EVOS Faculty

EvoS Team


Steering Committee

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Leslie L. Heywood

Professor

English, General Literature and Rhetoric

Research Interests

  • Creative nonfiction and poetry of place
  • Science Communication/AI, Environmental Humanities/Animal Studies
  • Gender and Sport Studies
  • Trauma and Embodiment

Teaching Interests

  • Creative Writing
  • Health Humanities
  • Environmental Humanities and Animal Studies
  • Sustainability
  • Affective Neuroscience
  • Embodiment
  • Trauma
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Robert A. Holahan

Associate Professor

Political Science

Research Interests

  • Environmental Policy
  • Political Science and Sustainability

Teaching Interests

  • Introduction to Environmental Policy
  • Environmental Policy Analysis
  • Sustainability and Urban Policy
  • Environmental Impact Statements
  • American Public Policy
  • Global Environmental Politics
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Adam Laats

Professor

Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership

Research Interests

  • History of American education
  • Cultural battles over schooling and school reform
  • Examination of campaigns of conservative evangelical Protestants in both K-12 and higher education
  • History of creation/evolution debates
  • Evolution of conservative thinking about K-12 education
  • Examining the first systematic attempt at urban school reform in American history
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Carl P. Lipo

Professor; Associate Dean for Research and Programs

Anthropology; Harpur College of Arts and Sciences

Research Interests

  • Evolution of Past Human Populations
  • Models of Cultural Transmission
  • Methods in Remote Sensing, Geophysics
  • North American Prehistory, Prehistory of the Pacific

Teaching Interests

  • Archaeological Laboratory Methods
  • Archaeological Remote Sensing
  • Introduction to Anthropology
  • Humans and the Environment
  • Eastern North American Prehistory
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Thomas Powell

Associate Professor

Biological Sciences

Research Interests

  • Ecological speciation
  • Adaptation to environmental change
  • Coevolution
  • Evolution and physiology of life history timing in insects
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Hiroki Sayama

Professor, Systems Science Graduate Director

Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Research Interests

  • Complex systems
  • Complex dynamical networks
  • Human and social dynamics
  • Artificial life/chemistry
  • Interactive systems
  • Complex systems education
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