Name: Dr. Mohammad Yousuf Title: Assistant Professor Department: Communication & Journalism Describe your research in about 200 words. My research interests include big data, online media engagement, strategic management of online media, journalistic use of social media, and media ethics. My research was published or is accepted for publication in prestigious journals including Journalism & Mass […] Read More

Name: Dr. Sarah R Hernandez Title: Assistant Professor of Native American Literature Department: English Describe your research in about 200 words. My research focuses on contemporary Native American literature, with an emphasis on Oceti Ŝakowiŋ literatures. As a scholar, my goal is to bridge the gap between research and practice by ensuring that my scholarship is […] Read More

  Name: Dr. Catherine R. Rhodes Title: Assistant Professor Department: Anthropology Describe your research in about 200 words. My research interests include linguistic relativity; language diversity and cognition; epistemologies-ontologies; models of personhood; language ideologies; modernity; scale; and social identification, including around the constructs of Indigeneity and ethnicity. I conduct ethnographic research on the relationship between […] Read More

  Name: Dr. Brianna Figueroa Title: Assistant Professor Department: Theatre and Dance Describe your research in about 200 words.  I am a dance maker whose practice informs my work as a dance historian and theorist. My research advocates for the presence and proliferation of Latinx contemporary choreographers living and working across the United States. I concentrate […] Read More

  Name: Dr. Nahir I. Otaño Gracia Title: Assistant Professor Department: English Describe your research in about 200 words. My theoretical frameworks include Medieval English literature and culture, translation theory and practice, the global North Atlantic, and critical identity studies. I have published a number of articles on Arthurian literature written in Old Castilian, Catalan, and […] Read More

  Name: Dr. Sergio Ascencio Title: Assistant Professor Department: Political Science Describe your research in about 200 words. My research interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics and political economy. More specifically, I am interested in political institutions, electoral competition, and party strategy in developing democracies, with a focus on Latin America. My main […] Read More

  Name: Dr. Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine Title: Assistant Professor Department: Physics and Astronomy Describe your research in about 200 words. Prof. Cyr-Racine’s research brings together a unique mix of particle physics, cosmology, and astronomy to determine the properties of the mysterious dark matter permeating our Universe. He is particularly interested in how the microphysics of dark matter affects structure formation on a […] Read More

  Name: Dr. Jessica Carey-Webb Title: Assistant Professor Department: Spanish and Portuguese Describe your research in about 200 words. I specialize in Amazonian cultural studies and my book project examines the historical development of the Amazon during the rubber boom with an ecocritical and transnational lens. I am interested in using humanities training as a […] Read More

  Name: Dr. Tameem Albash Title: Assistant Professor Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Describe your research in about 200 words. My present research interests are on understanding how and whether quantum advantages may manifest themselves in near-term quantum information processing hardware. While quantum algorithms are known to provide computational speedups over their classical counterparts, current […] Read More

  Name: Dr. Xiaoyang Wang Title: Assistant Professor Department: Economics Describe your research in about 200 words. My research interests primarily focus on applied econometric methods, with emphasis on commodity markets and timeseries analysis. Current research projects study the market quality issues of commodity derivatives markets, under the context of technology improvement, climate change and […] Read More

  Name: Dr. Viktoriia Babicheva Title: Assistant Professor Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Describe your research in about 200 words. My expertise is in nanophotonics and nano-optics, and my experience includes extensive numerical modeling, nanofabrication, and optical characterization. I worked on switchable materials with low optical losses to be applied for ultra-compact waveguides and efficient modulators. […] Read More