Past Scholars

Scholar Group Facilitators

UMass Professor Paul M. Collins, Jr.

Paul M. Collins, Jr.

Professor of Political Science and Director of Legal Studies
Department of Political Science

Elizabeth Evans

Assistant Professor
Department of Health Promotion and Policy | School of Public Health and Health Sciences

Annette Wysocki

Associate Dean for Research
College of Nursing

Laurel Smith-Doerr

Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
UMass Professor Ryan Wells

Ryan Wells

Associate Professor
Department of Educational Policy, Research & Administration
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Charli Carpenter

Professor
Department of Political Science

Mary Fechner

Scholars Co-Facilitator, Proposal Development Specialist
Office of Research Development

Naomi Gerstel

Distinguished University Professor
Department of Sociology

Jennifer Lundquist

Associate Dean of Research & Faculty Development and Professor
Department of Sociology | College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Scholars

UMass Associate Professor Angélica Bernal

Angélica María Bernal

Associate Professor
Department of Political Science | College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
UMass Assistant Professor Nick Caverly

Nicholas Caverly

Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology | College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
UMass Assistant Profesor Marialuisa Di Stefano

Marialuisa Di Stefano

Assistant Professor
Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies | College of Education
UMass Associate Professor Kirsten Leng

Kirsten Leng

Associate Professor
Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies | College of Humanities and Fine Arts
UMass Assistant Professor Memnun Seven

Memnun Seven

Assistant Professor
College of Nursing
UMass Assistant Professor Lucy Wang

Lucy Xiaolu Wang

Assistant Professor
Department of Resource Economics | College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
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Camille Barchers

Assistant Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning | College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
UMass Assistant Professor Maryclare Griffin

Maryclare Griffin

Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics | College of Natural Sciences
UMass Assistant Professor Jennifer Katz

Juniper Katz

Assistant Professor
School of Public Policy | College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Jennifer Mack

Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Disorders | School of Public Health & Health Sciences
Communication Disorders Building, Room #316
413-545-8468
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Thaddeus Miller

Associate Professor
School of Public Policy | College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
UMass Assistant Professor Manasvini Singh

Manasvini Singh

Assistant Professor
Department of Social and Decision Sciences | Carnegie Mellon University
UMass Assistant Professor Isabella Weber

Isabella Weber

Assistant Professor
Department of Economics | College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
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Weiai (Wayne) Xu

Associate Professor
Department of Communication | College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
UMass Assistant Professor Jeanne Brunner

Jeanne Brunner

Assistant Professor
Department of Teacher Education & Curriculum Studies | College of Education
UMass Assistant Professor Xiaoxue Sherry Gao

Xiaoxue Sherry Gao

Assistant Professor
Department of Resource Economics | College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
UMass Associate Professor Karen Giuliano

Karen Giuliano

Associate Professor
College of Nursing | Institute for Advanced Life Sciences
UMass Assistant Professor Megan Gross

Megan Gross

Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Disorders | School of Public Health & Health Sciences
UMass Associate Professor Regine Spector

Regine Spector

Associate Professor
Department of Political Science | College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
UMass Associate Professor Eve Vogel

Eve Vogel

Associate Professor and Geography Program Co-head
Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Ssciences | College of Natural Sciences
UMass Associate Professor Nathan Chan

Nathan Chan

Associate Professor
Department of Resource Economics | College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
UMass Associate Professor Kimberley Geissler

Kimberley Geissler

Associate Professor
Department of Health Promotion and Policy | School of Public Health and Health Sciences
UMass Amherst Associate Professor Jacquie Kurland

Jacquie Kurland

Associate Professor
Department of Communication Disorders | School of Public Health and Health Sciences
UMass Amherst Associate Professor Kysa Nygreen

Kysa Nygreen

Associate Professor
Department of Teacher Education & Curriculum Studies | College of Education
UMass Amherst Associate Professor Jonathan Corpus Ong

Jonathan Corpus Ong

Associate Professor
Department of Communication | College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
UMass Assistant Professor Carrie-Ellen Briere

Carrie-Ellen Briere

Assistant Professor
College of Nursing
UMass Associate Professor Chrystal George Mwangi

Chrystal A. George Mwangi

Associate Professor of Higher Education
George Mason University

Justin Gross

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science | College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Lawrence King

Professor of Economics
Department of Economics | College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Kathryne Young

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology | College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Joseph Bergan

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences | College of Natural Sciences

Peter M. Haas

Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science | College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Elizabeth A. Henneman

Associate Professor
College of Nursing

Jason M. Kamilar

Director of ISSR
Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Comparative Primatology Lab

John Kingston

Professor
Department of Linguistics | College of Humanities & Fine Arts

Emily West

Associate Professor and Former ISSR Associate Director
Department of Communication

Elena Carbone

Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor
Department of Nutrition | School of Public Health & Health Sciences

Katherine Dixon-Gordon

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences | College of Natural Sciences

Sanjiv Gupta

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology (College of Social and Behavioral Sciences)

Janice Irvine

Professor
Department of Sociology (College of Social and Behavioral Sciences)

Anita Milman

Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Conservation (College of Natural Sciences)

Henry Renski

Professor and Former ISSR Associate Director
Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning

Elizabeth Sharrow

Director of Faculty Research, ISSR
Associate Professor of Public Policy and History

Rosemary Cowell

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Ina Ganguli

Assistant Professor
Department of Economics (College of Social and Behavioral Sciences)

Lauren McCarthy

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science / Legal Studies (College of Social and Behavioral Sciences)

Rachel Walker

Associate Professor
College of Nursing

SeonYeong Yu

Assistant Professor
Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies (College of Education)

Dania Francis

Assistant Professor
Department of Economics

Ray La Raja

Associate Professor
Department of Political Science

Bernhard Leidner

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, Peace and Violence Program

Rebecca Ready

Associate Professor
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Kristine Yu

Assistant Professor
Department of Linquistics

Jeungok Choi

Associate Professor
College of Nursing

Amanda Walker Johnson

Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology

Kevin Young

Associate Professor and Former ISSR Associate Director
Department of Economics | College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Ryan Acton

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology, CSSI

Enobong Branch

Sr. Vice President for Equity and Professor of Sociology
Rutgers University
Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Professor of Sociology, Michelle Budig

Michelle Budig

Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Professor
Department of Sociology | College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Martha Fuentes-Bautista

Assistant Professor
Department of Communication and Center for Public Policy and Administration

Fidan Ana Kurtulus

Associate Professor
Department of Economics

Rahsaan Maxwell

Former Assistant Professor of Political Science: Currently an Associate Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapil Hill
Political Science

Ventura R. Pérez

Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology

Robert L. Ryan

Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
Krista Harper, Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of ISSR

Krista Harper

Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology and School of Public Policy