Thomas’s research and teaching focus on world cultural processes and their constitutive effects on authority, agency, and identity. He studies how these processes affect religions and how religions engage them.

Mueller is best known as a social movements scholar, with particular attention to the international women’s movement. She has an edited volume now under review "Localizing Human Rights Abuses: The U.S.-Mexico Experience."

Martin's current research projects focus on youth political engagement, college student development, and inequalities in the arts and creative industries.

Graduate Research Associate in the program "Social and Human Dimensions of Technology" by Arizona State University. Bioethics, Border Forensics STS, Animal Ethics.

Michael McQuarrie is the Director of the Center for Work and Democracy. He studies governance, urban politics and culture, community and regional development, organizations, protest and social movements, and capitalism

Aaron Thompson is a Ph.D. student at the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics. Aaron's research focus is on the intersection of communication technologies and political and racial identity.