Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences: Anthropology College of Humanities: Comparative Arts & Letters

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Julie Allen

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3025 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Nineteenth century
- Twentieth century
- Cultural and national identity
- European silent film
- Migration
- Immigration
- Fairy tale adaptations

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

Matthew Ancell

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3029 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Baroque Literature
- Baroque Art
- Early Modern Skepticism
- Deconstruction

Jaime Bartlett

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

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

Stephen Bay

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3019 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Papyrology
- Ancient Prose Fiction
- Classical Textual Criticism

Heather Belnap

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3052 JFSB, 208 HRCB

Research Interests:
- Nineteenth-century European art and culture
- Fashion and/in art, 1750-1950
- Feminist art history
- Gender studies
- Mormon studies
- Women in art

Stan Benfell

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
237E HRCB

Research Interests:
- Medieval Literature
- Renaissance Literature
- Religion and literature
- Philosophy and literature
- French, Italian, English

Michael Call

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
1163E JFSB

Research Interests:
- Seventeenth Century French art and literature
- History of the book
- Theories of authorship
- Cultural history of risk, chance, determinism

Zachary Chase

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

Research Interests:
- Andes

Allen Christenson

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3008 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Art
- Literature
- Linguistics
- Theology
- Ethnology of the Maya
- Victorian England
- Art and literature of the fin de siècle period

John E. Clark

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

Research Interests:
- Mesoamerica
- American History

Robert Colson III

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3036 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Postcolonial Studies
- Modernism
- African Studies
- Narrative Theory

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

R. Lucas Drake

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters

Marlene Esplin

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3050 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Twentieth century literatures of the Americas
- Translation Studies

Cynthia S. Finlayson

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

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

George Handley

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3770 HBLL

Research Interests:
- Literature of the Americas
- Ecocriticism
- Postcolonialism
- Theology

Kenneth J. Hartvigsen

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3056 JFSB

Research Interests:
- American figural painting
- Popular illustration and print media
- Visual cultures of popular music

Laura Hatch

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters

Research Interests:
- Medieval and Renaissance literature

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

Seth Jeppesen

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3041 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Roman Comedy
- Roman Religion
- Republican Roman History
- Reception and Adaptation of Ancient Drama
- Adaptation of Greek Tragedy in Brazil

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

Nate Kramer

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3031 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Danish and Norwegian history
- H.C. Anderson
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Trauma Studies
- Memory Studies
- European Modernism
- Theory
- Nationalism

Francesca Lawson

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3034 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Music and cognition
- Gender expression
- Chinese performing arts
- Language-music relationships

Roger Macfarlane

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3021

Research Interests:
- Latin papyrology
- Greek papyrology
- Reception of classical mythology

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.

Charles Oughton

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3040 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Classical Historiography
- Classical Biography
- Language Pedagogy
- Intertextuality
- Narratology
- Reception

Joseph Parry

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3055 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Continental Philosophy
- Early Modern Studies
- Renaissance Studies
- Medieval Studies

Martha Peacock

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3053 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Seventeenth Century
- Gender and Women in the Dutch Republic
- Art and the lives of women

Cecilia Peek

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3035 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Hellenistic and Roman History
- Greek and Latin Prose Literature
- Classical Historiography

Larry Peer

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3023 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Romanticism Literary Theory
- Enlightenment
- Literature and Cinema
- Nineteenth century philosophy

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

Carl Sederholm

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3008B JFSB

Research Interests:
- Edgar Allan Poe
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Stephen King
- Shirley Jackson
- Adaptation Theory
- American horror stories and films
- Lydia Maria Child
- American Religious History
- Notions of American Identity

Kerry Soper

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3032 JFSB

Research Interests:
- American Studies
- Comedy
- Satire
- Comics
- Popular culture
- Film American art history

Charlotte A Stanford

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3038 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Medieval architecture
- Devotional practices

James Swensen

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3054 JFSB

Research Interests:
- History of Photography
- American Art and Architecture
- Imagery and History of the American West

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

Thomas Wayment

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3045 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Early Christian studies

Elliott Wise

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
3048 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Devotion
- Exegesis
- Religious practice of late medieval and early modern Europe
- Eucharistic imagery
- Liturgical imagery
- Marian imagery

Marc Yamada

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters
4127 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Japanese and East Asian film, literature, culture

Erik O. Yingling

College: College of Humanities
Department: Comparative Arts and Letters

Research Interests:
- Christian liturgy
- Ancient Near East
- Images, material culture, imagination, religion, and ritual in late antiquity and the middle ages