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Kristen Whissel

Dept of Film and Media

Cinema and technological change, cinema and modernity, computer-generated images and contemporary cinema, digital visual effects, stereoscopic 3D cinema and media, the history and theory of special effects, cinema in transition, American film history, modernity and early cinema, cinema and globalization, cinema and the environment/elements

Dept of Economics

econometrics, Social and Economic Networks, Peer Effects

Dept of Physics

nanoscience, nuclear magnetic resonance, semiconductors, metals, physics, fullerenes, nanotubes, condensed matter theory, surfaces, defects, nanostructure materials, clusters, many-electron effects in solids

Dept of Economics

economics, price theory models of anticompetitive exclusive dealing, switching costs, network effects, formal standardization

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of History

History and anthropology of South Asia, social and cultural theory, history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, globalization

Dept of History

history, U.S. History, urban history, cultural history, History of Time

film theory and history, digital media, aesthetics, critical theory, philosophy of history, technics, media theory and archaeology

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Dept of History

Modern German and European History, Human Rights and Internationalism, global urban history, critical theory

Dept of Comparative Literature

modern poetry, aesthetics, literary theory, history of criticism, Frankfurt School Critical Theory

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Islam (social and intellectual history)

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

pre-modern drama and fiction, women's writing, sex and gender, history and theory of emotion, 19th and 20th century media culture, critical theory

Dept of African American Studies

20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism

Dept of History

history of human sciences, history of technology and media, feminist science and technology studies, media theory

Weihong Bao

Dept of Film and Media

late 19th century visual and performance culture, Chinese language cinema, transnational genre cinema, comparative media history and theory, propaganda theory and history(10988)

Shannon Jackson

Shannon Jackson

Dept of History of Art

Dept of Rhetoric

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

rhetoric, performance studies, American studies, 20th century art movements and critical theory, local culture and intercultural citizenship in turn-of-the-century United States, history and theory of theatre and performance art

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

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Daniel Lee

Dept of Political Science

political theory, history of political thought, jurisprudence

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

Olga Holtz

Dept of Mathematics

numerical analysis, matrix and operator theory, approximation theory, wavelets and splines, orthogonal polynomials and special functions, analysis of algorithms and computational complexity

17th and 18th century French literature and culture, history and theory of the novel, quantitative literary history and digital humanities, history of aesthetics, cinema (French New Wave)

Joel Moore

Dept of Physics

physics, condensed matter theory, electron-electron interactions, zero-temperature phase transitions, interaction effects in nanoscale devices, quantum phase transitions

Carlos F. Noreña

Dept of History

Roman history

medieval and renaissance music, history of music theory, history of religion, manuscript studies, obscenity

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Roni Masel

Dept of Comparative Literature

Hebrew literature, Yiddish literature, Jewish history, queer theory, postcolonial theory

John Efron

Dept of History

Cultural and social history of German Jewry