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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, history and theory of special effects, cinema in transition, American film history, modernity and early cinema, cinema and globalization, cinema and the environment/elements

Dan O'Neill

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian literatures and cinema, environmental humanities and 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)

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Damon Young

Dept of Film and Media

film theory, digital media, global art cinema, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory

Dept of Anthropology

media, music, Indigenous Australia, ethnographic film, cinema, urban studies, fire ecology

Paul Wright

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

3D printing, design, manufacturing

Iggy Cortez

Dept of Film and Media

world cinema, contemporary art, global cities, aesthetic theory, global cinema, transnationalism and diaspora, night, cinema, Indie Film, screen performance, acting, asian art, asian-american art, asian diasporic culture, psychoanalysis, affect theory

Jinsoo An

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Korean cinema, Korean culture

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Natalia Brizuela

Dept of Film and Media

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Spanish, Portuguese, photography, literature and the visual arts, cinema, indigenous ontologies

Ken Goldberg in front of a projection of robotic arm

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

robotics, art, social media, new media, automation

Dept of Film and Media

media studies, computer graphics, history of technology, Science and Technology studies, queer theory, new media, art and technology

Aarti Sethi

Dept of Anthropology

agrarian anthropology, ruralism, feminist anthropology, political economy, Comparative Religion, South Asia, debt and capitalism, climate change, cinema and media culture, caste, socio-economic inequality, politics of knowledge, multi-species ethnography

A photo of Emily Cooper

School of Optometry

3D vision, depth perception, computational neuroscience, augmented and virtual reality, assistive technology

Simon Schleicher

Simon Schleicher

Dept of Architecture

biomimetics, structural engineering, architectural design, 3D printing, 3D scanning, digital fabrication, fabrication, composite structures, finite element analysis, parametric design, bio-inspired structures, robotics manufacturing, robotics

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

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Emma Fraser

Dept of Geography

digital culture, urban media, game studies, new media, critical theory

Gerald Westheimer

Gerald Westheimer

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neurobiology; psychophysics, primate visual cortex, neural circuits, brain mechanisms, response modifications, active perception, learning, stereoscopic vision, optometryoptics of the eye, ophthalmic instrumentation

Edward Wasserman

Edward Wasserman

School of Journalism

media ethics, economics and politics of news, professional standards, media history, journalism, press

Dept of History

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

Ming Wu

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

silicon photonics, MEMS, photonic integrated circuits, data center networks, 3D sensing, solid state LiDAR, optofluidics

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

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

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

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Geeta Anand

School of Journalism

journalism, health care, equity, social justice, politics, ethics, media, disinformation, India, international affairs

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

Deniz Göktürk

German literature, German cinema, transnational cinemas, Turkish studies, performance and spectatorship and reception, intertextuality and intermediality and translation, politics and poetics of migration and globalization, urban imaginaries and mediations of place, theories of diversity and nationalism, comedy, comedy and community, modern rituals of regulating identity and authority and mobility

Tarek Zohdi

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

advanced manufacturing, 3D printing systems, fire propagation and control, UAVs and swarms, ballistic fabric shielding, food-system modeling, pandemic modeling