Faculty Research Interests
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| Name | Department | Areas of Interest | Research Skills | Email Address |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brenda Blackwell | Women, crime, and criminal justice processing; gender and intersectionality in criminological theory; intersectionality in crime and justice; child and labor trafficking; corrections; electronic monitoring; community context and crime | survey research methods; experimental criminology; mixed methods in criminology; focus groups | bblackwell@georgiasouthern.edu | |
| Jeff Klibert | PSYC | Mental Health Prevention and Intervention, Suicide Prevention, Social Justice, Rural Culture, Wellness and Well-Being | Competence in Survey and Experimental Research, Clinical Case Studies, Quantitative Analyses, Measurement Development | jklibert@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Daniel Skidmore-Hess | PNTS-POL | Globalization, Electoral Politics & Ideology, Socialism, Liberalism, History of Political Theory, Religion & Politics | danielskidmorehess@georgiasouthern.edu | |
| Jose de Arimateia da Cruz | PNTS-POL | Insurgency & Counterinsurgency, Intelligence & National Security, Artificial Intelligence & National Security; African and Latin American Civil-Military Relations, Cybersecurity & Critical Infrastructure, and Homeland Security | Portuguese & Spanish, SPSS Statistics | jdacruz@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Trent Davis | DPNS | Public and Nonprofit Administration, Human Resource Management, Organization Development and Behavior, Local Government Management, Leadership. | Survey development (Qualtrics), interviews (individual/group), data analysis both quantitative (SPSS, STATA) and qualitative (nvivo). | tjdavis@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Nalanda Roy | PNTS-INTS | International security, international relations, comparative politics, Area Studies (South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Asia-Pacific), China, international security and immigration, maritime security, environment and energy security, international law and security, Globalization, social movements, human rights, genocide. | International security, international relations, comparative politics, Area Studies (South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Asia-Pacific), China, international security and immigration, maritime security, environment and energy security, international law and security, Globalization, social movements, human rights, genocide. | nroy@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Nicholas S. Holtzman, Ph.D. | PSYC | Social Psychology, Personality Psychology, Research Methods, Quantitative Psychology, Experimental Design, Health Psychology | R and R Markdown software, Multiple Regression for the Social Sciences, Psychometrics (determining reliability/validity), Everyday Personality Assessment | nholtzman@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Tameka Ardrey | SHE-HDFS | educational equity, cultural diversity, and social justice in early education | tardrey@georgiasouthern.edu | |
| Wendy Wolfe | PSYC | Clinical Psychology; Eating Disorders; Body Image; Social Media; Substance Use/Addiction; Gratitude; Mindfulness | Experimental Research; Non-experimental (Survey) Research | wlwolfe@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Nancy Malcom | SOC-ANTH | gender, intersectionality, sport, childhood | qualitative (interviews, content analysis, ethnography) | nmalcom@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Ryan McNutt | SOC-ANTH | conflict archaeology, Geographical Information Systems and LiDAR, battlefield archaeology, landscape archaeology, historical archaeology of race, class and gender, memorialization and commemoration, technology in archaeology, anthropology of violence and conflict, prisoners of war and internment, American Civil War, warfare in historic periods. | GIS, LiDAR, Remote Sensing, archival and document research, archaeological fieldwork, applications of military terrain analysis tools, UXO expertise, material culture and narratives. | rmcnutt@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Maureen Stobb | PNTS-POL | Law and Courts (including judicial politics, immigration law and policy, constitutional law, international law) | Quantitative analysis (primary); doctrinal analysis (secondary) | mstobb@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Cary Christian | DPNS | Tax evasion; trade-based money laundering; state and local government fiscal condition; AI and machine learning applications in tax compliance enforcement | Index development; principle components analysis; data cleaning and conversion; time series regression and other similar approaches; survey research; Tableau | pchristian@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Matthew Compton | SOC-ANTH | Southeastern United States archaeology, zooarchaeology, archaeological curation, environmental archaeology, historical ecology, subsistence studies | Identification and analysis of Holocene-age vertebrate and invertebrate animal remains from inland and coastal archaeological sites of the southeastern United States and adjacent areas; archaeological curation practice | jcompton@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Trent W. Maurer | SHE-HDFS | Scholarship of Teaching & Learning [SoTL] in multiple areas; Sexual Assault | Survey Methodology and Design (both questionnaire and interview); IRB submission & review/consultation; Qualtrics | tmaurer@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Jonathan Grubb | CJCR | Environmental criminology, Barriers to service provision, Criminology and Pop Culture | Quantitative Methods and Statistical Analysis using SPSS, R, MPlus, HLM, and LISREL. Spatial Analysis using ArcGIS, GeoDa, Near Repeat Calculator, and Risk Terrain Modeling. | jgrubb@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Kimberly Martin Tecklenburg | PNTS-POL | Public policy, public admin, leadership, civic engagement, lgbt policy, education policy, state and local politics | Qualitative and quantitative analysis, survey research, Stata | kimberlymartin@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Nikki DiGregorio | SHE-HDFS | gender, gender expression, sexuality, sexual identity, social policy, marriage, language appropriation, social justice, trauma-informed care, scholarship of teaching and learning | mixed methodologies, qualitative data analyses, phenomenological research, grounded theory, feminist theories, queer theory | ndigregorio@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Amanda Graham | CJCR | policing, public opinion | survey design/administration, quant, advanced stats | akgraham@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Ty Boyer | PSYC | Developmental Psychology; Cognitive Science; Learning & Memory; Visual Attention; Action Perception; Numerical Cognition; Social Cognition | Experimental design; Computerized stimulus-response methods; Eye-tracking methodology & analysis | tboyer@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Jennifer Sweeney Tookes | SOC-ANTH | fisheries; fishing communities; seafood; food production; health; nutrition; health care; equity; coastal people; Georgia; South Carolina; Southeastern US; migration and transnationalism; African diaspora; Caribbean; Barbados: US Virgin Islands; food systems; racial, ethnic, & gender identity; sustainable food; climate and environment; | qualitative interviews and analysis; ethnographic methods; participant observation; quantitative methods; interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research | jtookes@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Baker Rogers | SOC-SOC | gender, sexuality, religion, U.S. South, trans studies, masculinities | qualitative, interviews | barogers@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Barry Balleck | PNTS-POL | International and Domestic Terrorism; Hate Groups; American Foreign Policy; United Nations | Standard | bballeck@georgiasouthern.edu |
| CHAD POSICK | CJCR | Victimization; Environmental Justice; Statistics | Statistics; R-programing; translational/action research | cposick@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Karen Z. Naufel | PSYC | Broadly --Applied social cognition (in health, meteorology, education, and more); mitigating research risks to researchers; memory; scholarship of teaching and learning; perceptions of science by the public | Online research (survey development, online behavioral measures, participant recruitment); ethical research mentorship (mitigating risks to researchers and human participants; establishing socially supportive labs; cultural responsiveness in mentorship; research as a way to create transferrable skills; diversity, equity, and inclusion in undergraduate research experience) | knaufel@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Nicolette Rickert | PSYC | How the complex social ecologies of adolescents’ school and family lives shape the development of their academic engagement and motivation. • Combined and differential impacts of parent and teacher involvement as protective factors for adolescent educational success, especially over school transitions. • How development is shaped by students’ interpersonal relationships and malleable self-theories (sense of relatedness, mastery goal achievement orientations). Methodological strategies for capturing developmental pathways within differentially supportive social contexts. | Applied developmental science in education; applied research; school-based research; quantitative statistical methodology (multiple regression, SEM, MLM, longitudinal analyses and data set management); analyses in SPSS, R, and Excel | nrickert@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Adrienne Cohen | SOC-SOC | Rural aging, program evaluation, scholarship of teaching and learning, social support systems for older adults, income inequality, and death, dying and bereavement. | Work in both qualitative and quantitative methods with a special focus on qualitative including phenomenology, auto-ethnography, and participant action research. | acohen@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Jamie Scalera | PNTS-POL | International Politics; European Politics; International Trade; International Finance; International Law and Courts; Public Opinion; Professional Development (Women in the Academy); Undergraduate Research | Quantitative (statistical) analysis; Survey analysis; Archival research; Content analysis | jscalera@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Karen M. McCurdy | PNTS-POL | Decision making in the U.S. Congress; Environmental Policy, particularly mining and public lands issues. | Statistics, Geographic Information Systems | kmccurdy@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Beth McGee | SHE-INDS | service-learning, biophilia, nature-based design, child life play room design, indoor play rooms, daycare design, design pedagogy | mixed methods, NVivo12, instrument development | bethmcgee@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Thresa Yancey | PSYC | Child maltreatment; LGBTQ; bias | tyancey@georgiasouthern.edu | |
| Kate Perry | PNTS-POL | Women, gender, human trafficking, feminist political economy, feminist security, foreign policy, sanctions, conflict | Quantitative analysis, regression modeling, qualitative process tracing, mixed method research, data analysis | kperry@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Andrew Bulla | PSYC | Behavior Analysis, Instructional Design, Precision Teaching, Direct Instruction, Concept Learning, Animal Training and Welfare | Behavior Analysis, Instructional Design, Precision Teaching, Direct Instruction, Concept Learning, Animal Training and Welfare, Physical Activity and Health | abulla@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Caitlin Brady | CJCR | juvenile justice, mental health, risk assessments, justice system rehabilitation efforts | quantitative, community-based research/partnerships, latent class analysis | cbrady@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Brad Sturz | PSYC | Learning Memory and Cognition. Outcomes Assessment. | Experimental Design. Data Analysis and Visualization. | bradleysturz@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Virginia Rolling | SHE-FMAD | Sustainable Luxury, SOTL (teaching and learning), skin to skin garment research | Qualitative emphasis (transcription, coding) | vrolling@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Michael Nielsen | PSYC | psychology of religion | scale development | mnielsen@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Heidi Altman | SOC-ANTH | Native American languages; applied/medical anthropology re: maternal mortality; applied anthropology | Qualitative research, Ethnographic research, directed elicitation, community based participatory research, NVivo | haltman@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Brett Curry | PNTS-POL | Judicial Politics; Law and Courts; American Politics | data analysis, data collection, experimental design | bcurry@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Rebecca Ryan | PSYC | Life-Span Developmental Psychology Gerontology Scholarship of Teaching and Learning | Quantitative analysis (SPSS) | rgryan@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Ted Brimeyer | SOC-SOC | Labor and labor markets; inequality; media | Statistics; survey design | tbrimeyer@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Eric Silva | SOC-ANTH | public understanding of science, science communication, anti-vaccine movement, culture wars, | qualitative content analysis | eosilva@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Alicia L Brunson | SOC-SOC | 1) Racial inequality 2) Black student retention 3) Racial identity formation 4) Politics of representation 5) Popular media analyses 6) Participatory action research | 1) In-depth interview 2) Focus groups 3) Content analysis 4) Statistics--multiple regression analysis | abrunson@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Elizabeth Rahilly | SOC-ANTH | Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQI+ studies, Family | Qualitative researcher, ethnography | erahilly@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Beth Myers | SHE-FMAD | Retail, fashion marketing, textiles, sustainability | bmyers@georgiasouthern.edu | |
| Addie Martindale | SHE-FMAD | functional apparel design, design disparity, gender disparity, under represented consumers, design for disability, non traditional clothing consumption, sustainability | qualitative research, apparel design development | amartindale@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Nancy L Malcom | SOC-ANTH | gender, intersectionality, sport, childhood | qualitative methods - interviews, ethnography, content analysis | nmalcom@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Jonathan Friedel | PSYC | Decision making, delay discounting, probability discounting, behavioral economics, statistical practices in psychology, environmental behavior, drug abuse, relapse, animal behavior, punishment, response variability, theoretical models of choice | Single-subject/small-n/single-case research designs, surveys, programming adaptive tasks for humans and non-human animals, data cleaning and manipulation, graphical presentation of data, regression, generalized estimating equations, Monte Carlo simulations, curvilinear regression, model comparisons | jfriedel@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Alice Hall | SHE-HDFS | Child Care Quality, Youth Development, Anti-Bias Curriculum | Survey methodology | alicehall@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Kelley T Frazier | SHE-HDFS | Healthcare children and family/ healthcare in rual areas for children | beginner | kfrazier@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Kelley T Frazier | SHE-HDFS | Play and therapy interventions for children in healthcare/ Marriage and Family therapy | beginner | kfrazier@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Jennifer Zorotovich | SHE-HDFS | aging and adult development, intergenerational interactions, positive well-being, adult development transitions, social status | Quantitative and Qualitative Methodologies | jzorotovich@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Jayce Sudweeks | DPNS | Management of nonprofit organizations, nonprofit governance, nonprofit performance, role of nonprofits in the policy process | thematic analysis, focus groups, collaborative stakeholder engagements | jsudweeks@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Jacob Erickson | CJCR | Criminal Identity and Decision Making/ Drug Use & Trade/Code of the Streets | Quantitative and Qualitative Methods | jerickson@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Amy Hackney | PSYC | Measuring and reducing race, gender, and SES-based stereotypes, prejudice, and impostor feelings (applied to educational and criminal justice situations); social factors that affect psychopathy | Experimental design; nonbiased survey wording and design; measurement | ahackney@georgiasouthern.edu |
| tricia noone | SOC-SOC | Marriage and Family, Social Problems, Medical Sociology | tnoone@georgiasouthern.edu | |
| Katy Gregg | SHE-HDFS | Strengths based approaches to supporting children and families (community engagement programs, child development centers, early childhood education, parent engagement, family education); Young children's social and emotional development (teaching skills, preventing challenging behaviors); Inclusion of young children with disabilities and delays | Applied Research with children and families; Qualitative Research (Naturalistic Inquiry, Focus Groups, Document Analysis, Interviews, Case Study); Observational and program evaluation; Mixed Methods integration | kgregg@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Eric Silva | SOC-ANTH | science communication, culture wars | qualitative content analysis | eosilva@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Daniel Skidmore-Hess | PNTS-POL | Modern Ideologies, Electoral Politics, Classics of Political Thought, Religion & Politics, European Politics, Globalization, Trade Policy | archival process tracing, textual hermeneutics | danielskidmorehess@georgiasouthern.edu |
| José de Arimateia da Cruz | PNTS-POL | Cybersecurity Cybercrime Intelligent & National Security Insurgency & Counterinsurgency Latin America and Africa Politics | Fluency in Portuguese Spanish and basic Russian | jdacruz@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Matthew Compton | SOC-ANTH | Southeastern United States archaeology, zooarchaeology, archaeological curation, environmental archaeology, historical ecology, subsistence studies, regional studies | Identification and analysis of Holocene-age vertebrate and invertebrate animal remains from inland and coastal archaeological sites of the southeastern United States and adjacent areas; archaeological curation practice | jcompton@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Nancy L Malcom | SOC-ANTH | childhood, sports, gender, intersections of inequality (race, class, gender, sexuality) | qualitative - interviews, observations, content analysis, media analysis | nmalcom@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Matthew Southern Flynn | PNTS-INTS | Global Health, Immigration Detention, Pharmaceuticals, Globalization | Mainly qualitative, interviewing, content analysis, but am looking into doing some research on longitudinal quantitative work along with an interest in doing some qualitative comparative analysis using Boolean logic. | mflynn@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Mike NIelsen | PSYC | Social aspects of religion; gender norms in religion | Measurement; Scale development | mnielsen@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Jeff Klibert | PSYC | Well-being, positive emotions, suicide prevention, prevention as a science, multicultural issues, LGBTQ+ community development | Path analytic procedures, survey development, correlational methodologies, evaluation of clinical interventions | jklibert@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Cary Christian | DPNS | Trade-based money laundering, terrorist financing, tax evasion, local government finance | Data cleansing, data conversion, time series regression, principal component analysis, other | pchristian@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Heidi Altman | SOC-ANTH | Linguistic and applied anthropology; Native American and African American communities in the American South; maternal health; historical ecology and community science systems | Participant observation; linguistic elicitation; community-based participatory research; focus groups; ethnographic interviews; qualitative data analysis; group facilitation for planning and problem solving. | haltman@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Caitlin Brady | CJCR | juvenile justice, mental health, risk assessments, justice system rehabilitation efforts | quantitative, community-based research/partnerships | cbrady@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Christopher M Brown | PNTS-INTS | Development and Sustainability, Democratization, Public Policy, Political Theory, Constructivism, Political Campaigns, Caribbean Basin, Blue Economy, Military History | Fieldwork, Development Policy, Case Studies | cmbrown@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Nikki DiGregorio | SHE-HDFS | gender, gender expression, sexuality, sexual identity, social policy, marriage, language appropriation, social justice, trauma-informed care, scholarship of teaching and learning | mixed methodologies, qualitative data analyses, phenomenological research, grounded theory, feminist theories, queer theory | ndigregorio@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Barry Balleck | PNTS-POL | Domestic Terrorism; Hate Groups; Political Extremism; Patriot Groups | Varied | bballeck@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Adrienne Cohen | SOC-ANTH | Rural aging, scholarship of teaching and learning, social support systems for older adults, older women gerontologist, and death, dying and bereavement. | Work in both qualitative and quantitative methods with a special focus on qualitative including program evaluation, community needs assessments, phenomenology, auto-ethnography, and participant action research. | acohen@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Elizabeth Rahilly | SOC-ANTH | Gender, Sexuality, LGBT+ Studies | Qualitative, Ethnography | erahilly@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Jamie Scalera | PNTS-POL | International Relations (Global Issues), European Politics and Economics, International Trade, Global Finance and Banking, European Courts, Migration and Identity Politics, Professional Development concerns esp relating to gender issues in the academy | Quantitative Methods (using Stata), Surveys and Interviewing, Archival Analysis, Linguistic Analysis (LIWC software) | jscalera@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Amanda Graham | CJCR | Policing; police-community relations; public opinion; survey research/design | survey research/design; quantitative methods/analysis | akgraham@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Chad Posick | CJCR | Victimology; Research Methods; Statistics | R Statistics; Policy Analysis; Action Research | cposick@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Clare Walsh | SOC-SOC | gender, sexuality | qualitative methods | cwalsh@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Kim Martin | PNTS-POL | Public policy, leadership, Ed policy, LGBT policy | qualitative & quantitative, survey research, Stata, Excel | kimberlymartin@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Jonathan Grubb | CJCR | DV/IPV; Spatiotemporal investigations of crime/victimization; Popular Culture and Criminology; Criminological & Victimological Theory | Quantitative Analytic Techniques; Spatial Analysis | jgrubb@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Jacob Erickson | CJCR | Deviant/Criminal Identity and Decision Making Processes, Drug Use/Dealing, Qualitative Methods, Violent Crime | Qualitative data collection and analysis. Quantitative data analysis. | jerickson@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Nalanda Roy | PNTS-POL | Grants | International security, international relations, comparative politics, Area Studies (South and Southeast Asia, and the Asia-Pacific), China, international security and immigration, maritime and energy security, international law and security, Globalization, and social movements, human rights and security, genocide. | nroy@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Ty Boyer | PSYC | Psychology; Development; Cognitive Science | Experimental methodology; Computerized behavioral experiment programming; Statistical analysis; Eye-tracking and visual attention methods; Research with developmental populations (infants, preschoolers, elementary school students). | tboyer@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Nicolette Rickert | PSYC | Applied Developmental Psychology How the complex social ecologies of adolescents’ school and family lives shape the development of their academic engagement and motivation. • Combined and differential impacts of parent and teacher involvement as protective factors for adolescent educational success, especially over school transitions. • How development is shaped by students’ interpersonal relationships and malleable self-theories (sense of relatedness, mastery goal achievement orientations). Methodological strategies for capturing developmental pathways within differentially supportive social contexts. | Quantitative statistical methodology and analyses (multiple regression, multivariate quantitative methods, SEM for longitudinal analyses, multilevel regression in R/SPSS/Excel) Applied research working with local schools and communities Measurement development CLASS-S observational coding of secondary classrooms | nrickert@georgiasouthern.edu |
Last updated: 12/21/2023
