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 Rachel Livingston to have their information included in or updated on this list.
| 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 | 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; Fimmaking; Screenwriting; Directing |
| Kate DeBenedetti | Applied Language Institute | debenedettik@umkc.edu | English; Assessments; ESL; Evaluate |
| Michael D. Turner | Applied Language Institute | turnermic@umsystem.edu | Language; AI; Testing; Pronunciation; Language Acquisition |
| 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; Scifi |
| 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 |