Thailand

Manasicha Akepiyapornchai

Asian Studies

Manasicha Akepiyapornchai's primary area of research focuses on the intellectual history of South Asia (and Southeast Asia) during the medieval and early modern periods. She is specifically interested in studying the role of religion, philosophy, and multilingualism in religious and intellectual communities, particularly in South India.

Owen Anderson

Law

Owen Anderson is a scholar whose expertise is in oil and gas, particularly with regards to international petroleum law, transactions, and taxation. He has written extensively on water law and domestic and global petroleum law.

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.

Stephen Courter

Management

Stephen Courter's areas of interest include corporate diversification, mergers, acquisitions & divestitures, and venture capital.

Kelley Crews

Geography and the Environment

Kelley Crews specializes in geographic information science, remote sensing, land use/land cover change, human-environment interactions, environmental policy, and global tropics especially in Thailand and Andean South America.

John Doggett

Management

John Doggett's work focuses on global competition, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and energy.

Jeanne Freeland-Graves

Nutritional Sciences, Human Ecology

Jeanne Freeland-Graves focuses on genetic relationships of obesity with cardiovascular risk factors, liver function markers, and insulin resistance. She has explored the nutritional, environmental and psychological and social influences on weight retention in minority, low-income women after childbirth, as well as the biological and behavioral responses of both mothers and their children to nutrition and physical activity interventions.

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.

Jonathan Gunn

Music Performance

Jonathan Gunn is a versatile artist with a varied career as educator, soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral performer as a clarinetist. He has performed international as a soloist and recitalist and has given masterclasses around the world.

Jerry Junkin

Music Conducting

Jerry Junkin is an enthusiastic advocate of public-school music education, having conducted All-State bands and festivals in 48 states and on five continents. Junkin spends his summers in residence at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan and appearing at music festivals around the world.

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.

Quoc Nguyen

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering

Quoc Nguyen’s research covers advanced gas and chemical enhanced hydrocarbon recovery methods in hydrocarbon formations, thermal and solvent-based recovery of oils, improved production of unconventional resources, fluids design for controlling unwanted fluid production, improving the conformance of injected fluids, removal and preventative treatment of scale deposits and hydrates, and research of heat and mass transfer phenomena and geochemistry.

Raj Patel

Public Affairs, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Raj Patel is a research professor who studies the world food system and alternatives to it. He has testified about hunger and food sovereignty, and has written about food systems, economics, philosophy, politics, international development, and public health.

James Patton

Special Education

James Patton's areas of activity include transition assessment and planning, differentiating instruction for students with special needs, study skills instruction, needs of college students with learning-related challenges, and issues associated with individual with disabilities who encounter the criminal justice system.

Michael Sadler

Economics, Finance

Michael Sadler's research includes the current status of the U.S. and global economy, financial markets analysis, macroeconomics, macroeconomic policy, monetary economics, and growth theory.

Thomas Sager

Statistics and Data Sciences, Information, Risk, and Operations Management

Thomas Sager's research focuses on the development and application of econometric models to study the empirical behavior of insurance companies.

Surya Santoso

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Surya Santoso's research lies in the broad area of power systems analysis, electric power quality, distributed energy resource integration, and time-domain modeling and simulation of electrical systems.

Hirofumi Tanaka

Kinesiology and Health Education

Hirofumi Tanaka's interests focus on vascular aging that manifests as the stiffening of large elastic artery and vascular endothelial dysfunction, such as the physiological mechanism that mediate vascular aging, sequel or consequences of aging-related vascular dysfunction, and lifestyle modifications that prevent and reverse vascular dysfunction with aging.

Abigail Weitzman

Sociology, Latin American Studies

Abigail Weitzman is a sociologist with a particular interest in gendered family dynamics and the social psychology of demographic processes. Weitzman studies diversity in young women's sexual and fertility desires, how and why such desires evolve during the transition to adulthood, and their influence on young women's reproductive behaviors. Her research explores how different types of sexual relationships emerge and progress among young adults.

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