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Michelle Anderson, Ph.D.

Professor of Biology

Biology Department

Research Focus Area

Dr.  Anderson’s research examines how organisms, communities, and ecosystems respond to environmental change, particularly in aquatic systems. Her current interests include freshwater mussel conservation, migratory bird habitat, salmonfly emergence and bird predation, non-native crayfish impacts, burbot ecology, whitebark pine ecosystems, and public participation in ecological research.

  • Aquatic Ecology
  • Conservation Biology
  • Ecological Monitoring
  • Environmental Change
  • Wildlife Ecology

Arica Crootof, Ph.D.

Professor of Environmental Sustainability

Environmental Sciences Department

Research Focus Area

Dr. Crootof’s research examines how people shape and depend on water resources and energy systems. Her work explores hydropower development in mountain communities in Nepal, water resource management, climate resilience, and science education, with additional research focused on environmental challenges and community needs in Southwest Montana.

  • Climate Resilience
  • Energy Systems
  • Human-Environment Geography
  • Hydropower
  • Science Education
  • Water Resources

Sean Eudaily, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Philosophy

Director, Interdisciplinary Studies

History, Philosophy and Social Sciences Department

Research Focus Area

Dr. Eudaily’s research focuses on political theory, sovereignty, democratic thought, poststructuralism, and contentious politics. His current work examines historical transformations in the practice of sovereignty across seventeenth-century English domestic politics, the British imperial context, and continental Europe, with broader interests in civic education policy and the development of political authority.

  • Civic Education
  • Contentious Politics
  • Democratic Theory
  • Political History
  • Political Theory
  • Sovereignty

Caden Howlett, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Geology

Environmental Sciences Department

Research Focus Area

Dr. Howlett’s research combines field and laboratory methods to understand the physical processes controlling uplift and erosion in major mountain belts. His work uses geologic mapping, geochronology, and thermochronology to develop and test geodynamic models. Current interests include the structural evolution of mountain belts and sedimentary basins, the geologic history of western Montana, and earthquake geology in southeastern Türkiye

  • Earthquake Geology
  • Geochronology
  • Geology
  • Orogenic Systems
  • Tectonics

Steven Perry, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Biology Department

Research Focus Area

Dr. Perry’s research spans biochemistry, analytical chemistry, immunology, and disease ecology. His lab investigates how bacterial enzymes interact with lipids and endocannabinoids to influence the human immune system, develops methods for detecting prion proteins associated with Chronic Wasting Disease in environmental samples, uses mass spectrometry to study chemical signaling in ants, and explores chemical methods for improving the disposal of phenoxyethanol.

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Biochemistry
  • Disease Ecology
  • Immunology

Kyle Richardson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Biology Department

Research Focus Area

Dr. Richardson’s research focuses on wildlife disease, population ecology, and conservation. His work examines how disease spreads through wildlife populations and how ecological interactions influence disease transmission. Current research includes wildlife disease ecology and conservation applications, with an emphasis on field-based approaches to understanding and managing wildlife populations.

  • Conservation Biology
  • Disease Ecology
  • Wildlife Disease
  • Wildlife Ecology

Wade R. Roberts, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Biology Department

Research Focus Area

Dr. Wade’s research focuses on plant and algal evolutionary genomics, examining how organisms adapt to their environments and how genomic variation contributes to adaptation and diversification. His work integrates fieldwork, natural history collections, microscopy, molecular biology, genomics, and bioinformatics to connect observations in nature with molecular data. He also involves students in all stages of biological research, from field collection and organism identification to genomic analysis and interpretation.

 

  • Biology & Life Sciences
  • Diatom Evolution & Ecology
  • Diatom-Microbe Interactions
  • Genome Evolution & Adaptation
  • Phylogenomics & Comparative Genomics
  • Plant Evolutionary Genomics & Systematics

Tyler Seacrest, Ph.D.

Professor

Mathematics Department

Research Focus Area

Dr. Seacrest’s research focuses on graph theory, combinatorics, game theory, fair division, and optimization. His work explores both theoretical and applied mathematical problems, including mathematical games, sequence patterns, resource allocation, and interdisciplinary applications of mathematics in areas such as business, education, philosophy, and the social sciences.

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Combinatorics
  • Fair Division
  • Game Theory
  • Graph Theory
  • Optimization
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