Research Scholars

The Ronin Institute’s Research Scholars represent fields across the academic spectrum, with many individual scholars contributing to multiple traditional disciplines. Visit the links below to learn more about their research.

Lee Altenberg, Evolutionary Theory

Katherine Andrews, Translational Science

Patricia Appelbaum, Religious Studies

Kristina Baines, Medical and Ecological Anthropology

Aviv Bergman, Systems Biology

Rene Bruckner, Film History and Media Archaeology

Viviane Callier, Developmental Physiology

Toni Carey, Philosophy and the History of Ideas

Lishan Chan, Philosophy

Evelyn Ch’ien, Cultural Production

Tom Chittenden, Systems Biology

Nadia Colburn, Literature, Reading, Trauma Studies

Nathan Collins, Political Science

Jennifer Doering, Music Composition

Rob Gargett, Archaeology / Human Origins

Marcia Byrom Hartwell, International Development

Kelli Hash-Gonzalez, International Relations and Political Psychology

Ralph Haygood, Ecology and Evolution

Michael Ibrahim, Biophysics and Biomedical Imaging

Kristina Killgrove, Biological Anthropology and Archaeology

Joseph Kramp, Psychology of Religion

Heather Maughan, Microbial Ecology and Evolution

Colin Meiklejohn, Population Genetics

Josh Mitteldorf, Evolution of Cooperation and Aging

Lucas Mix, Theory of Life

Johnathon Mohr, Neuropsychiatric Modeling of Mental Illness

Emily Monosson, Evolutionary Toxicology

Christina Muirhead, Population Genetics

Roger Nassar, Chemistry and Biotechnology

Steven Orzack, Biology

Michael Palmer, Evolution of Complexity

Gillian Ragsdale, Biological Psychology and Genetics

Sara Rosenquist, Sexual and Reproductive Health Psychology

Kathleen Rowley, Education and the Path(s) Taken

Sean Avila Saiter, Transpersonal-Phenomenological Psychology

Melissa Sameh, Biology

Brian Schefke, History of Science

Namrata Sharma, Higher Education Research

Eric Smith, Stochastic Processes and Statistical Mechanics

Anne Thessen, Biodiversity Informatics

Schuyler Towne, History of Mechanical Security

Jay Ulfelder, Political Development

Peter Waddell, Statistical Genetics and Molecular Evolution

Tracy Wallach, Systems Psychodynamics

John S. Wilkins, History and Philosophy of Biology

Jon F. Wilkins, Evolution

Eleanor Wynn, Anthropology