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List of Research Liaisons

College of Architecture

  • Tamera McCuen

    Tammy McCuen is an Associate Professor of Construction Science at the University of Oklahoma, College of Architecture. Her research focuses on spatial reasoning and the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) for solving complex ill-structured problems. Her current research focuses on the use of BIM to create comprehensive representations, inclusive of spatial and object data, as a tool for solving the types of problems common to the disciplines of the built environment. She is an active member of the buildingSMART alliance and advisor for continuing education in the building industry.

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College of Arts and Sciences

  • Carol Silva

    Carol L. Silva is the Director of the Center for Risk and Crisis Management (CRCM), an Associate Director of the Center for Applied Social Research (CASR) and an Associate Professor of Political Science. She has been at OU since 2007. Her current research encompasses the intersection of a set of theoretical and methodological social science issues. The theoretical puzzles in social valuation generally, and more specifically the translation of values into public choice.

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  • Charles Kimball

    Dr. Charles Kimball is the Presidential Professor and Director of the Religious Studies Program. He came to OU in 2008 after 12 years as Professor of Comparative Religion and Chair of the Department of Religion at Wake Forest University. His research focuses on Islam, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations and the contemporary intersection of religion and politics in the Middle East and the U.S. He is the author of numerous articles and five books, including When Religion Becomes Lethal: The Explosive Mix of Politics and Religion in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (2011).

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  • Constance Chapple

    Constance Chapple is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. She joined the faculty at the University of Oklahoma in 2009 after serving on the faculties of the University of Nebraska and the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on examining the causes of delinquency. In particular, Dr. Chapple is interested in the role that family, peers and social inequality play on the etiology of delinquency.

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  • Debra Bemben

    Debra Bemben, Ph.D., FACSM, is a Professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at the University of Oklahoma, Norman Campus. She teaches a variety of Exercise Physiology courses in the department and conducts research in the areas of bone health and endocrine responses to exercise. Dr. Bemben earned her PhD in Exercise Physiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, she is the director of the Bone Density Research Laboratory in the Department of Health and Exercise Science.

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  • Diane Warren

    Dr. Diane Warren is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and has been at OU since 2006. Her research is focused on the relationship between biological variation, cultural practices, and the environment. Her current research includes an investigation of the genetic factors influencing type 2 diabetes in American Indians. In addition to her human variation research, she uses faunal skeletal biology and paleopathology to examine the prehistory of human-animal interactions.

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  • Elaine Hsieh

    Dr. Elaine Hsieh is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication. She has been at OU for 7 years. Her previous NIH funding was on issues related to health literacy, social support, and uncertainty management. Her current research focuses on the communicative process between various individuals during an illness event, with a particular interest in issues related to the cross-cultural contexts of health care and illness.

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  • Georgia Kosmopoulou

    Georgia Kosmopoulou is a Professor of Economics and an Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor. She has been a faculty at OU for the last 13 years. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1996 and taught at Virginia Tech for a year. Her areas of specialization are in Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Public Economics and Game Theory. Professor Kosmopoulou's current research interests are in auctions, strategic pricing and consumer behavior.

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  • Hester Baer

    Associate Professor of German and Women's and Gender Studies Dr. Hester Baer joined the faculty of the University of Oklahoma in Fall 2002. Her research focuses on gender and popular culture, with particular emphasis on German film and literature from the postwar and contemporary periods. She is currently working on a book about German cinema from 1980-2010, which examines film production in the context of neoliberalism and globalization.

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  • Howie Baer

    Howard Baer is the Homer L. Dodge Professor of High Energy Physics at the OU Department of Physics and Astronomy. After spending 21 years at Florida State University, Dr. Baer has been at OU for 2.5 years, having joined the faculty in August, 2008. Dr. Baer specializes in theoretical high energy physics at the interface of theory and experiment. He works mainly on particle physics models including weak scale supersymmetry. His work involves calculating rates for production and detection of new matter states-- the hypothetical superpartners-- at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

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