Faculty Research Interests

Renewable energy and energopolitics; media; knowledge; digital information and epistemology; experts, professionalism, and cultures of expertise; intellectuals and identitarian movements; the politics of affect and belonging; late, post, and neosocialism.

Archaeology

Race and gender within transnational movements; Black Latin American and Latinx identity; Human Rights and Anti-racist Activism

Old World archaeology; African archaeology and ethnography; political economy; landscape and regional archaeology; household studies; ceramics; urban space; materiality of ritual; social memory

Medical anthropology; politics of reproduction; cultural study of pregnancy, childbirth, and new reproductive technologies; social movements to demedicalize maternity care; transnational migration, gender and development. Greece; Brazil, Dominican Republic

Employment; new media; work; breakups; neoliberalism

Social/Cultural Anthropology, Energy and Climate Change in the Middle East and Africa

The interdependent relationships between land, language, and community, focusing on state environmentalism and climate change, as well as an interdisciplinary approach to Indigenous environmental and political movements in a global context; environmental and political anthropology; visual anthropology

Historical archaeology, Caribbean studies, African diaspora, economic anthropology, ceramic analysis, household archaeology, plantation slavery, commodity histories, anthropology of consumption

Environment, ecology, and energy; ontologies, vitalities and neomaterialisms; activism and human rights; gender and sexuality; Latin America (Mexico, Nicaragua); the Arctic (Iceland); United States.

Cultural politics of profit, ethnonationalism, and social mobilization

Race and Racialization; Feminist Kinship Studies; Biocapitalism; Postcolonial science studies with a focus on how emerging technologies impact people of African descent in the United States and West and Central Africa

Origins of complex societies; West African Iron Age archaeology, with particular emphasis on the interior floodplains of the Senegal and Niger rivers; ceramic analysis; human osteology; cultural property, heritage, and sociopolitics

African archaeology, research ethics, foodways, paleoecology, pastoralism, foraging, human origins, zooarchaeology, biomolecular archaeology, ancient DNA, archaeological sciences

Algorithmic cultures, genomic governance, surveillance studies, science and technology studies, feminist theory and ethnography, transnational and diaspora studies, ethnic and conflict, human rights, colonial law, post/colonial law and literature, comparative South Asia and Middle East studies.

Asset Pricing, Market Microstructure, Derivative Securities, and Auction Theory

Macroeconomics and finance

Microeconomic Theory, Auction Theory/Mechanism Design, Information Economics, Social Learning, Political Economy

Law and Economics, Political Economy, Game Theory and Experimental Economics

Specification, estimation, and prediction in nonlinear models; estimation and inference in random optimization models; and modeling and testing efficiency of forward exchange rates.

Measurement error in spline estimating equations, multiparty bargaining strikes and wages in the printing industry, and substance abuse among adolescents.

Applied Microeconomics, Empirical Industrial Organization, Health Economics

Labor economics, Economics of Education, Health Economics, Economic Development and Growth, Policy Evaluation

Industrial Organization

International Economics and Finance, Econometrics, Behavioral Economics, and Islamic Law and Finance.

Political Economy, Game Theory, Corporate Finance

Industrial organization, econometrics, labor economics

Energy Economics; Energy and Growth; Money, Credit and Banking

Applied Micro, Labor, Education

Health Economics, Industrial Organization.

Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconometrics, Applied Microeconomics

Energy Economics, R&D and Economic Growth, Economic Theory, Financial Economics, Macroeconomics, Energy, and the Environment

Mechanism Design/ Auction Theory, Economics of Privacy, Social Networks/ Social Learning, and Statistical Decision Theory

Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconometrics

Econometrics, Artificial Intelligence, Optimization, Microeconomics

Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Firm Dynamics, Financial Economics

Econometrics, Industrial Organization

Econometric issues in social networks; Models of discrete choice under limited consideration.

Tax Reform in the U.S. and Developing Countries; State and Local Public Finance; Computable General Equilibrium Modeling of the Effects of Tax Reforms

General Linguistics. Cognitive Linguistics. French and Romance Linguistics, with particular emphasis on the French verbal system. Second language acquisition and pedagogy, with emphasis on the place of explicit grammatical instruction in communicative methodologies. Multilingualism.

Studies advancing linguistic research to improve the human condition. Legal applications of linguistics. Sociolinguistic studies in communities where linguistic discrimination exists. Experimental sociophonetic analyses. Survey analyses of linguistic circumstances in diverse social and professional settings. Educational applications of linguistics. Workplace linguistic climate analyses, especially pertaining to potential hostile environments resulting from abusive language usage. Analyses of linguistic profiling in multilingual and multidialectal communities

Discourse and Grammar, Colloquial Indonesian, Conversational English, Austronesian Linguistics, Discourse/Conversation Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Functional approaches to language, Audio Field Recording and Recording Technology, Discourse Transcription, Braille

Cognitive Linguistics, Language Universals and Typology, Semantics/Pragmatics, Language Change, Germanic languages, Nilo-Saharan Languages, African Languages, Austronesian languages

Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics, speech perception, dialectology, phonetics, speech technology, language and gender.

American politics, particularly elections, and the biological and evolutionary basis of political behavior

State and intergovernmental politics, judicial decision making, and the presidency.

International Relations

American political institutions, the politics of state legislatures, and the impact of campaign finance laws

Effect of electoral laws and other political institutions on governance, representation and voting

Comparative politics, party politics, political communication, political behavior, public opinion, political psychology, moral psychology, Western democracies

Gender, urbanization, and politics with a regional specialization in South Asia, specifically India; how development processes, from economic migration to political decentralization, transform patterns of local political engagement by mediating the relationship between the private and the public

International conflict and cooperation, international institutions, and the influence of domestic politics on international relations

Public policy, particularly education politics and reform; political behavior, with an emphasis on minority participation and the effects of social and institutional context; and urban politics

Application of formal models to the study of bargaining in international crises and quantitative analyses of the causes of war

American Politics, Political Communication, Experimental Methods

American Politics; Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; Political Behavior

Civil war, violent non-state actors, foreign state sponsorship, terrorism, political violence

Political economy of democratic regimes, the institutional foundations of representation, and the interaction between finance and politics, with a regional focus on Latin America and comparative applications beyond. Emphasis on Bayesian methods for modeling complex political and economic processes.

comparative political institutions, legislatures and representation, gender and politics, and Latin America

state and urban politics, public policy, elections, and voting behavior

Comparative democratic institutions, party competition and organization, comparative political economy, and political methodology

Quantitative study of international conflict and American defense policy

Political Methodology, American Politics

Historical evolution of Congressional institutions and experimental studies of strategic behavior

Visual working memory; Visuospatial attention; Attentional lapses; Cognitive neuroscience

Individual Differences, Selection and Training

Sleep, Interventions, Work-Life Interface, Safety, Nature

Human factors/human-computer interaction, computational modeling/artificial intelligence, statistics, cognition, decision-making, memory

Investigating the fundamental principles of human performance and decision-making, and their application to solving human-automation interaction problems in autonomous driving, cybersecurity, and other domains

Perception of collision, motion, depth, and multisensory integration in normal and impaired vision; Human factors in transportation (e.g., manual and automated driving; aviation), health care (minimally-invasive surgery, telehealth, medication administration, patient safety), and military (e.g., UAVs, night vision goggles)

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Emotion Regulation, Translational Affective Science

Affective Neuroscience, Health Psychology, Lifespan Development, Psychoneuroimmunology

Written and Spoken Language Processing, Short-Term Memory, Cognitive Neuropsychology

Clinical & Health Psychology; Psychology of Trauma and Life Adversity; Psychoneuroimmunology; Biobehavioral Health Disparities; Social Determinants of Health; Immigrant Health; Community-Engaged Science & Research Methods to Study Historically Marginalized Populations; Health and Migration Policy

Diversity and Discrimination

Employee resilience, Organizational citizenship behavior, Occupational health, Workplace identity

Diversity & inclusion, work-family

Perception of time while on telephone hold, Non-visual factors associated with visual quality perception, Human Factors in Medicine

Human-computer interaction, Educational technology, Statistics

Psychology and Neuropsychology of Language, Short-Term Memory/Working Memory

Personality Testing in Personnel Selection, Non-Cognitive Test Development, Job Classification, Meta-analysis, Quantitative Methods

Information Management in Decision-Making Groups (Information Pooling, Cognitive Centrality and Social Influence, Transactive Memory), Social Identities (Management of Threats to Social Identities, In-Group Competition and In-Group Threats, Intragroup and Intergroup Information Management, Cognitive Centrality and Group Identity)

Perception

Uncovering what facilitates teamwork and team effectiveness in organizations; how and why does team training work; how to optimize simulation-based training; how to design, implement and evaluate training & development systems and in generating evidence-based guidance for those in practice.

Health Psychology

personnel selection; individual differences; research methods; applied psychometrics; cross-cultural psychology

Social Stratification and Inequality; Health and Medicine; Culture; Aging and the Life Course; Methodology (qualitative, computational, mixed-methods); Theory; Health Policy (aging, Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias, disparities, end of life)

Race, demography, marriage, and family

Critical Race Theory; Health Disparities; Race and Racism; Sociology of Mental Health; Survey Design and Methods

Criminal justice, inequality & stratification, social policy, race/ethnicity, social demography, quantitative methods

Internal and international migration, work, border studies, social networks, gender, emotions, qualitative and ethnographic methods

Social demography, immigration, and family formation.

Religion, science, immigration, and culture

Urban and community sociology, social stratification and inequality, and environmental sociology

Race & racism, space & place, urban education, and qualitative research methods.

Race, Class, Poverty, Migration, Urban Sociology, Culture, Ethnography, Theory

Education, segregation and inequality, and quantitative research methods.

Racial and gender disparities in physical and mental health

Race; gender; identity; socialization in families; labor exploitation

urban sociology, social movements, space and place, cultural sociology, gender, inequality

Poverty and inequality, family, and population health

Education, Housing, Poverty and Inequality

Data Science

Health, Housing, Medicine, Movements, Reparative Justice, Intersectionality

International Migration, Demography, Children and Families, Racial and Ethnic Inequality

Research-Practice Partnerships, educational inequality, race and ethnicity

Gender, reproduction, sociology of medicine and science, bioethics, qualitative methods

Sports analytics and sports economics

How teams and players respond to incentives, from a game theoretic perspective