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MCAP is an interdisciplinary group bringing together scholars across the behavioral, health, and social sciences. Find out more about our leadership, core faculty, affiliated faculty/post docs, and certificate students below.

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Leadership Team

Trenton Mize

Trenton D. Mize

Co-Director

Sociology

tmize@purdue.edu

STON 328

Office: (765) 496-3286

Kristine Marceau

Co-Director

Human Development and Family Science

KristineMarceau@purdue.edu

225 Hanley Hall

Office: (765) 494-9410

James McCann

James A. McCann

Co-Director

Political Science

mccannj@purdue.edu

BRNG 2216G

Office: (765) 494-0738

Sharon Christ

Sharon Christ

Co-Director

Human Development and Family Science

slchrist@purdue.edu

2000 Mitch Daniels Blvd., Room 215

Office: (765) 496-1638

Olivia Neff

Olivia Neff

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology

oneff@purdue.edu

MCAP Co-Directors (left to right): Sharon Christ, Jay McCann, Kristine Marceau, and Trent Mize.

Faculty, Affiliates and Students

Shawn Bauldry

Affiliation: Sociology (CLA); Center on Aging and the Life Course
Office: STONE 349
Email: sbauldry@purdue.edu
Specialization: Quantitative methods; Statistics; Medical sociology; Stratification and inequality
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Stephen Broomell

Affiliation: Department of Psychological Sciences (HHS)
Office: Psychology Building 3156
Email: broomell@purdue.edu
Specialization: Statistical methods, Judgment and decision making, Information environments, Information aggregation, Forecasting, Methodology, Risk perception and communication.
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Sharon Christ

Affiliation: Human Development and Family Studies (HHS); Department of Statistics
Office: 2000 W. State Street, Room 215
Email: slchrist@purdue.edu
Specialization: Statistics, Statistical modeling, Adolescent development, Aging
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Andrew Flachs

Affiliation: Anthropology (CLA); Global Studies
Office: STON 219B
Email: aflachs@purdue.edu
Specialization: Environmental Anthropology, Political Ecology, Agriculture, Qualitative Methods, Food Studies, Ethnobiology, Alternative Agriculture including Genetically Modified Organisms and Organic agriculture, South Asia, North America, Eastern Europe
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Jeremy Foote

Affiliation: Brian Lamb School of Communication (CLA)
Office: BRNG 2156
Email: jdfoote@purdue.edu
Specialization: online organizations, computational social science, collective behavior
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Tara Grillos

Affiliation: Political Science (CLA)
Office: BRNG 2254
Email: tgrillos@purdue.edu
Specialization: Public Policy, Environmental Politics and Policy, Comparative Politics
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Nilupa Gunaratna

Affiliation: Public Health (HHS); Women’s Global Health Institute; Ingestive Behavioral Research Center
Office: Matthews 214E
Email: gunaratna@purdue.edu
Specialization: Statistical methods (e.g., longitudinal modeling, multilevel modeling, and structural equation modeling); Early childhood development, interventions, and policies; Language environments; Executive function; Academic achievement
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Kristine Marceau

Affiliation: Human Development and Family Studies (HHS); Psychological Sciences
Office: Hanley 225
Email: KristineMarceau@purdue.edu
Specialization: Multilevel modeling, longitudinal data analysis, structural equation modeling, polygenic scores, quantitative genetic analyses (biometric modeling); sibling discordant designs, twin and family designs, adopted-at-birth designs, longitudinal designs
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James A. McCann

Affiliation: Political Science (CLA); Latin American Studies
Office: BRNG 2216G
Email: mccannj@purdue.edu
Specialization: American Politics, Political Methodology, Comparative Politics, Public Policy, Politics of Groups and Identities
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Trenton Mize

Affiliation: Sociology (CLA)
Office: STON 328
Email: tmize@purdue.edu
Specialization: Data Visualization, Categorical Data Analysis, Experimental Design, Latent Variable Modeling, Social Psychology, Health & Well-Being
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Erik Otárola-Castillo

Affiliation: Anthropology (CLA)
Office: STON 312
Email: eoc@purdue.edu
Specialization: Evolution, ecology and diversity of behavior in prehistoric and modern populations of hunter-gatherers; effects that climatic change, variation of food-availability and-distribution had on the diet of some of the first North American native populations
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Laura Schwab-Reese

Affiliation: Public Health (HHS)
Office: MTHW 214 F
Email: lschwabr@purdue.edu
Specialization: Child Maltreatment; Intimate Partner Violence; Mental Health; Qualitative Analysis; Community-Based Participatory Research
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Louis Tay

Affiliation: Psychological Sciences (HHS)
Office: PSYC Room 2120
Email: stay@purdue.edu
Specialization: Measurement; Data Science; Well-Being; Organizational Psychology; Developmental Health and Wellness; Healthy Lifestyles and Vital Longevity; Sustainable Organizations and Thriving Communities
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Joan Timoneda

Affiliation: Political Science (CLA)
Office: BRNG 2230
Email: timoneda@purdue.edu
Specialization: Comparative Politics, Methods
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Dongjuan Xu

Affiliation: Nursing (HHS)
Office: 502 N. University Street, Johnson Hall of Nursing
Email: xu976@purdue.edu
Specialization: Methods (Survey research, secondary data analysis, large-scale data analysis);Care transitions between hospital, nursing home and community; assessment of care quality and its relationship to health outcomes; management of chronic conditions such as overactive bladder and urinary incontinence; prevention of falls and injury.
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For example, want to find an expert in power analysis? Go to the interactive and click on the “power analysis” bar to see a list of experts.

Current Students

Former Students Who Completed the MCAP Certificate