Faculty

Research/Areas of Interest: emerging technologies, non-volatile memories, SoC design, hardware for machine learning, noise modeling and reliability

Research/Areas of Interest: Evolution and Genetics of Natural Populations

Research/Areas of Interest: Mathematical models of material behavior; Nonlinear magneto- and electromechanical interactions; Biomechanics of soft materials; Rubber elasticity and inelasticity

Research/Areas of Interest: Development Economics, Agricultural Economics, Asset Ownership

Research/Areas of Interest: Public Educational Finance and School Choice

Research/Areas of Interest: Women in the Professions in America; GIrlhood in Post World War II America; Love and War in World War II; Medicine and Society in Amrica

Research/Areas of Interest: Finance

Research/Areas of Interest: Geometry of groups and surfaces

Research/Areas of Interest: Air pollution monitoring, mobile monitoring, air pollution modeling, ambient air quality, indoor air quality, air pollution control, air pollution exposure, air pollution epidemiology

Research/Areas of Interest: Sustainability, experimental heterogeneous catalysis, clean energy, fuels and chemicals, biomass

Research/Areas of Interest: Developmental risk and resilience; child maltreatment; parent-child emotional availability and attachment relationships; maternal depression; adolescent parenting; relational and contextual supports for thriving

Research/Areas of Interest: Literary Theory (especially Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Post-structuralism) Film Studies

Research/Areas of Interest: low-dimensional geometric topology

Research/Areas of Interest: U.S. in the World, International History, Modern U.S. History

Research/Areas of Interest: Ecology, Behavior and Evolution and Global Change Biology

Research/Areas of Interest: Software Engineering, RFID systems, medical devices, sensors, channel coding, FDTD, antenna design, and numerical techniques

Research/Areas of Interest: Development Economics, Agricultural Economics

Research/Areas of Interest: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy of Language

Research/Areas of Interest: Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, and Second Language Pedagogy

Research/Areas of Interest: International Trade, International Finance

Research/Areas of Interest: Pauline Studies, New Testament, Christian Origins Divinatory Practices and so-called "Magic" Gender & Sexuality in Antiquity Hellenistic Philosophy and Moral Psychology Apocryphal Acts and the Greek Novels Saint and Relic Veneration Constructions of the Afterlife Translation Theory and New Testament Studies Theory of Religion Digital Humanities

Research/Areas of Interest: Design for Fabrication, Mechanical Design, Engineering Education, Product Design, Makerspaces

Research/Areas of Interest: Modern Middle East

Research/Areas of Interest: (1) human-natural interactions and their impact on environment and social equity at multiple spatial scales, particularly in cities; (2) technology and development

Research/Areas of Interest: Biomedical optics, diffuse optical imaging, functional near-infrared spectroscopy, quantitative tissue oximetry.

Research/Areas of Interest: Set Theory, specifically forcing elementary embeddings and large cardinal axioms

Research/Areas of Interest: Middle East

Research/Areas of Interest: Theory of Second Language Acquisition, Language Pedagogy, foreign language textbook construction, language and culture, and computer assisted language learning

Research/Areas of Interest: Spanish Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education, Hispanic Linguistics

Research/Areas of Interest: U.S., African American, Native American, family history and the history of genealogy

Research/Areas of Interest: Macroeconomics, Macro-Labor, International Macroeconomics

Research/Areas of Interest: Entrepreneurial Marketing, Engineering Management, New Product Development, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Cognitive Science

Research/Areas of Interest: 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.

Research/Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Probability

Research/Areas of Interest: Industrial Organization, Antitrust, Strategy, Organizational Economics

Research/Areas of Interest: 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.

Research/Areas of Interest: Modern France in the World, Colonial West Africa

Research/Areas of Interest: Programming languages, software engineering, security