Faculty

Research/Areas of Interest: U.S. in the World, International History, Modern U.S. History

Research/Areas of Interest: Children with special needs

Research/Areas of Interest: Cognitive development; perceptual development; Piaget

Research/Areas of Interest: Ecology, Behavior and Evolution and Global Change Biology

Research/Areas of Interest: Development Economics, Agricultural Economics

Research/Areas of Interest: Contemporary fiction Nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and European writing Art and art markets in the context of social crisis Interrelations between fiction and non-fiction The bearing of science on visual and verbal art

Research/Areas of Interest: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy of Language

Research/Areas of Interest: Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, and Second Language Pedagogy

Research/Areas of Interest: International Trade, International Finance

Research/Areas of Interest: American Sign Language

Research/Areas of Interest: Pauline Studies, New Testament, Christian Origins Divinatory Practices and so-called "Magic" Gender & Sexuality in Antiquity Hellenistic Philosophy and Moral Psychology Apocryphal Acts and the Greek Novels Saint and Relic Veneration Constructions of the Afterlife Translation Theory and New Testament Studies Theory of Religion Digital Humanities

Research/Areas of Interest: Global oxygenation and marine anoxia, Supercontinent Dynamics, Early Earth Tectonics, localization of metals crucial for green tech, True Polar Wander

Research/Areas of Interest: Social movements; violence and conflict; urban poverty and politics; Latin America; participatory action research

Research/Areas of Interest: Modern Middle East

Research/Areas of Interest: (1) human-natural interactions and their impact on environment and social equity at multiple spatial scales, particularly in cities; (2) technology and development

Research/Areas of Interest: Biomedical optics, diffuse optical imaging, functional near-infrared spectroscopy, quantitative tissue oximetry.

Research/Areas of Interest: Set Theory, specifically forcing elementary embeddings and large cardinal axioms

Research/Areas of Interest: Middle East

Research/Areas of Interest: Multi-Attribute Decision-Making, Low Probability, High-Consequence Event Risk Management, Crisis Leadership Decision-Making, Environmental Economics, Economics of National Security, Public Economics, Urban Agriculture and Revitalization of the Urban Core.

Research/Areas of Interest: Cognitive development; developmental theory; creativity; intellectual development; developmental transitions; expertise; extreme giftedness and creativity; educational and developmental theory.

Research/Areas of Interest: Theory of Second Language Acquisition, Language Pedagogy, foreign language textbook construction, language and culture, and computer assisted language learning

Research/Areas of Interest: Spanish Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education, Hispanic Linguistics

Research/Areas of Interest: U.S., African American, Native American, family history and the history of genealogy

Research/Areas of Interest: Macroeconomics, Macro-Labor, Macro-Climate, International Macroeconomics, Macro Development

Research/Areas of Interest: Dr. Fiore's current research emphasizes social-emotional learning and development, building and sustaining relationships in educational settings, and promoting strengths-based environments and awareness of the multi-generational effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).

Research/Areas of Interest: Geographic Information Systems (GIS), geospatial technology, the Open Geoportal (OGP), visualization, GPS, cartography, international mapping especially the developing world, humanitarian assistance, open source applications, digital humanities, ecology, data mining, human security, crisis mapping, business intelligence/analytics, geospatial new media, remote sensing, natural disasters, historical modeling, 3D GIS, public health, geospatial social network tools, data science, urban modeling, open data, geospatial data sources, geo portals, web mapping, UAV - Drones, Spatial Data Infrastructure, geospatial education, natural language processing (NLP), text analysis, etc.

Research/Areas of Interest: American studies; Critical ethnic studies; Comparative racial formations; Racial capitalism; US Colonialisms

Research/Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Probability

Research/Areas of Interest: Industrial Organization, Antitrust, Strategy, Organizational Economics

Research/Areas of Interest: Theoretical cosmology, quantum field theory, models for quantum gravity effects My current research involves several related topics in quantum fluctuation phenomena, with applications to gravitation and cosmology. One topic is the study of energy density fluctuations for quantum fields such as the electromagnetic field. My collaborators and I have shown that large vacuum energy density fluctuations are more probable than previously expected. These large fluctuations can drive quantum fluctuations of gravity and provide insight into effects in quantum gravity, an area which is not well understood. Energy density fluctuations may also produce observable effects in atomic or condensed matter systems, and may play a role in the evolution of the early universe. I am also working on analog models for quantum gravity, in which quantum fluctuations in a nonlinear optical material might produce fluctuations in the speed of light, analogous to an effect expected in quantum gravity.

Research/Areas of Interest: 20th century francophone literature, postcolonial studies, comparative feminist theories, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, literatures of exile and migration.

Research/Areas of Interest: Modern France in the World, Colonial West Africa