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Wallis Adams, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Expertise

  • Mental health,
  • Peer workers in behavioral health,
  • Health services,
  • Recovery,
  • Peer support,
  • Medical sociology
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James Ahiakpor, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Economics

Expertise

  • Monetary economics,
  • Government fiscal and monetary policies
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Ana Almeida

Chair of the Department of Biology, Associate Professor of Biology and Associate Director of Green Biome Institute

Expertise

  • Plant Genomics,
  • Development and Evolution
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Matthew Atencio, Ph.D

Associate Professor of Kinesiology

Expertise

  • Action or Lifestyle Sports,
  • Youth Sports,
  • Skateboarding,
  • Physical Education,
  • Outdoor Education,
  • Qualitative Research,
  • Educational Research
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Duke Austin, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology

Expertise

  • Race and ethnic relations,
  • Gender,
  • Sexuality,
  • Immigration,
  • Ethnographic methods
David Baggins

David Baggins, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Political Science

Expertise

  • Politics,
  • 2016 Presidential Election
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Amira Barger

Professor of Management, Continuing Education

Expertise

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI),
  • Communications Strategies,
  • Multicultural Marketing,
  • Change Management, Employee Engagement,
  • Health Equity, Health Communications
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Becky Beal, Ed.D.

Professor of Kinesiology

Expertise

  • Social justice issues in sport and physical activity,
  • The culture of skateboarding (researching for over 25 years),
  • Former coach of soccer and track & field at youth, high school, and collegiate levels
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Katherine M. Bell, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of communication

Expertise

  • Celebrity and consumer culture,
  • Journalism,
  • Race, gender and sexuality in media.
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Scott Bentley

Lecturer of English

Expertise

  • English/American literature,
  • Poetry
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Elizabeth Bergman, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus (& former Chair) of Political Science

Expertise

  • California politics; especially the state budget, water policy, education funding and policy,
  • Voters (demographics), voting behavior (turnout) and public opinion/polls,
  • Elections; administration and processes both statewide and nationally (Voter ID, long lines, voting by mail, poll worker recruitment),
  • Urban politics; especially relating to sub-city governments (special districts, e.g. school districts),
  • Practical politics, "how to" of campaigns and how candidates get elected,
  • Lobbying and political reform, re: money and influence in politics and elections
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Ellen Bernstein-Ellis

Speech pathologist with Speech Languages and Hearing Sciences

Expertise

  • Aphasia,
  • Group Treatment of Aphasia,
  • Life Participation Approach to Aphasia,
  • Aphasia Book Clubs,
  • Aphasia Choirs
Benjamin Bowser

Benjamin P. Bowser, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Social Services

Expertise

  • Sociology -- urban studies, East and West Oakland, race relations, inequality,
  • Public Health -- drug abuse prevention, HIV/AIDS prevention
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Lonny J Avi Brooks, Ph.D.

Professor of Communication

Expertise

  • Strategic and Organizational Communication,
  • Social media,
  • Long term and futures thinking,
  • Future of work,
  • Serious games/online gaming,
  • Diversity and multi-racial identity/LGBT social media issues, sustainability
Mary Cardaras

Mary Cardaras, Ph.D.

Chair of Communication

Expertise

  • Media & Politics,
  • Journalism,
  • Documentary Film
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Paul Carpenter, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair of Kinesiology, Board Member American Kinesiology Association

Expertise

  • Sport and Exercise Psychology,
  • Motivational issues in youth sport,
  • Accomplished Ultracyclist - Currently President UltraMarathon Cycling Association an International Organization for the sport of ultracycling
Chris Chamberlain

Chris Chamberlain, D.Mgt.

Department Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Hospitality, Recreation & Tourism

Expertise

  • Municipal Recreation Administration and Management,
  • Org Development
Ayona Chatterjee

Ayona Chatterjee, Ph.D.

Department Chair and Associate Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics

Expertise

  • Bayesian statistics,
  • Pesticide risk assessment,
  • Dietary data sets
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Lynn Comerford, Ph.D.

Professor, Director, Sociologist in Human Development & Women's Studies

Expertise

  • Women’s Studies,
  • Sociology
Ken Curr

Ken Curr, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise

  • Virology,
  • Immunology (Emphasis on HIV-1),
  • Molecular/Cell Biology,
  • Genetics
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Moayed Daniel Daneshyari

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Expertise

  • Artificial Intelligence,
  • Machine Learning,
  • Robotics,
  • Swarm Intelligence,
  • Optimization
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Jason Daniels, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of History

Expertise

  • Early America,
  • Colonial Caribbean
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Gabriela Diaz Davalos, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Writing, Languages, and Literatures

Expertise

  • Sociolinguistics,
  • Spanish language,
  • Capoeira,
  • Second Language Acquisition
Jack Davis

Jack Davis, Ph.D.

Psychologist and Professor of Educational Psychology

Expertise

  • Attention and learning disorders,
  • ADHD,
  • Dyslexia,
  • Nonverbal learning disorders,
  • Specific learning disabilities (SLD)
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Craig Derksen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Expertise

  • Philosophy of Science,
  • Popular Culture,
  • Popular Science,
  • Popular Art,
  • Evidence and Belief,
  • Thinking
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Jed DeVaro, Ph.D.

Professor of Economics

Expertise

  • Labor Economy,
  • Worker’s Rights
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Hongwei Du, Ph.D.

Chair of Management Department

Expertise

  • Information Technology and Information Systems Management,
  • Telecommunication and Computer Networking,
  • Data and Database Management
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Elena Dukhovny

Associate Professor of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences

Expertise

  • Speech-Language Pathology,
  • Augmentative Communication,
  • Alternative Communication
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Roberta Frances Durham, RN, Ph.D.

Professor of Nursing

Expertise

  • Global Health, Obstetrics,
  • Migrant women health outcomes,
  • Women's health,
  • Neonates/newborns
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Alina Engelman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Expertise

  • Deaf studies,
  • Disability health,
  • Global health,
  • HIV/AIDS,
  • Emergency preparedness communications for vulnerable populations including people with disabilities and seniors
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John Eros, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Music

Expertise

  • Music teacher education,
  • Music teacher recruitment,
  • Elementary music,
  • Qualitative research,
  • Curriculum development for English Language Learners
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Levent Ertaul

Department Chair of Computer Science

Expertise

  • Cyber Security Policies & Privacy,
  • Cyber Security Attacks,
  • Cyber War,
  • Hacking Techniques,
  • International Cyber Security Issues
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David Fencsik, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology

Expertise

  • Attention,
  • Perception,
  • Memory
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Susi Ferrarello

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Expertise

  • Phenomenology,
  • Ethics,
  • Bioethics,
  • Philosophical Counseling
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Toni E. Fogarty, PhD, M.P.H.

Professor of Health Care Administration and MS-HCA Graduate Coordinator

Expertise

  • Health care delivery systems,
  • Health care reform,
  • Health care reimbursement,
  • Health insurance,
  • Long-term health care
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Susan Forsyth, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Expertise

  • Reproductive health,
  • Tobacco Control,
  • Tobacco imagery in video games
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Mary F. Fortune, Ed.D.

Professor of Hospitality, Recreation & Tourism

Expertise

  • Leisure management,
  • Special event planning, leadership development/team building,
  • Health and wellness,
  • Student development/student government,
  • Technology and communication
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Expertise

  • Women's History,
  • US History,
  • History of the Family and Sexuality
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David E. Fraser, MPA, Ed.D.

Lecturer of Public Affairs and Administration

Expertise

  • Leadership and management in public agencies,
  • Leadership in higher education,
  • Organization theory and change,
  • Program development and evaluation,
  • Qualitative research methods
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Amy Furniss, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Physics

Expertise

  • Astroparticle Physics,
  • Female in the STEM field
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Kathy Futterman, Ed.D.

Educational Psychology & Teacher Education Lecturer/Supervisor/Adjunct Faculty

Expertise

  • Dyslexia,
  • Special Education,
  • Learning Disabilities,
  • Reading Disorders
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Kim Geron, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Expertise

  • American Politics (specifically California, state and local politics, race and ethnic politics​)
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Elena Givental

Adjunct Professor of Geography & Environmental Studies

Expertise

  • Weather,
  • Climate Change,
  • Water Resources,
  • California Geography,
  • Geopolitics
Brian Gonsalves

Brian Gonsalves, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology

Expertise

  • Cognitive neuroscience,
  • Human memory,
  • False memory & memory distortion,
  • Brain imaging,
  • EEG
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Albert Gonzalez, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Geography & Environmental Studies

Expertise

  • Archaeology,
  • Latinx and Chicanx Studies,
  • Native American Studies,
  • Tribal Consultation
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Mariama Gray, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership

Expertise

  • Disproportionate student discipline,
  • Principal preparation,
  • Critical geography/spatial analysis of unequal relations of powers
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Katy Grimm

Associate Professor of Physics

Expertise

  • Particle Physics,
  • Quantum Mechanics,
  • Sub-Atomic Physics
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Lindsey Grubbs, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Public Health

Expertise

  • Bioethics,
  • Literature about illness,
  • History of psychiatry
Zach Hallab

Zaher (Zach) Hallab, Ph.D.

Professor of Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism

Expertise

  • Hospitality and Tourism,
  • Marketing
Zach Hallab

Expertise

  • Medical Anthropology,
  • Women's Health,
  • Cross-cultural health,
  • Modern China,
  • Chinese birth planning and infertility,
  • Reproductive Technologies,
  • Anthropology of Food,
  • Research Methods
Michael Hedrick

Michael Hedrick, Ph.D.

Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise

  • Human & Animal Physiology,
  • Faculty Governance within the CSU
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Erik B. Helgren, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Chair

Expertise

  • Solar Technology Materials Science,
  • Physics Education
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Nolan Higdon

Lecturer of Communication

Expertise

  • Critical Media Literacy,
  • Propaganda,
  • Politics,
  • News,
  • Nationalism,
  • History,
  • English,
  • Communication
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John Paul Horn, MSW, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Social Work

Expertise

  • Child welfare,
  • Queer foster youth,
  • Emerging adulthood,
  • Transition aged foster youth,
  • Foster care policy,
  • Identity development,
  • Foster youth in college
Keith Inman

Keith Inman

Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Expertise

  • DNA/Forensic Science Research,
  • Judicial Influence
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Linda Ivey

Professor of History

Expertise

  • Immigration history,
  • Environmental history of the US,
  • California history,
  • Public history
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Buddy James, D.M.A.

Department Chair of Music, Professor, Director of Vocal Studies, and Founding Director of School of Arts and Media

Expertise

  • Vocal music,
  • Orchestral Music,
  • Opera
Patricia Jennings

Expertise

  • Infertility and treatment,
  • Race, class and access to infertility treatment,
  • Research methods,
  • Social inequality,
  • Social mobility,
  • Gender inequality
Patricia Jennings

Samantha Juan

Assistant Professor of Nursing

Expertise

  • Simulation,
  • Nursing Education,
  • Critical Care Nursing
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Andrew Kelly

Assistant Professor

Expertise

  • Medicare/Medicaid,
  • Affordable Care Act,
  • Private Insurance,
  • Health Reform,
  • Health Politics
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Grant Kien, Ph.D.

Professor of communication

Expertise

  • Communication,
  • Technology and society,
  • Critical cultural studies,
  • Digital media and popular culture,
  • Media and politics,
  • Media memes
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Derek Jackson Kimball, Ph.D.

Professor of Physics

Expertise

  • Precision measurements in physics,
  • Searches for dark matter,
  • Dark energy,
  • New forces
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Michele Korb, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Teacher Education, Science educator

Expertise

  • Science teacher education
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Eric Kupers

Professor of Theatre and Dance

Expertise

  • Dance,
  • Performance,
  • Inclusive Performance,
  • Disability and Dance,
  • Autism,
  • Social Justice Performance,
  • Meditation,
  • Buddhism,
  • Movement Meditation
Sweety Law

Sweety Law, Ph.D.

Professor of Marketing & Entrepreneurship

Expertise

  • Innovation diffusion,
  • Leadership,
  • Cross-cultural communication,
  • Organizational culture and change,
  • Communication campaigns and behavior change,
  • Social marketing
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Kristin Layous, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Expertise

  • Psychology,
  • Happiness,
  • Gratitude
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Danvy Le, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Political Science

Expertise

  • Race and ethnic politics,
  • Political participation,
  • American Politics,
  • Civic Action
Michael Lee

Michael David Lee, Ph.D.

Professor of Geography & Environmental Studies, Director of International Studies, Director of Education and Policy, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Center for Aquaculture

Expertise

  • Water,
  • Food,
  • Aquaculture,
  • Development,
  • Sustainability
Michael Lee

Cory LePage, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Expertise

  • Criminal Justice System,
  • Criminal Courts,
  • Criminal Law
Rita Liberti

Rita Liberti, Ph.D.

Professor of Kinesiology

Expertise

  • Sport history
Anthony Lima

Anthony Lima, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Economy

Expertise

  • Wine Industry Economics,
  • Sports Economics,
  • Tech Economics
Monique Manopoulos

Monique Manopoulos, Ph.D.

Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures

Expertise

  • Postcolonial Francophone Studies
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Tony Marks-Block, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies

Expertise

  • Fire,
  • Forest Health,
  • California Land Management,
  • Indigenous Livelihoods,
  • Environmental Justice,
  • Subsistence systems,
  • Restoration ecology
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Peter K. Marsh

Professor of Music

Expertise

  • Music and cultures of Mongolia,
  • Northern or Inner Asia, and Central Asia,
  • Soviet and Post-Soviet History
Daniel Martin

Daniel Martin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Management

Expertise

  • Compassion,
  • Social capital,
  • Human Resources Management,
  • Technology,
  • Psychology
Julie McNamara

Julie McNamara, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Teacher Education

Expertise

  • Mathematics Education,
  • Teacher Preparation,
  • Teaching and Learning of Mathematics,
  • Common Core Mathematics,
  • Math Wars,
  • Classroom Teaching
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Aaron Miller

Lecturer of Kinesiology

Expertise

  • Sports,
  • Education,
  • Culture,
  • Power,
  • Athlete Activism,
  • Racism,
  • Sexism
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Amara Miller, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Expertise

  • Social movements and complex organizations,
  • Popular culture,
  • Feminist Theory,
  • Critical Theory,
  • Social Inequalities,
  • Body and Emotions,
  • Post/Colonialism,
  • Memory Studies,
  • Sociology of Violence,
  • Social Psychology,
  • Digital & News Media,
  • Religion & Identity,
  • Historical & Field Methods
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Jacob Miranda, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Expertise

  • Bias in Science; Replication Crisis,
  • Pedagogy (Students and Teachers Outcomes; Legislation that impacts it),
  • Political (Affective) Polarizations
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Kaumudi Misra

Associate Professor of Management

Expertise

  • Time Zone Effects,
  • Work-Life Flexibility Policies,
  • People Analytics,
  • Global Team Performance
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Jean Moran, Ph.D.

Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences

Expertise

  • Water resources, especially groundwater, in California,
  • Nitrate contamination of groundwater,
  • Radionuclides released from nuclear fuel reprocessing facilities,
  • Isotope hydrology and groundwater age dating,
  • Hydrology and hydrogeology pedagogy
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Christopher Moreman, Ph.D.

Professor and Department Chair

Expertise

  • Death,
  • Dying, and Afterlife,
  • Religious Experience,
  • Religion and Popular Culture,
  • Religion & Horror,
  • Zombies,
  • Paranormal
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Tammie Simmons-Mosley, Ph.D.

Professor of Accounting & Finance

Expertise

  • Real Estate
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Arnab Mukherjea

Professor of Public Health & University Honors Program Director

Expertise

  • Public Health,
  • Health Disparities,
  • Social Determinants of Health,
  • Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders,
  • Community-Engaged Research,
  • Interpretation of Health Research for Public Comprehension
James A. Murray

James A. Murray, Ph.D.

Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise

  • Neural basis of navigation,
  • Sensory biology,
  • Animal communication,
  • How nervous systems work,
  • Neuroscience education,
  • Confocal microscopy,
  • Marine invertebrates,
  • Marine biology
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Maria Nieto, Ph.D.

Professor Emerita of Biological Sciences

Expertise

  • Fiction Writing,
  • Intersex Advocate,
  • Same-Sex Marriage Debate
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My Phung (Jenny) O, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Kinesiology/Director of Center for Student Research Scholars Program

Expertise

  • Sport and performance psychology,
  • adult learning and performance,
  • motor learning,
  • undergraduate student research,
  • high impact practices,
  • group dynamics,
  • leadership
Joon Hee Oh

Joon-Hee Oh, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Marketing & Entrepreneurship

Expertise

  • Marketing,
  • Strategy
Joon Hee Oh

Jesús Oliver, Ph.D.

Professor of Math

Expertise

  • Black Holes,
  • Differential Equations,
  • LatinE in STEM
Maria Ortuoste

Maria Ortuoste, Ph.D.

Department Chair and Professor of Political Science

Expertise

  • Asia-Pacific regional security,
  • South China Sea disputes,
  • International security, law and organizations,
  • Southeast Asian governments and regional organizations
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Thomas C. Padron, Ph.D., CMP, CHE, CWP

Associate Professor and Program Coordinator, Hospitality and Tourism

Expertise

  • Food & Beverage,
  • Restaurant Management,
  • Event Planning and Management,
  • Hospitality & Tourism,
  • Professional Preparation – Cover Letters, Resumes, Reference Pages, Preparing for the Interview,
  • Professionalism & Etiquette,
  • Customer Service,
  • Leadership
Seung Paek

Seung Paek, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Administration

Expertise

  • Private security,
  • Policing cybercrime
Nancy Park

Nancy Park

Lecturer of History

Expertise

  • China,
  • Chinese law,
  • Chinese history,
  • Japan
Nancy Park

Kelsi Perttula, PhD, MS

Assistant Professor of Public Health

Expertise

  • Metabolomics (high dimensional data compared with epidemiological outcome) ,
  • Multi-omics analysis (metabolomics, proteomics, genomics)
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Peter K. Marsh

Professor of Music

Expertise

  • Music and cultures of Mongolia,
  • Northern or Inner Asia, and Central Asia,
  • Soviet and Post-Soviet history
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Brandon Philips

Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Administration

Expertise

  • Latino/a/e Community Issues,
  • Activism,
  • Public Policy,
  • Critical Race Theory,
  • Nonprofit and Community-Based Organizations
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Arran Phipps. Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Expertise

  • Dark matter,
  • Low temperature electronics,
  • Physics,
  • Physics
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Kevin Pina

Broadcast Lecturer, Filmmaker, Journalist

Expertise

  • Haiti
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Vibha Puri, Ph.D.

Lecturer of Sociology and Social Sciences

Expertise

  • Women’s issues,
  • Reproductive rights including surrogacy, cloning, women’s employment, etc.,
  • Theory on capitalism, colonialism,
  • Race relations,
  • Juvenile issues
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Balaraman Rajan, Ph.D.

Professor of Management

Expertise

  • Healthcare,
  • Telemedicine,
  • mHealth,
  • Capacity Management
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Asha Rao, Ph.D.

Professor of Management

Expertise

  • Women in leadership,
  • Leadership,
  • Diversity Management (focus on Disability, Religion, Culture, South Asian, LGBTQIA),
  • Negotiations,
  • HRM
Xeno Rasmusson

Xeno Rasmusson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Human Development & Women's Studies

Expertise

  • Gerontology,
  • Aging,
  • Health & Aging,
  • Healthy Aging,
  • Successful Aging,
  • Cognitive Aging,
  • Dementia,
  • Alzheimer's disease,
  • Memory Training,
  • Active Aging and whole person interventions,
  • Music and aging,
  • Dance and aging and Parkinsons' disease,
  • Volunteerism and aging,
  • Neuropsychology and Neuroscience,
  • Drugs - drug action, drug policy, clinical drug trials, drug abuse/addiction, medical marijuana,
  • Higher Education - engaged learning, research methods, community-based research, service learning, diversity, neuro-diversity and social justice
Gretchen Reevy

Gretchen Reevy, Ph.D.

Lecturer of Psychology

Expertise

  • Stress and coping,
  • Non-tenure-track faculty in higher education (also called adjunct faculty, contingent faculty),
  • Non-cognitive (for instance, personality) predictors of academic achievement,
  • The human-animal bond,
  • Sex comparisons in some psychological traits
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Michelle Rippy

Department Chair of Criminal Justice

Expertise

  • Policing,
  • Investigation,
  • Medicolegal death investigations,
  • Forensic science
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Christian Roessler

Associate Professor of Economics

Expertise

  • Economics,
  • Political Economy,
  • Game Theory
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Antonio Roman-Alcalá

Assistant Professor of Geography & Environmental Studies

Expertise

  • Sustainable Food Systems,
  • Urban Agriculture,
  • Social Movements,
  • Bay Area Politics,
  • Gentrification
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Steven Ross, Ph.D.

Lecturer of Psychology

Expertise

  • Psychotherapy with individuals, couples, and families focusing on depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and loss.
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Farhad Sabetan, Ph.D.

Lecturer of Economics, Spokesperson for the Bahá’í International Community

Expertise

  • Economics,
  • Human Rights,
  • Minorities in the Middle East (especially the Bahá’ís).
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Jocyl Sacramento, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies

Expertise

  • K-12 Ethnic Studies,
  • Pinayism,
  • Critical and decolonizing pedagogies,
  • Filipinx American Studies,
  • Ethnic Studies professional development,
  • Critical Race Theory in Education,
  • Comparative radicalization,
  • Qualitative research methods,
  • Ethnography
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Enrique Salmon, Ph.D.

Professor of Ethnic Studies

Expertise

  • American Indians,
  • Anthropology,
  • Environmental Sustainability,
  • Traditional Food Ways,
  • Traditional Agriculture
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Sanjay Marwah, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Administration

Expertise

  • Policing,
  • Criminology,
  • Cultural Political Economy Public Policy
Michael Schmeltz

Michael Schmeltz, DrPH

Assistant Professor

Expertise

  • Climate change and health,
  • Extreme heat,
  • Air quality,
  • Environmental and climate justice,
  • Epidemiology,
  • Climate hazards and vulnerable populations,
  • Geospatial analysis,
  • Sustainability,
  • Vector control,
  • Occupational health & safety
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Scott Bentley

Lecturer of English

Expertise

  • English/American literature,
  • Poetry
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Omri Shimron, D.M.A.

Associate Professor of Music and Director of Keyboard Studies

Expertise

  • Piano performance,
  • Contemporary music,
  • Classical music,
  • Music theory,
  • Musicianship
Jeff Simons

Jeff Simons, Ph.D.

Professor of Kinesiology

Expertise

  • Psycho-motor aspects of physical activity, learning, and performance
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Mary Soto, Ed.D.

Assistant Professor of Teacher Education

Expertise

  • Teacher Education,
  • Emergent Bilingual Students
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Richard A. Sprott, Ph.D.

Lecturer of Human Development

Expertise

  • Professional identity development,
  • Impact of technology on self-concepts,
  • Sexual identity development,
  • LGBTQ,
  • Alternative sexualities,
  • Polyamory,
  • Mental health
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Michael Stanton, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Public Health

Expertise

  • Obesity,
  • Nutrition,
  • Behavioral Medicine,
  • Health,
  • Psychology
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Rachael Stryker, Ph.D.

Professor of Human Development and Women's Studies

Expertise

  • International adoption,
  • Migration,
  • Anthropology of children and youth,
  • Qualitative research methods,
  • Critical perspectives on Child Development
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James Tandon, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Computer Engineering

Expertise

  • VLSI Circuit Design,
  • FPGA architecture and timing,
  • Stochastic data converters,
  • Power-performance optimization,
  • Embedded systems design,
  • Drone control systems,
  • Telerobotic control,
  • Real time system design
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Sarah Taylor, MSW, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair

Expertise

  • Disability,
  • Advocacy,
  • Transition-age youth,
  • Community mental health,
  • LGBTQ community,
  • Participatory research
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Gregory Theyel, Ph.D.

Professor of Management

Expertise

  • Biomedical (biotech, pharma, medical devices) industry,
  • Manufacturing,
  • Emerging industries,
  • Sustainability
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Negin Toosi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Expertise

  • Diversity,
  • Race,
  • Gender,
  • Religion,
  • Negotiation,
  • Prejudice
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Jennifer Tran, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies

Expertise

  • Interracial relations,
  • Refugees and immigrants,
  • Community engagement,
  • Gender & sexuality
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Jessica Weiss

Professor of History

Expertise

  • US Women's History,
  • California Women,
  • post-WWII US History
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Kristina Wharton

Assistant Professor

Expertise

  • Health Policy, Affordable Care Act,
  • Access to Primary Care and Behavioral Health Care,
  • Alcohol and Substance Use Disorder,
  • LGBTQIA Health,
  • Maternal and Child Health
Erica Wildy

Erica L. Wildy, Ph.D.

Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise

  • Animal behavior,
  • Ecology,
  • Behavioral ecology,
  • Herpetology (amphibians and reptiles),
  • Natural history of animals,
  • Vertebrate biology
Andrew Wong

Andrew Wong, Ph.D.

Professor of Anthropology

Expertise

  • Sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology,
  • Language variation and change,
  • Language and ideology,
  • Language and the media,
  • Language and sexuality,
  • Hong Kong,
  • Applied anthropology,
  • Business anthropology (marketing and advertising, brand name development)
Chongqi Wu

Chongqi Wu, Ph.D.

Professor of Management, Co-Director of MS Business Analytics

Expertise

  • Business analytics,
  • Operations and supply chain management
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Lan Wu, Ph.D.

Professor of Marketing & Entrepreneurship

Expertise

  • Marketing