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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Robert Dudley in the Panamanian rain forest

Dept of Integrative Biology

metabolism, biomechanics, butterflies, energetics, flight, gliding, hummingbirds, insects, paleophysiology

Eric Stover

human rights, war, International Criminal Law, Forensic Sciences, International Criminal Justice

Khiara Bridges standing in an outdoor setting.

Khiara M. Bridges

race, class, reproductive rights

Kathryn Abrams standing in outside setting.

law, feminist jurisprudence, voting rights, constitutional law

Ken Light

School of Journalism

journalism, photojournalism, documentary photography

Susan Maslan in crowded interior space

French, early modern French literary, political history, the enlightenment, human rights

Professor Fleming in Photosynthesis Lab

Graham R. Fleming

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

chemistry, proteins, chemical and biological dynamics in the condensed phase, ultrafast spectroscopy, liquids, solutions, glasses, photosynthetic proteins, role of solvents in chemical reactions, electronic energy transfer, electron transfer, regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting

criminal law, international law, human rights, International Criminal Law

Ian Haney Lopez

Ian F. Haney Lopez

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

School of Social Welfare

aging, caregiving, long-term care, workplace rights, health policy, LGBTQ+

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

medical imaging, biotechnology, biomedical engineering, low temperature biology, micro and nano bionic technologies, electrical impedance tomography, bio-electronics, biomedical devices biomedical numerical analysis, bio-heat and mass transfer, electroporation light imaging

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Dept of History

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

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

computational optical imaging, light field cameras, metrology and inspection, phase retrieval, inverse problems in imaging, optical coherence theory, 3D imaging and display

Dept of History

20th century U.S. history, with a focus on political economy, civil rights, education, law, the west

john powell at lectern

john powell

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Civil rights and civil liberties, structural racialization, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, needs of citizens in a democratic society

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Dept of Geography

Latin America, human rights, peasantry, migrations, social movements, political conflict, Mayan communities in Guatemala, issues of memory, grief

John Wright

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

quantum state learning, quantum complexity theory, property testing, approximation algorithms

Picture of Professsor Bacchetta

Paola Bacchetta

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

transnational feminist and queer theory, decolonial feminist and queer theory, activisms / artivisms / practices / movements /alliances / right-wings, geographic specializations: U.S.; France; India; Italy; Brazil

environmental law, natural resource law, law and science, biodiversity conservation, public and private land management, property rights

Robert P. Merges

antitrust, intellectual property, property rights, patent law, law and economics, copyright law, digital content, online contracts

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

Robert Thomas Knight

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, language, physiology, memory, attention, psychology, working memory, neuropsychology, human prefrontal cortex, neural mechanisms of cognitive processing, sensory gating, sustained attention, ad novelty detection

Kenneth Raymond

Kenneth N. Raymond

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, bacteria, bioinorganic chemistry, biophysical chemistry, coordination, design of specific chelating agents for metal ions, human iron storage and transport proteins, low-molecular weight chelating agents, metals in medicine, metal-ligands

intellectual property, privacy, copyright, artists' rights, free expression, notice and takedown, free and open source licensing, defensive patent licensing, DMCA, patent, how technical and policy design affect privacy and other social values

Jason Spingarn-Koff

School of Journalism

climate change, journalism, documentary filmmaking