Faculty

Research/Areas of Interest: Physics Education Research: Scientists are professional learners who employ a range of skills and qualities to learn new things. Why should it be any different for students in how they advance in their understanding of scientific concepts? My current research focuses on how learners come to engage in the practices of science in their efforts to learn new things. To make progress on the question, I have studied how learners' views of knowledge (personal epistemologies) impact their scientific engagement in the contexts of introductory physics, quantum mechanics, and science teacher education. I have also studied the interaction of personal epistemology with emotions that come up in the doing of science (epistemic affect). Most recently, I have looked at how personal epistemology interconnects with social caring and epistemic empathy. These studies help outline some paths to progress in equity and inclusion in STEM fields, and inform my approaches to teaching.

Research/Areas of Interest: Children and media; ethnicity/gender and media; adolescents and media use; women's history and biography I am currently working on a three-tiered interdisciplinary research project along with Chip Gidney, Mary Casey, and Cynthia Smith at Eliot-Pearson, as well as faculty in several other departments at Tufts. The first piece of this project is a long-running content analysis of children's animated programming. We are updating prior work we've done that investigates images of race, ethnicity and gender in children's animated programming using both content and sociolinguistic analysis. The second part of this research is an exploration of why stereotyping persists in children's media. We are examining this through intensive interviews with content creators, writers, directors, vocal casting directors, and actors. The third part of the project is empirical research we're conducting with children, to see how children make sense of gender, race, and ethnicity in the animated programs they see. My applied work includes doing many media literacy workshops for parents and for children and for children in a variety of settings, and consulting work with colleagues at GBH, one of the leading creators of children's educational media. I have written about children and media issues in a variety of academic and popular venues. My other research is historical in nature. I serve as co-PI, along with Jennifer Burton, of the Half the History Project at Tufts, which utilizes short-form biography, film, and podcast to tell the untold and under-told stories of women's lives. I've written one biography of the relatively unknown mother/daughter team who made Emily Dickinson into one of the most-known women anywhere in the world. After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet was published by WW Norton in 2018. My next dual biography, Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage, will be published by NYU Press in Fall 2025.

Research/Areas of Interest: Improving performance and reliability of networked systems, specifically cloud-based systems, mobile and wireless systems, and the Internet. Also, interested in designing technologies for developing regions.

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: neurodivergence, autism, social development, experience of higher educations students, participatory research

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: Literary Theory (especially Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Post-structuralism) Film Studies

Research/Areas of Interest: low-dimensional geometric topology

Research/Areas of Interest: Music and memory, European cultural history, art and trauma, Holocaust, exile, modernism, criticism, public humanities, public history, creative nonfiction, music and nature, environmental humanities.

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: Political Theory

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: 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: social cognitive development; prosocial behavior; morality; gender development

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

Research/Areas of Interest: Applied research and evaluation; programs for children, youth, and families; community context; poverty and socioeconomic status; social policy

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, Macro-Climate, International Macroeconomics, Macro Development

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

Research/Areas of Interest: Dr. Fiore's current research emphasizes social-emotional learning and development, building and sustaining relationships in educational settings, and promoting strengths-based environments and awareness of the multi-generational effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).

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.