Faculty Researchers
To contact a SHSS faculty member(s) about their research and/or creative production, use the Search box above the table to find faculty by name, department, or research topics.
Faculty members will need to contact Hannah Hohenstein-Flack to have their information included in or updated on this list.
| Name | Department | Research Keywords | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Kraske | Communication and Journalism | steve@kcur.org | Journalism; Local; State and National Politics; 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 | griecov@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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Toya Like | Criminal Justice and Criminology | liket@umkc.edu | Victimization; Violence Structural Inequality and Disadvantage; Risk and Resilience; Intersectionality | |
| Stephen John Dilks | English Language and Literature | dilkss@umkc.edu | Ireland; Scotland; England; Beckett; Joyce | |
| Marc Garcelon | Sociology and Anthropology | garcelonm@umsystem.edu | Social Theory; Social Movements; Globalization; Mass Media; Culture | |
| Michael Pritchett | English Language and Literature | pritchettmi@umkc.edu | Historical Fiction; Speculative Fiction; True Crime | |
| Ben Woodson | Political Science and Philosophy | woodsonb@umkc.edu | Courts; Legitimacy; Public Opinion; Psychology | |
| Jeremy Slagoski | Applied Language Institute | jdslagoski@umkc.edu | Language Education; Instructional Design; Program Design; International Education | |
| Christie Hodgen | English Language and Literature | hodgenc@umkc.edu | Fiction; Creative Nonfiction; Editing | |
| Seth Fallik | Criminal Justice and Criminology | sethfallik@umkc.edu | Officer Decision-Making; Racial Profiling; Criminal Investigations; Detective Effort; Policy Analysis; Translational Scholarship; Sexual Assault; Policing | |
| Byunggu Kang | Criminal Justice and Criminology | bkd8v@umkc.edu | Population Dynamics and Crime Trends; Cross-National Criminology; Violence; Occupational Health; Quantitative Methods | |
| Lyn Elliot | Media Art and Design | elliotle@umkc.edu | Film; Filmmaking; Screenwriting; Directing | |
| Kate DeBenedetti | Applied Language Institute | debenedettik@umkc.edu | English; Assessments; ESL; Evaluate | |
| Bruce Bubacz | Political Science and Philosophy | bubaczb@umkc.edu | Freedom; Classical; Traditional | |
| Debra Leiter | Political Science and Philosophy | leiterd@umkc.edu | Elections; Voting; European Politics; Forecasting; Social Networks | |
| Ricky Allman | Media Art and Design | allmanrw@umkc | Art; Painting; Installation; Apocalypse; Sci-Fi | |
| Matthew Warner Osborn | History | osbornmw@umkc.edu | Medicine; Popular Culture; Theater; Addiction; Literature | |
| Mona Lyne | Political Science and Philosophy | lynem@umkc.edu | Political Development; Economic Development; Authoritarian Regimes; Political Accountability; Clientelism | |
| Joseph Workman | Sociology and Anthropology | workmanj@umkc.edu | Education; Poverty; Social Inequality; Stratification; Inequality of Opportunity | |
| Rebecca Miller Davis | History | davisrebe@umkc.edu | 20th Century American History; American History; American Rights | |
| Barry Anderson | Media Art and Design | andersonbs@umkc.edu | Installation Art; New Media; Video Art; Sound Art; Digital Art | |
| Sarah Jones | Communication and Journalism | sarahljones@umkc.edu | Rhetoric; Gender and Sexuality; Advocacy and Social Change; Pop Culture | |
| Susana Avalos | Criminal Justice and Criminology | susanaavalos@umkc.edu | Queer Victimology; LGBTQ+ Populations Place and Space; Social Inequality; Qualitative Methods | |
| Ariel Dvoskin | Economics | advoskin@umkc.edu | Theory of Value and Distribution; Theory of Effective Demand; Pattern of Trade in Small Open Economies | |
| Kabeer Bora | Economics | kabeerbora@umkc.edu | Empirical Economics; Causal Inference; Classical Political Economy; Indian Economy | |
| Viktor Bensus | Sociology and Anthropology | vbgwc@umkc.edu | Urbanization; Housing Policy; Governance and Citizen Participation; Social Movements; U.S. and Latin America (Peru) | |
| Jacquelyn Burckley | Criminal Justice and Criminology | jbt8w@umkc.edu | Victimization; Victim Legislation; Sexual Violence; Violence against Women; Marginalized Populations; Military Suicide; Help-seeking Behaviors; Disability and Crime | |
| Sai Mikkilineni | Communication and Journalism | smikkilineni@umkc.edu | "Media Psychology; Immersive Media (Virtual Reality | Augmented Reality); Artificial Intelligence; Chatbots; Experiments" |
| Forough Yazdanpanah | Media Art and Design | fynx6@umkc.edu | Graphic Design; Human-Centered Design; Design Research; User Experience; Design for Well-being; Emotional Design; Vulnerability and Resilience; Neuroinclusive Design | |
| Na Wang | Communication and Journalism | nwcnb@umkc.edu | Health Communication; Clinician-Patient Communication; Cancer Prevention and Communication; Breast Cancer; Media Effects on Health | |
| Emily Coccia | English Language and Literature | ec9ww@umkc.edu | Nineteenth-century American Literature and Culture; Working-class Readers; Gender and Sexuality; Class and Labor; Fandom and Media Studies |