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Kathryn Abrams standing in outside setting.

law, feminist jurisprudence, voting rights, constitutional law

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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

Khiara Bridges standing in an outdoor setting.

Khiara M. Bridges

race, class, reproductive rights

Eric Stover

human rights, war, International Criminal Law, Forensic Sciences, International Criminal Justice

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

computer security, secure electronic voting, web security, mobile security, cellphone security

Susan Maslan in crowded interior space

French, early modern French literary, political history, the enlightenment, human rights

person with short gray hair and black rim glasses holding chin

Jason Wittenberg

Dept of Political Science

dictatorship, democratic backsliding, ethnic politics, Eastern Europe, religion and politics, voting behavior

Robert Van Houweling

Robert Van Houweling

Dept of Political Science

Congress, political parties, voting behavior, spatial models of candidate competition, experimental methods

criminal law, international law, human rights, International Criminal Law

Ian Haney Lopez

Ian F. Haney Lopez

constitutional law, race relations, civil rights, race in politics, Latinos

School of Social Welfare

aging, caregiving, long-term care, workplace rights, health policy, LGBTQ+

Cecilia Hyunjung Mo

Cecilia Hyunjung Mo

Dept of Political Science

Goldman School of Public Policy

inequality, immigration, human trafficking, political behavior, voting and elections, political socialization, research design and empirical methods

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Dept of History

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

Dept of History

20th century U.S. history, with a focus on political economy, civil rights, education, law, the west

Dept of Political Science

American politics, political behavior, political psychology, public opinion, voting and elections, political socialization, research design and empirical methods

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Dept of Geography

Latin America, human rights, peasantry, migrations, social movements, political conflict, Mayan communities in Guatemala, issues of memory, grief

environmental law, natural resource law, law and science, biodiversity conservation, public and private land management, property rights

Robert P. Merges

antitrust, intellectual property, property rights, patent law, law and economics, copyright law, digital content, online contracts

Mark Danner

Dept of English

School of Journalism

foreign affairs, voting and elections, journalism, Central America, politics, Balkans, Haiti, documentaries, terrorism, the Middle East, contemporary literature, modernist writers, contemporary literature and film

Pheng Cheah

Dept of Rhetoric

world literature, human rights, nationalism, legal philosophy, feminism, 18th-20th century continental philosophy & contemporary critical theory, postcolonial theory & anglophone postcolonial literatures, cosmopolitanism & globalization, social & political thought

intellectual property, privacy, copyright, artists' rights, free expression, notice and takedown, free and open source licensing, defensive patent licensing, DMCA, patent, how technical and policy design affect privacy and other social values

Cortez in front of installation

Iggy Cortez

Dept of Film and Media

world cinema, contemporary art, global cities, aesthetic theory, global cinema, transnationalism and diaspora, night, cinema, Indie Film, screen performance, acting, asian art, asian-american art, asian diasporic culture, psychoanalysis, affect theory

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Paola Bacchetta

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

transnational feminist and queer theory, decolonial feminist and queer theory, activisms / artivisms / practices / movements /alliances / right-wings, geographic specializations: U.S.; France; India; Italy; Brazil

Michael DeWeese

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Physics

machine learning, computation, systems neuroscience, auditory cortex, neural coding, statistical mechanics

Venkatesan Guruswami

Venkatesan Guruswami

Dept of Mathematics

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

theoretical computer science, coding theory, approximate optimization, randomness in computation, computational complexity