2018-2019 Roster

RESEARCH: Writes, illustrates and publishes the journal Spartan Holiday: Dispatches from the Road and Notes on Visual Culture. History and theory of drawing, illustration, comics and cartooning; the culture of the illustrated periodical; modernism and consumer culture; gender and the history of illustration
TEACHING: Undergraduate studio courses in communication design; senior courses in drawing, illustration, comics and cartooning. American Culture Studies courses in modern print culture of the 19th and 20th century; history of illustration, comics and animation

RESEARCH: Health policy issues, particularly health reform, health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, rural health and aging programs
TEACHING: Graduate level courses focused on health policy, health economics, and aging

RESEARCH: Decoupling processes associated with visual word recognition, attention and memory in young adults, and differences in these processes across young adults, older adults and individuals in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease
TEACHING:Cognitive Psychology, Psychology and Language, and the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Freshman seminar

RESEARCH: Clinical care in diabetes and endocrinology. Clinical medical ethics and education
TEACHING: Student, resident and fellowship medical education. Director of a Practicum in Medical Ethics, involving multiple clinical medical disciplines

RESEARCH: Chemical processes that control the composition of soils, sediments, and water. Applications to environmental contamination, early Earth history, and the origin of hydrous minerals on Mars
TEACHING: Undergraduate courses on water chemistry, soils, and the relationship between geology and human health. Graduate courses on mineral surface chemistry, modeling of aqueous chemistry, and professional development

RESEARCH: Bayesian statistics, development of methods related to moment restricted models, causal inference, marginal likelihood computation, model choice, and Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation
TEACHING: Graduate level courses in Bayesian inference, preparing students for careers in research and teaching or applied data-intensive work

RESEARCH: Racial/ethnic inequalities in health, social and economic determinants of health, social mobility, stress and health, mental health
TEACHING: Graduate level courses in health behavior theory and practice, social epidemiology, and transdisciplinary problem solving in public health

RESEARCH: Medical Director of the Washington University Wolfram Syndrome Research Clinic; studies looking a sulfonylurea medication responsiveness in presumed Type 1 diabetes
TEACHING:“Clinical Correlations in Diabetes” for WUMS1 students; “Growth and Development” for WUMS3 students; Clinical teaching with fellows in endocrinology and metabolism and residents in the Department of Pediatrics

RESEARCH: The history of 20th-century African American culture, particularly the ties among black writing, transatlantic modernism, and radical and anti-radical politics
TEACHING: Graduate and undergraduate classes on modern American and African American literatures

RESEARCH: How housing matters to children and adolescents. Assess the role of risk and protective factors on minority youth health and well-being in urban public housing
TEACHING: Graduate level courses in research methods, program evaluation and organizational and community practice

RESEARCH: Studies at the confluence of Electrochemical Engineering and Materials Science, with an emphasis on electrochemical energy conversion and storage
TEACHING: Undergraduate and Graduate courses in Electrochemical Engineering, Energy Conversion and Storage, and Chemical Reaction Engineering

RESEARCH: Public international law, human rights, international criminal law, International Criminal Court, U.S. foreign policy and the scourge of crimes against humanity
TEACHING: International law, international human rights, seminars and courses on international crime including terrorism and continuing to advise the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Team

RESEARCH: Developing Trauma Systems at Regional and State levels, Improving care for the geriatric trauma patient, Hospital Based Violence Intervention Programs
TEACHING: Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Director, Faculty for General Surgery residency

RESEARCH:The intersection of medieval literature and the development of the common law
TEACHING: Freshman, Senior and Prison Education courses on Rhetoric and Argumentation, and the Law and Literature

RESEARCH: New technologies in refractive cataract surgery; ophthalmic surgical curriculum development and competence assessment
TEACHING: Resident level teaching courses regarding cataract and refractive surgery; physician advocacy and leadership development