EVOS Faculty

Research Interests

• Paleoanthropology
• Neandertals
• Language Evolution

Research Interests

• Biogeography
• Plant Ecology
• Environmental History
• Energy and Society
• Weed Ecology and Evolution
• Ethic Cultural Trajectories
• Agricultural Origins

Research Interests

• Creative nonfiction and poetry of place
• Science Communication/AI, Environmental Humanities/Animal Studies
• Gender and Sport Studies
• Trauma and Embodiment

Teaching Interests

• Creative Writing
• Health Humanities
• Environmental Humanities and Animal Studies
• Sustainability
• Affective Neuroscience
• Embodiment
• Trauma

Research Interests

• Environmental Policy
• Political Science and Sustainability

Teaching Interests

• Introduction to Environmental Policy
• Environmental Policy Analysis
• Sustainability and Urban Policy
• Environmental Impact Statements
• American Public Policy
• Global Environmental Politics

Research Interests

• History of American education
• Cultural battles over schooling and school reform
• Examination of campaigns of conservative evangelical Protestants in both K-12 and higher education
• History of creation/evolution debates
• Evolution of conservative thinking about K-12 education
• Examining the first systematic attempt at urban school reform in American history

Research Interests

• Island Archaeology (especially Rapa Nui/Easter Island)
• Cultural Transmission and Evolutionary Archaeology
• Remote Sensing, UAV Photogrammetry, and GIS
• Luminescence Dating and Geophysical Methods
• Climate Change Impacts on Sustainability in Island Environments
• Ceramic Technology and Chronology in North America

Teaching Interests

• Archaeological Laboratory Methods
• Archaeological Remote Sensing
• Introduction to Anthropology
• Humans and the Environment
• Eastern North American Prehistory

Research Interests

• Sexual Socialization
• Reproductive Health Attitudes
• Body Image Development
• Healthy Sexual Behaviors and Decision Making

Research Interests

• Microeconomic Theory
• Game Theory
• Complex Systems

Research Interests

• Ecological speciation
• Adaptation to environmental change
• Coevolution
• Evolution and physiology of life history timing in insects

Research Interests

• Complex systems
• Complex dynamical networks
• Human and social dynamics
• Artificial life/chemistry
• Interactive systems
• Complex systems education

Research Interests

• Evolutionary and theoretical ecology
• Evolution of ecological communities
• Human evolutionary biology