Faculty

Research/Areas of Interest: My research engages feminist and humanist insights to enrich a Sociology in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, one committed to understanding the persistence of anti-Black racism today.

Research/Areas of Interest: Applied dynamical systems, applied probability theory, kinetic theory, agent-based modeling, mathematical models of the economy, theoretical and computational fluid dynamics, complex systems science, quantum computation Current research emphasis is on mathematical models of economics in general, and agent-based models of wealth distributions in particular. The group's work has shed new light on the tendency of wealth to concentrate, and has discovered new results for upward mobility, wealth autocorrelation, and the flux of agents and wealth. The group's mathematical description of the phenomenon of oligarchy has also shed new light on functional analysis in general and distribution theory in particular. Secondary projects include new directions in lattice Boltzmann and lattice-gas models of fluid dynamics, kinetic theory, and quantum computation.

Research/Areas of Interest: Anomalous diffusion, mathematical neuroscience

Research/Areas of Interest: Areas of Specialization: Modern Jewish thought; Jewish law and ethics; philosophy of religion; moral, legal and political philosophy. Areas of Competence: Medieval Jewish thought; rabbinic literature; pragmatism; 20th century philosophy; theories of religion.

Research/Areas of Interest: Housing and community development

Research/Areas of Interest: Geometric group theory, low-dimensional topology, CAT(0) spaces

Research/Areas of Interest: African American Literature and Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Black Disability Studies, Affect Theory, Black Feminist Thought, Political Theory, Black Visual Cultures, Critical Race Studies

Research/Areas of Interest: Applied General Equilibrium Models, International Trade Policy, International Labor Standards, Child Labor

Research/Areas of Interest: -migration and diasporas -Latin America -comparative politics -political economy of development

Research/Areas of Interest: Arts, music and drama education and its impact on youth development in formal and informal settings; the development of arts programming to support positive development, cultural identity and resilience among youths in underserved communities; arts and social justice; family influences on children's learning and social development; quantitative and qualitative methods of research and mixed methods designs; program evaluation

Research/Areas of Interest: Opera: staging, visuality, theatricality, performance and spectatorship. Film and Media Studies: sound and music editing; aesthetics and politics of synchronization; aurality of silent film; suture; Foley; Renoir, Ophuls, Visconti and Fellini; music video and animation

Research/Areas of Interest: Mexican studies, identity, indigenous literature, Latin American theater, Spanish language pedagogy

Research/Areas of Interest: Twentieth-Century/Contemporary Russian Literature and Culture; Narratives of War, Russian and Comparative; Reception studies; Sexuality

Research/Areas of Interest: Parent-child relations

Research/Areas of Interest: Chemistry and STEM Education. In order to understand how and why successful teaching and learning of chemistry at the university level works, the Caspari research group focuses on analyzing students', teaching assistants' (TA), learning assistants' (LA), and instructors' reasoning, interactions, and culture. The group collects video data of classroom practices and conducts qualitative research interviews with instructors, TAs, LAs, and students to better understand how certain interactions and ways of reasoning lead to student sense making and learning. While zooming in and investigating how students connect aspects of chemistry, the group also zooms out and investigates classroom culture and how individual interactions and personal experiences integrate into larger systems of teaching and learning. The group uses this fundamental research as a theoretical basis for implementing teaching innovations and designing training opportunities in order to promote supportive learning environments for students that value and encourage their unique ways of being, knowing and doing.

Research/Areas of Interest: Journalism and Literature; Journalistic crónicas (chronicles); Modernismo and Vanguardia; 20th Century Fantastic Literature; Boom and Post-Boom; Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language.

Research/Areas of Interest: Medieval Art and Architecture; Stained Glass; Gender and Women's Studies

Research/Areas of Interest: digital media, history, representation, videogames, 3d, painting

Research/Areas of Interest: Condensed Matter Physics

Research/Areas of Interest: Resource and Environmental Economics, Energy and Development, Water

Research/Areas of Interest: Data visualization, visual analytics, human-computer interaction, databases, computer graphics