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Department

civil procedure, conflict of laws, legal remedies

Dept of Economics

Africa, education, development economics, human capital, health, ethnic divisions, social capital, civil conflict, war, pre-analysis plans, water

Aila Matanock at work in Berkeley

Dept of Political Science

post-conflict elections, policing, peace processes, civil conflict, foreign intervention, armed actor governance, armed actor social support, counterinsurgency, survey experiments, mixed-method research design, Central America, Colombia, Solomon Islands, West Africa

Michaela Mattes

Dept of Political Science

International Conflict and Cooperation, Conflict Management, Domestic Politics and International Relations

Dept of Political Science

Goldman School of Public Policy

civil litigation

Dept of Sociology

genocide, Ethnic Conflict, religion

Claudia Ostertag

Claudia P. Ostertag

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

energy, environmental analysis of civil infrastructure systems, structural engineering, mechanics and materials

Dept of Political Science

international relations, international security, religion and conflict, Israel, military intelligence, torture, interrogation

Haas School of Business

business ethics, Jewish business ethics, specifically peace, conflict studies

Eyitayo Opabola

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

civil infrastructure systems, climate change impact, multihazard risk, community resilience, adaptive climate risk mitigation

Biwen Zhang standing in outside location

Biwen Zhang

Haas School of Business

capital markets, conflicts of interest, financial intermediation, machine learning

Calvin Morrill smiling

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

Prof. Iris D. Tommelein in Sutardja Dai Hall

Iris D. Tommelein

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

lean construction, lean production, design management, sustainability, supply-chain management, life-cycle engineering, civil infrastructure systems, adaptive project leadership, engineering project management, megaproject delivery, construction process engineering, integrated project delivery IPD, building information modeling BIM, virtual design and construction VDC

Jose Eos Trinidad

School of Education

education policy, institutional change, organizational theory, civil society, sociology of education

Prof. Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos standing on a damaged levee in Grand Isle, LA, following Hurricane Ida.

Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

civil infrastructure systems, geosystems, geotechnical engineering, landslides, drones, satellites, earthquakes, natural hazards, infrastructure resilience, bioinformatics, engineering justice

Ian Haney Lopez

Ian F. Haney Lopez

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

Kim Shelton

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

ceramics, classical civilization and archaeology, Aegean prehistory, religion/mythology

Marika Landau-Wells

Marika Landau-Wells

Dept of Political Science

political psychology, conflict, national security, public opinion, foreign policy

Dept of History

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

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

Amanda L. Tyler

federal courts, separation of powers, the judiciary, habeas corpus, civil procedure, the emergency Constitution, gender equality, constitutional law

Jonah B. Gelbach

civil procedure, statutory interpretation, law and economics, event study methodology, securities litigation, economics of crime, public assistance, statistical methods

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

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Dept of Geography

Latin America, human rights, peasantry, migrations, social movements, political conflict, Mayan communities in Guatemala, issues of memory, grief

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

geotechnical earthquake engineering, wireless sensors, seismic slope stability, seismic earth pressure, rock erosion, groundwater remediation, numerical modeling of solid-fluid interaction, geotechnical engineering, geological engineering