Jane Aiken

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Aiken is well known for her work in clinical legal education and violence. She teaches evidence for the Federal Judicial Center, training federal judges on developments in evidence. She has worked on women's rights and policy issues in Ethiopia as a State Department Senior Specialist and in Nepal ...

Garland Allen

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Allen is a historian of science. The major focus of his present research is on the history of genetics and its relationship to eugenics and agriculture in the United States between 1900 and 1950. In addition to an interest in Mendelian genetics, agriculturists and eugenicists also believed that the ...

John Baugh

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John Baugh, Ph.D., is able to provide perspective on the historic 2008 presidential race and issues related to the first African American candidate from a major party to run for the office. Baugh, author of Beyond Ebonics: Linguistic Pride and Racial Prejudice, a significant piece of work on the Ebonics ...

Iver Bernstein

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He is the author of "The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War," Oxford University Press. The 1990 book is considered the definite authority on this time in American history. Bernstein was awarded the George Washington Eggleston ...

Coburn

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Karen Levin Coburn is one of the country's leading experts on the college experience. She is co-author of the acclaimed book, Letting Go: A Parent's Guide to Understanding the College Years, which, in its fourth printing, has sold more than 330,000 copies. Coburn is often quoted in the national and ...

Garrett Duncan

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Garrett Duncan studies conditions that attribute to success and failure among black students in public schools, especially in competitive settings. He examines academic and social issues, with a special focus on high-stakes testing, education reform, violence, and racial disparities in achievement ...

Gerald L. Early

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Early is a noted essayist and American culture critic. A professor of English, of African & African American studies and of American culture studies, all in Arts & Sciences, Early is the author of several books, including The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American ...

Tonya Edmond's research and teaching interests include violence against women and practice effectiveness. Her current projects involve examining the theoretical and intervention preferences of domestic violence and sexual assault service providers, the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) ...

Edwards' research focuses on quality of life issues for individuals who have survived serious brain injury. Her research also is directed toward understanding the mechanisms which support independence and quality of life in the community of older adults, specifically minorities.

Friedman

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Friedman's interests include ethics and political philosophy, especially topics of women's issues and multiculturalism. Her most recent book is titled Autonomy, Gender, Politics and defends the importance of autonomy for women, with a focus on social issues such as domestic violence and women's situation ...

James Gibson

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Gibson has research interests comparative politics (especially processes of democratization), American politics (including political parties, public opinion, and especially courts and legal processes), and all areas of quantitative research methods (especially survey research). He currently is working ...

Debra Haire-Joshu is an internationally renowned scholar of health behavior who develops population wide interventions to reduce obesity and prevent diabetes, particularly among underserved youth.

Pauline Kim

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Kim specializes in employment law,employment discrimination law, the litigation process and the role of the courts. She teaches courses in civil procedure, employment law and pretrial practice and procedure. Kim is one of the researchers on the Supreme Court Forecasting Project and one of the co-founders ...

Matt Kreuter is a leading national public health expert in the field of health communications.

Lambert

Lambert conducts research on the expression versus suppression of stereotypes. A primary goal of his research is to understand how aspects of the "situation," the perceiver's personality, as well as transitory mood states (e.g., happiness versus sadness) might lead people to either use − or avoid ...

Rebecca Lester

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Lester's research focuses on medical anthropology, gender, embodiment, religion and ritual, psychological anthropology and cross-cultural psychiatry. Linking these issues at various points is her focus on gender, self and the body. She has recently completed her first book (based on her dissertation ...

May

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May's long-term research concerns the theory of moral and legal responsibility, especially the concepts of collective responsibility, guilt and shame. He has authored several books on this general theme as well as books on professional ethics, masculinity and medical ethics. He is currently working ...

Shanta Pandey's professional interests are in social policy, poverty, and program evaluation. Her current research focuses on factors that affect women's pursuit of economic opportunities, welfare reform, gender, poverty, and rural development particularly involving women and local initiatives in Nepal. ...