Faculty

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

Research/Areas of Interest: Physical Chemistry and Surface Science. The Shultz group applies physics and chemistry to understand the inner workings of hydrogen bonding. Hydrogen bonding plays key roles in environmental, biological, and atmospheric chemistry. Our program has research thrusts in all three directions. We specialize both in devising environments that clearly reveal key interactions and in developing new instrumentation. The most recent focus is on icy surfaces and on clathrate formation. Probing the ice surface begins with a well-prepared single-crystal surface. We have unique capabilities for growing single-crystal ice from the melt and for and preparing any desired ice face. Our clean water efforts are aimed at developing new materials to fill the significant need for safe drinking water. According to the World Health Organization, over one billion people lack safe drinking water. Our program is based on using photo catalysts to capture readily available sunlight to turn pollutants into benign CO2 and water. We developed methods to grow ultra-nano (~2 nm) particles that have well-controlled surface structures and chemistry.

Research/Areas of Interest: Experimental development of novel semiconductor nanostructures for quantum information sciences. Tailoring crystal symmetry and strain at the nanoscale to produce next generation optoelectronic devices. AREAS OF RESEARCH EXPERTISE • MBE growth, chamber maintenance, and system support. • Low-temperature, high-field magnetoresistance quantized carrier/spin transport (quantum Hall effects, Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations, 1D quantized conductance, 0.7 structure, etc.). • Atomic force microscopy (AFM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and photoluminescence (PL), Raman spectroscopy, ellipsometry, Rutherford back scattering, etc. • Cleanroom-based micro/nanofabrication including photo- and e-beam-lithography, metallization, and device packaging