Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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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

Nathan Balser

College: Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Dance
1132 RB

Research Interests:
- Contemporary Choreography
- Musical Theatre Choreography
- Dance Performance
- Artistic Direction

Rachel Barker

College: Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Dance

Research Interests:
- Dance in alternative spaces
- Site-specific dance
- Improvisation as process and performance

Jaime Bartlett

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

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

Teresa Reber Bell

College: College of Humanities
Department: German and Russian
3102 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Applied Linguistics
- Computer assisted learning
- Cultural Studies
- Second Language Education
- Second language testing
- Psycholinguistics

Shayla Bott

College: Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Dance

Research Interests:
- Contemporary and neo-classical ballet choreography
- The use of music in the ballet technique class

Jennifer Bown

College: College of Humanities
Department: German and Russian
3117 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Second language acquisition
- Second language proficiency testing or evaluation
- Social and psychological effects on language learning
- Language learning outside the classroom

Cindy Brewer

College: College of Humanities
Department: German and Russian
3111 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Africa
- Bilingualism
- Computer assisted learning
- Cultural Studies
- Digital humanities
- Feminism
- Gender Studies
- Nineteenth Century German Women Writers
- Postcolonialism
- Religion
- Twentieth Century
- Women's Studies

Tony Brown

College: College of Humanities
Department: German and Russian
3113 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Second language acquisition
- Cultural history of Russia
- Bridging universities and professional communities

Angela Rosales Challis

College: Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Dance
281-G RB

Research Interests:
- Screen dance / dance and film
- Inclusive classrooms
- Culturally Responsive Education

Zachary Chase

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

Research Interests:
- Andes

John E. Clark

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

Research Interests:
- Mesoamerica
- American History

Christian Clement

College: College of Humanities
Department: German and Russian
3106 JFSB

Research Interests:
- German literature
- German philosophy
- Cultural Studies
- Twentieth Century

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

Adam Dyer

College: Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Dance
2226 RB

Research Interests:
- Aerial Dance performance
- Technique and Creative Process Intersection
- Hybrid art forms
- Dance and New Media
- Dance on Camera

Cynthia S. Finlayson

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

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

Jeanette Geslison

College: Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Dance
2216 RB

Research Interests:
- Cultural Representation
- Identity in cross-cultural dance
- Intent and Context in Traditional Dance
- Authenticity in cultural dance

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

Curt Holman

College: Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Dance
296 RB

Research Interests:
- Choreographic process in ballroom dance

Michelle James

College: College of Humanities
Department: German and Russian
3112C JFSB

Research Interests:
- Nineteenth Century German Women Writers
- Critical Theory
- Eighteenth Century
- Translation

Karen D. Jensen

College: College of Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Department of Dance
280 RB

Amy Jex

College: Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Dance
2224 RB

Research Interests:
- Cultural Dance

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

Katya Jordan

College: College of Humanities
Department: German and Russian
3115 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Nineteenth Century Russian Literature
- Realism
- Europe
- Cultural Studies

Brent Keck

College: Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Dance
287 RB

Research Interests:
- Dance Education
- Ballroom Teaching and Choreography

Hans-Wilhelm Kelling

College: College of Humanities
Department: German and Russian
3107 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Europe
- Cultural Studies
- Eighteenth Century
- Twentieth Century

Michael Ray Kelly

College: College of Humanities
Department: German and Russian
3105 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Russian Comedy
- Nineteenth century
- Religion
- Translation

Adeena Lago

College: Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Dance

Research Interests:
- Dance Education
- Technique and Theory

Grant H Lundberg

College: College of Humanities
Department: German and Russian
3097 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Slavic Linguistics
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Sociolinguistics
- Neurolinguistics
- Historical Linguistics

Rob McFarland

College: College of Humanities
Department: German and Russian
3104 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Feminism
- Cultural Studies
- Film
- Modernism
- Women's Studies

Kate Monson

College: Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Dance
291 RB

Research Interests:
- Dance Technique Pedagogy or Education
- Dance Conditioning -- balancing virtuosity and longevity

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.

Ashley Ivory Parov

College: Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Dance
281-A RB

Research Interests:
- Ballet Teaching

Mark Purves

College: College of Humanities
Department: German and Russian
3112A JFSB

Research Interests:
- Intertextuality
- Adaptation
- Cultural Studies
- Philosophy
- Tolstoy

Shani Robison

College: Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Dance
281-F RB

Research Interests:
- Ballet Teaching
- Ballet Choreography
- Dance Education

Marin Leggat Roper

College: Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Dance
2222 RB

Research Interests:
- Contemporary Dance

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

Laura Catharine Smith

College: College of Humanities
Department: German and Russian
3109 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Applied Linguistics
- Historical Linguistics
- Morpho-syntax
- Phonetics and Phonology

Raissa Solovieva

College: College of Humanities
Department: German and Russian
3096 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Cultural Studies
- Film
- Linguistics

Keely Song

College: Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Dance
2218 RB

Research Interests:
- Dance Education
- Contemporary Dance
- Dance Advocacy / Social Impacts

Tom Spencer

College: College of Humanities
Department: German and Russian
3112B JFSB

Research Interests:
- Nineteenth century German Literature
- Philosophy
- Poetry
- Romanticism

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

Kori Wakamatsu

College: Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Dance
1134 RB

Research Interests:
- Dance Education

Hilary Wolfley

College: Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Dance
281-H RB

Research Interests:
- Ballet

Jamie Kalama Wood

College: Fine Arts and Communications
Department: Dance
281-B RB

Research Interests:
- Cultural Dance
- Music Dance Theatre