School of Humanities and Sciences |
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| Bruce Baker | Professor | Biological Sciences | Regulatory genes controlling sex, studying sexuality in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster as a model for developmental process. |
| Albert Bandura | Professor | Psychology | Analysis of basic mechanisms of human agency through which people exercise control over their level of functioning and events that affect their lives. |
| Harumi Befu | Professor | Anthropology (Emeritus) | The nature of integration of rural communities with the larger society; the social and cultural aspects of Japan's globalization; an analysis of Japan's national and cultural identity. |
| Terry Berlier | Assistant Professor | Art and Art History | Sculpture |
| Lisa Blaydes | Assistant Professor | Political Science | Women and Islam, gender and voting behavior, determinants of female support for patriarchal religious practices. |
| Lera Boroditsky | Assistant Professor | Psychology | The relationships between mind, world, and language; how do we construct knowledge from our experiences with the world; how do we use our knowledge to interpret new experiences. |
| Melissa Brown |
Assistant Professor |
Anthropology | Social theory and anthropology of China and Taiwan; Universal processes of social and cultural change, especially evolutionary models, ethnic identity, migration. |
| Patricia Burchat |
Professor | Physics |
Fundamental physics; the laws of physics that govern the fundamental constituents of the Universe; mapping the "dark matter" in the universe as a probe for understanding the nature of "dark energy". |
| Laura Carstensen
| Professor | Psychology |
Socio-emotional selectivity theory, emotional development throughout the life-span, the role social relationships play in psychological well-being, and the influence of motivation on cognitive processing in old age. |
| Gretchen Daily | Professor |
Biological Sciences | Making conservation mainstream - economically attractive and commonplace; quantifying the conservation value of human-dominated landscapes, for biodiversity and the many societal benefits it supplies, and on enhancing this value through innovative conservation finance. |
| Charitini Douvaldzi | Assistant Professor |
German Studies | 18th to 20th century German literature and culture; autobiography and the Bildungsroman; psychoanalytic and cultural theory; narrative, vision, and the arts of memory; ethics and aesthetics of incompletion. |
| Carol S. Dweck | Professor |
Psychology | Human intelligence; how people's implicit theories about intelligence can impact their behavior. |
| Jennifer L. Eberhardt | Associate Professor | Psychology |
Racial stereotyping, prejudice, and stigma; effects of social knowledge and representations on visual perception, attention, and memory; race and crime. |
| Penelope Eckert | Professor |
Linguistics | Social meaning of linguistic variation; relation between variation, linguistic style, social identity and social practice; language and gender; language and adolescents/preadolescents. |
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| Harry J. Elam, Jr. | Professor |
Drama | Author of Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka; The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson. |
| Paula England | Professor |
Sociology | 1) How occupations' sex composition affects their wages, 2) gender dynamics in families and how they vary by social class, 3) unintended pregnancies, and 4) relationships, dating, and sex among college students. |
| James Ferguson | Professor |
Anthropology | Theoretical and ethnographic issues in Lesotho and Zambia; the broadly conceived political, the relation between specific social and cultural processes, the abstract narratives of "development" and "modernization". |
| Paula Findlen | Professor |
History | 1) The early history of science and medicine, 2) understanding the world of the Renaissance, with a particular focus on Italy, 3) the relations between gender, culture and knowledge. |
| Morris Fiorina | Professor |
Political Science | American government and politics, with special emphasis on topics in the study of representation and elections. |
| Shelley Fisher Fishkin | Professor |
English | 19th- and 20th-century American literature and cultural history; transnational American studies; issues of race and gender; public history and public memory; the literary landscape; human-animal interactions and animal welfare and literature. |
| Estelle Freedman | Professor |
History | Women's history and feminist studies; the role of women in movements for social reform, including feminism and women's prison reform; history of sexuality in the U.S., as well as lesbian history; the history of sexual violence in America. |
| Hester Gelber | Professor |
Religious Studies | Late medieval religious thought; philosophy of religion as well as medieval Christianity; development of the medieval religious cosmos as a mythologized system of retributive justice. |
| Barbara Gelpi | Professor |
English (Emerita) | Victorian and Romantic literature and feminist literary criticism; Victorian medievalism. |
| Kalanit Grill-Spector | Assistant Professor |
Psychology | Visual object recognition and other high-level visual processes with functional imaging (fMRI), computational techniques and behavioral methods. |
| David Grusky | Professor |
Sociology | 1) the rise and fall of social classes under advanced industrialism, 2) the underlying structure of occupational segregation by race and sex, 3) the sources of modern attitudes toward gender inequality, 4) long-term trends in patterns of occupational and geographic mobility. |
| Susan Holmes | Professor |
Statistics | Computational Biology; Bootstrap for multivariate analyses; Phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences; Multivariate Statistics applied to microarray techniques. |
| Sarah Jain | Assistant Professor |
Communications | Design, injury, and mobility; Commodity violence. |
| Agnieszka Jaworska | Assistant Professor |
Philosophy | "Subjects' expectations in neuroimaging research." J Magn Reson Imaging. 2006 |
| Patricia Jones | Professor |
Biological Sciences | The regulatory pathways that control the body's immune responses. |
| Jan Krawitz | Professor |
Art and Art History | Film production and film studies; Films in distribution include Big Enough, In Harm's Way, Mirror Mirror, Drive-in Blues, Little People, Cotton Candy and Elephant Stuff, and Styx. |
| Indra Levy | Assistant Professor |
Asian Languages | Modern Japanese literature, theater, film, and criticism; modern Japanese women's intellectual history. |
| Helen Longino | Professor |
Philosophy | The relations of social and cognitive values in the sciences, the epistemological challenges of scientific pluralism, the philosophical character of feminist epistemologies, and the development of a social approach to scientific knowledge. |
| Andrea Abernethy Lunsford | Professor | English | Contemporary rhetorical theory; women and the history of rhetoric; collaboration and collaborative writing; current cultures of writing; intellectual property and composing; style; and technologies of writing |
| Hazel Markus | Professor |
Psychology | The sociocultural shaping of mind and self; how gender, ethnicity, religion, social class, cohort, and region or country of national origin may influence thought and feeling, particularly self-relevant thought and feeling |
| Yoshiko Matsumoto | Associate Professor |
Asian Languages | Semantics and Pragmatics; Structure of modern Japanese; Relation of language to gender and age; Japanese as a Second Language |
| Lynn Meskell | Professor |
Anthropology | Egyptian archaeology, ethnography in South African, identity and sociopolitics, gender and feminism, and ethics |
| Kathryn A. Moler | Associate Professor |
Applied Physics | Physics of nanostructured materials; Local magnetic probes; Experimental Condensed Matter; Superconductivity; Microscopy and Imaging |
| Yumi Moon | Assistant Professor |
History | Modern Korea and East Asia; political culture and democratization; colonialism |
| Marcyliena Morgan | Associate Professor |
Communication | Youth, gender, language, culture and identity, sociolinguistics, discourse and interaction |
| Paula Moya | Associate Professor |
English | Chicana/o cultural studies and feminist theory; 19th and 20th century American literatures, post-colonial literature and literary and cultural theory; relationship between a subject's social location and her identity; the epistemic and political consequences of social identity |
| Clifford Nass | Professor |
Communication | Social-psychological aspects of human-computer interaction |
| Muriel Niederle | Associate Professor |
Economics | Market design and the gender gap in wages |
| Robert Polhemus | Professor |
English | Literary history; 19th-century British literature--especially the novel; 20th-century British fiction; the visual arts (including film); and cultural psychology |
| Robert Proctor | Professor |
History | History of scientific controversy in 20th and 21st centuries; cultural production of ignorance (agnotology); history of scientific rhetoric, geology, evolution and human origins |
| Rob Reich | Associate Professor |
Political Science | Liberalism; Moral and Legal Status of Children; Civic Education; Educational Theory and Policy; Public Service and Policy |
| Cecilia Ridgeway | Professor | Sociology | How social hierarchies in everyday interaction play in the larger processes of stratification and inequality in a society |
| Jessica Riskin | Associate Professor | History | Enlightenment science, politics and culture and the history of scientific explanation |
| Terry Root | Professor (by courtesy) | Biological Sciences |
Large-scale ecological questions investigating factors shaping the ranges and abundances of animals and plants |
| Janice Ross | Associate Professor |
Drama | Interests include contemporary performance as activism and dance in prisons. |
| Lee Ross | Professor | Psychology |
Social Psychology; attributional processes and biases; strategies and shortcomings in lay judgment and decision making; Basis of (and biases in) knowledge about self and others; egocentrism and "naive realism." |
| Joan Elizabeth Roughgarden | Professor | Biological Sciences | Books: 2006-Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist, 2004-Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People |
| Christopher Rovee | Assistant Professor | English | The value of poetry in the nineteenth century; the romantic and postromantic lyric; 19th-c. visual culture; the gothic; literary interiority; the lyric from Milton to Blake; the Shelleys; and Keats |
| Gabriella Safran | Associate Professor | Slavic Languages and Literature | Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian literature; Polish literature; Yiddish literature; Jewish Studies; folklore; Realism; the aesthetics of ethnicity; the relationship between sacred and secular writing |
| Ramon Saldivar | Professor | English | Literary criticism and literary theory, the history of the novel, 19th and early 20th century literary studies, cultural studies, globalization and issues concerning transnationalism, and Chicano and Chicana studies |
| Kristine Samuelson | Professor | Communication | Documentary producing and directing; her credits include Arthur and Lillie, Time Has No Sympathy, 2 A.M. Feeding, An Artist's Journey, Wrong Place, Wrong Time, and Empire of the Moon. |
| Rebecca Sandefur | Assistant Professor | Sociology | Intersection of the sociology of law and the sociology of inequality, Social Stratification and Mobility; Law and Society; Work, Occupations and Professions |
| Priya Satia | Assistant Professor |
History | Modern British History including the British Empire |
| Carla Shatz | Professor |
Biology | To discover cellular and molecular mechanisms that transform early fetal and neonatal brain circuits into mature connections, and in particular to determine the extent to which neural function during critical periods of development is needed for these circuits to tune up into adult patterns of connectivity. |
| Matthew Snipp | Professor | Sociology | Race, Ethnic, and Minority Relations; Stratification, Mobility, and Inequality; Demography |
| Matthew Sommer | Associate Professor | History | Sexuality, gender relations, and law during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912); legal cases from central and local archives in China |
| Carolyn Springer | Associate Professor | French and Italian | Nineteenth-century Italian literature and cultural history; lyric poetry; gender studies; Renaissance visual culture; history of landscape |
| Peter Stansky | Professor (Emeritus) | History |
Modern British History |
| Claude Steele | Professor |
Psychology | Self-esteem and self-evaluative functioning; its role in shaping interests, motivations, and identity, and its role in maintaining psychological resilience. Reactions to being negatively stereotyped and its effect on shaping intellectual identity and performance. Collective models of prejudice. Effects of alcohol use on self-regulation and social behavior. |
| Laura Stokes | Assistant Professor | History |
15th Century European social history, especially witchcraft prosecution |
| Peter Stone | Assistant Professor |
Political Science | Theories of Justice; Democratic Theory; Rational Choice Theory; Philosophy of Social Science |
| Jennifer Summit | Associate Professor |
English | Chaucer; Spenser; pre-18th Century women writers; Reformation English culture and writing; periodization of "medieval" and "Renaissance"; history of books and literary culture |
| Michele Tertilt | Assistant Professor |
Economics | Macroeconomics, Growth and Development; Economics of the Family, Public Finance |
| Frederick Turner | Assistant Professor |
Communication | Digital media, journalism and the intersection of media and American cultural history |
| Jun Uchida | Assistant Professor |
History | History of decolonialization on Korean peninsula; modern Japan; oral history; history of food |
| Barbara Voss | Assistant Professor |
Anthropology | Historical archaelogy, focusing on how sexuality and gender shape the dynamics of colonial encounters. Director of the Market Street Chinatown Archaeology Project, San Jose, CA. |
| Virginia Walbot | Professor |
Biological Sciences | The mechanisms that create allelic diversity and modulate genome stability in plants; to define how a "germinal" cell is specified |
| Thomas Wasow | Professor |
Linguistics | Language processing, syntactic theory, linguistic methodology |
| Gail Wight | Associate Professor |
Art and Art History | The cultural impact of scientific practice, and plays with our constant redefinition of self through our epistemologies |
| Caroline Winterer | Assistant Professor |
History | Intellectual and cultural history of pre-1900 America |
| Laura Wittman | Assistant Professor |
French and Italian | Italian, French, and Comparative Literature |
| Rega Wood | Professor(Research) |
Philosophy | Medieval Philosophy, History, History of Science & Theology; Medieval Latin Paleography and Codicology |
| Sylvia Yanagisako | Professor |
Anthropology | Socio-Cultural Anthropology; the effects of and alternatives to the orthodox definition of anthropology as the "holistic" study of human-kind based on the integration of the fours fields of archaeology, biological anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology |
| Richard Zare | Professor |
Chemistry | Laser chemistry; chemical reactions at the molecular level; molecular collision processes; chemical analysis; laser induced fluorescence |
