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Shaun Lee's research broadly involves the study of host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions that govern human health, wellness, and disease states, especially in aspects of personalized medicine such as host microbiomes. His current work utilizes biophysical, molecular, and cellular technologie...

Professor Lynn Mie Itagaki has research interests in interracial ethics, comparative race studies, women of color feminism and twentieth- and twenty-first-century U.S. literature by writers of color. Her book that examines the post–civil rights era in terms of the 1992 Los Angeles crisis, Civil...

Colin Rathbun's research seeks to develop new ways to image multicellular interactions in live organisms that drive processes such as the efficacy of cancer-killing drugs, the progression of infection, and the success of stem cell treatments. The ability to see and study these interactions is crucia...

Dr. Williams leads the Neurobiology of Ingestive Behavior Laboratory, where her research examines the neural and endocrine control of motivated behaviors, with a focus on eating behavior. Many of her studies explore how the gut communicates with the brain about nutrients coming into the gastrointest...

Seth Lerer joined the Literature department as a visiting professor of Literature in January 2024. In a career of over 40 years, he has taught at Princeton University, Stanford University, and the University of California, San Diego, where he also served as Dean of Arts and Humanities. Lerer has lec...