**TEST** CLA Researchers

Faculty in CLA's seven schools engage in research across a wide range of topics.

We collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, external partners, grant development teams, and mentor graduate and undergraduate student researchers.

Anthropology

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  • Geophytes
  • Pacific Northwest native plants
  • foodways
  • paleoclimate
  • stewardship

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods, Experimental / lab-based, Community-based or participatory, Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Grant development teams

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  • Indigenous history
  • Ethnography of the Northwest Coast. Oregon, California
  • Indigenous law
  • Ethnobotany
  • Political anthropology
  • Colonization and settlement

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory, Archival / historical, Creative / practice-based, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

Bryan Tilt
  • Cultural anthropology
  • environmental anthropology
  • human dimensions of natural resources
  • international development, energy

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Quantitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory

Collaboration Interests:

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  • STS (Science, Technology and Society)
  • Environmental Anthropology
  • Latin American Studies
  • Human-Collaborative AI 

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory, Computational / data science

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

Artificial Intelligence

Chris Chen
  • Psychology of human-AI interaction
  • Trust in AI
  • Technological affordances
  • User interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Quantitative methods, Mixed methods, Experimental / lab-based

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Grant development teams

 Regan A. R. Gurung
  • Teaching
  • learning
  • engagement
  • AI
  • clothing and perception
  • student persistence

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods, Experimental / lab-based, Community-based or participatory

Collaboration Interests:

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  • Attention and cognitive control
  • Visual attention and distractor suppression
  • Working memory
  • Aging and cognitive processes
  • Cognitive Neuroscience in Attention
  • Human-AI interaction

Research Methods:
Experimental / lab-based

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

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  • Human-computer interaction
  • human factors
  • motor learning
  • multisensory perception
  • virtual reality

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods, Experimental / lab-based, Community-based or participatory, Computational / data science, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

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  • Surveillance
  • military technology
  • digital media
  • philosophy of technology

Research Methods:

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

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  • STS (Science, Technology and Society)
  • Environmental Anthropology
  • Latin American Studies
  • Human-Collaborative AI 

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory, Computational / data science

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

Communication

Chris Chen
  • Psychology of human-AI interaction
  • Trust in AI
  • Technological affordances
  • User interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Quantitative methods, Mixed methods, Experimental / lab-based

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Grant development teams

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  • Misinformation and correction
  • information processing
  • crisis communication
  • reputation and trust

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods, Experimental / lab-based

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

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  • Science/environmental Communication
  • Risk communication
  • psychological mechanism

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods, Mixed methods, Experimental / lab-based, Community-based or participatory

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

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  • Rhetorical Criticism
  • History of Speech Communication/Communication Studies
  • Pragmatism
  • Film Studies

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:

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  • Surveillance
  • military technology
  • digital media
  • philosophy of technology

Research Methods:

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

Disability

 Kathleen Bogart
  • Stigma
  • disability
  • ableism
  • rare disease

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Quantitative methods, Mixed methods, Experimental / lab-based, Community-based or participatory

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

 Juan Hu
  • emerging adulthood
  • ADHD
  • internalized racism
  • identity development
  • teaching and learning in higher education

Research Methods:
Mixed methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, Grant development teams

Economics

 Patrick Emerson
  • Development economics
  • labor economics
  • education
  • growth, urban
  • public policy analysis

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government)

 Grant Jacobsen
  • Energy Policy
  • Environmental Policy
  • Energy Economics
  • Environmental Economics

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods, Experimental / lab-based

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

 Hoang Pham
  • International trade
  • labor economics
  • productivity
  • informality
  • data centers

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Archival / historical, Computational / data science, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

 Edward Ray
  • International Trade
  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • U.S. Economic History

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams

Ethics

 Geoffrey Barstow
  • Buddhism
  • Vegetarianism
  • Animal Ethics

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory, Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

Catherine Bolzendahl
  • gender
  • political participation
  • public opinion
  • cross-national
  • quantitative

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, Grant development teams

 Jonathan Kaplan
  • philosophy of biology; political philosophy
  • philosophy of race
  • human behavior genetics
  • bioethics 

Research Methods:
Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory, Archival / historical, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

Gender

Catherine Bolzendahl
  • gender
  • political participation
  • public opinion
  • cross-national
  • quantitative

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, Grant development teams

 Nabil Boudraa
  • French and Francophone literatures and cinemas
  • North African cultures and history
  • Amazigh (Berber) cultural productions
  • diasporic minorities
  • women’s conditions in the francophone world

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Community-based or participatory, Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government)

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  • Classical and modern Chinese drama
  • politics and theater
  • gender and theater
  • intercultural performance
  • literary translation.

Research Methods:
Mixed methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams

History

 John Bawden
  • Modern Latin America
  • Chile
  • Cold War Latin America
  • US-Latin American Relations

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Mixed methods, Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

 Nabil Boudraa
  • French and Francophone literatures and cinemas
  • North African cultures and history
  • Amazigh (Berber) cultural productions
  • diasporic minorities
  • women’s conditions in the francophone world

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Community-based or participatory, Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government)

 Nicholas Foreman
  • Early America
  • Borderlands
  • Food History
  • Native American History

Research Methods:
Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

 Jacob Hamblin
  • history of science
  • history of technology
  • environmental history
  • cold war history

Research Methods:
Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

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  • Islam
  • Religion
  • Medieval History
  • Mysticism
  • Persian Studies

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Quantitative methods, Mixed methods, Archival / historical, Computational / data science, Creative / practice-based

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

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  • Rabbinics
  • Theories of Historiography
  • Religion and Philosophy
  • Classics
  • Numismatics

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

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  • Rhetorical Criticism
  • History of Speech Communication/Communication Studies
  • Pragmatism
  • Film Studies

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:

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  • Surveillance
  • military technology
  • digital media
  • philosophy of technology

Research Methods:

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

Indigenous/ Native American Studies

 Nabil Boudraa
  • French and Francophone literatures and cinemas
  • North African cultures and history
  • Amazigh (Berber) cultural productions
  • diasporic minorities
  • women’s conditions in the francophone world

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Community-based or participatory, Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government)

 Nicholas Foreman
  • Early America
  • Borderlands
  • Food History
  • Native American History

Research Methods:
Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

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  • Indigenous history
  • Ethnography of the Northwest Coast. Oregon, California
  • Indigenous law
  • Ethnobotany
  • Political anthropology
  • Colonization and settlement

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory, Archival / historical, Creative / practice-based, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

Literature

 Nabil Boudraa
  • French and Francophone literatures and cinemas
  • North African cultures and history
  • Amazigh (Berber) cultural productions
  • diasporic minorities
  • women’s conditions in the francophone world

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Community-based or participatory, Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government)

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  • Classical and modern Chinese drama
  • politics and theater
  • gender and theater
  • intercultural performance
  • literary translation.

Research Methods:
Mixed methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams

Philosophy

Sharyn Clough with long wavy dark blonde hair looks straight into the camera. She has thick framed glasses and a purple sweater.
  • Peace Literacy
  • Political Polarization
  • Science Controversies
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Public Philosophy
  • K-12 Education

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

Brian Elliott
  • Theories of communities and radical democracy
  • uneven urban development as it connects to sustainability
  • cultural studies as it pertains to class stratification
  • aesthetic modernism 

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

 Jonathan Kaplan
  • philosophy of biology; political philosophy
  • philosophy of race
  • human behavior genetics
  • bioethics 

Research Methods:
Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory, Archival / historical, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

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  • Islam
  • Religion
  • Medieval History
  • Mysticism
  • Persian Studies

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Quantitative methods, Mixed methods, Archival / historical, Computational / data science, Creative / practice-based

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

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  • Human-computer interaction
  • human factors
  • motor learning
  • multisensory perception
  • virtual reality

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods, Experimental / lab-based, Community-based or participatory, Computational / data science, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

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  • Rabbinics
  • Theories of Historiography
  • Religion and Philosophy
  • Classics
  • Numismatics

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

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  • Surveillance
  • military technology
  • digital media
  • philosophy of technology

Research Methods:

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

Benjamin Stenberg
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Cognitive Science
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Epistemology

Research Methods:

Collaboration Interests:

Political Science

 John Bawden
  • Modern Latin America
  • Chile
  • Cold War Latin America
  • US-Latin American Relations

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Mixed methods, Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

David Bernell
  • International politics
  • US foreign policy
  • US/global energy policy

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government)

Catherine Bolzendahl
  • gender
  • political participation
  • public opinion
  • cross-national
  • quantitative

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, Grant development teams

Sharyn Clough with long wavy dark blonde hair looks straight into the camera. She has thick framed glasses and a purple sweater.
  • Peace Literacy
  • Political Polarization
  • Science Controversies
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Public Philosophy
  • K-12 Education

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

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  • Indigenous history
  • Ethnography of the Northwest Coast. Oregon, California
  • Indigenous law
  • Ethnobotany
  • Political anthropology
  • Colonization and settlement

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory, Archival / historical, Creative / practice-based, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

 Edward Ray
  • International Trade
  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • U.S. Economic History

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams

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  • Classical and modern Chinese drama
  • politics and theater
  • gender and theater
  • intercultural performance
  • literary translation.

Research Methods:
Mixed methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams

Psychological Science

 Kathleen Bogart
  • Stigma
  • disability
  • ableism
  • rare disease

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Quantitative methods, Mixed methods, Experimental / lab-based, Community-based or participatory

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

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  • Psychophysiology
  • Addiction
  • Stress
  • Anxiety
  • Concussion/TBI

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods, Experimental / lab-based

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

 Anita Cservenka
  • Substance use
  • behavioral addictions
  • mental health

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods, Experimental / lab-based, Community-based or participatory, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

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  • Insomnia
  • shift work
  • sleep health
  • psychological interventions
  • behavioral sleep medicine

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Grant development teams

 Regan A. R. Gurung
  • Teaching
  • learning
  • engagement
  • AI
  • clothing and perception
  • student persistence

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods, Experimental / lab-based, Community-based or participatory

Collaboration Interests:

 Juan Hu
  • emerging adulthood
  • ADHD
  • internalized racism
  • identity development
  • teaching and learning in higher education

Research Methods:
Mixed methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, Grant development teams

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  • Nature-based interventions
  • mindfulness
  • nature engagement
  • environmental psychology
  • climate psychology

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods, Mixed methods, Experimental / lab-based, Archival / historical, Creative / practice-based, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Grant development teams

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  • Attention and cognitive control
  • Visual attention and distractor suppression
  • Working memory
  • Aging and cognitive processes
  • Cognitive Neuroscience in Attention
  • Human-AI interaction

Research Methods:
Experimental / lab-based

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

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  • Child development
  • cognitive development
  • memory
  • categorization
  • concepts

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods, Experimental / lab-based

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

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  • Misinformation and correction
  • information processing
  • crisis communication
  • reputation and trust

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods, Experimental / lab-based

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

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  • Science/environmental Communication
  • Risk communication
  • psychological mechanism

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods, Mixed methods, Experimental / lab-based, Community-based or participatory

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

Benjamin Stenberg
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Cognitive Science
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Epistemology

Research Methods:

Collaboration Interests:

Public Policy

David Bernell
  • International politics
  • US foreign policy
  • US/global energy policy

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government)

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  • environmental and energy policy
  • natural resource sociology
  • social movements
  • public participation in decision-making

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Quantitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

Brian Elliott
  • Theories of communities and radical democracy
  • uneven urban development as it connects to sustainability
  • cultural studies as it pertains to class stratification
  • aesthetic modernism 

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

 Patrick Emerson
  • Development economics
  • labor economics
  • education
  • growth, urban
  • public policy analysis

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government)

 Shawn Hazboun
  • Energy
  • climate
  • community
  • decarbonization
  • public opinion

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Quantitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

 Grant Jacobsen
  • Energy Policy
  • Environmental Policy
  • Energy Economics
  • Environmental Economics

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods, Experimental / lab-based

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

 Hoang Pham
  • International trade
  • labor economics
  • productivity
  • informality
  • data centers

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Archival / historical, Computational / data science, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

 Edward Ray
  • International Trade
  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • U.S. Economic History

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams

Bryan Tilt
  • Cultural anthropology
  • environmental anthropology
  • human dimensions of natural resources
  • international development, energy

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Quantitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory

Collaboration Interests:

Religion

 Geoffrey Barstow
  • Buddhism
  • Vegetarianism
  • Animal Ethics

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory, Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

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  • Islam
  • Religion
  • Medieval History
  • Mysticism
  • Persian Studies

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Quantitative methods, Mixed methods, Archival / historical, Computational / data science, Creative / practice-based

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

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  • Rabbinics
  • Theories of Historiography
  • Religion and Philosophy
  • Classics
  • Numismatics

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

Sociology

Catherine Bolzendahl
  • gender
  • political participation
  • public opinion
  • cross-national
  • quantitative

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, Grant development teams

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  • environmental and energy policy
  • natural resource sociology
  • social movements
  • public participation in decision-making

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Quantitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

Brian Elliott
  • Theories of communities and radical democracy
  • uneven urban development as it connects to sustainability
  • cultural studies as it pertains to class stratification
  • aesthetic modernism 

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

 Shawn Hazboun
  • Energy
  • climate
  • community
  • decarbonization
  • public opinion

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Quantitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

Technology

Chris Chen
  • Psychology of human-AI interaction
  • Trust in AI
  • Technological affordances
  • User interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Quantitative methods, Mixed methods, Experimental / lab-based

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Grant development teams

 Jacob Hamblin
  • history of science
  • history of technology
  • environmental history
  • cold war history

Research Methods:
Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

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  • Human-computer interaction
  • human factors
  • motor learning
  • multisensory perception
  • virtual reality

Research Methods:
Quantitative methods, Experimental / lab-based, Community-based or participatory, Computational / data science, Policy-oriented

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

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  • Surveillance
  • military technology
  • digital media
  • philosophy of technology

Research Methods:

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

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  • STS (Science, Technology and Society)
  • Environmental Anthropology
  • Latin American Studies
  • Human-Collaborative AI 

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory, Computational / data science

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

World Languages and Cultures

 John Bawden
  • Modern Latin America
  • Chile
  • Cold War Latin America
  • US-Latin American Relations

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Mixed methods, Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

 Nabil Boudraa
  • French and Francophone literatures and cinemas
  • North African cultures and history
  • Amazigh (Berber) cultural productions
  • diasporic minorities
  • women’s conditions in the francophone world

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Community-based or participatory, Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government)

Brian Elliott
  • Theories of communities and radical democracy
  • uneven urban development as it connects to sustainability
  • cultural studies as it pertains to class stratification
  • aesthetic modernism 

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams

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  • Rabbinics
  • Theories of Historiography
  • Religion and Philosophy
  • Classics
  • Numismatics

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Archival / historical

Collaboration Interests:
Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

 Adam Schwartz
  • Spanish in the United States
  • language and racism
  • whiteness
  • language ideologies 

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory, Creative / practice-based

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring

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  • Classical and modern Chinese drama
  • politics and theater
  • gender and theater
  • intercultural performance
  • literary translation.

Research Methods:
Mixed methods

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams

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  • STS (Science, Technology and Society)
  • Environmental Anthropology
  • Latin American Studies
  • Human-Collaborative AI 

Research Methods:
Qualitative methods, Mixed methods, Community-based or participatory, Computational / data science

Collaboration Interests:
Interdisciplinary research teams, External partners (community, nonprofits, industry, government), Graduate or undergraduate research mentoring, Grant development teams