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Diversity Researchers
Race and Ethnicity
| NAME | RESEARCH DESCRIPTION | CONTACT INFORMATION |
|---|---|---|
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Click, Melissa | Gender, race, class and sexuality in media texts | Communication 884-4694 ClickM@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 |
| Curl, Angela | International gerontology; correlated depressive symptoms in middle-aged married couples: variability by race/ethnicity | Social Work 882-8926 CurlA@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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Kopp, Kristin | German-Polish relations; German colonialism; German film | German and Russian Studies 882-3367 KoppKr@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 |
| 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 |
| Palmer, Craig | Cultural anthropology; ethnographic research on ethnicity and rural youth migration in northern Missouri | Anthropology 882-0910 PalmerCT@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 |
| 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 |
| Sampson, Charles L. | Minority graduate education | Truman School of Public Affairs 882-4317 SampsonC@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 |
| 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 |
| Waid, Tim | Crisis management; race issues in career and technical education | Management 882-5963 WaidT@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 |
| 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 |
