Faculty Research
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Campus |
Research Interests |
Active Research Projects |
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Kent |
Trauma, mental health, positive youth development, urban life |
Analyzing veteran’s health, police cadets and well-being, and positive youth development…more |
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Stark |
Hate groups, hate speech, hate crimes, racism, white supremacy, xenophobia, anti-immigrant, economic insecurity, inequality |
Hate group mobilization in the United States…more |
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Kent |
Religion, science, atheism, beliefs |
"Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum of Global Perspectives"…more |
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Kent |
Prison, reentry, public opinion, qualitative methods, sex offense policy, critical criminology, experimental methods |
Experiences of individuals geographically separated from loved ones; public attitudes towards those with criminal histories and how to change those attitudes…more |
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Kent |
Inequality, gender and leadership, broadening participation in computing |
Broadening participation in computing…more |
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Stark | Self, identity, mental illness, stigma |
Refining the measurement of reflected appraisals from different sources and theoretically and empirically clarifying their role in identity processes. |
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Kent |
Race, family, adoption |
White adoptive parents of children of color and their description of their evolving awareness and lived experiences of race…more |
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Tuscarawas |
Crime, deviance, substance use, neighborhoods, positive youth development |
How factors like neighborhood poverty, peer associations, family attachment, etc. predict adolescent/young adult outcomes like substance use, delinquency, well-being…more |
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Ashtabula |
Family, work, motherhood, academia, COVID, inequalities, higher education policy |
Impact of COVID on academic mothers (administrators, faculty, and graduate students); institutional policies to mediate COVID impact on academic mothers…more |
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Kent |
Police, evaluation research, life course criminology |
Examining the usage of aerial surveillance by the Baltimore city police department…more |
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Kent |
Aging and health, cognitive decline, non-cognition, neighborhoods, later life family |
Assessing the correlates and consequences of cognitive decline in middle-aged and older adults…more |
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Kent |
Neurosociology, stress, fear, electrophysiology, group performance, virtual reality, social cohesion, human interaction |
We utilize EEG, physiological assessments (Heart rate variability, Galvanic skin response, etc.) along with effective research design to interrogate behaviors with a primary focus on group performance…more |
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East Liverpool |
Undergraduate Student Research Assistant – Social Science Research Lab (SSRL) |
A Citizen Science Environmental Justice Study; A Community Coalition Study to Build a Culture of Health…more |
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Kent |
Appalachia, census data, geographic information science, photography, imagery as data, urban sociology, neighborhood change, flood control |
Documenting changes to the City of Pikeville, Kentucky after they received millions of dollars in urban renewal grants and rerouted the river from the city through a mountain for flood control…more |
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Kent |
Mental health, sociology of food |
Childhood adversity and anger among the incarcerated; depictions of vegetarianism and veganism in advertising in Good Housekeeping, 1960-2020…more |
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Kent |
Emotions, death and dying, medical sociology |
Longitudinal study of empathy development in medical trainees that utilizes both qualitative (interview, ethnographic) and quantitative research methods; qualitative research on the provision of end-of-life care in the US…more |
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Kent |
Hate groups, hate speech, hate crimes, racism, white supremacy, xenophobia, anti-immigrant, economic insecurity, inequality |
Hate group mobilization in the United States…more |
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