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Learn more about our faculty experts, work and impact below. Please contact Dayna Dion, the Buffett Institute’s Chief of Staff and Senior Director of Operations & Communications, with media inquiries.
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Faculty Leaders and Experts
Our faculty leaders, fellows and Global Working Group leads make the Buffett Institute a nexus for collaborative approaches to research, global learning and community engagement.
Our Leaders
Deborah Cohen
Executive Director; Richard W. Leopold Professor of History
- Global history
- Modern European history
- War and empire in history (emphasis on Britain)
- Religious history
- Gender and sexuality history
Baron Reed
Deputy Director; Professor of Philosophy
- Epistemology (emphases on epistemic agency, normativity and psychology)
- Ancient and early modern philosophy
- Metaphysics
- Skepticism
- The relevance of practical interests to knowledge
Our Faculty Fellows
Diego Arispe-Bazán
Northwestern Buffett Faculty Fellow; Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- Racialization
- Migration
- Indigenous diasporas
- South America, Latin America, the Andean region and Spain
- Queer indigeneity and queer Latin America
Vilna Bashi
Northwestern Buffett Faculty Fellow; Osborn Professor of Sociology
- Race and ethnicity
- International migration
- Inequality
- Hierarchical socioeconomic structures
Neha Jain
Northwestern Buffett Faculty Fellow; Professor of Law
- Comparative Law
- Criminal Law
- Human Rights Law
- International Law
Reynaldo Morales
Northwestern Buffett Faculty Fellow; Northwestern Medill School of Journalism Assistant Professor
- Indigenous issues and knowledge systems (emphasis on sustainability)
- Environmental journalism
- Global biodiversity governance
- Traditional knowledge integration in environmental education
V.S. Subrahmanian
Northwestern Buffett Faculty Fellow; Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science
- Artificial intelligence
- Cybersecurity
- Predictive modeling
- Probabilistic inference and machine Learning
- Social media
- Counterterrorism
Our Global Working Group Leaders
Northwestern Buffett Global Working Groups undertake collaborative, interdisciplinary research that addresses complex global challenges related to one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Each Global Working Group has one or more Northwestern University faculty leaders.
Antibiotic Resistance >>
Mehreen Arshad
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine - Infectious diseases
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Child health
Erica Hartmann
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering- Environmental microbiology
- Microbiology of the indoor environment
- Microbial responses to anthropogenic chemicals
- Bioremediation
- Public health
AI and Social Movements >>
V.S. Subrahmanian
Northwestern Buffett Faculty Fellow; Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science- Artificial intelligence
- Cybersecurity
- Predictive modeling
- Probabilistic inference and machine learning
- Social media
- Counterterrorism
Brayden King
Max McGraw Chair in Management and Environment Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management- Organizational change
- Social movements and corporate policymaking
- Economic sociology
- The emergence and transformation of organizational identities
Climate Crisis + Media Arts >>
J.P. Sniadecki
Professor and Director of the MFA in Documentary Media, Medill School of Communication- Media anthropology (emphasis on anthropological film)
- Sensory ethnography (emphasis on U.S. and Chinese urban spaces)
- Documentary filmmaking
Michael Metzger
Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts, Block Museum of Art- Media arts and cinema
- Cinematic pedagogy
- History of images and information
Defusing Disasters >>
Daniel Horton
Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences- Link between climate change and extreme weather events such as heatwaves and droughts
- Climate change impacts and how humans can adapt
- Earth’s climate system over time
George Chiampas
Executive Director of the Disaster Management and Community Emergency Preparedness Initiative, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine- Emergency medicine
- Disaster management and community emergency preparedness
- Mass event management
- Sports injuries
- Sports medicine
- Sudden cardiac death
Disproportionate Impacts of Environmental Challenges >>
Kimberly Marion Suiseeya
Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Environmental Policy and Culture program, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences- Global environmental politics
- Environmental justice
- Environmental policy
- Indigenous rights
- International development
Jennifer Dunn
Research Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering; Director of Research and Senior Fellow, Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering (NAISE)- Emerging technologies’ potential to contribute to air/water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions
- The use of remote sensing, computer vision and economic models to characterize land use and land use change
Empowering the Next Generation of Women Leaders >>
Epistemic Reparations >>
Language Curricula and Gender Equality >>
Rana Raddawi
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Midde Eastern and North African Languages, Arabic and Translation, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences- Theory and practice of translation
- Gender equality in the language curriculum
- Critical pedagogy and cross-cultural studies
Marcelo Worsley
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering; Assistant Professor of Education and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy - Technological innovations for supporting inclusive learning and teaching
- The use of multimodal technology in educational environments (e.g., how student learning is demonstrated across different modalities and time scales, how multimodal data can support student and teacher reflection)
Making Water Insecurity Visible >>
Race, Caste and Colorism >>
Laura Brueck
Chair and Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Culture, Weinberg Colleges of Arts and Sciences- Caste and race
- Dalit literature and literary publics
- Modern and contemporary Hindi literature (emphasis on Indian detective fiction)
- Postcolonial literature and literary theory
- South Asian cinema and media studies
Ivy Wilson
Associate Professor of English, Weinberg Colleges of Arts and Sciences- The Black diaspora
- U.S. literary studies (emphasis on African American culture)
- Tropes of Blackness and cultural meanings of U.S. citizenship
- The manipulation of aesthetics as a means to enter political discourse
Trauma, Music and the Breath >>
Sarah Bartolome
Associate Professor of Music Education, Bienen School of Music- Participatory music making as social capital
- World music pedagogy
- Gender expansive music education
- Trauma-informed approaches in music education
Global Catalyst Grant Group: Global Drug Crisis >>
Maryann Mason
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Health and well-being as fostered by community conditions
- Environmental, cultural, institutional and social influences on health and well being across the life course, especially in low-resourced communities and communities of color
- Community engaged scholarship
Lori Ann Post
Buehler Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Opioid crisis, including patterns, hotspots and spatial heterogeneity of opioid overdose deaths
- Economic drivers of the opioid crisis in terms of supply and demand
- Policies that curb mass shootings and intervention opportunities to prevent mass shootings
Global Catalyst Grant Group: Media Aesthetics >>
Dilip Gaonkar
Professor of Culture and Communication, Director of the Center for Global Culture and Communication, School of Communication
- Rhetoric as an intellectual tradition, both its ancient roots and its contemporary mutations
- Global modernities and their impact on the political
- Global cultural politics
Patrick Noonan
Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Social and cultural movements of the 1960s
- 20th-century modernisms
- Japanese literary and intellectual history
- Transnational film theory
- Global genre cinema