All Experts

All Experts

Anatoli Afanasjev

Field: Computational Physics, Nuclear Physics, Theoretical Low-Energy Nuclear Physics

Topics: Nuclear Structure , Nuclear Physics, Electromagnetism

Bio / Description:

Dr. Anatoli Afanasjev is a Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Mississippi State University. He is interested in the studies of the properties of superheavy nuclei, where proton- and neutron-rich nuclei play an important role in astrophysical processes, the physical properties of atomic nuclei at normal and extreme conditions, and the response of nuclei to fast rotation.…

Rachel Allison

Field: Sociology

Topics: Social Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Social Research, Sociology of Sports, Intersectionality

Bio / Description:

Dr. Rachel Allison is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on gender and intersectionality across societal institutions characterized by women's increased representation, including education, medicine, and sport. Dr. Allison's past research has examined racial and gender stratification in medical specialization and college students'…

Ari Ariunbold

Field: Physics

Topics: general physics, Electromagnetism, optics, molecular physics

Bio / Description:

As an atomic molecular optical (AMO) physicist, Dr. Ariunbold's research primarily focuses on experimental and theoretical studies of collective behaviors of quantum particles. These results help better understand how to create and maintain a macroscopic quantum coherence in quantum materials under practical conditions. Additionally, his research involves development and applications of label-…

Robert Banik

Field: Mathematics

Topics: Differential Equations

Bio / Description:

Mr. Banik is an instructor of mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He also serves as the undergraduate advising coordinator. His primary teaching area is in differential equations. He is available for commentary and analysis on these and related topics. 

Mitchell Berman

Field: Clinical Psychology

Topics: personality , self-injurious behavior , anxiety disorders, aggression

Bio / Description:

Dr. Mitchell Berman is a Professor of Psychology and Assistant Dean for Graduate Academic Affairs. His research interests include aggressive and self-injurious behavior in humans, including the role of social, personality, and biological influences. His clinical interests focus on cognitive-behavioral treatments for adult disorders, including anxiety disorders and aggression. His laboratory,…

John Bickle

Field: Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Science

Topics: cellular and molecular mechanisms of cognition, neuroscience philosophy, science philosophy

Bio / Description:

Dr. Bickle is a professor of Philosophy at Mississippi State University. His research focuses on the philosophy of neuroscience. From the late 1980s into the early 2000s he defended a view he labeled “new wave psychoneural reduction,” which was heavily influenced by the work of Paul and Patricia Churchland. Starting in the early 2000s, over the next decade his focus turned away from more…

LaToya Bogard

Field: English

Topics: writing

Bio / Description:

LaToya Bogard is an Instructor of Composition and Writing Coordinator at Mississippi State University. She is available for commentary and analysis on these and related topics. 

Tony Boudreaux

Field: Archaeology

Topics: archaeology, Native American societies , archaeology of public architecture

Bio / Description:

Dr. Tony Boudreaux is an archaeologist whose research has focused on late pre-Contact and Contact period Native American societies of the southeastern United States, especially complex societies of the Mississippian and Late Woodland periods. His research has explored what public and domestic architectural differences can tell us about ancient communities, how social groups interacted to…

Stephen Brain

Field: History of Science and Technology, Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History, War, Power, International Affairs

Topics: environmental history, international affairs, Russia

Bio / Description:

Dr. Stephen Brain is an associate professor in the Department of History and a co-editor of Environmental History, the journal of the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society. His research focuses on Soviet/Russian history, environmental history, and forest history as well as war, power, and international affairs. He is available to comment on the Russian-…

Stephan Brain

Field: Soviet/ Russian History, Environmental History, Forest History

Topics: War, Power, International Affairs, Agricultural, Rural and Environmental History, History of Science and Technology

Bio / Description:

Dr. Brain is an associate professor of history at Mississippi State University. His research interests include Soviet and Russian History, Environmental History, and Forest History. He is available for commentary and analysis on these and related topics. 

Mike Brown

Field: Climatology, Geography, Geosciences, Meteorology

Topics: storms, tornadoes, weather, climate

Bio / Description:

Dr. Mike Brown is the state climatologist for Mississippi and a professor of meteorology/climatology in the Department of Geosciences.  His research interests include land-surface-atmosphere interactions and severe local storms, public perception of warnings, tornado damage paths and enhanced convection, lightning probabilities at NCAA stadiums, and thermodynamic characteristics of severe…

Gil Carter

Field: Rhetoric, Political Discourse

Topics: persuasion, political communication, rhetoric

Bio / Description:

Gil Carter (Ph.D., The University of Alabama) is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Mississippi State University. Dr. Carter researches and teaches rhetoric, political communication, and persuasion. Before coming to MSU, Dr. Carter was a state-championship-winning director of debate and an assistant instructional professor at the University of Florida and…

James Chamberlain

Field: political theory

Topics: political theory, international human rights , capitalism

Bio / Description:

Dr. James Chamberlain is an Associate Professor of Political Science, specializing in political theory. Chamberlain earned his PhD in Political Science at the University of Washington in December 2013, an MA in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex (UK), and a BA in French and Philosophy from the University of Bristol (UK). Since moving to Mississippi State…

Renee Clary

Field: Geology

Topics: geology, geoscience education

Bio / Description:

Dr. Renee Clary is a Professor and Director of the Dunn-Seiler Museum in the Department of Geosciences at Mississippi State University (MSU). Her principal area of research is geoscience education. She co-founded EarthScholars Research Group with the late Jim Wandersee (LSU) in 2002 and has served as Director of the 15 Degree Laboratory since 2014. Her primary focus is the integration of…

Ben Crider

Field: Nuclear Physics

Topics: Nuclear Physics, structure of atomic nuclei , physics

Bio / Description:

Dr. Benjamin Crider is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Mississippi State University. His research focuses on experimentally studying the structure of atomic nuclei with large (or small) proton-to-neutron ratios. These so-called “exotic” nuclei often display many unexpected properties and exist for a short amount of time before decaying. Therefore,…

Padmanava Dash

Field: Geology

Topics: Geospatial Sciences, geology, remote sensing, water biogeochemistry

Bio / Description:

Dr. Padmanava Dash is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Mississippi State University (MSU). He specializes in remote sensing and water biogeochemistry. His broad research interests include investigating the conditions under which water quality issues develop, assessing their ecological impacts, and developing visualizations for their management and mitigation. His…

Hilary DeShong

Field: Clinical Psychology

Topics: psychology, personality disorders, personality , assessment and measurement

Bio / Description:

Dr. DeShong an associate professor in the Department of Psychology. Her research focuses on using the five-factor model of general personality to conceptualize, distinguish, and better understand personality disorders and personality constructs like psychopathy and Machiavellianism. She also investigates how personality can influence engagement in adaptive and maladaptive behaviors and…

Mary E. Dozier

Field: Clinical Psychology

Topics: behavioral interventions, clinical psychology, geropsychology, hoarding disorders, object attachment, psychology

Bio / Description:

Dr. Mary Dozer is a Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology.  Her research interests include geropsychology, hoarding disorder, and behavioral interventions to address psychopathology across the lifespan. Her current research focuses on hoarding disorder in older adults. She is available for commentary and analysis on these and related topics.

Lamiaa El Fassi

Field: Nuclear Physics

Topics: Nuclear Physics, Experimental Medium and High Energy Nuclear Physics, Physics

Bio / Description:

Dr. Lamiaa El Fassi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Mississippi State University. Her research focuses on 1. unraveling the dynamics of strongly interacting particles, hadrons, and their elementary constituents, quarks and gluons, via the study of the hadronization and fragmentation processes that probe the dynamics of quark propagation and hadron…

Nick Fitzkee

Field: Chemistry

Topics: chemistry, computation, physics , polymers

Bio / Description:

Dr. Nick Fitzkee is a professor in the Department of Chemistry whose research focuses on using a combination of physical chemistry, molecular biology, modeling, and NMR spectroscopy to understand the relationship between protein structure and function. Currently, our research is centered around three main projects: bacterial biofilms, protein-nanoparticle interactions, and structure and…

Ryan Folk

Field: Ecology, Evolution, Biology

Topics: bioinformatics, hybridization, plants, plant diversity , plant evolution

Bio / Description:

Dr. Ryan Folk is an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and is the university's herbarium curator. His research interests include interspecific hybridization, reconstruction of ancestral niche and species distributions, evolution of symbioses with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and automated extraction of plant traits from biodiversity literature. In addition, he leads the…

Rinat Gabitov

Field: Geology

Topics: geology, geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology, Hydrology

Bio / Description:

Dr. Rinat Gabitov is an Associate Professor in the Department Geosciences at Mississippi State University (MSU). His research interests lie in the area of experimental geochemistry. The focus of Gabitov’s research is to understand the fundamental controls on elemental and isotope partitioning between minerals and fluid, to use that knowledge to: i) Assess the risks of…

Lourdes Cardozo Gaibisso

Field: linguistics

Topics: linguistics , TESOL, language , teaching and learning for multilingual learners in science

Bio / Description:

Dr. Lourdes Cardozo-Gaibisso is an Assistant Professor of TESOL and Linguistics in the Department of English at Mississippi State University and a Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Center, where she leads the Science Literacy for Excellence (SL4E) Research Collaboratory. She is a systemic functional linguist specializing in science literacy for multilingual students. Dr. Cardozo-…

Jesse Goliath

Field: Biological Anthropology

Topics: biological anthropology, forensics, forensic anthropology

Bio / Description:

Dr. Jesse R. Goliath is an assistant professor of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures. He is an expert in Forensic Anthropology with extensive forensic casework experience from city, state, and federal agencies. He is the Founding Director of the Mississippi Repository for Missing and Unidentified Persons Project and serves as a consulting…