College of Arts and Sciences
2008-2009
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- Todd Adams, 2010
- Room: 515 Keen Building
MC: 4510
- 850/644-7159
- 850/644-6735
(FAX)
- tadams@hep.fsu.edu
Dr. Adams
does research in particle physics, also known as high energy physics. The goal is to understand the most basic particles and forces in nature. He works with the FSU High Energy Physics Group on the D0 Experiment at Fermilab. Dr. Adams is most interested in searches for new particles which have never been observed, particularly supersymmetric particles.
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- Ted Baker, 2009
- 207A Love Building
- MC: 4530
- 850/644-5452
- 850/644-0058 (FAX)
- baker@cs.fsu.edu
Professor Baker's first research was in theoretical computer science. His best known work is this area is related to the P=?NP question and polynomial-time relative computability. He has also published research in pattern matching and parsing algorithms, compilation techniques, and in real-time programming languages, scheduling and operating systems. |
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- Peter Beerli, 2009
- 0150 Dirac Science Library
- MC: 4370
- 850/645-1324
- 850/644-0098
(FAX)
- beerli@csit.fsu.edu
Dr. Beerli's research interests are in computational and mathematical biology and evolutionary and population genetics/genomics.
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Dr. Bellenot's research interests include scientific visualization and analysis. |
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Dr. Blaufarb is currently working on several research projects: the history of noble tax exemption in Old Regime France, a history on the fate of seigneurial property during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Age, and the geopolitics of Latin American independence after the fall of Napoleon. | |
Dr. Bruschweiler's reasearch interests include development and application of NMR methods for studying the structure, dynamics,
and function of proteins and small molecules, fast NMR methods (covariance NMR), and methods for the computation and prediction of protein dynamics and thermodynamics. |
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Dr. Ming Cai's research goal is to enhance our understanding on how the climate system as a whole operates from intra-seasonal to decadal/centennial or longer time scales with a focus on the roles of oceanic and atmospheric circulations. | |
- Eric Chicken, 2009
- 209A Oceanagraphy/Statistics Building
- MC: 4330
- 850/644-9841
- 850/644-5271
(FAX)
- chicken@stat.fsu.edu
Dr. Chicken's research interests include density estimation, nonparametric regression methods, statistical estimation via wavelets, water flow models, and vision and shape analysis. |
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Dr. Clarke's primary research interests are issues concerning human agency, particularly intentional action, free will, and moral responsibility. | |
- Fritz Davis, 2009
412 Bellemay Building
MC: 2200
- 850/644-7401
- 850/644-6402
(FAX)
- fdavis@fsu.edu
Dr. Davis' research examines the history of environmental sciences with links to environmental history. |
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Dr. Edward's areas of specialization include nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture, critical theories of race and gender, and transnational American Studies. Her current research includes a book-length study of representations of racial mixture in nineteenth-century U.S. literature. | |
Dr. Erndl's research interests include
interactions between Hinduism and Buddhism in India, cross-cultural appropriations of Indian goddesses in North America, and Hinduism in the Caribbean. |
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- Adam Gaiser, 2010
- M06 Dodd Hall
- MC: 1520
- 850/645-7579
- 850/644-7225 (FAX)
- agaiser@fsu.edu
Dr.Gaiser's research interests include Early Islamic Sectarianism: Kharijites, Ibadites and Shi’ites, Islamic and Eastern Christian Conceptions of Martyrdom, Convergence and borrowing between Eastern Christianity and Islam, and Islam in Europe and the Americas. | |
- Penny Gilmer, 2009
- 216 Dittmer Chemistry Lab
- MC: 4390
- 850/644-4026
- 850/644-8281 (FAX)
- gilmer@chem.fsu.edu
Dr. Gilmer's
research focus is in science education, including chemical and biochemical education. She is particularly interested in teacher change, both at the K–12 level and the university/community college level.
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Dr. Hellweg's research interests include Ethnographic Field Methods, History of Anthropological Theory, Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Infectious Disease, Ethnopoetics, Language and Culture, Peoples and Cultures of Africa
and Cultures and Histories of West Africa. | |
- Thomas Houpt, 2009
- 209 Biomedical Research Facility
- MC: 4340
- 850/644-4907
- 850/644-0989 (FAX)
- houpt@neuro.fsu.edu
Dr. Houpt's research interests include Sensory Systems, Neuroendocrinology and Behavior, Energy Balance and Metabolism, Development and Neural Plasticity, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. |
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Dr. Klassen's research has involved investigating properties of three and four dimensional manifolds, including knots in the three-sphere, using the techniques of gauge theory and by studying representations of their fundamental groups in certain Lie groups. He also studyies the maps between Hurwitz spaces and moduli spaces. | |
- William Landing, 2010
- 325 Oceanagraphy/Statistics Building
- MC: 4320
- 850/644-6037
850/644-2581
(FAX) wlanding@mailer.fsu.edu
Dr. Leanding's research interests include
the chemical, biological, and physical processes which affect trace element distributions and behavior in marine and freshwater environments.
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Dr. Leparulo's research interests include contemporary Italian Literature, Comparative Literature (20 th century French and Italian literature), Pirandello and the Italian theater, Maria Montessori and Foreign Language Teaching, and most recently, Italian narrative (one novel and one book of poetry).
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- Lisa Lyons, 2010
- 357 Diffenbaugh Building
- MC: 4340
- 850/645-8255
850/645-0989 (FAX) lyons@bio.fsu.edu
Dr. Lyons' research interests include Signaling and circadian modulation regulating associative memory).
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- Birgit Maier-Katkin, 2009
- 362 Diffenbaugh Building
MC: 1540
850/644-8300
850/644-0524
(FAX)
bmkatkin@mailer.fsu.edu
Dr. Maier-Katkin's research focuses on the literary representation of historical memory and its impact on the cultural identity of a people whose collective past incorporates both the indelible mark of human rights violations and the great tradition of human dignity in Western thought.
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- Washington Mio, 2009
- 111 Love Building
- MC: 4510
- 850/644-5596
- 850/644-4053
(FAX)
- mio@math.fsu.edu
Dr. Mio's research insterests include Pattern Analysis,
Computer Vision, and
Geometric Topology.
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Dr. Moore specializes in the literature of colonial America and in U.S. literature to 1900. In 1999, he was named a University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and he currently serves as Faculty Director of the Bryan Hall Learning Community. He is immediate past president of the interdisciplinary Society of Early Americanists and coordinates the American Studies Association's Early American Matters Caucus. | |
Dr. O'Rourke is currently writing on sexuality and performance in Shakespeare.
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- Thomas Plewa, 2010
- 443 Dirac Science Library
- MC: 4350
- 850/644-1010
850/644-0098
(FAX) tomek@scs.fsu.edu
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- Ralph Radach, 2009
- A415 Psychology Dept. Building
- MC: 1270
- 850/645-7402
850/644-7729
(FAX) radach@psy.fsu.edu
Dr. Radach's research interests include cognitive and developmental reading research; visual perception, attention and eye movement control; acquired and developmental reading disabilities; cognitive neuropsychology with a focus on visual and oculomotor functions; and human factors and internet usability.
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Dr. Schmidt's research interests include her research interests focus on gender, violence, memory, power, and colonialism in nineteenth and twentieth century Zimbabwe and Tanzania.
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Dr. Sickinger
specializes in Greek history, literature, and archaeology.
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- Oliver Steinbock, 2009
- 317 Dittmer Chemistry Laboratory
- MC: 1580
- 850/644-4824
- 850/645-8281
(FAX)
- steinbck@chem.fsu.edu
Dr. Steinbock research interests lie in the general areas of chemical pattern formation and nonlinear kinetics.
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Dr. Sussman's research focuses on high performance computing and computational fluid dynamics.
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Dr. Tang's research interest is virus-host cell interactions concerning human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV). |
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Dr. Upchurch's research specialization is in the area of nineteenth-century British gender and social history, and his teaching fields include modern Britain, the British Empire, modern Europe, global and comparative history, Atlantic history, women¹s and gender history, and the history of sexuality. | |
Dr. Walker is Associate Chair of the English Department; from
2004-06, he served as an Assistant Dean in the College of Arts and
Sciences. In 1996, he was named a University Distinguished Teaching
Professor. He studies and writes about British Romantic literature and culture. |
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Dr. Wang's research includes paleoclimate and paleoecology, response of the soil carbon cycle to natural and anthropogenic perturbations, and source and fate of dissolved organic carbon and nutrients in wetland ecosystems.
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- Paul Ward, 2009
- A414C Psychology Dept. Building
- MC: 1270
- 850/645-7424
- 850/645-2795
(FAX)
- ward@psy.fsu.edu
Dr. Ward's research includes expert performance and skill acquisition in professional, occupational and sporting domains. Use of process tracing measures (such as verbal reports, motion analyses, eye movements and other psycho-physiological measures) to uncover the mechanisms responsible for superior performance. Fundamental issues of interest include how experts acquire, refine, control or automate their performance. |
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Dr. Wiebe's research activities include the synthesis of high quality correlated electron materials, research in high magnetic fields, and neutron scattering, x-ray scattering, and muon spin relaxation experiments.
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- Xin Yuan, 2010
- 168 Love Building
- MC: 4530
- 850/644-9133
- 850/644-0481
(FAX)
- yuan@cs.fsu.edu
Dr. Yuan participates in the ACES and LENS research groups at FSU. His main research interests are in Computer Networks, Parallel Processing, Compilers, Data Flow Analysis, Compilation Techniques for Distributed Memory Machines, Optical Interconnection Networks, ATM, and WDM/TDM communications.
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