Research Clusters 2020-2021

At the Intersection of Nonprofits, Higher Education, and Community Engagement

  Conveners: Sondra Barringer, B. Kathleen Gallagher, Alicia Schortgen

Biopsychosocial Research Cluster

  Conveners: Thomas Ritz, Alexander Lippert

Christianity and Scholarship

  Conveners: Denise DuPont, Ben Voth, Matthew Wilson

Cognitive Science

Conveners: Holly Bowen, Philippe Chuard

Creativity, Identity, and the Power of Observation

  Conveners: M. Carmen Smith, C.C. Harbour, Sonia Jordan, Lilly Pena, Kathy Windrow

Critical Literacies for a Digital Age

  Conveners: Gizem Arslan, LaShonda Eaddy, Megan Heuer

Critical Reasoning, "Post-Truth" and the University

  Conveners: Bruce Levy, Kathleen Wellman

Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) and Experience Sampling

  Conveners: Marcus Butts, Priscilla Lui, Janille Smith-Colin

Family, Kindship, and Relatedness

  Conveners: Andrea Laurent-Simpson, Anna Lovatt

GIS@SMU

  Conveners: Mark McCoy, Klaus Desmet, Jessie Zarazaga

Global Literacy and Languages for Specific Purposes: Curricular Design for Building Transferable Skills

  Conveners: Paola Buckley, Aria Cabot

Health Simulations and Virtual Reality

  Conveners: Eric Bing, Anthony Cuevas, Ernest Jouriles, Elizabeth Stringer

Hispanics at Work: Business and Cultural Matters

  Conveners: Leticia T. McDoniel, Jessica Martinez 

Machine Learning and Control Theory

  Conveners: Minh-Binh Tran, Chul Moon, Alejandro Aceves

Mapping Human Rights Sites in Dallas

Conveners: Rick Halperin, Edward Gray, Jennifer McNabb

Medieval Matters

  Conveners: Bonnie Wheeler, Shira Lander

Native American and Indigenous Studies

  Conveners: Kacy Hollenback, Mike Adler, Steven Denson, Neil Foley

New Feminist Discourses and Social Change

  Conveners: Crista DeLuzio, Bonnie Wheeler, Lolita Buckner Inniss, Susanne Scholz

Oral History at SMU

  Conveners: Jill Kelly, Joan Gosnell 

Society and Environment in the Global South at SMU

  Conveners: Lourdes Molina, Kristina Nielsen, Matt Hornbach

Sustainable Apparel and Textiles

  Conveners: Maryann Cairns, Eric Godat, Myles Ethan Lascity, Michael Hites, Sreekumar Bhaksaran, Rosanne Hart, Guillermo Vasquez

Technology, Society, and Value

  Conveners: Robert Howell, Meghan Ryan, Tony Ng, Kenneth Daley, Sukumaran Nair

Texas: Past and Present

  Conveners: Bonnie Etter, Gwen Bakke, Timothy Seiter

Thinking Digitally: Understanding the Data in Humanities and Social Sciences

  Conveners: Jo Guldi, Kate Carté

Text Analytics and Sentiment Analysis

  Conveners: Eric Godat, Aren Cambre, Tim McDonough, Jo Guldi, Tom Fomby