Something Like We Did IV
By Tim Seibles

Xiaosheng Huang
Physics and Engineering Physics

Xiaosheng Huang’s research focuses on cosmology, with a growing emphasis on AI for science. His group develops AI foundation models, machine-learning methods, and GPU-accelerated Bayesian inference tools to discover and model strong gravitational lenses, probe dark energy and dark matter, and measure the expansion rate of the universe.

Alexis Adams-Clark
Psychology

Alexis is a Clinical Psychologist whose research focuses on sexual violence prevention and intervention, trauma-related mental health concerns, and the intersection of substance use and trauma. Her work examines how social and institutional systems influence experiences of trauma, recovery, and support.

KB Brookins
English

KB Brookins is a writer, educator, and cultural worker specializing in new forms, creative nonfiction, and poetry.

Kaley Eaton
Music

Kaley is a composer, vocalist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, who creates and performs music inspired by frontier songs of the American West, early Baroque opera, and experimental improvisation. As a theorist and scholar, Kaley researches the interconnections between technology, capitalism, and music in America.

Jane Y. Jeong
Child Studies

Jane specializes in special education law and policy; structural inequities in disability service systems; family navigation, access, and resistance.

Héctor Linares
History

Héctor's expertise includes Iberian History, Orders of Knighthood, Early Modern History, Spanish Political Culture, Legal History, Race and Indigenous Studies, and Empire-Building and Statecraft Practices.

Kyle Marini
Art and Art History

Kyle specializes in the making of textiles by Indigenous American cultures. He uses scientific analyses to recuperate information about ancient textiles in international museum collections and situate these decontextualized objects within their respective rituals through Quechua socio-linguistics and archival research. His in-progress manuscript uses technical study of braided Inca textiles as data to inform his reconstruction of a massive, destroyed textile that the Incas processed in a ritual dance on the solstice.

Anjana Parandhaman
Environmental Studies and Sciences

Anjana studies the ways in which anthropogenic disturbances impact and disrupt various aquatic and terrestrial threatened herpetofaunal (reptile and amphibian) species, including their habitat and genetic connectivity. She uses various applied conservation tools to estimate and mitigate any effects such as captive breeding, spatial and genetic analyses.

Elivia Shaw
Communication

Elivia is a documentary filmmaker, editor and cinematographer whose work focuses on intimacy and personal narrative to question our larger social systems and identities. She particularly loves to tell stories related to healthcare and the environment.

José L. Marrero Rosado
Anthropology

José is a biological anthropologist who specializes in the study of human skeletal remains, with a particular interest in how structural violence, colonialism, and disease are reflected in the human body and burial contexts, including post-mortem trajectories and interventions. His current project centers on the bioarchaeological recovery of human remains from a forgotten burial ground in historic-period San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Marie Pruitt
English

Marie is an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods researcher specializing in writing studies, technical and professional communication, network studies, and visualizations. In her writing courses, she centers collaboration, accessibility, and reflection.

Arianna Quetzal Vargas
Sociology

Arianna's expertise includes race, class, gender, immigration, Latinx and Black feminisms; social movements; Latinx sociology; Ethnic Studies; culture; health and healing; resiliency; police violence; qualitative methods; street vending; the informal economy; and Latinx middle class, urban sociology.

Lamia Benyoussef
Modern Languages and Literatures

Lamia's expertise includes Postcoloniality, Feminist Theory, Francophone Studies, African and Maghrebi Studies, Islamic Studies, Translation Studies, Foreign Language Pedagogy, and French for Specific Purposes.

Lydia de Wolf
Mathematics and Computer Science

Lydia's research interests have been in the areas of operator algebras and group theory. She is also interested in various types of logic puzzle, especially in using them to introduce students to mathematical concepts not typically encountered in first-year courses.

Ian Erickson-Kery
Modern Languages and Literatures

Ian teaches courses in Spanish language and Latin American/Latinx cultural studies. His pedagogy and scholarship draw from the environmental humanities, urban studies, and film/visual culture studies.

Caitlin Fick
Chemistry and Biochemistry

Caitlin's expertise includes polymer chemistry and physics, and equitable and inclusive teaching.

Miho Hamamoto
Modern Languages and Literatures

Miho's areas of expertise include Second Language Acquisition, language learner motivation, and identity in language and culture education. Her interests also extend to inclusive teaching practices and curriculum development that promotes student engagement and intercultural communication.

Jade Kandel
Mathematics and Computer Science

Jade's expertise includes data visualization, human computer interaction, and augmented reality for rehabilitation and health risk communication.

Daniel Lino Plata
Modern Languages and Literatures

Daniel's areas of expertise include contemporary Spanish literature, queer and LGBTQ+ studies, popular culture, and folklore in modern Spain. He is especially interested in how literature, film, and music reflect changing ideas about identity and belonging.

Leah Senatro
English

Leah's expertise includes Rhetoric and Composition, First-Year Writing, Medical Humanities, Disability Studies, and History of Rhetoric.