Jules Woolf is an Assistant Professor in the Recreation, Sport and Tourism Department.  What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My current work explores the social influence of close others on athletes use or abstinence of performance enhancing and lifestyle drugs. In addition, I study anti-doping education and its influence of...

Monika is Brightbill/Sapora Professor in the department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My research focuses on issues of cultural change, quality of life, and their relationship to leisure behavior of ethnic and racial minorities. In 2022-2023, I collected data for the study on the refugee...

Julie Gaillard is Assistant Professor of French, in the department of French and Italian.  What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? I currently work on the pronoun "we” at the intersection of political philosophy, literary studies, cultural studies and linguistics. What is the relationship between "I," "you" and "we" in various...

Kent Choquette is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.  What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? I research compound semiconductor laser diodes and their applications. My speciality are vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSELs). What classes do you teach? What are some of the topics of those...

Matthew Soener is an Assistant Professor of Sociology.  What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? I work on political economy, inequality, and globalization very broadly. This includes some work on how companies have reorganized around financial and global markets. More recently, I am steering my interests towards understanding climate...

  Dr. Hunt is an assistant professor in the Germanic department.  What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My first book is provisionally titled Sites of Grief: Mourning, Politics, Forgiveness. It’s an expansion of my dissertation, “Taking the World by Storm: Forgiveness in the Early Writings of Walter Benjamin.” Sites of Grief...

Sandy Dall'erba is a Professor, Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics; co-Director, UIUC's Center for Climate, Regional, Environmental And Trade Economics. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My current research interests focus on environmental economics in general and the impact of climate change on agriculture, food security and the global...

Renata Endres has a Joint appointment with the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism and Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? Agritourism / inclusive access to outdoor recreation. What classes do you teach? What are some of the topics of those classes? Finance in Recreation, Sport, and Tourism...

Paula Mae Carns is the head of the Literatures and Languages Library. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My research focuses on the material culture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England and France. One vein of scholarship looks at how aristocratic and royal patrons fashioned personal, familial, and social identities through commissioning...

Joseph Clougherty is a professor in the Department of Business Administration. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? Joe's research interests are interdisciplinary (combining management, industrial organization, and political economy) and international in both scope and nature. He employs an applied economics approach to research questions in both...