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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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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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Nineteenth-century U.S., African American, Native American

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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.

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Life and Thought of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali,
Religious Thought of al-Andalus and the Maghrib,
Sufism,
Contemporary Muslim religious discourse, especially in Egypt,

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19th- and 20th-Century French Poetry, with an emphasis on Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Breton and Bonnefoy
French Symbolism and French Surrealism
Poetry and Philosophy
Poetry and music

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geotechnical earthquake engineering, seismic hazard mapping, natural hazards

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Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral / Experimental Economics

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label-free high resolution tissue imaging, non-linear microscopy, metabolic imaging, matrix characterization, in vivo flow cytometry, cancer detection, osteoarthritis, neurodegenerative diseases

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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.'

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

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geotechnical, laboratory testing, automation, soil behavior, physical properties, mechanical properties, material science

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

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American Politics, Political Behavior

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reproductive biology and tissue engineering to understand the immune-endocrine mechanisms driving both reproductive physiology and disease pathogenesis.

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Psychology of Language, Linguistics

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

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

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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.

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