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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
John Buck

Chancellor Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dion 324B

508-999-9237
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Research

Research interests

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

Provost / Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

Academic Affairs / Provost
Foster Administration 315

508-999-8069
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Research

Research interests

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

Associate Professor

Kaput Center
Textiles 107

508-910-9033
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Research

Research interests

  • STEM Education, Innovation and Teacher Learning and Learning Sciences
Stephen Witzig
Stephen Witzig

Associate Professor

Education
Liberal Arts 398E

508-910-9030
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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
Walter Stroup

Associate Professor / Chairperson

Education
Balsam Hall 9178

508-910-6603
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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
Eric Larson

Associate Professor / Chairperson

Crime & Justice Studies
Balsam Hall 9172

508-910-6887
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Research

Research interests

  • Hemispheric American Studies
  • Comparative Race & Ethnicity
  • Neoliberalism
  • Labor
  • Transnational Social Movements
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Heidi Berggren

Associate Professor

Political Science
Liberal Arts 328

508-999-8272
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Research

Research interests

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

Associate Professor

Kaput Center
Textiles 107

508-910-9033
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Research

Research interests

  • STEM Education, Innovation and Teacher Learning and Learning Sciences
Brian Williams
Brian Williams

Professor

History
Liberal Arts 334

508-999-8302
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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
Dilshod Achilov

Associate Professor

Political Science
Liberal Arts 317

508-910-6489
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Professor Hillary Farber
Hillary Farber

Professor

Law School / Faculty
UMass School of Law 224

508-985-1140
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Research

Research interests

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