Faculty Research Interests

My research interests lie in the fields of analytical chemistry, environmental chemistry, membrane technology, and electrochemistry. In particular, I am interested in (1) developing methods for analysis of pollutants; (2) exploring the fate of the pollutants during natural processes and anthropogenic activities; (3) synthesizing functional membranes for the separation and purification of water; and (4) using catalytic electrochemical reactions as a sustainable technique for degradation of pollutants in the aquatic environment.

While most of my research has used electro-chemical processes, I am also interested in using other techniques such as nanotechnology and am open to interdepartmental collaborations.  I hope to involve students in the research process.

I have two general, but complementary, lines of research interest. My primary interest falls within mental health disparities, while my secondary interest lies in subjective well-being research. Within mental health disparities, I examine the measurement equivalence of commonly used psychological measures. I am also passionate about examining variations in prevalence rates of mental health conditions and social determinants of health among different racial/ethnic groups. Specifically, I am interested in how socioeconomic status, gender, geographic location, language, immigrant status, and culture impact behaviors and well-being across racial/ethnic groups. Within subjective well-being research, I am curious about what factors influence people’s happiness, resilience, meaning of life, and quality of life.

My main research interest is in C*-algebras and their use in mathematical physics and non-commutative (differential) geometry. More specifically, my interest is automorphic group actions on C*-algebras and their associated fixed point sub-algebras and crossed-product algebras, with particular interest in rotation algebras and their generalizations. Recently, however, I have been looking at some ideas in the intersection of probability, linear algebra, and elementary number theory involving the notions of independence and roundness.

My research focuses on sexual health behavior and the social, developmental, contextual, and psychological factors that influence sexual decision-making, particularly in substance-involved contexts. My overarching professional goals are to produce theoretically grounded research that informs understandings of sexual health behavior, thus providing specific targets on which to intervene to improve sexual health outcomes.

To address these research aims, I conduct research wherein I employ a variety of methodologies, including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods designs. In the pursuit of these goals, I apply social psychological perspectives to investigate two overarching questions that guide my research agenda: (1) What are the social influences on sexual health behaviors and for whom and how are those factors influential? and (2) What are the psychosocial factors involved in sexual decisions and relationships and what are the mechanisms of action and interaction among these factors?.

I am interested in management accounting and financial accounting topics including control systems, judgment and decision making of managers and other financial statement users, ethical management practices, and sustainability and financial reporting. My research addresses accounting issues with interdisciplinary perspectives drawn from strategy, management, sociology, and psychology, using both qualitative and quantitative methods.

My primary research interests focus on foreign policy decision-making and international relations theory. I am particularly interested in understanding the international, domestic, and individual factors that influence how leaders view their state in the international system. My dissertation work explored variables of potential role change at all three levels of analysis in three cases of British foreign policy crisis. More broadly, my research interests center on foreign policy analysis, the decision-making process of foreign policy leaders, national identity, institutional and structural constraints on leadership agency, and international relations theory. I utilize a mixed-method approach to my research, employing archival, process-tracing, survey, and text analysis methodologies.

My primary research focuses on moral language and its practical significance. What do we use it to do? Why would we have a discursive practice with this function? And how does its function shed light on the norms that structure the practice? This was the topic of my dissertation, which I'm now working to turn into my first book.

I also work on our practices of holding one another accountable to shared moral norms. I'm interested in what kind of standing one has to have in order to successfully hold someone to the oughts that bind them and the social practices that either support or undermine this standing. My present project aims to understand how the fragmentation of thick community relations instigated by the rise of social media, the decline in civic organizations and organized religion, and changing economic realities has made it more difficult for us to hold one another accountable. 

I'm also interested in jokes, and, in particular, how jokes can be used to ease communication about difficult subjects.

• Leadership well-being
• Anti-oppressive self-care practices
• Burnout recovery in healthcare/helping professions
• Spiritual well-being and healing processes
• Navigating racial microaggressions

• Pharmacology
• Neuropsychology
• Cannabis Medicine
• Pharmacy Technician CE

My areas of expertise include organizational leadership, collaborative inquiry communities, and developing mentor practices. My current research focuses on how to develop and support productive learning communities within schools and classrooms, including how to support faculty and graduate student success. In addition, I focus on the development of these ideas through the use of instructional technology in online spaces, such as through online and hybrid courses, and faculty and school-based professional development.

My book manuscript, Publishing Personality: Romantic Periodicals and the Paradox of Living Authorship, examines how the media environment of the British Romantic periodical plays host to an extended attempt to theorize, narrativize, and stabilize the meaning of the contemporary, crystallizing it through the figure of the living author. Caught between the copyright accorded to books, and their own position as paid piece-workers, periodical writers identify the ‘living author’ as a problematic state—stressing the conditional, serial features of authorship in practice, and probing the uncertainty of contemporary judgments about literary value, authorial life, and even truth. My chapters survey crises and scandals in the periodical sphere; from the famous personal attacks on Keats and Leigh Hunt, to the misogynistic reviewing of female novelists like Fanny Burney and Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), to the uproar over the political apostasies of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey. I argue that periodicals understand the living author as incarnating the problems of making sense of a rapidly-changing contemporary world. Paradoxically, the periodical’s vexed engagement with the living author as a threat ends up elaborating the concept, constructing publication as a guarantor of self and identity and the periodical as the space where the author can construct a sense of truth and authenticity, even at times in defiance of the material realities that surround them.

I am also at work on a digital humanities project, which involves the production of a TEI-compliant edition of the Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine series “Noctes Ambrosianae”. This collaboratively-authored magazine series has proved a source of enduring delight and scandal (for its contemporaries) and of scholarly fascination (for Romanticists today). The edition does not merely reproduce the portion of the series produced under the leadership of John Gibson Lockhart, but also tags important semantic and textual features including the use of languages and dialects, the representation of historical figures, and the inscription or performance of different attributes of class, gender, and nationality. With the end goal enhanced searchability and extractability, the edition aims to promote engagement with the series from scholars across Romantic literary and historical studies. Undergraduate students in Widener University’s Textual Scholarship Certificate Program contribute to the production of the edition. 

My research interests include violence prevention and reentry; clinical social work practice; treatment of serious mental illness; children and adolescents; critical incident stress management with emergency service workers; trauma; crisis intervention; collaborative work with criminal justice; social and emotional competence; interagency collaboration; and organizational management.

My primary research interests lie in commutative algebra and its interactions with algebraic geometry. I have worked on plucker formulas, generalized Hilbert functions, and multipolicies as well as Chunovsky's conjecture. My secondary research interest focuses on the active control of beam and string systems.

Green chemistry, also known as sustainable chemistry, is the design, development and implementation of chemical products and processes to reduce or eliminate the use and generation of substances hazardous to human health and the environment. Under the principles of green chemistry, my research focuses on the design, synthesis, characterization and modification of solid-state inorganic or inorganic-organic hybrid materials for sustainable energy application, particularly in the area of gas storage, rechargeable batteries and thermal energy storage.

• Applied Microeconomics
• International Trade
• Labor Economics

I'm interested in Web technologies, large scale computing, data mining, and bioinformatics.

• Community Organizing
• Economically Just Community Development
• Affordable Housing
• Youth and Culturally Responsive Macro Practice
   

My research investigates the impact of cognitive deficits, specifically attention and memory, on communication in individuals with traumatic brain injury.

My research interests include construction and demolition waste flows, circular economy, material intensity profiles for urban buildings, life cycle analysis, material stock and flow analysis, and recycled construction materials. I have related publications in peer-reviewed journals and proceedings.