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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Samuel Lucas at podium

Dept of Sociology

research methods, demography, sociology, social stratification, sociology of education, research statistics

Mark Wilson

School of Education

measurement, psychometrics, assessment, development of assessment resources, assessment systems

Dennis Baldocchi

Dennis Baldocchi

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

biometeorology, climate change and ecosystems, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, agricultural meteorology, ecosystem ecology, carbon cycle, evaporation, ecohydrology

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

Dept of Psychology

statistics, organization, psychology, research methodology, industrial, social psychology, personnel, cross-cultural work values, decision-making research, work and family issues, work values of Chinese employees

Dept of Demography

demography, social networks, quantitative methodology

Hillel David Soifer in outdoor setting

Dept of Political Science

comparative politics, methodology & formal theory, Latin America

Colin Gould in outdoor setting

Colin Gould

Dept of Chemistry

catalysis, synthetic methodology, photochemistry, electrochemistry, organic synthesis

Man with gray hair looking at camera with book shelves in background

Steven P. Segal

School of Social Welfare

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

Kirk Bansak

Dept of Political Science

causal inference, experimental design and analysis, algorithmic decision-making, refugee resettlement and asylum politics, public opinion, survey methodology

Thomas Maimone in lab setting

Dept of Chemistry

organic synthesis, total synthesis, natural products chemistry, catalysis, synthetic methodology, medicinal chemistry, organic chemistry, drug discovery

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

Dept of Political Science

political economy, ethnic politics, comparative clientelism in developing countries, research design, causal inference, statistical methods, multi-method research

Maggie Chan

School of Education

school psychology, learning sciences, social research methods

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

indigenous archaeology, indigenous environmental studies, settler colonialism, community-based participatory research, California

Sagar Karandikar

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

computer architecture, hardware/software co-design, datacenters, accelerators, systems research, VLSI design

Kris D. Gutiérrez

Kris D. Gutiérrez

School of Education

designed learning environments, Cultural dimensions of learning, language and literacy learning for dual language learners, biliteracy, new media literacies, social organization of learning, ethnographic methodology and qualitative approaches to inquiry, design experiment/social design experiments, education of Latino, immigrant, migrant youth, urban education, teacher learning, educational and language policy

Kourtney Kawano

School of Education

indigenous education and identity, critical race studies, social research methods, identity (especially race and gender), family issues, school/community partnerships

Henry Brady

Dept of Political Science

Goldman School of Public Policy

comparative politics, public policy, electoral politics, political participation, survey research, program evaluation, statistical methods in the social sciences, social welfare policy, Soviet Union, inequality in America

Dr. Reyes in front of book shelves in the library

School of Social Welfare

civic participation, community based research, visual methods, aging, immigration, Latinx older adults, Black older adults, intersectional life course perspective, systems of oppression, access to healthcare

Mark D'Esposito, M.D.

Mark D'Esposito

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, psychology, working memory, frontal lobe function, functional MRI, neurology, brain imaging, dopamine

Erica Bree Rosenblum

Erica Bree Rosenblum

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

evolutionary biology, global change biology, conservation biology, ecological genomics

Keith Johnson at lectern

Dept of Linguistics

phonetics