Joseph Billingsley, PhD, fuses social psychology, cognitive science and evolutionary biology in an effort to understand the psychological mechanisms that regulate cooperation and altruism. His research investigates cooperation and altruism along several distinct but related lines of inquiry: the mechanisms underlying reconciliation and relationship repair; how kinship influences cooperation; religiosity and prosocial behavior; and social categorization.
Dallas native Omar Ali is a designer, educator and the 2021-23 Tulane Architecture and Urbanism Fellow. He is also co-founder of table of co., a cloud-based design and research practice. Ali has practiced architecture and urban design at UrbanLab in Chicago, MOS Architects in New York City, and John McMorrough/studioAPT in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His work has been written about in Metropolis Magazine, published in Architecture and Surrealism (Thames and Hudson), Fresh Meat Journal (University of Illinois – Chicago), and LUNCH Journal (University of Virginia).
Goeun Choi joins the A.B. Freeman School of Business from W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, where she earned her PhD in finance. Prior to the doctoral program, she completed an MS in management engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and studied business administration and statistics as an undergraduate at Korea University. Her research interests include political economy, corporate finance, and long-term shareholder returns.
Romy Rajan is a visiting assistant professor working with literatures of the Global South, particularly from East Africa and South Asia. His research looks at postcolonial responses to contemporary forms of globalization and the ways in which such forms exacerbate existing vulnerabilities. His work stands at the intersection of postcolonial studies and critical finance studies, and studies the utopian possibilities embedded in work by contemporary postcolonial novelists.
Veeraraghavan received her PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. She comes to Tulane fresh off a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh and is very excited to be part of the Tulane community.
Emmanuel Osorno is an architect, designer, educator and the founder of EOstudio. He is Tulane’s 2021-23 Architecture and Social Innovation Fellow at the School of Architecture. His most recent work aims to recalibrate the public’s view toward building preservation and social services, leveraging the power of images to infiltrate existing forms of media through which buildings circulate and gain value.
