Faculty members of CHSS are active researchers and are involved in different research and scholar activities. Their different areas of interest include: 

Philosophy

• Kierkegaard and Classical Greek Thought.
• Reinventing Philosophy as a Way of Life.
• Embodied Cognition.

Arabic Language and  Literature

• Modernization of Arabic Rhetoric.
• Arabic Literature, Syntax and Heritage Editing.
• Cognitive Linguistics, Semantics and Sociolinguistics.
• Computational Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and Lexicon and Semantics.

Translation Studies

• Translation Quality Assessment.
• Translation of Scientific and Medical Texts.
• Media Translation.
• Translation Methodology.
• Culture and Translation.
• Literary Prose Translation.
• Language and Culture Teaching.
• Etymology and Ancient Languages.

Linguistics

• Arabic Linguistics and Neurolinguistics.
• Arabic Word and Sentence Processing (using EEG and MEG).
• Language Disorders and Rehabilitation.
• Neuropsychological Assessment.
• Neuroimaging of Language.
• Applied Linguistics.
• Sociolinguistics.
• Language Variation and Change.
• Speech Perception.
• Motor Control.
• Action-Perception Interaction.
• Embodied Cognition.

English Literature

• English/American Literatures, Literary: Applied Criticism.
• Cinema Studies, Theater Studies, Fine Arts.
• Modernism and Post-Modernism Studies.
• Feminist Studies.
• Middle Eastern Literatures.
• Comparative Literatures.
• Middle Ages and Renaissance Literature.

Mass Communication

• Social, Gender, Organizational and Public Relations.
• Women and Media, Citizen Journalism, Social Media Issues.
• War and Media.
• Health Communication.

History and Archaeology

• Islamic History and Civilization.
• The Ancient History of the Near East.
• Egyptian, Greek & Roman Archaeology.
• Tourism.
• Mediterranean Archaeology.
• Classical Archaeology.

Social Work

• Women’s Issues, Knowledge and Skills Basic for SW Practice.
• Social Welfare Policy: Child Abuse.
• Social Work: Play Therapy.
• Evidence-based Practice.
• Adolescent Issues.

Sociology

• World Views, Cultural Anthropology, Folklore, Middle East, Arab American.
• Social and Economic Change, Globalization Studies.
• Development: Human and Community, Immigration, Women’s Studies.
• Environment and Society, Race and Ethnicity.
• Medical Sociology. 

Psychology

• Neurodegenerative Diseases, Effect of Herbal Extracts on Memory and on Cancer Cells.
• PTSD, Stress, CBT Implementation in the Middle East, Neurocognition.
• Child and Women Abuse, Depression, Personality Disorders, Non-Attack Epileptic Disorder, Childhood Disorders, Children Psychological Problems, Identity and School Psychology Issues.
• Self-Related Beliefs, Motivation Psychology of Gender and Socialization.
• Scales Development, Tests Analysis, Missing Data Analysis.
• Counseling Needs, Career Interests.
• New Born Face Perception: Intermodal Processing, Language & Autism/Down Syndrome.

Geography and Urban Planning

• Cartography, and GIS and Remote Sensing Applications.
• Demography Analysis.
• Economic and Industrial Activities. 
• Urban Planning and Land Use Arrangement Analysis.
• Transportation and Field Analysis.
• Environmental and Physical Analysis.
• Climatology, Geomorphology, and Oceanography Analysis.

Political Science

• Political systems and governments.
• Public administration.
• Public policy.
• International politics and international relations.
• Political Theory and political thought.

The College also aims to promote the research expertise of faculty members within the University and UAE society; to enhance the research dimension of our undergraduate curricula and align new graduate programs to the research interests of faculty members and the nation, and to implement a new award scheme for the best undergraduate research project.