Richard Albert's research interests are constitutionalism, democracy, and the rule of law, with specific focus on constitutional reform, constitution-making, and comparative constitutionalism.
Efstathios Bakolas' research interests include optimal control theory, stochastic control, optimization-based control, differential games and game theory, computational and algorithmic geometry, dynamic programming, nonlinear control, path planning and motion planning for robotic systems and autonomous vehicles, and distributed control and estimation for multi-agent networks.
Deborah Beck's research interests include formulas and oral aesthetics in early Greek poetry, cognitive theories of reading and image processing, speech and speech representation in Homeric epic, and representations of art and interpretation in Augustan Latin poetry.
John Clarke's research focuses on ancient Roman art, art-historical methodology, and contemporary art. Since 2005, he has directed the Oplontis Project, based in Torre Annunziata, Italy, whose goal is to complete excavation and study of two large ancient Roman villas buried by Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
Todd Curtis' research interests broadly lie in the history of ancient Greek medicine and its reception. His particular expertise pertains to the interrelationship between scientific knowledge, genre, and rhetoric in the Galenic Corpus. Other strands of his research involve the role of therapeutic exercise in ancient Greek medicine, the psyche-soma relationship in late Christian thought, and the use of myth in ancient scientific literature.
Penelope Davies specializes in the architectural history of ancient Rome. She has published numerous articles and essays in scholarly publications about Roman art and architecture.
Ashwini Deo's works on systematic semantic change phenomena, such as the ways in which functional morphemes like tense-aspect, negation, and possession markers change over time. Within semantics-pragmatics, she works on synchronic phenomena in the domains of aspect, temporal reference, lexical semantics of verbs, and discourse particles. She also has an interest in case and agreement patterns, like in split-ergative and split-oblique systems.
Alex Dimakis' research interests include information theory, coding theory, signal processing, and networking, with a current focus on distributed storage, network coding, distributed inference and message passing algorithms.
Jennifer Ebbeler is a historian with a focus on the classics, including Greco-Roman epistolography and the literature and cultural history of Late Antiquity. She has written extensively on St. Augustine and Vergil's Eclogues.
Matthew Evans works primarily on topics in ancient philosophy, with an emphasis on ethics, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics. He writes on the early Greek philosopher Parmenides of Elea.
Linda Ferreira-Buckley's research focuses on rhetorical education (e.g., speech, writing, ethics) of Barbara Jordan, Houston's Fifth Ward, and African Americans in the South. Ferreira-Buckley is also interested in history of rhetoric, especially 18th- and 19th-century rhetoric, and evaluating writing and reading in secondary and college education.
Steven Friesen's specializes in early Christianity, with particular interests in the book of Revelation, poverty in the Roman Empire, and archaeology of religion in the eastern Mediterranean.
Zoi Gkalitsiou's clinical and research interests include the nature and treatment of stuttering and fluency disorders in children and adults. Specifically, Gkalitsiou is interested in investigating linguistic and cognitive factors that contribute to stuttered speech using eye-tracking methodology as well as in exploring how disfluencies manifest in bilingual speakers.
Francisco Gonzalez-Lima's lab focuses on the mission to prevent neurocognitive and emotional disorders, understand the underlying brain mechanisms, and advance innovative non-invasive treatments. Areas of research interest include transcranial infrared brain stimulation, near infrared spectroscopy, neurocognitive enhancement, mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase, dementia, bipolar disorder and neurotherapeutics.
Sean Gurd's research interests primarily include the areas of ancient theatre (especially tragedy), ancient music, and any part of intellectual culture that interfaced with the concept of art (or techne). He has a secondary but related interest in 20th-century avant-gardes, particularly in the Americas.
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Spyros Kinnas' interests are in the area of theoretical and computational hydrodynamics with applications on the design of ocean vehicles and offshore structures. His research focuses on the prediction of unsteady sheet and tip vortex cavitation, design of high-speed propulsors or ocean current turbines, free-surface entry, inflow/propulsor or turbine interaction, separated flows, and wave/body interaction.
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Spyridon Kinnas' interests are in the area of theoretical and computational hydrodynamics with applications on the design of ocean vehicles and offshore structures. His research focuses on the prediction of unsteady sheet and tip vortex cavitation, design of high-speed propulsors or ocean current turbines, free-surface entry, inflow/propulsor or turbine interaction, separated flows, and wave/body interaction.
Despoina Mavridou's research focuses on the biology of Gram-negative bacteria and more specifically in processes that occur in the extra-cytoplasmic environment.
Valerie McGuire's research and teaching interests center on the transnational, colonial, and postcolonial processes that have defined modern Italian culture, both within the peninsula and among its collectivities abroad.
Philip Morrison is a mathematical and theoretical physicist, who studies basic nonlinear plasma dynamics, Hamiltonian dynamics of few and infinite degree-of-freedom systems, computational algorithms that preserve geometric structure, and fluid mechanics.
Luisa Nardini specializes in digital humanities, pre- and early-modern women, global studies, and sacred music. Her studies on medieval and early-modern women are focused on women's access to music education, spaces of music creativity, and interactions with male counterparts. She also writes on global early musics.
Thomas Palaima has written and taught extensively on the subjects of ancient writing systems, the reconstruction of ancient culture, decipherment theory, Greek language, war and violence, ancient religion and rituals, song as a means of communicating social criticism, and intertextuality.
Art and Art History, Middle Eastern Studies, Classics
Athanasio Papalexandrou's research focuses on the visual and material cultures of Greece and the Mediterranean before 500 BCE. He conducts research on Greek antiquities exchanged as diplomatic gifts between Greece and the U.S. after WWII; the publication of Early Iron Age bronze finds from a sanctuary in Greece; the ritual functions of figurative bronzes from Cretan cave sanctuaries; and the publication of a large secular building in Cyprus.
Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Modern Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, Pediatrics, Surgery, Medicine
Nikolaos Peppas' research blends modern molecular and cellular biology with engineering to generate next-generation systems and devices, including bio-microelectromechanical systems with enhanced applicability, reliability, functionality and longevity.
Daniel Stockli's research focuses on the application of thermochronology and geochronology to tectonic and geological problems to better understand the temporal and thermal aspects of tectonic, petrologic, stratigraphic, and geomorphologic processes. In addition, he investigates geo- and thermochronometry technique development, calibration, and bench marking, with special emphasis on development of new thermochronmeters and novel applications.
Paul Toprac's research involves the use of games, simulations, mobile apps, and extended reality to change emotion, motivation, learning, and behavior in individuals.
Michael White’s specialty is the religions of the Roman Empire, focusing on the social context of early Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman world by blending historical, literary, and sociological research, with traditional biblical studies and archeological field work.