Dr. Gray teaches German language, literature, cultural studies, comparative literature, philosophy, intellectual history, the history of science, and some social and political theory. All of her courses are taught in German. Her research focuses on the intersections of Literature, Philosophy, and Natural Science in late 18th-century German Lands. Her teaching interests include: European…

Dr. Margaret Hagerman is the author of the award-winning book, White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America (NYU Press 2018), and she is a nationally recognized expert on white racial socialization processes. She is available for comments and analysis on how children and youth learn about racism, racial inequality, and racial privilege in their everyday lives.

Beginning from his years as an undergraduate at Mississippi State University, Jimmy Hardin has participated widely in archaeological fieldwork, both in the southeastern and southwestern United States and at numerous sites in Cyprus, Israel and Jordan. He has been involved with the Lahav Research Project's work at Tel Halif in Israel since 1986 and is a member of the Project's Phase III Field…

Stacy Hoskins Haynes joined the faculty at Mississippi State University in 2008 after receiving her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology and Crime, Law, and Justice at Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on issues related to victimization, sentencing, juvenile justice, and criminal justice policy. Dr. Haynes's previous research has examined offenders' and victims' experiences…

Tonya Hays is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication teaching acting, playwriting, directing, theatre for young audiences and theatre for change.  Her recent Theatre MSU productions include Banner: a Sea Turtle Saga which engaged audience members in the fate of sea life in climate change and challenged them to take action. This production garnered international…

Dr. Hobson is a historian of 20^th and 21^st century international affairs who specializes in the history of ideas, the history of emotions, and in U.S. and Middle East history. His book “Chains of Vengeance: The United States, the Middle East, and the Wars of Terrorism, 1967-2021” examines the rise of vengeance in U.S.-Middle East relations in the latter decades…

Dr. Allison Jaeger (Berena) is an assistant professor of Cognitive Psychology. Her research interests are situated at the intersection of cognitive psychology and education. Her research explores how individual differences in cognitive capacities such as spatial thinking impact STEM learning and reasoning and how educational materials and instructions can be designed to support all types…

Dr. Jordan is a Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Biology at Mississippi State. Her research interests include microbiology, molecular biology, bacteria, the microbiome, etc. She is available for commentary and analysis on these and related topics. 

Kimberly Kelly is Professor of Sociology and Director of Gender Studies at Mississippi State University. She studies the intersections of religion and reproductive politics, focusing upon abortion activism in the United States. Her previous work addressed the crisis pregnancy center movement, ‘post abortion syndrome,’ and the diffusion of religious ideology into public policy and appears in…

Andrew F. Lang specializes in the history of nineteenth-century America and the U. S. Civil War Era. His most recent book, A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (2021), is published in the University of North Carolina Press’s landmark series, Littlefield History of the Civil War Era. Prof. Lang serves on the…

Dr. Li has been developing an integrated experimental/biocomputational approach to identify the factors that regulate plant metabolism and adaptation to environmental changes, focusing on expanding the fundamental understanding of biological networks, in particular those that shift metabolism and thus alter composition. She is available for commentary and analysis on these and related…

Dr. Terry Likes, an award-winning educator and journalist, is the head of the Department of Communication and tenured full professor at Mississippi State University. He is an expert in radio-tv writing, reporting, production, and producing. Likes has won over 100 awards and honors in his career, and has conducted 37 presentations at a variety of conferences. His research interests include…

Dr. Qingmin Meng studies human environment interaction with focus on complex relationship among landscape, physical environment, natural resources, and human activities. His research integrates mathematics and statistics into quantitative geospatial analysis and modeling with vector, raster, and time series datasets. Currently, he focuses on geospatial big data…

Dr. Andrew Mercer is a meteorologist/climatologist whose primary research expertise centers on the application of machine learning/artificial intelligence methods to large-scale meteorological and climatological problems. He has published works in many different meteorological areas, including mountain windstorm forecasting, wind energy forecasting, warm-season…

Peter Messer is a historian of Early American politics and culture. His interest lies in the theory and practice of politics in eighteenth-century America, particularly the intersection of natural historical thought and nation building in the era of the Early American Republic.

Dr. Kelly Moser is an Associate Professor of Spanish and World Language Teaching in the Department of Classical & Modern Languages and Literatures. Her research explores language teacher identity, teacher cognition, and teacher practice. Moser’s critical research in System in which she uncovered how K-12 and post-secondary world language teachers enacted emergency remote instruction at the…

Dr. Keith Moser is a Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Classical & Modern Languages and Literatures.  He has more than 100 major publications including nine books and eighty-five articles.  Moser’s research examines many issues linked to social-ecological justice.  He is widely recognized by the international academic community as an expert in…

Dr. Michael Nadorff is a professor of psychology and also directs the clinical psychology PhD program. His research focuses on the association between sleep difficulties, nightmares, and suicidal behavior. He is available for commentary and analysis on these and related topics.
 

The research in our laboratory focuses on applying mass spectrometry, ion mobility spectrometry, and infrared ion spectroscopy to learn fundamental properties of various types of ions and clusters. These properties include ionization, clustering, and dissociation. We are especially interested in molecular systems with high societal importance, thus our research focuses on three application…

Dr. Donna Pierce is an associate professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Mississippi State University. Her research concerns the physical and chemical properties of comets. She collaborates with observational astronomers to build interpretive models of the chemistry and structure of comet atmospheres that are in turn used to determine chemical and physical properties of…

Dr. Holli Seitz is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and director of the Message Laboratory at the MSU Social Science Research Center. Seitz's research focuses on health communication, message effects, media effects and health equity. She is an applied communication scientist, using her knowledge to help others craft more effective messages.

Dr. Brian Shoup is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration where he teaches comparative politics and public policy. His primary research interests are identity politics and conflict and state and nation-building. He is the author of Conflict and Cooperation in Multi-Ethnic States: Institutional Incentives, Myths, and Counterbalancing and his research has appeared in…

Dr. Adam Skarke is a geologist with broad research interests in the fields of marine geology and geophysics. The goal of his research is to better understand fundamental physical relationships between sediment transport, morphological expression, stratigraphy, and subsurface fluid flow in seafloor environments that span the continental margin from coastal waters to the deep sea. He seeks…

Tara E. Sutton, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Sociology, Gender Studies affiliate, and African American studies affiliate at Mississippi State University. Dr. Sutton's work on perpetration and victimization incorporates queer criminology and feminist criminology perspectives. Specifically, her research addresses child abuse, sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and the cycle of…