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William F. Hanks William F. Hanks
Dept of Anthropology
social and cultural anthropology, linguistics, shamanism, language, Yucatan Mexico, Maya culture
Charles Hirschkind Charles Hirschkind
Dept of Anthropology
Islam, anthropology, religious practice, media technologies, political community, Middle East, Europe
Mark Fleming Mark Fleming
School of Public Health
ethnography and qualitative methods, stress and chronic disease, social determinants of health and health disparities, health systems research and healthcare access, social difference and power and inequality, criminal justice as a determinant of health, urban transportation, community-engaged research / scholarship, community-based research partnerships
Seth M. Holmes Seth M. Holmes
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, 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
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
Jun Sunseri conducting ground penetrating radar survey at the request of his Community Mentors (photo courtesy of Zach Emerson of the InterTribal Ecological Restoration Crew) Jun Sunseri
Dept of Anthropology
community-accountable archaeology, historical archaeology, zooarchaeology, ceramic material science, GIS, landscape archaeology, experimental archaeology, community-engaged research / scholarship, outreach, foodways, actualistic research, exploration geophysics, ground penetrating radar, remote sensing, photogrammetry, magnetometry, thermodynamics, adobe construction, food sovereignty
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
Daniel Fisher Daniel Fisher
Dept of Anthropology
media, music, Indigenous Australia, ethnographic film, cinema, urban studies, fire ecology
Teresa Caldeira Teresa Caldeira
Dept of City & Regional Planning
urbanization in the global south, peripheries: urban violence and spatial segregation, urban change, ethnography and qualitative methods
Erin Kerrison Erin Michelle Turner Kerrison
School of Social Welfare
crime, criminal justice, drug control, health disparities, mass incarceration, mental health, mixed methods, policing, prisons, punishment, risk, reentry, substance abuse, trauma, violence, race and gender, artificial intelligence, data science, social work and education, public impact research/scholarship
Linda Burton Linda Burton
School of Social Welfare
child welfare, poverty
headshot of Liliana Rodriguez smiling Liliana V Rodriguez
Dept of Ethnic Studies
immigration, race/ethnicity, Latinx sociology, immigrant youth, inequality
Tim Tangherlini in outdoor setting Timothy Tangherlini
Dept of Scandinavian
School of Information
folklore, Danish culture, Danish cinema, Danish literature, 19th and 20th Century Scandinavian literature, digital humanities, culture analysis, machine learning, networks, Korean culture, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research / scholarship
Laura C. Nelson photo dated 2023 Laura C. Nelson
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
gender and medicine and politics, breast cancer in South Korea, cultural impacts of ultra-low fertility, demographic undertow, structures on cultural temporality and anti-poverty policies in the U.S. and South Korea
Tianna Paschel Tianna Paschel
Dept of African American Studies
Dept of Sociology
racial ideology, politics, globalization, Latin America
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
Peter Nelson Peter Nelson
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
indigenous archaeology, indigenous environmental studies, settler colonialism, community-based participatory research, California
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
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