Faculty Expertise

bifurcation and orbit diagrams, dynamical systems, fractals, graphical analysis, Julia sets repelling periodic points, parameter space diagrams

General Relativity, String Theory, Supergravity, theoretical and mathematical physics

alternative writing and politics, area studies in the Middle East and China, political philosophy and theory, Politics and Literature, politics of landscape, politics of place

ancient Greek and Roman culture, Ancient slavery, ancient street culture, ancient theories of disgust, cultural studies, feminist theory, gender, history, memory studies, Roman comedy and theater, Roman invective, Roman satire, urban theory, women and gender studies

behavioral economics, econometrics, economic development, health threats in developing countries, housing, instrumental variables estimation, inter-temporal preferences, labor economics, military manpower, mobile telephony in Africa, public economics, U.S. social welfare programs, urban economics

cross-cultural differences in self-related processes (US vs. East Asia comparisons), cultural psychology, ego depletion model, meaning maintenance model, money priming, naive dialecticism, positive psychology, self-concept, self-esteem, self-regulation, social psychology, terror management theory

art and popular culture, art practice, artist and curator, contemporary art, contemporary art practice, contemporary international art, curating and curatorial practice, issues pertaining to museums and academic museums, museums

behavior, behavioral pharmacology, neuro-informatics, neurophysiology, neuroscience, olfactory system, physiology, sensory systems

African American literature and literary theory, African-American studies, American studies, and the humanities, commodity culture and consumerism, creative writing, critical race studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, histories and theories of privacy in law, histories and theories of privacy in literature and culture, histories of U.S. race and ethnicity, law, legal studies, LGBTQ politics, literary analysis, literature, literature and law, media studies, media studies, nationalism, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, photography, poetry, post-racialism, privacy, privacy law, queer studies, racial passing, representations of disability and illness, theories of the public sphere, Twentieth-Century American Literature, U.S. literature and culture 1865 to the present, visual culture, women and gender studies

20th and 21st century French and Francophone, AIDS literature, autobiography and testimony as genre, genocide against the Tutsi, genocide studies, identity politics, literary and cinematic analysis, post-genocide in Rwanda, writing of history