Faculty

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18th-Century French literature; Intellectual and Cultural History in Early Modern France; Interactions between Literature and the Visual Arts; Women Writers; Literary Theory and Theory of the Novel

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Creative Writing (Fiction and Creative Nonfiction)

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Urban Economics, Housing, International Migration, Development Economics

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Rehabilitation Management, Evaluation and Treatment of physical dysfunctions, Evaluation and Treatment of Orthopedic Dysfunctions in the Athlete, Concussion Management and Education, Adaptive Sports as a Rehabilitation Tool

Adaptive Sports, Concussion Management of the Athlete and Student, Professional development of the Health-Care Manager

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Ancient Art and Archaeology, Digital Humanities, Comparative Greek and Latin Grammar (PIE Linguistics), Roman Satire, Post-Augustan Literature, Latin and Greek Pedagogy

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Dynamical systems: Hyperbolicity, invariant foliations, geodesic flows, contact flows, and related topics
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Hasselblatt's research, undertaken with colleagues from several continents, is in the modern theory of dynamical systems, with an emphasis on hyperbolic phenomena and on geometrically motivated systems. He also writes expository and biographical articles, writes and edits books, and organizes conferences and schools. Information about his publications can be viewed on MathSciNet by those at an institution with a subscription. Former doctoral students of his can be found in academic positions at Northwestern University, George Mason University, the University of New Hampshire, and Queen's University as well as among the winners of the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize.

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Modern and contemporary Hinduism; religion and colonialism in modern South Asia; Bengal and Sanskrit learning

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Paleontology and Historical Geology

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French language, teaching writing, instructional uses of technology, the 17th-, 18th-, and early 19th-century French literature, motherhood and female mentoring, Rousseau and the Enlightenment, women's writing, defining genre, publishing history

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Engineering education; Diversity, equity, and inclusion; team-based engineering pedagogies; engineering design thinking

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Enzymology of DNA replication, mitochondrial DNA, nucleic acid biochemistry, and non-canonical DNA structures.

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American Politics

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Early Music Ensemble

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Theoretical Physics: Cosmology, Particle Physics, Astrophysics

My primary research is in physics at the interface between theoretical cosmology and particle physics, including astrophysics and aspects of quantum field theory. By studying the extreme conditions of the very early universe, as well as the properties of the late universe's dark constituents, and analyzing the results of various ground based experiments, we can gain insights into the fundamental laws of nature. This acts as the driving force behind much of my research, although I sometimes investigate other interesting subjects.

A central focus has been on trying to understand the nature of dark matter, which forms the majority of matter in the universe. There are various interesting candidates for the dark matter, including so-called axions, which may organize into new interesting types of structures. Furthermore, I have worked on the understanding the large scale structure of the universe, which gives insights into the initial conditions of the early universe.

Another focus has been on understanding cosmological inflation, which is the leading idea for the earliest moments of our universe, involving an early phase of rapid expansion. I have worked on connecting inflation to the matter anti-matter asymmetry of the universe and worked on the post-inflationary era where the universe needs to transition to a hot soup of particles.

A recent interest is in pursuing a fundamental understanding of gravitation. I am interested in understanding the full set of theoretical and observational constraints that determine the structure of gravitation, including constraints from quantum mechanics. Furthermore, I sometimes investigate interesting quantum phenomena, including entanglement entropy and the Casimir effect.

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Modern Japanese Literature, fiction, poetry, criticism. Literary and Film theory. Postmodernism. Avant-garde art. Experimental film.

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Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, and ancient Chinese history

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Roman history, archaeology, North Africa in Antiquity, Ancient History, Balkans and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and International Relations

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Islamic art and architecture, the illustrated Arabic book, medieval Art of the Mediterranean, The portable arts.

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British Romantic poetry and prose
Feminist/Gender Theory
Visual and Material Culture

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Land use planning; urban redevelopment; urban design; big data; shrinking cities

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International university civic engagement

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Advanced Personal-Social Development