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Richard K. Hernandez

School of Journalism

journalism, new media, Mobile, visual storytelling, virtual reality, film/video production, photojournalism

Doris Tsao

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

visual perception

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Jill Miller

Dept of Art Practice

visual arts

David Whitney

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, cognition, attention, visual perception, vision, visually guided action, human factors

Rowland Taylor

School of Optometry

mammalian visual system, retinal function

Niklaus Largier

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of German

theology, anthropology and literature, literature and the visual arts, philosophical anthropology, ritual and religion, religious practice, literature

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

Gregory Levine

Dept of History of Art

Buddhist visual culture, Eco Art History

Bruno Olshausen

Dept of Neuroscience

School of Optometry

visual perception, computational neuroscience, computational vision

Deborah Orel-Bixler

School of Optometry

optometry, vision science, visual abilities in infants, children and special-needs population, visual evoked potentials, vision screening, photorefraction

Dennis M. Levi

School of Optometry

optometry, vision science, pattern vision, abnormal visual development

Michael Silver

Dept of Neuroscience

School of Optometry

cognitive neuroscience, pharmacology, psychedelics, learning, attention, visual perception, neuroimaging

Leigh Raiford

Dept of African American Studies

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

Yang Dan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neuronal circuits, mammalian visual system, electrophysiological, imaging, prefrontal cortex, sleep

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Anneka Lenssen

Dept of History of Art

global modern art, the Middle East, theories of decolonization, visual culture, contemporary art

Kevin Weiner

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Psychology

visual perception, face processing, comparative neuroanatomy, development, translational applications for patient populations

Laura E. Pérez

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Chicana/Latina feminist & queer literary, visual, performance arts, US women of color thought, decolonial aestetics and decolonial spiritualities

Elisa Tamarkin

Dept of English

American literature to 1900, American painting and visual arts, literature and philosophy, nineteenth century intellectual history

Michael Iarocci

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

modern Spanish literature and culture, critical theory, geopolitics of literature, aesthetics, transatlantic Hispanic studies, theory of the lyric, visual culture

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

Gerald Westheimer

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neurobiology; psychophysics, primate visual cortex, neural circuits, brain mechanisms, response modifications, active perception, learning, stereoscopic vision, optometryoptics of the eye, ophthalmic instrumentation

Shari Huhndorf

Dept of Ethnic Studies

interdisciplinary Native American studies, Alaska Native studies, cultural studies, gender studies, American studies, literary and visual culture

Minoo Moallem

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Transnational and Postcolonial Feminist Studies, cultural studies, Commodity Cultures, Visual and Material Cultures of Religion, Immigration and Diaspora Studies, Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies

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)

Laurent Reyes

School of Social Welfare

civic participation, community based research, visual methods, aging, immigration, Latinx older adults, Black older adults, intersectional life course perspective, systems of oppression, access to healthcare

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