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Public Educational Finance and School Choice
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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
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Finance
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Geometry of groups and surfaces
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Air pollution monitoring, mobile monitoring, air pollution modeling, ambient air quality, indoor air quality, air pollution control, air pollution exposure, air pollution epidemiology
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Sustainability, experimental heterogeneous catalysis, clean energy, fuels and chemicals, biomass
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Developmental risk and resilience; child maltreatment; parent-child emotional availability and attachment relationships; maternal depression; adolescent parenting; relational and contextual supports for thriving
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Literary Theory (especially Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Post-structuralism)
Film Studies
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low-dimensional geometric topology
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U.S. in the World, International History, Modern U.S. History
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Ecology, Behavior and Evolution and Global Change Biology
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Software Engineering, RFID systems, medical devices, sensors, channel coding, FDTD, antenna design, and numerical techniques
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Development Economics, Agricultural Economics
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Metaphysics, Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy of Language
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Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, and Second Language Pedagogy
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International Trade, International Finance
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Political Theory
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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
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Military, medical, legal and social history of the modern Middle East
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(1) human-natural interactions and their impact on environment and social equity at multiple spatial scales, particularly in cities;
(2) technology and development
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Biomedical optics, diffuse optical imaging, functional near-infrared spectroscopy, quantitative tissue oximetry.
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Set Theory, specifically forcing elementary embeddings and large cardinal axioms
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Middle East
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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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U.S., African American, Native American, family history and the history of genealogy
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Macroeconomics, Macro-Labor, International Macroeconomics
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entrepreneurial marketing, engineering management, new product development
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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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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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Programming languages, software engineering, security
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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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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.