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Zoltan Barany

Government

Zoltan Barany is chiefly interested in military politics and democratization worldwide. Barany's recent field research has focused on demilitarized countries (and, for comparative purposes, states nearby that maintain armed forces).

Magdalena Bennett

Information, Risk, and Operations Management

Magdalena Bennett's research interests relate to developing and improving statistical methods for causal inference in observational and experimental studies. She also focuses on relevant policy questions in education, such as socioeconomic segregation and school choice.

Darlene Bhavnani

Medicine

Darlene Bhavnani's research interests include conducting research on infectious disease transmission, strengthening health and surveillance systems and the design and evaluation of public health interventions.

Laura Bright

Advertising & Public Relations

Laura Bright's research focuses on social media addiction and fatigue, big data and analytics, personalized advertising and digital privacy.

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.

Donna De Cesare

Journalism and Media, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Donna De Cesare is an author, documentary photographer and educator known for covering the spread of U.S. gangs in Central America.

Ariel Dulitzky

Law, Human Rights and Justice, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Jewish Studies

Ariel Dulitzky is a leading expert in human rights, particularly in Latin America and the United Nations and regional (particularly the inter-American) human rights system and enforced disappearances. Dulitzky has published extensively on human rights, the inter-American human rights system, racial discrimination, indigenous rights, the rule of law in Latin America, enforced disappearances, and sports and human rights.

Ofodike Ezekoye

Mechanical Engineering, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Ofodike Ezekoye is an expert in combustion and heat transfer in high temperature and reacting systems, such as combustion engines, furnaces, and structural fires. His research covers a range of applications from fundamentals of combustion systems to scientific support of the fire service in developing fire fighting tactics.

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.

Edmund Gordon

African and African Diaspora Studies

Edmund Gordon's teaching and research interests include culture and power in the African Diaspora, gender studies (particularly Black males), critical race theory, race education, and the racial economy of space and resources.

Kenneth Greene

Government, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Kenneth Greene's research focuses on authoritarian regimes and political competition in new democracies, with a particular emphasis on Mexico.

Stephanie Holmsten

Government

Stephanie Holmsten's research focuses on the election of women, ethnic minorities and minority women around the world and explores how institutions that promote the election of women and ethnic minorities impact minority women.

Shalene Jha

Integrative Biology

Shalene Jha's lab investigates ecological and evolutionary processes from genes to landscapes, to quantify global change impacts on plant-animal interactions, movement ecology, and the provisioning of ecosystem services. More specifically, the lab investigates how global land use change influences gene flow, foraging patterns, and population viability for plants and animals.

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.

Ulrich Mueller

Integrative Biology

Ulrich Mueller studies molecular ecology of organismal interactions. His research focuses currently on two projects: (a) population biology of fungus-growing ants, their cultivated fungi, and associated microbial mutualists; (b) microbiome breeding (artificial selection on microbiomes) to improve health of crop plants and bees.

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.

Michael Ryan

Integrative Biology, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Michael Ryan's research focuses on animal behavior. Most of Ryan's work has addressed sexual selection and communication in frogs and fish. Ryan is especially interested in integrating an understanding of the mechanisms of communication involved in mate attraction with the evolutionary consequences of sexual selection.

Brian Sedio

Integrative Biology

Brian Sedio's research seeks to understand the origins and maintenance of biodiversity in forest communities by integrating perspectives from analytical chemistry, community ecology, macroevolution, historical biogeography, and theoretical ecology.

Kelly Zamudio

College of Natural Sciences

Dr. Zamudio studies biodiversity, with a focus on reptiles and amphibians, to explore mating systems, diversification, and conservation. Her lab is particularly interested in using population genomics to predict how biodiversity will respond to human-induced disturbances, including habitat loss, climate change, and the emergence of wildlife infectious diseases.

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