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...
Eda Derhemi is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? The beauty of teaching in a language department is that linguistics naturally fuses with literature, culture, ideology, law and politics, not just in meetings between colleagues of different fields sharing...
Cynthia Buckley is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and an affiliate of the EU Center and WGGP. What is the focus of your current work and/or the subject of your current research? As a social demographer, my research focuses on the main drivers and implications of demographic change and population displacement. Regionally, I focus primarily on the regions of the former Soviet...
Stephanie Hilger is a Professor in Germanic Languages & Literatures as well as in Comparative and World Literature. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? Research Areas: Medical/Health Humanities -- Eighteenth-Century European Studies I am currently completing work on my manuscript "Liminal Bodies: Hermaphrodites in the...
Eman Saadah is the Director of the Less Commonly Taught Languages Program and the Arabic Language Program in the Department of Linguistics. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? I always utilize different resources and conduct research that inform my teaching practices. My recent research compares morphological acquisition of second...