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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a scholar of American politics, Angie Bautista-Chavez examines the politics of migration, borders, bureaucracy, race, and citizenship. She is interested in the dynamic interplay between states and racialized migrants\u2014at one level, how Latinx immigrants are regulated by and contend with the American state, and at another level, how the United States has expanded its regulatory reach beyond its borders. She is committed to creating more inclusive systems of knowledge production, as indicated by her research, teaching, and mentorship record. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maria Betto\u2019s research interests are in\u202fmicroeconomic theory, with a particular focus on topics related to information economics and decision theory. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Associate Research Professor, Department of Biology <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gira Bhabha’s research focuses on the structural mechanisms and cell biology of microbes and their interactions with hosts. The lab uses integrative approaches including X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-electron tomography, optical microscopy, biochemistry, microbiology, and cell biology techniques, to uncover the unique biology of eukaryotic and prokaryotic pathogens. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Research Professor, William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alessandra Corsi\u2019s research focuses on multi-messenger time-domain astronomy, with emphasis on relativistic radio transients and gravitational wave physics.\u202fShe has vast experience with observations of astrophysical transients and follow-up of gravitational wave (GW) events and works on detection algorithms for GW data. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Senior Lecturer and Program Coordinator, Applied Economics (Advanced Academic Programs) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ross Doppelt teaches in the applied economics program, based out of the Washington, D.C., campus. As a macroeconomist, his primary research interests are labor markets and time series, and he has experience teaching classes in macro, micro, and econometrics. Doppelt has a PhD from New York University and a BA from the University of Chicago, both in economics. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Associate Research Professor, Department of Biology <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Damian Ekiert is a microbiologist and biochemist whose research focuses on bacterial and parasite cell biology. He studies fundamental cellular and molecular processes ranging from lipid transport and virulence factors in bacteria, to invasion mechanisms in microsporidian parasites and the evolution of a minimal eukaryotic cell. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Thought and Literature <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brahim El Guabli is an interdisciplinary scholar who teaches a variety of topics in Tamazghan and Middle Eastern literatures from the lens of environmentalism, indigeneity, and multilingualism. His work engages issues of race and racism, deserts and Saharanism, joint authorship practices, translation and transitional justice, Jews in Amazigh and Arabic cultural production, and revitalization of Indigenous cultures. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Research Professor, Department of English <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Harris Feinsod is a literary and cultural historian of the United States, Latin America, and the Atlantic world. He is the author of a literary history, The Poetry of the Americas: from Good Neighbors to Countercultures<\/em>, and the co-translator of Oliverio Girondo\u2019s Decals: Complete Early Poems<\/em>. His recent academic essays and public writings focus especially on port cities, and on maritime labor, environment, and culture under conditions of globalization. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Senior Lecturer, Non-Profit Management (Advanced Academic Programs) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Kandyce Fernandez\u2019s expertise in the nonprofit sector includes philanthropy and foundations, advocacy and the policy process, civic health and engagement and program evaluation. Her research addresses the interactions that take place among communities and organizations across sectors, with a focus on civic health in the nonprofit sector. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Senior Lecturer, University Writing Program <\/p>\n\n\n\n Lauren Fusilier\u2019s research interests include digital and multimodal pedagogy, the intersection of digital literacies and new media campus resources, and issues of institutional equity and accessibility, especially as they impact non-dominant student populations.\u202f <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Teaching Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences <\/p>\n\n\n\n Andrew Gallup\u2019s research areas include the evolution and functional significance of yawning, sports and athletics in evolutionary perspective, and threat detection and group vigilance. He teaches courses in behavioral biology and provides advising and research mentoring to undergraduate students. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures <\/p>\n\n\n\n Maia Gil\u2019Ad\u00ed\u2019s work takes up speculative fiction as a site for theorizing Latinx identity across national and ethnic borders and shows the vital role of historical trauma in its formation. Arguing against reparative modes of reading, she analyzes how literary portrayals of violence, destruction, and pain paradoxically elicit pleasurable affective and aesthetic experiences. Examining novels by established Latinx authors such as Junot D\u00edaz and Cristina Garc\u00eda as well as multiethnic writers such as Colson Whitehead and Sesshu Foster, Gil\u2019Ad\u00ed challenges definitions of what constitutes Latinx literature and notions of the speculative by dismantling generic boundaries and entrenched definitions of race, ethnicity, and nationhood. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Senior Lecturer and Program Coordinator, Communication (Advanced Academic Programs) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nune Grigoryan\u2019s research is focused on the intersection of media and democracy. Her scholarly work includes studies of media ethics and digital media use for political participation, as well as social media use for political dissent and political campaigns. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Associate Research Professor, Department of English <\/p>\n\n\n\n Christopher Grobe specializes in the entanglement of literature, performance, media, and technology in U.S. culture. Understanding “performance” as both a mode of artistic practice and a source of social knowledge, he has studied such topics as the history of “confessional performance” in American culture, the theatricality of U.S. electoral politics, and the role artists play in constructing new technologies (from the telegraph to AI) and in determining their cultural significance.\u202f\u202f <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Lecturer, Program Coordinator, Academic Advisor, Environmental Programs (Advanced Academic Programs) <\/p>\n\n\n\n David Guggenheim is a marine scientist, conservation policy specialist, educator, award-winning author, ocean explorer and manned submersible pilot. He has worked in Cuba for more than 20 years, leading collaborative education, research and conservation efforts focused on coral reef ecosystems. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Research Professor, Department of Cognitive Science <\/p>\n\n\n\n John Hale’s expertise lies in computational linguistics.\u202fHis research centers on language comprehension, asking questions such as how are we able to understand one another, just by hearing a sequence of words? He uses cognitive modeling, analyzing the human mind\/brain via computer simulation.\u202f <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Simon Halliday conducts research in behavioral and experimental economics, with a focus on social preferences (reciprocity and social norms) and institutions (ratings, punishment, communication). He also does economics education, and he has co-authored (with Samuel Bowles) an intermediate-level microeconomics textbook: Microeconomics: Competition, Conflict, and Coordination <\/em>(OUP, 2022). Halliday is also the co-leader of the enCOREage Project. In a new textbook for introductory economics students, Understanding the Economy<\/em>, the enCOREage team will introduce content that draws students in because it addresses societal problems that students care about while building employability skills, belonging, and inclusion into the curriculum. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Research Professor, Departments of Biophysics and Biology <\/p>\n\n\n\n Yuan He is interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms by which large, multi-subunit complexes engage in DNA-centric processes. His research uses cryo-electron microscopy and other biophysical and biochemical approaches. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Assistant Professor, Department of Biophysics <\/p>\n\n\n\n William Huang is broadly interested in biochemical reactions at the cell membrane, especially those involved in signal transduction. The research combines optical methods and kinetic modeling to analyze biochemically reconstituted systems and living cells. The integrated approach has enabled the invention of extensive imaging-based membrane assays, oftentimes revealing unexpected dynamic characteristics unique to membrane signaling configurations. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Associate Research Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures <\/p>\n\n\n\n A specialist in 16th- and 17th-century Spanish literature, Paul Johnson draws on the history of emotion, the senses, the body, and performance in his research. His writing on race, gender, translation, and popular culture also places pre-modern Iberia into conversation with urgent contemporary debates, while crossing borders to encompass the Global Hispanophone and larger early modern world. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sujung Kim\u2019s research focuses on the transnational interactions of Buddhist practices in East Asia by engaging a variety of networks that connect people, places, and praxis in the Buddhist world. After her first monograph, Shinra Myojin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian \u201cMediterranean\u201d (University of Hawaii Press, 2019), she is currently working on her second monograph, Korean Magical Medicine: Buddhist Healing Talismans in Choson Korea (under advance contract with the University of Hawai’i Press). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Lecturer, Assistant Program Director, Data Analytics and Policy (Advanced Academic Programs) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Chris Kromphardt\u2019s research focuses on how citizens view the performance and legitimacy of judicial institutions, how judicial institutions make decisions, and the design and evaluation of experiential learning activities.\u202fHe has taught courses on public policy, research methods and research design, constitutional law, and American politics. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Senior Lecturer, University Writing Program <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jason Ludden\u2019s research interests include rhetoric of science, environmental communication, composition pedagogy, and creative writing. His work focuses on the role of experts in public policy discourse, and he has examined how forest management discourse shapes public perception of environmental issues. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Rohrbaugh Family Assistant Professor, Department of History <\/p>\n\n\n\n Diego Luis is a historian of Latin America specializing in the connections between Mexico and the Philippines during the Manila galleon period (1565-1815). His work focuses on the global scope of the early modern Spanish empire by examining the movement of people across the Pacific Ocean and how that movement transformed societies at both the eastern and western termini of the galleon trade. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Wind Energy, Departments of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Mechanical Engineering (Whiting School of Engineering) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Julie Lundquist uses observational and computational approaches to understand the atmospheric boundary layer, with an emphasis on atmosphere-wind energy interactions. Her research engages in both the atmospheric influences on wind energy production as well as the atmospheric consequences of wind energy deployment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Lecturer, Biotechnology (Advanced Academic Programs) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Vikash Morar has a background in research in clinical diagnostics, cellular neuroscience, and machine learning. His interest in learning as an abstraction brought him toward pedagogy, where he has extensively trained and worked to improve student outcomes in the classroom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marcelo Nogueira\u2019s research focuses on modern and contemporary Latin American poetry, popular music, and visual culture, with a special emphasis on Brazil. Drawing on literary history, media theory, sound studies, and ethnomusicology, he investigates the Latin American avant-gardes, Brazilian modernism, concrete poetry, and the art of songwriting. He earned his PhD in Romance Studies from Duke University in 2022. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Assistant Professor, William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy <\/p>\n\n\n\n Danielle Norcini\u2019s research interests are in particle physics and cosmology. Her main focus is building detectors to discover dark matter and measure neutrinos. Currently, her group is developing single-electron sensors called skipper CCDs to make precision measurements of particle interactions at very low energy thresholds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry <\/p>\n\n\n\n Grace Panetti investigates challenges at the interface of photochemistry and inorganic chemistry. She uses inorganic synthesis coupled with photophysical techniques like transient absorption spectroscopy to investigate these new systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Lecturer, Communication (Advanced Academic Programs) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mladen Petkov is interested in journalistic roles and practices, media freedom, disinformation, and Artificial Intelligence. He has several years of newsroom experience in the United States and Bulgaria. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Research Professor, Department of Sociology <\/p>\n\n\n\n Allison Pugh\u2019s research speaks to central concerns in the sociology of gender, investigating how people forge connections and find meaning and dignity at work and at home. Her work uses qualitative methods to investigate how gender, race, and class inequalities affect the way people negotiate dignity and connection amidst socioeconomic trends such as rationalization, insecurity, and commodification.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Senior Lecturer, Program Coordinator, Lab Manager, Biotechnology (Advanced Academic Programs) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Lakshmi Rajkumar is an alumni of Johns Hopkins University\u2019s M.S. in Biotechnology program specializing in microbiology. She has contributed to cancer research at the University of Maryland\u2019s Translational Core Lab and has worked in the industry as a food microbiologist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Associate Research Professor, Department of Cognitive Science <\/p>\n\n\n\n Margaret Renwick\u2019s research incorporates variation into models of spoken language to answer questions about the nature of phonological contrast, the origins and realization of phonological patterns, regional accents of U.S. English, and linguistic change across generations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Senior Lecturer and Program Coordinator, Applied Economics (Advanced Academic Programs) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mona Khadem Sameni’s research focuses on health economics, health policy, healthcare systems, and labor economics. She has done studies on global disparities in the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare systems, the application of AI in healthcare worldwide, and the regulation of AI. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Hale Sirin’s research and teaching bring together computational and critical methods to explore questions about narrative, language, and translation across historic and modern languages. She teaches courses on computational methods in the humanities and narrative theory. Sirin\u2019s work has appeared in numerous venues including the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and has been published in technical conferences including the Association for Computational Linguistics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Lecturer, Computational Biology (Advanced Academic Programs) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sarah Sowden has expertise in data science, research administration, and the ethical and legal implications of data practices. She lectures in bioinformatics and individualized genomics and health. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Assistant Research Professor, Biology <\/p>\n\n\n\n Frederick Tan researches mechanisms to effectively train and support diverse populations in genomic data science. He focuses on strategies that increase persistence among undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. Through collaborative educational programs, he aims to build inclusive communities that advance research using the latest genomic technologies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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