• Demographic Methods and Trends
• Economic Development
• Education and Social Mobility
• Family Demography
• Health Disparities
• Immigration
• Inequality
• International Migration
• Latinos in Higher Education
• Maternal and Child Health
• Poverty and Inequality
• Race Relations
• Spatial Analysis
• Social Change
• Social Demography
• Statistical Methodology
• US-Mexican Migration

Department Chair:
Kara Joyner, Ph.D.
kara.joyner@utsa.edu

• Prevention and rehabilitation of upper extremity injuries
• Long-term health outcomes associated with contact sport participation
• Cognitive level of action processing in children
• Examination of the effects of the intrauterine environment, such as maternal obesity and exercise on offspring cardiometabolic health
• Myocardial remodeling following infarction
• Upper limb motor control
• Neuromechanisms underlying muscle contractions and cross-education of motor skills
• Psychology: cognitive and educational psychology, motivation, learning, expertise, mental representation
• Sport Psychology: attentional focus, choking under pressure, imagery, response-effect compatibility, ideomotor theory
• Physical activity and chronic pain
• Sports and exercise nutrition
• Achievement goals and classroom climates

Department Chair:
Wan Yao, Ph.D.
wanxiang.yao@utsa.edu
210.458.5792

• Group Decision Making
• Affect in the Workplace
• Perceiving & Leveraging Expertise
• Affect in Decision Making
• Veteran Students’ Success
• College Student Adjustment
• Stress and Coping in the Modern World
• Family Psychology & Health
• Adolescent Substance Use
• Primary Care Psychology
•  Military Health
• Post-deployment Functional Recovery
• Trauma, Anxiety and Addictive Behaviors
• Smoking Cessation
• Mental Ability, Intelligence, & IQ
• Brain Aging & Cerebral Health Markers
• Academic Aptitude Test (SAT and ACT)
• Test Construction & Validation
• Risk & Protective Factors for Mental Health
• Applied Behavior Analysis
• Affect Science
• Psychosomatics
• Anger Assessment & Treatment
• Pain
• Belongingness
• Attitudes About ADHD & Medication
• Self & Other Perception
• Quantitative Methods
• Spatial Cognition
• Attention and Working Memory
• Perception and Action
• Age-related Neurological Disorders
• Couple & Family Psychology
• Health Disparities
• LGBTQ Populations
• Interpersonal Perception
• Belongingness & Authenticity
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Functional Outcomes After Traumatic Brain Injury
• Cognitive & Socioemotional Development
• Interpersonal Relationships
• Quantitative Methods
• Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience of Memory & Learning
• Sleep Effects on Cognition & Emotion
• Child Maltreatment
• Alcohol’s Role in HIV-Related Risk Taking
• Health Disparities Regarding HIV & Sexual Violence
• Sexual Assault
• Behavioral Health in Minority Groups
• Online Interaction
• Personal Perception

Interim Department Chair:
Sandra Morissette, Ph.D.
Sandra.Morissette@utsa.edu
210.458.8742

• Accountability in Local Government
• City Mangers and Administrative Power
• Civil Rights Litigation and Legislation
• Community Development
• E-Government
• Emergency Management
• Ethics
• Intersections of Public/Private Organizations
• Governance and Policy
• Land Use Policy
• Local Politics
• Politics and Market Intersections
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Public Management
• Public Policy History and Process
• Urban and Regional Planning Urban Renewal

Department Chair:
Francine Romero, Ph.D.
Francine.Romero@utsa.edu
210.458.2501

• Accelerated aging
• Alcohol Use
• Behavioral Interventions
• Biodemography
• Cancer prevention
• Cardiovascular health
• College health
• Community based research
• Community Health
• Community Nutrition
• Diabetes prevention
• Environmental disaster/mass casualty epidemiology
• Epidemiology
• Family Planning
• Gender and Health
• Gender Norms
• Global health
• Health Disparities
• Health Policy
• Health Promotion
• Hispanic/Latinx health
• HIV/AIDS
• Hypertension
• Mental health
• Mortality
• Nutrition
• Physical Activity
• Population Health
• Reproductive Health
• Sexual health
• Traumatic injury epidemiology
• Veterans health

Department Chair:
Sara Oswalt, Ph.D.
sara.oswalt@utsa.edu
210.458.8169

• Adoption and Foster Care Children
• Families and Interpersonal Violence
• Child Welfare Abuse and Neglect
• Prevention and Intervention
• Demography of Aging
• Gender Roles,
• Sexual Harassment & Assault
• Disasters
• Ethics in Social Work Practice and Education
• Family Interventions and Support Services
• Health Disparities among Minority and At-Risk Youth
• Homelessness and Homeless Communities
• Mental Health
• Sexism
• Racism
• Domestic Violence as related to Collegiate and Professional Sports
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities of Children and Families Served by Public Welfare Agencies
• Role of Discrimination in Healthcare Services
• Social Justice and Restorative Justice
• Substance Abuse Prevention and Intervention
• Violence Prevention as Related to Gender and Sexuality

Department Chair:
Amy Chanmugam, Ph.D.
amy.chanmugam@utsa.edu
210.458.2938

• Border and Latino Studies
• Race and Ethnicity
• Migration and immigration to the US-Mexico border
• Race and Ethnic Relations
• Transnationalism
• Multimedia Sociology
• Sociology of Art
• Sociology of Culture
• Interracial Marriage
• Minority Children
• Sociology of Adolescence
• Sociology of Childhood
• Sociology of Family
• Sociology of Gender
• Adolescent Health
• Child Malnutrition
• Mental Health
• Public Health
• Psychology of Health/Illness
• Reproductive Health
• Multifaceted Linkages Between Religion and Various Social Institutions
• Sociology of Islam
• Classical and Contemporary Social Theories

Department Chair:
Raymond Swisher, Ph.D.
raymond.swisher@utsa.edu
210.458.4570