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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

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Jovan Scott Lewis

Dept of Geography

Jamaica and the USA, constructions and inffrastructures of poverty, inequality, race (blackness), economy, reparations

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Nikki Jones

Dept of African American Studies

African American communities, policing, racial/gender disparities and the criminal justice system, violence and violence interventions

Ian Haney Lopez

Ian F. Haney Lopez

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

Denise Herd

School of Public Health

public health, epidemiology, specialty area in multicultural health, behaviorial science, social movements, race and ethnicity, medical anthropology, American popular culture

Desmond Jagmohan

Desmond Jagmohan

Dept of Political Science

history of political thought, American political thought, African American political thought, race and American political development

Russell Robinson

Russell Robinson

anti discrimination law, race and sexuality, law and psychology, constitutional law, media and entertainment law

Patrice Douglass

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

Jonathan Glater

Jonathan Glater

education law, social justice, racial justice

criminal law, criminal procedure, criminal justice, juvenile justice

Dept of Geography

racial geographies, environmental justice, earth system science

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Alina Ball

business associations, critical legal theory, law and social entrepreneurship

Jacob (Jake) Grumbach

Goldman School of Public Policy

democracy, labor and employment, racial justice, quantitative methods, public policy, political economy, federalism

Goldman School of Public Policy

crime, public policy, employment discrimination, labor economics, racial inequality, urban economics, criminal justice policy

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David C. Wilson

Goldman School of Public Policy

political psychology, politics, race and public policy, race, racial justice, public opinion research, survey research methods

Jack Glaser

Goldman School of Public Policy

policing, criminal justice, research methods, public policy, experimental social psychology, hate crime, political psychology, stereotyping, racial profiling, prejudice & discrimination, nonconscious social cognition

environmental law, energy law, natural resources law, health law and policy, Indian Nations and Indigenous peoples, state and local government

Andrew Wooyoung Kim

Andrew Wooyoung Kim

Dept of Anthropology

intergenerational trauma, culture and mental health, psychiatric epidemiology, stress physiology, epigenetics, developmental origins of health and disease, biocultural anthropology, racial justice, critical and decolonial approaches to biological anthropology

Tina Sacks

School of Social Welfare

racial disparities in health, social disparities of health, race and class and gender, poverty and inequality

artificial intelligence, intellectual property law, law and technology, criminal justice

Jennifer Anne LaFleur

School of Journalism

data journalism, investigative journalism, disability, inequality, criminal justice

Dept of City & Regional Planning

environmental planning, climate planning, sustainability and resilience, environmental and climate justice, geographic and spatial analysis, urban policy and political economy, global environmental governance, community engagement

School of Public Health

urban health, gun violence, informal settlements, global public health, urban climate change, environmental impact assessment, mediation, environmental justice, urban and regional planning

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Catherine Ceniza Choy

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American history, Filipino American studies, race and gender, migration, nursing history, adoption studies, public impact research/scholarship, social justice research

Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

Dept of Sociology

race and ethnicity, sociology of knowledge and culture, Latinx politics and identify, political sociology, Du Boisian sociology, ethnographic methods, qualitative methods, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research / scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research