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Sarah Anzia

Dept of Political Science

Goldman School of Public Policy

American politics, public policy, interest groups, state politics, local politics, election timing, voter turnout, public pensions, public sector unions, collective bargaining

David Broockman

David Broockman

Dept of Political Science

political representation, elections, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research / scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships

Kevin J. O'Brien

Dept of Political Science

social movements, Chinese politics, peasant politics

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Jason Wittenberg

Dept of Political Science

dictatorship, democratic backsliding, ethnic politics, Eastern Europe, religion and politics, voting behavior

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Michael D. Bolden

School of Journalism

community-engaged journalism, media transformation, press freedom, equity in journalism, local news reporting

Kate O'Neill sitting in her office in front of a bookshelf

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

wastes and the circular economy, global environmental governance, climate change politics, globalization, environmental politics and policy, environmental movements, waste plastic recycling

Nancy Lee Peluso

Nancy Lee Peluso

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

political ecology, Indonesia, resource policy and politics, forest and agrarian change, property and access

Yan Long

Dept of Sociology

globalization, social movements, authoritarian politics, international development, organizations, public health, technology

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Geeta Anand

School of Journalism

journalism, health care, equity, social justice, politics, ethics, media, disinformation, India, international affairs

Nicholas Mathew

Nicholas Mathew

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music in Europe and its colonies, music and politics, political economy of sound media, pianos and pianism, music and materialism, Beethoven, Haydn, music in Vienna, London, aesthetics, piano performance, historical performance practices

Mel Y Chen

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

queer and feminist theory, disability theory, critical animal studies, materiality studies, cultural politics of race and sexuality and ability and immigration, critical linguistics, paradigms of inter and transdisciplinarity

School of Education

policy analysis and evaluation, reform issues, charter schools, child care, early childhood development, economy and education

Dept of Geography

China, geography, political economy of development in East Asia, international economic restructuring, cultural and institutional configuration in the processes of Taiwanese direct investment, growth in Chinese cities, business networks

Haas School of Business

urban and regional economics, international trade, political economy

Carlos F. Noreña

Dept of History

Roman history

Dept of Sociology

genocide, Ethnic Conflict, religion

Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre

Dept of Geography

geospatial representation, political economy, critical environments, social mapping, political ecology, historical and political geography, environmental history, indigenous/campesino ontologies and epistemologies, Latin American geographies, videography

Haas School of Business

urban economics, housing markets, public policies, capital taxation

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

political economy of development, historical and feminist political ecology, critical food and agrarian studies, Science and Technology studies, feminist theory, African studies, Tanzania, critical ethnography, participatory research, community-engaged research / scholarship, gender, intersectionality, agriculture, environmental justice

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Sandra Eder

Dept of History

gender, sexuality, medicine, science, US History 20th century, popular culture, history of childhood, happiness

Jose Eos Trinidad

School of Education

education policy, institutional change, organizational theory, civil society, sociology of education, sociology, network analysis, work, history of professions, professional development, technology policy

David Montejano

David Montejano

Dept of Ethnic Studies

social change, historical sociology, political sociology, community studies, race & ethnic relations

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Marié Abe

sound and space, ethnography, human geography, sound studies, music and social movements, affect and the body, Japanese popular performing arts, critical ocean studies, public ethnomusicology

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

Nathaniel Wolfson

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Brazilian literature and culture, Latin American literature and culture, Latin American Art History, media studies, critical theory, environmental humanities, Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, visual studies