Antoinette Burton is a Professor in the Department of History.
What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research?
I work on the 19th and 20th century British empire through decolonial, feminist and intersectional methods. I'm interested in world histories from below, whether via the human or nonhuman world.
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Faculty Spotlights
Eduardo Ledesma is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? I study contemporary cinema and media through a transatlantic / transnational perspective, examining the flows of films, filmmakers and formal influences between...
David Cooper is an Associate Professor in and the Head of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? I am wrapping up a long-term book project on the Czech forged manuscripts, a series of fake medieval manuscripts that were "discovered" in...
Anna Torres-Cacoullos is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My research interests are interdisciplinary and span a broad range of topics in literature, film, and philosophy. While I specialize in late...
Jacob S. Sherkow is a Professor of Law and Medicine in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law and the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My work generally focuses on the legal and ethical implications of advanced biotechnologies, especially as related to intellectual property...
Xinyuan Dai is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My primary research addresses how international institutions, including the European Union, influence national policies. Much of my current work examines the international institutional order,...
Jason Mazzone is the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's College of Law. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? Most of my research is in the field of constitutional law and history. I work on lots of issues: constitutional design, allocations of power, operations of governmental...
Avital Livny is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My research asks how religious and ethnic identity impacts the behavior of individual citizens – including their decision to participate in politics, their vote-choice, where they invest their money, and whether they...
Konstantinos Kourtikakis is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. What is the focus of your current research? I am fascinated by similarities between political systems, and I try to understand why different polities adopt similar institutions, ideas and norms. The European Union is front and center in my research, and in my most...
Carla Santos is the Head of the Department of Recreation, Sport, and Tourism. What is the focus of your current work? My research program is focused on the examination of communicative practices (from mass mediated narratives to interpersonal communication) as a means of addressing the socio-political and cultural impact of tourism on the world’s people and cultures. Central to...