Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM); Contact Reflex Analysis and Clarus subtle energy devices; theological and ideological perspectives on ecological issues.
criminal justice policy in the U.S. and other countries, causes of violent crime, social context of delinquency and youth violence, etiology of drug abuse and the assessment of drug policy, race and criminal justice
water resources management and policy, global climate change policy, ethics and environmental decisions, adaptive management and sustainable development
Professor of Planning, Policy & Design, Management, Sociology, Political Science and Nursing Science; Johnson Chair for Civic Governance and Public Management
developmental psychology, social and cultural influences on adolescent and young adult development, family relationships and consequences throughout the lifespan
Research Professor and Professor Emerita in Planning, Policy, and Design and Political Science, and former Drew, Chace and Erin Warmington Chair in the Social Ecology
links between deviance and social control (especially law); the politics of crime control and criminalization; social movements and social change; and corrections and public policy.
cognitive and motivational processes that evoke emotions; how specific emotions influence the features of events people attend to, find important, and later remember; sources of bias in memory for past emotions; and the development of children’s ability to regulate emotions.
Memory development in infancy and early childhood, individual differences in long-term memory in infancy, the impact of sleep on cognitive functioning from infancy to adulthood
radical urbanism, urban policy, cultural political economy, , Chicano/Latino politics, urban restructuring, comparative racism, sociology of education, class analysis, and state theory
urban research, urban poverty, culture change, socialization and education, psychological anthropology, street gangs in cross-cultural perspective, Mexico and U.S. southwestern ethnohistory, and comparative ethnicity