Eugene Arnold
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
Dr. Arnold’s research focuses on new drug development and alternative and complementary treatments for autism and ADHD. His research includes aromatic essential oil therapy for autism spectrum disorder, omega-3 fatty acids for mood disorders, neurofeedback for ADHD, nutrition and mental health, and clinical trials.
Lisa Christian
Center for Psychiatry and Behavior Health, Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research
Dr. Christian is a clinical health psychologist and the principal investigator of the Stress and Health in Pregnancy Research Program. Her research program focuses on behavioral medicine in pregnancy, with an emphasis on effects of psychological stress on immune function. Across studies, common themes in her research are 1) depressive symptoms, 2) racial disparities, 3) maternal obesity/nutrition and 4) maternal sleep quality. Outcomes of interest include cardiovascular functioning, immune responses to acute stress, viral latency, inflammatory processes and antibody responses to influenza virus vaccine.
Lin Ding
Department of Teaching and Learning
Dr. Ding’s interest concentrates on discipline-based physics education. His research topics include student learning deficiencies in conceptual understanding, problem solving and scientific reasoning, curriculum development, and assessment design. His work embraces both qualitative and quantitative techniques, and often extends to ideas from other disciplines, such as cognitive psychology and statistics. While his past effort has been uniquely focused on the college level physics teaching and learning, he now is seeking to expand his work to lower grade levels (K-12) and to other science disciplines.
Mary Fristad
Department of Psychology
The focus of Dr. Fristad’s research for the past 30+ years has been to improve the diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders (depression and bipolar disorder) in children. Most recently, this has included nutritional interventions in combination with family-based psychosocial treatment.
Joshua Hawley
John Glenn College of Public Affairs
Joshua Hawley’s research is focused on workforce and education policy for state and national governments. He has published in a range of journals, including Economics of Education Review, Human Resource Development International, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, and Adult Education Quarterly. He served as a section editor for the International Handbook of Education for the Changing World of Work, edited by Rupert Maclean and David Wilson. Federal and state government as well as private source have supported Dr. Hawley’s research. The National Institute’s of Health, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the States of Ohio and New Jersey have provided significant funding. Private sources include the Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, the Higher School of Economics in Russia, and the United Way of Central Ohio.
Ned Hill
John Glenn College of Public Affairs
Hill will contribute to Ohio State’s energy and environment Discovery Themes initiative in Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability led by the Institute of Materials Research (IMR). His work will include research and manufacturing policy guidance and engagement for the Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence and the Ohio Manufacturing Institute.
Hill will continue his research on factors that affect the competitive position of the Ohio’s manufacturing sector, workforce policy, and business strategy, as well as state and local economic development strategy and urban public policy.
Mark Hubbe
Department of Anthropology
My research agenda within skeletal biology has two foci. Primarily, I investigate the processes of morphological adaptation and modern human dispersion with a second research line that examines skeletal measures of health and life-style.
My main research focus has been the study of morphological affinities, processes of morphological adaptation, and modern human dispersion, with a special emphasis on the human dispersion in South America during the Holocene. Most recently, I have been applying similar methods and quantitative analyses to processes of morphological differentiation and modern human dispersion across the planet. They are a result from my well-established networks with researchers in Brazil (Dr. Walter Neves, University of São Paulo), Germany (Dr. Katerina Harvati, University of Tübingen) and the US (Dr. Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel, SUNY Buffalo).
Regarding my secondary research focus, life-style and skeletal biology, my work has focused on the influences of prehistoric Andean States (Tiwanaku and Inca) on the life-style of the ancient inhabitants of northern Chile’s San Pedro de Atacama oases (Atacameños). In association with colleagues from the US (Dr. Christina Torres-Rouff, University of California – Merced, and Dr. William Pestle, University of Miami) and from Chile (Dr. Gonzalo Pimentel, Universidad Católica del Norte) we are conducting a two-year project aimed at characterizing diet and nutrition among groups of different social status during the Middle (AD400-1000) and Late Intermediate (AD1000-1400) Periods in the Atacama oases. This research is studying diet both through traditional osteological markers as well as through isotope analyses, and contrasting the biological data with cultural elements recovered from the burial offerings in the area.
Silivia Knobloch-Westerwick: Not Currently Hiring
School of Communication
Dr. Knobloch-Westerwick’s research examines the selection, processing, and effects of mediated communication. A key thread in her work pertains to antecedents and consequences of selective exposure to mediated messages. Her publications include three books; the latest monograph came out in 2015. Further, she has 33 peer-reviewed publications in flagship journals of the communication discipline (CR, JoC, HCR), in addition to about 40 publications in other peer-reviewed journals and 29 book chapters (per November 2016, published or in press).
Benedatta Leuner
Department of Psychology
Leuner’s laboratory is primarily interested in the maternal brain and behavior. More specifically, we seek to identify the neurobiological mechanisms underlying changes in emotional, cognitive, parental and motivational functioning during motherhood. The lab employs combinations of behavioral paradigms that tap into these functions along with neuroanatomical, neuroendocrinological, biochemical, neurochemical and pharmacological techniques to link neural changes to behavior during the normal postpartum state and using an animal model of postpartum depression.
Lisa Libby
Department of Psychology
The mental processes underlying people’s subjective perceptions of the world and of themselves. Her group seeks to understand how these processes relate to cognition, emotion, and behavior; and to identify how subjective perceptions might be manipulated in ways that help people achieve goals, maintain emotional well-being, improve decision-making, and foster interpersonal and intergroup harmony.
Matthew Mayhew
Department of Educational Studies
Interfaith Diversity Experiences & Attitudes Longitudinal Survey (IDEALS)
Entering year two of a five-year grant, this project is a partnership between Mayhew, Alyssa Rockenbach (North Carolina State University) and the Interfaith Youth Core (a.k.a. IFYC, Chicago IL). This project is aimed at studying the impact of college environments and experiences on educational outcomes including pluralism orientation, self-authored worldview commitment, and appreciative attitudes toward individuals of other worldviews.
Project Innovation Cultivation (InnC)
The purpose of this project is to understand the influence of higher education experiences on the development of students’ innovation capacities. This project has completed its cross-sectional and longitudinal data collection and is moving into the reporting and analysis phase.
Assessment of Collegiate Residential Environments and Outcomes (ACREO)
The Assessment of Collegiate Residential Environments and Outcomes (ACREO) assesses the influence of residential environments on academic, intellectual, and social outcomes of college students. ACREO is designed first and foremost as an assessment tool. It explores the relationships between institutional structures, forms of engagement, and student academic, intellectual, and social outcomes. However, it continues and improves upon previous research by providing current insight into how student outcomes vary by college housing arrangements.
Scott Mcgraw
Department of Anthropology
Supports OSU student’s travel expenses to Africa. Supports anti-poaching patrols in selected rainforests, purchases wildlife education materials for programs in rural African schools. Sponsors exchange programs for African and OSU undergraduates.
Anne-Marie Nunez: Not Currently Hiring
Department of Educational Studies
Anne-Marie Nuñez is an associate professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs Program in the Department of Educational Studies. Her research explores how to broaden participation for historically underrepresented groups, including students and faculty, in postsecondary education. One line of her scholarship has focused on the higher education experiences and trajectories of Latino, first-generation, and migrant students. Another has emphasized institutional diversity in the United States, including the role of Hispanic-Serving Institutions in promoting college access and success. A third has focused on fostering supportive organizational climates for faculty and administrators to advance inclusivity in the academy. Her research has been published in several journals, including Educational Researcher, Harvard Educational Review, and the American Educational Research Journal.
Mark Partridge
Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Developmental Economics
Dr. Partridge’s current research interests include investigating regional economic growth, urban spillovers on rural economies, why regions grow at different rates, and spatial differences in income equality and poverty.
Corinne Reczek
Department of Sociology
Prof. Reczek’s research is situated in the fields of family, gender, and health. Her research focuses on articulating how gender, sexuality, and aging processes in family ties promote or deter health. A first strand of research explores how union status matters for health and health behavior for men and women in same-sex and different-sex unions. A second strand of research examines the parent-child tie, with a focus on the consequences of parent-child relationships for the well-being of both generations across the life course. A third strand of research explores how same-sex family structures shape child well-being. Prof. Reczek uses qualitative in-depth interview methods to ascertain processes, mechanisms, and meaning-making, and survey methods to ascertain large-scale population trends.
Kammi Schmeer
Department of Sociology
Dr. Schmeer is a sociologist and demographer whose research focuses on understanding the social determinants of health and nutrition across settings. Specifically, Dr. Schmeer studies how household poverty and family contexts are associated with child and adult health using large quantitative data from the U.S., Latin America, and the Philippines. Dr. Schmeer is currently the co-PI of a study of food insecurity and maternal/child health in León, Nicaragua, and the PI of a new NIH K01 grant looking at family context effects on biological stress in children in the U.S. Dr. Schmeer teaches health, poverty, and family courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Natasha Slesnick: Not Currently Hiring
Department of Human Sciences
Natasha Slesnick is a professor of Human Development and Family Science in the Department of Human Sciences, and EHE Associate Dean for Research and Administration. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and her research focuses on intervention development and evaluation with substance using homeless youth and substance using mothers and their children. She has consulted with multiple organizations on the best strategies for intervening in youth homelessness and adolescent substance use. She has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1998 and has written more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and books. After opening a drop-in center for homeless youth in Albuquerque, New Mexico, she moved to Columbus, Ohio and opened her second drop-in center.
Sara Watson
Department of Political Sciences
Sara Watson (PhD, University of California), Associate Professor, has research and teaching interests in comparative politics and political economy of advanced industrialized countries, with a particular focus on Western Europe. Her research uses both qualitative and quantitative approaches to explore central debates in the comparative political economy literature about the causes and consequences of labor market regulation and social welfare provision. Her book, The Left Divided, was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. She has published other papers in Politics & Society and Comparative Political Studies, among others.
Bruce Weinberg
Department of Economics
Bruce Weinberg’s research interest span three areas. One line of work studies the determinants of youth outcomes and behaviors, emphasizing the effects of families and social groups. One recent paper looked at how friendship networks form in schools and their effects on behavior. Another line of work focuses on the effects of technological change and industrial shifts on the wage distribution. A recent paper studied how the increased importance of interpersonal skills can help explain the closing of the gender wage gap and the stagnation of the racial wage gap. A third line of work studies how age and geography affect creativity.