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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Disability
- 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
Economics
- 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
- 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
Ethics
- 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
- 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
- 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)
History
- 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
- 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)
- 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
Indigenous/ Native American Studies
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
Philosophy
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Political Science
- 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
- 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
- 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
Psychological Science
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Public Policy
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Religion
- 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
- 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
Sociology
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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