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Diversity Researchers
| NAME | RESEARCH DESCRIPTION | CONTACT INFORMATION |
|---|---|---|
| Adkins, Denise C. | Latino/Hispanic literacy practices; public library outreach to underserved populations | School of Information Science and Learning Technologies 884-9804 AdkinsDe@missouri.edu |
| Anderson, Kim M. | Adverse consequences of domestic violence, rape, and poverty experienced by women | School of Social Work 884-8077 AndersonKi@missouri.edu |
| Anzaldo, Demetrio | Twentieth Century Mexican Literature; Mexico City Urban and Gender Studies | Romance Languages and Literatures 882-4063 AnzaldoD@missouri.edu |
| Aubrey, Jennifer | Impact of media exposure on body images and the sexual self-concept; pregnancy and parenting in the academy | Communication 882-0739 AubreyJ@missouri.edu |
| Aud, Myra A. | Care quality in assisted living facitilies, nursing homes, and dementia special care units | Sinclair School of Nursing 884-9539 AudM@missouri.edu |
| Badiane, Mamadou | Afro-Caribbean cultural identity and representation in literature | Romance Languages and Literatures 882-9419 BadianeM@missouri.edu |
| Bartholow, Bruce D. | Stereotyping, prejudice, impression-formation and change and how these relate to aggression | Psychological Sciences 882-1805 BartholowB@missouri.edu |
| Baum, Robert | African religious and social history | Religious Studies 882-3066 BaumR@missouri.edu |
| Beck, Mary M. | Family violence; child adoption law; putative father registry law | School of Law 882-7872 BeckM@missouri.edu |
| Bednar, Michael | Hindu and Muslim interactions within the Delhi Sultanate, South Asia's first pan-Indic Muslim empire from 1206 to 1526 | History 882-7566 BednarM@missouri.edu |
| Behm-Morawitz, Elizabeth | Media's effects on stereotyping, identity and body image, in relation to gender, race and sexuality | Communication 882-9786 BehmMorawitzE@missouri.edu |
| Bettencourt, B. Ann | Intergroup processes; stereotype violations; social identity and well-being; women's well-being; meta-analysis and aggression | Psychological Sciences 882-8065 BettencourtA@missouri.edu |
| Bjornstrom, Eileen | Medical sociology; urban sociology; social control; how context of both the news story and media market influence portrayals across race-ethnicity | Sociology 884-6341 BjornstromE@missouri.edu |
| Black, Cheryl | Women's theatre and feminist theatre | Theatre 882-0530 BlackC@missouri.edu |
| Bloom, Tina | Intimate partner violence and violence prevention interventions, maternal-child health, collaborative and community-based research; developing and testing effective violence interventions that decrease exposure to intimate partner violence, decreasing the negative impact that violence exposure has on their health. | Sinclair School of Nursing 882-0264 BloomT@missouri.edu |
| Brekhus, Wayne H. | Culture and identity, social control, theory and sexuality | Sociology 884-3989 BrekhusW@missouri.edu |
| Brown, Eric S. | Race and class inequalities; urban communities; historical change and social policies that incorporate both the welfare state and citizenship rights | Sociology 882-8217 BrownEric@missouri.edu |
| Brown, Larry | Cultural geography of North and Middle America; the theocratic right, Christian Identity (Israel) movement, militant hate groups and their effect on public and educational policy; white supremacy movements in the USA, geography of religion; political and religious movements in Latin America | Geography 884-7851 BrownLar@missouri.edu |
| Burgoyne, Suzanne | Theatre of the Oppressed | Theatre 882-0528 BurgoyneS@missouri.edu |
| Callahan, Richard J. | Religion in America; the ways that people creatively and constantly negotiate identity, significance, and power through religious idioms in the dense contexts of their everyday lives; how particular occupational cultures, material settings, and relations of exchange inform and are informed by religious idioms | Religious Studies 882-0060 CallahanRJ@missouri.edu |
| Cameron, Glen T. | Enhancing cancer coverage in black newspapers; field research and in-person interviewing of welfare leavers in Missouri | Strategic Communication 884-2607 CameronG@missouri.edu |
| Campbell, James D. | Culture and cultural diversity; end-of-life care; health literacy; literature and medicine; medical education; religion/spirituality and medicine | Family and Community Medicine 882-2190 CampbellJ@health.missouri.edu |
| Campione-Barr, Nicole | Middle-class African American mother-adolescent interactions | Psychological Sciences 884-1681 CampioneBarrN@missouri.edu |
| Carlo, Gustavo | Temperament, family correlates, social cognitions and emotions, and culture-related variables associated with such development; positive health and adjustment among Latino families and youth | Human Development and Family Studies 884-6301 CarloG@missouri.edu |
| Carroll, Mark M. | United States South, social and legal history, including sex, race and the law in frontier Texas, 1823-1860, and evangelism and "the public good" in the trans-Mississippi South-west, 1804-1860 | History 882-0463 CarrollMM@missouri.edu |
| Chval, Kathryn B. | Teaching English language learners; strategies and social processes that facilitate the participation of Latino English language learners in elementary mathematics classrooms | Learning, Teaching and Curriculum 884-2656 ChvalKB@missouri.edu |
| Click, Melissa | Gender, race, class and sexuality in media texts | Communication 884-4694 ClickM@missouri.edu |
| Cohen, Signe | Hinduism and South Asian Buddhism | Religious Studies 882-4769 CohenS@missouri.edu |
| Colaner, Colleen | Family communication and religious identity; how parental communication influences the development of religious identities as well as the communicative management occurring when parents and children have differing religious orientations; the intergenerational transmission of mothering, feminist, and generativity identities via gender socialization in mother-daughter dyads | Communication 882-3522 ColanerC@missouri.edu |
| Cooper, Lynne | Risk-taking and adjustment among adolescents and young adults specifically motivational pathways to alcohol use and abuse among black and white adolescents | Psychological Sciences 882-2365 CooperM@missouri.edu |
| Cooper, Thomas J. | Culture and diversity issues in family medicine training | Family and Community Medicine 884-7701 CooperTJ@health.missouri.edu |
| Cordones-Cook, Juanamaria | Contemporary Spanish American literature and culture with special interest on Afro-Hispanic writers | Romance Languages and Literatures 882-3328 CordonesCookJ@missouri.edu |
| Cropp, Fritz | Perceptions of advertising among advertising executives in Japan | Strategic Communication 882-1930 CroppF@missouri.edu |
| Curl, Angela | International gerontology; correlated depressive symptoms in middle-aged married couples: variability by race/ethnicity | Social Work 882-8926 CurlA@missouri.edu |
| Curs, Bradley | Economics of education; college access and affordability; efficacy of financial aid programs at the national, state and institutional level | Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis 882-2759 CursB@missouri.edu |
| Dingo, Rebecca | Feminist rhetorical theory; transnational feminism; critical policy analysis; visual cultural studies | Women's and Gender Studies 884-6254 DingoR@missouri.edu |
| Dougherty, Debbie | Organizational power especially as it relates to sexual harassment; emotion in organizations; feminist standpoint theory | Communication 882-0300 DoughertyD@missouri.edu |
| Dougherty, Thomas W. | Mentoring and networking behavior and career outcomes: differences for men and women; gender, race, and perceived similarity | Management 882-4412 DoughertyT@missouri.edu |
| Drott, Edward | East Asian religions; the nexus of religious and medical knowledge in pre-modern China and Japan | Religious Studies 882-3427 DrottE@missouri.edu |
| Eggener, Keith | American art and architecture with a focus on architecture and politics in modern Mexico | Art History and Archaeology 884-3977 EggenerK@missouri.edu |
| Engelstein, Stefani | German and British literature; sibling relationship used as a paradigmatic figure for working through issues of subjectivity and emerging collective identities in political, racial, linguistic, religious and psychological discourses | German and Russian Studies 882-9450 EngelsteinS@missouri.edu |
| Esbeck, Carl H. | Constitutional law; religious liberty; civil rights | School of Law 882-6543 EsbeckC@missouri.edu |
| Farmer, Janet E. | Children with chronic health conditions and disabilities, including autism; interventions that promote healthy child development and improve each family's quality of life | Health Psychology, Child Health 882-6081 FarmerJE@health.missouri.edu |
| Finfgeld-Connett, Deborah | Women and resolution of alcohol problems | Sinclair School of Nursing 884-7255 FinfgeldD@missouri.edu |
| Fitzgerald, Gail | Electronic performance support tools for students with disabilities | School of Information Science and Learning Technologies 882-0566 FitzgeraldG@missouri.edu |
| Flanagan, Bob | Religion and American culture; diversity within Christianity | Religious Studies 882-0059 FlanaganJ@missouri.edu |
| Flores, Lisa Y. | Mexican Americans' educational and career Development; Latino immigrant settlement and transition issues; key development Issues for LGB youth and their educators; race in the schools; white privilege | Educational, School and Counseling Psychology 884-9724 FloresLY@missouri.edu |
| Foulkes, Matthew W. | Population geography, migration, residential mobility, poverty, rural development policy, immigration, mixed methodological approaches; Migration of residential mobility and housing instability in impoverished rural mobile home parks. | Geography 882-3542 FoulkesM@missouri.edu |
| Fox, Roy | Culture in the classroom | Learning, Teaching and Curriculum 882-0899 FoxR@missouri.edu |
| Frank, Jerritt | U.S. environmental history; indigenous peoples; history of the American West; returning Indians to our national narratives | History 882-9463 FrankJe@missouri.edu |
| Frisby, Cynthia | Effects of idealized images on perceptions of body esteem among African-American women | Strategic Communication 882-6232 FrisbyC@missouri.edu |
| Furbee, N. Louanna | Language, culture, and thought and the relationships among them; Mesoamerican culture, specifically a Mayanist, and Andean culture. The Miracle of Lomantan: Narratives of the Religious Reflection of the Zapatista Revolt; Tojolabal (Maya) Language Documentation Project | Anthropology FurbeeL@missouri.edu |
| Gallimore, Rangira (Béa) | Francophone literature; 20th-century French literature; theoretical linguistics; issues of gender in post-genocide Rwanda | Romance Languages and Literatures 882-4372 GallimoreR@missouri.edu |
| Gibson, Maya | Interconnections and inter-relationships among Afro-American music (especially jazz), popular music, and issues concerning race, gender, and sexuality; Black American gospel and blues | Music 882-0648 GibsonMC@missouri.edu |
| Gilles, Jere L. | Rural social organization; social change and development; the rural church in changing landscapes | Rural Sociology 882-3791 GillesJ@missouri.edu |
| Glick, Elisa | Sexuality and gender studies; critical theory and cultural criticism; queer dandyism and its relation to the sphere of the commodity in modern literature and culture | Women's and Gender Studies, English 882-9716 GlickE@missouri.edu |
| Gordon, Matthew | Sociolinguistics; language and gender; American dialectology; language change | English 882-8590 GordonMJ@missouri.edu |
| Gregory, Rabia | History of Christianity; medieval women's religious literature from Germany and the Low Countries; manifestations of religion in virtual worlds | Religious Studies 882-5505 GregoryRa@missouri.edu |
| Gupta, Bina | Comparative philosophy; Asian philosophy; Indian philosophy; Buddhist philosophy; Indian Epistemology | Philosophy 882-3065 GuptaB@missouri.edu |
| Hagglund, Kristofer | Health care disparities in rural and urban Missouri | Truman School of Public Affairs 884-7050 HagglundK@missouri.edu |
| Halstenson, Nancy | Women's issues; domestic violence; depression; eating disorders; adolescent female sexual offenders | Psychiatry 882-2511 HalstensonN@health.missouri.edu |
| Harper, Casandra | Multiracial college students; cross-racial interactions; origins of the gender gap; different effects of student-faculty interaction on college outcomes for women and men | Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis 882-2818 HarperCas@missouri.edu |
| Harrison, Sheri-Marie | African Diaspora studies | English 882-2728 HarrisonSL@missouri.edu |
| Hart, Jennifer L. | Campus climate; gender issues within academe; MizzouADVANCE; diversity in higher education curriculum and pedagogy | Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis 882-4225 HartJL@missouri.edu |
| Hearne, Joanna | Native American studies; folklore | English 882-2293 HearneJ@missouri.edu |
| Heflin, Colleen | Welfare and poverty policy; social stratification; health inequality; women and work | Truman School of Public Affairs 884-4872 HeflinCM@missouri.edu |
| Heppner, Mary | Women's career development; career transitions; multicultural/cross-cultural issues in counseling | Educational, School and Counseling Psychology 882-8574 HeppnerM@missouri.edu |
| Heppner, Puncky P. | Multicultural and gender issues; coping issues across cultures | Educational, School and Counseling Psychology 882-3523 HeppnerP@missouri.edu |
| Hermsen, Joan M. | Gender inequality in the labor market | Sociology 884-1420 HermsenJ@missouri.edu |
| Hoard, Adrienne | Abstraction and the African American aesthetic | Art 882-4547 HoardA@missouri.edu |
| Hobbs, Joseph J. | Cultural ecology; Middle East; indigenous people in protected area management | Geography 882-0586 HobbsJ@missouri.edu |
| Hoberek, Andrew | 20th-century American literature and culture; liberal anti-liberalism: gender politics of the middle-class ressentiment | English 882-1801 HoberekA@missouri.edu |
| Hodge, Sandra S. | Increasing civic engagement in communities; Use of public deliberative processes for community decision making; Development of programs and curriculum materials for training communities in deliberative methods and moderating skills for public forums; Alternative dispute resolution | Rural Sociology 882-4435 HodgeS@missouri.edu |
| Hofer, Nathan | Social and religious history of Sufism (Islamic mysticism) in medieval Egypt; social and religious history of the Jews of the medieval Islamicate world | Religious Studies 882-5427 HoferN@missouri.edu |
| Hudson-Weems, Clenora | Black studies; Africana Womanism | English 882-2783 HudsonWeemsC@missouri.edu |
| Ispa, Jean | Parent-child and teacher-child interaction; family and child care in Russia; Spanking and verbal punishment in low-income white, African America and Mexican American toddlers; inner-city single black mothers' gender-related childbearing expectations and goals | Human Development and Family Studies 882-2796 IspaJ@missouri.edu |
| Johnson, Rebecca A. | Relocation of older adults; Relocation of ethnic elders; sense of coherence in older adults life transitions; human-companion animal bond and wellness | Nursing 884-4686 RAJohnson@missouri.edu |
| Karthas, Ilyana | Modern European intellectual and cultural history; aesthetics; women's and gender history | History 882-9462 KarthasI@missouri.edu |
| Kaussen, Valerie M. | Francophone Caribbean literature and culture, French and francophone cinema, cultural studies, and literary theory | Romance Languages and Literatures 882-5045 KaussenV@missouri.edu |
| Keiser, Lael R. | Social welfare policy and education; gender, race and representative bureaucracy; Social Security Disability program | Political Science 882-8282 KeiserL@missouri.edu |
| Kelley, Dennis | Religious traditions of indigenous peoples especially Native North Americans | Religious Studies KelleyDF@missouri.edu |
| King, Wilma | African American history; experiences of free African American women before the general emancipation in 1865 | History 882-4612 KingW@missouri.edu |
| Konkle, Maureen | Native studies and 19th-century American literature | English KonkleM@missouri.edu |
| Kopp, Kristin | German-Polish relations; German colonialism; German film | German and Russian Studies 882-3367 KoppKr@missouri.edu |
| Langdon, Susan | Geometric art and the material culture of early Greece; historiographic, iconographic and contextual approaches to exploring gender and society | Art History and Archaeology 882-9495 LangdonS@missouri.edu |
| Langley, April | 18th- and 19th-century African American and American literature and theory | English 884-9774 LangleyA@missouri.edu |
| Larsen, Soren C. | Politics of place in rural areas of North America, especially how residents politicize their emotional attachments to home and region; cultural geography; indigenous, rural and resource-dependent communities | Geography 882-9613 LarsenS@missouri.edu |
| Lee, Ilhyung | Culture and dispute resolution; culture and law; comparative equal protection; law and society in Korea | School of Law 882-2426 LeeIH@missouri.edu |
| Len-Rios, Maria | Underserved audiences and marginalized groups with regard to health reporting, health communication campaigns and crisis communication; representation of women in news and photos; obesity frames in black newspapers and mainstream newspapers | Strategic Communication 884-0111 LenRiosM@missouri.edu |
| Lewis, Timothy J. | Behavior Disorders; developmental disabilities; positive behavior supports | Special Education 882-8531 LewisTJ@missouri.edu |
| Lindbloom, Erik J. | Elder mistreatment | Family and Community Medicine 884-7060 LindbloomE@health.missouri.edu |
| Looser, Devoney | British women's writings of the Restoration, 18th and early 19th century and history of the novel | English 884-7791 LooserD@missouri.edu |
| Marra, Rose M. | Gender equity in engineering and science education | School of Information Science and Learning Technologies 882-2877 Marra@missouri.edu |
| Martinez, Rebecca | Mexican immigration to the U.S.; Chicana feminist studies; medical anthropology | Women's and Gender Studies 882-0680 MartinezR@missouri.edu |
| Mason, Debra L. | Religion and media research | Journalism Studies 882-9257 MasonDL@missouri.edu |
| Meisenbach, Rebecca | Identity negotiation; organizational ethics; stigma management; the female breadwinner and gendered identity in work-family spaces | Communication 882-0747 MeisenbachR@missouri.edu |
| Middleton, Michael | Civil rights and employment discrimination | School of Law 882-3394 MiddletonM@missouri.edu |
| Miller, Kerby A. | Modern Irish history; the Irish diaspora and the Irish in America; and U.S. urban and immigration history | History 882-3878 MillerK@missouri.edu |
| Milyo, Jeff | Effects of religion in public goods and trust games; individual health status and minority racial concentration in U.S. states and counties | Economics 882-7785 MilyoJ@missouri.edu |
| Minta, Michael D. | Representation of Black and Latino interests in the U.S. Congress | Political Science 882-7873 MintaM@missouri.edu |
| Mitchell, S. David | Law and society; felon disenfranchisement; citizenship; critical race theory; law and race and ethnicity | School of Law 882-8113 MitchellSD@missouri.edu |
| Moore, Megan | Gender in Old French literature and culture, with special emphasis on how gender impacts the creation and exchange of culture | Romance Languages and Literatures 882-3633 MooreMegan@missouri.edu |
| Morales, Alejandro | Language brokering, immigrant and refugee families; LGBT issues in mental health; qualitative and mixed methods research with underserved communities | Educational, School and Counseling Psychology 884-1837 MoralesA@missouri.edu |
| Morris, Michelle | Early U.S. women's history; sex and family in Massachusetts, 1660-1700 | History 882-4380 MorrisMary@missouri.edu |
| Mueser, Peter | Labor economics; analysis of Food Stamp Program; welfare-to-work; women's economic returns from obtaining a GED | Economics 882-6427 MueserP@missouri.edu |
| Neitz, Mary Jo | Gender and religion; sociology of culture; qualitative methodologies and feminist theories | Women's and Gender Studies 882-4572 NeitzM@missouri.edu |
| Nicholson-Crotty, Jill D. | Women's health care in Missouri | Truman School of Public Affairs 882-2320 NicholsonCrottyJ@missouri.edu |
| Okonkwo, Christopher N. | 20th century African American literature and culture; African literature in English; post-colonial theory | English 882-3025 OkonkwoC@missouri.edu |
| Oliveri, Rigel C. | Fair housing; employment discrimination; civil procedure; pretrial litigation; sexual harassment; gender and the Law; reproductive rights | School of Law 882-5068 OliveriR@missouri.edu |
| Palmer, Craig | Cultural anthropology; ethnographic research on ethnicity and rural youth migration in northern Missouri | Anthropology 882-0910 PalmerCT@missouri.edu |
| Palmer, Mark H. | Social aspects of geographic information systems including the uneven development of geographic information networks within government agencies and their connections/disconnections within indigenous communities in North America | Geography 882-7940 PalmerMH@missouri.edu |
| Pearce, Tola Olu | Medical sociology; social inequalities; globalization and development studies | Sociology 882-7265 PearceI@missouri.edu |
| Peters, Philip G., Jr. | Racial achievement gap in education; genetic discrimination; constitutional right to procreate | School of Law 882-8274 PetersP@missouri.edu |
| Piper, Karen | Globalization; how race and politics created a human and environmental tragedy in L.A.; maps, race and identity | English 884-8582 PiperK@missouri.edu |
| Prager, Brad | Film history and contemporary German cinema; Holocaust studies; art and literature of German Romanticism | German and Russian Studies 882-4328 PragerB@missouri.edu |
| Prahlad, Sw. Anand | Contemporary poetry; folkloristics; culture studies of the African Diaspora | English 882-0664 Prahlad@missouri.edu |
| Prasad, Srirupa | Historical sociology, the sociology of medicine, globalization, social theory, and South Asian studies; health, culture, colonialism, modernity, and gender, during colonialism and under the impact of globalization and neo-liberal capitalism | Women's and Gender Studies, Sociology 882-8215 PrasadS@missouri.edu |
| Reeder, Linda | Modern European women's history; gender, sexuality and national belonging through notions of female insanity in late 19th century Italy | History 882-5856 ReederLS@missouri.edu |
| Rikoon, J. Sanford (Sandy ) | Environmental sociology; political ecology; food security; ethnicity | Rural Sociology 882-0861 RikoonJ@missouri.edu |
| Rodriquez, Jason | Social and cultural dimensions of teamwork in health services organizations; how white youths use an ideology of “color-blindness” to make sense of racial identity and to appropriate elements of hip-hop culture; challenges posed by an influx of progressive, anti-racist whites on two pro-Black social and cultural movements | Sociology 882-4929 RodriquezJ@missouri.edu |
| Rymph, Catherine | 20th-century U.S. history; U.S. women's history; Republican women: feminism and conservatism from suffrage to the rise of the New Right | History 882-4320 RymphC@missouri.edu |
| Sable, Marjorie R. | Maternal and child health; WIC Program needs assessment among hispanics; improving family planning services and outreach to hispanic immigrants | School of Social Work 882-0914 SableM@missouri.edu |
| Sampson, Charles L. | Minority graduate education | Truman School of Public Affairs 882-4317 SampsonC@missouri.edu |
| Schatz, Enid | Social demography with a focus on gender, aging and AIDS in southern Africa | Women's and Gender Studies, Occupational Therapy 882-7196 SchatzEJ@missouri.edu |
| Schwain, Kristin | Conflicts and issues generated by cultural encounters; the politics of representation; visual culture of American religions | Art History and Archaeology 882-3366 SchwainK@missouri.edu |
| Schwindt-Bayer, Leslie | Legislative representation; gender and politics; women's representation in Latin American Legislatures | Political Science 882-7268 Schwindt@missouri.edu |
| Scott, James K. | Rural and regional development policy, local government, and local public decision making; European Union Centers in the United States | Truman School of Public Affairs 882-6008 ScottJ@missouri.edu |
| Scott, Rebecca R. | Gender; race and class formations; cultural studies; environmental inequality; nature and society; feminist ethnography | Sociology 884-7644 ScottRR@missouri.edu |
| Shenk, Mary K. | Human behavioral ecology; anthropological demography; human marriage and family systems; parental investment; fertility; inheritance and property transfers; South Asia | Anthropology 882-6902 ShenkM@missouri.edu |
| Shonekan, Stephanie | Ethnomusicology; the evolving parallels that exist in the literature and music of Africa and the African Diaspora; black women and life writing; | Music ShonekanS@missouri.edu |
| Simmons, Juanita M. | Curriculum design; urban leadership | Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis 882-4218 SimmonsJM@missouri.edu |
| Smith, Diane L. | Disability advocacy; disability and health policy; access to health care and employment; health literacy | Occupational Therapy 882-8403 SmithDiane@missouri.edu |
| Smith, Pamela | Digital divide; race and diversity; Missouri desegregation; untenured professors of color; the actionability of blocking black women from initiating mentoring relationships | School of Law 882-4755 SmithPJ@missouri.edu |
| Thornburg, Kathy | Relations among maternal racial identity, maternal parenting behavior and child outcomes in low-income urban black families; understanding parenting stress among young, low-income, African-American first-time mothers | Human Development and Family Studies 882-9998 ThornburgK@missouri.edu |
| Trindade, Vitor | International and development economics; international trade and cultural diversity; inequality and trade | Economics 882-9925 TrindadeV@missouri.edu |
| Ugarte, Michael | 18th, 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature; cultural studies; literary theory; post-colonial theory | Romance Languages and Literatures 882-3578 UgarteM@missouri.edu |
| Volz, Yong | Transcultural and transnational perspectives of journalism history, especially Chinese journalism and Western influences in 19th and early 20th centuries | Journalism Studies 882-2159 VolzY@missouri.edu |
| Waid, Tim | Crisis management; race issues in career and technical education | Management 882-5963 WaidT@missouri.edu |
| Wang, Kenneth T. | Asian and Asian American psychology; international student adjustment issues | Educational, School and Counseling Psychology 882-9246 WangK@missouri.edu |
| Whites, LeeAnn | Civil War and reconstruction; women, 19th-century South; sexual politics of the union military; Civil War women | History 882-9469 WhitesL@missouri.edu |
| Wigger, John H. | American religious and cultural history; Methodism and the rise of popular Christianity in America, 1770-1820 | History 882-6019 WiggerJ@missouri.edu |
| Wise, Kevin | Differences in the way men and women read news | Missouri School of Journalism 884-0146 WiseKR@missouri.edu |
| Worthington, Roger | Diversity issues in higher education; multicultural counseling competencies; sexual identity; lesbian, gay, and bisexual issues; and scale development | Educational, School and Counseling Psychology 882-8360 WorthingtonR@missouri.edu |
| Yao, Rui | Financial risk tolerance, portfolio allocation, financial ratios, debt management, retirement preparation, household consumption patterns, and savings behavior and motives | Personal Financial Planning 882-9343 YaoR@missouri.edu |
| Yoon, Dong Pil | Religiousness/spirituality; human diversity; gerontology; rural social work; welfare reform | School of Social Work 882-0916 YoonD@missouri.edu |
| Yu, ManSoo | Health disparities among ethnicity/race, gender and social class; vulnerable and underserved populations | School of Social Work 882-4363 YuMa@missouri.edu |
| Zanetti, Lisa A. | Organizational dynamics; moral theory; gender; citizen participation | Truman School of Public Affairs 884-0953 ZanettiL@missouri.edu |
| Zephir, Floré | Sociolinguistics; foreign language education; ethnic and immigrant studies; Creole studies; ethnic identification among second-generation Haitian immigrants in New York City | Romance Languages and Literatures 882-5048 ZephirF@missouri.edu |

