Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences: Anthropology College of Humanities: Philosophy Student Life

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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

Travis Anderson

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy

Research Interests:
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy of Art
- Film and architecture
- Contemporary French and German philosophy
- Philosophy of psychology
- History of Western Civilization
- Philosophy of Economics
- Studio drawing and painting
- Writing and critical thinking pedagogy

Jaime Bartlett

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

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

Zachary Chase

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

Research Interests:
- Andes

Ryan Christensen

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4081 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Philosophical theology
- Philosophical anthropology
- Philosophical logic
- Essence
- Truth

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

Cynthia S. Finlayson

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

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

Derek Haderlie

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4083 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Metaethics
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of religion

Mike Hansen

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4092 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Rationalism (especially Leibniz, Spinoza, Descartes)
- Philosophy of Mind (especially perception and point of view)
- Epistemology (especially self-knowledge)

Cameron W. Hee

College: Student Life
Department: Student Development Services

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 Jensen

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4093 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Ethics
- Medical Ethics
- Kant

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

David Laraway

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4086A JFSB

Research Interests:
- Hispanic Literature
- Hispanic Culture
- Basque and Basque-American Literature
- Basque and Basque-American Culture
- Philosophy of Art
- History of Philosophy
- Philosophy in the Spanish-speaking World

Taylor-Grey E. Miller

College: College of Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4087 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Metaphysics
- The relationships that essence, ground, and metaphysical generation bear to one another.
- Philosophy of religion
- Philosophical theology

Gordy Mower

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy

Research Interests:
- Hume
- Descartes
- Montaigne
- Machiavelli
- Locke
- Confucianism
- Taoism
- Legalism
- Republicanism
- Virtue theory
- Civic theory
- Natural law theory
- Professional ethics
- Neo-Confucianism
- Korean Philosophy

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.

Katharina Paxman

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4086C JFSB

Research Interests:
- Hume
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Philosophy of the mind
- History of Philosophy of emotions
- Moral psychology
- Metaethics
- Applied ethics
- History of women in philosophy

Nathan Rockwood

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4089 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Locke
- Descartes
- Philosophy of Religion

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

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

Heidi A. Vogeler

College: Student Life
Department: Student Development Services

Angela Wentz Faulconer

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4085 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Moral philosophy
- Political philosophy
- Morality of genome editing
- Human germ line
- Physician assisted suicide
- The distribution of scarce resources (medicine)
- Ethics of compensation for bodily goods

Justin White

College: Humanities
Department: Philosophy
4079 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Nineteenth century European Philosophy
- Twentieth Century European Philosophy
- Philosophy of Agency
- Moral psychology