Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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College of Engineering: Civil and Construction Engineering College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences: Anthropology

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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

Dan Ames

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
EB 430N

Research Interests:
- Geospatial data analysis
- Hydroinformatics
- Engineering software applications for hydrology
- Alternative Energy
- Uncertainty analysis
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) programming

Jaime Bartlett

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

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

Evan Bingham

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430H EB

Research Interests:
- Scheduling tools and best practices
- Project Controls
- Innovative Construction
- Building Science
- Surveying and geomatics
- Construction Scheduling and cost control

Zachary Chase

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

Research Interests:
- Andes

Jay Christofferson

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
230Q SNLB

Research Interests:
- Construction
- Management
- Computer Applications
- Building Materials
- Strategic Management
- Leadership and Leadership Development
- Project Management
- Consulting
- Computer Solutions for Management, communication, and estimation

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

Clifton Farnsworth

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430L EB

Research Interests:
- Geotechnical Construction
- Construction Engineering Education
- Infrastructure
- Disaster Reconstruction

Cynthia S. Finlayson

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

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

Kevin Franke

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430J EB

Research Interests:
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Performance-based Earthquake Engineering
- Liquefaction and Effects

Spencer Guthrie

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
368-C CB

Research Interests:
- Concrete Durability
- Construction/Civil Engineering Materials
- Construction Engineering
- Nondestructive Testing
- Concrete
- Bridge Engineering
- Numerical Modeling
- Concrete Technology

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

Rollin Hotchkiss

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430 K EB

Research Interests:
- Dam and reservoir lifespan
- Reducing fatalities at low-head dams
- Water Resources Engineering
- Data Analysis

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

Norm Jones

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430Q EB

Research Interests:
- Groundwater Modeling
- Hydroinformatics
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Cloud Computing
- High Performance Computing

Johnn Judd

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430 F EB

Research Interests:
- Structural Engineering

Gregory Macfarlane

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430 E EB

Research Interests:
- Passive transportation data
- Travel behavior analysis
- Applied econometrics

Woodruff Miller

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430 W EB

Research Interests:
- Hydrology
- Hydraulics
- Engineering Education

Jim Nelson

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430-P EB

Research Interests:
- Spatial hydrology
- Modeling
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Hydroinformatics

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.

Kyle Rollins

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430-S EB

Research Interests:
- Earthquake Engineering
- Liquefaction
- Deep Foundation
- Collapsible Soils
- Ground Improvement
- Bridge Abutments

Grant Schultz

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430 EB

Research Interests:
- Transportation safety
- Urban transportation planning
- Transportation economics

Michael Scott

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430M EB

Research Interests:
- Computer Aided Design
- Computational Mechanics
- Isogeometric Analysis

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

Kendrick Shepherd

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430-X EB

Research Interests:
- Computational Mechanics
- Computational Geometry
- Isogeometric Analysis
- Mathematical and Computer Models

James Smith

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430-Y EB

Research Interests:
- Construction Delivery
- Lean Construction
- Residential Construction
- Trust-building in construction
- Alternative Project Delivery
- Pedagogy for enhancing soft skills

Darrell B. Sonntag

College: College of Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430D EB

Research Interests:
- Vehicle emissions and indoor air quality
- Modeling environmental impacts of transportation systems

Taylor Sorensen

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430B EB

Research Interests:
- Structural Analysis, Dynamics and Reliability
- Building Design
- Earthquake Engineering
- Concrete Technology

Robert Sowby

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430C EB

Research Interests:
- Water Resources
- Drinking Water
- Water-Energy Nexus

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

Gustavious Williams

College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Construction Engineering
430L EB

Research Interests:
- Water Resources
- Remote Sensing
- Applied statistics
- Data Analysis