Faculty

Research Interests:

synthetic biology, systems bioengineering, protein engineering, metabolic engineering, biofuels, biocatalysis

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Experimental Particle Physics, Electromagnetic Theory, Computational Physics.

High Energy Physics: studies of heavy quarks, new particle searches, tests of the Standard Model. Computational Physics: data analysis, simulation, electromagnetism.

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History and theory of animation
Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga)
Modern Japanese literature
Popular culture, especially science fiction and fantasy
Contemporary constructions of gender and the body
Technology and culture
Fan culture
Representations of trauma and loss

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Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind

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Time-frequency analysis, pure, applied, and numerical harmonic analysis; analysis and differential equations on fractals and graphs.

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Ancient Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Ethics

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Cosmic strings, gravitational waves, anthropic reasoning in cosmology,
energy conditions in general relativity.

Research:

My main area of research is the study of cosmic strings, in particular
their production of gravitational waves, which might enable us to
detect the cosmic string network, if it exists. Cosmic strings are
one of the potential sources of a stochastic background of
gravitational waves that (as of September 2020) may have been seen by
pulsar timing arrays. With my collaborators, I have developed a
large-scale simulation of cosmic strings, and we are the process of to
going from simulation results to predictions for the gravitational
wave background, with all effects included.

I also study gravitational waves and the possibilities of observing
them more generally. I am an associate member of NANOGrav (the North
American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves), which
observes gravitational waves using precision timing of pulsars.

I work on issues of anthropic reasoning in cosmology and how to make
sense of the infinite multiverse produced by eternal inflation. I
study the structure of eternally inflating universes and also the
philosophy of how to get from a model of what actually exists
everywhere in the universe to an understanding of what we ourselves
should expect to observe.

I have worked for many years on the question of exotic phenomena such
as superluminal travel and time travel in general relativity. My
collaborators and I showed that, subject to certain conditions, a
minimally-coupled quantum scalar field obeys the "achronal averaged
null energy condition", which prohibits exotic spacetimes. I am
currently working on the interaction between eternal inflation and
energy conditions.

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ultrafast nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, biopolymer multifunctional materials, material science, photonic crystals, photonic crystal fibers

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Agroecology, climate change, climate mitigation, plant-herbivore interactions

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cancer biology, tumor microenvironment, mechanisms of metastasis and drug resistance

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Signal processing; image processing; simulation modeling

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electrolytes, gels, polymers, ion transport, energy storage

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Music Cognition

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computational sciences, data driven modeling

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Modern and contemporary Italian literature, women's studies, and the pedagogy of Italian as a foreign language; Teaching of Italian language and culture through cinema, modern media, and instructional technology

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French language, 20th-century literature, film

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Popular Music and Jazz of the United States/Europe, African American Music, Transgender Vocality, Issues of Appropriation, and the Performance of Musical Identity with special attention to race, class, gender, and sexuality.

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brain and learning sciences, science education, engineering education, diversity and identity, technology and education, language and cognition, multicompetence

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Design and analysis of outcome based studies in the acute care setting, and the quantitative analysis of hand function after injury.

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geotechnical, geotechnical earthquake engineering, soil behavior, soil property characterization

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Second Language Pedagogy/ Teaching, German short film, 20th and 21st century literature and culture

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Greek and Latin Languages, Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine, Lucretius

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Families and children in challenging circumstances; parenting and family functioning among diverse families; ethnic-racial socialization processes; cultural and contextual influences; child and youth outcomes; adoption and foster care

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I am interested in histories and cultures of medicine, especially as they pertain to gender, kinship, caste, law, and everyday intimacies, with a regional focus on South Asia. I am also interested in the ways knowledge about bodies and minds moves across time and place, and how, in such movements, colonial, anti-colonial, and postcolonial scientific imaginations seed critical genealogies, often counterintuitively. In the diverse ways people make use of medicine and science, I am drawn to the forms of creativity, imagination, and ethical world-making that emerge in the interstices of authority and power. My research has considered childbirth, infant mortality, and birth-work in Uttar Pradesh, India, noting the way reproductive health interventions reiterate caste and the marginalization of Dalit women; women's movement through psychiatric care settings in urban north India and the intersections of kinship dissolutions with crisis and care; and histories of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in South Asia as they pertain to women's lives and gendered diagnoses, notably "hysteria" and its avatars.

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20th Century Spanish Peninsular Literature: Generation of 98, post-Civil War, historical memory, women authors

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Medieval and Renaissance French and Italian Literature

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K-12 engineering education, outreach development, learning through teaching

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Personal and social development; biological & evolutionary roots of human development

Biological and evolutionary substrates of human development; the role of eye-contact in social development.

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Educational Equity, Teacher Education, Critical Race Theory, Social Context of Schooling, Urban Schooling, Multicultural Education

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Art and Anthropology, African Art and Visual Culture, Museum and Heritage Studies, Institutional Theories, Historiography

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Late Antique & Medieval Western Europe, Byzantium, Southeastern Europe, Papal-Imperial relations