Welcoming New Faculty to the Social Sciences Division

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Aarti Sethi, Anthropology

Aarti Sethi

Research interests: Agrarian Anthropology; Rural Life; Feminist Anthropology; Political Economy; Comparative Religion; South Asia; Debt and Capitalism; Cinema and Media Culture; Ecstatic Experience, Embodiment and Aesthetics; Theories of Mind, Language and Subjectivity; Caste, Structural Violence and Socio-Economic Inequality.

Ellora Derenoncourt

Ellora Derenoncourt

Research interests: Economic history, labor economics, inequality

Clancy Wilmott, Geography

Clancy Wilmott, Geography

Research interests: Critical Cartography, Digital Geographies, Spatial Media and Mapping, GIS, Ways of Knowing, Postcolonial Landscapes

Bernadette Pérez, History

Bernadette Pérez, History

Research interests: U.S. History, American West, Latinx History, Indigenous History, Relational Race Studies, Agricultural and Environmental History, Migration, Labor & Capitalism, Transnational History, U.S. - Mexico Borderlands, U.S. - Latin Relations and Empire and Settler Colonialism

Vira Semenova

Vira Semenova, Economics

Research interests: Econometrics and Machine Learning

Gašper Beguš, Linguistics

Gašper Beguš, Linguistics

Research interests: Phonology, Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, Historical Linguistics & Indo-European 

Sara Mameni

Sara Mameni, Ethnic Studies

Research interests: Art, Aesthetics and Visual Culture, Transnational Feminism, Queer of Color Critique, Arab/Muslim Disapora, Critical Race and Postcolonial Theory, Anthropocene, Extractive Economies and Petrocultures

Sydnee Caldwell, Economics

Sydnee Caldwell, Economics

Research interests: Wage-setting, Bargaining, Labor Supply, Gender Wage Gap

Chen Lian

Chen Lian, Economics

Research interests: Macroeconomics Theory, Behavioral Macroeconomics, Behavioral Theory, Macro-finance

Danya Lagos, Sociology

Danya Lagos, Sociology

Research interests: Sex and Gender, Demography, Survey Methods, Health, Social Change & Phenomenology 

David Broockman, Political Science

David Broockman, Political Science

Research interests: Public opinion, Political representation, and Political Campaigns in the United States.