Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences: Anthropology College of Life Sciences: Public Health

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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

Michael Barnes

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
5011 LSB

Research Interests:
- Health education
- Health promotion
- Public Health Communication
- Disease prevention
- Health planning
- Health statistics
- Program evaluation

Jaime Bartlett

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

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

John Beard

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
2046 LSB

Research Interests:
- Environmental and occupational risk factors for neurological and mental health diseases
- Environmental health
- Health effects of temperature inversions and air pollution
- Neurological and mental health disease prognosis

Robbie Chaney

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
2047 LSB

Research Interests:
- Active transportation in urban areas
- Shared road spaces
- Health geography
- Urban health
- GIS mapping
- Urban bicyclist safety
- Translational research
- Social determinants of health

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

Ali Crandall

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
2049 LSB

Research Interests:
- Family health
- Executive functioning
- Adolescent and child well-being
- Mental Health

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

Benjamin Crookston

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
2138 LSB

Research Interests:
- Maternal and child health
- Global Health
- Community Health
- Adolescent and child well-being or health
- Child nutrition or growth

Cynthia S. Finlayson

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

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

Jeff Glenn

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
2032 LSB

Research Interests:
- Systems thinking for public health
- Health systems strengthening
- Knowledge translation
- Public Health leadership

Cougar Hall

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
2140 LSB

Research Interests:
- School health education
- Adolescent and child well-being or health
- Sexualization

Carl Hanson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
2139 LSB

Research Interests:
- Computational or Quantitative Health Science
- Family health
- Mental Health
- Adolescent Health

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

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

Jim Johnston

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
2045 LSB

Research Interests:
- Indoor environmental quality
- Occupational health and safety
- Biological safety

Brianna Magnusson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
2050 LSB

Research Interests:
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Childhood events
- Family health and environment
- Mental Health
- Emerging adulthood

Ray Merrill

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
2063 LSB

Research Interests:
- Cancer epidemiology
- Evaluation of health interventions
- Religion and health

Brad Neiger

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
D380 LSB

Research Interests:
- Health promotion
- Racial and ethnic health disparities
- Social determinants of health
- Health education

Erik Nelson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
2138 LSB

Research Interests:
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Environmental lead exposure
- Substance abuse disorders or addiction
- Spatial statistics
- Multi-level modeling

Len Novilla

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
2064 LSB

Research Interests:
- Health Policy
- Social determinants of health
- Maternal and child health
- Family health
- Health promotion
- Disease prevention
- Health disparities
- Chronic disease prevention
- Adolescent health

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.

Randy Page

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
2030 LSB

Research Interests:
- School health education
- Health promotion
- Substance abuse disorders or addiction

Alisha Redelfs

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
2136 LSB

Research Interests:
- Community health interventions
- Health behavior change
- Data visualization
- Behavioral theory
- Health disparities
- Physical activity
- Sedentary behavior
- Obesity prevention and treatment

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

Chantel Sloan

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
2048 LSB

Research Interests:
- Epidemiology of RSV
- Air pollution impact on respiratory health
- Susceptibility to viral infections

Lori Spruance

Australia

Evan Thacker

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
2051 LSB

Research Interests:
- Epidemiology
- Cognitive decline, impairment, and dementia
- Geriatrics
- Disease determinants

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

Steven Thygerson

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
2031 LSB

Research Interests:
- Global occupational health
- Injury prevention
- Motor vehicle crashes
- Occupational health and safety
- Occupational injury epidemiology and prevention
- First aid and CPR

Josh West

College: Life Sciences
Department: Public Health
2139 LSB

Research Interests:
- Adolescent substance abuse and addiction
- Technology
- Health disparities