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Faculty Research Interests Here is a partial listing of faculty members willing to mentor student projects; please also feel free to ask faculty members not listed. Attention Nursing Majors: Professor Patti Zuzelo has a joint position with the Albert Einstein Medical Center as the Associate Director of Nursing for Research. In the capacity of this position, she is a member of the Institutional Review Board and is charged with encouraging, developing, and facilitating research activities within the Department of Nursing. Any undergraduate students who may be interested in a health related research project (or faculty looking for a possible site) should feel free to contact Professor Zuzelo. Several faculty members at the School of Nursing are actively pursuing research projects related to clinical issues and could mentor undergraduate students in a variety of ways using their combined resources (including the AEMC relationship).
I am interested in the political and social history of Russia from 1861 to 1953. I regularly teach a graduate class on oral history and am willing to mentor an undergraduate student interested in conducting oral history research on La Salle and its community.
My current research interests are the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy techniques with people who stutter, the relationship of perfectionism and stuttering, and the analysis of speech rate in normal speakers and people who stutter.
My research interests are on Women and Islam, Islam in Southeast Asia, Islam in Philadelphia and Ethnic Catholicism in Philadelphia. I have an ongoing research on Muslim women and Muslim Movements in the Philippines, as well as a research project on Filipino Catholic Communities in Philadelphia. The research on Filipino Catholics in Philadelphia is part of the Harvard University Pluralism Project. My areas of expertise within the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science are cognition, psycholinguistics, categorization, and reasoning. My research program focuses on semantic/conceptual/categorical structures inherent in judgment and reasoning processes in adults and children. Students interested in these and other areas of cognition should speak with me about becoming involved in research.
Research interests: maintaining romantic relationships, long-distance relationships, strategic versus routine maintenance behaviors, out-of-class communication between instructors and students, instructor use of humor in the classroom, student and instructor immediacy, effective communication behaviors for instructors.
An interesting research opportunity exists among the materials representing the dramatic art and live stage drama productions concerning the Vietnam War, its nature, its aftermath, and the role of that traumatic historical experience as it operates in the larger American culture today. Research based on this material could be enumerative in nature such as analytical and annotated bibliographies with biographical apparatus or summative analytical treatments reflecting dramatic content and drama theory. This material consists of approximately 200 play scripts in various states of ms & print, as well as about 120 scripts or treatments found in the unique David Derose Collection of Vietnam War Plays. Both groups of material are published and unpublished scripts (both produced and not), dramatic scripts treating other genres such as novels, short stories and poetry, scripts into screenplays, and scripts of musicals complete with scores. There one-man plays, ensemble plays, anthologies of plays, and bibliographies. These three to four hundred items all exist in tandem with related and extensive doctoral dissertations, master theses, journal articles, published works of dramatic criticism and analysis, interviews of actors, directors, playwrights, and producers, video/film versions of the many live productions and their rehearsals, press kits, publicity art, playbills, and reviews. Because of the unparalleled extent of this drama collection situated within the equally unique Imaginative Representations of the Vietnam War Collection - research conducted with the dramatic arts material will be publishable immediately across a wide range of scholarly and media-oriented journals.
My research is in "neuroprotection," and focuses on alleviating brain damage resulting from sustained seizures and status epilepticus. The general mechanism by which this brain damage occurs is called "glutamate excitotoxicity." Excitotoxic neuronal injury also contributes to brain damage associated with stroke and head trauma. Research students gain experience in microscopic neuropathological assessments, image analysis, small animal surgery, research presentations, etc. Research students are carefully selected on the basis of performance and enthusiasm.
I would be available for anyone wanting to do campus woody plant identification and mapping and also plant tissue culture.
My research areas are international taxation issues (including e-commerce), and gender-related business issues. Should a student happen along with an interest in one of these areas, I would be delighted to mentor him/her. The second area could be broadened to gender-related issues, but my own research looks primarily at women vis-à-vis accounting, healthcare financial management, and other business disciplines. If an SBA student wants to do something that doesn't quite fit with my interests, and there is no other faculty member to taker him/her on, I'd be glad to do so.
I am refocusing my expertise in the field of Fraud Examination including determining when fraud has occurred, the traits of those perpetrating fraud, the impact of fraud on business organizations, and the prevention of fraud within those organizations. I would welcome any student interested in doing research in fraud related topics. I am beginning to examine history of psychology at La Salle University in comparison with the growth of the discipline nationwide. Students could help in project noted above.
I am interested in research in digital media and the arts. Areas of specific interest are:
Recently my interests have focused on constructs related to psychological wellness. Specifically, I am interested in the study of mindfulness, acceptance, defusion/ decentering/ distancing, and self-compassion. My work in this area began with the development of the Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale (PHLMS; Cardaciotto et al., 2008); I would like to explore other ways of measuring mindfulness that go beyond self-report. I am also interested in studying how mindfulness, acceptance, and related constructs might be “active ingredients” in traditional cognitive-behavior therapy and acceptance-based approaches.
Gary Clabaugh I'm researching a history of the education of women as well as a related historic survey of male attitudes vis a vis the educability of females.
My current research interests include social perception, anxiety disorders, substance dependence, international psychology, feminist theory, and women in academe. I am also interested in professional training issues. I lead the Gender Research Group, Tuesday evenings, 5:00 - 6:30 PM, in the Food Court, Student Union.
My current research involves women artists and gender issues in 20th
Century art (specifically during the Fascist/Futurist era, but I would be I am also interested in Irish art and culture. I have worked on the
correlations between art and literature in early 20th Century Ireland, as
in the case of William Orpen (the La Salle Art Museum has one of his works) My research is centered around corporate governance particularly in the banking industry. Specifically, I study executive compensation, board of directors structure, and stock ownership in financial holding companies. Other areas of interest include securitization and derivatives, non-financial sector equity issuance, microfinance and microlending.
My research focuses on interpersonal communication in a variety of different relationship contexts: dating relationships, long-distance relationships, marriages, family relationships, and friendships. I am particularly interested in how relationships are maintained. I focus on the communication of both the positive (love, trust, commitment) and the negative (jealousy, deception, infidelity) in intimate relationships.
I would be willing to mentor students in topics related to but not necessarily limited to Chinese history or Asian Studies.
My research interests in recent years have been limited to two areas (one in public law and one in political theory) where I believe I could work with an interested student. The first area is the Supreme Court's decision making on environmental issues, including recent developments in the Court's Wetlands decisions and/or in the Court's Superfund decisions. I also remain interested in studying further whether adoption of "fee shifting" or the English Rule in environmental litigation (i.e. permitting environmental groups to seek attorneys’ fees as private attorney's general) would further environmental protection or merely increase the glut of litigation. The second area is the political philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, including the theoretical roots of Thoreau's radical individualism, whether Gandhi has caused Thoreau to be erroneously classified as a pacifist, the "wildness" of nature and the natural man in Thoreau's essays, Walden, Cape Cod and the Maine Woods, and Thoreau's continuing interest in violent political figures, like Sir. Walter Raleigh, Oliver Cromwell, most importantly, John Brown, whom Thoreau eulogized on three occasions after Brown's capture and execution by the United States for the raid at the Harper's Ferry arsenal.
I am using the La Salle University Art Museum's collections to investigate early modern European interactions with the non-European world, including representations of Africans or Muslims in Christian art. I also research the history of classical archaeology, from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth century, with a focus on Rome.
I welcome student involvement in projects related to cognitive complexity, creativity, and/or psychology & democracy.
I would be happy to mentor a student or two who is interested in studying cognitive science as it applies to school learning in either basic or higher education. This might appeal to education, psychology, or sociology majors, and honors students interested in the interdisciplinary projects. Biology majors might also be interested, because neuroscience relates to brain-based learning and cognitive science. Of particular interest to me is the cultural context of learning -- that is, how does the larger culture influence schooling. In the near future, I intend to launch a research project on rapid cognition.
I am currently conducting several research studies in the area of postpartum depression. I am looking for undergraduate psychology students who are interested in getting graduate level research experience. Please email me (fingerhut@lasalle.edu) if you are interested in attending one of our research meetings or would like to find out more about my current projects. Medicine and literature Humanitarian rhetoric J. R. R. Tolkien and J. K. Rowling Literary Criticism and Theory The Graphic Novel
I would be interested in working with students interested in either pharmacology or pathophysiology.
My interest is in the chemical and physical properties exhibited by nanoparticles. These materials are defined as being between 1 and 100 nanometers in size, thus falling between the more classic domains of microscopic materials and molecular solutions. Their unique size creates unique properties due to the large surface areas present in the systems. I currently am focusing on the preparation, stabilization, and optical properties of nanoparticle silver and nanoparticle gold in aqueous solution. I am comparing these properties to those that are observed in more classical microscopic or macroscopic systems.
I would be open to working with any student interested in advanced fiction writing or a research project in American literature (especially contemporary fiction or the literature of the postbellum 19th Century).
I would be especially interested in working with a student on a project studying the ways in which literature and film have responded to and portrayed disease and death and dying.
My primary research interest is simulation technology. One important problem in the area of simulation is composability, which means making existing simulations work together. Simulations can be applied to almost any discipline, but areas of particular interest include economic simulation and simulation applied to sports drafting and statistics projection.
My current research interests are in the area of game design and programming. Following is list of possible directions for research.
I am willing to be a mentor for undergraduate student research. I am currently working on a grant with preschool children in Philadelphia. We are working with 3-to-5-year-old children in the areas of emergent literacy, language development, and quantification skills. Some of the children are also receiving speech-language therapy. The schools are very receptive to our support. I would welcome any undergraduates who wish to do research with me. My research focuses on the complex interactions between cognitive/linguistic processes and speech motor control (the coordination and execution of speech movements). I am interested in clinical populations, such as adults and children who stutter, as well as typically-developing children and adults.
My interests include European and American fiction, especially of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; literary form and structure, especially their influence in shaping tradition to new creation; literary translation; Austrian history and culture in their bearing on Austrian literature; literary device and mannerism, especially as documented by Ernst Robert Curtius and Gustav Rene Hocke. Elizabeth Langemak My research interests include 20th century and contemporary American Poetry, as well as memoir and confessional writing. I would also be open to working with students on advanced non-fiction or poetry creative writing projects.
My current research interests include the relationship between attachment and grief responses, grief responses associated with cancer as a chronic illness, the cognitive and emotional effects of walking the labyrinth, spirituality/religion in social work education, and human sexuality education. I invite interested students to become involved in the research process. Br. Leonard Marsh
Emery Mollenhauer, F.S.C. I would attempt to work with a student interested in Flannery O'Connor, Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Tyler, Robert Lowell, John Updike, G. M. Hopkins, or, maybe, Wallace Stevens.
In the acknowledgement section of my books, on Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck, and John Sayles, there are the names of a half dozen La Salle students. All of them helped with the research and the writing of those books and deserved the recognition. They have found useful material in libraries and on the web, have proofed chapters, checked indexes, found me change for the copy machines at the Free Library, and done many of the other tasks that go with the completion of the research and writing. I owe them more than a few lines can say, but they certainly appreciate the lines.
A major area of research interest is 20th-century American writers of color, including Hispanic, African American, Asian American, and American Indian writers. This research includes not only written literature but also orality and the significance of the oral tradition in the development of a uniquely American literary tradition. My focus is mainly on women writers but is not limited to them.
My research interests include Ethnic American writers, immigrant writers, and contemporary non-Western writers and film.
My area of specialization is Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture. Within this concentration my areas of research interest are Caribbean Literature and Culture, Afro-Hispanic Literature and Culture, and Colombian Literature and Culture. I also enjoy examining the relationships between music and literature and studying Latin American popular music and culture. Currently, I am conducting research on the Asian presence in Latin America, and on representations of Asian peoples and cultures in Latin American Literature. In addition to the above listed areas of interest, two authors of particular interest to me are Manuel Zapata Olivella and Mayra Montero. I would be glad to work with any students interested in doing research related to any of these areas. My current research interests include Women in the Gospels, Women and St. Paul, Women in Early Christianity, and Early Jewish/Christian Dialogues. Since I am currently translating a third century CE dialogue I would also be happy to work with students on questions related to the English translation of Hellenistic Greek texts (Septuagint and New Testament included) as well as how to work with original manuscripts in facsimile.
I am currently working on the issue of Social Security Reform. In particular I am interested in exploring the distributional effects of current proposals to privatize the social security system. Also, as a labor economist, I have "expertise" in labor market issues, especially those relating to gender, race, and class. My primary area of specialization is Spanish Sociolinguistics and Dialectology. My research interest is the study of languages in contact with special interest in pidgins / pidginization; second language acquisition, i.e. interlanguage and fossilization. My second area of specialization is Latin American Literature with emphasis in the colonial period. Currently I am conducting research on Spanish language acquisition among different generations of Chinese speakers in Ecuador and plan on doing research in Guatemala as well. I would love to work with any student interested in the study of language and how it is affected by social factors.
My research interests are primarily focused on health communication, public outreach, and health literacy. Related areas of interest include media literacy, online health information, risk communication, and the aging consumer.
My research interests are in the area of the chemical syntheses of small chemtherapeutic molecules. Specifically, I am interested in synthesizing compounds that act as tumor radiosensitizers - drugs that cause the DNA in tumor cells to become highly compacted and thus hypersensitive to the destructive effects of ionizing radiation. By sensitizing the cells in this way, lower radiation doses are needed for therapy. We have recently discovered such a compound I have the following research interests:
I am interested in computer programs that learn from examples, in particular, programs that extract regularity from data - "data mining". I am currently applying such programs to data from the census and data about crime.
One area of interest is student plagiarism. It's a broad issue: how schools define and handle it, ethical issues, demographics (large vs. small schools, types of students, class rank and so on).
From a broad view, my research is, and has been, primarily in regulatory economics. By regulatory economics, I mean the costs and benefits to regulations. I have gone several directions with the regulatory issues, particularly towards environmental regulations, electric utility regulation, antitrust regulations, and financial market regulations. In doing so, I have done a lot of multi-disciplinary work with finance and accounting professors. If you need or want more detail, let me know.
My research interests are World War II. George Orwell. Baseball history.
I would be willing to act as a mentor for students who might be interested in doing research projects in the following areas:
Or, more specifically and in depth:
I am also working on early twentieth century Scottish literature and its connections to social/political events, particularly the rise of Scottish Nationalism, the use of the vernacular, the development of "Synthetic Scots," etc.
I have broad research interests in these areas: industrial-organizational psychology, human resource management, management and leadership skills. Specific examples include
I would be happy to serve as a mentor in any of these areas:
My research team includes a variety of research projects, including investigations of the link between trauma and suicide in a clinical population, as well as ways to improve suicide prevention efforts. Broadly, the team focuses on suicide prevention, trauma exposure, re-victimization, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
I am deeply involved in research on schools and schooling. I had a book published last year on restructuring public education at the pK-12 grade level. I do secondary analyses on large US Department of Education data sets, most recently the longitudinal survey called NELS:88. I used that most recent NAEP (National Assessment of Educational progress) to identify what it is about small classes that help students learn. Now I am using the latest longitudinal data--the Early Childhood student, school, and teacher files--to identify the determinants of achievement.
Please visit my website (http://lasalle.edu/~tavana) and follow the link for PUBLICATIONS to read my papers in academic journals.
Interests: Opportunities:
I hesitate to use the word "research" for my work. With the pace of change in computer science and so, our courses, I am simply staying abreast. With that as context, my real areas of interest are legal, ethical, and social issues in computing. I teach graduate and I'd be happy to serve as a mentor for student research in legal, ethical, or social issues in computing.
If some one is interested in studying under me, I would be available for the following topics: (1) St. Augustine; (2) ethics, especially some kind of project in contemporary bioethics or medical ethics (I do not know much about the subjects, but we can find something); (3) God, especially some modern approaches to proving God's existence. agencies to help obtain subjects. Data collection will be during the summer 2004.
I would be interested in mentoring students with an interest in urban education, specifically working with the School District of Philadelphia. I am currently working with 10 schools that are participating in my Writers Matter program.
I will be glad to serve as a mentor to any student interested in conducting either qualitative or quantitative research as it relates to the field of education. I have expertise in assessment, special education, methods, critical reflection, urban education, and school reform. My research interests are within the realm of interpersonal communication and personal relationships. Broadly, my recent research has looked at communication and friendships. I have looked at how women's friendships (for example, competitiveness, support seeking behavior, conflict) may influence the development of eating disorders. I have also worked with students interested in how friendship changes and develops over time. Additionally, I studied the rejuvenation of married relationships and conflict styles within married relationships.
General interests:
Specific interests: For more information, contact Dr. James A. Butler, Director of Undergraduate Student Research, at butler@lasalle.edu. |
