Faculty

Research/Areas of Interest: Premodern and modern Japanese literature, figurality and the development of modern consciousness, gothic studies, realism, lyricism, animism, and eschatology.

Research/Areas of Interest: Macroeconomics

Research/Areas of Interest: Children's Literature

Research/Areas of Interest: The psychology of mathematical thinking, teachers' and students' understanding and use of inscriptions, multiplicative reasoning, applications of psychometric modeling for assessment and research in mathematics education.

Research/Areas of Interest: polar oceanography & ocean-ice interactions

Research/Areas of Interest: human-computer interaction, new interaction modes and techniques, implicit brain-computer interfaces, user interface software

Research/Areas of Interest: Child and family policy program evaluation

Research/Areas of Interest: Microeconomic topics in environmental health and human capital in lower-income countries.

Research/Areas of Interest: Dr. Jahanfar is a reproductive epidemiologist with a grounding in public health and biostatistics. Her research focuses on reproductive health, maternal-child health, and genetic versus environment studies. She has worked with several twin studies in Australia, Malaysia, Canada, and the USA. Her research interests are reproductive health, maternal-child health, global health, HIV/AIDS, opioid use, and twin studies. She is working on WHO-funded projects related to reasons for Cesarean sections, family planning, and assisted vaginal birth. As a Cochrane trainer, reviewer, author, and current Director of the Cochrane Affiliate at Tufts with US Network, she is keen to connect Tufts with the Cochrane Collaboration. She is also the co-director of the Pregnancy and Childbirth US Satellite with Cochrane. She actively seeks interested students and researchers to collaborate on Cochrane's work, twin studies, and reproductive health research projects. Dr. Jahanfar is working with Maternal and Perinatal Health, Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization.

Research/Areas of Interest: ACTFL OPI testing Translating (English into Arabic & vise versa) Consecutive Interpreting (English to Arabic & vise versa) Communicative Method Approach in teaching Arabic Online Education Online Arabic Language and Culture curriculum designed & development

Research/Areas of Interest: South Asia, the Muslim World

Research/Areas of Interest: Music, ritual, and trance; music and minoritized people; musics of North Africa, Sufism, and Islam; rhythmic theory; global jazz

Research/Areas of Interest: I remain active in teaching but no longer accept thesis students. My laboratory developed Chromophore-Assisted Laser Inactivation (CALI) to inactivate specific proteins in living cells at precise times and location. We used CALI with antibody libraries in a high throughput and automated fashion to discover new proteins that act in cancer cell invasiveness identified an extracellular form of Heat Shock Protein 90 (Hsp90) that acts to activate pro-invasive proteins in the tumor microenvironment to increase invasion, the first step in metastasis. We studied how this activation occurs and whether inhibition of extracellular Hsp90 could be a novel treatment to reduce metastasis of breast cancer.

Research/Areas of Interest: Urban and neighborhood politics; social welfare; community development

Research/Areas of Interest: Urban Analytics; Big Data Analytics; Urban Planning and Science; Spatial Data Science; Urban mobility;

Research/Areas of Interest: critical education studies, critical race feminisms, psychoanalysis and education, queer studies, poststructuralism, French theory

Research/Areas of Interest: American literature; postwar movements in U.S.; arts and culture; the Beat generation; feminist theory; studies of 20th century women; intersectionality

Research/Areas of Interest: Adolescence and young adulthood; identity development; civic development and engagement; youth contribution; critical consciousness; quantitative methods (including mixture models such as latent class and latent profile analyses); positive youth development

Research/Areas of Interest: Twentieth Century, Women Writers, Russian film, literature, culture and language

Research/Areas of Interest: Sociology of War and Peace; Political Sociology; Globalization

Research/Areas of Interest: recovery; addiction; substance use; adolescence and emerging adults; community engaged research; recovery high schools; health equity; social contexts

Research/Areas of Interest: language pedagogy second language acquisition

Research/Areas of Interest: Buddhist art and etoki (preaching with paintings); Buddhism and women; Japanese illustrated narrative hand-scrolls (emakimono); East Asian cultures

Research/Areas of Interest: Neural basis of vocal communication

Research/Areas of Interest: biopolymer engineering, biomaterials, material science, tissue engineering, bioengineering, cellular agriculture

Research/Areas of Interest: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Literature History of Science History and Theory of the Novel Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics Philosophy and Literature

Research/Areas of Interest: Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law

Research/Areas of Interest: Coastal Processes and Climate Change

Research/Areas of Interest: water systems analysis, urban water management, environmental justice and equity

Research/Areas of Interest: Arts in post-colonial, post-war, migration and diasporic contexts; Music and dance in the formation of collective memory; Music and social justice; Intangible cultural heritage in relation to transnationalism and globalization; Digital humanities and digital sound archives; Soundscapes and the musical construction of place; Southeast Asian performing arts, and contemporary pop music.

Research/Areas of Interest: Performance Studies; queer studies; South Asian studies

Research/Areas of Interest: Numerical Linear and Multilinear Algebra, Scientific Computing, Image Reconstruction and Restoration