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Portland protestor used ‘insurrectionary nakedness’ to manage conflict

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Protests continue this week in Portland, Oregon in the wake of federal law enforcement being deployed to the city. On Saturday, the protest included the participation of a nude woman who confronted officers wearing nothing but a mask and hat.

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Xin Zhou

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Name and title:  Xin Zhou, Associate Professor, Mathematics Academic focus:  Geometric analysis, calculus of variations, general relativity Current research project: 

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Ivanna Yi

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Name and title: Ivanna Yi, Assistant Professor, Asian Studies Academic focus: Korean literature, culture, and performance  Current research project: 

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Imane Terhmina

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Name and title:   Imane Terhmina, Assistant Professor, Romance Studies  Academic focus:   Francophone African literature and culture, postcolonial theory, affect theory, political philosophy, petrofictions/eco-topias, Afropolitanism Current research project:  

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Erin Stache

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Name and title: Erin Stache, Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Chemical Biology Academic focus: Polymer chemistry and sustainability Current research project:  Depolymerization of commodity polymers Previous positions: 

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Jason Simms

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Name and title: Jason Simms, Assistant Professor, Performing & Media Arts Academic focus: Design in performing and media arts Current research project: The Hive, a social distancing performance and gathering venue Previous positions:

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Landon Schnabel

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Name and title: Landon Schnabel, Robert and Ann Rosenthal Assistant Professor, Sociology Academic focus:

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Casey Schmitt

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Name and title: Casey Schmitt, Assistant Professor, History Academic focus: Early American and Caribbean history, slavery, labor, and human trafficking Current research project:  My book manuscript titled: "The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking, Colonization, and Trade in the Greater Caribbean, 1530-1690" 

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Natasha Raheja

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Name and title: Natasha Raheja Assistant Professor, Anthropology   Academic focus: Documentary, ethnographic film, migration, borders, bureaucracy, nationalism, South Asia Current research project: 

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Isabel M. Perera

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Name and title: Isabel M. Perera, Assistant Professor, Government Academic focus: Health, labor and social policy, in comparative and historical perspective Current research project: 

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Kelly Presutti

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Name and title:  Kelly Presutti, Assistant Professor, History of Art & Visual Studies Academic focus:  ​​19th-century European art, landscape, environmental history Current research project: ​ A book on landscape representation and the changing politics of land use in post-Revolutionary France

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Juno Salazar Parreñas

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Name and title: Juno Salazar Parreñas, Assistant Professor, Science & Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Academic focus:

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Noah Tamarkin

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Name and title: Noah Tamarkin, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Social politics of genetics, race, citizenship and belonging, South Africa Current research project:

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Barum Park

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Name and title: Barum Park, Assistant Professor, Sociology Academic focus: Political sociology, social networks, social mobility Current research project:

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Laura Niemi

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Name and title:  Laura Niemi, Assistant Professor, Psychology Academic focus: Moral psychology, social psychology, cognitive science, psychology of language Current research project:  I study how people judge each other, make morally relevant decisions, and live out their values.