Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences: Anthropology McKay School of Education: Teacher Education

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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

Damon L. Bahr

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
201F MCKB

Research Interests:
- Teacher learning
- University-public school partnerships

David Barney

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
249G SFH

Research Interests:
- Appropriate instructional practices in physical education
- Student attitude towards physical education
- Music in physical education
- Physical activity of college students
- Coaching education

Jaime Bartlett

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

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

Lorilynn B. Brandt

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education

Research Interests:
- Teacher preparation
- Literacy skills and reading instruction
- Reading motivation

Eric Bybee

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education

Research Interests:
- Multicultural teacher education
- Social and cultural foundations of education
- Cultural studies in education
- Latina/o education
- Racial identity and education
- Additive bilingual education pedagogy
- Oral and narrative research methods
- Social justice education and critical pedagogy
- Identity, agency and social movements in education

Zachary Chase

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

Research Interests:
- Andes

Brent Chowen

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
201U MCKB

Research Interests:
- Teacher development and education
- Social studies education
- Critical thinking skills
- Primary source documents
- Teacher improvement and mentoring

John E. Clark

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

Research Interests:
- Mesoamerica
- American History

Sarah Clark

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
201F MCKB

Research Interests:
- Education and instruction improvement
- Literacy instruction
- Teacher education

Michael Cowan

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
201H MCKB

Research Interests:
- Education administration
- Results-based education initiaives
- Educational or instructional improvement
- Teacher improvement and mentoring

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

Ramona Cutri

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education

Research Interests:
- Pre-service teachers
- Multicultural education
- Teacher support -- intellectual and emotional
- Technology integration
- Online learning

Roni Jo Draper

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
210X MCKB

Research Interests:
- Classroom culture
- Classroom or teacher student support
- Educational reform
- Social change in schools

Lynnette B. Erickson

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
301 MCKB

Research Interests
- Teacher education
- Education for democracy
- Social studies education, curriculum and pedagogy
- Accreditation in higher education

Erika Feinauer

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
206K MCKB

Research Interests:
- Language and literacy
- Bilingualism and biliteracy
- Dual immersion language education
- Sociocultural competency
- Teacher preparation

Cynthia S. Finlayson

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

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

Juan A. Freire

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
206R MCKB

Research Interests:
- Equity in dual language bilingual education
- Language education policy and planning
- Teacher research and education

Kendra Maria Hall-Kenyon

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
205C MCKB

Research Interests:
- Early childhood education
- Teaching and learning
- Teacher education
- Education research
- Pre-service teachers
- Teaching methods

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

Bryant Jensen

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
206H MCKB

Research Interests:
- Teacher education
- Equitable teacher
- Sociocultural interactions
- School or education improvement
- Mexican and Central American Schooling or education
- Language and literacy
- Latina/o education
- Migration and education
- Moral work of teaching
- Teacher learning

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

Teresa Leavitt

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
206F MCKB

Research Interests:
- Comparative issues in education
- Classroom management
- Mentoring

Kathie MacKay

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
206U MCKB

Research Interests:
- Early childhood education
- Instructional or Educational Technology
- Digital literacy
- Instructional or educational procedure

Brandon McMillan

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
201J MCKB

Research Interests:
- STEM education
- Student mathematical thinking
- Teacher preparation

Melissa Newberry

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
201E MCKB

Research Interests:
- Social aspects of education
- Teacher student relationships
- Emotion regulation
- Affective elements in teaching and learning
- Teacher development and education

Ryan Nixon

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
206M MCKB

Research Interests:
- Teacher development and education
- STEM education

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.

Todd Pennington

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
249E SFH

Research Interests:
- Physical education
- Teaching and learning
- Curriculum development
- Physical activity assessment
- Teacher development and education

Corinna Peterken

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
206T MCKB

Research Interests:
- Arts education
- Early childhood education
- Autoethnography
- Teaching with the arts, art integration in education

Cecilia Pincock

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
206D MCKB

Research Interests:
- Bilingual education
- New teacher experiences
- Classroom management
- Mentoring new teachers
- Best teaching practices
- Second language learning or learners
- Second language writing acquisition

Keven Prusak

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
249H SFH

Research Interests:
- Motivation theory and practice
- Physical education
- Technology self-analysis
- Digital video analysis or critique
- Teacher improvement and mentoring
- Physical education program success

Michael John Richardson

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
206G MCKB

Research Interests:
- Adolescent development
- Moral psychology and education
- Theories of teaching and learning
- Education or teaching philosophy

Paul Ricks

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
201N MCKB

Research Interests:
- Literacy instruction and education
- Critical Text analysis
- Read-aloud discussions
- Translated text
- Literature or text and animation or illustration

Alex Rosborough

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
206P MCKB

Research Interests:
- Sociocultural interactions
- Vygotskian sociocultural theory and gesture
- Applied linguistics
- Second language teaching and learning
- Gesture and second language learning
- Embodied learning
- Ecosocial second language learning

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

Erin Feinauer Whiting

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
206L MCKB

Research Interests:
- Social inequalities and position
- Student belonging
- Equity and access in education
- School climate and organization
- Critical multicultural teacher preparation
- Social and educational theory
- Social systems of emotions and food in schools

Jennifer Wimmer

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
206Q MCKB

Research Interests:
- Content area literacy
- Literacy instruction and education
- Teacher professional learning
- Teacher education

Terry Young

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
205-F MCKB

Research Interests:
- Children's literacy and literature
- English as a second language
- Language acquisition

Maria Zanandrea

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Teacher Education
249B SFH

Research Interests:
- Infusion Process in APE
- Wordsearch innovations in the Gym Book series