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. 

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Professor Cheney is an historian of Europe with a specialization in old regime France and its colonial empire. The unifying element of his work is an interest in early modern capitalism, and in particular the problem of how modern social and political forms gestated within traditional society. 

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Professor Clemens' research explores the role of social movements and organizational innovation in political change. Read more about her work 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 his work 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 her work 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 his work 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.