Guide to Faculty Expertise
Anthropology
For more information, visit the MIT Anthropology website.
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Héctor Beltrán |
How the technical aspects of computing intersect with issues of identity, race, ethnicity, class, and nation |
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Manduhai Buyandelger |
Globalization/neoliberal governmentality in countries after socialism, namely Mongolia, Russia and post-Soviet Central Asia |
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Ian Condry |
Spread of twenty-first century cultural movements, particularly in Japan |
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Michael M.J. Fischer |
Anthropology of biosciences, media circuits, and emergent forms of life |
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Stefan Helmreich |
Marine biology, space, scientific culture |
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James Howe, emeritus |
Political and historical anthropology, indigenous-state relations, missionization |
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Jean Jackson, emeritus |
Medical anthropology, indigenous politics |
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Erica Caple James |
Medical humanities, gender and violence, religion and healing, issues of race and human rights |
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Graham M. Jones |
Linguistic anthropology, digital communication, the relationship between magic, science, and religion |
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Amy Moran-Thomas |
Anthropology of science, technology, and medicine; human health and planetary change |
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Heather Paxson |
American agri-food politics, artisan cheese making and importing; gender, family and reproductive politics |
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Susan Silbey |
Law and science, environmental health and safety regulation, regulatory compliance, professional ethics, engineering education, women in science, dispute resolution |
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Bettina Stoetzer |
Intersections of ecology, globalization, and urban social justice |
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Christine Walley |
social class, labor, documentary film, environment, knowledge systems |
Comparative Media Studies / Writing
For more information, visit the MIT CMS/W website.
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Vivek Bald |
Documentary film and transmedia |
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Marcia Bartusiak, emeritus |
Media and science; astronomy; physics |
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Eugenia Brinkema |
Film and media research focusing on violence, affect, sexuality, aesthetics, and ethics |
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Federico Casalegno |
Impact of networked digital technologies on human behavior and society |
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Ian Condry |
Media and globalization; media innovation and economics; new digital media |
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Junot Díaz |
Literature and society; literary genre, writing, literary fiction |
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Paloma Duong |
Intersection of culture and politics in 20th and 21st century Latin America |
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Fox Harrell |
Imaginative cognition and computation |
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Heather Hendershot |
Media and politics; political discourse; American conservatism; film and genre |
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Eric Klopfer |
Digital gaming and STEM education |
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crystall@mit.edu |
Computational media, ethical technology, accessibility |
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Helen Elaine Lee |
Fiction, incarceration, prison writing |
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Thomas Levenson |
Documentaries, film, and science |
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Alan Lightman |
Literary fiction, science, and physics |
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Kenneth Manning |
Race, science, and medicine |
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Seth Mnookin |
Media and society, medicine, vaccination |
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Nick Montfort |
Imaginative and poetic digital writing, Video and computer games, Material history of computational media, Interactive narrative |
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Jim Paradis |
Popular representations of science; professionalism and vernacular culture |
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jreich@mit.edu |
Educational technology, learning, teacher education |
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Paul Roquet |
Cultural politics and power relations woven through mediated spatial perception, focusing on the use of media to shape the emotional environments of everyday life |
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Edward Schiappa |
Argumentation, classical rhetoric, media influence, and contemporary rhetorical theory |
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Philip Tan |
Digital, live-action, tabletop game design, production and management |
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T.L. Taylor |
Internet and game studies |
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William Uricchio |
Media technologies and cultural practices, knowledge and the public, histories of “old” media, interactions of media cultures and their audiences |
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Rosalind Williams, emeritus |
The history of technology |
Economics
For more information, visit the MIT Economics website.
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Alberto Abadie |
Econometrics, causal inference, program evaluation |
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Daron Acemoglu |
Human capital, unemployment, |
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Isaiah Andrews |
Econometrics, stastical inference |
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Joshua Angrist |
Human capital, schooling, education, economics of the family |
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David Atkin |
Impacts of trade liberalization on the developing world, impacts of trade on health and education |
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David Autor |
Trade, human capital, labor market impacts of technological change, consequences of employment protection, inequality |
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Ian Ball |
Economic theory, information design, mechanism design |
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Abhijit Banerjee |
International development, poverty alleviation, random controlled trials, income distribution, "Herd behavior" in financial and other markets |
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maberaja@mit.edu |
Macroeconomics, business cycles and stabilization policy, new technologies and the role of governments |
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Olivier Blanchard, emeritus blanchar@mit.edu |
Macroeconomics, monetary and fiscal policy, speculative bubbles, determinants of unemployment, economic transition in former communist countries, the nature of the global financial crisis |
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Ricardo Caballero |
Frictions in financial and labor markets, speculative bubbles, restructuring |
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Victor Chernozhukov |
Econometric theory, financial econometrics, machine learning |
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Arnaud Costinot |
International trade, comparative advantage, gains from trade, productivity, commercial policy, globalization |
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Peter Diamond, emeritus |
U.S. Social Security, social insurance |
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Dave Donaldson |
Intersection of international/intranational trade, development economics, economic history, and environmental economics |
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Esther Duflo |
Poverty alleviation, human resources in developing countries, industrial organization in developing countries |
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Glenn Ellison |
Game theory, industrial organization, technology adoption |
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Amy Finkelstein |
Public finance, health economics, industrial organization |
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Drew Fudenberg |
Game theory, decision theory, behavioral economics, theoretical industrial organization, mechanism design |
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Robert Gibbons, joint appointment with Sloan |
Organizational design and performance, relational contracts within and between firms, human resource management |
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Jonathan Gruber |
Social Security and retirement, access to health care and health care outcomes, effects of employer-provided health insurance, Affordable Care Act |
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Jeffrey Harris, emeritus jeffrey@mit.edu |
Behavioral economics, health economics, public economics |
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Jerry Hausman, emeritus 617-253-3644 jhausman@mit.edu |
Econometrics, applied microeconomics |
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nhendren@mit.edu |
Public economics, economic mobility, economic opportunity, policy evaluation |
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Bengt Holmström, emeritus 617-253-0506 bengt@mit.edu |
Microeconomic theory |
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sjaeger@mit.edu |
Labor economics, competition in the labor market, unions and worker representation, unemployment |
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Paul Joskow |
Industrial organization, energy and environmental economics, competition policy, government regulation of industry |
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Anna Mikusheva |
Econometric theory, times series econometrics |
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617-253-5193 semorris@mit.edu |
Foundations and applications of game theory |
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Whitney Newey |
Theoretical and applied econometrics |
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Benjamin Olken |
Development economics, social protection programs, taxation, and quality of governance in developing countries, environmental challenges in developing countries |
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Parag Pathak |
Market-mechanism design, game theory, local public finance and education, financial markets |
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Michael Piore, emeritus Joint appointment with Political Science 617-253-3377 mpiore@mit.edu |
Work regulation, the impact of innovation policy on the structure of employment opportunities |
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James Poterba |
How taxation affects economic decisions of households and firms, determinants of retirement saving, the role of tax-deferred retirement saving programs in contributing to retirement security |
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Joint appointment with Sloan |
Psychology, decision theory, behavioral economics, neuroeconomics |
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asheshr@mit.edu |
Theoretical and applied econometrics, applications of machine learning in economics, causal inference, algorithmic fairness and transparency in data-driven decision-making |
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Nancy Rose |
Industrial organization, competition policy, the economics of regulation, firm behavior |
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Nina Roussille |
Labor economics, gender economics, the distributional effects of labor market policies |
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Tobias Salz |
Empirical industrial organization, decentralized markets, platforms, and intermediaries |
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fschilb@mit.edu |
Relationship between poverty and economic behavior, behavioral barriers to the diffusion of information in developing countries |
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Richard Schmalensee, emeritus Joint appointment with MIT Sloan 617-253-2957 rschmal@mit.edu |
Energy and environmental policy, antitrust and regulatory policy, multi-sided platform businesses |
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Robert Townsend |
Decentralization with private information, financial structure and growth |
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Iván Werning |
Macroeconomics, public economics, unemployment insurance design |
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Joint appointment with Urban Studies 617-253-1723 wheaton@mit.edu |
Urban economics, economics of the real estate industry |
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Joint appointment with MIT Sloan |
Industrial organization, antitrust policy, contract theory, organizations, health economics, innovation |
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whinston@mit.edu |
Macroeconomics, monetary economics, time series econometrics |
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Alexander Wolitzky |
Game theory, microeconomic theory, political economy |
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Muhamet Yildiz |
Game theory, bargaining |
Global Languages
For more information, visit the MIT GL website.
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Per Urlaub, Literature; Director, Global Languages |
Second language studies, language and literacy education, intercultural communication, applied linguistics |
History
For more information, visit the MIT History website.
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Sana Aiyar |
History of modern South Asia; South Asian diasporas |
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Megan Black |
U.S. environmental management and foreign relations in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries |
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William Broadhead |
History of Italy during the Roman Republic |
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Tristan Brown |
Law, science, environment, and religion in late imperial and modern China |
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Christopher Capozzola |
Political and cultural history of the U.S. from 1861-1945 |
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Catherine E. Clark |
French history, culture, and society; French film and media; photography |
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Malick W. Ghachem |
Slavery and abolition, criminal law, and constitutional history |
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Eric Goldberg |
Political and cultural history of late antiquity and the early middle ages |
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Lerna Ekmekçioğlu |
Modern Middle East; Turkish and Armenian land in the 19th and 20th centuries |
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Philip Khoury |
Middle East politics and sociology |
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Anne McCants |
Medieval and early modern Europe, economic history, women's history |
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Kenda Mutongi |
African history, world history, and gender history |
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Hiromu Nagahara |
History of modern Japan; Japanese art and culture |
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Tanalís Padilla |
Modern Mexico with a focus on agrarian, social, and student movements |
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Merritt Roe Smith |
History of technology, technological innovation, politics, and society |
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Emma Teng |
Chinese and Asian American studies |
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Craig Steven Wilder |
Race, religion, and culture |
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Elizabeth Wood |
Soviet history |
Linguistics
For more information, visit the MIT Linguistics website.
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Adam Albright |
Phonology, morphology, language acquisition, computational linguistics |
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aanvari@mit.edu |
Semantics, pragmatics |
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617-253-9424 aravind@mit.edu |
Language acquistion |
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Noam Chomsky, emeritus |
Linguistic theory, syntax, semantics, philosophy of language |
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Michel DeGraff |
Syntax, semantics, Creole languages, language change, language and education |
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Kai von Fintel |
Semantics, pragmatics |
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Edward Flemming |
Phonology, phonetics |
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Suzanne Flynn |
Language acquisition, second language acquisition, autism, aphasia |
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Danny Fox |
Syntax, semantics |
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Martin Hackl |
Syntax, semantics, psycholinguistics |
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Irene Heim, emeritus |
Semantics |
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Sabine Iatridou |
Syntax, semantics |
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Michael Kenstowicz |
Phonology, phonetics, African and East Asian languages |
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Shigeru Miyagawa, emeritus |
Japanese language and culture, linguistics, origins of human language |
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David Pesetsky |
Syntax, morphology, syntax of music |
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Norvin Richards |
Syntax, endangered languages, Austronesian languages, Tagalog, Lardil |
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Roger Schwarzschild, emeritus |
Semantics, morphology |
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Donca Steriade |
Phonology, morphology, Greek and Latin |
Literature
For more information, visit the MIT Literature website.
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Sandy Alexandre |
19th and 20th century American and African-American literature and culture |
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Arthur Bahr |
Old and Middle English literature, medieval London's literary, political, and legal culture |
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Joshua Bennett
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African American literature and culture, ecological criticism, disability studies, and poetry |
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Eugenia Brinkema |
Violence, affect, sexuality, aesthetics, and ethics in film and media |
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James Buzard |
19th century British literature and culture, modernism |
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Wiebke Denecke |
Classical literatures and philosophical traditions of China, Japan, and Korea; comparative studies of East Asia and the premodern world; world literature; politics of cultural heritage and memory; strategies for the global transformation and renewal of the Humanities |
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Peter Donaldson |
Shakespeare, Machiavelli, education technology, digital archives |
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Stephanie Frampton |
Classicist, comparatist, and historian of media in antiquity; histories of books, reading, writing, and scholarly practice |
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Mary Fuller |
Travel and cultural contact, history of the book, early modern literature, Milton |
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Diana Henderson |
Shakespeare, women's literature, media studies, Renaissance poetry, drama |
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Noel Jackson |
Late 18th century Romantic literature and culture, poetry, science, and literature |
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617-715-5384 bperreau@mit.edu |
Critical theory, politics, contemporary French literature and culture |
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Alvin Kibel |
History of ideas, literary theory, Darwin studies |
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Ruth Perry |
18th century studies, feminist literary and social history, history of the family |
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Shankar Raman |
World literature, literature and probability, medieval and Renaissance literature |
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Margery Resnick |
Contemporary Spain, history of women at MIT |
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Stephen Tapscott |
Poetry, 20th century American literature and culture, translation |
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David Thorburn |
Poetry, digital media, and society |
Music
For more information, visit the MIT Music & Theater Arts website.
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Peter Child |
Composition |
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Eran Egozy |
Music technology, music for video games, interactive music systems |
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John Harbison |
Composition, chamber music, jazz ensemble |
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Ellen Harris, emeritus |
Handel, 18th century studies, Baroque opera and vocal performance |
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Lowell Lindgren, emeritus |
17th and 18th century studies, opera in Rome, Italians in Handelian London, stage design |
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Keeril Makan |
Minimalism, composition, theory |
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Emily Pollock |
Opera from the bel canto era to the present, twentieth-century concert music, and the politics of musical style |
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Patricia Tang |
Ethnomusicology specializing in West African music |
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Marcus Thompson, Institute Professor |
Chamber music, performance studies, viola |
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Evan Ziporyn |
Composition, world music, avant-garde, jazz, classical |
Philosophy
For more information, visit the MIT Philosophy website.
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Alex Byrne |
Philosophy of mind, language, metaphysics, epistemology |
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617-253-0216 berstler@mit.edy |
Philosophy of language, ethics, social philosophy |
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617-253-6394 kmdorst@mit.edu |
Episemtology, cognitive science |
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Caspar Hare |
Ethics, metaphysics, epistemology |
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Sally Haslanger |
Metaphysics, epistemology, ancient philosophy, feminist theory, critical race theory, language |
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617-715-4298 jkhoo@mit.edu |
Philosophy of language, semantics, pragmatics, logic, metaethics, metaphysics |
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Vann McGee, emeritus |
Philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language |
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Agustín Rayo |
Philosophy of logic, metaphysics |
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Tamar Schapiro |
ethics, Kant, moral psychology, philosophy of action |
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Kieran Setiya |
Ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind |
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Brad Skow |
Philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics |
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617-253-5744 jackspen@mit.edu |
Metaphysics, philosophy of language, metaethics |
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Robert Stalnaker, emeritus |
Philosophy of mind, language, metaphysics |
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Judith Thomson |
Moral philosophy, metaphysics |
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Roger White |
Philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphyiscs |
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Stephen Yablo |
Metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophical logic, philosophy of language |
Political Science
For more information, visit the MIT Political Science website.
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Suzanne Berger |
Political economy; comparative politics; globalization; innovation; production; European politics; French politics |
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Adam Berinsky |
Survey research; political methodology; political behavior; public opinion; American politics; political rumors; misinformation; survey methodology; experimental research |
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Andrea Louise Campbell |
American politics; public opinion; political behavior; inequality; policy feedbacks; social policy; health policy; tax policy |
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Devin Caughey |
American political development; Southern politics; representation; political parties; Congress; state politics; latent-variable models; survey weighting; regression-discontinuity designs; permutation inference |
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Volha Charnysh |
Legacies of violence; political economy; political behavior; Eastern Europe; Holocaust; WWII; ethnic politics; authoritarianism; politics and history; migration |
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Nazli Choucri |
International relations; cybersecurity; international conflict; cyberpolitics; global accord; sustainable development; cyberwar |
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Fotini Christia |
Civil wars; political violence; identity politics; post-conflict reconstruction; field experiments; big data; Middle East |
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Taylor Fravel |
International relations; international security; military strategy; military doctrine; nuclear weapons; nuclear strategy; territorial disputes; maritime disputes; China; East Asia |
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Mariya Grinberg |
International relations theory; international security; political economy of security; wartime trade; order formation; sovereignty; state decline |
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Mai Hassan |
Comparative politics; bureaucracy; public administration; the state; contentious politics; state repression; African Politics; Middle East and North African Politics |
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F. Daniel Hidalgo |
Latin America; political institutions; representation; accountability; clientelism; causal inference; elections |
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In Song Kim |
Political methodology; international trade; political economy; big data; machine learning; game theory; lobbying; lobbyview; visualization; dimension reduction |
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Chappell Lawson |
Homeland security; Mexico; leadership; voting; media; political communication |
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Evan Lieberman |
Political economy of development; ethnicity/identity; public policy; research methods; accountability; governance; democracy; state-building; Africa |
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(617) 258-7608 |
Emerging technology, crisis escalation, and security strategy |
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Vipin Narang |
Nuclear; nuclear proliferation; nuclear strategy; south Asia; international relations; international security |
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Noah Nathan |
Political economy of development; comparative political behavior; urban politics; state-building; distributive politics and clientelism; political parties; Africa. |
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Richard Nielsen |
Islam, jihad, terrorism, al-Qaeda, ISIS, International Relations, applied statistics |
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Melissa Nobles (617) 253-9742 |
Comparative Politics; identity; transitional / retrospective justice; violence; Brazil; US South |
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Ken Oye |
International relations; science and technology policy; risk governance; biotechnology; information technology |
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Roger Petersen |
Civil war; violence; war; conflict; Iraq; social science; emotions |
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Barry Posen |
U.S. national security policy, the Iraq war, nuclear proliferations in the Middle East/Persian Gulf |
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Richard Samuels |
Japanese politics; Asian security; Grand Strategy; Political Leadership |
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Ben Ross Schneider |
Business politics; political economy; education politics; industrial policy; business groups; comparative capitalism; social policy; Latin America; Brazil |
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David Singer |
International political economy; financial crises; migration; exchange rate politics; central banking; regulation |
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Charles Stewart |
Elections; Congress; American politics |
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Caitlin Talmadge |
Nuclear deterrence and escalation; U.S. military operations and strategy; security issues in Asia and the Persian Gulf |
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Kathleen Thelen |
Political economy; historical institutionalism; labor politics; social policy; advanced industrial countries |
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Lily L. Tsai |
Political behavior of development; political economy of development; state-society relations; governance; corruption; accountability; political participation; citizen engagement; Chinese politics; African politics |
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Jim Walsh |
International security, and in particular, topics involving nuclear weapons, the Middle East, and East Asia |
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Ariel White |
American politics; political behavior; voting; race/ethnicity |
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Teppei Yamamoto |
Political methodology; applied statistics; causal inference; survey methodology; experimental design; political behavior |
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Bernardo Zacka |
Contemporary political theory; bureaucracy; ethnographic methods; architecture and politics; 20th century European political thought |
Science, Technology, and Society
For more information, visit the MIT STS website.
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Dwai Banerjee |
How social inequity shape medical, scientific and technological practices; how scientific and medical practice ease or sharpen such inequities; science and technology studies into the global south |
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Kate Brown |
Environmental history, Cold War history, and creative non-fiction history writingand ethics on the electronic frontier |
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William Deringer |
History of the social sciences, historical and social studies of finance, and the history and sociology of quantification. |
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Michael Fischer |
Social and ethical issues in bioscience and biotechnology, Law and ethics on the electronic frontier |
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Deborah Fitzgerald |
Agriculture and technology in society |
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David Kaiser |
History of science and the role of institutions in innovation |
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Jennifer Light |
History of using scientific methods and technological tools to solve social and political problems |
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Kenneth Manning |
Role of blacks in American science and medicine |
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Clapperton Mavhunga |
Interaction between people, science, technology and nature/environment in Africa |
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Eden Medina |
History of science and technology in Latin America; how political projects shape, and are shaped by, technologies such as computers |
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David Mindell |
History of space exploration, Deep ocean robotic archaeology |
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Lisa Parks |
Global media, satellite technologies and media cultures, critical studies of media infrastructures, militarization and surveillance |
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Merritt Roe Smith |
History of technology, technological innovation, politics, and society |
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Sherry Turkle |
Robots, digital pets, and simulated creatures designed for children and the elderly, impact of technology on face to face conversations |
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Robin Wolfe Scheffler |
Modern biological and biomedical sciences and their intersections with developments in American history |
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Rosalind Williams, emeritus |
History of technology, environmental changes of late 19th century Europe |
Theater Arts
For more information, visit the Music & Theater Arts website.
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Alan Brody, emeritus (617) 253-4892 |
History of theater, playwriting |
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Sara Brown |
Director of Design, MIT Theater Arts; Scenic design |
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Claire Conceison |
Chinese theater, Asian American theatre, sport as performance |
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Jay Scheib |
Contemporary theater production |
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Janet Sonenberg |
Theater direction, production, acting |