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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

Dept of Linguistics

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

photo of Lev Michael standing in the rainforest in central Peruvian Amazonia

Lev Michael

Dept of Linguistics

linguistic typology, Amazonian languages, anthropological linguistics, historical linguistics, language contact and areal typology, language documentation and description, lexicography, language revitalization

Dylan John Riley

Dylan John Riley

Dept of Sociology

political sociology, comparative historical sociology, social theory

Leti Volpp

citizenship, law and culture, identity (especially race and gender), immigration and migration, Asian American studies

Paiz in "Jalisco's," a longstanding Mexican restaurant in Coachella, Ca.

Christian O. Paiz

Dept of Ethnic Studies

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

School of Social Welfare

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

Dept of English

18th century and Romantic British literature, Milton, literature and the history of science, especially medicine

Dept of Sociology

comparative and historical sociology, political sociology, ethnoracial politics, development, demography, Latin America

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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

Amy Rose Deal portrait

Dept of Linguistics

meaning, grammar, endangered languages, Native American languages, semantics, syntax, word structure, language universals, language variation, Nez Perce language

Isaac L. Bleaman

Isaac L. Bleaman

Dept of Linguistics

sociolinguistics, language contact, language change, language maintenance, computational linguistics, syntax, phonetics, Yiddish, Jewish languages

Weihong Bao

Dept of Film and Media

late 19th century visual and performance culture, Chinese language cinema, transnational genre cinema, comparative media history and theory, propaganda theory and history(10988)

Chenxi Tang standing in outdoor setting

Chenxi Tang

German literature and thought, European literature and thought, Chinese intellectual history, Comparative study of Europe and China, Political and Legal Humanities, International Political Thought

Dept of Anthropology

anthropology, historical archaeology, oral history, material culture and ethnic identity, family and gender relations, North America, Northern California, Caribbean, Bahamas, African consumerism, creolization, multi-ethnic community

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

Jill Duerr Berrick

School of Social Welfare

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

Steven Piantadosi

Steven Piantadosi

Dept of Psychology

language acquisition, language processing

Dept of Linguistics

language variation and change, speech and language disorders

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

Ekédi Mpondo-Dika

Dept of Sociology

emotions, poverty, family and personal relationships, mental health

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 Slavic Languages and Literatures

Russian poetry from the 18th century to contemporary, lyric theory, nature lyric, Pushkin, Russian literature and art of the 18th and 19th centuries, Derzhavin, Turgenev, history and literataure, historical novel

Fumi Okiji

Dept of Rhetoric

Black study, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, sound and music studies, aesthetics

Dept of Anthropology

historical archaeology, African American archaeology, historic preservation, heritage conservation, community based participatory research