Members

Research Topics: Understanding and identifying strategies for eliminating health disparities; dimensions of illness risk perception, including uncertainty about risk perception and its implication for health behavior and risk perception measurement; determinants of prostate cancer treatment decision making and wellbeing in prostate cancer survivorship.

Research Topics: Yotam Ophir’s research focuses on media effects and persuasion, combining novel computational tools for automated content analysis, such as machine learning, topic modeling, and network analysis, with experimental and survey designs, to study media content and its effects on audiences.

Research Topics: International trade and foreign investment; Regional economic development; Asian business

Research Topics: Interpersonal communication; Deception; Facial Action Coding System (FACS)

Interests: Feminist theory; modernism; continental philosophy; ethics; critical theory

Interests: nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American poetry—especially by Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy; gender and language issues; modernism; U.S. Civil War poetry.

Research Topics: Information extraction; information retrieval; multimedia information retrieval; text mining

Research Topics: Behavioral biometrics; computer security; distributed systems; fault-tolerant computing (hardware/software)

Research Topics: digital media forensics; computer vision; machine learning

Research Areas: Film Directing and Producing, Cinematography, Photography, Podcasting, Screenwriting, Environmental Studies, Environmental Justice, Environmental Media, Art and Activism, Storytelling and Social Change, Community Collaboration and the Ethics of Media Representation.

Scholarly Interests: Political communication; election administration; religion and politics; political behavior; political parties

Scholarly Interests: Comparative political behavior; voting and elections; econometrics; political sophistication and public opinion; research methods; international political economy; comparative political economy; public choice; game theory

Research Field: Graphic Design; Emerging Practices

Interests: Creative Writing, Fiction; Experimental Fictions/Narratives, Contemporary American Fiction, Transatlantic Novel, Gender & the Novel, Women’s Experimental Fiction.

Scholarly Interests: Early Modern and Baroque Studies; Spanish Golden Age; Fantasy and Horror; Cultural criticism

Research Topics: Dynamic modeling; Urban health; Sustainability

Research Topics: Document image understanding, video analysis, pattern recognition, computer vision, media forensics, artificial intelligence

Research Interests: DNA-protein interaction; DNA structure, bacterial pathogenesis

Research Topics: Geographical Information Science, Geocomputation, Agent-based modeling, Social Network Analysis, Urban Geography, Computational Social Science

Interests: Early Modern British literature; the dramatic literature of Shakespeare and his contemporaries; feminist and cultural materialist theory and history

Research Topics: Mathematical modeling; high performance computing; model uncertainty and uncertainty quanti cation

Research Topics: Emerging network technologies and security, machine learning for security and privacy, security and privacy in IoT and CPS, security and privacy in social networks, usable privacy and security

Research Interests: Social and individual-level factors in the etiology and treatment of alcohol misuse; affective and cognitive determinants of heavy drinking; PTSD-alcohol use disorder comorbidity

Fields: History of Latin America & the Caribbean; The Atlantic World; Imperialism and Colonialism; Political History; Transnational History