Faculty

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.

Research/Areas of Interest: Economic Development and Growth

Research/Areas of Interest: Noncommutative harmonic analysis, representations of Lie groups, integral geometry, and Radon transforms

Research/Areas of Interest: Law, the criminal legal system, and policing; racial inequality and racial formation; urban politics, cities, and space; bureaucracy and organizations; research methods

Research/Areas of Interest: Nineteenth-century American literature U.S. immigrant literature American spiritualism

Research/Areas of Interest: Brian's research focuses on students' representational practices in science and engineering studied using design-based research on learning technologies and socio-technical learning environments. This work builds from the development of SAM Animation, which is stop-motion animation software developed at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. Brian co-developed SiMSAM: a multi-representational toolkit to support creative computational modeling activities for middle grades learners. Curious about design, play, and making, his work involves partnerships with researchers and educators to explore dimensions of STEM learning at the intersections of people, materials, representations, and cultures. One such example is starting Nedlam's Workshop in 2014, a makerspace in an urban high school that emphasizes multidisciplinary inquiry. Through this work, he developed both empirical and theoretical contributions focused on heterogeneous design, STEM literacies in making, and analyses of how communities of makers organize to support each other's practices. Collectively, his research complicates and expands the field's understandings of how inquiry unfolds in making contexts, and how makerspaces can be a site for equitable and dignified participation in STEM. Brian's newer work involves teachers engaging in playful computational making to study how they (re)negotiate relationships to inquiry, disciplines, computational tools, and heterogeneous ways of knowing. This includes the exploration of geographies of care and responsibility that support STEM learning environments that center wellbeing. His scholarship examines the many facets of making and making spaces in schools, both in the United States and abroad. Brian's collaborative research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the LEGO Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation. Selected Publications Gravel, B. E., & Puckett, C. (2023). What shapes implementation of a school-based makerspace? Teachers as multilevel actors in STEM reforms. International Journal of STEM Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-023-00395-x Gravel, B. E., & Svihla, V. (2021). Fostering heterogeneous engineering through whole-class design work. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 30(2), 279–329. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508406.2020.1843465 Gravel, B. E., Tucker-Raymond, E., Wagh, A., Klimczak, S., & Wilson, N. (2021). More than mechanisms: Shifting ideologies for asset-based learning in engineering education. Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research 11(1), 276–297. https://doi.org/10.7771/2157-9288.1286 Tucker-Raymond, E., & Gravel, B. E. (2019). STEM literacies in makerspaces: Implications for learning, teaching, and research. Routledge.

Research/Areas of Interest: International Relations, Security Studies

Research/Areas of Interest: African American History and African Diasporic History; African American Intellectual and Political Thought; African American and African Diasporic Literatures; African American and African Diasporic Histories / Literatures of New England

Research/Areas of Interest: Scott's research focuses on school-based mental health services and multi-tiered systems of support, physical activity promotion, and affirming psychosocial supports for LGBTQIA+ youth. He publishes his work in peer-reviewed journals and presents at national conferences.

Research/Areas of Interest: Agriculture and the Environment: This is the constant theme of my work since my undergraduate days. Within the AFE program, this incudes assessments of resource use (land, water, etc.) by current and future production strategies and systems. My current efforts are informed by having conducted decades of field and laboratory research on crop management, alternative crop development, short- and long-term effects of cropping systems on potato yield and quality, management strategies to improve soil quality, manure nitrogen and phosphorus availability, soil carbon sequestration and cycling, emission of greenhouse gases from high-value production systems, and grain production for organic dairy systems. Sustainable and Equitable Food Systems: Environmental outcomes are one of several realms or domains that are encompassed by a Sustainable Food System. The Friedman School is uniquely placed to link agriculture, nutrition and health, economics, and individual and societal well-being. Of particular interest is the role of diets as a driver of sustainability outcomes, and includes policy-oriented efforts such as my role advising the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, to include sustainability in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Interdisciplinary Education and Mentoring: The AFE program is inherently interdisciplinary, as is the Friedman School. My particular interest is to provide education and research opportunities so that students can develop the specific skills necessary to work at the interface of different disciplines or domains.

Research/Areas of Interest: German Language, Literature, Culture, and Philosophy

Research/Areas of Interest: Current research interests include the use of tele-health technologies and patient participation in healthcare outcomes. Other interests include the use of social media to enhance engagement and communication within the profession as well as with patients.

Research/Areas of Interest: American popular entertainment, musical theatre, women in theatre, the Holocaust/Genocide on stage and screen, voice and speech, stage directing, theatre and social change

Research/Areas of Interest: biophysics and soft matter, microscale fluid mechanics and transport phenomena, microfluidic devices

Research/Areas of Interest: Labor Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy

Research/Areas of Interest: Condensed Matter Physics Research in Condensed Matter Theory has covered many areas, such as off-diagonal long-range order in low dimensional systems - including lattice vibrations, free Fermions and Bosons, superconductivity, magnetism, phase transitions, Mössbauer Effect [alloys, Brownian particles, & ferritin], equilibrium properties exhibited by a pure harmonic lattice, liquid crystals, diffusion in solids via vacancies, solitons, the physics of music and color, and most recently, quantum tunneling of magnetization (QTM).

Research/Areas of Interest: Urban and Symbolic Anthropology, Art and Aesthetics, Theory, Cultural Performance, Popular Culture, Myth and Ritual, Narrative, Latin America (Venezuela, Bolivia, the Amazon)

Research/Areas of Interest: environmental and occupational epidemiology, environmental health and safety

Research/Areas of Interest: He specializes on the sculpture and architecture of the Mexica (Aztec) and socio-political history and visual culture of colonial Mexico. His interests include visual manifestations of indigenous governance, Pre-Columbian architecture and urbanism, global interactions of the sixteenth and seventeenth century, colonial and post-colonial visual strategies, Open Churches of Sixteenth Century Mexico, the Habsburg empire, kunstkammer, museum studies, and modern architectural history.

Research/Areas of Interest: Physical Inorganic and Materials Chemistry. Current work is largely in the area of solid-state electronic and ionic conducting materials, and attempts to achieve useful optical and electronic properties through an understanding of the fundamental contributing effects. An example is the attempt to obtain nearly-free-electron (metallic) behavior in metal oxide bronzes and other intercalation compounds, in both bulk and thin-film materials. Synthesis of new materials and the characterization of their electronic, structural, and transport properties is the major goal of the work. To this end, we use optical spectroscopic (UV-VIS, NIR, IR) and magnetic measurements to probe electronic ground state structures, single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction to investigate crystallography and conductivity, Hall-effect measurements to probe electronic transport, and electrochemical means to investigate thermodynamic properties and kinetics of ionic motion.

Research/Areas of Interest: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama Renaissance poetry Gender and sexuality studies

Research/Areas of Interest: Research on learning and instruction. My research is on learning and teaching in STEM fields (mostly physics) across ages from young children through adults. Much of my focus has been on intuitive "epistemologies," how instructors interpret and respond to student thinking, and resource-based models of knowledge and reasoning.

Research/Areas of Interest: Creative Writing (Fiction and Creative Nonfiction)

Research/Areas of Interest: Urban Economics, Housing, International Migration, Development Economics

Research/Areas of Interest: Rehabilitation Management, Evaluation and Treatment of physical dysfunctions, Evaluation and Treatment of Orthopedic Dysfunctions in the Athlete, Concussion Management and Education, Adaptive Sports as a Rehabilitation Tool Adaptive Sports, Concussion Management of the Athlete and Student, Professional development of the Health-Care Manager

Research/Areas of Interest: Org Leadership; International DEI; Adult Learning; Executive Coaching

Research/Areas of Interest: Ancient Art and Archaeology, Digital Humanities, Comparative Greek and Latin Grammar (PIE Linguistics), Roman Satire, Post-Augustan Literature, Latin and Greek Pedagogy

Research/Areas of Interest: Greek and Roman Historiography; Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies; Greek and Latin Language and Pedagogy; Roman Political Culture.