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.
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.
With experience as a city planner in Kansas and Theran, Iran, Goharipour’s research examines visual representation of cities, including in cinema.
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.
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.
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.
Recipient of multiple research and teaching honors, Professor of Communication Studies Denise Bostdorff analyzes political rhetoric related to issues of crisis, war and peace, and race.
Eager’s research includes early modern British literature and material culture. Her teaching extends from medieval studies to contemporary poetry, environmental writing, and anti-racism.
Craven is an interdisciplinary published scholar, teaching courses in areas of reproduction politics, ethnographic research, transnational feminisms, queer lives, and feminist teaching and learning.
Teaching on the education of students with exceptionalities, Bucher is the author of a series of books highlighting disabilities.
Bos teaches a broad range of courses in U.S. national politics including political psychology, campaigns and elections, media and politics, and research methods; and engages in research regarding civic education, political participation, and effective pedagogy in political science.
An expert in macroeconomics, Moledina is a widely published author of articles on trade, agriculture, growth, and monetary economics. He is also the co-founder of Wooster’s Social Entrepreneurship program, an experiential learning opportunity for students.
Corral’s scholarship focuses on Latinx politics, immigration policy, and race and ethnicity. He has partnered with the Immigrant Worker Project to conduct research on Latinx immigrants in Ohio.
Neptune, a 2005 College of Wooster graduate, began her teaching career in Los Angeles and contributed to the curriculum content of the Nick Jr. show “Wallykazam!”
Studying free-living eastern bluebirds and captive zebra finches, Lynn studies hormone-behavior interactions by studying stress hormone endocrinology from both a mechanistic standpoint and an evolutionary standpoint.
Working with undergraduate students, Herzmann studies memory and cognition relating to facial recognition. Herzmann is especially interested in “the other race effect,” a phenomenon that describes the increased facial recognition of people of the same race as oneself.
Fraga works with students to study how proteins can be used to help address societal and economic problems including, environmental clean-up or the industrial synthesis of valuable compounds.
Using Drosophila melanogaster (the fruit fly), Kelly investigates the function of the “fly ZC3H14” gene (called Nab2 in flies), in nervous system development and function, especially as it relates to intellectual disability and IQ.
Stavnezer is interested in behavioral neuroscience and works with students to investigate the role of sex in the completion of complex tasks and the effect of environmental factors on learning and memory in mice and rats.