Faculty

Research Interests:

• Second language acquisition
• Hispanic women literature
• Hispanic culture
• Puerto Rican literature and culture

Research Interests:

• Archaeology
• Quantitative methods
• Geographic information systems
• Hunters and gatherers
• Andean Preceramic and Formative, Central Asia and Tibet

Research Interests:

• Race, Gender, and Class
• Science, Knowledge, and Technology
• Organizations, Occupations, and Work

Research Interests:

• Political sociology
• Historical comparative
• Globalization
• Social movements

Research Interests:

Research Interests:

• Gender in the early modern Atlantic world
• A cultural crossroads in the early modern period
• Relationship between history and literature; specifically, the historical contexts for Shakespeare

Research Interests:

• Mesoamerican Indigenous literatures and cultures
• Central American & Latina/o cultural studies

Research Interests:

• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Aging
• Auditory Perception
• Hearing Loss

Research Interests:

• Sensorimotor neuroscience
• Complex systems
• Perception
• Action

Research Interests:

• Ethnomusicology 
• Anthropology
• South Asian studies

Research Interests:

• Sociology of education
• Social inequality (race/class/gender/sexuality)
• Social capital
• Adolescent transitions to adulthood

Research Interests:

• Infant development
• Speech perception
• Language processing
• Cochlear implants
• fNIRS
• Optical imaging

Research Interests:

• Medieval and Renaissance drama
• Shakespeare and performance
• Theatre in community
• Practice as research and community-engaged research
• Performance studies

Research Interests:

• Health services research
• Rural health
• Discrete choice experiments
• Behavioral economics

Research Interests:

• Global health
• Social inequalities in health/health disparities
• Health behavior
• Cancer
• Oral health
• Medical anthropology
• Clinical trials recruitment/research participation
• Refugees
• Survivorship
• Immigration

Research Interests:

• Applied microeconomics
• Behavioral economics
• Experimental economics
• Sociology and economics
• Public policy education

Research Interests:

• Health communications and interventions for changing health behaviors
• Imagery and affective processes influencing risk perceptions and behavior
• Smoking prevention
• Interventions for promoting adjustment during cancer treatment and survivorship

Research Interests:

• American literature and culture — from 18th century poet Joel Barlow to the television cartoon "Beavis and Butt-Head"
• Ethical and esthetic debates of the 19th century, concentrating on the works of Mark Twain, American literary humor, literary sentimentalism and domesticity

Research Interests:

• Islamic and South Asian art and architecture
• Colonial archaeological histories
• Histories of travel and tourism
• Social and visual histories of postcards
• Theories of space
• Histories of landscapes and gardens
• Cinema of India

Research Interests:

• Environmental health
• Effects of air quality on health
• Valley fever
• Forest fires
• Asthma

Research Interests:

• International organizations
• Comparative political institutions
• Human rights

Research Interests:

• Economic growth
• Health economics
• Macroeconomics

Research Interests:

• Comparative politics
• Political economy
• South Asia

Research Interests:

• Atlantic history
• Early American history
• African diaspora 

Research Interests:

• Political behavior
• Comparative politics
• Southern Africa

Research Interests:

• Community
• Collective identity
• The nation-state
• Migration and transnationalism
• Political anthropology
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas
• Social memory
• Museums
• Community-engaged scholarship

Research Interests:

Research Interests:

• Structural equation models
• Finite mixture models
• Longitudinal models
• Bayesian latent variable modeling
• Bayesian model mis-specification
• Categorical latent variable models

Research Interests:

• Art patronage
• Family
• Gender
• Women
• Memory
• Italian Renaissance art

Research Interests:

• Political sociology
• Quantitative methodology
• Social change
• Social stratification

Research Interests:

• Inequality
• Organizations
• Political sociology
• Social policy
• Education
• Healthcare
• Elites

Research Interests:

• Religion
• Social movements
• Race
• Gender
• Immigration

Research Interests:

• Economics of Science and Innovation
• International Economics
• Political Economy

Research Interests:

• Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century British Literature and Art
• British Romanticism
• Postcolonial, Transnational, and Ethnic Studies
• Islamic and Persian Studies

Research Interests:

• Experimental economics
• Labor economics

Research Interests:

• Creative writing

Research Interests:

• Normal and abnormal neuropsychological development and genetics
• Etiology of learning-language disorders

Research Interests:

• American literature
• American nature writing and literature of the environment
• California literature and culture
• Literature of the Central Valley
• Literature and culture of the Great Depression
• Literature and photography

Research Interests:

• Immigration policy
• Deportations
• Mass incarceration
• Human rights
• U.S. Latinos/as
• Latin America

Research Interests:

• Lifecourse determinants of internalizing disorder
• Suicidal behavior
• Effects of psychological disorders on physical health and economic outcomes
• Psychiatric epidemiology

Research Interests:

• Health disparities
• Social epidemiology/social determinants of health
• Tobacco control
• Oral health
• Latino health
• Immigrant/refugee health

Research Interests:

• Economic history
• Labor economics
• Crime
• Housing

Research Interests:

• Environmental epidemiology
• Perinatal epidemiology
• Maternal and child health
• Valley fever
• Chronic diseases

Research Interests:

• Maternal-child health
• Depression
• Psychoneuroendocrinology
• Childhood obesity
• Social support

Research Interests:

• Gender
• Education
• Family
• Sexuality
• Social inequality
• Mixed methods

Research Interests:

• Judicial politics
• Interest group involvement in the courts
• Supreme Court precedent
• Public opinion on courts and law
• Elections and voting behavior

Research Interests:

• Nineteenth- and 20th-century American and African American literature and culture
• Transnational American studies
• Literature and philosophy
• Søren Kierkegaard
• Global human rights
• Narrative medicine

Research Interests:

• Psychology and cognitive science, focusing on reasoning, memory and categorization

Research Interests:

• History
• American diplomatic history
• Nuclear history
• History of the Cold War

Research Interests:

• American politics
• Political behavior
• Political psychology
• Biology and politics

Research Interests:

• Microeconomics
• Applied econometrics
• Economics of innovation

Research Interests:

• Group prejudice
• Morality
• Threat psychology
• Human-robot interaction
• Evolutionary psychology

Research Interests:

• Health psychology
• Social psychology
• Self/identity
• Decision-making and behavior
• Responding to bad news

Research Interests:

• Media and information flow
• Public opinion
• Authoritarian politics
• China

Research Interests:

• Anthropological archaeology
• Ethnohistory
• Colonial encounters in the Americas
• Prehistoric demography
• Ancient hunter-gatherer societies of western North America

Research Interests:

• Culture and theory
• Globalization and transnational governance/migration
• Race, decolonization and citizenship
• Violence and insecurity
• Gender and feminist theory
• History of anthropology; Uganda, East Africa, Africa/South Asian/diaspora studies

Research Interests:

• Environmental economics
• Law and economics
• Industrial organization
• Agricultural policy and markets
• Finance

Research Interests:

Research Interests:

• Attention
• Perception
• Consciousness
• Action

Research Interests:

• Public Economics
• Employer Behavior
• Personnel Economics

Research Interests:

Research Interests:

• Nineteenth-century British literature and culture
• Cognitive approaches to the study of literature
• Gender and sexuality studies

Research Interests:

• Music and dance, especially as they relate to:
• Social power
• National identity
• Gender and sexuality 
• Cultural ownership

Research Interests:

• Reading
• Speech
• Neural networks
• Complex systems

Research Interests:

• Psychometrics especially structural equation modeling
• Sample size planning and related issues (e.g., effect size, power, confidence interval, meta-analysis, philosophy of science)
• Longitudinal/multilevel data analysis
• Bayesian statistics

Research Interests:

• Economic history
• Economic growth
• Financial economics
• Macroeconomics
• Money and banking

Research Interests:

• Continental and humanistic philosophy

Research Interests:

Research Interests:

• Experiments
• Models of political decision-making
• Strategic cognition and learning in games

Research Interests:

• Psychometrics
• Item response theory
• Rating scale design and analysis
• Psychology and personality test
• Diagnostic classication models
• Licensure tests
• Language assessment

Research Interests:

• Latent variable analysis of social networks
• Structural equation modeling
• Bayesian methods
• Time series and dynamical system analysis
• Categorical data analysis

Research Interests:

• Cultural production by and about Latin American authors of Asian descent
• The literary and cultural representations of the relationship between human rights, racialization, gender, migration, and authoritarianism

Research Interests:

• Medical discourse (Spanish in healthcare, intercultural communication)
• Sociolinguistics (code-switching, language attitudes and ideologies)
• Heritage language pedagogy
• Discourse analysis (systemic functional linguistics, Conceptual Metaphor theory)

Research Interests:

• Service science
• Human-computer interaction
• Distributed cognition

Research Interests:

• Emotional development
• Empathy
• Interpersonal processes
• Conflict management
• Culture

Research Interests:

• U.S. diplomatic history
• Nuclear history
• War and morality
• Twentieth century U.S. social movements
• African American history

Research Interests:

• African Women and Gender

Research Interests:

• Chicano/a and Latino/a literature
• Film studies
• Literary theory
• Children's literature

Research Interests:

• Cognitive science
• Psycholinguistics
• Linguistics
• Semantics
• Metaphor
• Language and society
• Climate communication

Research Interests:

• American political institutions, especially the U.S. Congress — theory and practice of agenda setting and partisanship
• Legislative term limits
• Election administration
• Positive political theory

Research Interests:

• Archaeology of religion
• Cave archaeology
• Mesoamerica
• Dynamics of complex society
• Geographic information systems
• Spatial cognition
• Cognitive science affiliate

Research Interests:

Research Interests:

• American politics
• Voting behavior
• Public opinion
• Political psychology
• Direct democracy

Research Interests:

Research Interests:

• Computational cognitive neuroscience
• Connectionism
• Cognitive control
• Learning from direct instruction
• Rule-guided behavior
• Concept formation
• Working memory
• Implicit/explicit learning
• Cognitive neuroscience

Research Interests:

Research Interests:

• Obesity policy
• Nutrition
• Food security
• HIV/AIDS
• Advocacy coalitions
• State health policymaking

Research Interests:

• Race and ethnicity 
• Social stratification 
• Social psychology 
• Sociology of health and illness 
• Quantitative methods 
• Comparative sociology 

Research Interests:

• History of 16th and 17th century Iran, with a particular emphasis on historiography, or the tradition of chronicle writing during the Safavid dynasty

Research Interests:

• Costume design (for theatre, opera, ballet, dance, film and television)
• History of costume design
• History of clothing and fashion, drawing and watercolor painting

Research Interests:

• Health communication – targeted media campaigns; message tailoring; social marketing; media advocacy; communication inequalities; information seeking; health and science journalism

Research Interests:

• Medical anthropology: maternal and child health
• Psychological anthropology: emotions and romance
• Gender
• Religion: magic, witchcraft and folk Catholicism
• Folklore
• Latin America, African Diaspora and Africa

Research Interests:

• Iberian Literatures from the 19th to the 21st centuries
• Contemporary Maghribi literature written in European languages
• Subsaharan literature
• Borderland studies
• African migrations to Europe
• 20th century Spanish-American literature

Research Interests:

Research Interests:

• Development economics
• Labor and migration economics
• Education economics

Research Interests:

Research Interests:

• Digital humanities
• Area studies and integrating geospatial technologies in the study of the social sciences

Research Interests:

• African history, especially social history of the 20th century Kenya
• History of development
• Agricultural and rural history
• Decolonization and independence studies

Research Interests:

• Applied econometrics
• International finance
• Economic development
• Latin American economies
• Macroeconomics

Research Interests:

• Political behavior
• American politics
• Political geography

Research Interests:

• Fisheries research
• Experimental economics
• Health economics

Research Interests:

• Cognitive development
• Language acquisition
• Psychological reasoning

Research Interests:

Research Interests:

• Focus on health economics and economics of education

Research Interests:

• Race
• Immigration
• Labor
• Water
• Food

Research Interests:

• Complex adaptive systems
• Social and cultural evolution
• Cooperation
• Decision making
• Collective behavior
• Biological patterns
• Mathematical and computational modeling
• Philosophy of science

Research Interests:

• Race
• Gender
• African Diaspora
• Colonial Latin America

Research Interests:

• Adolescent and young adult decision-making as it pertains to risk behaviors.
• Tobacco use initiation, continuation, and cessation
• Risk factors for sex initiation
• Relationship between perceptions, attitudes, and risk behaviors

Research Interests:

• Interaction between language and vision
• Sentence processing
• Word recognition
• Visual attention
• Visual memory
• Eye movements
• Computational modeling

Research Interests:

• American politics
• Political behavior
• Political psychology
• Electoral institutions

Research Interests:

• Health psychology
• Psychoneuroendocrinology
• Stress and coping
• Hormones and behavior
• Pituitary diseases

Research Interests:

• Race and ethnicity 
• Urban history
• Latina/o history
• Comparative borderlands 
• Social institutions
• Community formation 
• Public policy
• California
• U.S. West

Research Interests:

• Bioarchaeology 
• Mortuary archaeology 
• Identity
• Cultural modifications of the body
• Trauma
• Inequality 
• Mobility
• Andes
• Mesopotamia

Research Interests:

• Urban and local politics
• Elections
• Political parties

Research Interests:

• Corporate governance and finance
• Entrepreneurship
• Tournament Theory
• Contract theory
• Economics of information

Research Interests:

• Culture and Institutions
• Economic History
• Political Economy
• Gender Economics
• Health Economics

Research Interests:

• Intersectionality (race, class and gender)
• Latino/a sociology
• Economic sociology
• Entrepreneurship

Research Interests:

• Social movements and hate crime, with an emphasis on how characteristics of the social environment influence levels of collective action
• Social movement tactics and how personal stories influence attitudes about sexual assault and domestic violence

Research Interests:

• Analysis of social conventions and investigating their proper role in moral and political philosophy
• Exploring the relationship between conventions and justice

Research Interests:

• Critical race and gender
• Critical refugee studies
• Feminist epistemologies
• War and U.S. imperialism
• Hmong American studies
• Southeast Asian and Asian American histories and cultures

Research Interests:

• Latin America
• Popular music and sound studies
• Music and mobility
• Critical race and post-colonial studies
• Music and violence
• Memory
• Affect

Research Interests:

• Statistical analysis of difficult or unusual problems in psychology and education
• Developing new statistical methods for problems that do not yet have good solutions

Research Interests:

• Health psychology and developmental psychopathology
• Interactions between behavior and health in children and adolescents
• Disparities in health and health-related behaviours in vulnerable groups of children and adolescences

Research Interests:

Research Interests:

• 20th century American and Asian art
• American modernism and its global impact
• Asian-American art
• Museum collections and curatorial practices
• Visual culture

Research Interests:

• The study of higher education

Research Interests:

• Diabetes
• Health
• Pediatric psychology

Research Interests:

• Evolutionary genetics with a specific focus upon obtaining a deeper understanding of the genetics of taste perception and how such an understanding can be used to study a variety of health related issues

Research Interests:

• Mathematical and statistical aspects of psychological measurement theory
• Statistical genetics
• Applied cognitive psychology
• Technology transfer focused on early mathematics education

Research Interests:

• International trade
• Immigration
• Economic growth

Research Interests:

• Neighborhood and place
• Housing
• Education — quality and trajectories
• Structural racism

Research Interests:

• Contemporary Japanese art and criticism
• Avant-garde art
• Poststructuralism 
• Posthumanism
• Ecology and aesthetics
• Design

Research Interests:

• Philosophy of mind
• Philosophy of cognitive science
• Phenomenology (especially Husserl)
• Neural networks

Research Interests:

• Writing Program administration
• Pedagogy and assessment
• Science and technical writing

Research Interests:

• Immigration policy
• Immigration, crime and victimization
• Race, gender, and juvenile and criminal court processing and sanctioning
• Chicano gangs
• Latin American legal systems

Research Interests:

• Social psychological processes as applied to health
• How do perseverative cognitions function as a mechanism to create and extend stress responses
• How does perceiving emotion in others affect decision making about them