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Dylan Penningroth

Dept of History

African American history, U.S. socio-legal history

Ian Haney Lopez

Ian F. Haney Lopez

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

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

civil rights, constitutional law, legal history, law and society, administrative law

Desmond Jagmohan

Desmond Jagmohan

Dept of Political Science

history of political thought, American political thought, African American political thought, race and American political development

Civil rights and civil liberties, intellectual property law, law and technology, privacy and cybersecurity

Catherine Crump in outdoor setting wearing emerald green top

Catherine Crump

Civil rights and civil liberties, constitutional law, criminal law, criminal procedure, criminal justice, law and technology, national security, privacy and cybersecurity

Dept of History

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

Dept of Political Science

Goldman School of Public Policy

civil litigation

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

Dept of African American Studies

20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism

Jonathan Glater

Jonathan Glater

education law, social justice, racial justice

Dept of Political Science

comparative politics, international relations, formal theory and methods

Michael Mascarenhas

Michael Mascarenhas

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

environmental justice, critical race theory, Post-colonial theory, Science and Technology studies

Mariane C. Ferme

Dept of Anthropology

material culture and agrarian landscapes, gender, historical anthropology, Sierra Leone, contemporary Africa, political culture, transitional justice in post-conflict societies

artificial intelligence, law and technology, intellectual property law, contemporary art and law, gender and sexuality

Raúl Coronado standing in outside setting

Dept of English

Latina/o literary and intellectual history, histories of sexuality and of the academic disciplines, comparative history of writing in the colonial and 19th century Americas, modernity, postcolonialism

Dept of English

community-engaged research / scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships

Dept of Sociology

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

Omar Wasow

Dept of Political Science

American politics, race and ethnic politics

Photo of Deirdre K. Mulligan

Deirdre Mulligan

School of Information

information policy, law, privacy, security, machine learning and artificial intelligence

Ken Ueno at EMPAC with feedback bowl

Ken Ueno

music composition, decolonizing music, noise, sound installations, music of Japan, extended vocal techniques, overtone singing, musical culture of Japan, experimental improvisation