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Portrait of Shiben Banerji

Dept of History of Art

architecture, urbanism, rhetoric, public life, design theory and methods

James Robinson, Professor of Health Economics

School of Public Health

industrial policy in the life sciences, pharmaceutical pricing, regulation of medical devices, comparative health systems

Joan Bloom

School of Public Health

health policy and management, cancer prevention, early detection and long term survival, public healthreducing disparities in access to health care

Professor David C. Wilson on stage

David C. Wilson

Goldman School of Public Policy

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

Dept of Economics

Goldman School of Public Policy

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

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

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

Goldman School of Public Policy

public policy, nuclear engineering, energy, resources, risk analysis as applied to global warming, methodological studies of forecasting, hazard assessment, renewable energy technologies, environmental resource management

Yan Long

Dept of Sociology

globalization, social movements, authoritarian politics, international development, organizations, public health, technology

Abe smiling while standing by an oak tree near the music department building.

Marié Abe

sound and space, ethnography, human geography, sound studies, music and social movements, affect and the body, Japanese popular performing arts, critical ocean studies, public ethnomusicology

Goldman School of Public Policy

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

Kathryn Abrams standing in outside setting.

law, feminist jurisprudence, voting rights, constitutional law

Rosemarie de la Rosa

Rosemarie de la Rosa

School of Public Health

pollutant exposure

Goldman School of Public Policy

US immigration and criminal laws, immigration, immigration detention, legal statuses, maternal and child health, history of immigration in U.S., population health with focus on social determinants of health

Photo of Professor Barbara Laraia

School of Public Health

nutrition, obesity, Food Insecurity, Perinatal Health, diabetes

Teresa Caldeira

Teresa Caldeira

Dept of City & Regional Planning

urbanization in the global south, peripheries: urban violence and spatial segregation, urban change, ethnography and qualitative methods

HEARTs Research Group

Amani Nuru-Jeter

School of Public Health

health inequities, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic position, stress and health, place and health, social determinants of health, cardiometabolic risk, birth outcomes

Nicholas Mathew

Nicholas Mathew

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music in Europe and its colonies, music and politics, political economy of sound media, pianos and pianism, music and materialism, Beethoven, Haydn, music in Vienna, London, aesthetics, piano performance, historical performance practices

man with glasses standing in outdoor setting; John Taylor

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

evolution, fungi, phylogenomics, mycology, population genomics, ecology

Turner with digital reconstruction of Villa Farnesina in 1512

James Grantham Turner

Dept of English

gender, sexuality, English, 16th-18th century English, Italian and French literature, art and literature, 17th century political writing, landscape and the city, Enlightenment materialism, sexuality in Renaissance Italian art and Antiquity, ecocriticism in literature and art

Dept of History

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

Juana María Rodríguez

Juana María Rodríguez

Dept of Ethnic Studies

race and sexual politics, LGBTQ communities, Latino/a/x and Caribbean literatures and cultures, women of color feminisms, queer activism in the Americas, transgender studies, sex work

Michael Lucey delivering a lecture.

Dept of Comparative Literature

the novel, sexuality studies, comparative literature, French, French literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British literature and culture, social and literary theory, cultural studies of music, studies of language in use, linguistic anthropology, theories of practice, twentieth-century American literature

School of Education

social research methods, higher education policy, economics of higher education