Faculty Research
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	 Research Interests  | 
	
	 Active Research Projects  | 
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	 Kent  | 
	
	 Trauma, mental health, positive youth development, urban life  | 
	
	 Analyzing veteran’s health, police cadets and well-being, and positive youth development…more  | 
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	 Stark  | 
	
	 Hate groups, hate speech, hate crimes, racism, white supremacy, xenophobia, anti-immigrant, economic insecurity, inequality  | 
	
	 Hate group mobilization in the United States…more  | 
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	 Kent  | 
	
	 Religion, science, atheism, beliefs  | 
	
	 "Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum of Global Perspectives"…more  | 
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	 Kent  | 
	
	 Prison, reentry, public opinion, qualitative methods, sex offense policy, critical criminology, experimental methods  | 
	
	 Experiences of individuals geographically separated from loved ones; public attitudes towards those with criminal histories and how to change those attitudes…more  | 
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	 Kent  | 
	
	 Inequality, gender and leadership, broadening participation in computing  | 
	
	 Broadening participation in computing…more  | 
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	Stark | Self, identity, mental illness, stigma | 
	 Refining the measurement of reflected appraisals from different sources and theoretically and empirically clarifying their role in identity processes.  | 
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	 Kent  | 
	
	 Race, family, adoption  | 
	
	 White adoptive parents of children of color and their description of their evolving awareness and lived experiences of race…more  | 
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	 Tuscarawas  | 
	
	 Crime, deviance, substance use, neighborhoods, positive youth development  | 
	
	 How factors like neighborhood poverty, peer associations, family attachment, etc. predict adolescent/young adult outcomes like substance use, delinquency, well-being…more  | 
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	 Ashtabula  | 
	
	 Family, work, motherhood, academia, COVID, inequalities, higher education policy  | 
	
	 Impact of COVID on academic mothers (administrators, faculty, and graduate students); institutional policies to mediate COVID impact on academic mothers…more  | 
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	 Kent  | 
	
	 Police, evaluation research, life course criminology  | 
	
	 Examining the usage of aerial surveillance by the Baltimore city police department…more  | 
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	 Kent  | 
	
	 Aging and health, cognitive decline, non-cognition, neighborhoods, later life family  | 
	
	 Assessing the correlates and consequences of cognitive decline in middle-aged and older adults…more  | 
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	 Kent  | 
	
	 Neurosociology, stress, fear, electrophysiology, group performance, virtual reality, social cohesion, human interaction  | 
	
	 We utilize EEG, physiological assessments (Heart rate variability, Galvanic skin response, etc.) along with effective research design to interrogate behaviors with a primary focus on group performance…more  | 
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	 East Liverpool  | 
	
	 Undergraduate Student Research Assistant – Social Science Research Lab (SSRL)  | 
	
	 A Citizen Science Environmental Justice Study; A Community Coalition Study to Build a Culture of Health…more  | 
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	 Kent  | 
	
	 Appalachia, census data, geographic information science, photography, imagery as data, urban sociology, neighborhood change, flood control  | 
	
	 Documenting changes to the City of Pikeville, Kentucky after they received millions of dollars in urban renewal grants and rerouted the river from the city through a mountain for flood control…more  | 
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	 Kent  | 
	
	 Mental health, sociology of food  | 
	
	 Childhood adversity and anger among the incarcerated; depictions of vegetarianism and veganism in advertising in Good Housekeeping, 1960-2020…more  | 
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	 Kent  | 
	
	 Emotions, death and dying, medical sociology  | 
	
	 Longitudinal study of empathy development in medical trainees that utilizes both qualitative (interview, ethnographic) and quantitative research methods; qualitative research on the provision of end-of-life care in the US…more  | 
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	 Kent  | 
	
	 Hate groups, hate speech, hate crimes, racism, white supremacy, xenophobia, anti-immigrant, economic insecurity, inequality  | 
	
	 Hate group mobilization in the United States…more  | 
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