Guide to Faculty Expertise
Anthropology
For more information, visit the MIT Anthropology website.
Héctor Beltrán |
How the technical aspects of computing intersect with issues of identity, race, ethnicity, class, and nation |
Manduhai Buyandelger |
Globalization/neoliberal governmentality in countries after socialism, namely Mongolia, Russia and post-Soviet Central Asia |
Ian Condry |
Spread of twenty-first century cultural movements, particularly in Japan |
M Amah Edoh |
Construction, meanings, and negotiations of “African-ness” on the continent, in its diasporas; how these processes unfold through commodities, creative production, and political mobilization |
Michael M.J. Fischer |
Anthropology of biosciences, media circuits, and emergent forms of life |
Stefan Helmreich |
Marine biology, space, scientific culture |
James Howe, emeritus |
Political and historical anthropology, indigenous-state relations, missionization |
Jean Jackson, emeritus |
Medical anthropology, indigenous politics |
Erica Caple James |
Medical humanities, gender and violence, religion and healing, issues of race and human rights |
Graham M. Jones |
Use of language and media in practice, performance, and interaction including magic in Western modernity |
Amy Moran-Thomas |
Cultural anthropologist focusing in global health and medicine |
Heather Paxson |
American food politics, artisanal cheese making, gender, morality and abortion, contemporary craft movements |
Susan Silbey |
Law and science professional ethics, engineering education, women in science |
Bettina Stoetzer |
Intersections of ecology, globalization, and urban social justice |
Christine Walley |
Gender, social class and identity, science and indigenous knowledge |
Comparative Media Studies / Writing
For more information, visit the MIT CMS/W website.
Vivek Bald |
Documentary film and transmedia |
Marcia Bartusiak, emeritus |
Media and science; astronomy; physics |
Eugenia Brinkema |
Film and media research focusing on violence, affect, sexuality, aesthetics, and ethics |
Federico Casalegno |
Impact of networked digital technologies on human behavior and society |
Ian Condry |
Media and globalization; media innovation and economics; new digital media |
Junot Díaz |
Literature and society; literary genre, writing, literary fiction |
Paloma Duong |
Intersection of culture and politics in 20th and 21st century Latin America |
Fox Harrell |
Imaginative cognition and computation |
Heather Hendershot |
Media and politics; political discourse; American conservatism; film and genre |
Eric Klopfer |
Digital gaming and STEM education |
Helen Elaine Lee |
Fiction, incarceration, prison writing |
Thomas Levenson |
Documentaries, film, and science |
Alan Lightman |
Literary fiction, science, and physics |
Kenneth Manning |
Race, science, and medicine |
Seth Mnookin |
Media and society, medicine, vaccination |
Nick Montfort |
Imaginative and poetic digital writing, Video and computer games, Material history of computational media, Interactive narrative |
Jim Paradis |
Popular representations of science; professionalism and vernacular culture |
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 |
Edward Schiappa |
Argumentation, classical rhetoric, media influence, and contemporary rhetorical theory |
Phillip Tan |
Digital, live-action, tabletop game design, production and management |
T.L. Taylor |
Internet and game studies |
William Uricchio |
Media technologies and cultural practices, knowledge and the public, histories of “old” media, interactions of media cultures and their audiences |
Jing Wang |
Advertising and marketing; civic media and communication; social media action research; popular culture; and nonprofit technology |
Rosalind Williams, emeritus |
The history of technology |
Sulafa Zidani |
Digital culture; online civic engagement across geopolitical contexts and languages such as Mandarin, English, Arabic, Hebrew, and French |
Economics
For more information, visit the MIT Economics website.
Alberto Abadie |
Econometrics, causal inference, program evaluation |
Daron Acemoglu |
Human capital, unemployment, |
Isaiah Andres |
Econometrics |
George-Marios Angeletos |
Global games, heterogenous information and expectations, self-fulfilling crises, incomplete markets, fiscal and monetary policy |
Joshua Angrist |
Human capital, schooling, education, economics of the family |
David Atkin |
Development, international trade, applied microeconomics |
David Autor |
Trade, human capital, labor market impacts of technological change, consequences of employment protection, inequality |
Abhijit Banerjee |
International development, poverty alleviation, random controlled trials, income distribution, "Herd behavior" in financial and other markets |
Ricardo Caballero |
Frictions in financial and labor markets, speculative bubbles, restructuring |
Victor Chernozhukov |
Econometric theory, financial econometrics, machine learning |
Arnaud Costinot |
International trade |
Peter Diamond, emeritus |
U.S. Social Security, social insurance |
Dave Donaldson |
Intersection of international/intranational trade, development economics, economic history, and environmental economics |
Esther Duflo |
Poverty alleviation, human resources in developing countries, industrial organization in developing countries |
Glenn Ellison |
Game theory, industrial organization, technology adoption |
Amy Finkelstein |
Public finance, health economics, industrial organization |
Drew Fudenberg |
Game theory, decision theory, behavioral economics, theoretical industrial organization, mechanism design |
Robert Gibbons |
Organizational design and performance, relational contracts within and between firms, human resource management |
Jonathan Gruber |
Social Security and retirement, access to health care and health care outcomes, effects of employer-provided health insurance, Affordable Care Act |
Mihai Manea |
Microeconomic theory, game theory, network theory |
Anna Mikusheva |
Econometric theory, times series econometrics |
Whitney Newey |
Theoretical and applied econometrics |
Benjamin Olken |
Political economy of developing countries, economics of climate change |
Parag Pathak |
Market-mechanism design, game theory, local public finance and education, financial markets |
James Poterba |
Tax policy, retirement savings |
Drazen Prelec |
Psychology, decision theory, behavioral economics, neuroeconomics |
Nancy Rose |
Firm behavior and industry performance |
Alp Simsek |
Economic theory, macroeconomics, finance |
Juuso Toikka |
Microeconomic theory, game theory |
Robert Townsend |
Decentralization with private information, financial structure and growth |
John Van Reenan https://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/people/person.asp?id=1358 |
Innovation and productivity, labor, organization, management, public policy, health |
Iván Werning |
Macroeconomics, public economics, unemployment insurance design |
Michael Whinston |
Industrial organization, antitrust policy, contract theory, organizations, health economics, innovation |
Heidi Williams |
Now at Stanford University |
Alexander Wolitzky |
Game theory, microeconomic theory, political economy |
Muhamet Yildiz |
Game theory, bargaining |
Global Languages
For more information, visit the MIT GL website.
Faculty listed below are affiliated with Global Languages; their primary academic homes are shown after their names.
Catherine E. Clark, History |
French history, culture, and society; French film and media; photography |
Ian Condry, Comparative Media Studies |
Japanese media and culture, Japanese anime and comic books (manga), Japanese nationalism |
Paloma Duong, Comparative Media Studies |
Intersection of culture and politics in 20th and 21st century Latin America |
Shigeru Miyagawa, Linguistics, emeritus |
Japanese language and culture, linguistics, origins of human language |
Bruno Perreau, Literature |
French politics, literature, and culture; gender and sexuality; queer theory; social and political theory |
Paul Roquet, Comparative Media Studies |
Cultural politics and power relations woven through mediated spatial perception, focusing on the use of media to shape the emotional environments of everyday life |
Bettina Stoetzer, Anthropology |
Intersections of ecology, globalization, and urban social justice |
Emma Teng, History; Director, Global Languages |
Chinese and Asian American studies |
Edward Baron Turk, Literature, emeritus |
Contemporary French theater, French film history |
Jing Wang, Comparative Media Studies |
Media with a focus on the People's Republic of China |
William Uricchio, Comparative Media Studies |
Interplay of media technologies and cultural practice |
Elizabeth Wood, History |
Soviet history and the performance of power in Russia today |
History
For more information, visit the MIT History website.
Sana Aiyar |
History of modern South Asia; South Asian diasporas |
Megan Black |
U.S. environmental management and foreign relations in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries |
William Broadhead |
History of Italy during the Roman Republic |
Tristan Brown |
Law, science, environment, and religion in late imperial and modern China |
Christopher Capozzola |
Political and cultural history of the U.S. from 1861-1945 |
Catherine E. Clark |
French history, culture, and society; French film and media; photography |
John Dower, emeritus |
Japanese history, U.S.-Japan relations |
Robert M. Fogelson |
Urban planning, suburbia, collective action |
Malick W. Ghachem |
Slavery and abolition, criminal law, and constitutional history |
Eric Goldberg |
Political and cultural history of late antiquity and the early middle ages |
Lerna Ekmekçioğlu |
Modern Middle East; Turkish and Armenian land in the 19th and 20th centuries |
Philip Khoury |
Middle East politics and sociology |
Anne McCants |
Medieval and early modern Europe, economic history, women's history |
Kenda Mutongi |
African history, world history, and gender history |
Hiromu Nagahara |
History of modern Japan; Japanese art and culture |
Tanalís Padilla |
Modern Mexico with a focus on agrarian, social, and student movements |
Jeffrey Ravel |
French and European political culture between the 17th and 19th centuries |
Merritt Roe Smith |
History of technology, technological innovation, politics, and society |
Emma Teng |
Chinese and Asian American studies |
Craig Steven Wilder |
Race, religion, and culture |
Elizabeth Wood |
Soviet history |
Linguistics
For more information, visit the MIT Linguistics website.
Adam Albright |
Phonology, morphology, language acquisition, computational linguistics |
Noam Chomsky, emeritus |
Linguistic theory, syntax, semantics, philosophy of language |
Michel DeGraff |
Syntax, semantics, Creole languages, role of language in early education and nation building |
Kai von Fintel |
Semantics, syntax |
Edward Flemming |
Phonology, phonetics |
Suzanne Flynn |
Language acquisition, second language acquisition, autism, aphasia |
Danny Fox |
Syntax, semantics |
Martin Hackl |
Syntax, semantics, modality, cognition of number and space |
Irene Heim |
Semantics |
Sabine Iatridou |
Syntax, semantics |
Michael Kenstowicz |
Phonology, phonetics, African and East Asian languages |
Shigeru Miyagawa, emeritus |
Japanese language and culture, linguistics, origins of human language |
Wayne O'Neil |
Second language acquisition, language change, linguistics and education |
David Pesetsky |
Syntax, morphology, language acquisition, Russian syntax |
Norvin Richards |
Syntax, endangered languages, Austronesian languages |
Roger Schwarzschild |
Semantics |
Donca Steriade |
Phonology, morphology, Greek and Latin |
Literature
For more information, visit the MIT Literature website.
Sandy Alexandre |
19th and 20th century American and African-American literature and culture |
Arthur Bahr |
Old and Middle English literature, medieval London's literary, political, and legal culture |
Eugenia Brinkema |
Violence, affect, sexuality, aesthetics, and ethics in film and media |
Jim Buzard |
19th century British literature and culture, modernism |
Peter Donaldson |
Shakespeare, Machiavelli, education technology, digital archives |
Stephanie Frampton |
Classicist, comparatist, and historian of media in antiquity; histories of books, reading, writing, and scholarly practice |
Mary Fuller |
Renaissance English literature, Milton, history of the book, literature of travel |
Diana Henderson |
Shakespeare, women's literature, media studies |
Noel Jackson |
Late 18th century Romantic literature and culture, poetry, science, and literature |
Alvin Kibel |
History of ideas, literary theory, Darwin studies |
Ruth Perry |
18th century studies, feminist literary and social history, history of the family |
Shankar Raman |
World literature, literature and probability, medieval and Renaissance literature |
Margery Resnick |
Contemporary Spain, history of women at MIT |
Stephen Tapscott |
Poetry, 20th century American literature and culture, translation |
David Thorburn |
Poetry, digital media, and society |
Music
For more information, visit the MIT Music & Theater Arts website.
Peter Child |
Composition |
Michael Cuthbert |
14th century music, trecento fragments, composition since 1960, minimalism, computer-aided musicology; Music21 tools for musicology |
Eran Egozy |
Music technology, music for video games, interactive music systems |
John Harbison |
Composition, chamber music, jazz ensemble |
Ellen Harris, emeritus |
Handel, 18th century studies, Baroque opera and vocal performance |
Frederick E. Harris, Jr. |
Wind and jazz ensembles, new music, conducting |
Lowell Lindgren, emeritus |
17th and 18th century studies, opera in Rome, Italians in Handelian London, stage design |
Keeril Makan |
Minimalism, composition, theory |
Emily Pollock |
Opera from the bel canto era to the present, twentieth-century concert music, and the politics of musical style |
Patricia Tang |
Ethnomusicology specializing in West African music |
Marcus Thompson, Institute Professor |
Chamber music, performance studies, viola |
Evan Ziporyn |
Composition, world music, avant-garde, jazz, classical |
Philosophy
For more information, visit the MIT Philosophy website.
Alex Byrne |
Philosophy of mind, language, metaphysics, epistemology |
Caspar Hare |
Ethics, metaphysics |
Sally Haslanger |
Metaphysics, epistemology, ancient philosophy, feminist theory |
Vann McGee |
Philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language |
Agustín Rayo |
Philosophy of logic, mathematics, and language |
Tamar Schapiro |
ethics, Kant, moral psychology, philosophy of action |
Kieran Setiya |
Ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind |
Brad Skow |
Philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, philosophy of time |
Robert Stalnaker, emeritus |
Philosophy of mind, language, metaphysics |
Judith Thomson |
Moral philosophy, metaphysics |
Roger White |
Philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphyiscs |
Stephen Yablo |
Metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophical logic, philosophy of language |
Political Science
For more information, visit the MIT Political Science website.
Suzanne Berger |
Comparative politics, political economy |
Adam Berinsky |
Political behavior of ordinary citizens |
Andrea Campbell |
American politics, political behavior, public opinion, political inequality, social policy, politics of healthcare insurance |
Devin Caughey |
American political development; Southern politics; representation; political parties; Congress; state politics; latent-variable models; survey weighting; regression-discontinuity designs; permutation inference. |
Nazli Choucri |
International relations, international political economy, political and strategic implications of e-development, e-knowledge, and e-politics |
Fotini Christia |
Ethnicity and civil wars, Afghanistan, Bosnia, public policy |
Taylor Fravel |
International security, China's foreign and security policies |
F. Daniel Hidalgo |
Political economy of elections and campaigns, representation in developing democracies, Latin American elections |
Chappell Lawson |
Mexican political economy, survey research, U.S. foreign policy |
Evan Lieberman |
Development and ethnic conflict in sub-Saharan Africa |
Erik Lin-Greenberg |
Emerging technology, crisis escalation, and security strategy |
Asya Magazinnik |
American political institutions; political methodology; causal inference; local political economy; federalism; political geography; representation; immigration |
Vipin Narang |
Nuclear; nuclear proliferation; nuclear strategy; south Asia; international relations; international security. |
Richard Nielsen |
Islam, jihad, terrorism, al-Qaeda, ISIS, International Relations, applied statistics |
Melissa Nobles |
Comparative study of racial and ethnic politics, Retrospective justice |
Ken Oye |
Science, technology policy, environmental policy |
Roger Petersen |
Comparative politics with focus on conflict and violence |
Barry Posen |
U.S. national security policy, the Iraq war, nuclear proliferations in the Middle East/Persian Gulf |
Richard Samuels |
Comparative politics focusing on Japan |
Ben Ross Schneider |
Comparative politics, political economy, and Latin American politics |
David Singer |
International political economy, financial regulation, central banking |
Charles Stewart |
American politics, elections |
Kathleen Thelen |
The origins and evolution of political-economic institutions in democracies |
Lily Tsai |
Accountability, governance, state-society relations, Chinese society |
Stephen Van Evera |
International relations, WWI, American defense policy |
Jim Walsh |
International security, and in particular, topics involving nuclear weapons, the Middle East, and East Asia |
Ariel White |
American politics; political behavior; voting; race/ethnicity. |
Teppei Yamamoto |
Political methodology; applied statistics; causal inference; survey methodology; experimental design; political behavior. |
Science, Technology, and Society
For more information, visit the MIT STS website.
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 |
Kate Brown |
Environmental history, Cold War history, and creative non-fiction history writingand ethics on the electronic frontier |
William Deringer |
History of the social sciences, historical and social studies of finance, and the history and sociology of quantification. |
Michael Fischer |
Social and ethical issues in bioscience and biotechnology, Law and ethics on the electronic frontier |
Deborah Fitzgerald |
Agriculture and technology in society |
David Kaiser |
History of science and the role of institutions in innovation |
Jennifer Light |
History of using scientific methods and technological tools to solve social and political problems |
Kenneth Manning |
Role of blacks in American science and medicine |
Clapperton Mavhunga |
Interaction between people, science, technology and nature/environment in Africa |
Eden Medina |
History of science and technology in Latin America; how political projects shape, and are shaped by, technologies such as computers |
David Mindell |
History of space exploration, Deep ocean robotic archaeology |
Lisa Parks |
Global media, satellite technologies and media cultures, critical studies of media infrastructures, militarization and surveillance |
Merritt Roe Smith |
History of technology, technological innovation, politics, and society |
Sherry Turkle |
Robots, digital pets, and simulated creatures designed for children and the elderly, impact of technology on face to face conversations |
Robin Wolfe Scheffler |
Modern biological and biomedical sciences and their intersections with developments in American history |
Rosalind Williams, emeritus |
History of technology, environmental changes of late 19th century Europe |
Theater Arts
For more information, visit the Music & Theater Arts website.
Alan Brody, emeritus (617) 253-4892 |
History of theater, playwriting |
Sara Brown |
Director of Design, MIT Theater Arts; Scenic design |
Charlotte Brathwaite |
Directing; staging; performance art; race, gender, and power |
Claire Conceison |
Chinese theater, Asian American theatre, sport as performance |
Jay Scheib |
Contemporary theater production |
Janet Sonenberg |
Theater direction, production, acting |