Abimbola Adelakun researches Pentecostalism, performance, religion and spirituality, as they intersect with digital culture. She teaches courses in spirituality and performance, dramatic literature, travels and African cosmopolitan identity, and modern Nigerian culture.
Stephen Anderson is a quantitative researcher who studies management and policy questions at the intersection of marketing and development economics. His research program focuses on stimulating more inclusive, equitable growth in disadvantaged communities through marketing and entrepreneurship.
Charles Carson is a musicologist whose interests are African-American/American expressive cultures, popular music, jazz, film music, and music and culture.
Veit Erlmann is a cultural historian, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. His areas of interest include music and popular culture in South Africa and Indonesia, sound studies, and the anthropology of intellectual property law.
William Forbath's research concerns the role of law in the creation of the modern American state, social and economic rights in the courts, and social movements of South Africa. His interests also include constitutional law, civil procedure, the intersection of social and constitutional theory, the history of the American labor law and of the New Deal, populist movements in American history, and legal and constitutional history.
Earth and Planetary Sciences, Institute for Geophysics
Sean Gulick focuses on geophysical imaging at nested resolutions and scientific drilling to examine impact cratering, tectonic processes, climate interactions, catastrophism in the geologic record, and planetary habitability. Current foci are the Chicxulub K-Pg impact and terrestrial craters, impact hydrothermal systems and planetary habitability, Lunar/Martian geophysics, tectonic hazards, and hi-res imaging for sedimentary climate records.
Government, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
Daniel Nielson's research focuses on international development, foreign aid, the control of corruption, and international organization. He specializes in the use of transnational field experiments to learn about causal effects in political economy.
Abena Dove Osseo-Asare studies medicine and science in African societies. Her research includes the ways that communities share medical and scientific knowledge and how differential access to knowledge shapes global health.
Samantha Pinto's research explores the discourses of race, gender, and human rights along with science in the African American and African Diaspora culture.
Timothy Shanahan’s research group uses a combination of geochemical and stable isotopic proxy reconstructions of past climate along with climate model simulations to understand past and future climate change. The focus is the use of organic geochemical and stable isotopic techniques applied to marine, lacustrine and terrestrial sediment records to understand changes on time scales ranging from interannual to millennial, and orbital to tectonic.
Elliot Tucker-Drob’s research addresses the questions of how and why different people progress along different life trajectories. His research on infant, child, and adolescent development primarily focuses on how social and educational experiences combine with genetic variation to impact cognitive development, and mental health over time.