Fumi Okiji Dept of Rhetoric Black study, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, sound and music studies, aesthetics
Dora Silva Santana Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Black trans studies, Black queer and trans feminist theory, global south epistemologies, Black poets, visual culture - media - and technology
Ula Y. Taylor Dept of African American Studies 20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism
Henry Washington Jr. Dept of African American Studies 19th and 20th century African American literature, black intellectual histories, black feminist, queer, and trans theories, black critical theory, aesthetics and visual culture, performance studies
Patrice D. Douglass Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Black feminist theory, Afro-pessimism, feminist philosophy, gender and sexual violence, feminist legal theory, legal theory, political philosophy, Black political thought
Zi Qiang Qiu Dept of Physics experimental study of quantum magnetism in nanostructures, condensed matter physics, materials science experimentation
Darlène Dubuisson Dept of African American Studies Apocalyptic anthropology, Black feminist theory, Black intellectual history, Caribbean Studies, Haitian diaspora, immigration and migration, transnationalism and diaspora, speculation, inequality and crisis, crises and futures, visual culture
Courtney Desiree Morris Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Black women's social movement, state violence and authoritarianism, racial formations in Latin American, racial formations in the Caribbean, racial formations in the U.S., feminist and queer theory, environmental ethics, Black visual culture and aestetics
Tesha Sengupta-Irving School of Education STEM education, learning sciences, inequality & resistance, politics of learning, case study & design-based research
Justin Hosbey Dept of City & Regional Planning cultural and political economy of racism, Black ecologies, racial capitalism, digital humanities
John Tomsick Academic Research Unit black holes, Neutron Stars, X-ray astronomy, NuSTAR, accretion, COSI
Alex Filippenko Dept of Astronomy supernovae, active galaxies, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, expansion of the universe
Zamansele Nsele Dept of History of Art modern & contemporary African diaspora visual art, modern & contemporary African visual art, Black art, Black & African feminisms, critical theories of Blackness, African modernism, theories of nostalgia and melancholia, visual activism
Tadiwa Madenga Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of English African and Black diaspora literature, gender and sexuality, print culture, Festival and Carnival Studies
Larry M. Hyman Dept of Linguistics linguistics, phonological theory, typology, African languages, the Niger-Congo family, especially the comparative and historical study of the Bantu language family
Micah Khater Dept of African American Studies African American history, Black feminist theory, carceral studies, disability studies, racial formation in Arabic-speaking communities
Jasmin Brooks Stephens Dept of Psychology suicide prevention, racial trauma, Black youth, mental health, culturally responsive interventions
Chung-Pei Ma Dept of Astronomy Dept of Physics astrophysics, black hole, dark matter, cosmology, formation and evolution of galaxies, cosmic microwave background radiation
Jonah B. Gelbach School of Law civil procedure, statutory interpretation, law and economics, event study methodology, securities litigation, economics of crime, public assistance, statistical methods
William A. Lester, Jr. Dept of Chemistry theoretical and physical chemistry, advances in basic theory, computational methods, study of molecular electronic structure, quantum Monte Carlo method, Born-Oppenheimer approximation
Chenxi Tang Dept of German German literature and thought, European literature and thought, Chinese intellectual history, Comparative study of Europe and China, political and legal humanities, International Political Thought
Jessica Lu Dept of Astronomy black holes, star and cluster formation, galactic centers, adaptive optics, astronomy, instrumentation, infrared instrumentation, astrometry
Robert Sharf Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures East Asian languages and cultures, medieval Chinese Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, Buddhist philosophy, methodological issues in the study of religion
Reinhard Genzel Dept of Physics physics, existence and formation of black holes in galactic nuclei, nature of the power source, the evolution of (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies, gas dynamics, fueling of active galactic nuclei, properties evolution of starburst galaxies
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