Alessandro Angelini

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

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angelini@jhu.edu

Research Interests: Brazil, ethnography, material practices, commodification of urban poverty, surveillance

P.J. Brendese

Associate Professor, Political Science

PhD, Duke University

354 Mergenthaler
pbrende1@jhu.edu

Research Interests: Political theory, comparative political thought, race and politics

Erin Aeran Chung

Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics

PhD, Northwestern University

365 Mergenthaler
410-516-4496
echung@jhu.edu

Research Interests: Comparative politics, East Asian politics (Japan and Korea), international migration, comparative racial politics

François Furstenberg

Professor, History

PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Gilman 306
410-516-0158
f.furstenberg@jhu.edu

Research Interests: The history of the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries

Clara Han

Associate Professor, Anthropology

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410-516-2864
clarahan@jhu.edu

Research Interests: Violence, care, urban poverty and everyday life; affliction and illness experience; death and dying; anthropology and philosophy
; Chile, the Southern Cone, Latin America; the United States; and connections and intersections with Asia

Jared Hickman

Associate Professor, English

Gilman 30C
410-516-3843
jhickman@jhu.edu

Research Interests: The nexus of Americanity, modernity, and globality and its attendant utopian and millenarian projects

H. Yumi Kim

Assistant Professor, History

Gilman 330A
h.yumikim@jhu.edu

Research Interests: gender, Japan, history of medicine and psychiatry, colonialism

Vesla Weaver

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology

PhD, Harvard University

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vesla@jhu.edu

Research Interests: racial inequality, colorism in the United States, the causes and consequences of the dramatic rise in prisons, the consequences of rising economic polarization