Faculty

Research/Areas of Interest: Sex and Gender in Society; Sociology of Violence

Research/Areas of Interest: Creative Writing (Poetry), Asian American Literature, Hybrid Poetics

Research/Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind

Research/Areas of Interest: Dynamical systems, especially in dimensions 1 and 2; braids; combinatorial/geometric group theory; graphs

Research/Areas of Interest: Time-frequency analysis, pure, applied, and numerical harmonic analysis; analysis and differential equations on fractals and graphs.

Research/Areas of Interest: Ancient Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Ethics

Research/Areas of Interest: Cosmic strings, gravitational waves, anthropic reasoning in cosmology, energy conditions in general relativity. Research: My main area of research is the study of cosmic strings, in particular their production of gravitational waves, which might enable us to detect the cosmic string network, if it exists. Cosmic strings are one of the potential sources of a stochastic background of gravitational waves that (as of September 2020) may have been seen by pulsar timing arrays. With my collaborators, I have developed a large-scale simulation of cosmic strings, and we are the process of to going from simulation results to predictions for the gravitational wave background, with all effects included. I also study gravitational waves and the possibilities of observing them more generally. I am an associate member of NANOGrav (the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves), which observes gravitational waves using precision timing of pulsars. I work on issues of anthropic reasoning in cosmology and how to make sense of the infinite multiverse produced by eternal inflation. I study the structure of eternally inflating universes and also the philosophy of how to get from a model of what actually exists everywhere in the universe to an understanding of what we ourselves should expect to observe. I have worked for many years on the question of exotic phenomena such as superluminal travel and time travel in general relativity. My collaborators and I showed that, subject to certain conditions, a minimally-coupled quantum scalar field obeys the "achronal averaged null energy condition", which prohibits exotic spacetimes. I am currently working on the interaction between eternal inflation and energy conditions.

Research/Areas of Interest: ultrafast nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, biopolymer multifunctional materials, material science, photonic crystals, photonic crystal fibers

Research/Areas of Interest: Agroecology, climate change, climate adaptation, plant-herbivore interactions

Research/Areas of Interest: Civic and political engagement; social activism and community organizing; social inequalities (class, gender, race, immigration); nonprofit organizations; social justice philanthropy and foundations; qualitative research methods; community-based research

Research/Areas of Interest: Medieval art and architecture; early Ireland, Britain, and Scandinavia; portable arts; medieval materiality

Research/Areas of Interest: Popular music studies, comparative Latino studies, community studies; Spanish Caribbean Latinos in the US; Latin America and the Caribbean, with specialty in the Dominican Republic, Colombia and Cuba

Research/Areas of Interest: Signal processing; image processing; simulation modeling

Research/Areas of Interest: Music Cognition

Research/Areas of Interest: computational sciences, data driven modeling

Research/Areas of Interest: Modern and contemporary Italian literature, women's studies, and the pedagogy of Italian as a foreign language; Teaching of Italian language and culture through cinema, modern media, and instructional technology

Research/Areas of Interest: French language, 20th-century literature, film

Research/Areas of Interest: Marine Biology and Invertebrate Development

Research/Areas of Interest: Environmental Humanities, Material Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism, 21st Century Environmental Literature, Capitalocene, Theories of Commodity Consumption, Historical Avant-Garde (esp. Futurism, Dada, Situationism, Fluxus), Visual Culture & Media Theory, Theories of Photography, Literary & Political Theory (esp. Ideology, (Post)Structuralism, Marxism), Memory Studies

Research/Areas of Interest: Popular Music and Jazz of the United States/Europe, African American Music, Transgender Vocality, Issues of Appropriation, and the Performance of Musical Identity with special attention to race, class, gender, and sexuality.

Research/Areas of Interest: Industrial Organization