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Alejandra T.G. Aldridge

College: College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Department: Political Science
754 KMBL

Research Interests:
- How Americans think about democracy in an era of polarized politics
- How presidents influence conceptions of democratic norms
- Survey methodology
- Experimental methods
- Presidential influence
- Voter behavior
- Presidential elections
- Gender and politics

James Allison

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Small-scale societies of the southwest
- Quantitative Methods
- Ceramic Analysis
- Archaeological Theory

Lisa Argyle

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Political Psychology; Persuasion; Political Discussion; Participation; Public Opinion; Computational Social Science; Race, Ethnicity and Gender; Representation

Michael Barber

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Campaign Finance; Partisanship and Ideology; Polarization and legislative activity; survey design

Jaime Bartlett

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
870 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropology
- Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
- Archaeology

Celeste Beesley

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- International Political Economy; Globalization and Public Opinion

Adam Brown

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- American Politics; State Politics; governors; legislatures; state constitutions

Landon K. Burgener

College: College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Geology

Research Interests:
- Isotope Geochemistry
- Paleoclimatology
- Clumped Isotope Geochemistry
- Terrestrial Climate

Ethan Busby

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Political Psychology; Extremism; Public Opinion; Racial and Ethnic Politics; Quantitative Methods

Zachary Chase

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Andes

Ray Christensen

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Comparative Politics

John E. Clark

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
876 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Mesoamerica
- American History

Scott Cooper

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- International Relations

David Crandall

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- African Folktales
- Himba Flora Taxonomy and Herbal Medicines
- Africa
- Human Moral Knowledge

Richard Davis

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science
745 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Political Science

Ryan Davis

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Justice; Rights; Democratic ethics; Kantian Ethics

Adam Dynes

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- American Politics; Representation; Legislative politics; distributive politics; political parties; state and local politics; experimental methods; causal inference

Cynthia S. Finlayson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Archaeological excavation
- Cultural heritage site development
- Syria and Jordan

Jay Goodliffe

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Congressional campaigns and elections; legislative discipline; interest groups; international human rights treaties; political methodology

Joshua Gubler

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Intergroup Cooperation; Conflict Political Psychology; Middle East

Ralph Hancock

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Meaning and limits of modern rationalism in relation to religious and ethical-political traditions

Darren Hawkins

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- International institutions; Latin America; Human Rights; Governance

Kirk Hawkins

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Political organization and populism

Jacob R. Hickman

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
860 KMBL

Research Interests;
- How the processes of migration, displacement, and diaspora affect a host of cultural and psychological phenomena
- Transnational ethnographic fieldwork with Hmong communities in both southeast Asia and the west
- Religion, ritual practice, family life, moral thinking, and personhood
- Religious dynamics that are emerging in the Hmong diaspora, which include messianic movements, new forms of transnational ritual networks, and changing religious ideologies and practices
- Comparative fieldwork in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China, the United States, and other areas where the Hmong have resettled

John Holbein

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Political Participation
- Political Inequality
- Democratic Accountability
- Political Representation
- Education Policy

Eric Hyer

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Chinese Foreign Policy

Gentry Jenkins

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- International Security; Revolutionary Regimes; Civil Wars; Archival Research

David J. Johnson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
892 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Cultures associated with the Red Sea area and their involvement in long distance trade from the earliest period through the Islamic Period
- Effects of long distance trade contacts on religious ideology and social organization

Chris Karpowitz

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Political Psychology; Civic engagement and political participation; democratic and deliberative theory; political communication; experimental methods; public opinion; political behavior; the presidency; American political thought

Christopher Krewson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- American Politics; Law and Courts; American Political Institutions; Public Opinion; Political Behavior

Elizabeth McGuire

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Gender politics; Africa; Quantitative Methodology

Quinn Mecham

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Political mobilization in the Islamic World; political participation in authoritarian regimes

Quin Monson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Public opinion; campaigns and elections; survey research methods; religion and politics

Chad Nelson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- International effects of revolutions
- Interaction between domestic instability and international politics
- The rise of great powers

Daniel Nielson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- International Development; Foreign Aid; International Organizations; International Field Experiments

Charles W. Nuckolls

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropological studies of causal thinking and explanation in India
- Nationalism in Japan
- Psychiatric classification and diagnosis in the U.S. and New Zealand.

Kelly Patterson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- American politics; campaigns and elections; public opinion

Jeremy Pope

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Voter polarization; public opinion measurement

Jessica Preece

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Candidate ambition, recruitment, and selection

David Romney

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Inter/intragroup attitudes and norms in conflict; Israel and Palestine; Ethnic Studies

Michael T. Searcy

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Social processes associated with the Viejo (AD 700-1200) and Medio Periods (AD 1200-1450) of the Casas Grandes tradition, which flourished in the northwestern portion of modern-day Chihuahua, Mexico
- Causes linked to transitions in sociopolitical organization and structural transformations
- Long-distance interaction
- Iconographical analysis
- Ground stone analysis
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Fremont archaeology

Darin S. Self

College: College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Roles that political parties and militaries play in transitioning from authoritarianism to democracy
- Role of authoritarian incumbent parties and their effects on various aspects of democratic development and consolidation

Joel Selway

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Democratic Political Institution design; Civil war; riots; economic growth; public goods provision

Kendall Stiles

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- International relations; international institutions; international law; international ethics

Gregory Thompson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
880 KMBL

Research Interests:
- The intersection of anthropology, language, education, and communication with a broad focus on the mediating role of cultural contexts in human interaction
- Discourse analytic methods drawn from linguistic anthropology
- Micro-cultural contexts
- Motivation and engagement
- Psychological anthropology
- How education and learning are accomplished in actual teaching/learning interactions
- American cultural contexts
- African-American settings
- American cultural meanings of race and class

Lucy Williams

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- American political thought
- American exceptionalism
- Political rhetoric

Sven Wilson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Research Interests:
- Social Networks