“Multi-Center Study Exploring Women’s Perceptions of Health Literacy Needs and Support during Prenatal, Intrapartum, and Postnatal Periods”
Dr. Carbone’s work integrates theory informed, behavioral interventions into community-based settings to promote health and prevent...
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Learning in Borderline Personality Disorder and Its Treatment
Dr. Dixon-Gordon’s work focuses on the cognitive and affective processes underlying psychopathology, particularly borderline personality disorder, and its treatment. Dr. Dixon-Gordon plans to use her residency in...
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“Prisoners, Soldiers and the Coercive Welfare System of the U.S.”
Dr. Gupta's research to date has focused on disparities in time spent doing housework. He will use the ISSR residency to further a new line of research into the hidden, coercive “welfare” regime in the U.S....
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“Nuts, Sluts, and Perverts: Sociology’s Rocky Romance with Deviance”
This project is a genealogy of the sociology of deviance, 1945-1979. It situates the sociology of deviance in its Cold War historical moment and examines it in relation to other forms of knowledge production...
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Analyzing the Emergence of Environmental Governance: Groundwater Sustainability Agencies in California
Dr. Milman’s research investigates the multi-level governance of water resources in order to understand human responses to hydro-climatic change and other causes of...
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From Athletes to Citizens: Title IX’s Unanticipated Consequences
Dr. Sharrow’s research focuses on the politics of sex and gender in the United States. She is particularly interested in the politics of public policy in contemporary U.S. history. She will use her...
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“Computational and Experimental Studies of Forgetting in Amnesia and Aging”
Dr. Cowell’s work examines memory and visual perception in the human brain. Dr. Cowell plans to use her residency in the ISSR Scholars Program to expand on her current research...
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“Policing the Police from the Ground Up: A Comparative Study of Grassroots Civilian Oversight Initiatives”
Dr. McCarthy’s research focuses on citizen-police relations, particularly in Russia. Dr. McCarthy plans to use her residency in the ISSR Scholars Program to develop a...
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Naomi Gerstel is Distinguished University Professor and professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. With Dr. Mary Fechner (Office of Research and Development), Gerstel serves as Mentor to the ISSR Scholars. Gerstel’s research and courses focus on family, carework, job...
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Raymond J. La Raja is an associate professor in political science and associate director of the UMass Poll, which conducts Internet-based surveys of voters nationally. His research focuses on political parties, interest groups, elections and campaign finance. He is the author of ...
Berni Leidner received his PhD from the New School for Social Research in New York City in 2010, and came to UMass-Amherst in the summer of 2011. His research focuses on processes of social identification and intergroup relations, primarily in the context of large social categories such as...
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Rebecca Ready is Director of Clinical Training and Division Head for the Clinical Division in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. She is a clinical neuropsychologist with expertise in the assessment of emotion regulation in healthy aging and in clinical...
Jeungok Choi, RN, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, School of Nursing (SON). She has a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Tufts University with concentrations in Biostatistics and Epidemiology and a PhD in Nursing Boston College. She also had a...
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Mary Fechner is the Proposal Development Specialist for the Office of Research Development at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Fechner also co-facilitates the ISSR Scholars program, togteher with Dr. Naomi Gerstel (Sociology). She supports faculty in proposal development and...
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Henry Renski joined the faculty of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP) in the fall of 2007, and served as Associate Director of ISSR from 2012-2018. He teaches courses in quantitative methods, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and...
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Amanda Walker Johnson is a cultural anthropologist interested in the intersection of critical race theory, anthropology of science, and critical educational theory, and is committed to conducting research and pedagogy as work for social justice. Walker Johnson’s research examines the ways in...
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Emily West’s research interests are in the areas of promotional culture, media and cultural studies of health, qualitative research methods, and gender and performance. She is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture (Routledge, 2013)....
Ryan Acton is part of a select group of interdisciplinary researchers as part of a new UMass initiative on computational social science, continuing his work on social networks, online behavior, and research methodology. During his tenure at the NCASD Lab, Acton was a key figure in many...
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Whitney Battle-Baptiste is a historical archaeologist who focuses primarily on the historical intersection of race, class, and gender in the shaping of cultural landscapes across the African diaspora. Her theoretical interests include Black feminist theory, African American material and...
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Enobong (Anna) Hannah Branch the Associate Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion and an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. Her research interests are in race, racism, and inequality; intersectional theory; work and occupations; and historical...
Martha Fuentes-Bautista is an assistant professor in the Center for Public Policy and Administration and Department of Communication. She conducts research on the social and policy implications of information and communication technologies (ICTs), with a particular focus on how ICTs exacerbate...
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Elisabeth Hamin is the Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. She teaches and researches in land use planning, with a particular focus on planning for climate change adaptation. Through studios and projects, she works with regional planning agencies and...
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Fidan Ana Kurtulus’ research explores a number of topics in labor economics, including the organization of workers within firms, participatory workplace practices and employee ownership, causes and consequences of workplace diversity, and long-term effects of affirmative action legislation on...
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Rahsaan Maxwell’s research examines the politics of ethnic, racial, religious, and immigrant-origin minorities, with a particular focus on Western Europe. He has explored these issues from numerous angles, including political representation, participation, identity, discrimination, and...
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Marta Murray-Close’s research focuses on the diversity of modern family arrangements with a special interest in the economics of gender and sexual orientation and the economics of nontraditional families. She explores the implications of work-family trade-offs for the personal and professional...
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Ventura Perez studies bio-archaeology with a primary area of interest in interpersonal and institutional forms of violence. His work focuses on cultural representations of violence using an interdisciplinary inquiry that includes social science and behavioral and biological research (...
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Professor Ryan, FASLA is the Graduate Program Director for the Dual Degree Master’s Program in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. His courses have an interdisciplinary framework, integrating the work of landscape architects, planners, and allied professionals in...
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