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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

John Efron

Dept of History

Cultural and social history of German Jewry

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Islam (social and intellectual history)

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of History

History and anthropology of South Asia, social and cultural theory, history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, globalization

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Dept of History

Modern German and European History, Human Rights and Internationalism, global urban history, critical theory

Dept of History

history, U.S. History, urban history, cultural history, History of Time

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

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, Law and Literature

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

urban design and planning, design history, social and cultural factors in landscape design

contemporary German literature and media, theories of the contemporary, aesthetics and politics, transnationalism and translation, digital writing, European Jewish literature, literary and cultural theory, theories of the novel

Xin Liu

Dept of Anthropology

history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, social/cultural anthropology, comparative societies, capitalism and culture, America and China/East Asia

Margaretta Markle Lovell

Dept of History of Art

cultural history, American art, architecture, design

School of Information

social informatics, digital transformation, knowledge, social and cultural studies

Deniz Göktürk

German literature, German cinema, transnational cinemas, German-Turkish-European-American intersections in cinema, performance and spectatorship and reception, intertextuality and intermediality and translation, the politics and poetics of migration and globalization, urban imaginaries and mediations of place, theories of diversity and nationalism, comedy and community, modern rituals of regulating identity and authority and mobility

William F. Hanks

William F. Hanks

Dept of Anthropology

social and cultural anthropology, linguistics, shamanism, language, Yucatan Mexico, Maya culture

folklore, Dutch studies, transatlantic slavery, German literature, Portuguese Studies, post-colonial studies, hybridity

Wali Ahmadi

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Persian literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history, Afghanistan

Jonathan Zwicker

Jonathan Zwicker

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan

Arianne E Eason

Arianne E Eason

Dept of Psychology

developmental psychology, social psychology, cultural psychology

Dept of History

modern East and Central European political and social history, comparative education, history of nationalism and racism, history of Catholicism, Late Modern Europe

Dept of African American Studies

social movements, visual culture, memory, photography, African American history and culture

Placeholder image for Andrew Barshay

Dept of History

social thought, social sciences in modern Japan, marxism, Japanese history, Japanese-Russian relations

Dept of Sociology

social networks, American social history, technology, urban sociology, sociology

Hannes Bajohr in outdoor setting

digital writing technologies, language and literature, German philosophical tradition in the 20th century, liberal and republican political theory

Alan Tansman in outdoor setting

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Modern Japanese Literature, literary and cultural theory, aesthetics and politics, Comparative Responses to Violence, literary history

Dept of Ethnic Studies

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