Faculty

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

Research/Areas of Interest: Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Affect Studies, Medical Humanities, Critical Race Studies, History of Psychiatry, Histories of Slavery

Research/Areas of Interest: imagined landscape, materiality, space and the body in the middle ages, especially within the art and archaeology of medieval Armenia; ideas of nature, ruination, and temporality; gender, corporeality, and hybridity/monstrosity; materiality, relics, and vibrancy; medieval material history and its re/construction and re/creation in the modern period: nineteenth century travelers and post/Soviet nation-making in Armenia

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: 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: Our scientific curiosity revolves around understanding how viruses can rewire cells to change what genes are expressed and how this altered gene expression changes cellular behavior and interactions with the extracellular matrix (ECM). As obligate intracellular parasites, viruses are adept at hijacking biological processes for their own replication. However, the impact of these co-opted processes on the surrounding uninfected cells and ECM, or the "viral microenvironment", and the long-term sequelae are largely unexplored. Our goal is to study these questions within the context of fibrotic diseases, such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, pancreatitis, and liver fibrosis as viral infections are frequently a cause of fibrosis and most chronic fibroses remain unresolved and result in organ failure or cancer development. Our research can be described in the following three major themes; where projects in one theme will learn from and build on our knowledge from the others. .Theme 1: Chromatin/transcriptional regulation of fibroblastic cells Projects in this theme will work to investigate the interplay between ECM signaling, chromatin remodeling, and transcriptional gene activation. In particular, we aim to answer the questions: - How do fibroblasts maintain a chronic activation status in fibrotic diseases despite lacking in vivo. cues? - How does the chromatin of fibroblastic cells change over the course of fibrotic disease development? - How are the above questions affected by different ECM components? Theme 2: Viral manipulation of the extracellular matrix Projects in this theme work to answer the questions: - How do virally infected cells alter the local environment they are in? - How do changes in the microenvironment resolve or persist after a viral infection is cleared? - Are changes in the viral microenvironment the same as other initiators of fibrotic diseases?. Theme 3: Non-oncogenic viruses and cancer Projects in this theme work to answer the questions: - How do non-oncogenic viral infections affect cancer formation and metastasis? - How do anti-viral treatments alter the microenvironment? - What is the impact of oncolytic viruses on the surrounding microenvironment?

Research/Areas of Interest: Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

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

Research/Areas of Interest: Hydrogeology, Ore Deposits. Geothermal

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: Behavioral / Experimental Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics, Diversity/Discrimination