This year, CSULB welcomes 26 new faculty members with impressive academic credentials and diverse talents.
Jermie S. Arnold
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Creative Interests: The music of Charles Ives
Peter W. Barker
Design
Research Interests: Automotive design history and automobile/driver interface studies with respect to fatigue interference.
Creative Interests: Industrial design, toy design, music and the visual arts
Gerald F. Casel
Dance
Creative Interests: Contemporary dance; meditation – ideokenisis, somatics
Hongyu Chen
Information Systems
Research Interests: User generated content
Wikrom Prombutr
Finance
Research Interests: Asset pricing
Betina Y. Hsieh
Teacher Education
Research Interests: Teacher professional identity, literacy
Lindsay Pérez Huber
Advanced Studies in Education and Counseling
Research Interests: Race, immigration and education
Shadnaz Asgari
Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: bioinformatics, biomedical signal processing, biomedical data mining.
Pitiporn Asvapathanagul
Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management
Research Interests: Molecular tools to understand microorganisms in water reclamation processes
Mohammad M. Mozumdar
Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Methodologies and tools for embedded system especially in the domain of sensor networks; Energy efficient building information and control system design; Cyber physical system; Methodology for the design of distributed embedded systems typically subjected to high real time, safety and reliability constraints
Marie M. Botkin
Family and Consumer Sciences
Research Interests: Historical fashion, sustainability and textiles
Keith M. Fulthorp
Recreation and Leisure Studies
Research Interests: Urban/municipal recreation and parks
Young Ha
Family and Consumer Sciences
Research Interests: Internet shopping/ consumer behavior
Selena Thi Nguyen-Rodriguez
Health Science
Research Interests: Psychosocial predictors of health behavior
Anne P. Odell
Nursing
Research Interests: Perceptions of wellness
Tiffanye M. Vargas
Kinesiology
Research Interests: Coaching education and athlete efficacy
Pamela E. Xandre
Nursing
Sabrina Alimahomed-Wilson
Sociology & Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Research Interests: Race, class, gender inequality; transnational feminisms
May Ling Halim
Psychology
Research Interests: Gender development and culture
Kevin E. Johnson
Communication Studies
Research Interests: First Amendment, public controversy, rhetoric
Demetra F. Kasimis
Political Science
Research Interests: Political theory, classical Greek theory, immigration, queer theory, and modern Greek studies
Heather M. Stephens
Economics
Research Interests: Regional economics
Jordan A. Yamaji Smith
Comparative World Literature and Culture
Research Interests: Transnational migrant cultures and literary translation, Japanese and Latin American literatures
Douglas A. Pace
Biological Sciences
Research Interests: Ecophysiology of marine parasitism
Jason P. Schwans
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research Interests: Bioorganic chemistry, enzymology, investigation of enzyme mechanism using unnatural amino acids and nucleotide analogs
Theodore Stankowich
Biological Sciences
Research Interests: Evolution of anti-predator behavior and defensive weapons in mammals
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