Faculty

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Scientific computing and numerical analysis; Parallel multigrid and multilevel methods for large-scale coupled systems; Efficient numerical methods for reservoir simulation, fluid-structure interaction, and other applications.

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Christian Studies

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Premodern and modern Japanese literature, figurality and the development of modern consciousness, gothic studies, realism, lyricism, animism, and eschatology.

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Macroeconomics

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Children's Literature

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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.

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Child and family policy program evaluation

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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

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South Asia, the Muslim World

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Music, ritual, and trance; music and underrepresented minorities; musics of North Africa, Sufism, and Islam; rhythmic theory; global jazz

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Child art; art therapy.

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Urban and neighborhood politics; social welfare; community development

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Urban Analytics; Big Data Analytics; Urban Planning and Science; Spatial Data Science; Urban mobility;

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

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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

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Twentieth Century, Women Writers, Russian film, literature, culture and language

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Sociology of War and Peace; Political Sociology; Globalization

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language pedagogy
second language acquisition

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Buddhist art and etoki (preaching with paintings); Buddhism and women; Japanese illustrated narrative hand-scrolls (emakimono); East Asian cultures

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Neural basis of vocal communication

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biopolymer engineering, biomaterials, material science, tissue engineering, bioengineering, cellular agriculture

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Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Literature
History of Science
History and Theory of the Novel
Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics
Philosophy and Literature

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Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law

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Coastal Processes and Climate Change

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Arts in post-colonial, post-war, migration and diasporic contexts; Music and dance in the formation of collective memory; Transnationalism and the performance of transitional and social justice; Digital humanities and digital sound archives; Soundscapes and the musical construction of Place; Southeast Asian performing arts; Intangible cultural heritage and globalization.

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Performance Studies; queer studies; South Asian studies

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Numerical Linear and Multilinear Algebra, Scientific Computing, Image Reconstruction and Restoration

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Ethics, Chinese philosophy