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Social Science & STEM Education

Research projects involve real-world situations ranging from local schools to higher education departments and other formal and informal learning settings.

John Buck

Chancellor Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dion 324B

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Research

Research interests

  • Signal Processing
  • Underwater Acoustics
  • Animal Bioacoustics
  • Engineering Pedagogy
Ramprasad Balasubramanian

Interim Provost/Vice Chancellor

Academic Affairs / Provost
Foster Administration 008B

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Research

Research interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Mobile Robotics
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Motion Detection and Tracking
  • Pattern Recognition
Shakhnoza Kayumova

Associate Professor

STEM Education & Teacher Development
Liberal Arts 396G

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Research

Research interests

  • Exploration of the conditions of possibility for the inclusion of culturally, economically and linguistically diverse students in science education and literacy engagement
Stephen Witzig

Associate Professor

STEM Education & Teacher Development
Liberal Arts 398E

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Research

Research interests

  • Development of teachers’ specialized knowledge for teaching science
  • Socioscientific issues based education
  • Informal science contexts & field based teaching/learning
  • Scientific practices & formative assessment in science

Associate Professor / Chairperson

STEM Education & Teacher Development
Liberal Arts 398B

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Research

Research interests

  • Development of generative design to support group-based, socially mediated, STEM focused classroom learning for grades three through university
Eric Larson

Associate Professor

Crime & Justice Studies
Liberal Arts 399J

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Research

Research interests

  • Hemispheric American Studies
  • Comparative Race & Ethnicity
  • Neoliberalism
  • Labor
  • Transnational Social Movements
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Associate Professor

Political Science
Liberal Arts 328

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Research

Research interests

  • Co-housing Movement
  • Work-Family Policy
  • Social Policy
  • Gender and Politics
  • Gender-Role Attitudes
Shakhnoza Kayumova

Associate Professor

STEM Education & Teacher Development
Liberal Arts 396G

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Research

Research interests

  • Exploration of the conditions of possibility for the inclusion of culturally, economically and linguistically diverse students in science education and literacy engagement
Brian Williams

Professor

History
Liberal Arts 334

Research site

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Research

Research interests

  • America's post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria
  • CIA drone warfare and global counter-terrorism
  • Taliban, Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorism and warfare
  • Islamic Central Asia, Crimea, Russia, Chechnya, Ukraine, Turkey, Balkans
  • History of the Ottoman Islamic and Mongol Empires and Barbarian conquests
Dilshod Achilov

Associate Professor

Political Science
Liberal Arts 317

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Professor Hillary Farber

Professor

Law School / Faculty
UMass School of Law 224

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Research

Research interests

  • Policing and technology
  • Drones
  • Privacy law
  • Immigration
  • Juvenile Justice