Smith is an archaeologist who research interests include the Aztecs, Teotihuacan, ancient and modern cities (planning, neighborhoods, scaling), and transdisciplinary social science research.

Founded by Professor Scott, CGEST is a one-of-a-kind research unit focused on exploring, identifying, and creating innovative scholarship about underrepresented women and girls in STEM.

Swank studies the ways that stigmatized populations accept and challenge social inequalities. He has over 65 publications and often teaches classes on social movements and research methods.

Chanley has taught a range graduate and undergraduate courses in the social sciences, with focus on public administration and political science, especially in public policy, women and gender, ethnic and racial studies.

Hosman co-directs the SolarSPELL initiative, focused on building information literacy via offline digital libraries. She is faculty in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the Polytechnic School.

Charron-Chénier is a sociologist who studies racial inequality in the context of consumer markets.

Barker is a historian of slavery and the slave trade in the late medieval Mediterranean and Black Sea.

Dr. Connor uses causal inference and big data to study how places shape human development, social inequality, and the transmission of advantages and disadvantages over extended historical periods.