, social & political thought
headshot of Ann Swidler Ann Swidler
Dept of Sociology
religion, culture, Africa, AIDS, political sociology, theory, development, NGOs, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research
person with short gray hair and black rim glasses holding chin Jason Wittenberg
Dept of Political Science
dictatorship, democratic backsliding, ethnic politics, Eastern Europe, religion and politics, voting behavior
Sarah Anzia wearing brown blazer in outside environment Sarah Anzia
Dept of Political Science
Goldman School of Public Policy
American politics, public policy, interest groups, state politics, local politics, election timing, voter turnout, public pensions, public sector unions, collective bargaining
Turner with digital reconstruction of Villa Farnesina in 1512 James Grantham Turner
Dept of English
gender, sexuality, English, 16th-18th century English, Italian and French literature, art and literature, 17th century political writing, landscape and the city, Enlightenment materialism, sexuality in Renaissance Italian art and Antiquity, ecocriticism in literature and art
Jennifer Bussell Jennifer Bussell
Dept of Political Science
Goldman School of Public Policy
democratic politics in economically developing states
Sharad Chari 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
Laura C. Nelson photo dated 2023 Laura C. Nelson
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
gender and medicine and politics, breast cancer in South Korea, cultural impacts of ultra-low fertility, demographic undertow, structures on cultural temporality and anti-poverty policies in the U.S. and South Korea
Penny Edwards in Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2016 Penny Edwards
Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies
political and cultural history of Southeast Asia, French colonialism, British imperialism, French India, British India, comparative colonialism, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Chinese diaspora, cinema and theatre, Material and Visual Culture, travel and translation, gender, nationalism, Buddhism, economic history, global history
Laura D'Andrea Tyson Laura D'Andrea Tyson
Dept of Economics
Haas School of Business
high-technology competition, US industrial and technology policies, international economy, US trade policy, US competitiveness, emerging market economies, multinational companies in the US economy, gender gap (economic participation, educational attainment, political empowerment and health), research and development tax credit
Scott Straus Scott Straus
Dept of Political Science
comparative politics, international relations, formal theory and methods
Hillel David Soifer in outdoor setting Hillel Soifer
Dept of Political Science
comparative politics, methodology & formal theory, Latin America
Professor Tackett in China examining a recently excavated ninth-century funerary epitaph. Nicolas Tackett
Dept of History
Chinese history (Tang, Song, Liao dynasties), global middle ages, sino-steppe relations, aristocracies, meritocracy, elites, political culture, death ritual, premodern cities, premodern empires, imperialism, ethnicity, nationalism, national identity, social networks, frontiers, boundaries and borderlands, digital methodologies
Headshot Michaela Mattes
Dept of Political Science
International Conflict and Cooperation, Conflict Management, Domestic Politics and International Relations
Karina Gutiérrez standing in outdoor environment Karina Gutierrez
Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Politics and Performance
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