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Jovan Scott Lewis

Dept of Geography

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

School of Social Welfare

child welfare, poverty

Martin Sánchez-Jankowski

Martín Sánchez-Jankowski

Dept of Sociology

crime, sociology of poverty, sociology of violence, race and ethnic relations

Ekédi Mpondo-Dika

Dept of Sociology

emotions, poverty, family and personal relationships, mental health

Goldman School of Public Policy

labor and employment, race, poverty, inequality, economics of education, health disparities, social welfare policy

Blumenstock speaking at a conference

Joshua Blumenstock

School of Information

machine learning, development economics, poverty and public policy, inequality and crisis

woman with black glasses, curly hair wearing orange dress

Tina Sacks

School of Social Welfare

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

School of Social Welfare

development, social development, social policy, community development, International social welfare, global poverty and inequality

School of Social Welfare

family policy, child and family poverty, child abuse and neglect, foster care, kinship care, Child welfare services

Dept of Economics

Goldman School of Public Policy

poverty, inequality, economic policy, Social Safety Net, labor economics, public economics, Food Insecurity, COVID-19

Cihan Tugal

Dept of Sociology

political sociology, social movements, religion, Islam and the Middle East, culture, poverty and class, social theory, ethnography

Prof. Iris D. Tommelein in Sutardja Dai Hall

Iris D. Tommelein

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

lean construction, lean production, design management, sustainability, supply-chain management, life-cycle engineering, civil infrastructure systems, adaptive project leadership, engineering project management, megaproject delivery, construction process engineering, integrated project delivery IPD, building information modeling BIM, virtual design and construction VDC

With the Global Health Fellows (I'm the one with the Cal cap)

Stefano M. Bertozzi

School of Public Health

HIV/AIDS, HIV prevention, HIV treatment programs, reproductive health, health economics, anti-poverty programs, impact evaluation

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

life cycle assessment, LCA, sustainability, green design, buildings, transportation, water, construction, biofuels, energy, environmental management, infrastructure systems

Dept of Sociology

poverty, inequality, causal inference, mixed methods, incarceration, prisoner reentry, education, neighborhoods, urban, community, adolescence, public impact research/scholarship

School of Social Welfare

poverty and inequality, Social Safety Net Programs, Unemployment and Labor Studies, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, social justice research

Dept of Architecture

architecture, design, construction, vernacular architecture, industrial and non-industrial building methods, sustainable construction

Julian Chun-Chung

Julian Chun-Chung Chow

School of Social Welfare

East Asian studies, social welfare, community practice and service delivery in urban poverty, ethnic, immigrant neighborhoods, community analysis and needs assessment, program planning and development, cultural competency services

Karen Trapenberg Frick

Karen Trapenberg Frick

Dept of City & Regional Planning

political polarization, politics of infrastructure, transportation policy and planning

Laura C. Nelson

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

gender and medicine and politics, breast cancer in South Korea, cultural impacts of ultra-low fertility, demographic undertow, structures on cultural temporality and anti-poverty policies in the U.S. and South Korea

Nicole Starosielski standing in outdoor setting

Nicole Starosielski

Dept of Film and Media

communications infrastructure

Neyran Turan thumbnail photo facing the camera with a white wall background.

Dept of Architecture

architectural design and climate change, planetary imagination and architectural design, climate futures, architecture and the Anthropocene, architectural construction and climate change, low-carbon architectural construction, hempcrete construction, bio-materials and design

Dept of City & Regional Planning

water, sanitation, basic services delivery, food justice, urban agriculture, poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, environmental justice, urban governance, participatory planning, community-based development, international development, development planning, sustainable development, African studies

john powell at lectern

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

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

infrastructure sensing, infrastructure modeling, performance-based design, underground structures, energy geotechnics, geomechanics