List of Experts

Dr. Abrash's research is in Chemical Dynamics, the field of chemistry which attempts to understand how chemical reactions work. The specific area on which this research is currently focussed is to ask the related questions of how the proximity of rea...

Professor Azizah al-Hibri is a Professor Emerita at the Law School, having served on the faculty from 1992 until her retirement in 2012. Her work has centered on developing an Islamic jurisprudence and body of Islamic law that are gender equitable an...

Scott Allison is Professor of Psychology at the University of Richmond.  He received his B.A. in Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, in 1981, and his Ph.D. in Social Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 19...

Anderson is the author of a number of articles about early jazz and the analysis of wind music and is a member of the editorial board for Monographs and Bibliographies in American Music.  His book, The Original Hot Five Recordings of Louis Armstrong...

Professor Ronald Bacigal teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, criminal process and procedure, and evidence. He is the author or co-author of over a dozen books and almost fifty articles on these subjects, and is widely regarded as the lea...

The atomic nucleus lies at the heart of matter and at the core of stars. Making up 99.9% of the known mass of the universe the nucleus is a unique strongly-interacting quantum-mechanical mesoscopic system. Consisting of between a few and a few hundre...


Coordinator of piano studies at the University of Richmond, Richard Becker is a pianist, composer, and chamber musician whose playing has been acclaimed in Europe and America. Playing on college campuses, he has frequently toured the eastern Unite...

Covalent structure of biologically active molecules such as proteins and enzymes is readily available from enterprises such as genome sequencing projects. Likewise 3-dimensional structures are available for many proteins. This information however rep...

Dr. Kristin M. S. Bezio integrates the study of literature into the leadership studies curriculum. Her areas of specialization include leadership in literature and film, leadership in performance, and cultural and political history in Early Modern En...

David Brandenberger has written on Stalin-era propaganda, ideology and nationalism in journals like Russian Review, Kritika, Nationality Papers, Europe-Asia Studies, Jahrbuecher fuer Geschichte Osteuropas and Voprosy istorii. His first book, National...

Benjamin Broening's acoustic and electroacoustic music has been recorded on the Centaur, Equilibrium, MIT Press, Everglade and SEAMUS labels.  Broening is founder and artistic director of Third Practice, an annual festival of electroacoustic music a...

Dr. Brown has published and presented nationally and internationally on the topics of early education, reading recovery, teacher education and global awareness.

My work is in the field of cosmology, the study of the structure, origin, and evolution of the universe on the very largest scales. My students and I analyze and interpret measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which is a re...

Jennifer Cable has performed throughout the United States and Europe in solo repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to works of our time. In addition to opera and oratorio, Cable has sung with many chamber music ensembles, including Tragicomedia, Mu...

Tara Casey is Director of the Carrico Center for Pro Bono Service and writes on contemporary public policy issues. She is a member of the Richmond Times-Dispatch Pundit’s Podium, and her essays  have appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Virg...

Dr. Caudill is interested in biological and medical applications of mathematical modeling. His current research is focused on using mathematical and computational models to simulate infection spread in hospital wards, with particular focus on the ris...

Professor Dale Margolin Cecka is Director of the Law School's Family Law Clinic, and teaches and writes in the area of family law. Professor Cecka's scholarship focuses on child welfare issues, youth aging out of foster care, and the constitutional r...

Dr. Cheever’s research focuses on the film and literature of the United States from the years immediately following World War II to the end of the twentieth century. Her first book, Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post World War II Americ...

One of the founding faculty members of the Jepson School, Dr. Joanne B. Ciulla teaches courses on ethics, critical thinking, conflict resolution, and leadership in international contexts. A demanding and creative teacher, she was honored in 2007 wit...

Stephanie Cobb teaches New Testament and early Christianity. Her current research interests focus on the interrelationship among paganism, Judaism and Christianity in the first and second centuries C.E. In particular, she works on martyrdom and perse...

Professor Chris Cotropia teaches and writes in the areas of patent law, intellectual property, and federal courts. He is the author of numerous book chapters, amicus briefs, and law review articles on these subjects, and his scholarship has appeared ...

Dr. Dean Croushore is Professor of Economics and Rigsby Fellow at the University of Richmond. Dr. Croushore came to the University of Richmond in 2003 after 14 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, where he was Vice President and Economi...

Myra Daleng has been the director of dance at the University of Richmond for 26 years. This position includes teaching dance technique classes in ballet, jazz, tap and modern. Ms. Daleng also teaches choreography, dance history and kinetics--the scie...

My research focuses on the design of fluorescent protein biosensors. Nature has provided a vast array of proteins which bind efficiently to molecules which my research group is interested in detecting. One of the goals of my group is to design a bios...

Distinguished trumpeter Dr. Michael Davison is a legendary performer, respected professor, published composer, and ethnomusicologist. Davison’s love of music has shaped his life and career. He is in demand across the country as a classical and jazz...

Margaret Denton’s current research focuses on the intersections between photography and painting in France in the nineteenth century. Her latest article, “Louis-Auguste Martin’s Promenades poétiques et daguerriennes –Bellevue” (History of ...

Research projects are focussed in two principal areas: 1) The electron and energy transfer properties of Re(a,a'-diimine) complexes, particularly with respect to solar energy conversion and the development of molecular electronic devices. 2) Modern N...

What interactions determine the shapes of molecules? Why is one unexpected isomer more stable relative to more ‘logical' and aesthetically pleasing alternatives? These questions remain interesting, as new molecules are made and assumptions about li...

Professor John Douglass served as Dean of the Law School from 2007-2011, and teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, and trial advocacy. Professor Douglass's academic publications have focused on criminal prose...

We are interested in the development of one-pot and tandem reactions that reduce the need for expensive and time-consuming purification processes. We approach this goal through two fronts: 1) Our silylation-driven chemistry employs TMSOTf as both a s...

I'm currently working on a book project, The Construction of Mediterranean Identity:  the Kingdom of Southern Italy and Sicily, c. 1000-1300.  I examine the various cultural and ethnic pieces that comprised the medieval multicultural Kingdom of sou...

Alicia Díaz, originally from Puerto Rico, is co-founder of Agua Dulce Dance Theater, with movement artist Matthew Thornton. Her choreography has been presented in the United States, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Argentina, Spain, and Mexico. She toured nationa...

Professor Joel Eisen teaches and writes in the areas of energy law and policy, environmental law and policy, climate change, and the Smart Grid. He is a co-author of the leading law and business school textbook on energy law, Energy, Economics and th...

Professor Jessica Erickson teaches and writes in the areas of corporate governance and securities regulation. Her scholarship has appeared in the Notre Dame Law Review, William and Mary Law Review, and Iowa Law Review, among other venues. Prior to...

Dr. Essid directs the university's Writing Center and Writing-Across-the-Curriculum program. He's a Richmond native who earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University. He studies changing patterns of liter...

Linda Fairtile is the liaison librarian for music, theatre, dance, and Italian studies, as well as a musicologist who specializes in Italian opera. She is the co-director of the American Institute for Verdi Studies at New York University and has appe...

Sharon G. Feldman is William Judson Gaines Chair in Modern Foreign Languages and Professor of Spanish and Catalan Studies in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Richmond. Before arriving at Richmond in 2000, she...

Dr. Jessica Flanigan is a philosopher whose research interests include the ethics of business and medicine, law, and public policy. Her current research addresses the ethics of self-medication and looks at the obligations of business leaders, particu...

The heart of Dr. Forsyth's work is to build knowledge about why people feel, think, and act as they do. His research focuses on ethics, with a specific concentration on individual, group, and cultural differences in degree of idealism and relativism....

In general, what I am most fascinated by is protein structure. More specifically, how that structure dictates function and biomolecular recognition, and what happens when that structure is altered in diseased states. The techniques that my group uses...

Professor James Gibson is founder and Director of the Law School's Intellectual Property Institute, and teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property, contracts, and law and technology. His scholarship has appeared in the Yale Law Journal,...

My research is focused on the experimental program at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory to explore the quark nature of matter with a recent excursion into nuclear arms policy. I have also developed inquiry-based laboratories for in...

Social psychologist George R. (Al) Goethals joined the Jepson School faculty in 2006. Before joining the Jepson faculty as holder of the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professorship in Leadership Studies, he held academic and administrative appoin...

Currently Dr. Goldman is studying the synthesis and mechanisms of organometallic reactions. Part of the study of organometallic chemistry involves trying to understand how metals catalyze reactions. Her main focus is on investigating how silicon subs...

Dr. Gruner teaches children's and young adult literature and Victorian literature, as well as Creative Nonfiction Writing. Her current research is on children's fantasy literature, especially as it relates to gender, education, and religion. She also...

Dr. Gupton's primary research interests involve developing new organic reactions that can be applied to the synthesis of bioactive compounds in agriculture and medicine. More specifically, he has studied for some time the preparation and reactions of...

I use synthetic and physical organic chemistry to address specific biological questions. Currently, my work focuses on 8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine (OdG), an abundant DNA lesion that can cause genome mutation and is thought to play a major role in several...

Mimi Hanaoka teaches Islam and Islamic history. Her current research interests center on the formation and articulation of Muslim identity in early Islamic Persia. More specifically, she studies local histories, dream theory, traditions of the Prophe...

My interests ultimate relate to the human capacity for action, which means I study power, culture, and practice. Why do we do what we do, and do we act from compulsion or autonomous desire? How do social practices persist and change? This leads me to...

Dr. Julian Hayter is a historian whose research focuses on African American politics in Richmond, Virginia, within the broader context of modern African American history, American political development after 1945, the American civil rights movement, ...

Brian Henry has published nine books of poetry, two edited collections, and two translated books. He has written about contemporary poetry for such publications as The New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, Virginia Quarterly Revi...

Patricia Herrera's teaching and research focus on 20th century performance of the Americas with an emphasis on social justice, identity politics, and transnationalism. She is the Secretary for the Latino Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in ...

Dr. Gill Hickman's career has involved both administrative and academic appointments. Her expertise is in management, with an underpinning of organizational behavior and human resource management. As an inaugural faculty member of the Jepson School, ...

Dr. Javier Hidalgo is a political theorist whose teaching and research interests center on the ethical and public policy questions related to Mexican immigration in the United States, the morality of the market, and democratic theory. He teaches cour...

We use marine and freshwater sponges as model systems to ask questions about the genetics and development of animal evolution and symbioses. Sponges are ancient animals that retain characteristics of an early experiment in multicellularity while also...

A cell constantly alters the expression of its genes (and thus the proteins it makes) in order to respond to its environment or change its function. Gene expression can be modulated at many levels, from the birth of a messenger RNA (mRNA) to its dest...

Professor Ann Hodges teaches and writes in the areas of labor and employment law, feminist legal theory, and nonprofit organizations. She is the co-author of West’s Principles of Employment Law and West’s Public Sector Employment: Cases and Ma...

Dorothy Holland is associate professor of theatre and associate professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies. Dr. Holland is also chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance, where she teaches a range of courses: Production Studies, Theatre His...

As a social psychologist, Crystal L. Hoyt brings a psychological perspective to the study and teaching of leadership. Her research reflects a commitment to conducting both basic and applied investigations. Her primary research interests include women...

Joyce Janto is the Deputy Director of the Muse Law Library and teaches legal research in the first-year program, as well as professional responsibility. Ms. Janto served as President of the American Association of Law Libraries from 2010-2011, Presid...

Professor Rodney Johnson is a Professor Emeritus at the Law School, having served on the faculty from 1970 until his retirement in 1999. He has authored over five dozen articles on wills and trusts, nearly a dozen of which resulted in legislative ena...

Professor John Paul Jones teaches and writes about constitutional law, administrative law, maritime law, and military law. He has written more than three dozen articles and book chapters on these subjects, and his scholarship has appeared in the Ame...

Development and implementation of interactive computer based educational materials for biology, chemistry and physics. Part of this is reflected in the C-MoR project.

Dr. Peter Iver Kaufman studies the political cultures of late antique, medieval and early modern Europe and North Africa. He has written extensively on conflict and authority in Latin Christendom and on religion, politics and drama in Elizabethan Eng...

My research interests examine the impact of the Civil War, particularly on the American South.  I presently am working on a biography of Elizabeth Louisa Knights Harris (1823-1894), a British-born Civil War widow who resided most of her adult life i...

The neurobiology and neurochemistry underlying social behaviors in animals, particularly the effects of reproductive experience (pregnancy, lactation and exposure to offspring) on the maternal and paternal brain.

David Kitchen earned a B.Sc and PhD in Geology from Queens University Belfast. After working for two years as a petroleum geologist in the North Sea, he started teaching Earth Sciences as lecturer at the Ulster Polytechnic and then as tenured faculty...

Dr. Laura Knouse is a clinical psychologist whose research and clinical expertise focus on the nature, assessment, and treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in adults. One line of ongoing research is aimed at understanding the cogniti...

Dr. Dejun (Tony) Kong is an assistant professor of leadership studies and management. He holds a joint appointment in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies and the University's Robins School of Business.  Dr. Kong has a background in business admi...

Recognized as an artist of exceptional versatility, pianist and harpsichordist Joanne Kong has received critical praise for her "great finesse and flexibility" (The Washington Post), "superb" playing (The Boston Globe), "utmost keyboard sensitivity a...

Professor Corinna Lain is Associate Dean of Faculty Development and writes in the areas of constitutional theory, Supreme Court decisionmaking, criminal procedure, and the death penalty.  Her scholarship has appeared in the University of Pennsylvani...

David Leary has been University Professor at the University of Richmond since 2002. For the previous 13 years, he was Dean of Arts and Sciences at Richmond, and before that he was Professor of Psychology, History, and the Humanities at the University...

Bioanalytical materials and biosensor development. Study of interactions between proteins and synthetic nanomaterials.

Lázaro Lima is the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts and professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies and American Studies. His publications include The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Me...

Biology is still an uncharted territory from a quantitative point of view and thus opens to new fundamental discoveries. Before Newton, the phenomena of mechanical motion were not understood in their simple fundamental form. Likewise in Molecular Bio...

Dr. Litteral's reserach interests include work in the area of forecasting that has resulted in recent journal publications and a book focused on spare parts forecasting, inventory management, and control. Another stream of research is directly relate...

Stephen Long's research focuses on the causes of war, international rivalries, and victory and defeat in war. He is also interested the formation and perception of national reputations and the sociology of war.

I am currently working on a book manuscript which examines Okinawa's relationship with mainland Japan through the rubric of cultural heritage and its preservation. I suggest that the production “Okinawan cultural heritage” by the prewar Japanese ...

Rick Mayes is an associate professor in the University of Richmond’s department of political science, and co-director of the university’s Healthcare & Society major.  He is also the faculty director of the University of Richmond’s Sophomore Sc...

Dr. Gary L. McDowell is a leading constitutional scholar who joined the Jepson faculty in 2003 after a distinguished career in public life and the academy. Prior to coming to the Jepson School, McDowell directed the Institute of United States Studie...

Andrew Clay McGraw received his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University in 2005.  Dr. McGraw has published several articles and reviews concerning gamelan and contemporary and traditional composition and performance practice in Southeast A...

My current project examines the socio-political and medical terrain in which mental illness became a public health construct and its subsequent management in Rio de Janeiro during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It examines narratives of madness a...

Work in Professor Myers' laboratory is directed towards the synthesis of interesting and novel organic compounds using metal-mediated processes. In one major effort, involving a long-standing collaboration between the Myers lab and the lab of Prof. D...

Dr. James L. Narduzzi is currently Dean and Professor in the School of Professional and Continuing Studies at the University of Richmond. From 1988 until 1994, he was Associate Academic Dean and Assistant Vice President at the University of Hart...

Dr. Nebel's research explores atmospheric physics and solar astronomy, with a focus on upper atmospheric physics, specifically the behavior of carbon dioxide and how it interacts with various molecules and with radiation in the mesosphere and lower t...

Dr. Neff has published and given professional presentations on factors influencing decision-making within the juvenile and adult court systems, characteristics of incarcerated juvenile offenders, comparisons of juvenile male sex offenders and non-sex...

David Niethamer began his conducting career at Lebanon Valley College, where he conducted a run of "A Funny thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and was student conductor of the college orchestra.   Appointed Principal Clarinetist of the Richmond...

Dr. Nourse studied Indonesian at Cornell University, UC Berkeley and Satya Wacana University and has conducted fieldwork in Sulawesi, Indonesia (Southeast Asia) and Bassarel, Guinea-Bissau (West Africa). In addition to numerous articles and presentat...

Dr. Obi has taught in the U.S. and abroad and has published numerous articles on the social coordinates of art, development in Africa, film and ideology, and language and literature among others.

Professor Kristen Jakobsen Osenga teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property, patent law, law and language, and legislation and regulation. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection between law and linguistics in patent claim construc...

Professor John Pagan is a University Professor and served as Dean of the Law School from 1997-2003. He teaches and writes in the areas of legal history, constitutional law, and sexuality and the law. Professor Pagan's book, Anne Orthwood's Bastard:...

Research in the Parish group focuses on understanding the dynamical behavior of interesting molecular systems. The tools of quantum mechanics, conformational searching and free energy simulation are used to answer questions about the structure, energ...

Dr. Sandra J. Peart became the fourth dean of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies in 2007. A national leader in her field, Dr. Peart is a former president of the History of Economics Society and co-director of the annual Summer Institute for the ...

Whether it appears in the fire and brimstone rhetoric of Jonathan Edwards’ sermons, the doomsday paranoia of the Nuclear Age, or the season-to-season calamities of television’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the apocalypse has endured in the American ...

Dean Wendy Collins Perdue’s scholarship spans a number of areas including civil procedure, conflict of laws, land use and public health. Her publications include two case books and numerous articles and book chapters, and her scholarship has appear...

Professor Jack Preis teaches and writes in the areas of federal courts, civil rights litigation, and civil procedure. His scholarship, which focuses on constitutional rights and remedies, has appeared in the Virginia Law Review, Indiana Law Journal...

Dr. Terry L. Price specializes in leadership ethics and moral psychology. A philosopher with grounding in psychology, Dr. Price focuses his teaching and research interests on applied ethics. He also studied politics on a John M. Olin Fellowship at th...

Radice holds a B.A. from Wittenberg University and a Ph.D. from Yale University, where he studied cell and developmental biology. He has been a NASA research fellow and a Danforth Graduate Fellow, and was appointed a Faculty for the 21st Century, Pro...

Randy Raggio is Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond, where he teaches in the undergraduate, MBA and executive education programs. His primary research areas are branding and brand equity, br...

Dr. Elizabeth Ransom's research interests are in the areas of international development and globalization, the sociology of agriculture and food, and social studies of science and technology. Her recent research focuses on the linkages between Southe...

Jeffrey Riehl is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Richmond where he has taught since 1995. At UR, he conducts the highly-acclaimed Schola Cantorum and teaches voice and courses for both music majors ...

Professor Kimberly Robinson teaches and writes in the area of education law and policy, with an emphasis on the federal role in education and equal educational opportunity. She also teaches in the areas of pre-trial litigation and legislation and reg...

My research looks at the impact of American political institutions on policy development and organized labor's influence on American politics and policy.

I am at present working on an economic and social history of the estate held by the abbot of St. Edmund's abbey, a major English Benedictine house, during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The history examines the abbot's response as manager of...

Professor Noah Sachs is Director of the Law School’s Robert R. Merhige, Jr. Center for Environmental Studies, and teaches and writes in the area of environmental law. His scholarship, which focuses on climate change, toxic substance and hazardous w...

My research focuses on the history of Americans abroad. I am interested in how Americans without official status (such as intellectuals, artists, journalists, and scientists) shaped the interaction between the United States and the world in the 19th ...

Walter Schoen has been a professional actor, director and stage manager for more than 25 years. During that time, his work has appeared in theaters from Broadway to Los Angeles. His work has ranged from the most contemporary plays of writers like Eri...

Professor Schwartz’ primary research interests are the life and work of John Milton and 16th and Early 17th-Century English Literature and Culture more generally, with a particular interest in the relationship between early modern imaginative liter...

Professor Siebert’s research interests focus on the late twentieth and early twenty first century American literature and culture, ethnic literary and cinematographic traditions, and Native American studies. She is completing a book on the contempo...

My research focuses on issues lying at the intersection of law, politics, and constitutional rights.

Dr. Smallwood is interested in science policy and science diplomacy.  He has worked as a science advisor to individual US Senators and the Senate Homeland Security/Government Affairs committee.  He was the director of the Wildlife Conservation Soci...

Tanja Softic’s prints, drawings and paintings address factors of cultural hybridity that shape the identity and world view of an immigrant: displacement, longing, translation, and memory. A native of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, she studied at...

Dr. Stevenson is interested in the development of spectroscopic methods which can rapidly and easily characterize samples, with a minimum of sample treatment required before the analysis. Typically these methods will be based on fluorescence spectros...

Dr. Strait is a highly experienced bi-lingual faculty member with teaching expertise at the doctoral, graduate and undergraduate levels. Topics of expertise include: international human resource management, immigration, and various management topics ...

Carol Summers has published on syphilis and reproductive policy in colonial Uganda, racial ideology and segregation in colonial Zimbabwe, Zimbabwean struggles over schooling and development, and on radical politics  in late colonial Uganda. She is c...

Professor Peter Swisher teaches and writes in the areas of family law, torts, and insurance law. He has authored or co-authored over a dozen casebooks and treatises, and over two dozen articles and book chapters, on these subjects. Professor Swisher ...

Professor Mary Kelly Tate serves as Director of the Law School's Institute for Actual Innocence, which works to identify and exonerate wrongfully convicted individuals in Virginia by pursuing writs of actual innocence and related post-conviction reli...

Porcher L. Taylor III, J.D. is professor and program chair of the paralegal studies program in the School of Professional and Continuing Studies at the University of Richmond. He also holds a joint appointment (2010-2014) as an associate professor of...

I am an experimental physicist, and my research focuses broadly on physics and applications at the nanometer scale.  One particular field of interest is diblock copolymer materials, which can spontaneously self-assemble into periodic structures of c...

Anne Van Gelder, Assistant Director of Dance, holds degrees from Virginia Intermont College (B.A.) and the University of Utah (M.F.A.) in Ballet Pedagogy and Choreography. She performed throughout Virginia and Utah and has served as ballet mistress/r...

Professor Margaret Ann Walker is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Law School’s Academic Success Program. Her teaching focuses on mentoring first-year students in their transition to law school by providing classes which introduce and develop s...

Richard Waller is executive director of University museums, including the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art and Print Study Center and the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature. He received his master of fine arts degree from Yale University af...

Professor Kevin Walsh teaches and writes in the areas of federal jurisdiction and constitutional law. His scholarship focuses on doctrines that define the scope of federal judicial power, and has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, New York Universi...

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Hugh West is working on a study of the intellectual/cultural world of late-Eighteenth-century Europe, especially Germany, through the prism of the life of Georg Forster, 1754-94--a life embracing Catherine the Great's Russia, Cook's second voyage, va...

Dr. Wharton's research combines gender, family, and work issues. For example, she recently published a book, Framing a Domain for Work and Family: A Study of Women in Residential Real Estate Sales Work, about women who sell residential real estate, f...

Associate Dean Clark Williams teaches and writes in the areas of civil procedure, conflict of laws, and structure of the Virginia judicial system. He has also served as a consultant to various court systems and bar organizations on their rules of pra...

Dr. Thad Williamson is associate professor of leadership studies and philosophy, politics, economics and law (PPEL). A sought-after professor and civic activist, his research focuses on urban politics and sprawl, community economic development, polit...

I am currently working on "Healing the Nation: Prisoners of War, and Medicine in Turkey, 1914-1939," a study of how the nation was constructed, which will be released in June 2013. I examine two closely related groups: Ottoman prisoners of war in Rus...

My first book, Racism in the Nation’s Service: Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America (UNC Press 2013), examines federal employment as a lever and obstacle for racial equality and social mobility in the age of progressive...