Research and Creative Activity
Morocco
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Faculty Research & Creative Activity in Morocco
Hina Azam
Middle Eastern Studies
Hina Azam's research focuses on women, gender, and sexuality in Islam, ethics, and pedagogy.
Thorsten Becker
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Thorsten Becker's research interests are in geodynamics and seismology, focusing on how planets' interior and surface systems have co-evolved. His team integrates field, laboratory, analog, and numerical approaches into geodynamical models, focusing on the physics of plate tectonics, from grain-scale deformation to earthquakes and global mantle flow.
Benjamin Brower
History
Benjamin Brower specializes in modern France and its colonies with a focus on nineteenth-century Algeria. Brower's research examines the colonial situation, and its impact on the societies of the colonized and colonizers. His broader research interests include violence; French colonialism, Islam, and secularism; colonization and language, and colonial-era pilgrimage to Mecca.
Mounira Charrad
Sociology, Middle Eastern Studies
Mounira M. Charrad has focused on state formation, colonialism, law, citizenship, women's rights and social movements. She has considered strategies of state building in kin-based societies and how struggles over state power shaped the expansion or curtailment of women's rights. Her current research centers on the secular feminist movement in Tunisia, women’s activism, women's associations, secularism, and civil society.
Charles De Piazza
Architecture
Charles Di Piazza is an architect and has been responsible for all phases of design and has consistently endeavored to integrate design with nature. Another of Di Piazza's interests is sustainability, and toward this goal, he strives to contribute toward projects in terms of reduced footprints, recycled materials and minimal energy solutions.
Emily Drumsta
Middle Eastern Studies, French and Italian
Emily Drumsta's interests include Arabic, Francophone literatures, comparative literature, and translation. She specializes in modern Arabic and Francophone literatures, exploring the history of detection and investigation in 20th-century Arabic fiction.
Brian Korgel
Chemical Engineering, Energy Institute
Brian Korgel's research centers on the development of new methods for synthesizing nanostructured materials, fabricating devices based upon these materials, and studying their properties. The lab group focuses on investigating size-tunable material properties, and the rational self-assembly and fabrication of nanostructures with atomic detail. This research finds applications in microelectronics and photonics, spintronics, coatings, sensors and
Vijay Mahajan
Marketing
Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.
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).
Heath Prince
Public Affairs
Heath Prince is a research scientist and has written, published, and presented extensively on domestic and international employment, training programs and policies, post-secondary education, and poverty reduction.
Denne Reed
Anthropology
Denne Reed focuses on the influences of ecology and environment on human adaptation and behavior. He has conducted field research in various parts of Africa, including paleoanthropological research focusing on early human evolution. Reed works on integrating paleoanthropological data to address questions about human evolution and environmental change and to improve access to the human fossil record.
Daniel Stockli
Earth and Planetary Sciences
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.
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