Faculty and Staff Directory

Research Interests: Autism, early intervention, family quality of life, applied research methodologies, professional training, cultural responsiveness

Research Interests: Theories of institutional collective action; regional governance; intergovernmental collaboration; emergency management; social networks analysis; quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Research Interests: Domestic and international issues in the areas of environmental planning and land use management; natural hazards mitigation, response, and recovery management; spatial analysis and sustainable development.

Research Interests: Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Mentoring Programs, Criminal Justice Ethics (Philosophy and Practice), Criminal Law, Sentencing (Adult and Juvenile), Capital Punishment Research, Private Security and Investigations

Research Interests: Government; local government management; county government; state and local government relations; human resources; diversity issues; minority public administrators; immigration; human services; poverty and homelessness; freedom of information and local government in Mexico.

Research Interests: non-profit management and leadership, role and accountability issues in international non-governmental organizations, corporate giving, economic development and organizational change issues, decision making, personnel and administrative issues in public and non-profit sectors, and public-private partnerships.

Research Interests: Victimology - Family Violence, Prison Sexual Victimization & Gendered Violence, Comparative Criminal Justice, Criminological Theory, Research Methodology, Juvenile Delinquency, Substance Abuse

Research Interests: Local revenue policy; property taxation; municipal debt administration; municipal operating and capital budgets; treasury management in local government

Research Interests: EEG biofeedback (neurofeedback) and quantitative EEG (qEEG) in treatment of substance abuse, depression, PTSD and neurological/neurodevelopmental disorders; biofeedback training in rehabilitation counselor education

Research Interests: Quality of life issues among individuals with disabilities; development, factors, and processes of resilience; relationship of positive emotions to health and well-being.

Research Interests:  verbal behavior, effective instruction in college courses,  intervention strategies for children at-risk for reading failure.

Research Interests: Economic development; public policy; transportation/logistics; information policy; housing studies

Research Interests: applied and academic research in the areas of public analysis and management; intergovernmental grant administration, citizen satisfaction with municipal services, economic development, healthcare administration, and public health policy.

Research Interests: Long-term care of the elderly; internal migration patterns of Mexican Americans and other racial/ethnic groups; causes and consequences of racial/ethnic differences in family structure, education, employment, and use of preventive and other health care services.

Research Interests: Competitive employment outcomes for people with disabilities, Wage earnings potential for people with disabilities, postsecondary education of people with disabilities, Psychosocial aspects of disability,

Research Interests: Natural and technological disasters; hazards; hurricanes; race, class, gender and age; physical and social vulnerability; mitigation; housing issues; warning interpretation and evacuation; research methods and statistics.

Research Interests: Anthropology of chronic disease; health disparities in the U.S.; race and class in the United States; communication processes in medical care; medical professional socialization processes; anthropology of 'beauty' and body image.

Research Interests: Noncharitable nonprofits, nonprofit management, building capacity in nonprofit agencies, accountability in human services contracting, ethical accountability, service learning pedagogy.

Research Interests: Multicultural counselor competency in rehabilitation counselor education and practice; psychiatric disabilities and rehabilitation outcomes; and multicultural clinical supervision practices.

Research Interests: Teaching reading to children ages 3-5 at risk for failure in kindergarten; elementary and middle school students in Social Adjustment Classrooms(SAC); effective staff training procedures that ensure maintenance and generalization of appropriate training procedures across time and settings.

Research Interests: Baccalaureate-level rehabilitation competencies; professionalism; faculty roles and rewards

Research Interests: Assessment of managerial and organizational practices in criminal justice agencies; personnel allocation and deployment; evaluation research; collection and analysis of racial profiling data; information needs assessment; and personnel assessment systems.

Research Interests: History and philosophy of science (behavior analysis); relations between behavioral and cultural processes; verbal behavior; motivation and stimulus control

Research Interests: Community organization, migration, ethnicity, social problems, urban anthropology

Research Interests: Interactions among culture, Health Behavior, society, and illness; International health; Public health; HIV/ AIDS; Demography; Conflict; Violence; Refugees; Peoples of Africa; Clinically applied medical anthropology; Sleep disorders.

Research Interests: Biomedicine; public health; midlevel providers and healthcare delivery; the reconstruction and revitalization of indigenous health systems; obesity and obesity related diseases; rural health; globalization; Oceania; French Polynesia; U.S.

Research Interests: Professionalism; undergraduate education; supported employment; psychiatric rehabilitation; emergency preparedness for people with disabilities

Research Interests: Higher Education Policy, Social Equity Policy, Intergovernmental Relations.

Research Interests: effects of pellet count and shot cup configuration on buck shot patterns, mechanisms for the production of pseudo-high velocity impact blood spatter associated with contact gunshots, the persistence of individual characteristics on tires through normal wear and cartridge case redistribution at crime scenes as a result of foot and vehicular traffic; shooting incident reconstruction and novel approaches to criminalistics education.

Research Interests: Globalization, Public Libraries in Developing Countries, Social Movements, Cultural Sociology, Cognitive Sociology, Sociology of Morality, Sociological Theory

Research Interests: Verbal behavior, early intensive behavioral intervention for children with autism, functional assessment and treatment of problem behavior, history of behavior analysis, performance management, social validity, conditioned reinforcement.

Research Interests: Current research interests are Crime Victims Rights, Cognitive and emotional development among offenders, Restorative Justice, Development of Victim Services Programs, and the Impact of Policing on Neighborhoods.

Research Interests: Social welfare policy; reproductive rights, abortion policy and women's issues

Research Interests: Research interests: Local government disaster preparedness, response and recovery; Emergency Operations Center (EOC) design and operations; Hurricane response and recovery.

Research Interests: Anthropology; Organizational Anthropology; Culture in Organizations; Transnational Business; the Middle East, especially Peoples and Cultures of Saudi Arabia; Globalization and Modernization; American Indian Studies; Applied Anthropology.

Research Interests: Study of organizations, technology, and risk, with a focus on organizational improvisation and crisis management

Research Interests: American political institutions; public policy implementation; state and local budgeting; public finance; quantitative methods; revenue policy and administration

Research Interests: Health and Illness, Health disparities, family dissolution, qualitative research
health intervention research, health policy, gender and divorce

Research Interests: Disability and rehabilitation related to diverse ethnic/cultural populations; postsecondary students with disabilities

Research Interests: Comprehensive School Health Programs in Texas and Childhood Obesity

Duties: assessment of adult experiential prior learning, career, and professional portfolio development.

Research Interests: Emergency management theory, international disasters, disaster vulnerability reduction, disaster response coordination, terrorism and homeland security, community disaster preparedness, and sustainability.

Research Interests: Alternative dispute resolution; arbitration; mediation; advocacy; labor market information; labor economics

Research Interests: Interventions for typically developing children in home and school settings.

Research Interests: Social demography; HIV/AIDS related issues; gender and reproductive health; marriage and family issues; African immigrants in the U.S.

Research Interests: Race; racism; race relations; ethnicity; identities; feminism; marginality; education; antiracist pedagogies; language ideologies; bilingual education; first-generation students; Latinos/as; immigrants; immigration; diversity issues in education; multiculturalism; action research; applied research.

Research Interests: Addictions; substance use/abuse; medical marijuana; criminality; motorcycle gangs; sex addiction/offenders.

Research Interests: Socio-cultural processes embedded in displacement in general, including refugees and migrants; conceptualization of border ; Maya in Mexico; Hispanic migrants in the USA; articulation of anthropology and education; and the relationship between anthropology and film.

Research Interests: Sociopolitical ecology, environmental sociology, and development and social change (developing societies).

Research Interests: General learning processes, stimulus control of behavior, generalization, behavioral neuroscience, community development, child development, student mentoring, fluency-based instruction, human-animal interactions, animal welfare.

Research Interests: Child abuse and neglect; Disproportionality of African-American and Native American children in foster care.

Research Interests: Emergency management; disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery; environmental management and policy; research design;  sustainable development; terrorism and homeland security.

Research Interests: Social forces that impact the daily lives of people; changes in families and the limited impact of industrialization and urbanization; different approaches to childbirth and consequences in Italy, Sweden, and the United States; parents, especially fathers in the United States, Ireland, and Sweden and the history of the Irish families.

Research Interests: Assessment and treatment of behavior disorders in persons with developmental disabilities; effects of parent training and related services toprevent child maltreatment.

Research Interests: Evaluation of juvenile justice programs, specialized courts, and faith-based organizations; adolescent delinquency, substance abuse, family engagement and family involvement, and measurement development.

Research Interests: Performance Management, Parent and Caregiver Training, and Assessment and Treatment of Problem Behavior

Research Interests: Employment and people with disabilities, coexisting and/or co-occurring disorders, postsecondary students with disabilities, psychometrics, counselor competencies

Research Interests: Criminal justice policy; homeland security for local law enforcement; organizational change theory; police hiring/recruitment policies; police strategies; police culture; leadership theory; police disciplinary systems

Research Interests: Police strategies; management, liability, and organizational development; international/domestic terrorism, particularly focusing on the Middle East and Southeast Asia; human trafficking and child sex slavery; criminal investigation and crime scene reconstruction; evaluation research.

Research Interests: Social work education and practice; child welfare

Research Interests: law; criminal procedure; capital punishment; crime victim rights and remedies.

Research Interests: Capital punishment and capital jury behavior, white-collar and organized crime, and criminological theory.

Research Interests: Racial desegregation in prisons; judicial intervention in prison organizations; institutional violence; recidivism among state committed delinquents; data organization and management.

Research Interests: Concept formation in humans and nonhumans; generative teaching; behavioral technologies; cultural analyses; philosophy of science.

Research Interests: Social and civic research; data analysis and report writing.

Research Interests: Applied anthropology; linguistic anthropology; design anthropology; business anthropology; anthropology of organizations; virtual communication and collaboration in the workplace; mobile and ubiquitous computing; how practicing anthropologists are addressing the challenges of globalization; comparison of online and on-campus student experiences; gender in the lives of anthropologists; United States; Europe.

Research Interests: instructional technology, behavior and culture.

Research Interests: Health and health care delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa; the relationship between religion and social sciences; women and the economy in the developing world; religion in the modern state of Israel.

Research Interests: Interracial marriages; interracial dating; multiracial churches; racial social distance and assimilation; the changing nature of race in the United States; and the effects of interracial contact.

Research Interests: Organizational performance, social gerontology, nursing homes, empowered work teams, workplace issue, immigration, multivariate analysis, mixed-method research design.

Research Interests: Mental health, suicidality and delinquency among high-risk adolescents; relationship between suicidality and psychiatric disorders; advanced statistical techniques (especially structural equation modeling).

Research Interests: Sociological theory; comparative political sociology; economic sociology; social stratification; and sociology of culture