CEAS Affiliated Faculty Members

Rachel DeWoskin

Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts
Department of English
Program in Creative Writing
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Committee on Creative Writing

935 E. 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637

racheldewoskin@uchicago.edu

Rachel DeWoskin is the award-winning author of the novels Blind (Penguin 2014); Big Girl Small(FSG 2011); Repeat After Me (Overlook 2009), and the memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing(Norton 2005), which is being developed into a television series at BBC America. Her novel Second Circus, set in 1940’s Shanghai, is forthcoming from Penguin in 2018. DeWoskin’s essays, articles, and poems have been published widely, in journals including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Ploughshares. For more information, please visit the Department of English at the University of Chicago.

Susan Goldin-Meadow

Bearsdley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor
Department of Psychology

5848 S University Ave
Green 508
Chicago, IL, 60637
(773) 702-2585

sgm@uchicago.edu

Professor Goldin-Meadow is the Bearsdley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Psychology and Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago. As a developmental psychologist, she studies the role of language and gesture in communication in both children and adults. For more information, visit her page at the University of Chicago's Department of Psychology, or the page of her laboratory, the eponymous Goldin-Meadow Lab.

Dwight Hopkins

Alexander Campbell Professor of Theology
The Divinity School
The College

1025 E 58th St
Swift Hall 304
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 834-0006

dhopkins@uchicago.edu

Professor Hopkins is a theologian working in the areas of contemporary models of theology, various forms of liberation theologies (especially black and other third-world manifestations), and East-West cross-cultural comparisons. For more information, see his page at the University of Chicago's Divinity School. 

Woowon Kang

Professor
Department of Physics
James Franck Institute
The College

929 East 57th Street
E39A-D
Chicago, Illinois 60637

w-kang@uchicago.edu

Professor Kang pursues research on fraction quantum Hall effect connected to topological computation. For more information, please visit his page at the University of Chicago's Department of Physics.

Valarie Levan

Lecturer, Humanities Core Teaching Coordinator

vlevan@uchicago.edu

Dr. Levan's dissertation was titled Forbidden Enlightenment: Self-Articulation and Self-Accusation in the Works of Yu Dafu (1896-1945) (2010). She currently teaches Readings in World Literature - Epic, Readings in World Literature - Autobiography, Reading Cultures - Collecting, and Reading Cultures - Exchange.

Jiwoong Park

Professor
Department of Chemistry

929 E. 57th St.
GCIS E219
Chicago, IL 60637

jwpark@uchicago.edu

Professor Park's research focuses on the science and technology of nanomaterials. The Park Group's research is multidisciplinary; the group includes researchers with diverse backgrounds, including chemistry, physics, material science, and electrical engineering. For more information, please visit his website.

Raaj Kumar Sah

Professor of Public Policy and Economics
Harris School of Public Policy

The Keller Center at the Harris School of Public Policy,
Room 3017
1307 E 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-0085

sah@uchicago.edu

Professor Sah has previously held faculty positions, in business, economics, and public policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. Among the honorary positions that he has held are at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, where he presently is Distinguished Fellow, and at the Ministry of Finance Japan. For more information, please visit his faculty page.

Thomas Talhelm

Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences
Booth School of Business

talhelm@uchicago.edu

Thomas Talhelm is an Associate Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Thomas has lived in China for six years as a Princeton in Asia fellow, as a freelance journalist, and a Fulbright scholar. He researches how rice farming made southern China more interdependent than the more freewheeling, wheat-growing north including what that means for whether people move chairs in Starbucks. He speaks Chinese and enough Hindi to ask questions but not understand the answers. While in China, Thomas founded Smart Air, a social enterprise that makes low-cost DIY air purifiers to help people protect themselves from air pollution. 

Christian Wedemeyer

Associate Professor of the History of Religions
The Divinity School
The College

Swift Hall 310B
1025-35 E. 58th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-8265

wedemeyer@uchicago.edu

Professor Wedemeyer is an historian of religions whose interests include theory and method in the human sciences, the history of modern scholarship on religion and culture, and issues of history, textuality, and ritual in the Buddhist traditions. Within these very general domains, much of his research has concerned the esoteric (Tantric) Buddhism of India and Tibet. For more information, please visit his faculty page.

John E. Woods

Professor of Iranian and Central Asian History
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The College

Pick Hall 328
5828 S. University Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-8343

j-woods@uchicago.edu

Professor Woods focuses primarily on the history of Turkey, Iran, and Central Asia from the thirteenth to eighteenth century. He is particularly interested in aspects of the encounter of sedentary and nomadic people in those regions during that time period. He is at present working on several projects dealing with the age of Chinggis Khan and Timur (Tamerlane). He has played a central role in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies since 1980. For more information, please visit his faculty page.