Xin Liu Dept of Anthropology history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, social/cultural anthropology, comparative societies, capitalism and culture, America and China/East Asia
Cihan Tugal Dept of Sociology political sociology, social movements, religion, Islam and the Middle East, culture, poverty and class, social theory, ethnography
Stephen Collier Dept of City & Regional Planning urban vulnerability and resilience, insurance and climate change, Soviet urban planning and post-Soviet urban and social welfare transformation, infrastructure and politics, neoliberalism and governmental rationality, emergency government in the United States
Nicholas Baer Dept of Film and Media Dept of German film theory and history, digital media, aesthetics, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, philosophy of history, technics, media theory and archaeology, psychoanalysis
Raúl Coronado Dept of English Latina/o literary and intellectual history, histories of sexuality and of the academic disciplines, comparative history of writing in the colonial and 19th century Americas, modernity, postcolonialism