Jamaica

Bedour Alagraa

African and African Diaspora Studies

Bedour Alagraa is broadly interested in Black radical genealogies in political theory, history/ies of political concepts, Caribbean thought, African anti-colonial thought, and Black Marxism(s). She has also studied and written extensively on the works of Jamaican writer Sylvia Wynter.

Richard Albert

Government, Law

Richard Albert's research interests are constitutionalism, democracy, and the rule of law, with specific focus on constitutional reform, constitution-making, and comparative constitutionalism.

Nathaniel Brickens

Music Performance, Music Education

Nathaniel Brickens is an internationally acclaimed trombone player and educator. He has traveled and performed both national and internationally as a free-lance trombonist, as conductor of the UT Trombone Choir, and as a music educator.

Khytie Brown

Religious Studies

Khytie Brown is an ethnographer and scholar of African diaspora religions. Her research examines the intersections of religion, race, gender and sexual alterity, criminality, material culture, sensory epistemolgies and social media practices among African diasporic religious practitioners in the Americas. In particular, her work focuses on Revival Zion religion, an African-heritage, indigenized form of Christianity originating in Jamaica.

Edward Chambers

Art and Art History

Edward Chambers has been involved in organizing and curating a considerable number of artists' exhibitions. In addition to his exhibition work, he has written extensively about the work of artists in the United Kingdom and other countries, including Australia, Jamaica and the U.S.

Dave Clarke

Medicine

Dave Clarke has a special interest and has done clinical research in medical and surgical management of drug-resistant epilepsy. His collaborative projects have focused on reducing deficits and disparities in epilepsy care.

Lynn Crismon

Pharmacy

Lynn Crismon's research, scholarship, and practice have focused on the development and evaluation of strategies to improve the pharmacotherapy and health outcomes of adults and children with severe mental disorders.

Katherine Ellins

Geological Sciences

Katherine Ellins' research focuses on geoscience education, including curriculum development and professional development and training for teachers. She is engaged in discipline based education research, climate literacy, and art and design engagement.

Lyndon Gill

African and African Diaspora Studies

Lyndon Gill's research interests focus on queer aesthetics in the African Diaspora, the erotic, LGBT art and activism in Caribbean cultures, African-based spiritual traditions in the Americas, subjectivity, and community building.

Francisco Gonzalez-Lima

Psychology, Medicine, Pharmacy

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.

Lars Hinrichs

English

Lars Hinrichs is a linguist interested in varieties of English. He studied the use of English and Creole in online communication by Jamaicans and has also researched syntactic differences between British and American written English from a statistical perspective.

Rowan Martindale

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Rowan Martindale is interested in marine paleoecology and the geobiology of carbon cycle perturbation events (e.g. mass extinctions, ocean anoxic events, and ocean acidification events in deep time). Martindale’s research also includes carbonate sedimentology and the paleontology/paleobiology of reef builders (e.g corals and sponges).

Ashley Matheny

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Ashley Matheny is an ecohydrologist whose research focuses on understanding and simulating the ways vegetation influences the storage and movement of water between the soil and the atmosphere. She uses a wide variety of field measurements and numerical modeling strategies to answer questions regarding the ways droughts, salinity, and other disturbances influence vegetation-climate feedbacks in terms of water, carbon, and energy exchange.

Samantha Pinto

English, African and African Diaspora Studies

Samantha Pinto's research explores the discourses of race, gender, and human rights along with science in the African American and African Diaspora culture.

Megan Raby

History, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Megan Raby's work focuses on the transnational connections of ecology and environmental science in the U.S. and Latin America in the 20th-century.

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