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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Eric Stover

human rights, war, International Criminal Law, Forensic Sciences, International Criminal Justice

criminal law, international law, human rights, International Criminal Law

Susan Maslan in crowded interior space

French, early modern French literary, political history, the enlightenment, human rights

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Dept of History

Modern German and European History, Human Rights and Internationalism, global urban history, critical theory

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

Picture of Professsor Bacchetta

Paola Bacchetta

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

transnational feminist and queer theory, decolonial feminist and queer theory, activisms / artivisms / practices / movements /alliances / right-wings, geographic specializations: U.S.; France; India; Italy; Brazil

Pheng Cheah

Dept of Rhetoric

world literature, human rights, nationalism, legal philosophy, feminism, 18th-20th century continental philosophy & contemporary critical theory, postcolonial theory & anglophone postcolonial literatures, cosmopolitanism & globalization, social & political thought

Khiara Bridges standing in an outdoor setting.

Khiara M. Bridges

race, class, reproductive rights

Kathryn Abrams standing in outside setting.

law, feminist jurisprudence, voting rights, constitutional law

Anca Dragan in outside setting

Anca Dragan

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

robotics, human-robot interaction, human-compatible artificial intelligence

Jamie H. D. Cate

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

protein synthesis by the ribosome, RNA, antibiotics, human translation, escherichia coli

Ian Haney Lopez

Ian F. Haney Lopez

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

Priya Moorjani standing in front of map of the world

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Human evolutionary genetics, human genetics, ancient DNA, population genetics, statistical genetics

School of Social Welfare

aging, caregiving, long-term care, workplace rights, health policy, LGBTQ+

Akash Kumar

Dept of Italian Studies

medieval Italian literature, history of science, history of philosophy, Mediterranean studies, digital humanities

Dept of History

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

Dept of Psychology

cognition, human brain function, development

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

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Statistics

evolution, molecular evolution, population genetics, human variation, human genetics, phylogenetics, applied statistics, genetics, evolutionary processes, evolutionary biology

Jake Kosek

Dept of Geography

cultural politics of nature and difference, cultural geography, Science and Technology studies, critical race theory, critical cartography, biopolitics, human and the non-human, environmental politics

Justin Bashares in lab with taxidermy animals

Justin Brashares

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

wildlife, biodiversity, ecology, conservation, sustainability, climate change, human livelihoods

Hany Farid

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

School of Information

digital forensics, forensic science, misinformation, human perception

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

digital humanities, intellectual history, Sumerian, cuneiform, Mesopotamia

Jeffrey MacKie-Mason

Jeffrey MacKie-Mason

Dept of Economics

School of Information

information systems, digital content, human behavior, online behavior

Dept of Demography

human populations, migration, fertility and fecundity, environmental change