Doctoral Council Members

Arts & Sciences

Member until August 2025

Research: Cultural history; popular and material culture; public space and state formation in Latin America; collective identities.

Teaching: Courses focused on the cultural history of the Americas; the impacts of cultural goods and activities on politics, identities, and public life; and research methods and professional writing.

Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (A&S)

Member until August 2026

Research: Environmental microbes & processes. Professor Bose’s lab generates new ways of addressing issues such as the energy crisis, climate change, pollution, human health, sustainability and the circular economy.

Teaching: Undergraduate course in microbiology and graduate course in experimental design and critical thinking.

PhD Candidate in Movement Science

Member until May 2026

Research Interests: Orthopaedic biomechanics and musculoskeletal modeling

Olin Business School

Member until July 2026

Research: Judgment and Decision Making, Prosocial Behavior, Financial Decision Making, Incentives, Field and Internet Research Methodology.

Teaching: MBA courses in Marketing Management; PhD courses in Experimental Methodology in Behavioral Science.

PhD Student in Imaging Science

Member until August 2025

Research Interests: developing computational frameworks for breast cancer risk assessment using digital breast tomosynthesis.

PhD Candidate in Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Member until August 2025

Research interests: Evolution and applications of intrinsically disordered protein regions

Director of the Young Scientist Program Continuing Mentors Branch,

Member, Student Advisory Committee – Division of Biology and Biomedical Science

Google Scholar

Brown School

Member until July 2026

Research: Housing and environmental justice, child and family programs and policies, community-engaged systems and data sciences.

Teaching: Conceptual foundations of anti-racist social science, responsible AI, program and policy evaluation, equitable prevention and promotion program design.

Arts and Sciences

Member until August 2026

Research: Social organization and political institutions of ancient nomadic societies, Economy, paleoenvironmental interactions of extreme environments throughout prehistory, Urbanism and trade along the ancient Silk Roads.

Teaching: Undergraduate courses include the formation of long-term social landscapes, ancient nomadic ecology, and 3D modeling with Geospatial technologies. Graduate courses include Archaeological Theory and Advanced Geospatial modeling in Anthropology.

Brown School

Member until August 2026

Research: Statistical methods of causal inference, longitudinal modeling, methods of program evaluation and intervention research, child mental health services.

Teaching: Graduate courses on linear and generalized linear modeling, survival analysis, and methods of causal inference.

Arts and Sciences

Member until August 2026

Research: Purpose in life; wellbeing across the lifespan; identity development; personality and cognitive aging.

Teaching: Health psychology, social gerontology, personality psychology.

School of Medicine

Member until August 2026

Research: Stroke recovery, Rehabilitation, and Accelerometry

Teaching: Graduate content in motor systems neuroscience, motor control, and research design. Graduate research mentorship.

McKelvey School of Engineering

Member until August 2026

Research: Super-resolution microscopy; nanoscale sensing; single-molecule spectroscopy; optimal design, detection, and estimation.

Teaching: Undergraduate classes on applied linear algebra and electromagnetics, graduate course on modern optical imaging.

Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (A&S)

Member until August 2024

Research: Cellular and circuit level neuroscience, neuropharmacology.

Teaching: Graduate and postdoctoral apprenticeships,  graduate neuroscience, graduate research fundamentals, phase 1 medical curriculum.

McKelvey School of Engineering

Member until August 2026

Research: Rational design of materials for energy, optical and electronic applications, atomic-scale modeling, electronic structure calculations, electron microscopy.

Teaching: Undergraduate course on Materials Science, Graduate courses on Thermodynamics of Materials and Atomistic Modeling of Materials.

School of Medicine

Member until August 2025

Research: Hearing loss prevention and improving intervention outcomes, improving access to hearing health care.

Teaching: Graduate courses in audiology and deaf education, graduate research mentorship.