Faculty

Research Interests:

molecular microbiology; microbial ecology; bacteria; bacteriophage

Research Interests:

Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral / Experimental Economics

Research Interests:

Her research spans many forms of visual culture: she has published and presented on how new scientific approaches to the unconscious mind informed the work of American artists and critics in the early 20th century; on poetic satire and pictorial criticism of modernism in the 1916 Spectra hoax; on transatlantic encounters with the oceanic commons in art; on coordinated human and animal aesthetics in millinery fashion; and on the fabrication and perception of fly fishing lures, among other examples of 19th century 'ecologies of mind.'

Research Interests:

Nineteenth-Century Latin American literature; Nation building; The culture of outlaws; Visual culture and film studies; Travel narratives; Popular culture

Research Interests:

Linguistics; literacy, sociolinguistic development; dyslexia in African-American children; language of children's cartoons; children's name-calling

Research Interests:

Moral Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Media Ethics

Research Interests:

American Politics, Political Behavior

Research Interests:

Undergraduate education; Discrete Mathematics

Research Interests:

Psychology of Language, Linguistics

Research Interests:

Child and family policy; program evaluation; home visiting and other family support programs

Research Interests:

Social welfare and housing policy; policy implementation; public and nonpro.t management

Research Interests:

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 Interests:

Noncommutative harmonic analysis, representations of Lie groups, integral geometry, and Radon transforms

Research Interests:

Race and Ethnicity; Criminology, Law, and Social Control; Urban Sociology; Research Methods

Research Interests:

Nineteenth-century American literature
U.S. immigrant literature
American spiritualism

Research Interests:

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 more recent work involves partnerships with researchers and educators to start 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.

Research Interests:

International Relations, Security Studies

Research Interests:

Colonialism and decolonization; race and racial politics; gender and sexuality; Arab and Muslim Americans; policing and urban protest

Research Interests:

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 Interests:

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 Interests:

German Language, Literature, Culture, and Philosophy

Research Interests:

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 Interests:

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 Interests:

biophysics and soft matter, microscale fluid mechanics and transport phenomena, microfluidic devices

Research Interests:

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 Interests:

Urban and Symbolic Anthropology, Art and Aesthetics, Theory, Cultural Performance, Popular Culture, Myth and Ritual, Narrative, Latin America (Venezuela, Bolivia, the Amazon)

Research Interests:

environmental and occupational epidemiology, environmental health and safety

Research Interests:

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 Interests:

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 Interests:

Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama
Renaissance poetry
Gender and sexuality studies