People

Kristen Intemann

Director

Professor, History & Philosophy

Interests: Ethics of emerging technologies, science communication, trust in science, ethical and equitable research, inclusive engagement

Eric Austin 

Professor, Political Science

Interests: Public administration, leadership ethics, public safety, environmental policy

Laura Black

Professor, Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship 

Interests: Practices and processes for collaboration and collaborative innovation; causal mapping, systems modeling and simulation.

Beth Burroughs

Professor and Department Head, Mathematical Sciences

Interests: Mathematical modeling in mathematics classrooms; mathematics coaching in elementary mathematics classrooms; gender issues in mathematics education

Mary Ann Cummings

Assistant Teaching Professor, Gianforte School of Computing

Interests: Computational theory, software engineering, ethical and social issues in computing

Ben Fuhrman

Assistant Professor of Music Technology, School of Musc

Interests: Music composition with a focus on technology, including acousmatic, interactive, and improvisatory works; Increasing understanding of abstract scientific concepts through sound.

Paul Gannon

Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering

Interests: Sustainability, Energy, Materials, Broadening participation in STEM

Xin Han

Assistant Professor, Political Science

Interests: Sustainable and Inclusive Development; Evolving interactions between humans, AI, and environment; Digital Politics; Well-being of underserved communities (including online communities)

Brock LaMeres

Professor, Electrical Engineering

Director, Montana Engineering Education Research Center

Interests: Computer engineering, engineering education, social and ethical responsibilities of engineers

Timothy LeCain

Professor, History & Philosophy 

Interests:  Environmental History, History of Technology, Animal History, Neo-Materialism

 

Rob Maher

Professor, Electical & Computer Engineering

Interests: Digital audio signal processing, audio forensic analysis, analysis and synthesis of music, and acoustics, engineering ethics & professional responsibilities

 

Sara Mannheimer

Assistant Professor and Data Librarian, Library

Interests: Digital preservation, open data, big data ethics, research data management

 

Sara Mast

Professor and Co-Chair of Drawing and Painting, School of Art

Interests: Drawing, Painting ArtScience Collaboration, STEM communication and education

 

Gretchen Minton

Professor, English

Interests: Shakespeare and early modern drama, relationships between science, environment and society in literature

 

Michael Reidy

Professor of History, History & Philosophy

History of science, technology, and  environment, history of mountaineering, history of exploration

 

Elizabeth Rink 

Professor, Health Development and Community Health

Interests: Research ethics; equitable community engagement; community-based participatory research, sexual and reproductive health

Liz Shanahan

Professor, Political Science

Interests: Public policy, environmental policy and politics, narrative policy frameworks, social ecological systems

 

Bonnie Sheehey

Assistant Professor, History & Philosophy

Interests: Ethics, Philosophy of Technology, Social & Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Race

 

John Sheppard

Professor, Computer Science

Interests: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, reasoning under uncertainty, health management, data mining,  algorithms

 

Cindy Stillwell

Professor, Film and Photography

Interests: Filmmaking focused on human beings in relationship with nature. 

 

Kristin Ruppel

Associate Professor, Native American Studies and Director of the Native Land Project

Interests: Federal Indian law and policy,federal-Indian trust reform, American Indian self-determination, and research methodologies for working in and with Native communities, especially with regard to ecologies of place, Native food systems, local economic development, and the praxis of ethical, equitable research partnerships.

 

Beth Shirley

Assistant Professor, English

Interests: public science communication, stakeholder engagement, science misinformation, sustainability

Brandon Scott

Associate Professor, Psychology

Interests: Resiliance and risk; biological, emotional, and cognitive processes; health and wellbeing in Native American communities, particularly Native American youth.  

Brad Whitaker

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Interests: Machine Learning, Classification, Feature Extraction, Sparse Coding

Blake Wiedenheft

Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology

Interests: Genome editing/CRISPR, virology, immunology

 

Scott Young

Associate Professor, User Experience and Assessment Librarian

Interests: Service and participatory design, accessibility, ethics and social justice in library sciences.

Angus Cummings

PhD Student, History

Interests: History of land management and conservation; Native American History

 

Kirke Elsass

PhD Candidate, History

Interests: Environment, geology, geography, and industrialization

Mary Farina

PhD Candidate, Land Resources & Environmental Sciences

Interests: GIS mapping, climate change impacts, community vulnerability to wildfire smoke

Hannah Lavoie

PhD Student, Psychology

Interests: emotional and behavioral responses to emerging biotechnology; disgust; grief and autism

Yvette Towersap

PhD Student, History

Interests: Native American History, environmental history, history of the U.S. West.