Ph.D. student in Computer Science at SEFCOM, specializing in Secure Resource Access Mechanism under Dr. Gail-Joon Ahn's guidance

Dr. Duran is an associate professor of higher and postsecondary education. His research addresses how issues of inequity shape higher education institutions and what practitioners, faculty, and students do to resist them.

Andrea Rissing's research uses diverse qualitative methods to explore US agriculture in a global context. Foci include innerworkings of sustainable food systems, agrarian change, and farmland and livelihood equity.

Welch specializes in qualitative methods, political economy, global social change, social theory, Indigenous studies, world-systems analysis, rural sociology, class inequality, racism, culture, time.

Verdecias-Pellum’s research aims to develop tailored evidence-based interventions to reduce the severity of social needs to improve diabetes self-management and reduce comorbidity risk among at-risk populations.

PhD Candidate in the Educational Policy and Evaluation program at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Research interests focus on the internationalization of higher education and online higher education systems.

Seo studies collaboration, strategic management, leadership, and innovation in the public and nonprofit sectors, using qualitative and process-oriented research approaches.