Faculty

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: Earth steward development, children's play, approaches to children's challenging and problem behaviors, religious and spiritual development across the lifespan, the arts in support of children's development.

Research/Areas of Interest: Labor Economics, Economics of Education

Research/Areas of Interest: American Politics

Research/Areas of Interest: Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Chemistry. The post-translational modification (PTM) of proteins is an essential cellular vocabulary that allows critical information to be communicated within and between cells. The Scheck lab pioneers new chemical biology tools that enable the decoding of PTM networks. We use these methods to unlock previously unattainable information about how PTMs are integrated into signaling networks in living cells. Our focus is on PTMs with unusual mechanisms that make them particularly complicated to study using traditional tools, which typically inhibit or profile specific enzyme activities. We use an integrated mass spectrometry and chemical biology approach to develop new, selective chemistries and chemical methods that can predictably modulate, track, or capture specific PTMs, like glycation, ubiquitination, or phosphate B-elimination. Learning how these signals are interpreted or degraded will provide access to new therapeutic targets for preventing or treating neurodegenerative diseases, bacterial infection, autoimmune disease, cancer, diabetes, and age-related diseases.

Research/Areas of Interest: Finance and banking in East Asia

Research/Areas of Interest: Artificial intelligence, artificial life, cognitive modeling, foundations of cognitive science, human-robot interaction, multi-scale agent-based models, natural language understanding.

Research/Areas of Interest: American Politics, Public Opinion, Political Psychology, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Immigration

Research/Areas of Interest: Print Media, Multiples, Performance, Sculpture, Installation, Site-Responsive Projects, Writing, Sound, Graphics, Publications, Ephemera

Research/Areas of Interest: 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone literature, Women's Studies, Film Studies

Research/Areas of Interest: Group dynamics and leadership; Interprofessional teams in pain service delivery; Therapeutic models of group therapy and leader training

Research/Areas of Interest: Environmental sociology, science and technology studies, culture, political sociology, economic sociology, law and society, social and political theory, qualitative and computational methods

Research/Areas of Interest: Climate change and schooling, school-based mental health, human development, teaching and learning, adolescence, gender, equity in education, special education, qualitative research methods, child and adolescent literature and literacy, writing

Research/Areas of Interest: attention; algorithms; science, technology, and society

Research/Areas of Interest: Economics of Education, Labor Economics

Research/Areas of Interest: Geographic information system; urban geography; housing; critical GIS

Research/Areas of Interest: Housing; Education; Inequality; Policy Implementation; Community Development

Research/Areas of Interest: Creative Writing, Journalism, Poetry, Digital Humanities, Asian American Literature

Research/Areas of Interest: Comparative Politics, post-Communist region

Research/Areas of Interest: Clinical Neuroscience