Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences: Anthropology School of Technology

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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

Scott Bartholomew

College: Engineering and Technology
Department: School of Technology
230 SNLB

Research Interests:
- Adaptive comparative judgment (ACJ)
- Integrative STEM education
- STEM teacher professional development

Jaime Bartlett

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

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

Michael Bown

College: Engineering and Technology
Department: School of Technology - Construction Management/Faculty and Property Management
430I EB

Research Interests:
- Construction company operations and management

Brian Capt

College: Engineering and Technology
Department: School of Technology - Construction Management/Faculty and Property Management
430T EB

Research Interests:
- Construction Modeling
- Electrical Systems

Zachary Chase

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

Research Interests:
- Andes

Kip Christensen

College: Engineering and Technology
Department: School of Technology

Research Interests:
- Applied Technology

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

Richard Fry

College: Engineering and Technology
Department: School of Technology - Industrial Design
CTB 265

Research Interests:
- Design Thinking as a method for innovation

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

Bryan Howell

College: Engineering and Technology
Department: School of Technology - Industrial Design
265 CTB

Research Interests:
- Industrial Design
- Design Education

Mark Hutchings

College: Engineering and Technology
Department: School of Technology - Construction Management/Faculty and Property Management

Research Interests:
- Construction Law
- Real Estate Principles
- Company Management

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

John Lee

College: Engineering and Technology
Department: School of Technology - Manufacturing Engineering

Research Interests:
- Organizational Quality and competitive advantage

Barry Lunt

College: Engineering and Technology
Department: School of Technology - Information Technology

Research Interests:
- Computing and Technology Education
- Long-term computer data storage

David Morgan

College: Engineering and Technology
Department: School of Technology - Industrial Design
265 CTB

Research Interests:
- Issues for small manufacturers
- Production Furniture
- Design Theory
- Waste Equals Food

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.

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

Paul Skaggs

College: Engineering and Technology
Department: School of Technology - Industrial Design
265 CTB

Research Interests:
- Design Thinking: visual or spatial, creative, flexible

Andrew South

College of Engineering and Technology
School of Technology - Construction Management / Facilities & Property Management
430-G EB

College of Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430-G EB

Research Interests:
- Governance
- Public Management
- Civil Engineering
- Business Ethics
- Local Governance
- Public Policy
- Public Private Partnership

- Sustainability; Sustainable solutions
- Concrete Technology
- Societal and Natural Development

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

Justin Weidman

College: Engineering and Technology
Department: School of Technology - Construction Management/Faculty and Property Management
430U EB

Research Interests:
- Construction Management

Geoff Wright

College: Engineering and Technology
Department: School of Technology, Technology and Engineering Studies
230-G SNLB

Research Interests:
- Innovation
- Mixed media instruction and multimedia education
- Foundational technological concepts
- Mathematical self-efficacy