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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Dept of African American Studies

20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism

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

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

Nadia Ellis seated on an easy chair looking at the camera

Nadia Ellis

Dept of English

Black diaspora literature and culture, Caribbean, gender and sexuality

Anna Stilz

Dept of Political Science

history of political thought, nationalism, collective agency, migration, environmental and climate justice

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

Peter B. Zinoman

Dept of History

Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnamese literature, Southeast Asian history, communism, nationalism, colonialism

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

Fumi Okiji

Dept of Rhetoric

Black study, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, sound and music studies, aesthetics

Dept of City & Regional Planning

cultural and political economy of racism, Black ecologies, racial capitalism, digital humanities

Academic Research Unit

black holes, Neutron Stars, X-ray astronomy, NuSTAR, accretion, COSI

Alex Filippenko

Alex Filippenko

Dept of Astronomy

supernovae, active galaxies, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, expansion of the universe

Zamansele Nsele standing in outdoor setting

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

Photo by Diamela Cutiño

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

Jasmin Brooks Stephens

Dept of Psychology

suicide prevention, racial trauma, Black youth, mental health, culturally responsive interventions

photo of Tadiwa Madenga

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

African and Black diaspora literature, gender and sexuality, print culture, Festival and Carnival Studies

Dept of History

colonialism, nationalism, women and gender, childhood and youth, activism and environmental conservation, agricultural labor history

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, black hole, dark matter, cosmology, formation and evolution of galaxies, cosmic microwave background radiation

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Latin America, Jewish Latin America, Andes, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, Holocaust, genocide, race, nationalism, Spanish, mestizaje, indigeneity, Quechua

Prof. Jessica Lu and the Keck Observatory Laser-Guided Adaptive Optics System.

Jessica Lu

Dept of Astronomy

black holes, star and cluster formation, galactic centers, adaptive optics, astronomy, instrumentation, infrared instrumentation, astrometry

Dept of History

modern East and Central European political and social history, comparative education, history of nationalism and racism, history of Catholicism, late modern Europe

Dept of African American Studies

African American history, Black feminist theory, carceral studies, disability studies, racial formation in Arabic-speaking communities

Dept of English

English literature, Shakespeare, English renaissance, Spenser, drama, theater, American film history, film theory and production, critical theory, imperialism, nationalism, mass entertainment, authorship

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

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