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| Name | Department | Research Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jessica Gantt-Shafer | Communication and Journalism | jgantt-shafer@umkc.edu | Social Change; Organizing; Technology; Reproductive Justice; Dialogue |
| Steve Kraske | Communication and Journalism | steve@kcur.org | Current Affairs; Kansas City; Public Policy |
| Steven Melling | Communication and Journalism | comm-j@umkc.edu | Rhetoric; Public Culture |
| Linda Hoffman | Communication and Journalism | comm-j@umkc.edu | Human-Animal Bond |
| Ye Wang | Communication and Journalism | comm-j@umkc.edu | Data Science; Natural Language Processing; Consumer Insights |
| Sirisha C. Naidu | Economics | snaidu@umkc.edu | Care Work; Environment; Labor; Economic Development; Gender; Feminist Political Economy |
| Laurie Ellinghausen | English Language and Literature | ellinghausenl@umsystem.edu | Early Modern English Literature; Class; Labor; Maritime Empire |
| Virginia Blanton | English Language and Literature | blantonv@umkc.edu | Book History; Manuscripts; Nuns; Literacies; Digital Humanities |
| Antonio Byrd | English Language and Literature | antoniobyrd@umkc.edu | Digital Literacy; Critical Race Theory; Writing Studies; Technical Communications; Qualitative Research |
| Hadara Bar-Nadav | English Language and Literature | barnadavh@umkc.edu | Poetry; Creative Writing; Poetics; Interdisciplinarity |
| Jeff Rydberg-Cox | English Language and Literature | rydbergcoxj@umkc.edu | Ancient Greek Literature; Digital Humanities; Network Analysis |
| David Trowbridge | History | david.trowbridge@umkc.edu | Public History; Digital History; African-American History; Technology; New Media |
| Viviana Grieco | History | greicov@umkc.edu | Political Economy; Political Culture; Digital Humanities |
| Alexander M. Holsinger | Criminal Justice and Criminology | holsingera@umkc.edu | Risk and Needs Assessment; Program Evaluation; Treatment and Rehabilitation; Prisons and Jails; Probation and Parole |
| Brian Frehner | History | frehnerb@umkc.edu | Oil; Energy; Environment; Technology; American West |
| Massimiliano Vitiello | History | history@umkc.edu | Late Antiquity; Early Middle Ages; Byzantium |
| David Freeman | History | freemandf@umkc.edu | Christianity; Soccer; Digital Humanities; Atlantic World/History |
| Tamara L. Falicov | Media Art and Design | tfalicov@umkc.edu | Latinx Culture; Film Festival Studies; Latin American Film Industries; Latin American Cinema |
| Cristina Albu | Media Art and Design | albuc@umsystem.edu | Visual Culture; Contemporary Art and Cognitive Sciences; Contemporary Art and Biofeedback; Participatory Art; Installation Art; New Media |
| Davin Watne | Media Art and Design | watned@umkc.edu | Art Curation; Fine Art Painting; Art Education |
| Elijah Gowin | Media Art and Design | gowinp@umkc.edu | Photography; Art; Landscape; Entrepreneurship |
| Joseph Hartman | Media Art and Design | hartmanjr@umkc.edu | Art; Architecture; Ecology; Caribbean; Latin America; Visual Culture |
| Kati Toivanen | Media Art and Design | toivanenk@umkc.edu | Digital Imaging; Public Art; Digital Photography |
| Larson Powell | Media Art and Design | umkcmad@umkc.edu | Film; Music; Literature; Philosophy; Frankfurt School; Psychoanalysis |
| Zach Frazier | Media Art and Design | zfrazier@umkc.edu | Self-publishing; 'Zines; 'Zine-making; Graphic Design; Visual Culture |
| Beth Vonnahme | Political Science and Philosophy | vonnahmeb@umkc.edu | American Politics; Political Psychology; Public Opinion; Campaigns |
| Clancy Martin | Political Science and Philosophy | martinc@umkc.edu | Ethics; Suicide; Mental Health; Creative Writing; Existentialism |
| Kristen Barber | Race Ethnic and Gender Studies | k.barber@umkc.edu | Gender Inequality; Masculinities; Work and Employment; Consumption; Culture |
| Ann Marie Wood | Sociology and Anthropology | sociology@umkc.edu | Aging; HIV/AIDS; Sexuality; Death; Dying |
| Deborah B. Smith | Sociology and Anthropology | smithde@umkc.edu | Families; Retirement; Evaluation; Research Methods; Parenting |
| Jeff Bennett | Sociology and Anthropology | bennettjs@umkc.edu | Psychoanalysis; Modernity; Anthropology; Religion; Politics |
| Joseph Workman | Sociology and Anthropology | workmanj@umkc.edu | Education; Poverty; Social Inequality; Stratification; Inequality of Opportunity |
| Shannon Jackson | Sociology and Anthropology | sociology@umkc.edu | Urban Studies; Technology; Built Environment; Embodiment |
| Alberto Villamandos | World Languages and Cultures | villamandosa@umkc.edu | Spain; Spanish Literature and Language; Graphic Novels; Comics; Europe; European Studies |
| Gayle Levy | World Languages and Cultures | levyg@umkc.edu | 19th- and 20th-Century French Literature; French Culture; French Language |
| Andrew Stuart Bergerson | History | bergersona@umsystem.edu | History of Everyday Life; Interdisciplinary German Studies; Ethnographic History; Public/Digital Humanities; Collaborative Co-authorship |
| Gwen Nally | Political Science and Philosophy | nallye@umkc.edu | Plato’s Ethics; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Political Philosophy; Analytic Feminism |
| Rebecca Best | Political Science and Philosophy | bestrh@umkc.edu | Civil Conflict; Terrorism; Veterans; Women Combatants; Peace Talks |
| Hye Young Shin | Media Art and Design | shinhyey@umkc.edu | Studio Art; Print Media; Drawing; Figure Drawing; Book Arts; Installation |
| Jennifer Phegley | English Language and Literature | phegleyj@umkc.edu | Victorian Women Writers; Novel Serialization and Popular Fiction; Periodical Studies; 19th-Century Mass-Market Media |
| Lori Sexton | Criminal Justice and Criminology | sextonl@umkc.edu | Theories and Experiences of Punishment; Prison Policy and Practice; Law and Society |
| Marijana Kotlaja | Criminal Justice and Criminology | marijana.kotlaja@umkc.edu | Cross-National Comparisons; Neighborhood Effects; Racial/Ethnic and Economic Inequality; Crime Trends; Juvenile Justice; Quantitative Methods and Measurement |
| Sandra Enriquez | History | enriquezs@umkc.edu | Latinx History; Urban History; Social Movements; Public History; Digital Humanities |
| Zhongjin Li | Economics | lizhon@umkc.edu | Political Economy; Labor; Development Studies; Gender; East Asian Economy |
| Erik Olsen | Economics | olsenek@umkc.edu | Political Economy; Microeconomics; Urban and Regional Economics; Economic Methodology |