Faculty

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Social movements; violence and conflict; urban poverty and politics; Latin America; participatory action research

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Military, medical, legal and social history of the modern Middle East

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Set Theory, specifically forcing elementary embeddings and large cardinal axioms

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Middle East

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Multi-Attribute Decision-Making, Low Probability, High-Consequence Event Risk Management, Crisis Leadership Decision-Making, Environmental Economics, Economics of National Security, Public Economics, Urban Agriculture and Revitalization of the Urban Core.

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Cognitive development; developmental theory; creativity; intellectual development; developmental transitions; expertise; extreme giftedness and creativity; educational and developmental theory.

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Theory of Second Language Acquisition, Language Pedagogy, foreign language textbook construction, language and culture, and computer assisted language learning

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Nineteenth-century U.S., African American, Native American

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Macroeconomics, Macro-Labor, International Macroeconomics

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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.

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London in the 18th century. I have been working on a book called "Learning London: How Outsiders become Urban in the Eighteenth Century," for a long time. I keep finding out more, and that keeps me from finishing it. I'm interested in the various ways that people came to London from the country, from other countries (Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Africa, and America) and set out to become "Londonized." To become urban was literally to become nationalized as well, since "London" was the metropolitan center of Britain and Europe. I consult guides, maps, journals, novels and letters in an attempt to locate physically, intellectually and emotionally urban subjects and their progress through the town. I am particularly interested in the social spaces that construct gender, sexuality, class, and racial differences.

I am also interested in working on the 1790's, a time of revolution and counter-revolution in Europe, the Americas, and England. I am particularly interested in Blake, Wollstonecraft, Godwin, also in the Irish Revolution of 1798.

I have several literary works that presently reside in my closet. "The Animals" is a memoir that looks at the way animals have shaped and reflected my family's character. It is comical and tragic. "The Basement Holds up the House" is a gothic study of family relationships. David Tarbet and I have written a mystery set in an assisted living center called "You are Never Too Old to Die."

I have just finished writing "The Burnt Hills," a novel about social change and romantic love in Berkeley, 1969-70. I am sending it out to agents.

I am also interested in working on the 1790's, a time of revolution and counter-revolution in Europe, the Americas, and England. I am particularly interested in Blake, Wollstonecraft, Godwin, also in the Irish Revolution of 1798.

I have finished "The Animals," a memoir that looks at the way animals have shaped and reflected my family's character. It is comical and tragic. I am writing a novel, "The Basement Holds up the House," a gothic study of family relationships.

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American studies; Critical ethnic studies; Comparative racial formations; Racial capitalism; US Colonialisms

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Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Probability

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Industrial Organization, Antitrust, Strategy, Organizational Economics

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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.

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Modern France in the World, Colonial West Africa

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Genetics and Molecular Biology. Genome instability, particularly at sites of repetitive and structure-forming DNA.

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Impact investing, solidarity economy, community finance, systems thinking

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Categorical data analysis, survival data analysis, longitudinal data analysis, latent variable analysis, smoking behavior, substance abuse, major depression, disparity in financial access

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Immunology and Infectious Disease

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International Relations, Comparative Politics, Asia

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Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory

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Chaucer
Medieval literature (including Dante and the Roman de la Rose)
Latin classics and the classical tradition
Biblical commentary
Gender issues in medieval literature

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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.

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Global Blackness, Latinidad, Colonialism, Migration and Diasporas, Dominicanidades.

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Life and Thought of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali,
Religious Thought of al-Andalus and the Maghrib,
Sufism,
Contemporary Muslim religious discourse, especially in Egypt,

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Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

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Applied Econometrics, Economics of Higher Education

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Hydrogeology, Groundwater Hydrology, and Economic Geology

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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