Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences: Anthropology Life Sciences: Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Science

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Gene Ahlborn

College: Life Sciences
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science

Research Interests:
- Foods substitutes
- Arsenic effect on gene expression

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

Jaime Bartlett

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

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

Sarah Bellini

College: Life Sciences
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science
S-219 ESC

Research Interests:
- Clinical nutrition
- Pediatric nutrition
- Nutrition education

Zachary Chase

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

Research Interests:
- Andes

Merrill Christensen

College: Life Sciences
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science
S-221A ESC

Research Interests:
- Selenium-regulation of gene expression in prostate cancer
- Prostate cancer prevention and treatment -- optimizing selenium and chemotherapeutic blends

John E. Clark

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

Research Interests:
- Mesoamerica
- American History

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

Michael Dunn

College: Life Sciences
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science
S-129 ESC

Research Interests:
- Micronutrient fortification and stability
- Food chemistry and product development

Cynthia S. Finlayson

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

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

Susan Fullmer

College: Life Sciences
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science
5007 LSB

Research Interests:
- Effects of diet and exercise on metabolism and bone

Chad Hancock

College: Life Sciences
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science
S-245 ESC

Research Interests:
- Metabolic pathways -- supply and demand
- Diabetes and insulin resistance
- Glucose metabolism and regulation
- Chronic disease prevention and treatment

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

Laura Jefferies

College: Life Sciences
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science
S-133 ESC

Research Interests:
- Sensory analysis, testing techniques and protocol
- Sensory science and marketing
- Food engineering
- Dairy and meat science
- Labeling and sensory perception

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

Jason Kenealey

College: Life Sciences
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science
S-249 ESC

Research Interests:
- Chemotherapeutic natural compounds
- Molecular mechanisms of chemotherapeutic agents
- Structure determination
- Cancer treatment

James LeCheminant

College: Life Sciences
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science
S-141 ESC

Research Interests:
- Obesity
- Physical Activity or Exercise
- Disease prevention

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.

Emily Patten

College: Life Sciences
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science
S-231 ESC

Research Interests:
- Dietetics Management
- Leadership
- Nutrition education

Oscar Pike

College: Life Sciences
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science
S-135 ESC

Research Interests:
- Food analysis
- Sensory analysis
- Food processing nutrition, stability and safety

Rickelle Richards

College: Life Sciences
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science
S-233 ESC

Research Interests:
- Community nutrition
- Food assistance programs and policies for low-income populations

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

Frost Steele

College: Life Sciences
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science
S-131 ESC

Research Interests:
- Food processing nutrition, stability and safety
- Pasteurization and purification
- Food chemistry and product development

Nathan Stokes

College: Life Sciences
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science
S-235 ESC

Brad Taylor

College: Life Sciences
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science
S-127 ESC

Research Interests:
- Food safety and preservation technologies
- Microorganisms and beneficial bacteria
- Novel food/ingredient utilization or waste avoidance
- Food chemistry and product development
- Global food supply

Jeff Tessem

College: Life Sciences
Department: Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science
S-243 ESC

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