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
Phillip Messersmith Dept of Bioengineering Dept of Materials Science and Engineering adhesion, polymers, regenerative medicine, sustainable polymers, biomimetics, medical devices
Darian Longmire Dept of Art Practice mixed media, printmaking, Abstraction, Black studies, Black contemporary art
Henry Washington Jr. Dept of African American Studies 19th and 20th century African American literature, Black intellectual history, Black feminist theory, Black trans theory, Black visual culture and aestetics, performance theory
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
Bryan D. McCloskey Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering electrochemical energy storage, electrocatalysis, molecular and ionic transport through polymers
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
Fumi Okiji Dept of Rhetoric Black study, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, sound and music studies, aesthetics
Lisa A. Pruitt Dept of Mechanical Engineering tissue biomechanics, biomaterial science, fatigue and fracture micromechanisms, orthopedic polymers for total joint replacement, synthetic cartilage
Alex Filippenko Dept of Astronomy supernovae, active galaxies, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, expansion of the universe
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
Tadiwa Madenga Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of English African and Black diaspora literature, gender and sexuality, print culture, Festival and Carnival Studies
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
David E. Wemmer Dept of Chemistry nuclear magnetic resonance, nucleic acids, biophysical chemistry: proteins, NMR spectroscopy, magnetic resonance methods, structure of proteins and DNA, conformational fluctuations, biopolymers
Chung-Pei Ma Dept of Astronomy Dept of Physics astrophysics, black hole, dark matter, cosmology, formation and evolution of galaxies, cosmic microwave background radiation
Jay D. Keasling Dept of Bioengineering Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, metabolic engineering of microorganisms, environmentally friendly synthesis, biodegradable and recyclable polymers, production of biofuels and bioproducts, natural products
Chiyuma Elliott Dept of African American Studies poetry and poetics, African American literature, intellectual history - 1920s to the present, Black geography/cultural geography
Jessica Lu Dept of Astronomy black holes, star and cluster formation, galactic centers, adaptive optics, astronomy, instrumentation, infrared instrumentation, astrometry
Micah Khater Dept of African American Studies African American history, Black feminist theory, carceral studies, disability studies, racial formation in Arabic-speaking communities
Ellie Tubman Dept of Nuclear Engineering magnetic fusion, collisionless shock waves, electromagnetic methods
Lu Chen, MD, PhD, FARVO School of Optometry lymph and blood vascular biology, corneal inflammation, transplantation immunity, glaucoma
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