Faculty

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: 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: 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

Research/Areas of Interest: Ethics, Chinese philosophy

Research/Areas of Interest: Macroeconomics

Research/Areas of Interest: Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Research/Areas of Interest: PDE analysis and computations, complex fluids, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling in physics and engineering, mathematical modeling in biology and medicine, bioinformatics, fluid dynamics, finite difference schemes.

Research/Areas of Interest: World Literature, World Cinema, Cosmopolitanism, Human Rights and Literature, Global Migration and the Immigrant Novel, Politics of Representation, Modern and Contemporary Arts, Digital Media and Culture, Ethics and Politics of Artificial Intelligence

Research/Areas of Interest: World capital markets Exchange rate management Foreign direct investment Consequences of international capital controls Effects of international factors on United States labor market

Research/Areas of Interest: Adolescence and young adulthood; identity development; personality development; narrative identity; quantitative methods (including structural equation models)

Research/Areas of Interest: Geology and hydrology of arid lands, coastal environmental change, natural hazards