Faculty Advisory Committee

Professor Kay's research interests include olfactory neurophysiology, olfaction and cognition, roles of context in perception, sensorimotor integration, oscillatory dynamics, computational neuroscience, and behavioral neuroscience.

As Deputy Dean, Kay leads the review of and strategic planning for the Division's research infrastructure, broadly construed.  She has input into broader divisional projects and policies. 

Read more about Professor Kay here.

Professor Kaplan has research interests in macroeconomics, labor economics, inequality, consumption, risk-sharing, unemployment, monetary policy, fiscal policy, household formation, and migration. Read more about Professor Kaplan here.

Professor Kolata's recent research interests include comparative work on agroecological systems, human-environment interactions, the human dimension of global change, agricultural and rural development, and archaeology and ethnohistory, particularly in the Andean region. Read more about Professor Kolata here.

With a focus on post-communist Europe, Professor Nalepa's research interests include transitional justice, parties and legislatures, and game-theoretic approaches to comparative politics. Read more about Professor Nalepa here.

Professor Raikhel is a cultural and medical anthropologist with interests encompassing the anthropology of science, biomedicine and psychiatry; addiction and its treatment; suggestion and healing; and post-socialist transformations in Eurasia. Read more about Professor Raikhel here.

Professor Shaw is broadly interested in how human beings navigate the complex social world by tracking each others' reputations and by signaling to others. More specifically, he studies fairness, intellectual property, and reputation and how these things develop throughout childhood. Read more about Professor Shaw here.

Professor Wodtke’s research is in the areas of neighborhood effects and urban poverty, group conflict and racial attitudes, class structure and income inequality, and methods of causal inference in observational research. Read more about his work here.

Samuel Fury Childs Daly joined the University of Chicago in January 2024. A historian of twentieth century Africa, his research combines legal, military, and social history to describe Africa's history since independence. His recent book, A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War  (Cambridge University Press, 2020), connects the crisis conditions of the Nigerian Civil War to the forms of crime that came to be associated with Nigeria in its wake.