Loyola Marymount University2011-2012

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AnnA BArgAgliottiAssistAnt ProfessorMAtheMAticsProfessor Bargagliotti’s interests are in nonparametric statistics, mathematics education, and statistics education. Her nonparametric statistics work focuses on how ranked data structures affect nonparametric test outcomes. Her

educational pedagogy aims to understand how teaching practices and technology influence the teaching and learning of mathematics and statistics. Professor Bargagliotti received her Ph.D. in mathematics from UC, Irvine and her M.S. degree in statistics from UCLA. She joined the LMU faculty originally in 2011 as a visiting assistant professor and this year as assistant professor, Department of Mathematics.

elizABeth BrewerVisiting AssistAnt ProfessorsPeciAlized ProgrAMs in UrBAn edUcAtionProfessor Brewer earned B.A. degrees in creative writing and political science from the University of Southern California and her M.A. degree in secondary education

from Loyola Marymount University. She also earned her Ed.D. in Educational Leadership for Social Justice from Loyola Marymount University. After teaching at a private, Catholic high school for six years, Professor Brewer worked as a course instructor and research analyst in the Student Affairs Information and Research Office at UCLA before joining the LMU School of Education as adjunct faculty in 2007. Her research interests include the role of technology as a tool for teaching students about the dangers and consequences of cyber-bullying behaviors as well as the role of teachers in this process. A Southern California native, Professor Brewer looks forward to her new position at the University.

new fAcUlty 2011–12: Biosketchesto the loyolA MAryMoUnt coMMUnity:

I am pleased to introduce our new faculty colleagues for 2011-2012. There are 20 new tenure-track faculty, and 6 faculty who join us in in advanced status as Presidential Professors, Casassa Chair, or as Associate Professors. They represent disciplines from across the university. These individuals are a demonstration of our continuing commitment to hire highly qualified faculty as stated in the university’s strategic plan. In addition, we welcome 22 new visiting and clinical faculty for this academic year. Our new colleagues are committed to excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service and will enrich our commitment to the encouragement of learning. Please give your warmest welcome to our new faculty and support their induction into our community.

To all our faculty, new and returning, I wish you a most successful and rewarding year. I look forward to meeting with all of you and personally wishing you the very best.

Sincerely,

Joseph HelligeSr. Vice President for Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer

MegAn cAldwellclinicAl ProfessorsPeciAlized ProgrAMs in UrBAn edUcAtionProfessor Caldwell received her B.A. degree from Tufts University and her M.A. degree in Special Education from LMU; she was a 2006 Teach for America Corps member, has taught math at Locke High School, and was

a founding SDP math teacher at Green Dot Transformation, Animo Locke 2 Charter High School. She led the girls’ basketball team as their coach through to their division semifinals in 2010. Professor Caldwell lives with her family in Redondo Beach and enjoys time outdoors, hiking, running, and golfing.

feryAl cherifAssistAnt ProfessorPoliticAl scienceProfessor Cherif studies international relations and politics of the Middle East with an emphasis on gender and human rights. She received her Ph.D. from NYU (2005). Her work has appeared in the Journal of Politics and International Studies Quarterly among others, and her

report on peacekeeping was published by the United Nations. She is currently finishing her book manuscript, From Ideas to Action: Myths and Misunderstandings about Advancements in Women’s Rights. In addition to teaching classes on international relations, gender, and human rights, she was the founding chair of the Middle East and Islamic Studies minor at UC, Riverside. She has had several media appearances, including on CNN. In 2007, she was the inaugural recipient of the Faculty Diversity Award for her mentorship of minority students at the UC, Riverside.

PAUl chitlikclinicAl ProfessorscreenwritingScreenwriter/producer/director Paul Chitlik has written for major networks and studios. He was story editor for “The New Twilight Zone,” and staff writer for Showtime’s “Brothers.” He has written features for Rysher Entertainment, NuImage and Promark. He received a

WGA award nomination for his work on “The Twilight Zone,” a GLAAD Media Award nomination, and won a Genesis Award for a Showtime movie. He has taught screenwriting at UCLA; Loyola Marymount University; ESCAC, the film school of the University of Barcelona; UNIACC in Santiago, Chile; and EICTV, the film school of Cuba. He consults for the government of Chile’s film development process. He has presented workshops and consulted for ScreenWest, Australia; ScreenAustralia and the Australian Writers Guild. His book, Rewrite, A Step-by-Step Guide to Strengthen Structure, Characters, and Drama in Your Screenplay is now in its second printing.

sArA ryUng cleMentVisiting AssistAnt ProfessortheAtre Arts & dAnceSara Ryung Clement is a Los Angeles-based set and costume designer. Her recent projects include costumes for the world premiere of Itamar Moses’ Completeness and the West Coast debut of Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw at South Coast Repertory. Regional and local credits

include Cornerstone Theatre Company, The Denver Center, TheatreWorks, Yale Repertory, CenterStage, A Noise Within, Marin Theatre Company, SPF, The Chance, Rogue Machine, The Elephant, and Deaf West. This fall, she will be designing sets and costumes for the world premiere of How the World Began at SCR. Professor Clement holds an MFA in Design from the Yale School of Drama and received her B.A. degree from Princeton University. She loves that California has great weather for running and fantastic places to eat.

ernesto colínAssistAnt ProfessorsPeciAlized ProgrAMs in UrBAn edUcAtion Professor Colín joins the Department of Language and Culture in Education as an Assistant Professor. He holds a B.A. degree in Chicana/o Studies and Spanish and an M.A. in Secondary Education, both from LMU. He completed

his Ph.D. in the Anthropology of Education, School of Education at Stanford University (2011). His work experiences include teaching Spanish in the Culver City and Ánimo Leadership Charter High Schools. He also served as a part-time faculty member in the School of Education at LMU and as an adjunct faculty in Chicana/o Studies and Anthropology at Evergreen Valley College in San José, California. Professor Colín’s research interests include Aztec Dance, Cultural Citizenship, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Cultural Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Chicana/o Studies and International Native American Studies. He translated Graciela Limón’s Song of the Hummingbird into Spanish, La Canción del Colibrí (2006) and published “A Modern Mexica Paideia: Learning through the construction of a Calpulli,” in Educating Comprehensively: Varieties of Educational Experiences by Linda Lin, Hervé Varenne, and Edmund W. Gordon (2010). In his free time, he enjoys Aztec Dance and Ceremony, world travel, sports, cooking, family, and Native American Arts. He is also a DJ at 88.9 FM KXLU on campus and the founder of the show, “Serenata de Tríos.”

colonel chArles corleychAir & ProfessorAerosPAce stUdiesAir Force Colonel Chuck Corley is the Air Force ROTC Detachment 40 Commander and Professor of Aerospace Studies. He was a member of the parachute team and earned a B.S. in Astronautical Engineering at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He holds Master’s Degrees in

Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and National Security Strategy from the Naval War College. Colonel Corley is a career F-16 pilot and FAA Certified Flight Instructor. He was an instructor and later the F-16 Commander at the Air Force Weapons School. After a tour on the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, Chuck commanded the 53d Test and Evaluation Group and then Detachment 2 of the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center. He and his family live in Palos Verdes Estates and enjoy cooking and hiking.

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roBert crossclinicAl ProfessorhistoryProfessor Cross earned his B.A. with a double major in History and English from UC, Berkeley, and his M.A. degree in History from Princeton University. He has spent the past summer completing his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled “To Counterbalance the World: England, Spain,

and Peace in the Early 17th Century,” also from Princeton. His broad range of research interests and teaching experience includes Tudor/Stuart Britain, Habsburg Spain, the Renaissance and Reformation in Europe, the history of political thought, the interaction between politics and religion, the Atlantic world, and all things transnational. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Robert loves travel, photography, and both listening to, and making, music. He lives in beautiful Sierra Madre with his family and their golden retriever, Bailey. He tries to spend as much time as humanly possible in the mountains and forest.

deePA dABirAssistAnt ProfessorBiologyProfessor Dabir is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Loyola Marymount University. She earned a B.S. degree in Life Sciences and Biochemistry from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai (India) and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Dabir

performed postdoctoral research at the UCLA before joining the LMU faculty in 2011. In her research, Professor Dabir focuses on characterizing protein import pathways in the yeast mitochondria using a genetic and chemical biology approach. She has characterized some small molecule inhibitors of Erv1, a key import component mutation of which results in an infantile mitochondrial disorder. The long term goal of her research is to use these inhibitors in mammalian systems to elucidate disease mechanisms. Professor Dabir’s interdisciplinary research crosses over into her teaching in such courses as Cell Biology and a Biochemistry laboratory. She believes strongly in training her students to be highly motivated scientists and apply ethical standards to the conduct of scientific research.

li dAiAssistAnt ProfessorMAnAgeMentProfessor Dai earned her Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Economics from the University of Toronto and her Ph.D. in Management from Texas A&M University. Her research interests center around firm strategy in discontinuous contexts, risk and decision-making processes in business,

government and society. In addition to having published in several refereed journals and a textbook, she has presented her research at the Academy of Management, and at the Academy of International Business and Strategic Management Society conferences. Professor Dai’s teaching interests lie in International Business, Strategic Management, and Entrepreneurship. Having lived in China, Canada, England, and the U.S., Professor Dai continues to learn about various national and sub-national cultures through reading, cooking, and travelling.

AntoniA dArderPresident’s ProfessoredUcAtionAl leAdershiPProfessor Darder is an internationally recognized critical scholar and holds the Leavey Presidential Chair in the Department of Educational leadership. Formerly, she served as a distinguished professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois.

She has also taught at Claremont Graduate University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her scholarship focuses on comparative studies of racism, political economy, education, and society. Her writings examine critically issues tied to culture, language, racism, and other social inequalities within schools and society. Professor Darder is the author of Reinventing Paulo Freire: A Pedagogy of Love and After Race: Racism after Multiculturalism. She is the editor of Culture and Difference and co-editor of Latinos and Education, The Latino Studies Reader: Culture, Economy and Society, and The Critical Pedagogy Reader. This fall, the 20th anniversary edition of Culture and Power in the Classroom, her widely recognized first book, will be released, in addition to a collection of her writings entitled A Dissident Voice: Essay on Culture, Pedagogy, and Power, which features one of her paintings on the cover and seven of her poems, one which opens each section. Over the years, Professor Darder---who is also a poet and visual artist---has been active in a variety of grassroots efforts tied to educational rights, worker’s rights, bilingual education, women’s issues, environmental justice, and immigrant rights. She was born in Puerto Rico and raised in East Los Angeles. Her family lives in California and beyond. She is an avid hiker, film buff, music lover, and unabashed foodie—all which she enjoys with family and friends.

AllAn deck, s.J.cAsAssA chAir of cAtholic sociAl VAlUesFr. Deck received a Classical Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Philosophy from Saint Louis University (1969), a Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Saint Louis University (1973), an M.Div. from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (1976), and an S.T.D. in Theology

at the Pontifical Gregorian University (1988). He has held faculty positions at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (1987-92) and previously at Loyola Marymount University (1992-97). He was Executive Director of the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry (NCCHM) (1990-1997) and of the Loyola Institute for Spirituality in Orange, CA(1997-2008). He is First Executive Director of the Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, DC (2008-2012). Author of Francisco Javier Alegre: A Study in Mexican Literary Criticism and The Second Wave: Hispanic Ministry and the Evangelization of Cultures, he is also an editor of four additional anthologies, including Frontiers of Hispanic Catholic Theology in the United States, Hispanic Catholic Culture in the United States, Perspectivas: Hispanic Ministry, and The Treasure of Guadalupe. Fr. Deck’s writing, research and life/work experience have sought to bridge the theoretical and the practical, society and religion. His roots are in Los Angeles where he was born and in Arizona and the Mexican State of Sonora just below Arizona. Both his parents were bilingual/bicultural. His father George was of Mexican and German descent and raised in Arizona. His mother, Amparo Figueroa, came as a young girl to Los Angeles from Sonora during the Mexican Revolution. He is a fan of Spanish and Latin American music both popular and classical. A member of the Jesuit Order for more than forty-five years, Fr. Deck has enjoyed his life in community and in the many ministries, as well as scholarly and practical tasks for which he has been missioned by the Society of Jesus and the Catholic Church.

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scott delAntyclinicAl ProfessorAccoUntingProfessor Scott Delanty first joined LMU’s Accounting Department in the fall of 2009 and is appointed Clinical Assistant Professor in the same department this year. He teaches accounting and finance at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Professor Delanty has served on the

Advisory Board for the College of Business Administration for nearly 10 years and is actively involved with the Accounting Society. Prior to joining LMU, Professor Delanty held a variety of prestigious positions ranging from Big Four auditor to European CFO and senior finance executive of Computer Sciences Corporation. He has extensive experience in SEC reporting, tax, audit, systems, controls, off-shoring activities, shared service centers, debt/equity offerings, mergers, strategic planning and risk management initiatives. Professor Delanty recently completed the AACSB Bridge Program for educators and LMU’s “Ignatian Spiritual Exercises for Busy Persons.” He received his B.S. degree at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo (1976) and his MBA at USC (1979).

seAn d’eVelynAssistAnt ProfessoreconoMicsProfessor D’Evelyn joins the LMU faculty this fall as an Assistant Professor of Economics specializing in Environmental Economics and Experimental Economics. He received his B.A. degree from St. Olaf College in Economics, Political Science, and Asian Studies, and his

Ph.D. is in Economics from the University of Hawai’i. His environmental research focuses primarily on the economics of invasive species and his experimental work looks at reciprocity as a means to encourage pro-social behavior. In his spare time, Professor D’Evelyn improves his Game Theory with the aid of many-sided dice, collectible cards, and various “Spiel des Jahres” winners.

lindsAy deVenyclinicAl ProfessorsPeciAlized ProgrAMs in UrBAn edUcAtionProfessor DeVeny received an M.A. degree from CSU, Long Beach (2011) in Secondary Education with a Mathematics Option, and both a B.S. degree in Mathematics and a B.A. degree in Women’s Studies from CSULB. From 2007 to

2011, she taught Algebra and Geometry at the Marc & Eva Stern Math and Science High School (MASS); in 2010, she served as an Adjunct Professor in a Math Methods Course for first-year Teach for America students enrolled at LMU. She has worked closely with LMU’s CMAST (Center for Math and Science Teaching). Among her awards is a Mathematics Departmental Honors Award (2011).

Andrew diltsAssistAnt ProfessorPoliticAl scienceProfessor Dilts is a political theorist whose work focuses broadly on the history of political thought, and in particular, the discursive relationships between political membership, subjectivity, sovereignty, and punishment. He is especially interested in the connections between

penal policy and “identity” in the contemporary United States. Born and raised in the Midwest, Professor Dilts studied Economics at Indiana University and the London School of Economics before earning his doctorate in Political Science at the University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty at Loyola Marymount, he

was a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at the University of Chicago, where he taught exclusively in the College’s “Common Core” curriculum as a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Social Sciences. Professor Dilts has published in The Carceral Notebooks, has forthcoming articles in Political Theory, Foucault Studies, and Social Text, and is actively at work on several more articles exploring the accounts of punishment, membership, identity, and the power to pardon. In addition, he is currently at work on two book projects, one involving felon disenfranchisement and and the other on Foucauldian thought in relation to neo-liberal economic theories of subjectivity.

w. wesley (wes) dowdAssistAnt ProfessorBiologyProfessor Dowd studies how coastal marine animals use physiology and behavior to cope with stress imposed by living in the dynamic and variable environments – rocky intertidal zone and estuaries – that occur near the land-sea interface. His master’s and doctoral research focused

on several species of sharks, his more recent work examines intertidal mussels and limpets, and planned projects will incorporate small fishes that live in the intertidal zone of Southern California. He has conducted biological research in North America, Australia, Africa, and Antarctica. Professor Dowd’s B.S. degree is in Biology with a minor in English from Duke University (2000). He received an M.S. degree in Marine Science from the College of William and Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science (2003). His Ph.D. is in Physiological Ecology from the UC, Davis (2009). Professor Dowd was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, CA (2009-11). He lives in Westchester with his family and enjoys hiking, snowshoeing, Mexican food, watching Duke basketball, tinkering with his boat, and good beer.

AngelA gAllegosAssociAte Professor MAtheMAticsProfessor Gallegos earned her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from UC, Davis (2005). Her area of specialty was Mathematical Biology. She previously earned a B.A. degree in Mathematics with a minor in Biology from New York University (1999). Professor Gallegos served as an

Assistant and then Associate Professor of Mathematics at Occidental College (2005-11). During a junior sabbatical she spent a year at Tulane University where she focused on Mathematical Epidemiology. She has published in three Mathematical Biology journals on projects including Myxobacterial swarming, a Crocodilian population, and immune cell populations. Professor Gallegos lives in Marina del Rey and is excited to be able to run on the beach, bike to work, and pursue her other beach and ocean loves.

clArA gArAyclinicAl ProfessorsPeciAlized ProgrAMs in UrBAn edUcAtionProfessor Garay received her B.S. degree in Biology from UC, Riverside and her California Single Subject Teaching Credential in Biology from CSU, Los Angeles. She has taught biology, human anatomy, physiology, and AP

biology at Dr. Olga Mohan High School (2007-11). She also taught biology at Los Angeles International Charter High School (2006-07). She lives in Whittier, California with her seventy-five year old mom, and enjoys hiking and gardening.

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MichAel gottfriedAssistAnt Professor sPeciAlized ProgrAMs in UrBAn edUcAtionProfessor Gottfried received his B.A. degree with Honors in Economics from Stanford University, his M.A. degree in Applied Economics from the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. in Applied

Economics from the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Certification in Education Sciences granted jointly by the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and the U.S. Department of Education. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Gottfried joined the RAND Corporation as an Associate Policy Researcher and Professor of Policy Analysis. He joins LMU directly from RAND. Professor Gottfried’s research focuses on urban education. He is interested in student issues (such as attendance), classroom issues (such as peer effects), and school issues (such as district reform). He has recently published his work in the American Journal of Education, the American Educational Research Journal, and the Teachers College Record. He received the 2009-2010 American Educational Research Association, Outstanding Publication Advances in Methodology Award for a recent publication.

Brett hooVer, c.s.P.Visiting AssistAnt ProfessortheologicAl stUdiesFr. Hoover holds a Ph.D. in the Interdisciplinary Study of Theology from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and an M.A. degree in Theology from Washington Theological Union, Washington, D.C.; his B.A. degree in English and psychology was awarded by UC, Santa

Barbara. He has served as Research faculty at the Institute of Pastoral Studies, Loyola University, Chicago (2010-11), as adjunct faculty at the Franciscan School of Theology, Berkeley (2008-2010), the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley (2009-2010)and the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University, Berkeley (2006-2007, 2009). His research interests include work on Chicago parishes for a pastoral leadership project called INSPIRE and funded by the Lilly Endowment. He has also spent a year studying a Midwestern parish shared by English and Spanish speaking communities for which he received a dissertation fellowship from the Louisville Institute. Among Fr. Hoover’s publications are two books, Comfort: An Atlas of the Body and Soul (2011) and Losing Your Religion, Finding Your Faith (1998). A forthcoming article, “When Theology and Culture Clash: Work Culture in Chicago Parishes,” appears in NCEA Seminary Journal and others have been published in New Theology Review, The Way, and the Seattle Theology and Ministry. A member of the Paulists and an ordained Catholic priest, Fr. Hoover is originally from Southern California, and his parents and siblings live in Orange and Ventura Counties as well as the Bay Area. He lives in Westwood.

kAren (kArie) hUchtingAssistAnt ProfessoredUcAtionAl leAdershiPProfessor Huchting earned her B.A. degree in psychology and her M.A. degree in Education from Loyola Marymount University. She also received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Applied Social Psychology from Claremont Graduate University in 2009, with an emphasis in quantitative

methodology. She has been a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership in the School of Education for the past two years and joins the department this year as an Assistant Professor. Prior to joining

LMU as a professor, she worked for the Heads UP Alcohol Research Laboratory housed in the Psychology Department of LMU. Her research focuses on student perceptions of the curricular and co-curricular educational experience and she has authored numerous manuscripts related to student health. She is also a member of the IRB (Institutional Review Board), the moderator of Gryphon Circle (a volunteer undergraduate service organization of approximately 40 undergraduate women), and the volunteer women’s soccer coach at LMU. She currently lives in the Westchester neighborhood with her family. She is a certified yoga instructor and enjoys spending time outdoors with her dog, Makena.

cAPtAin won inAssistAnt ProfessorAerosPAce stUdiesAir Force Captain Won In is the Air Force ROTC Detachment 40 Recruiter Flight Commander and Assistant Professor of Aerospace Studies. He earned a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland. He holds an M.S. degree in Astronautical Engineering

from the Air Force Institute of Technology and a M.A. degree in Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma. Captain Won is a career acquisition officer and was involved in the sustainment of B-1 and B-2 Bomber Engines and the acquisition of four satellite programs including recently launched Space Based Infrared Systems GEO-1 Satellite. He was selected to attend the Air Force Institute of Technology to study Astronautical Engineering. After completing his M.S. degree, Captain Won was assigned to the Los Angeles Air Force Base. He was selected as the Executive Officer of the high visibility Space Based Infrared Systems Wing. He then worked in a staff organization, Independent Readiness Review Team, directly working for the Lieutenant General, Space and Missiles Systems Center’s Commander. Captain Won and his family just moved into their new home in Buena Park and actively participate with the Grace Korean Church in Fullerton. Captain Won enjoys golfing when his schedule allows and also enjoys fishing and playing sports with his boys.

holly JohnstonVisiting AssistAnt Professor theAtre Arts & dAnceProfessor Johnston is a choreographer, movement researcher and educator. She is the artistic director of LEDGES AND BONES, a bi-city contemporary dance company based in both the Los Angeles and San Francisco communities. LEDGES AND BONES promotes cultural consciousness,

open dialogue, and social justice through live performance, education, and other public forums. Professor Johnston is committed to enriching lives by articulating diverse perspectives on contemporary culture and articulating the human condition through kinetic experience. With performances in New York and throughout California, the company performs extensively in their home regions of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Professor Johnston has received awards from The Maggie Alesse National Center for Choreography, The Zellerbach Foundation, The Joyce Theater A.W.A.R.D.S. Show Grant/Los Angeles, and a Lester Horton Award for Outstanding Performance for her solo “experiment one.” She is an international dance artist receiving commissions and residencies from numerous colleges and universities throughout the United States. Professor Johnston holds a B.A. degree in Dance from Loyola Marymount University and established her career as a dancer, rehearsal director and artistic collaborator for Tongue Contemporary Dance, AD: Stephanie Gilliland. She and LEDGES AND BONES are artists-in-residence at ODC Theater/San Francisco.

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Meric keskinelVisiting AssistAnt ProfessoreconoMicsProfessor Meric Keskinel received his B.A. degree from the University of Istanbul, completed his M.A. degree at Northeastern University, and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Claremont Graduate University(2002). His primary focus is on International Finance. He has

taught at Claremont McKenna College, Loyola Marymount University, Cal State Fullerton, and West LA College. Dr. Keskinel is passionate about teaching and making economics an accessible subject to everyone. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling with his family.

gil kleinAssistAnt ProfessortheologicAl stUdiesProfessor Klein earned his B.Arch. degree from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and his M.Phil. degree and Ph.D. from Cambridge University. His doctoral dissertation, which dealt with the Talmudic understanding of urban architecture, merged the perspectives of both

architectural history and Judaic studies. Professor Klein had a research fellowship at the Getty Villa in Malibu, as well as two post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at Harvard University. He is the author of several articles, which emerged from his multi-disciplinary research. The most recent of these articles is titled “Torah in triclinia: the Rabbinic Banquet and the Significance of Architecture”. He taught for three years at Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania, and is very happy to move back to sunny, vibrant Los Angeles. Professor Klein spends the little free time he has listening to music, drawing and hoping for a peaceful coexistence of Israel and Palestine. He is currently living in West Hollywood, where he might be spotted walking down the streets and looking up at the architecture.

captain daniel (dan) krunglevichAssistAnt ProfessorAerosPAce stUdiesProfessor Krunglevich earned his B.S. degree in Management of Technical Operations from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and his MBA degree in Project Management from Trident University. Captain Krunglevich joined the Air Force in 1995 and after a two-

year break in service to complete his B.S. degree, he rejoined as a commissioned officer in 2005. He has been stationed in Arizona, Florida, Alaska, New Mexico, and California. Last month, he returned from a deployment to Afghanistan.Professor Krunglevich and his family currently live in Torrance from where they enjoy spending time near the ocean or traveling to the lake.

yAnPing (Jennie) MAAssistAnt ProfessorMAtheMAticsProfessor Ma received her B.S. degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China (2006). She is expecting her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics with a minor in Statistics this summer from Pennsylvania State University. She is

currently working on Bio-Mathematical modeling, a collaboration with the bio-engineering, aero-engineering, and statistics departments. A paper on Cellular

and Molecular Bioengineering was recently published. Professor Ma served as a teaching/research assistant at Penn State (2007-2009) where she was promoted to teaching associate. She has also worked for the Modeling and Simulation division at Merck Laboratories researching Hepatitis C Virus modeling (2010). Professor Ma enjoys cooking, watching movies, jogging and playing games with friends during her spare time. She looks forward to joining LMU and staying close to the ocean.

MArthA MccArthyPresident’s ProfessoredUcAtionAl leAdershiPProfessor McCarthy earned her B.A. degree in elementary education and her M.A. degree in instructional management and planning from the University of Kentucky. She received her Ed.S. and Ph.D. degrees in educational leadership from the University of Florida. After being

a teacher and school administrator, she became a faculty member at Indiana University, where she most recently served as a Chancellor’s Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the School of Education. At Indiana, she also held other administrative roles, including Director of the Indiana Education Policy Center and the High School Survey of Student Engagement, and Associate Dean of the Faculties. Professor McCarthy’s research resides in primarily two areas, educational law and policy and the evolution and reform of leadership preparation programs. In the first, she has conducted research on most aspects of educational law, focusing recently on First Amendment issues pertaining to church/state relations and expression rights of students and school employees. She currently is working on the seventh edition of Public School Law: Teachers’ and Students’ Rights (with Nelda Cambron-McCabe and Suzanne Eckes). Her recent research on leadership preparation programs has entailed a national study (with Don Hackmann) of educational leadership units and the characteristics, activities, and attitudes of educational leadership faculty members (At a Crossroads: The Educational Leadership Professoriate in the 21st Century). Professor McCarthy enjoys swimming, skiing, and most types of dancing. She recently has taken up tennis.

ginA MessinA-dysertVisiting AssistAnt ProfessortheologicAl stUdiesGina Messina-Dysert is a feminist theologian and ethicist. She received her B.A. degree in Sociology at Cleveland State University, an M.B.A. in organizational leadership and marketing from Findlay University, an M.A. degree in religious studies at John Carroll University, and a Ph.D.

in religion at Claremont Graduate University focusing in the areas of women studies in religion and theology, ethics, and culture. Her research interests are theologically and ethically driven, involve a feminist and interdisciplinary approach, and are influenced by her activist roots and experience working with survivors of rape and domestic violence. She is the author of several articles and has a forthcoming book entitled, Sexual Violence within a Rape Culture: The Experience of Double Victimization, Han, and Spiritual Death. In addition, Professor Messina-Dysert is co-founder and director of the Feminism and Religion project and is a contributor to the Rock and Theology project. She loves to cook and bake and lives with her family and their two dogs in Alta Loma.

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PhiliP MoleBAshAssistAnt ProfessorsPeciAlized ProgrAMs in UrBAn edUcAtionProfessor Molebash received his Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from the University of Virginia (2001), following his B.S. degree in Mathematics from Pepperdine (1993). He served as Assistant Professor at SDSU (2001-

05) and as director of Administrative and Academic Technology at Loyola High School (2006-11). He is the inventor of Web Inquiry Projects (WIPs), open inquiry learning activities that leverage the use of un-interpreted online data and information. At the University of Virginia, he won the All-University Teaching Award and Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. His most recent publications include: With K. Glassett, “Conceptual change and the process of becoming a Digital History Teacher,” in Research in Social Studies and Technology (2009) and with N.B. Milman, “A longitudinal assessment of Teacher Education students’ Confidence towards using Technology,” in the Journal of Educational Computing Research (2008). He lives with his family in Pasadena and they love to travel and go camping. He coaches pole vaulting at Loyola High School and occasionally does a bit of pole vaulting himself.

lizy MoroMisAtoVisiting AssistAnt ProfessorModern lAngUAges & literAtUresLizy Moromisato earned her B.A. degree in Linguistics and Spanish and her M.A. degree in Spanish Linguistics from UCLA. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UCLA. Her dissertation project is a study of a 17th Century heroic poem based on

the life of St. Rose of Lima, the first canonized saint born in the Americas. Her research interests include epic poetry, hagiography, Spanish-American literature and literary culture, and cultural semantics. Professor Moromisato has taught at UCLA, Occidental College and has also taught for the Jumpstart Program at community colleges in the Los Angeles area. She is a founding and current member of CECI (Centro de Estudios Coloniales Iberoamericanos), a research group for Spanish-American Colonial Studies based at UCLA. In her free time, Professor Moromisato enjoys singing karaoke, traveling and taking photographs of the urban, architectural and gastronomic landscapes of Los Angeles.

AdilifU nAMAchAir & AssociAte ProfessorAfricAn AMericAn stUdiesProfessor Nama received his Ph.D. in Sociology at USC (2002) and an M.A. degree in Sociology at Howard University (1996). His B.A. degree in Sociology was from CSU, Long Beach (1992). He will chair the Department of African American Studies at LMU. Professor Nama’s

research is interdisciplinary and rests at the intersection of African American studies, cultural studies, black cultural criticism, critical theory, film studies and communication studies. He examines popular culture as a compelling conduit that connects peoples and places, politics and power, commerce and commodities in ways that forge new social relations, lifestyles and racial subjectivities concerning black racial formation. His publications include Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes (University Texas Press, 2011), the award winning Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film. (University of Texas Press, 2008) along with a variety of articles examining black racial formation and representation in Sci-Fi film, comics, hip-hop music and television.

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cAndice nicolAsVisiting AssistAnt ProfessorModern lAngUAges & literAtUresProfessor Nicolas earned her M.A. degree from the University of Bristol, England, and a second M.A. degree from the University of Rennes 2, France, both focusing on Arthur Rimbaud’s revolutionary poetry. She received her Ph.D in French Studies from the Ohio State University.

Her research encompasses the representations of violence in literature from fin-de-siècle through the 1950s and in European cinema (depicted via wars, social revolutions, identities and gender conflicts, and issues of communication in relationships), which she teaches in an historical and artistic context. She is currently working on several articles on Rimbaud’s poetic subversion and is also co-authoring a beginner’s French textbook, Voyage, Voyage. Professor Nicolas moved from Paris to the U.S. in 2000 and is looking forward to new and enriching experiences at LMU. During her free time, she enjoys traveling and writing novels.

MArgAritA ochoAAssistAnt ProfessorhistoryProfessor Ochoa earned a B.A. degree in History at UCLA, and M.A. degree in History and Political Science at the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in Latin American History at the University of New Mexico. She is the Co-editor of the forthcoming , City Indians in

Spain’s American Empire: Urban Indigenous Society in Colonial Mesoamerica and Andean South America, 1600-1830, author of a book chapter ,“‘Por faltar a sus obligaciones’: matrimonio, género y autoridad entre la población indígena de la ciudad de México colonial, siglos XVIII y XIX,” in Felipe Castro Gutiérrez, ed., Los indios y las ciudades de la Nueva España (2010) and is completing an article, “The Murder of Rodrigo de Paz: Power, Authority, and the Inquisition in Colonial Mexico, 1521-1600.” With the generous aid of university (UNM) and national grants (FLAS, Mellon), Professor Ochoa conducted historical research with archaic Spanish and Nahuatl documentation in the archives in Mexico, Spain, and England. She is also working on the transcription and translation of a corpus of Nahuatl last wills and testaments from late-colonial Mexico City compiled over the past three years. This work will be presented at the upcoming (January 2012) annual meeting of the American Historical Association and will also form part of a book-length manuscript. She enjoys circuit training, Pilates, yoga, cycling and discovering Los Angeles.

gene PArkAssistAnt ProfessorPoliticAl scienceProfessor Park specializes in comparative politics, international relations, and political economy. He has written extensively on the politics of public finance in Japan including a book entitled Spending without Taxation: FILP and the Politics of Public Finance in Japan (2011).

He is currently working on a comparative study of taxation. Prior to arriving at LMU, he taught at Baruch College, City University of New York. Professor Park has been a Japan Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a Shorenstein Fellow at Stanford University’s Asia Pacific Research Center (APARC). He also spent two years as a visiting scholar at the Japanese Ministry of Finance’s Policy Research Institute. Professor Park received his Ph.D. in Political Science from UC, Berkeley. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Institute of International Education fellowship. He holds a B.A. degree in Philosophy from Swarthmore College and a Masters of City and Regional Planning from UC, Berkeley.

Andrew (Andy) rohMAssociAte ProfessorMArketingProfessor Rohm earned his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Professor Rohm recently returned from Maastricht, Netherlands, where he spent the 2007-2008 academic

year as a visiting professor at Maastricht University. His research examines consumer usage and acceptance of new media as well as firms’ use of mobile and social media marketing strategies. He has published in scholarly and managerial publications such as the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Interactive Marketing, the Journal of Advertising, the Journal of Consumer Behavior, the Journal of Business Research, and the Sloan Management Review. After living in the greater-Boston area for more than fifteen years, he is excited to be moving to Los Angeles, where he can begin to perfect his surfing skills. Professor Rohm is currently living in Manhattan Beach with his family, their black lab named Pretty Boy Floyd, and a 20-year old cat named Monroe.

kenneth rUdnick, s.J.clinicAl ProfessorPhilosoPhyFr. Kenneth Rudnick, S.J. re-joins LMU in the Department of Philosophy after serving in multiple capacities at LMU, for example, as Chaplain at Loyola School of Law (2006-2011). He has occupied numerous posts as Dean (Marymount College, Rancho Palos Verdes; Dean of the

College of Arts & Letters, St. Michael’s Institute, Gonzaga), Academic Vice President, and Rector/President (St. John’s Seminary College, Camarillo), and has taught part time in several departments. Fr. Rudnick’s Ph.D. is in Philosophy from Fordham University and his M.Div., in Theology is from the Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley. His work has focused on many topics including Catholic Studies and curriculum development.

Anthony (tony) sABAtinoAssistAnt ProfessoredUcAtionAl leAdershiPProfessor Sabatino received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in education from Northern Illinois University and his Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from California Lutheran University. He has served for thirty-one years in public and Catholic school administration, including K-12 elementary

and secondary schools. Recently, he was Headmaster of Villanova Preparatory School in Ojai, CA. His current research projects examine and explore the change process in implementing the extended calendar in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Additionally, he has designed a conceptual framework to be used in developing principled-based leaders in Catholic secondary schools. Other research interests are leadership theory related to the Catholic school principal-ship, Catholic school governance, ethical decision-making, and urban Catholic schooling. Professor Sabatino was made an Affiliate of the Order of Saint Augustine (OSA) in May 2009 after serving the Augustinian priests and brothers of the Province of St. Augustine for 19 years as an administrator in both of their high schools. His wife is also an educator; he enjoys Italian cooking and biking.

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cAsey shooPenglishVisiting AssistAnt Professor Professor Shoop received his B.A. degree in English at the University of California, Berkeley and his M.A. and Ph. D. from Columbia University. He specializes in 20th Century American literature and film. From 2008-2010, he served as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Huntington Library-

USC Institute on California and the West where he was conducting research for a book on the culture and politics of the Reagan era. He is also working on a more recent project that examines the relationship between detective fiction and capitalism in the late 20th Century. His essay on Raymond Chandler and Fredric Jameson recently appeared in Cultural Critique, and an essay on Thomas Pynchon will appear this year in Contemporary Literature. Although the eight years Casey spent in New York may have turned him into a New Yorker, he is a native of Southern California and thrilled to be on the West coast again, where he can watch the Lakers with other fans, see old Hollywood films in L.A.’s historic theaters, and spend time with his family and friends.

rosAlie sieMon lochnerPhilosoPhyVisiting instrUctorProfessor Siemon Lochner earned her B.A. degree in Philosophy from Boston University, and has M.A. degrees in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University and in Philosophy from DePaul University, where she is currently completing her Ph.D. Her dissertation in

progress is titled: “Arendt and Spivak: Worlding the Political and Ethical Subject.” Her work concentrates on political, ethical and feminist issues. She also works on questions related to child agency in medical ethics. Her M.A. theses considered the ethical dimensions of Martin Heidegger and Gayatri Spivak and the ethical and political margins in Sophocles’ Antigone. She enjoys reading and contributing to food blogs, hiking with her family, and distance running.

JUstin rodrigUezVisiting AssistAnt ProfessorcoMMUnicAtion stUdiesProfessor Rodriguez received his J.D. (2011) from Loyola Law School and a B.A. degree from the University of LaVerne. He was a summer associate at Manatt, Phelps, & Phillips, a judicial extern for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and a legal intern for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. He has served as a lecturer of Communication Studies as well as Assistant Debate Coach at Loyola Marymount University (2006-08 and 2010-11). His publications include Defining Critical Forensics (Rostrum, 2007) and The Use of Critiques in Lincoln Douglas Debate (Rostrum, 2005). He has served as a member of the Executive Council for the World Schools Universities Debating Championships, U.K. and as Director and Secretary of Debate for the Southern California Debate League.

MeghnA singhViAssistAnt ProfessorAccoUntingProfessor Singhvi earned an MBA at Ohio University (2002), and an M.S. degree in Accountancy from Northern Kentucky University, as well as a Ph.d. in Business Administration (Accounting) from Florida International University. She served as an internal auditor

at Northern Kentucky University (2006-08), as Adjunct Professor (Accounting) at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, and at Northern Kentucky University. She has published a paper, ““Audit Fees after Remediation of Internal Control Weaknesses” in Accounting Horizons (2011) with V. Munisf, K. Raghunandan, and D. Rama. Her family lives in India and she resides in Los Angeles with her husband who is also a professor of Accounting. In her free time, she loves to read, travel, and exercise.

coUrtney sPikesVisiting AssistAnt ProfessorhistoryProfessor Spikes earned her B.A. degree in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Later she pursued her Ph.D. in French history at UCLA. At the same time, Professor Spikes attended graduate school in Paris at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and

then returned to France to pursue her doctoral research as a recipient of the Chateaubriand fellowship. Her work on political culture in post-revolutionary France has been presented at the annual conferences of the Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society of French History. Before attending graduate school, Professor Spikes served as Program Director for an AmeriCorps literacy-tutoring grant in Los Angeles and facilitated volunteer opportunities for fellow alums in the city. Her free time is spent trying to keep up with her very active three-year-old son in Santa Monica.

JoshUA sPizMAnAssistAnt ProfessorfinAnceProfessor Spizman earned a Ph.D. at Binghamton University, SUNY (2010) in Management (Finance) and a B.S. degree at Binghamton University, SUNY (2005) in Mathematical Sciences. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance at Binghamton (2010-11) and the

year before was visiting lecturer of Finance at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Fl. His research interests focus on taxation, corporate finance, ownership structure, and public finance. His working papers include “The Evolution of Aggregate Stock Ownership: A Unified Explanation,” with Kristian Rydqvist and Ilya Strebulaev, the“ Tax Benefit of Income Smoothing” with Kristian Rydqvist and Steven T. Schwartz, and “Accounting, Finance and Adverse Selection: Illustrations and Applications” with Murali Jagannathan, Steven T. Schwartz, and Richard Young. In addition, Professor Spizman has presented papers at numerous conferences including the Texas Finance Festival (2009), the Financial Management Association Annual Meeting (2008), and the University of North Carolina Tax Symposium (2008). Another paper will be delivered at the Financial Management Association Annual Meeting (2011). He was married recently at Walt Disney World and he and his family look forward to exploring a new city and taking advantage of the great weather. They are also very excited to visit Disneyland. He loves baseball and although a big New York Yankees fan, he cannot wait to see a Dodgers game.

chiArA sUlPrizioVisiting AssistAnt ProfessorclAssics And ArchAeologyProfessor Sulprizio was awarded a B.A. degree in Classics from the University of Washington, Seattle (1999) and a Ph.D. in Classics from USC (2007) earning as well as a Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies. She served as a lecturer at USC, as visiting assistant professor at Hamilton

College, and as a research scholar in the Center for the Study of Women at UCLA. She joined LMU as a part-time faculty member in 2010. Among her recent publications are “Eros Conquers All: Sex and Love in Eric Shanower’s Age of Bronze,” and “You Can’t Go Home Again: War, Women and Domesticity in Aristophanes’ Peace,” in a Special Volume of the journal, Ramus. She lives with family and cat Circe in West Los Angeles, writes a blog about swimming pools called “Swimming in LA,” volunteers as a tutor for “School on Wheels,” and recently travelled to Nicaragua twice for leisure and a family visit. She enjoys embroidery, badminton, bike riding.

gUstAVo VeJArAnoAssistAnt ProfessorelectricAl engineeringProfessor Vejarano earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering at Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia (2005), and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (2009 and 2011). In 2006, he worked

for ZTE Corporation as an engineer for the deployment of a city-wide cellular network. During his graduate studies, he conducted research on wireless communication networks. The results of his research have been published in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, the Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, and at several international conferences. His research was also applied in the development of multimedia communication technologies at the US Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center, where he participated in the design, implementation, and evaluation of video and audio communication systems. In higher education, Professor Vejarano has worked on the development of constructivist learning techniques for undergraduate students of electrical engineering. His work has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Education. He has been a mentor of the NASA-MUST and NSF-SEAGEP programs which provide career guidance to undergraduate students in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. Professor Vejarano enjoys all forms of musical expression. He plays classical and electric guitar and he also experiments with the creation of new electronic musical instruments.

yAnJie wAngAssistAnt Professor AsiAn PAcific stUdiesProfessor Wang earned her B.A. degree at Peking University and her M.Phil. degree at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Wang’s research focuses on modern

Chinese literature, contemporary Chinese cinema, and gender studies. She has published journal articles including “Displaced in the Simulacrum: Migrant Workers and Urban Space in The World” in Asian Cinema and “Contention of Lust, Caution: Sexuality, Visuality and Female Subjectivity” in Situations: Cultural Studies in the East Asian Context. She has also translated some Slavoj Žižek’s works from English into Chinese. Professor Wang has taught a variety of courses while she pursued her doctorate at the University of Illinois, and she enjoyed tremendously the time with her students. She is excited about joining the LMU community and about working in one of the most beautiful places in the U.S.

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