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.
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Provost / Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Academic Affairs / Provost
Foster Administration 315
508-999-8069
r.bala@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous Mobile Robotics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Motion Detection and Tracking
- Pattern Recognition
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Chancellor Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dion 324B
508-999-9237
jbuck@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Signal Processing
- Underwater Acoustics
- Animal Bioacoustics
- Engineering Pedagogy
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Research
Research interests
- STEM Education, Innovation and Teacher Learning and Learning Sciences
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Associate Professor / Chairperson
Education
Liberal Arts 398B
508-910-6603
wstroup@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Development of generative design to support group-based, socially mediated, STEM focused classroom learning for grades three through university
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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
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Associate Professor
Political Science
Liberal Arts 328
508-999-8272
hberggren@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Co-housing Movement
- Work-Family Policy
- Social Policy
- Gender and Politics
- Gender-Role Attitudes
Research
Research interests
- STEM Education, Innovation and Teacher Learning and Learning Sciences
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Associate Professor / Chairperson
Crime & Justice Studies
Liberal Arts 399J
508-910-6887
elarson@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Hemispheric American Studies
- Comparative Race & Ethnicity
- Neoliberalism
- Labor
- Transnational Social Movements
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Associate Professor
Political Science
Liberal Arts 317
508-910-6489
dachilov@umassd.edu
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Professor
Law School / Faculty
UMass School of Law 224
508-985-1140
hfarber@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Policing and technology
- Drones
- Privacy law
- Immigration
- Juvenile Justice
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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