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Dept of Linguistics

linguistics, phonological theory, typology, African languages, the Niger-Congo family, especially the comparative and historical study of the Bantu language family

Michael Lucey delivering a lecture.

Dept of Comparative Literature

the novel, sexuality studies, comparative literature, French, French literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British literature and culture, social and literary theory, cultural studies of music, studies of language in use, linguistic anthropology, theories of practice, twentieth-century American literature

Dept of Linguistics

linguistics, language change, Indo-European languages, historical linguistics, Indigenous California languages, Indigenous language revitalization

Alexander von Rospatt

Alexander von Rospatt

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

ritual studies, Nepalese studies, Buddhist traditions of South Asia, doctrinal history, Newar Buddhism, art

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Old and Middle Iranian languages, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Arabic dialectology, sociolinguistics, philology, Libyan Studies, archives

Mairi McLaughlin

Mairi McLaughlin

Dept of Italian Studies

French linguistics, translation studies, language of the media, language contact, syntax, romance linguistics, History of the Romance Languages, Italian language, history of French, History of the Press, Speech Reporting, Metalinguistic texts

Dept of Ethnic Studies

comparative Latino studies, United States history, social movement history, historical methods

Robert Sharf standing with group of students in library, holding a plague and flowers

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian languages and cultures, medieval Chinese Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, Buddhist philosophy, methodological issues in the study of religion

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Eric Naiman

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

sexuality, history, comparative literature, Slavic language, ideological poetics, history of medicine, Soviet culture, the gothic novel

Dept of Linguistics

morphology, syntax, semantics, California languages, Germanic languages, Inuit languages

Andrew Scharlach

Andrew Scharlach

School of Social Welfare

aging, social welfare, family issues, aging-friendly communities, long-term care policies

Dept of Comparative Literature

critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature, 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, social and political thought, philosophy and literature

Shannon Jackson

Shannon Jackson

Dept of History of Art

Dept of Rhetoric

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

rhetoric, performance studies, American studies, 20th century art movements and critical theory, local culture and intercultural citizenship in turn-of-the-century United States, history and theory of theatre and performance art

Sarah E. Vaughn

Dept of Anthropology

anthropology, Science and Technology studies, environment, Expertise, climate change, historicism, theories of liberalism, Caribbean/Latin America

Déborah A. Blocker

Early modern French and Italian literature, history and culture, Comparative literature cultural studies, Social and political history of literature, aesthetics, philology, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Archival Studies

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Peter Jenks

Dept of Linguistics

syntax, semantics, morphology, linguistic theory, Thai, Southeast Asian languages, African languages

David Montejano

David Montejano

Dept of Ethnic Studies

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

School of Social Welfare

family policy, child and family poverty, child abuse and neglect, foster care, kinship care, Child welfare services

Dept of Psychology

couple relationships, family factors in children's development, parenting, fatherhood, preventive intervention with families

School of Social Welfare

social welfare, comparative welfare state analysis, child welfare, evaluation research, family policy, social security

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

Lange faculty portrait

Henrike C. Lange

Dept of History of Art

art, architecture, literature, afterlife of antiquity, middle ages & Renaissance / early modern age, Giotto, Donatello, Mantegna, Botticelli, Raphael, 19th and 20th century historiography, Aby Warburg, total solar eclipses, theology, creativity and interdisciplinarity

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

Steven Lee

Dept of English

twentieth-century American literature, comparative ethnic studies, diaspora, Korean studies, Soviet and post-Soviet studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

critical theory, U.S. cultural studies, Israel-Palestine, theories of race and ethnicity, comparative diaspora studies, public humanities