{"id":2,"date":"2016-01-06T22:01:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T22:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/efrydenl\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-06-18T07:25:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:25:51","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/efrydenl\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/efrydenl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/996\/2025\/06\/Frydenlund-Erika-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/efrydenl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/996\/2025\/06\/Frydenlund-Erika-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-363\" style=\"width:280px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/efrydenl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/996\/2025\/06\/Frydenlund-Erika-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/efrydenl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/996\/2025\/06\/Frydenlund-Erika-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/efrydenl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/996\/2025\/06\/Frydenlund-Erika-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/efrydenl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/996\/2025\/06\/Frydenlund-Erika-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/efrydenl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/996\/2025\/06\/Frydenlund-Erika-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">I am a Research Associate Professor at the <a href=\"https:\/\/vmasc.org\">Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/\">Old Dominion University<\/a>. My research takes place in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.storymodelers.org\/\">Storymodelers Lab<\/a> at VMASC. I am also an adjunct lecturer in the ODU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/womensstudies\">Women&#8217;s Studies Department<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/gpis\">Graduate Program in International Studies<\/a>, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Research Methodologies, Modeling &amp; Simulation, and Refugee Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of my research has focused on forced migration and refugee studies, as well as the use of Modeling &amp; Simulation to advance social sciences and interdisciplinary research. I love all kinds of data &#8212; qualitative, quantitative, generated &#8212; and believe all science is better when people work together across disciplines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Research Associate Professor at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center at Old Dominion University. My research takes place in the Storymodelers Lab at VMASC. I am also an adjunct lecturer in the ODU Women&#8217;s Studies Department <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/efrydenl\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  About<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1419,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/efrydenl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/efrydenl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/efrydenl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/efrydenl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/efrydenl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/efrydenl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/efrydenl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/efrydenl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}