Nii Nikoi

Nii Nikoi

Drawing on his background in graphic design and photography, Nikoi studies African pop culture and meaningful practices related to questions of power and hierarchy.

Moses Luri

Moses Luri

Luri is a researcher of environmental and natural resource economics with published work in the area focusing on the middle-United States, and he works with students to develop data analysis skills.

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Melanie Long

An economist with a research interest in household finance and gender and feminist economics, Long explores causes of systemic inequality in household debt and access to low-cost consumer credit.

Setsuko Matsuzawa

Setsuko Matsuzawa

With a primary research area in environmental activism in East Asia, Matsuzawa also works with students on topics such as social movements, developmental law, and transnational/global sociology.

Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson

A Wooster alumnus, Wilson is an invertebrate paleontologist and sedimentary geologist with dozens of publications and honors for his work. He is also known for his course, History of Life.

Marina Mangubi

Marina Mangubi

A painter, printmaker, and installation artist, Mangubi’s extensive work has been exhibited around the world and is in permanent collections in Maine, Oregon, California, and Malaysia. Her thematic projects probe hidden meanings in familiar historical and philosophical constructs.

Mareike Herrmann

Mareike Herrmann

A native of Northern Germany, Herrmann’s primary areas of interest are 19th and 20th century German literature, film, cultural studies, and women’s studies.

Lee A. McBride III

Lee A. McBride III

A specialist in American philosophy, political philosophy, and ethics, McBride works with students to better understand decolonial philosophy, the ethics of food, and environmental philosophy.

Laura Sirot

Using techniques from animal behavior, ecology, evolutionary biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, and bioinformatics, Sirot’s current area of research seeks to understand seminal fluid proteins, which are proteins synthesized by males that have functions within mated females in a wide range of species, including humans.

Jeremy Rapport

Jeremy Rapport

Rapport’s scholarship focuses on American religious history, including religious movements in America and metaphysical religions. He also teaches on the intersection of religion with race, gender, and class.

Jeff Lantis

Jeffrey S. Lantis

The author of several books focused on foreign policy analysis and international security, Lantis is a recipient of the Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Award from the International Studies Association for his active teaching innovations.

Huiting Tian

Huiting Tian

Tian’s research is focused on applied econometrics and applied microeconomics in relation to industry organization, the environment, and financial institutions. She works with students in areas such as corporate finance, portfolio theory, and capital markets.

Heather Guarnera

With experience as a software engineer, Guarnera introduces students to algorithms and programming. Outside of class, she researches and has published work in graph theory and algorithmic applications.

Hamed Goharipour

Hamed Goharipour

With experience as a city planner in Kansas and Theran, Iran, Goharipour’s research examines visual representation of cities, including in cinema.

Greg Shaya

Greg Shaya

Shaya researches the cultural history of France in the late 19th and early 20th century. He also teaches on film history and documentary filmmaking and founded of the Wooster Digital History Project.

Erum Haider

Erum Haider

Having completed her doctoral research on the ability of citizens to use political representatives to lobby for better provision, Haider’s research studies the privatization of public goods, primarily in Karachi, Pakistan.

Elizabeth Derderian

Beth Derderian

Teaching courses in museum studies, Derderian has research interests in politics of representation, migration, and the Middle East and Arabian Peninsula.

Désirée Weber

Weber’s research has focused on language, discourse, and argumentation in political thinking. She specializes in the influence of language philosophers on political understanding and judgement.

Donald M. Goldberg

Donald M. Goldberg

Known for his work with Deaf and hard of hearing children, Goldberg studies auditory-verbal therapy and spoken language teaching to assess the communication of children and adults who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Denise M. Bostdorff

Denise M. Bostdorff

Published extensively in journals in the field of communication and the recipient of multiple research and teaching honors, Bostdorff analyzes political rhetoric related to issues of crisis, war and peace, and race.