Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences: Anthropology College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences: Sociology

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Melissa Alcaraz

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology

Research Interests:
- Education
- Migration
- Family Formation
- Transition to adulthood

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

R. Kirk Belnap

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
4063 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Project Perseverance-- how to empower students to effectively self-regulate

Zachary Chase

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

Research Interests:
- Andes

Curtis Child

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology

Research Interests:
- Organizations
- Nonprofits
- Social Enterprise
- Economic Sociology

John E. Clark

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

Research Interests:
- Mesoamerica
- American History

Michael R. Cope

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology
2034 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Community Sociology
- Rural Populations

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

Eric Dahlin

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology
2043 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Organizations
- Innovation
- Institutional Change
- Social Networks

Mikaela Dufur

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology
2037 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Child and Adolescent Social Capital
- Social Resources in Families and Schools
- Single Mother and Single Father Families
- Cross-national difference in Family Structures
- Race and Gender in Sport

Lance Erickson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology
2029 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Gerontology
- Adolescence
- Transition to adulthood

Cynthia S. Finlayson

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

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

Ryan Gabriel

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology
2033 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Residential Segregation
- Residential Mobility and Attainment
- Race/Racism

Benjamin Gibbs

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology
2023 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Parenting
- School-age children
- Household

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 Hoffmann

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology
2021 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Substance Use
- Delinquent Behavior
- Sociology of Religion

Jonathan Jarvis

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology
2031 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Global Education
- Cross-National Family
- Asian Immigration
- Korea

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

Stan Knapp

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology
2041 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Social Theory
- Phenomenology

Lisa Leake

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology
2040 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Community
- Immigration
- Consumer Credit

Jane Lopez

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology
2032 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Citizenship
- Effects of law in everyday life

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.

Hayley Pierce

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology
2036 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Mother and child well-being

Jacob Rugh

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology
2008 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Residential Segregation
- Immigration
- Race
- Ethnicity
- Housing Discrimination

Scott Sanders

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology
2039 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Race and Ethnicity
- Rural 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

Kevin Shafer

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology
2019 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Father Involvement and Mental Health in the US and Canada

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

Carol Ward

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology
2038 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Race and Ethnic Relations
- Sociology of Education; American Indian schooling issues
- Stratification: ethnicity, race and gender
- Social change processes
- Sociology of rural and urban communities
- Men and women veterans' access to health care
- Methods: Ethnography and qualitative methods; survey methods; applied research methods

Michael Wood

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Sociology

Research Interests:
- Culture and Cognition
- Religion
- Theory
- Computational Methods