Scott Becker is a mental health advisor in Residence Education and Housing Services. Becker is also a licensed psychologist in private practice in Okemos, Michigan.Over the past 24 years, he has worked at several universities as a staff psychologist, faculty member, director of training, and most recently as the Director of the MSU Counseling Cente…

Clare Luz is an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Luz is a gerontologist who has conducted research on health services delivery for older adults, optimal functional ability and quality of life, and the intersection of the arts and health.She us founding Director of AgeAlive, a program to foster age-related netw…

William J. Chopik is an assistant professor in the Michigan State University Department of Psychology. Chopik is a social-personality psychologist interested in how relationships and the people in them change over time.His research focuses on how factors both inside (such as biological and hormonal) and outside (such as social roles and geography) …

Mary A. Bedikian is professor of law in residence and director of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Program in the Michigan State University College of Law. Bedikian is the former district vice president for the Detroit Region of the American Arbitration Association, where she worked for 28 years. Her extensive experience in alternative dispute re…

Heather Howard is an associate professor in the Michigan State University Department of Anthropology with affiliation to the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, and Native American Institute. Howard’s research interests are the politics of knowledge production in cultural, heritage, health, and social service delivery organizations; com…

Noah Kaye is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Michigan State University. Noah is an ancient historian and archaeologist focused on the eastern Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, with an interest in the relationship between economic and cultural change.His first book will be a study of the political economy of …

Sharon Leon is an associate professor in the Department of History at Michigan State University. Sharon is an historian of American religion with a concentration on U.S. Catholicism. She also specializes in digital methods with a focus on public history.With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she is analyzing experiences of the…

Stacey Camp is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University and director of the Campus Archaeology Program. Stacey researches how social inequality manifests through material culture and environment.Her current research project involves archaeological and archival research on a World War II internment camp i…

Siddharth Chandra is a professor in James Madison College at Michigan State University and director of the Asian Studies Center. Siddharth’s research interests include behavior and policy relating to addictive substances, the intersection of economics, health, and history in Asia, and applications of portfolio theory to fields outside finance.He ha…

Aaron McCright is chairperson and professor in the Michigan State University Department of Sociology. Employing a range of methods and analytical techniques, Aaron explains the structure, strategy, tactics, and impacts of the US-based climate change denial countermovement; analyzes theoretically relevant patterns and trends in citizens’ climate cha…

Rick Wash is an associate professor in the Michigan State University Department of Media and Information. His work involves understanding how people think about their interactions with computers, and their interactions with other people through computers.His research has a particular focus on security and collaborative systems.He is currently the P…

Kevin Elliott is an associate professor in Michigan State University's Lyman Briggs College, the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, & Department of Philosophy. His research lies at the intersection of the philosophy of science and practical ethics.His books include, “Is a Little Pollution Good for You? Incorporating Societal Values in Environmen…

Georgina Montgomery is an associate professor in Michigan State University's Lyman Briggs College and the Department of History. Her research focuses on the history of field science, particularly the development of field methods and sites within primatology and animal behavior studies. Montgomery teaches a range of courses on the history of field s…

Carolyn Logan is an associate professor in the Michigan State University Department of Political Science. She is also deputy director of Afrobarometer, a collaborative survey research project that conducts public opinion research on the quality of democracy and governance in 20 African countries.Logan’s research interests are in democratization and…

Leo Zulu is an associate professor in the Michigan State University Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences. His research interests include political ecology; environment and development; community-based natural resources management in rural Africa; deforestation; food security; socio-spatial; temporal and biophysical processes of…

Terrie Taylor is a University Distinguished Professor in the Michigan State University Department of Osteopathic Medical Specialties. Taylor’s battle against malaria, has been waged since 1986. An internationally recognized scientist and physician, Taylor spends six months of the year in Malawi, conducting malaria research and treating mostly pedia…

Veronique Theriault is an assistant professor in the Michigan State University Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. She is working with the Food Security Group on campus and on various in-country research and outreach projects.Reducing poverty and increasing food and nutrition security through improved rural and agricultural de…

Saweda Onipede Liverpool-Tasie is an associate professor in the Michigan State University Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. Her research focusses on emergent issues related to smallholder productivity and welfare within dynamic and transforming food markets in sub Saharan Africa and alongside poorly functioning markets in th…

Mark Wilson is a professor and program director of Urban and Regional Planning in the School of Planning, Design, and Construction. His research interests include the social, economic, and political implications of technical change, including the Internet and autonomous vehicles, with an emphasis on planning strategies and urban implications.His cu…

Hayder Radha is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is the director of MSU’s Connected and Autonomous Networked Vehicles for Active Safety, or CANVAS.Prior to teaching at Michigan State University, he was a research fellow and consulting scientist at Phillips Research. He was also a distinguished member of techn…

David Ferguson is an associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology. One of his research interests includes a focus on the physiological stressed placed on automotive race car drivers and pit crews.He has worked in racing for over 10 years with the top teams in NASCAR, IndyCar, Formula 1, and IMSA.He earned his doctorate from Texas A&M Univer…

Tamara Reid Bush is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She’s a mechanical engineer with a focus in the field of biomechanics, applying engineering techniques and principles to the human body.In 2017, she was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.She is the founding director of the MSU Biomec…

Lisa Fine is a professor in the Department of History. She has authored two books: The Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870-1930, and The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, USA.Her research interests include twentieth century U.S, gender and women’s history, and labor and working-class history.She e…

Sherman Garnett is a professor in and dean of James Madison College. His interests include the former Soviet Union, especially Russian foreign and security policy, Ukraine and comparative political and security issues for the post-Communist world.He was most recently a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he dir…

Kyle Evered is an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences. Trained to study geographies of the Middle East and North Africa and the former Soviet states of Eurasia, most of Evered’s research deals with topics associated with geographies of Turkey and its neighboring states.In particular, he has publishe…

Matthew Pauly is an associate professor in the Department of History. Pauly was a U.S. Department of State Fascell Fellow at the American Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine prior to teaching.He is the author of Breaking the Tongue: Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine as well as numerous articles, essays, and reviews on early Soviet nationalities…

Lisa Cook is an associate professor of economics in the Department of Economics and associate professor of international relations in James Madison College. She’s an economist primarily interested in macroeconomics, development economics, and economic history.Cook also studies the economics of innovation and financial institutions and crises, inclu…

William Taylor is University Distinguished Professor in Global Fisheries Systems in the Michigan State University Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. He is an internationally recognized expert in Great Lakes fisheries ecology, population dynamics, governance, and management.Throughout his career, he has been active in the American Fisheries Socie…

Jade Mitchell is an assistant professor in the Michigan State University Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering. Her research interests include risk assessment, understanding the chemical and microbial stressors from diverse environmental exposures including bioterrorism and food safety; doing quantitative analysis, decision analysis…

David Hyndman is a professor in and chairperson of the Michigan State University Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. His research interests include developing novel methods to characterize the aquifers that store and transmit water supplies critical to human and ecological health, helping develop methods to clean contaminated aquifers u…

Joan Rose is the Homer Nowlin Endowed Chair in Water Research in the Michigan State University Department of Fisheries and Wildlife in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. She’s director of the Water Quality, Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, and co-director of the Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment and the Center for …

Robert Montgomery is an assistant professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University. He is Director of the Research on the Ecology of Carnivores and their Prey Lab, which is designed to develop innovative solutions for wildlife conservation problems and train students from underrepresented backgrounds so that the fu…

Laura Apol is an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. She teaches poetry, writing, and literature in face-to-face, international, and online environments. In addition to numerous professional publications, she is the author of collections of her own poems: “Falling into Grace”, “Crossing the Ladde…

Vaughn W.M. Watson is an assistant professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. Vaughn's research focuses on the interplay of literacy learning, reimagining identities, and envisioning civic imaginaries for Black youth, immigrant youth, and youth of color across socio-cultural contexts of English education, hip-hop…

Ann Folino White is an associate professor of Theatre Studies and associate chairperson in the Department of Theatre at Michigan State University. Her scholarship on U.S. popular performance, protest, and food culture and politics has appeared in numerous journals. Her book “Plowed Under: Food Policy Protests and Performance in New Deal America” re…

Jeff Wray is a professor of English and Film Studies in the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University. An independent filmmaker and screenwriter, Wray’s award winning feature films include “China,” made for PBS and broadcast nationally. His film “The Evolution of Bert” premiered in the Chicago International Film Festival and was screen…

Johanna Schuster-Craig is an assistant professor of German and Global Studies in the College of Arts & Letters. Her research looks at German integration policies, which aim to incorporate immigrants and refugees into the nation.Johanna uses fieldwork methods with social work organizations in Germany to observe how local residents negotiate these po…

Stephanie Nawyn is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of Academic Programs, Outreach, and Engagement, Center for Gender in Global Context. Her research and teaching areas of expertise are in gender and immigration, with a focus on forced migration, exclusion, and social inequality.Since coming to Michigan State, Step…

Sophia Koufopoulou is fixed term faculty member with the Department of Sociology at, where this semester she teaches international development and the refugee crisis, social stratification and family and society. In 1989 Sophia was one of the very first Greek scholars to pursue in-depth field research in neighboring Turkey through which she explore…

David Thronson is associate dean for experiential education and a professor in the College of Law. Thronson is co-founder of the Immigration Law Clinic and also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.His research and writing seeks to develop frameworks and critical perspectives for analyzing the intersection of family and immigration, with a…

Anna Pegler-Gordon is an associate professor of social relations and policy in the James Madison College and director of the Asian Pacific American Studies Program at MSU. Pegler-Gordon's teaching and research interests include: immigration, race, citizenship, visual culture and popular culture.At James Madison College, she has taught courses in As…

Trixie Smith is Director of The Writing Center and a member of the faculty in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures. Her teaching and research are infused with issues of gender and activism even as they revolve around writing center theory and practice, writing across the curriculum, writing pedagogy, and teacher training.She is…

Manuel Chavez is Director of the Information & Media Ph.D. program and Associate Professor in the School of Journalism. His research focuses on risk and crisis communication, government relations with the news media, and international journalism. He teaches courses on research methods, crisis communication, media law and ethics, courts and the medi…

Rick Sadler is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine. Like Professor Furr-Holden, he engages in Flint public health research through the MSU College of Human Medicine’s Division of Public Health.Sadler’s research is aimed at strengthening the understanding between the built environment and health behaviors and outcomes, with t…

Debra Furr-Holden is the C.S. Mott Endowed Professor of Public Health in the College of Human Medicine. Furr-Holden is an epidemiologist with expertise in drug and alcohol dependence epidemiology, prevention science and environmental strategies and structural intervention for violence, alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. In the last decade, her work …

Mary Schulz is associate director for the MSU Extension Center for Local Government Finance and Policy and a Visiting Specialist in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. Prior to joining the faculty at MSU, Mary was a Federal Affairs Representative for the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies & Crop Insurance R…

Angela Hall is Assistant Professor in the Schoolof Human Resources and Labor Relations, in the College of Social Science. Dr. Hall’s research interests includeemployee accountability and employee legal claiming. She has taught a wide variety ofcourses including business law, organizational behavior, human resources,leadership, and employee training…

Kenneth Szymusiak is the Managing Director of theBurgess Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the Eli BroadCollege of Business. Ken teaches coursework focused onentrepreneurial mindset, small business creation and management, and businessmodel development. Ken also serves as Director of the Hive. Prior to joining MSU, Ken served asCo-Dire…

Karl Gude is the Media Sandbox Director in theCollege of Communication Arts and Sciences. He is the former Director ofInformation Graphics at Newsweek magazine and The Associated Press. · Gude has been a faculty member of the Schoolof Journalism since 2006. He also teaches a large, Media Sandbox class oncreative thinking and problem solving. In 201…

Cheryl Sisk is a University DistinguishedProfessor in the Neuroscience Program, in the College of Natural Science.The common theme of research projectsin the Dr. Sisk’s lab is the influence of steroid hormones on nervous systemstructure and function. This is directed toward understanding the neural,endocrine, and behavioral changes that take place …