College of the Arts
Alan F. Shockley
Assistant Professor
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Ph.D., Princeton University
Creative Interests: Composition and theory; musical forms and techniques as used by 20th-century novelists.
Tiffany Sum
Assistant Professor
Department of Art
MFA, Carnegie Mellon University
Creative Interests: Electronic media integrating performance, theater and interactive technologies.
College of Business Administration
Chailin Cummings
Assistant Professor
Department of Management and HRM
Completing Ph.D., USC
Research Interests: Macro-organizational analysis, seeking to uncover linkages between social structure and strategic action.
Thuc-Doan Nguyen
Assistant Professor
Department of Marketing
Ph.D., University of Utah
Research Interests: Local and global encounters. Marketing, development and consumption in transition economies. Cross-cultural consumer behavior. Consumers online. Consumption and sustainability.
Richard A. Opland
Assistant Professor
Department of Management and HRM
Completing Ph.D., Michigan State University
Research Interests: Dimensionality, measurement, and antecedents of counterproductive work behaviors. Multi-disciplinary approach incorporating aspects of deviance theory from sociology, jurisprudence from law, criminology and business ethics. General human resource management and high performance work systems.
Daniel Rottig
Assistant Professor
Department of Management and HRM
Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University
Research Interests: Social, cultural and institutional aspects of international expansion, global and cross-cultural management, and social issues in international business.
Yuan Yin
Assistant Professor
Department of Accountancy
Ph.D., Lancaster University
Research Interests: Market-based accounting research, financial analysts, equity valuation, and intangible assets and non-financial performance measures.
College of Education
Tina Arora
Assistant Professor
Department of Educational Psychology, Administration and Counseling
Ph.D., UCLA
Research Interests: Research-based empirically validated teacher preparation and intervention involving teachers, providers and their students with disabilities, particularly young children with moderate to severe low incident physical disabilities and autism.
Angela M. Locks
Assistant Professor
Department of Educational Psychology, Administration and Counseling
Completing Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Interests: Exploring issues of race and ethnicity with regard to the access and success of historically underrepresented students of color in higher education.
Paul Ratanasiripong
Associate Professor
Department of Educational Psychology, Administration and Counseling
Ph.D., Wright Institute
Research Interests: Cross-cultural attachment issues. Biofeedback and other alternative intervention. College student suicide. Improving mental health services for culturally and linguistically diverse clients. Retention for students of color in higher education. Counseling outcome research.
College of Engineering
Behnam Bahr
Boeing Professor of Manufacturing
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Research Interests: Robotics and control of material processing, design of haptic and medical devices, advanced CAD/CAM, and drilling processes.
College of Health and Human Services
Judith C. Anglin
Assistant Professor
Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
Ph.D., Howard University
Research Interests: Nutrition-related aspects of sickle cell disease, nutrition therapy in renal disease, hypertension and interrelated aspects of obesity.
Jolae Brocato
Assistant Professor
Department of Social Work
Ph.D., Florida International University
Research Interests: Substance misuse; mental health; drug policy; social justice; poverty and the empirical evaluation of community-based harm reduction interventions.
Shawn H. Dolan
Assistant Professor
Department of Kinesiology
Ph.D., University of Utah
Research Interests: Physical Activity and Bone Health. Nutrition, Training, and Mental Preparation of Triathletes, Nutrition Habits of Fitness Professionals.
Ahlam A. Jadalla
Assistant Professor
Department of Nursing
Ph.D., Loma Linda University
Research Interests: Oncology (cancer nursing), with emphasis on the adult Middle Eastern people’s perception of preventive health care practices as they related to the incidence of cancer; perceptions of African-Americans/Blacks toward prevention and treatment healthcare services.
Thomas Alex Washington
Associate Professor
Department of Social Work
Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Research Interests: HIV/AIDS (prevention: gay males, IDUs, and pregnant women); human sexuality (cognitive theory and gender identity issues); social inequality (race, class and gender issues); program evaluation (cancer prevention models and housing).
College of Liberal Arts
Jennifer N. Asenas
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Studies
Ph.D., University of Texas
Research Interests: Narrative, race/ethnicity, and social change.
Catherine F. Brooks
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Studies
Ph.D., UC Riverside
Research Interests: Instructional interaction, computer-mediated communication, and classroom discourse; the social uses of communication technologies and the varied opportunities for self-presentations, roles, identities, relationships, and communities that can emerge and develop online.
Elaine F. Frey
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Completing Ph.D., George Washington University
Research Interests: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, specifically the impact of Title IV of the Clean Air Act of 1995, building consolidation in the housing industry and tropical deforestation in the Amazon.
Chen Feng Ng
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Ph.D., UC Irvine
Research Interests: Public economics, urban economics and transportation economics; anti-sprawl policies (urban growth boundaries) in a model with congestion.
Daniel Paskin
Assistant Professor
Department of Journalism
Ph.D., University of Miami
Research Interests: Graphic design and Web design; international relations and comparative studies; international journalism, intercultural communication, mass communication, mass media law and Brazilian studies.
Clarissa Rojas
Assistant Professor
Department of Chicano and Latino Studies
Ph.D., UC San Francisco
Research Interests: Violence; sex, gender, and sexuality studies; critical race studies; cultural studies; Chicana, Latin-American, Zapatista, Transnational, decolonizing/post-colonial, and women of color; literatures, feminisms and movements; globalization, border and migration studies; medical sociology, sociology of health and illness, and medical violence.
Steven N. Rousso-Schindler
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Ph.D., USC
Research Interests: Ethnographic research in West Jerusalem, Israel and Ramallah, Palestine. The construction, transmission and reception of national narratives in Israel and Palestine through traditional and non-traditional media; narrative theory to help explain how African-American families who have children with disabilities narrate their lives.
Dustin B. Thoman
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Utah
Research Interests: Social psychology. How subtle forms of modern discrimination affect the development of activity and career interest for stigmatized individuals.
Kevin Wallsten
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Research Interests: Aspects of American political life – including gay rights, immigration and social movements; the impact that new web-based applications, such as Facebook, YouTube and blogs, have on public opinion, media coverage and election outcomes.
Julie M. Weise
Assistant Professor
International Studies Program
Completing Ph.D., Yale University
Research Interests: Transcending disciplinary boundaries to consider historical phenomena from an international studies perspective.
Jake B. Wilson
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Ph.D., UC Riverside
Research Interests: Social change and public policy; race and ethnic relations; race, class, and gender inequality; labor studies; globalization; urban sociology; economic organizations.
Cory D. Wright
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
Ph.D., UC San Diego
Research Interests: The nature of truth, specializing primarily in epistemology and philosophy of science; semantic, pragmatic, and alethic phenomena related to truth, including the cognitive processes and operations that factor in veridical representation, as well as the connections between truth and scientific realism; the role of models of DA modulation in the mesocorticolimbic system in the explanation of brain reward function.
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Matthew W. Becker
Bert and Ethel Conrey Endowed Chair
in Hyrdogeology/Tenured Professor
Department of Geological Sciences
Ph.D., University of Texas
Research Interests: Contaminant hydrogeology.
Ashley Carter
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Ph.D., Yale University
Research Interests: Individual based modeling, molecular and population genetic modeling, artificial selection, sexual selection, fluctuating asymmetry, allometry, and evolutionary economics.
Jen-Mei Chang
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Ph.D., Colorado State University
Research Interests: Computational and applied mathematics; geometric data and pattern analysis; face and object recognition; biometrics; numerical methods for computing large data sets.
Brian T. Livingston
Chair
Tenured Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Research Interests: Control of cell differentiation during embryonic development. Evolution of genes involved in development, population genetics of echinoderms.
Vasanthy Narayanaswami
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Structural and functional analysis of lipoproteins, specifically apolipoprotein E (apoE), a key mediator of cholesterol homeostasis in the plasma and the brain.
Christine Whitcraft
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Ph.D., UC San Diego
Research Interests: Plant-animal interactions.