Faculty Research Interests
Name | Department | Research Interests |
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Dominic Boyer | Anthropology | 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. |
Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo | Anthropology | Archaeology |
Amarilys Estrella | Anthropology | Race and gender within transnational movements; Black Latin American and Latinx identity; Human Rights and Anti-racist Activism |
Jeffrey Fleisher | Anthropology | Old World archaeology; African archaeology and ethnography; political economy; landscape and regional archaeology; household studies; ceramics; urban space; materiality of ritual; social memory |
Eugenia Georges | Anthropology | 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 |
Ilana Gershon | Anthropology | Employment; new media; work; breakups; neoliberalism |
Gökçe Günel | Anthropology | Social/Cultural Anthropology, Energy and Climate Change in the Middle East and Africa |
Huatse Gyal | Anthropology | 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 |
Khadene Harris | Anthropology | Historical archaeology, Caribbean studies, African diaspora, economic anthropology, ceramic analysis, household archaeology, plantation slavery, commodity histories, anthropology of consumption |
Cymene Howe | Anthropology | Environment, ecology, and energy; ontologies, vitalities and neomaterialisms; activism and human rights; gender and sexuality; Latin America (Mexico, Nicaragua); the Arctic (Iceland); United States. |
Vivian Lu | Anthropology | Cultural politics of profit, ethnonationalism, and social mobilization |
Victoria Massie | Anthropology | 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 |
Susan McIntosh | Anthropology | 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 |
Mary Prendergast | Anthropology | African archaeology, research ethics, foodways, paleoecology, pastoralism, foraging, human origins, zooarchaeology, biomolecular archaeology, ancient DNA, archaeological sciences |
Kamala Visweswaran | Anthropology | 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. |
Kerry Back | Economics | Asset Pricing, Market Microstructure, Derivative Securities, and Auction Theory |
Zach Bethune | Economics | Macroeconomics and finance |
Nina Bobkova | Economics | Microeconomic Theory, Auction Theory/Mechanism Design, Information Economics, Social Learning, Political Economy |
Richard Boylan | Economics | Law and Economics, Political Economy, Game Theory and Experimental Economics |
Bryan W. Brown | Economics | Specification, estimation, and prediction in nonlinear models; estimation and inference in random optimization models; and modeling and testing efficiency of forward exchange rates. |
James N. Brown | Economics | Measurement error in spline estimating equations, multiparty bargaining strikes and wages in the printing industry, and substance abuse among adolescents. |
Maura Coughlin | Economics | Applied Microeconomics, Empirical Industrial Organization, Health Economics |
Flávio Cunha | Economics | Labor economics, Economics of Education, Health Economics, Economic Development and Growth, Policy Evaluation |
Marc P. Dudey | Economics | Industrial Organization |
Mahmoud El-Gamal | Economics | International Economics and Finance, Econometrics, Behavioral Economics, and Islamic Law and Finance. |
Hülya Eraslan | Economics | Political Economy, Game Theory, Corporate Finance |
Jeremy Fox | Economics | Industrial organization, econometrics, labor economics |
Peter R. Hartley | Economics | Energy Economics; Energy and Growth; Money, Credit and Banking |
Yinghua He | Economics | Applied Micro, Labor, Education |
Vivian Ho | Economics | Health Economics, Industrial Organization. |
Yunmi Kong | Economics | Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconometrics, Applied Microeconomics |
Ted P. Loch-Temzelides | Economics | Energy Economics, R&D and Economic Growth, Economic Theory, Financial Economics, Macroeconomics, Energy, and the Environment |
Mallesh Pai | Economics | Mechanism Design/ Auction Theory, Economics of Privacy, Social Networks/ Social Learning, and Statistical Decision Theory |
Isabelle Perrigne | Economics | Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconometrics |
Guillaume A. Pouliot | Economics | Econometrics, Artificial Intelligence, Optimization, Microeconomics |
Shihan Shen | Economics | Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Firm Dynamics, Financial Economics |
Xun Tang | Economics | Econometrics, Industrial Organization |
Matthew Thirkettle | Economics | Econometric issues in social networks; Models of discrete choice under limited consideration. |
George R. Zodrow | Economics | Tax Reform in the U.S. and Developing Countries; State and Local Public Finance; Computable General Equilibrium Modeling of the Effects of Tax Reforms |
Michel Achard | Linguistics | 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. |
John Baugh | Linguistics | 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 |
Robert Englebretson | Linguistics | 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 |
Suzanne Kemmer | Linguistics | Cognitive Linguistics, Language Universals and Typology, Semantics/Pragmatics, Language Change, Germanic languages, Nilo-Saharan Languages, African Languages, Austronesian languages |
Bryce McCleary | Linguistics | Sociolinguistics |
Nancy Niedzielski | Linguistics | Sociolinguistics, speech perception, dialectology, phonetics, speech technology, language and gender. |
John Alford | Political Science | American politics, particularly elections, and the biological and evolutionary basis of political behavior |
Paul Brace | Political Science | State and intergovernmental politics, judicial decision making, and the presidency. |
Taylor Damann | Political Science | International Relations |
Keith E. Hamm | Political Science | American political institutions, the politics of state legislatures, and the impact of campaign finance laws |
Mark P. Jones | Political Science | Effect of electoral laws and other political institutions on governance, representation and voting |
Jae-Hee Jung | Political Science | Comparative politics, party politics, political communication, political behavior, public opinion, political psychology, moral psychology, Western democracies |
Rithika Kumar | Political Science | 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 |
Brett Ashley Leeds | Political Science | International conflict and cooperation, international institutions, and the influence of domestic politics on international relations |
Melissa Marschall | Political Science | 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 |
T. Clifton Morgan | Political Science | Application of formal models to the study of bargaining in international crises and quantitative analyses of the causes of war |
Erik Peterson | Political Science | American Politics, Political Communication, Experimental Methods |
Tanika Raychaudhuri | Political Science | American Politics; Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; Political Behavior |
Katy Robinson | Political Science | Civil war, violent non-state actors, foreign state sponsorship, terrorism, political violence |
Guillermo Rosas | Political Science | 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. |
Leslie Schwindt-Bayer | Political Science | comparative political institutions, legislatures and representation, gender and politics, and Latin America |
Robert M. Stein | Political Science | state and urban politics, public policy, elections, and voting behavior |
Randolph T. Stevenson | Political Science | Comparative democratic institutions, party competition and organization, comparative political economy, and political methodology |
Richard J. Stoll | Political Science | Quantitative study of international conflict and American defense policy |
Matthew Tyler | Political Science | Political Methodology, American Politics |
Rick K. Wilson | Political Science | Historical evolution of Congressional institutions and experimental studies of strategic behavior |
Kirsten Adam | Psychological Sciences | Visual working memory; Visuospatial attention; Attentional lapses; Cognitive neuroscience |
Margaret Beier | Psychological Sciences | Individual Differences, Selection and Training |
Rebecca Brossoit | Psychological Sciences | Sleep, Interventions, Work-Life Interface, Safety, Nature |
Michael Byrne | Psychological Sciences | Human factors/human-computer interaction, computational modeling/artificial intelligence, statistics, cognition, decision-making, memory |
Jing Chen | Psychological Sciences | 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 |
Patricia DeLucia | Psychological Sciences | 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) |
Bryan Denny | Psychological Sciences | Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Emotion Regulation, Translational Affective Science |
Chris Fagundes | Psychological Sciences | Affective Neuroscience, Health Psychology, Lifespan Development, Psychoneuroimmunology |
Simon Fischer-Baum | Psychological Sciences | Written and Spoken Language Processing, Short-Term Memory, Cognitive Neuropsychology |
Luz Maria Garcini | Psychological Sciences | 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 |
Michelle “Mikki” Hebl | Psychological Sciences | Diversity and Discrimination |
Danielle King | Psychological Sciences | Employee resilience, Organizational citizenship behavior, Occupational health, Workplace identity |
Eden King | Psychological Sciences | Diversity & inclusion, work-family |
Philip Kortum | Psychological Sciences | Perception of time while on telephone hold, Non-visual factors associated with visual quality perception, Human Factors in Medicine |
David Lane | Psychological Sciences | Human-computer interaction, Educational technology, Statistics |
Randi Martin | Psychological Sciences | Psychology and Neuropsychology of Language, Short-Term Memory/Working Memory |
Fred Oswald | Psychological Sciences | Personality Testing in Personnel Selection, Non-Cognitive Test Development, Job Classification, Meta-analysis, Quantitative Methods |
Sandra Parsons | Psychological Sciences | 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) |
James Pomerantz | Psychological Sciences | Perception |
Eduardo Salas | Psychological Sciences | 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. |
Erin Standen | Psychological Sciences | Health Psychology |
Tianjun Sun | Psychological Sciences | personnel selection; individual differences; research methods; applied psychometrics; cross-cultural psychology |
Corey Abramson | Sociology | 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) |
Jenifer Bratter | Sociology | Race, demography, marriage, and family |
Tony N. Brown | Sociology | Critical Race Theory; Health Disparities; Race and Racism; Sociology of Mental Health; Survey Design and Methods |
Brielle Bryan | Sociology | Criminal justice, inequality & stratification, social policy, race/ethnicity, social demography, quantitative methods |
Sergio Chavez | Sociology | Internal and international migration, work, border studies, social networks, gender, emotions, qualitative and ethnographic methods |
Christina Diaz | Sociology | Social demography, immigration, and family formation. |
Elaine Howard Ecklund | Sociology | Religion, science, immigration, and culture |
James R. Elliott | Sociology | Urban and community sociology, social stratification and inequality, and environmental sociology |
Shani Evans | Sociology | Race & racism, space & place, urban education, and qualitative research methods. |
Joseph Ewoodzie | Sociology | Race, Class, Poverty, Migration, Urban Sociology, Culture, Ethnography, Theory |
Jeremy Fiel | Sociology | Education, segregation and inequality, and quantitative research methods. |
Bridget Gorman | Sociology | Racial and gender disparities in physical and mental health |
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman | Sociology | Race; gender; identity; socialization in families; labor exploitation |
Jaleh Jalili | Sociology | urban sociology, social movements, space and place, cultural sociology, gender, inequality |
Rachel Kimbro | Sociology | Poverty and inequality, family, and population health |
Anna Rhodes | Sociology | Education, Housing, Poverty and Inequality |
Elizabeth Roberto | Sociology | Data Science |
Michelle Smirnova | Sociology | Health, Housing, |
Kevin Thomas | Sociology | International Migration, Demography, Children and Families, Racial and Ethnic Inequality |
Ruth N. Lόpez Turley | Sociology | Research-Practice Partnerships, educational inequality, race and ethnicity |
Miranda Waggoner | Sociology | Gender, reproduction, sociology of medicine and science, bioethics, qualitative methods |
Hua Gong | Sport Management | Sports analytics and sports economics |
Scott Powers | Sport Management | How teams and players respond to incentives, from a game theoretic perspective |