Mexican Exposures (MEXPOS) brings together medical anthropologists, environmental health scientists and environmental engineers to arrive at a better understanding of the larger histories, life circumstances, and environments that shape health, disease, and inequality in Mexico City. Through several collaborative projects, our aim is to ask and answer complex questions that cannot be answered through only… Continue reading Mexican Exposures (MEXPOS)
Research Theme: RCGD
BioSocial Methods
The BioSocial Methods Collaborative bridges biology and behavior by developing new methodologies for integrating and visualizing data. By bringing together researchers from across the scientific spectrum, our work facilitates the translation and exchange of insightful discoveries. Our focus is methods development; types of research projects include: Tightly integrated co-created, trans-disciplinary research Methods consultations in spaces… Continue reading BioSocial Methods
Aggression Reseach Group
The Aggression Research Program, directed by L. Rowell Huesmann and Eric F. Dubow studies the etiology and prevention of aggressive and antisocial behavior. The group’s focus is on understanding the development of aggressive and antisocial behavior from a cognitive, information-processing perspective. The program emphasizes the integration of laboratory experiments, longitudinal survey studies, and randomized clinical field trials to advance… Continue reading Aggression Reseach Group
The Aggression Research Group
The Aggression Research Program, directed by L. Rowell Huesmann and Eric F. Dubow studies the etiology and prevention of aggressive and antisocial behavior. The group’s focus is on understanding the development of aggressive and antisocial behavior from a cognitive, information-processing perspective. The program emphasizes the integration of laboratory experiments, longitudinal survey studies, and randomized clinical field trials to advance… Continue reading The Aggression Research Group
Garvey,Raven
Raven Garvey studies the influences of ecological, demographic, and social factors on Holocene hunter-gatherers’ behaviors and broader cultural change through time. Her current field projects in farthest southern South America–Patagonia–combine archaeological data with evolutionary modeling to address questions at the intersection of human behavioral ecology and cultural transmission theory. Her current lab-based projects are designed… Continue reading Garvey,Raven
Perkins,Suzanne
Suzanne Perkins is a Research Assistant Professor at the Research Center for Group Dynamics in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She is an educational neuroscientist who examines the role of context in the development of cognitive processes in children and adolescents, with a special focus on childhood maltreatment, other violence exposure, and… Continue reading Perkins,Suzanne
Raju,Medha
Medha Raju joined the BioSocial Methods Collaborative as the HomeLab Research Design Specialist in 2022. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a MA in Social Sciences (Psychology concentration). She holds a BA in Social Sciences and a MA in Regulatory Governance from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Medha is interested in… Continue reading Raju,Medha
Seaton,Eleanor Kenyetta
Dr. Eleanor K. Seaton is a developmental psychologist and her research is guided by four areas of inquiry that explore race among Black youth. The first area explores racial discrimination experiences and includes measurement, mediators and moderators of racial discrimination experiences. The second area explores the attitudes and feelings that African American youth ascribe to… Continue reading Seaton,Eleanor Kenyetta
Katrina Ellis
Katrina R. Ellis is an assistant professor at the School of Social Work. Her research interests include family health interventions, cancer survivorship, racial and ethnic disparities in health, and family management of chronic health conditions. An overarching goal of her research is to support the health of families facing multiple, coexisting illnesses, with a specific… Continue reading Katrina Ellis
Ochoa,Analidis
Analidis Ochoa is a doctoral student in the joint program in Social Work and Sociology. Her research examines the extent to which plasma donation has become an economic coping strategy in the United States and the implications of this growing practice.