Faculty

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

Research/Areas of Interest: Ecology, Artistic Upcycling, Recycling,

Research/Areas of Interest: Genetics and Molecular Biology. Genome instability, particularly at sites of repetitive and structure-forming DNA.

Research/Areas of Interest: Impact investing, solidarity economy, community finance, systems thinking

Research/Areas of Interest: Categorical data analysis, survival data analysis, longitudinal data analysis, latent variable analysis, smoking behavior, substance abuse, major depression, disparity in financial access

Research/Areas of Interest: Immunology and Infectious Disease

Research/Areas of Interest: International Relations, Comparative Politics, Asia

Research/Areas of Interest: Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory

Research/Areas of Interest: Chaucer Medieval literature (including Dante and the Roman de la Rose) Latin classics and the classical tradition Biblical commentary Gender issues in medieval literature

Research/Areas of Interest: Experimental particle physics, neutrino oscillations, neutrino interaction physics, neutrino astrophysics, computer simulations of neutrino-nucleus interactions. The main thrust of my research is the study of the neutrino. Through neutrino oscillation experiments, we are gaining insights into neutrino masses and mixing parameters. Precise measurements of these quantities may allow us to uncover the reason behind the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe, or point the way to a theory beyond the standard model. Precise measurements of oscillation parameters require good models of neutrino-nucleus interactions. I work on experiments that are studying neutrino oscillations (NOvA and DUNE), on experiments that are providing new data on neutrino-nucleus interactions (MINERvA), and on a widely-used software package (GENIE) that is used to simulate neutrino-nucleus interactions.

Research/Areas of Interest: Life and Thought of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Religious Thought of al-Andalus and the Maghrib, Sufism, Contemporary Muslim religious discourse, especially in Egypt,

Research/Areas of Interest: Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

Research/Areas of Interest: Applied Econometrics, Economics of Higher Education

Research/Areas of Interest: Hydrogeology, Groundwater Hydrology, and Economic Geology

Research/Areas of Interest: 19th- and 20th-Century French Poetry, with an emphasis on Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Breton and Bonnefoy French Symbolism and French Surrealism Poetry and Philosophy Poetry and music

Research/Areas of Interest: molecular microbiology; microbial ecology; bacteria; bacteriophage

Research/Areas of Interest: Behavioral / Experimental Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics, Diversity/Discrimination

Research/Areas of Interest: Her research spans many forms of visual culture: she has published and presented on how new scientific approaches to the unconscious mind informed the work of American artists and critics in the early 20th century; on poetic satire and pictorial criticism of modernism in the 1916 Spectra hoax; on transatlantic encounters with the oceanic commons in art; on coordinated human and animal aesthetics in millinery fashion; and on the fabrication and perception of fly fishing lures, among other examples of 19th century 'ecologies of mind.'

Research/Areas of Interest: Nineteenth-Century Latin American literature; Nation building; The culture of outlaws; Visual culture and film studies; Travel narratives; Popular culture

Research/Areas of Interest: Linguistics; literacy, sociolinguistic development; dyslexia in African-American children; language of children's cartoons; children's name-calling

Research/Areas of Interest: Adult Mental and Behavioral Health Across the Continuum of Care, Justice-Based OT, Community-Based Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Group-Based OT, OT Leadership in Community-based Practice, Sexual Intimacy, Program/Staff Development, and Emerging Practice

Research/Areas of Interest: American Politics, Political Behavior

Research/Areas of Interest: Undergraduate education; Discrete Mathematics

Research/Areas of Interest: Psychology of Language, Linguistics

Research/Areas of Interest: Child and family policy; program evaluation; home visiting and other family support programs

Research/Areas of Interest: Social welfare and housing policy; policy implementation; public and nonpro.t management

Research/Areas of Interest: Theoretical high energy and nuclear physics, Science and society, Science education Theories of fundamental constituents of matter, Quantum Chromodynamics, tests of the Standard Model and beyond, the role of spin and angular momentum in particle interactions at medium and high energies. The role of science in public policy; non-proliferation of nuclear arms; education for peace.