John Tomsick Academic Research Unit black holes, Neutron Stars, X-ray astronomy, NuSTAR, accretion, COSI
Alex Filippenko Dept of Astronomy supernovae, active galaxies, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, expansion of the universe
Jessica Lu Dept of Astronomy black holes, star and cluster formation, galactic centers, adaptive optics, astronomy, instrumentation, infrared instrumentation, astrometry
Reinhard Genzel Dept of Physics physics, existence and formation of black holes in galactic nuclei, nature of the power source, the evolution of (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies, gas dynamics, fueling of active galactic nuclei, properties evolution of starburst galaxies
Raphael Bousso Dept of Physics physics, quantum mechanics, gravity, unified description of nature, string theory, quantum properties of black holes, geometry of spacetime, covariant entropy bound, cosmological constant
Chung-Pei Ma Dept of Astronomy Dept of Physics astrophysics, black hole, dark matter, cosmology, formation and evolution of galaxies, cosmic microwave background radiation
Dora Silva Santana Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Black trans studies, Black queer and trans feminist theory, global south epistemologies, Black poets, visual culture - media - and technology
Ula Y. Taylor Dept of African American Studies 20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism
Henry Washington Jr. Dept of African American Studies 19th and 20th century African American literature, black intellectual histories, black feminist, queer, and trans theories, black critical theory, aesthetics and visual culture, performance studies
Patrice D. Douglass Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Black feminist theory, Afro-pessimism, feminist philosophy, gender and sexual violence, feminist legal theory, legal theory, political philosophy, Black political thought
Darlène Dubuisson Dept of African American Studies Apocalyptic anthropology, Black feminist theory, Black intellectual history, Caribbean Studies, Haitian diaspora, immigration and migration, transnationalism and diaspora, speculation, inequality and crisis, crises and futures, visual culture
Fumi Okiji Dept of Rhetoric Black study, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, sound and music studies, aesthetics
Justin Hosbey Dept of City & Regional Planning cultural and political economy of racism, Black ecologies, racial capitalism, digital humanities
Zamansele Nsele Dept of History of Art modern & contemporary African diaspora visual art, modern & contemporary African visual art, Black art, Black & African feminisms, critical theories of Blackness, African modernism, theories of nostalgia and melancholia, visual activism
Courtney Desiree Morris Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Black women's social movement, state violence and authoritarianism, racial formations in Latin American, racial formations in the Caribbean, racial formations in the U.S., feminist and queer theory, environmental ethics, Black visual culture and aestetics
Jasmin Brooks Stephens Dept of Psychology suicide prevention, racial trauma, Black youth, mental health, culturally responsive interventions
Tadiwa Madenga Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of English African and Black diaspora literature, gender and sexuality, print culture, Festival and Carnival Studies
Micah Khater Dept of African American Studies African American history, Black feminist theory, carceral studies, disability studies, racial formation in Arabic-speaking communities
Rizvana Bradley Dept of Film and Media aesthetic theory, art history, Black studies, contemporary art, contemporary film theory, critical theory, moving image installation, postcolonial studies, race and the philosophy of media
Laurent Reyes 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
Sharad Chari Dept of Geography geography as history of the present and as earthly/oceanic writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic studies, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean
Michael Frenklach Dept of Mechanical Engineering chemical kinetics, computer modeling, uncertainty quantification, combustion chemistry, pollutant formation (carbon black, soot), chemical vapor deposition of diamond films, homogeneous nucleation of silicon, diamond and graphene, diamond powders; interstellar dust formation
Terrence Hendershott Haas School of Business management of information systems, role of information technology in financial markets, after-hours stock trading, electronic communications networks (ECNs), electronic markets
Ting Xu Dept of Chemistry Dept of Materials Science and Engineering polymer, nanocomposite, biomaterial, membrane, directed self-assembly, drug delivery, protein therapeutics, block copolymers, nanoparticles
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