Faculty

• Second language acquisition
• Hispanic women literature
• Hispanic culture
• Puerto Rican literature and culture
• Representations of Domestic Violence on Hispanic Cultures

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

• African History, especially 19th and early 20th century Sierra Leone.

• Political sociology
• Environmental Sociology
• Globalization
• Social movements

• Immigrants and Immigration Policy
• Labor Economics
• Health, Education and Public Economics
• Crime and Incarceration

• Early Modern Britain and the Atlantic World
• Gender in the early modern Atlantic world
• Relationship between history and literature; specifically, the historical contexts for Shakespeare

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

• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Aging
• Auditory Perception
• Hearing Loss

• Black Feminism
• Intersection of Race and Gender
• Race and Gender in Film and Media
• Race and Gender in Social Institutions

• Sensorimotor neuroscience
• Complex systems
• Perception
• Action

• Labor Economics
• Public Economics
• Education, Health and Inequality

• Ethnomusicology 
• Anthropology
• South Asian studies
• Indian Cinema (Bollywood)
• Popular Musics
• Gateway to Merced (community-engaged research)

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

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

My research focuses on environmental exposures and their health impacts, particularly in children. My overall goal is to conduct research that informs policies to improve public health.

• Shakespeare and performance
• Theatre in community
• Practice as research and community-engaged research
• Eco-theatre and eco-criticism
• Medieval and Renaissance drama

• Health Economics
• Behavioral Economics
• Health Services Research
• Farmworkers Health
• Nicotine and Cannabis Policy

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

• Global Romanticism
• World Poetry
• Ecocriticism
• Digital Humanities

• 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

• 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

• Writing to Enhance Learning (Across the Curriculum)
• Resiliency Theory
• Self-Efficacy Development
• Faculty Development in Pedagogy

• Migration and immigrant integration

• Spatial data analysis
• Hierarchical modeling
• Finite population estimation
• Geographic health disparities

• Islamic and South Asian Art & Architecture
• Colonial and Post-colonial Studies
• Visual Culture and Travel
• Gender Studies
• Cinemas of India
• Modern South Asian Literature

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

• International organizations
• Comparative political institutions
• Human rights

• Economic growth
• Health economics
• Macroeconomics

• Memory
• Cognitive Health
• Physical Activity

• Comparative politics
• Political economy
• South Asia

• Atlantic history
• Early American history
• African diaspora 

• Collective identity
• Social memory
• The nation-state
• Migration and transnationalism
• Political Anthropology
• Community engaged scholarship

• Political psychology
• Economic insecurity
• Risk and decision-making
• Political behavior

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

• Art patronage
• Family
• Gender
• Women
• Italian Renaissance art
• Domestic Interior
• Material Culture

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

• Economic Sociology
• Inequality
• Political sociology
• Social policy
• Education
• Healthcare
• Elites

• Community-driven strategies to reduce risk behavior
• Racial/ethnic health disparities
• Tobacco use prevention

My research interests are centered around race, gender, immigration, labor, religion and local social movements.

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

• Queer Theory
• LGBT and Queer Literature
• Asian Anglophone Literature
• Disability Studies
• Affect Studies

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

• Creative Writing Pedagogy
• Hybrid Writing
• Improvisation and Writing

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

• 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

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

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

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

• Economic history
• Labor economics
• Crime
• Housing

• Psychology & Economics
• Experimental Economics
• Game Theory
• Applied Mechanism Design

Social epistemology

Virtue & vice epistemology

Feminist philosophy of language

Ethics & epistemology of the Internet and new media

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

• Attitudes, beliefs, intentions, and motivation
• Behavior change
• Selfregulation and self-control
• Development, integration and application of social psychological theory

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Philosophy of science

- Social/political philosophy

- Public scientific controversies

- Science policy

- Data science and data ethics

• Microeconomics
• Applied econometrics
• Economics of innovation

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

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

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

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

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

• Brain and cognitive development
• Children’s experiences at home and in schools
• Academic readiness and achievement

• Attention
• Perception
• Consciousness
• Action

•  Missing data analysis   

• Labor Economics
• Public Economics
• American Poverty
• Applied Econometrics

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

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

• Reading
• Speech
• Neural networks
• Complex systems

• 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

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

• Continental and humanistic philosophy

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

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

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

• • Mesoamerican Glyphic Writing Systems
  • Nahuatl Literature and Translation
  • Mesoamerican Religious Traditions
  • Mesoamerican and Indigenous Science
  • Indigenous Language Revitalization

• 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

*Education

*Stratification

*Culture

*Race & Ethnicity

*Asian Americans

*Hmong Americans

• 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)

• Service science
• Human-computer interaction
• Distributed cognition

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

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

• Cognitive science
• Complex systems
• Abstract concepts
• Conceptual revolutions

• African Women and Gender
• 20th Century Intellectual History of African Women
• Inductive Development of Black Feminist Theory
• African Nationalism
• Transnational Black Experiences
• Africa in Classical Antiquity

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

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

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

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

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

• uncertainty cognition

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

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

• Shakespeare in Performance
• Applied Shakespeare
• Shakespeare and Ecology
• British Theatre History
• Shakespeare in European Culture
• Theory and Practice of Theatre Reviewing
• Festivals, Festival Culture and Mega-Events

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

• 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:

• Communication: Advertising, journalism, public opinion, information overload
• Latinx health
• Cancer and chronic disease prevention
• Obesity

Teaching:

• 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

• Race/Ethnicity;
• Latina/o/x Sociology;
• Sociology of Education;
• Social Movements;
• Inequality/Mobility;
• Sexualities;

• 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

• Political Behavior
• Citizen-State Relations
• Social Policy
• Bureaucracy and Machine Politics in Latin America

• Contemporary Iberian Culture
• Urban Studies
• Migration Studies
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Literature and Trauma
• Affect
• Film
• Poetry

• Modern Mexico; US Latino/a History
• Social history of Latin America
• Agrarian studies and rural ecology
• Social Theory
• History of ideas

• Cultural Geography
• Historical GIS

• Cognitive science

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

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

• Andean bioarchaeology
• paleodietary reconstruction, nutrition, and foodways (stable isotopes)

• Fisheries research
• Experimental economics
• Health economics

• Cognitive development
• Language acquisition
• Psychological reasoning

• Africana theatre and popular culture
• Race, gender, and sexuality
• Black radicalism in the Americas
• Critical ethnography

• Film Theory and Practice
• Mizrahi Studies
• Representations of Border Crossing
• Decolonial Art and Cinema Practices
• Comparative Immigrant and Refugee Studies

• Development Economics
• Health Economics
• Financial Inclusion
• Economics of Education
• Gender

• Race
• Immigration
• Labor
• Water
• Food

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

• Race
• Gender
• African Diaspora
• Colonial Latin America
• Slavery

• Adolescent and young adult decision-making as it pertains to risk behaviors.
• Tobacco use initiation, continuation, and cessation
• Relationship between perceptions, attitudes, and risk behaviors
• Predictors of health-related perceptions and attitudes

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

• Political and economic anthropology
• Urban political economy
• Geopolitical borderlands and state-building in border regions
• Cartography and GIS
• Horn of Africa, Somali and Ethiopian diaspora

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

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

• Urban and local politics
• Elections
• Political parties

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

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

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

• 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

• citizenship and health
• health inequalities

• 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

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

• Quantitative methods for combining research results (meta-analysis)
• Statistical methods for addressing the problem of publication bias

• 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

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

• The study of higher education

• Diabetes
• Health
• Pediatric psychology

• 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

• International trade
• Immigration
• Economic growth

• Multilingual writing development and assessment
• Second language acquisition & bilingualism

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

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

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

• Immigrant health inequities
• Immigration and health policy
• Citizenship and legal status and health

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

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

• stress and health relationship
• emotional and social well-being
• cardiovascular health
• interventions to improve health