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Dept of Architecture

Cold war history, California Counterculture, History of Exhibitions, Architectural history, Indigenous Australian art, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership

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Tina Sacks

School of Social Welfare

racial disparities in health, social disparities of health, race and class and gender, poverty and inequality

Egyptian Museum Turin, facsimile of the Book of the Dead of Iuefankh

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Egyptology, Egyptian, afrofuturism, magic, demonology, digital humanities, 3D modeling, virtual reality, prison higher education, ritual and religion

A photograph of Abhishek Kaicker

Abhishek Kaicker

Dept of History

South Asia, Mughal, early modern, cities, history, Persian, India, politics, Asia

Dept of English

community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships

Gloria Brar

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

meiosis, translation, sORFs, stress responses

Eliza Brown

Dept of Sociology

economic sociology, gender and sexualities, medicine, reproduction, Science and Technology studies

Dept of History

inequality, financial crisis, central banking, economic history, early modern Europe

Henry Washington Jr.

Dept of African American Studies

19th and 20th century African American literature, Black intellectual history, Black feminist theory, Black trans theory, Black visual culture and aestetics, performance theory

artificial intelligence, law and technology, intellectual property law, contemporary art and law, gender and sexuality

Lydia Sohn in lab

Lydia Sohn

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

micro-nano engineering, bioengineering, biomedical devices biomedical numerical analysis, microfluidics and nanofluidics, bioanalytical separations and disease diagnostics, stem cells, cancer

Dept of History

Latin American history

School of Journalism

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

Akash Kumar

Dept of Italian Studies

medieval Italian literature, history of science, history of philosophy, Mediterranean studies, digital humanities

Michael Shapira, Integrative Biology

Michael Shapira

Dept of Integrative Biology

aging, host-microbe interactions, Microbiome, C. elegans

Dept of Chemistry

materials chemistry, solid state chemistry, nanoscience, energy science, semiconductor nanowires, nanophotonics, artificial photosynthesis, electrochemistry, photoelectrochemistry, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis

Chenxi Tang standing in outdoor setting

Chenxi Tang

German literature and thought, European literature and thought, Chinese intellectual history, Comparative study of Europe and China, Law and Literature

Todd Hickey

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

classics, papyrology, Greek, Egyptian, social and economic history, late antiquity

Erwin Chemerinsky standing outside Berkeley Law

Erwin Chemerinsky

constitutional law, criminal procedure, federal jurisdiction

Dept of Political Science

public policy, political economy, American politics

Ivonne del Valle

Ivonne del Valle

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

colonial period in México, internal colonialism in Mexico, Jesuits (Loyola, Acosta, Baegert), Baroque and Enlightenment from a colonial perspective, technology and environment, drainage of Mexico City lakes, Christianity and pre-Hispanic religions

Ian Haney Lopez

Ian F. Haney Lopez

constitutional law, race relations, civil rights, race in politics, Latinos

Cover image of Disorientation: France, Vietnam, and the Ambivalence of Interculturality

Karl Britto

Dept of Comparative Literature

Africa, cultural studies, the Caribbean, literature, francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial literature, Vietnam, gender and identity

Juana María Rodríguez

Juana María Rodríguez

Dept of Ethnic Studies

race and sexual politics, LGBTQ communities, Latino/a/x and Caribbean literatures and cultures, women of color feminisms, queer activism in the Americas, transgender studies, sex work