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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Eileen Gambrill

Eileen D. Gambrill

School of Social Welfare

social welfare, professional ethics and education, social learning theory, behavioral methods

Mark Bevir

Dept of Political Science

social and political theory

Photo of Wesley H. Holliday

Wesley Holliday

Dept of Philosophy

logic, social choice theory

John Lie

Dept of Sociology

social theory, political economy, East Asia

Dylan John Riley

Dylan John Riley

Dept of Sociology

political sociology, comparative historical sociology, social theory

School of Social Welfare

social welfare, comparative welfare state analysis, child welfare, evaluation research, family policy, social security

Cihan Tugal

Dept of Sociology

political sociology, social movements, religion, Islam and the Middle East, culture, poverty and class, social theory, ethnography

Kurt C. Organista

Kurt C. Organista

School of Social Welfare

social welfare, race/ethnicity, HIV prevention, social behavior

Dept of Economics

economics, experimental economics, behavioral economics, networks, microeconomic theory, social learning

Raka Ray in outdoor setting

Raka Ray

Dept of Sociology

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

feminist theory, gender, masculinity, middle-class, social movements, South and Southeast Asian studies, relations between dominant subaltern groups in India, women¹s movements in India

Dept of Sociology

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

photographed in front of the blackboard in his office

Dan-Virgil Voiculescu

Dept of Mathematics

operator algebras, free probability theory, random matrices, K-theory of operator algebras, single operator theory

Marion Fourcade

Dept of Sociology

culture, social theory, political sociology, economic sociology, comparative methods, knowledge and science

Yuichiro Kamada

Haas School of Business

game theory, social networks, search, Market Design, communication, political economy, marketing

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Islam (social and intellectual history)

School of Social Welfare

development, social development, social policy, community development, International social welfare, global poverty and inequality

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

Calvin Morrill smiling

sociology of law, organizational theory, ethnography, social movements, youth culture and conflict, sociology of culture, entrepreneurship

Areej Sabbagh-Khoury

Dept of Sociology

political sociology, historical sociology, knowledge production, social theory, colonialism and settler colonialism, citizenship

Steven P. Segal

School of Social Welfare

psychiatry, methodology, social welfare, mental health and social policy

George A. Akerlof

George A. Akerlof

Dept of Economics

macroeconomics, monetary theory, behavioral economics, sociology and economics, theory of unemployment, asymetric information, staggered contract theory, money demand, labor market flows, theory of business cycles, economics of social customs, measurement of unemployment, economics of discrimination

School of Information

social informatics, digital transformation, knowledge, social and cultural studies

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

immigration and migration, medical anthropology with foci on social theory and ethnography, social studies of medicine and science, social difference related to race, social difference related to socioeconomic status, social difference related to citizenship, social difference related to gender, social difference related to sexuality, the naturalization and normalization of social hierarchies and health disparities, social suffering and symbolic violence, urban and rural Latin America and North America, population health with focus on global health, population health with focus on health disparities, population health with focus on social determinants of health

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of History

History and anthropology of South Asia, social and cultural theory, history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, globalization

Michael Austin standing in office with yellow door

Michael J. Austin

School of Social Welfare

strategic planning, social welfare, social service management, organizational development