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Haas School of Business

consumer judgements and choice, impression management, incentives, prosocial behavior, word of mouth, social consumption, corporate social responsibility

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Dept of Linguistics

meaning, grammar, endangered languages, Native American languages, semantics, syntax, word structure, language universals, language variation, Nez Perce language

Dept of Scandinavian

Danish literature, 19th and 20th Century Scandinavian literature, literary history, gender and literature, word and image, archaeology in literature and visual art, death and the arts, ecology and ice art

Dept of History of Art

Twentieth- and twenty-first-century art and architecture, global modernism, globalization, postwar art history, global art history, third world art, Global South, art and decolonization, Bandung, non-aligned movement, Cold War, atomic, modern and contemporary South and Southeast Asian art

Dept of English

English, 19th century American literature, 17th and 18th century American literature, African American literature, Herman Melville, race in American culture, literature and history, discourse and ideology, word and image studies, close reading

Fei Xu

Dept of Psychology

cognitive development, language development, learning mechanisms, statistical learning and statistical inference, conceptual development, developmental psychology, word learning, physical reasoning, social cognition in infants and children, learning in infants and young children, computational models of cognitive development, Bayesian probabilistic models, cognitive development and AI models, psychology and philosophy

Vasugi Kailasam

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Tamil studies, film and digital culture, South Asia, South and Southeast Asian studies, cultural studies of Southeast Asia, South Asian Literature and Culture

Debarati Sanyal

Border studies, race, postcolonialism, politics of aesthetic form, nineteenth-century French studies, memory studies, World War Two, Holocaust studies, critical refugee studies, contemporary fiction and film

Pradeep Chhibber

Pradeep Chhibber

Dept of Political Science

political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India

Dept of Psychology

statistics, organization, psychology, research methodology, industrial, social psychology, personnel, cross-cultural work values, decision-making research, work and family issues, work values of Chinese employees

Dept of History

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

Elora Shehabuddin

Elora Shehabuddin

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

transnational feminism, history and politics of feminist movement, activism, left-wing politics in the Global South, critical approaches to development, political economy, South Asia, Middle East, Global South, United States

Alexander von Rospatt

Alexander von Rospatt

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Buddhist traditions of South Asia, ritual studies, Nepalese studies, doctrinal history, Newar Buddhism, art

Munis D. Faruqui

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Mughal India, Delhi Sultanate, Islam in South Asia/India, Urdu

Dept of History

Britain, its Empire and World, 1750 to present

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Elizabeth Hoover

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

food sovereignty, heirloom seeds, prescribed fire, community based participatory research, environmental justice, food justice, environmental health, wild land firefighters, international fire training

Lisandro Claudio

Lisandro Claudio

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Philippines, theories of liberalism, history and culture of Southeast Asia, austerity in the global south

Glynda Hull

School of Education

language, culture, society, education, literacy, writing in and out of schools, multi-media technology, new literacies, adult learning, work, community, school, university collaborations

Luis Flores

Dept of Sociology

urban inequality, home-based work, economic sociology

William Lester, Jr.

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

Liliana Rodriguez

Dept of Ethnic Studies

immigration, race/ethnicity, Latinx sociology, immigrant youth, inequality

Raka Ray in outdoor setting

Raka Ray

Dept of Sociology

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

feminist theory, gender, masculinity, middle-class, social movements, South and Southeast Asian studies, relations between dominant subaltern groups in India, women¹s movements in India

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Indonesia, South and Southeast Asian studies, literature and gender, cultural studies of Southeast Asia, orality and literacy

Dept of Art Practice

photography, contemporary art, Art Pedagogy, performance, postcolonial studies, gender, queer, trans studies, contemporary African Art, South Asian Art, art of the Global South, global modernisms

Elena A. Schneider

Elena A. Schneider

Dept of History

Latin America, Caribbean, Atlantic World, cuba, comparative colonialism and slavery