These faculty have expressed a willingness to work with students in
either the Undergraduate Research Assistant Program (URAP), the Summer Undergraduate Research Grant (SURG) program or both. Below is a list of
specific faculty and their research programs. If you find a match
between your interests and theirs, please feel free to contact them.
John Mazzeo, Anthropology
Medical anthropology
and community health research in cross-cultural settings. This can
include topics related to food security and livelihood systems. I can
also support applied public health research projects. I use a mixed
methods design qualitative and quantitative approaches for primary
data collection through fieldwork. I encourage students to work
internationally, but I am also interested in local projects. My field
experience includes Haiti, Bahamas, and Zimbabwe. jmazzeo@depaul.edu
Robert Rotenberg, Anthropology
I am a
cultural/linguistic anthropologist interested in how people derive
meaning from experience and in the "history of the present." As such, I
have very broad research interests and experiences. I would be helpful
to students' projects in the following areas: urban culture, especially
sub-cultures, marginalized groups and hidden groups; national cultures;
transnational (migrant) experiences and communities; cultural geography
(the meaning people attribute to specific space(s) and place(s)); nature
in the city, especially issues of micro-environments (houses,
neighborhoods) and sustainability; land use issues (zoning, historic
preservation, signage, community appearance); new media, especially
podcasting and videocasting; questions of the nature of mind and
consciousness; functional linguistics (language in use as opposed to
language in the abstract); new forms of communication (i.e. Facebook,
Twitter, texting); semiotics, symbols and fashion; questions of social
time, calendrics, and other social rhythms; specific commodities (i.e.
salt, oil, the iPod, etc.); food-based projects ( food history, food
habits, craft of cooking and restaurants, specific foods);
European-based projects in culture (especially in areas speaking
Germanic languages, but also Mediterranean areas, not politics). rrotenbe@depaul.edu
Steve Harp Art, Media and Design
My research
explores interdisciplinary approaches (both theoretical and in practice)
to the photographic image, with a special interest in psychoanalytic
perspectives. Im particularly focused on Roland Barthes comment,
offered in Camera Lucida: I was overcome by an ontological desire: I
wanted to learn at all costs what Photography was in itself, by what
essential feature it was to be distinguished from the community of
images. sharp@depaul.edu
Jonathan Gross, English
Byron's marginalia, as it relates to works he read by Isaac Disraeli, Torquato Tasso, Ugo Foscolo, and other poets and writers of Regency England. Also, Graffiti, hip-hop, and visual expressions of political rebellion on subways and walls in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles (1980s), as well as Naples, Gdansk, Paris (today)--transforming Chicago public schools through incorporating a hip-hop curriculum (working title, Cure for the Common Core: Arts Integration in the Chicago Public Schools).
James H. Murphy, English
The culture and
literature of nineteenth-century Ireland and Britain, particularly the
history of the novel. The political history of nineteenth century
Ireland and Britain, particularly the interaction between nationalism
and the institutions of the state. jmurphy5@depaul.edu
John Shanahan, English
I work on seventeenth-
and eighteenth-century English literature, the history of science,
literary theory, and the changing relations of science and literature
since the Renaissance. Recently I have been writing on contemporary
science- and technology-themed fiction and new media narrative. jshannah1@depaul.edu
Euan Hague, Geography
Gentrification in
Chicago; race/class development of U.S. (private) housing; Scottish
migration to the U.S., images of Scotland; pro-Confederate nationalism
in the U.S.; monuments; mobility and U.S. highway development;
radical/racist right wing politics in the U.S., international, national,
and local geographies of mens soccer. ehague@depaul.edu
Elizabeth Lillihoj History of Art and Architecture
History
of Asian art and architecture; visual traditions of Buddhism; images of
women in Asian art; Japanese cultural traditions; Asian art collections
in Chicago and the Midwest. elilleho@depaul.edu
Antonio Morales-Pita, International Studies
International
political economy; the increase of left-wing governments in Latin
America (origin and perspective developments); the study of the emerging
economies (Brazil, Russia, India, and China); U.S. economy recession
and its impact of the world economy; perspectives on the development of
the European Union. amorale1@depaul.edu
Heidi J. Nast, International Studies
Social
theory and geography, particularly the intersections of critical race,
feminist, queer, and Marxian theories. Special interest in the geography
and history of political economy and reproduction. hnast@depaul.edu
Bradley Hoot, Modern Languages
My research uses experimental methods to investigate the structure of language. I am interested in how language is represented in the minds of bilinguals, especially Spanish/English bilinguals in the United States, and I am also interested in linguistic theories of information structure (how speakers make the more informative parts of sentences prominent using word order and intonation), especially in Spanish and Hungarian. I have worked on information structure in Spanish/English and Hungarian/English bilinguals, as well as Spanish/English code-switching (the use of more than one language in a single utterance), and I have previously mentored undergraduate students interested in these topics. I am more broadly interested in bilingualism, code-switching, linguistic theory, syntax and its relationship to intonation, and quantitative methods in linguistics. bhoot@depaul.edu
Elizabeth Millan, Philosophy
Topics and figures
that I work on: Aesthetics, Latin American philosophy, Schlegel,
Novalis, Alexander von Humboldt and the relation between scientific
method and aesthetics, the aesthetic appreciation of nature. I am
interested in projects that cross disciplinary boundaries, but do so in a
way that preserves the rigor of the philosophical method. I approach
all of the above-mentioned areas via a close historical method of
contextualization and a philosophical analysis of the issues and texts
under investigation. emillanz@depaul.edu
Chris Tirres, Religious Studies
I am
interested in how the idea of liberation has been construed within the
context of the Americas. My current research focuses on the
intersection between liberation theology (in Latin America and in U.S.
Latino/a theology) on the one hand, and U.S. pragmatism (particularly
the philosophy of John Dewey), on the other. Research interests include
popular religion, ritual theory, political theology, aesthetics, and
critical theory. ctirres@gmail.com
Fernando De Maio, Sociology
Social determinants
of health, including income inequality and racism / discrimination;
health transitions of immigrants; analysis of social surveys; Latin
American political and social change. fdemaio@depaul.edu
Faculty interested in adding their information to this resource should contact Associate Dean Warren Schultz.