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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

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Dept of History of Art

global modern art, Middle East, theories of decolonization, visual culture, contemporary art

Steven Lee

Dept of English

twentieth-century American literature, comparative ethnic studies, diaspora, Korean studies, Soviet and post-Soviet studies

C. Greig Crysler

C. Greig Crysler

Dept of Architecture

architecture, geopolitics of architectural discourse, globalization and social production of the built environment, architecture and identity

Stephen Collier

Stephen Collier

Dept of City & Regional Planning

urban vulnerability and resilience, insurance and climate change, Soviet urban planning and post-Soviet urban and social welfare transformation, infrastructure and politics, neoliberalism and governmental rationality, emergency government in the United States

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

Dept of History of Art

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Soviet art, photography, European avant-gardes, global modern art

Dept of Sociology

anticolonial politics, empire, racism, global and transnational sociology, historical sociology, social theory

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

Daniel Stolper in lab setting

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

biogeochemistry, earth history, geobiology, global climate studies, organic geochemistry, stable isotope geochemistry

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Dept of History

Modern German and European History, Human Rights and Internationalism, global urban history, critical theory

Sugata Ray

Dept of History of Art

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

climate change, early modern, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean, art history, environment, globalization, ecology, Eco Art History, global art history

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Kristen Whissel

Dept of Film and Media

Cinema and technological change, cinema and modernity, classical Hollywood cinema, stereoscopic 3D cinema and media, history and theory of special effects, cinema in transition, American film history, modernity and early cinema, cinema and globalization, cinema and the environment/elements

Andrew F. Jones

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian languages and cultures, Chinese popular music, sonic culture, media technology, modern Chinese fiction, children's literature, literary translation

Xin Liu

Dept of Anthropology

history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, social/cultural anthropology, comparative societies, capitalism and culture, America and China/East Asia

Lester Hu

Europe, East Asia, Inner Asia, music, history of music theory

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Roni Masel

Dept of Comparative Literature

Hebrew literature, Yiddish literature, Jewish history, queer theory, postcolonial theory

Dept of History of Art

art history, Modern Art, Art of the United States, American art, visual culture, material culture studies, photography, Race and Visuality, regionalism, Art Education, creativity, Amateurism, feminism, voting rights, museum studies

John Lie

Dept of Sociology

social theory, political economy, East Asia

Dept of Film and Media

film theory and history, digital media, aesthetics, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, philosophy of history, technics, media theory and archaeology, psychoanalysis

Dept of Rhetoric

critical theory, Middle Eastern Studies, Legal and political thought, law and humanities, law and society, legal histories, colonialism and post-colonialism, anti-colonialism

Dept of African American Studies

Atlantic slave trade, historical demography, African history and political economy, oil and gas policy

Dept of History

history, East Asian studies, Qing and Modern China, maritime Asia, Taiwan, Pacific Rim societies