Research Topics:   Interdisciplinarity, Knowledge Integration, Science of Team Science, International Development, Eastern Europe, Science and Technology Studies, Study Abroad

Career Industries/Company Partners:   Retail Management & Corporate Training, FranklinCovey Productivity Consultant

 

Research Topics: Diversty, Equity and Inclusion

Career Industries/Company Partners:   Banking, Mortgage, Restaurants, Nonprofits

Current Research Opportunities:   I would be interested in hearing about your interests and supporting you where I can. If someone is interesting in working on gamifying a course, I would entertain someone to work during this exploration phase.

 

Unit:   Science and Mathematics

Research Topics:   Agent-based Modeling (fisheries), Game Theory (models of arbitration), Jury Deliberations, Statistics Education Software Development, Modeling Skillshares

Career Industries/Company Partners:   Ocean Conservancy, UBS Investment Bank

Current Research Opportunities:   Developing StatPowers.com further, modeling jury deliberations; these are a few projects at the forefront of my mind.

 

Unit:   Leadership and Integrative studies

Research Topics:   Public Policy Issues--varies (tax policy relative to investments in at risk children and other policy options, improving pay and access in labor markets, unemployment insurance improvements, criminal justice reform, education funding and outcomes, issues related to charter schools and private school vouchers, affordable housing challenges); project related to re-imagining public safety, other projects also emerge

Career Industries/Company Partners:   Research Director for the Grand Canyon Institute, a nonprofit public policy think tank (not part of ASU), where we work in coaltion with other groups depending on the issue (for instance, had a consortium focused on improving unemployment insurance that led to new legislation)

Current Research Opportunities:   I encourage you to talk with me about your interests, what you're looking for and your skills; we can go from there to see what might make sense (which can also include figuring out how we could use social media better).

 

Research Topics: Mathematical Modelling with a focus on biological systems

 

Unit:  Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication

Research Topics:   Science Communication, Risk Assessment, Extreme Heat and Weather Hazard Communication, Interdisciplinarity, Rhetoric of Expertise

Career Industries/Company Partners:   A range of companies, chambers of commerce, community colleges, K-12 districts, and community groups in the East Valley

Current Research Opportunities:   I'm happy to talk with students about working with me on writing projects. I'm also working with a group that is collecting oral histories for Tempe's 150th anniversary, and there are oppotunitiies to get involved with that project.

 

Research Topics: American Foreign Policy, Modern Political Theory, Critical Security Studies

Career Industries/Company Partners:   Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University (2019-2020), Visiting Assistant Professor of International Relations with the Department of Political Science at Arkansas State University (2018-2019)

Current Research Opportunities:   I am very interested in securing a responsible research assistant(s) for a series of three manuscripts that are in various stages of development. The first project is a monograph that chronicles the American foreign policy teams from the end of the Cold War to the present (H.W. Bush to Biden) in ideological terms. The second manuscript is an anthology comprised of the subject of security in the Western political canon. Lastly, the third project is a collection of lectures on the philosophical foundations of human rights.

 

Unit:   Leadership and Integrative Studies

Research Topics:   Resources, Capabilities, Strategy, Prosocial Organizations, Social Accounting

Career Industries/Company Partners:   20 Years Management Experience in nonprofit organizations in Southern California, Currently active in Conscious Capitalism AZ chapter and International Humanistic Management Association US chapter

Current Research Opportunities: Currently positions would be unfunded but provide opportunities for writing papers, op-eds, and articles for professional publications. Topics include humanistic management, prosocial organizing, and social accounting.

 

Career Industries/Company Partners:   Arizona State University, University of Connecticut, Purdue University, Community Engagement

 

Research Topics: Environmental and Desert Humanities, English, American Literature, Environmental History, Critical Theory, Interdisciplinary Studies, Science Studies, Animal Studies

Career Industries/Company Partners:   Former community college instructor, literary publishing, writing instruction and tutoring, environmental and desert humanities research, archival research

Current Research Opportunities:   I'm very open to working with students in IDS 401: Directed Study and assisting students with literary and academic publishing.

 

Unit:   Languages and Cultures

Research Topics:   AOIs: Race and Democracy, Shakespeare, Critical Pedaogogy, White Supremacy and the Canons; Current Project: A book project that explores the links between white supremacy and the teaching of Shakespeare in US America

Career Industries/Company Partners:   Arizona State University, University of Arizona, Marquette University, Mesa Community College

 

Unit:   Leadership and Integrative Studies

Research Topics:   Critical Leadership Theory, Critical Whiteness, Leadership in Engineering, Leading and Leadership in Mentorship

Career Industries/Company Partners:   Professional Project Manager managing IT and business improvement projects for federal agencies, multinational for-profit corporations, and not-for-profit national associations

Current Research Opportunities:   I'm currently working with a PhD student who is examining leadership and mentorship with engineering grad students. I have obtained funding for an undergrad short term research on diversity, equity, and inclusion within engineering; I am also working with masters students in our MS OGL program, who are interested in examining "bad leadership."

 

Unit:   Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication

Research Topics:   Science Communication, Risk Assessment, Extreme Heat and Weather Hazard Communication, Interdisciplinarity, Rhetoric of Expertise

Current Research Opportunities: I am working on a grant with NOAA that will require hiring a PhD student working in visual communication for a few summers.

 

Research Topics: Leader Identity Development, Leadership Storytelling-Narrarives, Dark Side of Leadership, Leader Identity and Mentoring, Leader Identity & Imposter Phenomenon (Syndrom)

Career Industries/Company Partners:   Training and Development Consultant for financial institutions, higher education instructor

Current Research Opportunities:   I'm very intersted in working with students who would like to work on research projects centered around leadership and storytelling; assistance would be unfunded, but could be a part of IDS 401. Students would gain experience in writing literature reviews, data collection, and qualitative analysis.

 

Research Topics: The Intersections of Social Political and Economic Inquiry, Peacebuilding, Conflict and Security

Career Industries/Company Partners:   Arizona State University; Virginia Polytechnic and State University; Assistant Regional Coordinator for AZ Site Stewards Program, Salt River District; industry experience in real estate finance, banking, private security, and small business management

Current Research Opportunities:   I currently have applied project opportunities available with the AZ Site Stewards and AZ Project Archaeology. These are volunteer programs that promote cultural awareness, history and social science education in the State of Arizona. Opportunities include projects to organize volunteer events for preservation activities at Arizona cultural and historical sites, helping develop public education resources about AZ Historical Sites, and many others.

 

Research Topics: Latinx Studies, Latinx Media, TV Studies, Veteran Studies

Career Industries/Company Partners:   LGBT Advocacy; Veteran Organizations; PBS; Newsmedia

 

Unit:   Languages and Cultures

Research Topics:   Public Memory, Diaspora, Teaching Communication

Career Industries/Company Partners:   Public Relations, Journalism, Non-profit, Event Planning, Cultural Management

Current Research Opportunities:   I would be interested in finding students willing to work on social media to develop a FB page and other types of social presence on propaganda and disinformation.

 

Unit:   Leadership and Integrative Studies

Research Topics:   Integral Leadership, Artificial Intelligence

Career Industries/Company Partners:   Owner and Vice-President: Life Design, Inc.; Owner and Vice-President: PR Business Solutions; Owner and President: IQ2; Clients: Honeywell, Motorola, Intel, Indian Health Service, The Dial Corporation, Central Arizona Project, Arizona Game and Fish, Arizona State University, Mesa, Scottsdale, and Kyrene School Districts

Currrent Research Opportunities:   Possible: quantitative and qualitative research data entry relating to a survey pertaining to student responses to the presence of artificial intelligence in their daily lives.

 

Unit:   Leadership and Integrative Studies

Career Industries/Company Partners:   Artist: photography, multimedia, videogaphy, photojournalism, writing/reporting; Law Enforcement: correctional facilities; Emergeny Response Teams: chain of command, report writing; I/T Sales: technology sales, channel logistics, sales management, client engagement, account management; Refugee Resettlement: human rights issues, recently resettled refugee mentoring and issues in adaptation, orientation, job-hunting/technology skills

 

Unit:   Interdisciplinary Humantities and Communication

Research Topics:   Healthcare Communication (including health literacy), the U.S. Opioid Crisis, the Cannabis Industry, Wayfinding in Hospitals

Career Industries/Company Partners:    Adult Emergency Department in U.S. Southeast (Level 1 trauma center); Comprehensive Academic Health Sciences Center in U.S. Southeast; "DocCom," which is associated with the Drexel School of Medicine; I'm currently trying to strike up collaborations with rural healthcare facilities here in AZ, but COVID has made collaborations a challenge

Current Research Opportunities:   Unfunded, but I welcome student collaborators who would like to: 1) interview or do focus groups with "budtenders" here in AZ, learning more about their risk perceptions; 2) assist with an integrative review on cannabis risk communication; 3) interview or do focus groups with UX professionals working in healthcare, to learn more about what UX means in that industry; or 4) do a "big data" study related to cannabis communication on social media. I'm also happy to talk with students about ~their~ current projects related to health and wellness.

 

Unit:   Science, Mathematics, and Social Science

Research Topics:   Experienced Online Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry, Education Professional skilled in educational technology, Student Development, and First Year Students

Career Industries/Company Partners:   Software Engineer of Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan; Computer Integrated Manufacturing Engineer of Motorola Semiconductor Product Sector in Mesa, Arizona

 

Research Topics: Immigration and Migration, U.S. Southwest, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Cultural Studies, Oral History, Chicana and Chicano Studies

Career Industries/Company Partners:   University of New Mexico, Central New Mexico Community College, Non-Profits in New Mexico, Land Grants Research Center, Southwest Hispanic Research Center, Public Radio Host, Podcast Producer, grassroots organizations

Current Research Opportunities:   Possible research aide, potentially requiring photography experience.

 

Unit:   Leadership and Integrative Studies

Research Topics:   Public Policy: poverty, welfare, domestic violence, women's issues, political economy

Career Industries/Company Partners:    Former Executive Director of Planned Parenthood in Austin, TX and of AZ Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Current Research Opportunities:   I am willing to talk with students about research topics that they want to conduct if they fall into my areas of expertise.

 

Unit:   Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication

Research Topics:   Professional Social Media, Communication in Video Games, Kickstarter, Interdisciplinarity, Digital Ethics, Emerging Technologies (currently: AI)

Career Industries/Company Partners:   Social media management, technical communication, arts management, blogging, nonprofit communication, Former Full-time Arts Journalist/Web Master, managed a music blog for the last 18 years, managed a podcast on digital ethics for 7 years, Music Industry Professional for 8 years

Current Research Opportunities: Unfunded options only regarding coding and data collection, but I would be happy to talk with students about research topics that they want to conduct if they fall into my areas of expertise.

 

Unit:   Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication

Research Topics:   American Southwest, Oral Histories, Narratives of Place Making and Belonging, Chicanx Studies

Career Industries/Company Partners:   Collaboration with the Apache County Historical Society Museum, Co-director of an oral history project called Following the Manito Trail, Chicanx/Latinx professional organizations, editorial boards for scholarly journals, University of New Mexico, University of Wyoming, Arizona State University

Current Research Opportunities: Unfunded, but open to applying to grants with students to do work on oral histories, social media outreach, website development, and archival research focused on the Southwest U.S.

 

Unit:   Science and Mathematics

Research Topics:   Sustainable food crop production, controlled environment agriculture, vertical farming, greenhouse production, horticulture

Current Research Opportunities: Undergraduate and graduate research assistants positions are open.

 

 

 

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