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	Willie Baronet	Stan Richards Professor in Creative Advertising	Advertising	Creativity, leadership, and his homeless project "WE ARE ALL HOMELESS."
	Nicole Haddad	Executive-in-Residence	Advertising	Sustainable collaboration, transformative team development, and creative leadership; problem-solving with a creative mindset to produce breakthrough results.
	Alice Kendrick	Professor	Advertising	Advertising research, account planning, contemporary issues in advertising, and effectiveness of promotional products.
	Carrie La Ferle	Marriott Endowed Professor of Ethics and Culture	Advertising	How culture (national, racial/ethnic, religious, etc.) impacts effective communication and the importance of ethics and social responsibility in advertising.
	Michael Adler	Department Chair and Associate Professor	Anthropology	Complex ancestries of Native American, particularly Puebloan, communities in the American Southwest.
	Eric Bing	Professor of Global Health	Anthropology	Worldwide health issues and initiatives, obstacles to adequate health care, health care in Third World countries.
	Matthew Boulanger	Lecturer	Anthropology	North American archaeology (focus on Paleoindian archaeology - the first humans to reach the Americas), pseudoscience/fringe science, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and curation of archaeological collections/information.
	Maryann R. Cairns	Associate Professor	Anthropology	Using creative research design and cultural understanding to safeguard environmental resources and human health, focus on the apparel and textile industry.
Kacy Hollenback	Kacy Hollenback	Associate Professor	Anthropology	Long-term impacts of disaster, archaeology and anthropology of the American Great Plains, Indigenous Studies in North America.
	Kelly McKowen	Assistant Professor	Anthropology	Political economy, culture, and technology in contemporary Norway.
	David Meltzer	Professor	Anthropology	The origins, antiquity, and adaptations of the first Americans who colonized the North American continent at the end of the Ice Age, including how these hunter-gatherers met the challenges of significant climate change.
	Neely Myers	Professor	Anthropology	Social determinants of mental health; youth mental health and illness; and, the role of culture in the experience; understanding and treatment of mental health and illness around the world.
	Nia Parson	Professor	Anthropology	Interpersonal and collective forms of violence, and mental and physical health and how they relate to gender.
	Christopher Roos	Professor	Anthropology	Wildfires (mainly historical perspective), Indigenous or cultural burning practices, and United States Southwest archaeology.
	Amanda W. Dotseth	Linda P. and William A. Custard Director of the Meadows Museum and Centennial Chair in the Meadows School of the Arts	Art	Medieval art, Spanish art, art history, museum management, art markets
	Elizabeth Bacon Eager	Assistant Professor	Art	Transatlantic history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and material culture, with a focus on intersections between art, science and technology.
	Roberto Conduru	Endowed Distinguished Professor of Art History	Art	Modern and contemporary art and architecture in Brazil with an emphasis on Afro-Brazilian art, as well as Constructivist art and architecture, global art history and current debates in the arts of Latin America and the trans-Atlantic world.
	Amy Freund	Associate Professor and Kleinheinz Family Endowed Chair in Art History	Art	18th-century European art, politics and visual culture, portraiture and the history of selfhood, the visual representation of animals, gender and representation, the history and decoration of mechanical objects.
	Randall Griffin	University Distinguished Professor	Art	American art and photography, from the Civil War through the 1950s.
	James Hart	Director of Social Innovation, Creative, and Arts Entrepreneurship	Art	Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship.
	Adam Herring	Emily Rich Summers Endowed Professor in Art History Department Chair	Art	Art of the pre-Columbian Americas, visual theory and semiotics, anthropological and materialist critique of visual experience, and the history of the discipline.
	Sam Holland	Professor Algur H. Meadows Dean and Professor of Music	Art	Piano pedagogy, music and human learning.
	Zannie Voss	Professor and Director SMU DataArts and Professor of Arts Management	Art	Arts management, including cultural event attendance, and arts entrepreneurship.
	P. Gregory Warden	Mark A. Roglán Director of the Custard Institute for Spanish Art and Culture	Art	Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art and archaeology; museum management.
	Elfi Kraka	Professor	Chemistry	High performance computing, method development and application, Artificial Intelligence, vibrational spectroscopy, catalysis, materials and drug design.
	Brian Zoltowski	Associate Professor	Chemistry	Effect of blue light on people.
	Maria Dixon Hall	Associate Professor and Chief Diversity Officer	Corporate Communications	Organizational strategy and planning. The intersection of power, identity, and culture in corporate, non-profit, and religious organizations.
Mitch Thornton	Mitch Thornton	Cecil H. Green Chair of Engineering and Professor	Cybersecurity	Hardware Security including IoT and embedded systems, system and network modeling, computer architecture, quantum computing, and formal methods.	.
	John Potter	Clinical Associate Professor	Dispute Resolution	Dispute resolution and conflict management. Mediated more than 3,000 disputes with many of those occurring in the health care field.
	Heather DeShon	Professor and Department Chair	Earth Sciences and Hazards	Earthquake physics, induced seismicity, earthquake generation, volcano seismology, and plate tectonics.
	Alexander Chase	Assistant Professor	Earth Sciences and Hazards	Soil microbiome responses to climate change, discovery of marine natural products for pharmaceutical discovery and impact of dietary fiber on the human gut microbiome.
	Zhong Lu	Professor and Shuler-Foscue Chair	Earth Sciences and Hazards	Use of InSAR technology to analyze changes in the Earth, like the emergence of sinkholes in West Texas and previously unidentified landslides on the U.S. West Coast.
	Maria Beatrice Magnani	Professor and Director of Graduate Studies	Earth Sciences and Hazards	How the land and ocean floor were made and change over time.
	Maria Richards	Geothermal Lab Coordinator	Earth Sciences and Hazards	Geothermal energy -- the use of the earth's natural heat to generate electrical power.
	Brian Stump	Albritton Professor	Earth Sciences and Hazards	Seismic wave propagation, earthquake source theory and explosions as a source of seismic waves, and science and politics in the nuclear age.
	Matthew B. Myers	Dean of the Cox School of Business at SMU	Economics and Business	Global marketing and strategy issues, cross-border business relationships, international pricing strategies, comparative marketing systems.
	Cullum Clark	Director Bush Institute - SMU Economic Growth Initiative and Adjunct Professor of Economics	Economics and Business	Macroeconomic policy, economic geography and urban economics, modern economic history.
	Michael Cox	Executive in Residence at the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom	Economics and Business	Impact of competitive market forces on freedom and prosperity in the global economy.
	Michael Davis	Clinical Professor	Economics and Business	Intersection of government and business.
	Tom Fomby	Professor	Economics and Business	Economic forecasting and data mining.
	Daniel Millimet	Department Chair and Dedman Trustee Professor	Economics and Business	Understanding the causal effects of public policies (labor, educational, environmental, trade) on economic outcomes.
	Albert Niemi	Professor and O’Neil Chair in Global Markets and Freedom	Economics and Business	Economic growth, economic forecasting, and American business history.
	Stephanie Knight	Leon Simmons Endowed Dean of the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development	Education	Relationships between instructional strategies, classroom processes, learning environments and student outcomes; teacher professional development, and the use of observational techniques to study classroom processes.
	Jill Allor	University Distinguished Professor	Education	Reading acquisition for students with and without disabilities, including students with learning disabilities or intellectual disabilities.
	Stephanie Al Otaiba	Professor and Patsy and Ray Caldwell Centennial Chair in Teaching and Learning	Education	School-based literacy interventions, response to intervention, learning disabilities, diverse learners, and teacher training.
	David Bertrand	Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the Sport Performance Leadership program	Education	Leadership coach with two decades of blended experience in human development, high-performance coaching, and education.
	Corey Brady	Associate Professor	Education	Mathematical and computational modeling, with a particular emphasis on supporting and understanding the collective learning of classroom groups.
	Peter Carton	Director of Sport Management and Clinical Assistant Professor	Education	Sports management and academic excellence, oversees placement of SMU interns in the professional sports teams in Dallas and beyond.
	Mark Chancey	Professor	Education	Recognized authority on the constitutional, political and academic issues raised by Bible courses in public schools.
	Karla del Rosal	Clinical Assistant Professor	Education	Bilingual education, ESL instruction, student diversity, and classroom assessment.
	Leanne Ketterlin Geller	Professor	Education	Mathematics education, including procedures and decision-making targeting student needs.
	Francesca Go	Clinical Associate Professor	Education	Behavior, reading, cognitive disabilities, autism, assessment and measurement.
	Michael Harris	Department Chair of the Department of Education Policy and Leadership, and Director of the Ed.D. in Higher Education program	Education	The culture, strategy, and behavior of higher education institutions.
	Watt Lesley Black, Jr.	Clinical Professor in Education Policy and Law	Education	Legal and policy issues in K-12 and higher education; First Amendment expression rights of both students and teachers, Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection analysis, affirmative action and diversity in the public schools.
	Lin Lipsmeyer	Professor and Department Chair of Teaching and Learning	Education	Interdisciplinary research in learning sciences, cognition, and innovative technologies, bridging learning sciences, artificial intelligence, and STEAM learning.
	Scott Norris	Associate Professor of Mathematics	Education	Importance of mathematics education, likelihood of winning the lottery or the Powerball.
	Candace Walkington	Professor, Annette and Harold Simmons Centennial Chair, and a Gerald J. Ford Research Fellow in the Department of Teaching	Education	Mathematics education; “personalizing” mathematics instruction to students’ out of-school interests in areas like sports, music, shopping, and video games, and their intended careers like nursing or software design.
	Johnitha Watkins Johnson	Clinical Assistant Professor	Education	Equity in education; developed the Urban Education specialization in the Department of Teaching and Learning.
	Willis A. Jones	Associate Professor	Education	Exploring how intercollegiate athletics influence organizational and student outcomes, college student retention, college rankings, historically Black colleges and universities, faculty governance, community colleges, and adult learners.
	Magdalena Pando	Associate Professor	Education	Teacher preparation and professional development aimed at fostering culturally and linguistically inclusive teaching methods in early childhood and K-12 education, model-based inquiry methods in STEM education.
	Bruce Bullock	Director, Maguire Energy Institute	Energy Industry	Management, marketing and policy issues related to the energy industry, including oil, gas, wind and geothermal.
	Joe Camp	Professor and Interim Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering	Engineering	Drone communications, wireless systems.
	Sila Çetinkaya	Chair and Professor of OREM and Cecil H. Green Professor of Engineering	Engineering	Supply chain systems, manufacturing, providing quantitative evidence to assess healthcare operations.
John Easton	John Easton	Associate Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering	Engineering	Water quality modeling and monitoring, air quality monitoring and solid and hazardous waste management.
	MinJun Kim	Robert C. Womack Endowed Chair Professor of Engineering	Engineering	Nanobiotechnology, such as nanopore technology and nano/micro robotics.
	Nicos Makris	Addy Family Centennial Professor in Civil Engineering	Engineering	Structural and earthquake engineering.
	Barbara Minsker	Bobby B. Lyle Endowed Professor of Leadership and Global Entrepreneurship	Engineering	Infrastructure equity and urban sustainability.
	Andrew Quicksall	Associate Professor	Engineering	Water contamination in the natural environment by probing both solution and solid chemistry of natural materials.
Saeed Salehi	Saeed Salehi	Herman Brown Endowed Chair of Engineering	Engineering	Fossil fuels and geothermal energy systems, greenhouse gas containment and mitigation and petroleum and natural gas engineering systems.
	Kathleen Smits	Professor and Fellow, Maguire Energy Institute and Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering	Engineering	How water and energy interact with the environment, including greenhouse gas emissions, soil contamination, land/atmosphere interactions and mercury emissions from gold mining.
Donghai Wang	Donghai Wang	Brown Foundation Chair of Mechanical Engineering	Engineering	Nanostructured functional materials and energy storage technologies like Li-ion batteries and also beyond Li-ion batteries.
	Jia Zhang	Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Computer Science, and the Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centennial Chair in Engineering	Engineering	Machine learning, data science and cloud computing.
	Rita Kirk	William F May Endowed Director of the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility	Ethics	Ethics in corporate communications and public affairs.
	Tom Mayo	Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Law	Ethics	Medical ethics, health care law, bioethics, medical-legal humanities, constitutional law, family law, administrative law and legislation.
	Mark Chancey	Professor	Evolution	Recognized authority on the constitutional, political and academic issues raised by Bible courses in public schools.
	Pia Vogel	Professor	Evolution	Biological sciences, evolutionary science and scientific inquiry.
	Jenny B. Davis	Professor	Fashion and Sustainable Fashion Practices	Fashion trends, business of fashion, plus streetwear fashion and culture.
	Maryann R. Cairns	Associate Professor	Fashion and Sustainable Fashion Practices	Using creative research design and cultural understanding to safeguard environmental resources and human health, focus on apparel and textile industry.
	Rick Worland	Professor	Film	Film history, documentary and silent cinema, as well as popular genres including Westerns, horror/science fiction, film noir, European cinema and the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
	Sean Griffin	Professor	Film	History of the American musicals, gay and lesbian films, and the interactions between the Walt Disney Company and gay communities.
	Mark Kerins	Professor	Film	Film production, faculty advisor to the Summer Film Production program.
	David Sedman	Associate Professor	Film	Video production, broadcast and film history, electronic media policy.
	Eric Bing	Professor of Global Health	Healthcare	Worldwide health issues and initiatives, obstacles to adequate health care, health care in Third World countries.
	Nathan Cortez	Co-Director of the Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation Adelfa Botello Callejo Endowed Professor of Law in Leadership and Latino Studies	Healthcare	Health law, administrative law, and FDA law, as well as emerging markets in health care and biotechnology.
	Tom Mayo	Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Law	Healthcare	Medical ethics, health care law, bioethics, medical-legal humanities, constitutional law, family law, administrative law and legislation.
	Edward F. Countryman	University Distinguished Professor History	History	Social consequences of cultural clashes in America.
	Melissa Barden Dowling	Department Chair and Associate Professor Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Director of Classical Studies	History	Ancient Rome and Greece, and related topics.
	Jeffrey Engel	Director of the Center for Presidential History and Professor	History	U.S. presidency and American diplomatic history.
	Andrew Graybill	Director of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies and Professor	History	North American West with particular interest in expansion, borders, race, violence, and the environment.
	Alexis McCrossen	Professor	History	Temporal studies (emerging area in historical research), a new way of looking at the past through the study of measurement, importance and recognition of time.
	Rick Halperin	Director of the Human Rights Program and Professor	Human Rights	Human rights, genocide, and historical and current abuse of human rights in various countries. Past chair of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA.
	Natalie Nanasi	Associate Professor and Director of the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women	Human Rights	Survivors of intimate partner violence, human trafficking, and sexual abuse in a broad range of legal matters.
	Beth Wheaton-Páramo	Research Assistant Professor	Human Rights	Using economics to better understand and analyze human rights issues, leading the SMU human trafficking research team.
	Jim Hollifield	Director of the John Goodwin Tower Center for Public Policy and International Affairs	Immigration	Global migration, immigration assimilation in Dallas-Fort Worth.
	George A. Martinez	Professor	Immigration	Immigration law, federal courts, legal history, and jurisprudence.
	Harold J. Recinos	Professor	Immigration	Popular religion; race, ethnicity, and religion; Hispanic/Latino/theology; Latin American immigrants/refugees in the United States, liberation theologies, congregational studies.
	Matthew Wilson	Associate Professor	Immigration	Politics and voting behavior of religious voters, public opinion, elections, religion and politics, and political psychology.
	Jake Batsell	William J. O’Neil Chair in Business Journalism and Associate Professor	Journalism	Business journalism, media entrepreneurship, digital journalism, and the shifting economics of the news industry.
	Jenny B. Davis	Professor	Journalism	Fashion trends, business of fashion, plus streetwear fashion and culture.
	Karen Thomas	Professor	Journalism	Spent more than 25 years in the trenches of daily journalism.
	Jayne Suhler	Professor	Journalism	Fashion media and journalism ethics.
	Dale Carpenter	Professor, Judge William Hawley Atwell Chair of Constitutional Law and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor	Legal Matters	Constitutional law, First Amendment, LGBTQ Rights, Civil Rights.
	Carliss Chatman	Associate Professor	Legal Matters	Corporate law, ethics, and civil procedure, the interplay of business entities, government and natural persons.
	Anthony Colangelo	Professor	Legal Matters	Conflict of laws, civil procedure, U.S. foreign relations law, and private and public international law and theory.
	Nathan Cortez	Co-Director of the Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation	Legal Matters	Health law, administrative law, and FDA law, as well as emerging markets in health care and biotechnology.
	Julie Forrester Rogers	Professor	Legal Matters	Property, real estate transactions, and land use, as well as real estate finance, predatory lending, and bankruptcy law.
	Jeffrey Kahn	Professor	Legal Matters	U.S. Constitutional Law, Russian Law, National Security Law, International Human Rights Law, European Convention on Human Rights, Administrative Law.
	Tom Mayo	Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Law	Legal Matters	Medical ethics, health care law, bioethics, medical-legal humanities, constitutional law, family law, administrative law and legislation.
	Natalie Nanasi	Associate Professor	Legal Matters	Survivors of intimate partner violence, human trafficking, and sexual abuse in a broad range of legal matters.
	Meghan Ryan	Professor and Co-Director of the Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor	Legal Matters	Intersection of criminal law and procedure, torts, law and science, impact of evolving science, technology, and cultural values on criminal convictions and punishments, as well as on civil liability and remedies.
	Christina Sautter	Professor	Legal Matters	Corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, transactional law, and exploring the new generations of investors’ power to transform corporate governance.
	Marc Steinberg	Professor, Rupert and Lillian Radford Chair in Law	Legal Matters	Securities law, corporate law and business ethics.
	Jessica Dixon Weaver	Professor, Associate Dean for Research	Legal Matters	Family law regulation (also known as child welfare law), the intersection of race, gender, and family law.
	Mario De La Garza	Counseling Director and Clinical Assistant Professor	Mental Health	At-risk adolescents; facilitated classroom lessons that focused on bullying prevention, resisting pressures, decision-making, diversity, suicide prevention, relationship violence prevention, and other topics of importance for young people.
	Chrystyna Kouros	Associate Professor	Mental Health	Effects of marital conflict on spouses’ and children’s depression/mental health, how to constructively handle marital/relationship conflict, effects of parental depression on children.
	Neely Myers	Professor	Mental Health	Social determinants of mental health; youth mental health and illness; and, the role of culture in the experience; understanding and treatment of mental health and illness around the world.
	Brandy Schumann	Clinical Associate Professor	Mental Health	Full-time counseling program faculty member serving as Internship Director, recognized worldwide for research and training contributions to the Play Therapy field.
	Misty Solt	Clinical Professor	Mental Health	Anxiety, attachment and has worked in the areas of school crisis counseling, general crisis counseling and assessment, in-home counseling, agency counseling, and private practice.
	LaKaavia Taylor	Clinical Associate Professor	Mental Health	Multicultural counseling and trauma-informed practices.
	Louis Jacobs	Emeritus Professor and President of Institute for the Study of Earth and Man (ISEM)	Paleontology	Dinosaurs, mosasaurs, and other prehistoric creatures. Vertebrate paleontologist who utilizes the fossil record to answer significant questions about Earth and life history.
	Fred Olness	Professor	Physics	Elementary particle physics, the origin of the universe, quantum mechanics, "Physics Circus" public demonstrations, and CERN-related experiments.
	Ryszard Stroynowski	Professor	Physics	Experimental High Energy Particle physics and the structure of matter. Specializes in the Higgs particle.
	Cal Jillson	Professor	Politics and Political Discourse	State and national politics, development of American institutions and ideas, and how they continue to shape national debates. The Dallas Morning News and the San Antonio Express-News have profiled him as one of Texas’ top political experts.
	Rita Kirk	Professor	Politics and Political Discourse	Ethics in corporate communications and public affairs. Debate, argumentation, communication, public speaking, and rhetoric.
	Joe Kobylka	Professor	Politics and Political Discourse	Constitutional law and politics, Supreme Court, judicial decision making, and American Political Thought.
	Ben Voth	Associate Professor	Politics and Political Discourse	Genocide, political debate, humor and politics, and general public controversies.
	Matthew Wilson	Professor	Politics and Political Discourse	Politics and voting behaviors of religious voters, public opinion, elections, representation, political psychology.
	Nathan Hudson	Associate Professor	Psychology	How people's personalities change across time, people's desires and attempts to change their personality traits, and how individuals function in romantic relationships.
	Ernest Jouriles	Professor, Dale McKissick Endowed Professor of Psychology, and Director of Clinical Training	Psychology	Interpersonal violence, preventing violence, helping survivors of violence, adolescent and young adult relationships. Exploring how technology, such as virtual reality, can enhance understanding of how people behave in challenging interpersonal situations, including those that pose a risk of relationship violence.
	Sarah Kucker	Assistant Professor	Psychology	Word learning, cognitive development, and the influence of digital media on infant and toddler’s language development.
	Renee McDonald	Professor	Psychology	Understanding how children’s exposure to family conflict and violence contributes to child psychological maladjustment, and developing interventions for children exposed to violence.
	Mark Chancey	Professor	Religion and Theology	The Gospels, the Historical Jesus, early Judaism, archaeology and the Bible, and the political and social history of Palestine during the Roman period.
	Jack Levison	W. J. A. Power Professor of Old Testament Interpretation and Biblical Hebrew	Religion and Theology	Pneumatology, interpretation of the Adam and Eve tradition; Second Temple Judaism; gender, Judaism, and Christianity
	Alexandra Pavlakis	Associate Professor	Teaching and Learning	Impact of policies and school/community actions on the schooling experiences of homeless, highly mobile, and low-income families.
	Magdalena Pando	Associate Professor	Teaching and Learning	Teacher preparation and professional development fostering culturally and linguistically inclusive teaching methods in early childhood and K-12 education. Model-based inquiry methods in STEM education.
	Gary Brubaker	Director of SMU Guildhall	Video Games and Gaming Industry	Game studies, programming.
	Corey Clark	Deputy Director of Research at SMU Guildhall and Assistant Professor	Video Games and Gaming Industry	Finding solutions to large-scale problems by combining gaming, systems biology, distributed computing, and artificial intelligence.
	Joowon MacDowell	Associate Professor	Video Games and Gaming Industry	Virtual Reality, digital health, gamification, user experience, game production.
	Steve Stringer	Director of Game Lab at SMU Guildhall and Professor	Video Games and Gaming Industry	Game development, state of the video game industry, team efficacy, video game design, Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality design.

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