Faculty

Research/Areas of Interest: Early American, Native American, and Environmental History

Research/Areas of Interest: Industrial organization, merger analysis

Research/Areas of Interest: Glacial and Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology, Field Geology, Paleomagnetism

Research/Areas of Interest: Spanish Language and Literature Foreign Language Pedagogy

Research/Areas of Interest: Conquest narrative, eco-criticism and climate justice, intercultural dialogue and global citizenship education, Spanish language instruction, Spain's early modern period,

Research/Areas of Interest: Analytical Chemistry Professor Robbat's area of expertise is in separation science and mass spectrometry. His group develops data analysis software that automatically identifies and quantifies target compounds by mathematically deconvolving mass spectra for up to 20 coeluting compounds. Once identified the spectra of target compounds are subtracted from the total ion current chromatogram resulting in mass spectra of unknowns. Once these compounds are identified, they are added to the retention time and mass spectrum library to analyze a wide variety of samples. They routinely track plant-climate interactions for tea, coffee, citrus fruit, and berries of between 500 and 1500 volatile metabolites. The objective is to learn how changes in climate will affect the sensory and nutritional compounds in foods we consume. Toward this end, they employ GC/MS, GC-GC/MS, and GCxGC/MS all with olfactory detection to learn first-hand how changes in metabolite distribution and concentration are affected. Professor Robbat's research interests include the development of innovative analytical instruments, methods, and data analysis software used to solve a wide range of environmental problems, including: a subsurface sampling and analysis probe that detects pollutants without bringing soil or groundwater to the surface for analysis. This technology is used to rapidly characterize hazardous waste sites and to provide monitoring data during cleanup.

Research/Areas of Interest: Nineteenth-century African American literature; nineteenth-century American literature; critical bibliography; book history; print culture

Research/Areas of Interest: Comparative Politics, Africa, African-American Politics

Research/Areas of Interest: Comparative constitutional law European studies International relations

Research/Areas of Interest: Engineering Education, Human Robot Interaction, Mechanical Engineering, Music Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing

Research/Areas of Interest: Stress Physiology and Field Endocrinology

Research/Areas of Interest: Catalytic Capital Community Investing Sustainable Finance Impact Measures Impact Investing for Racial Equity

Research/Areas of Interest: American Art, Modern and Contemporary Art, and Theories and Methods

Research/Areas of Interest: Judaic Studies, Film and Media Studies, ILVS, Middle Eastern Studies, Central European writers, South African writers, and World Literature

Research/Areas of Interest: Creative Writing, Poetry

Research/Areas of Interest: Latin and Greek Epic; Roman Historiography

Research/Areas of Interest: Developing of content-based, communicative activities for intermediate level language learners and fostering independent language learners

Research/Areas of Interest: Research in the Rotjan lab focuses on marine ecology and global change. The main goal is to examine how marine species, communities, and ecosystems respond to the complex multitude of stressors emerging in the contemporary world ocean, and how they will respond to the future ocean change that we expect in the coming decades. In other words, we take a multi-level and systems ecology approach to examining global change. We are also big fans of ocean exploration, which is critical and necessary to set and calibrate ecological baselines. We are a part of a growing global movement to democratize the oceans, making marine science and exploration accessible and available to all. We apply our science and exploration to conservation. Our simple credo is to help make the world a better place. Our lab is interested in two complementary dimensions of contemporary marine ecology: (1) ecological response to changing ocean dynamics, and (2) opportunities for human-mediated action via conservation, restoration, and/or management. To learn more, check out our lab website and click through our research pages, publications, news, members, etc.

Research/Areas of Interest: Anglophone literatures of Africa and the Africa Diaspora South Asian Literature Litertures of Empire Post-colonial Theory Feminist Theory Literary Theory

Research/Areas of Interest: Geometric Group Theory/Topology

Research/Areas of Interest: Twentieth century Latin American fiction; poetry and poetics; translation studies; song and songwriting; Jorge Luis Borges; Oulipo

Research/Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Language, Logic, Philosophy of Logic, History of Logic, Critical Thinking Pedagogy

Research/Areas of Interest: Deer and wild horse immunocontraception; suburban deer controversies and population management; wild horse management; ungulate social organization

Research/Areas of Interest: Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean art and architecture, especially in the 1st millennium BCE; materiality studies; ancient magic and religion; reception and museum histories.

Research/Areas of Interest: Extragalactic astrophysics How did galaxies and their central black holes co-evolve from the Big Bang to the present? Despite much progress through large scale galaxy surveys as well as ever more sophisticated numerical simulations, we are still hampered by the fact that much of the star-formation activity and black hole growth are buried in thick cocoons of dust and gas. Observations suggest that much of this activity took place in the past, before the Universe was half its present age, and likely involved mergers of nearly equal sized galaxies. As the merger progresses, gas and dust are more and more concentrated, triggering prodigious star-formation and gradually increasing accretion onto the central black hole (Active Galactic Nuclei or AGN). The process is short lived as supernovae- or AGN-driven winds lead to a 'blow-out' event which disperses the intervening gas and dust halting further star-formation and black hole growth. Indications that starbursts and AGN may regulate each other as above can be seen in the local correlation between the mass of a central black hole and the stellar mass of its host galaxy. The same galaxy observed at different stages of this process can appear very different. Therefore observations of different types of galaxies at different epochs and in different wavelength regimes are crucial to build a more complete understanding of the whole process.

Research/Areas of Interest: My research centers trans and nonbinary children and youth, focusing on how they imagine, inhabit, and transform gender, family, and belonging. I work alongside young people to challenge the rigid binaries that limit their lives, and I see research as a space for co-creation, joy, and justice. Through transdisciplinary approaches, I seek to expand our understanding of change—not as a fixed "path of development," but as the complex, shifting, and plural ways children and communities grow. At the core, my scholarship asks how we can build worlds where trans and queer youth not only exist, but thrive.

Research/Areas of Interest: Contemporary Italian literature, gender and sexuality studies, queer studies, border studies, environmental humanities, second language acquisition.

Research/Areas of Interest: Dr. Sato's first book, Pacific Internationalisms, offers the first full-length study on interwar Pacific internationalism and the transnational Asian and Asian American activists engaged in Pacific internationalist ideologies. Dr. Sato's next project examines Japanese American tuberculosis patients confined in segregated sanatoria during WWII and the gendered care of tuberculosis nursing and healthcare. Dr. Sato previously served as the Co-PI and Project Director for the Out of the Desert digital project (https://outofthedesert.yale.edu) which interprets World War II Japanese American incarceration history for a broad public audience.

Research/Areas of Interest: 20th-21st century poetry, performance studies, film and media studies, material culture, critical theory, philosophy, affect

Research/Areas of Interest: Children's development as earth stewards, children's play, Approaches to children's challenging behaviors, religious and spiritual development across the lifespan, the arts in support of children's development.