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Cihan Tugal Cihan Tugal
Dept of Sociology
political sociology, social movements, religion, Islam and the Middle East, culture, poverty and class, social theory, ethnography
headshot of Hunter Rendleman Hunter Rendleman
Dept of Political Science
American political institutions, political behavior, identity politics, organizations, group dynamics
Prof. Angela Marino Angela Marino
Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Latin American studies, performance studies, Venezuela, Chicanx Latinx studies, Chicano Latino theater, political cultures, Populism, Festival and Carnival Studies, democracy, Latin America, contemporary Latin American politics, Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, social movements and activism, social change, history and theory of theatre and performance art, cuba, Yucatan Mexico, Mexico, performance and spectatorship and reception, comparative politics, social revolution, media and society, Central America, American popular culture, urban and rural Latin America and North America
headshot of Jaime Sanchez Jaime Sánchez Jr.
Dept of History
democracy, elections, presidency, political parties, race and ethnicity, social movement history
Eric Schickler Eric Schickler
Dept of Political Science
American politics, Congress, political parties, public opinion
headshot of Mariane Ferme 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
headshot of Marion Fourcade Marion Fourcade
Dept of Sociology
culture, social theory, political sociology, economic sociology, comparative methods, knowledge and science
headshot of Deborah Blocker Déborah A. Blocker
Dept of French
Early modern French and Italian literature, history and culture, Comparative literature cultural studies, Social and political history of literature, aesthetics, philology, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Archival Studies
headshot of Alexei Yurchak Alexei Yurchak
Dept of Anthropology
social and political theory, communism and post-communism, language philosophy, the image, the body, avant-garde artistic experiments, science studies, ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society
headshot of Ann Swidler Ann Swidler
Dept of Sociology
religion, culture, Africa, AIDS, political sociology, theory, development, NGOs, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research / scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research
Aarti Sethi Aarti Sethi
Dept of Anthropology
agrarian anthropology, ruralism, feminist anthropology, political economy, Comparative Religion, South Asia, debt and capitalism, climate change, cinema and media culture, caste, socio-economic inequality, politics of knowledge, multi-species ethnography
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz
Dept of Sociology
race and ethnicity, sociology of knowledge and culture, Latinx politics and identify, political sociology, Du Boisian sociology, ethnographic methods, qualitative methods, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research / scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research
Penny Edwards, Faculty Research Seminar, Australian National University, November 2023 Penny Edwards
Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies
political and cultural history of Southeast Asia, French colonialism, British imperialism, French India, British India, comparative colonialism, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Chinese diaspora, cinema and theatre, material and visual culture, travel and translation, gender, nationalism, Buddhism, economic history, global history
Professor Tackett in China examining a recently excavated ninth-century funerary epitaph. Nicolas Tackett
Dept of History
Chinese history (Tang, Song, Liao dynasties), global middle ages, sino-steppe relations, aristocracies, meritocracy, elites, political culture, death ritual, premodern cities, premodern empires, imperialism, ethnicity, nationalism, national identity, social networks, frontiers, boundaries and borderlands, digital methodologies
Jinsoo An in outdoor setting with memorial sculpture in background Jinsoo An
Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Korean cinema, Korean culture
Harsha Ram speaking at the Parajanov Anniversary Symposium at BAMPFA, Berkeley, November 2024. Harsha Ram
Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Russian and European Enlightenment, Russian and European romanticism and modernism, Russian and European avant-gardes, Russian, European, Italian literature, Georgian history and literature, theories of world literature, literary theory, comparative poetics, genre theory, literary history, comparative modernisms and modernities, vernacular and high culture, cultural and political history of Russia-Eurasia and the Caucasus, postcolonial studies, theories of nationalism, imperialism and cosmopolitanism, urban studies, the city and literature
Victoria Plaut Victoria Plaut
School of Law
diversity, culture, inclusion
Stephen Best standing at desk with shelves full of book in the background. Stephen Best
Dept of English
film, English literature, African American literature, literary culture, legal culture
High Park Kevin Shadel
Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Korean literature and culture, comparative literature, posthumanism, literature and psychoanalysis, Marxism
Timothy Hampton in an outdoor setting Timothy Hampton
Dept of Comparative Literature
Dept of French
culture, politics, English, comparative literature, popular music, history of emotion, French, renaissance and early modern European culture, romance languages, ideology of literary genre, literary construction of nationhood, rhetoric of historiography
Waldo E. Martin Waldo Martin
Dept of History
African American history, modern American culture
Michael Iarocci in outside environmental setting Michael Iarocci
Dept of Spanish and Portuguese
modern Spanish literature and culture, critical theory, geopolitics of literature, aesthetics, transatlantic Hispanic studies, theory of the lyric, visual culture
headshot of Ikaika Ramones Ikaika Ramones
Dept of Ethnic Studies
indigenous studies, political economy, critical theory, political theory, media studies, social movements
Zonszein profile picture Stephanie Zonszein
Dept of Political Science
immigrant integration, intergroup relations, causal inference, race and ethnic politics, political behavior
Thumbnail portrait photo of G.R.F. (John) Ferrari Giovanni R. F. (John) Ferrari
Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies
classics, ancient philosophy, Greek culture, ancient poetics and rhetoric
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