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Page 1: Office of the University Provost - Arizona State University

arizona state university

members

2015

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2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

22,26124,071

11,332 11,154 10,867 10,77312,163

16,735

21,44423,740

22,015

ASU Pell Grant recipients: ten-year trend

degrees awardedbaccalaureate........................14,842master’s..........................................5,268doctoral ..............................................687law...........................................................223total degrees awarded...........21,020

undergraduates

81%(74,146)

enrollment19%

(17,211)

graduates

economic impact on AZ gross product in FY 2014 $4.25 billion

66,217

economic impact

jobs created

Arizona State University is one of the fastest growing research

enterprises in the U.S.

research expenditures(in millions)

2014

42

6, 65

1

2010

32

9, 34

5

2011

35

5, 21

5

2012

38

5, 959

2013

40

5, 154

excellent students419 National Merit Scholars

350 National Hispanic ScholarsOne of the top producers nationally of

Fulbright Student Scholars

excellent faculty1 MacArthur fellow2 Nobel laureates

3 Pulitzer Prize awardees5 American Philosophical Society members

8 National Academy of Engineering members10 American Academy of Arts and Sciences members

13 National Academy of Sciences members25 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellows

38 National Endowment for the Humanities fellows

excellent programs#1 most innovative school in the country – U.S. News & World Report

#1 public research university and #4 university overall for international students – Institute of International Education

#2 Best Online Graduate Criminal Justice – U.S. News & World Report#4 Online MBA Programs – U.S. News & World Report

#8 in the Top 10 Colleges for Veterans – College Factual#8 Best Online Bachelor's Programs – U.S. News & World Report

#17 for graduate education in the nation – U.S. News & World Report Named "Military Friendly School" for seven straight years – G.I. Jobs Magazine

One of the "best buy" public colleges in the U.S. and U.K. – Fiske Guide to Colleges

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Michael BaerPh.D. University of GeorgiaBaer is an assistant professor in the Department of Management. His research focuses on the areas of trust, fairness and impression management. He explores alternative perspectives on trust in the workplace, including some drawbacks of trusting others and being trusted. Baer’s research has appeared in several top management journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology. He holds an M.B.A. from Brigham Young University.

Hendrik (Hank) BessembinderPh.D. University of WashingtonProfessor Bessembinder is the Francis J. and Mary B. Labriola Chair in the Department of Finance. His research focuses on the design and regulation of financial markets, including stock, foreign exchange, fixed income, futures and energy markets. He has published in major finance journals, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies. He holds an M.B.A. from Washington State University.

Lucile FaurelPh.D. New York UniversityFaurel is an assistant professor in the School of Accountancy and a French national who has lived in France and the U.S. Her research interests include pricing and mispricing of accounting information, voluntary disclosure, corporate innovation, contract design and incentives, executive compensation and insider trading. Her research has been published in top accounting journals, including the Journal of Accounting and Economics and the Journal of Accounting Research.

W. P. Carey School of Business

W. P. Carey School of Business . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Walter Cronkite School of Journalism . . . . . 7 and Mass Communication

Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering . . . . . . 7

Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College . . . . . . . 14

School for the Future of Innovation . . . . . . 16 in Society

College of Health Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Herberger Institute for Design and . . . . . . . 19the Arts

New College of Interdisciplinary. . . . . . . . . . 23Arts and Sciences

College of Letters and Sciences . . . . . . . . . . 24

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences . . . . . 26

College of Nursing and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Health Innovation

Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law . . . . 38

College of Public Service and . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Community Solutions

School of Sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Thunderbird School of Global . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Management

2015.2016 new faculty members from the following academic units:

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Bart HobijnPh.D. New York UniversityHobijn is a professor in the Department of Economics. His research focuses on inflation, unemployment and economic growth. Additional research interests include applied macroeconomics, labor market dynamics, technological progress, econometrics and price measurement. His nearly 30 academic articles have appeared in a range of publications including the Journal of Monetary Economics, American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Kirk KristoffersonPh.D. University of British Columbia (Canada)Kristofferson is an assistant professor in the Department of Marketing. His research centers on understanding the impact of social influence and persuasion in consumption contexts; specifically, the motivations and social factors that drive consumers to behave prosocially, and how impression-management desires can impact subsequent consumer choice. Kristofferson’s research has been published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology and other publications.

Marcie LePinePh.D. University of MinnesotaLePine is an associate professor in the Department of Management and Barrett Honors College faculty member. Her research has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal and the Journal of Applied Psychology. She has received a number of teaching awards, most recently the 2015 John W. Teets Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher of the Year Award.

Monika LisjakPh.D. Northwestern UniversityLisjak is an assistant professor in the Department of Marketing. Her research examines consumer goals and behaviors. She has two streams of research, symbolic consumption and self-control. Her work has appeared in leading journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. She received her M.S. from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Margaret LucianoPh.D. University of ConnecticutLuciano is an assistant professor in the Department of Management. Her research on understanding and enhancing the quality of coordination during patient handoffs from surgery to recovery won competitive international awards. Her work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology and Journal of Management. She received her M.B.A from Clark University.

Ashok MishraPh.D. North Carolina State UniversityProfessor Mishra is the Kemper and Ethel Marley Chair in the Morrison School of Agribusiness. He is recognized nationally and internationally as one of the leading agricultural and applied economists in the field today. His research lies at the intersection of food policy, food security and the financial performance of agribusinesses and how these issues impact the markets for food and the associated input markets needed to produce food.

Balasubrahmanian Ravikumar Ph.D. University of IowaProfessor Ravikumar’s studies with the Department of Economics include economic development, dynamic contracts and macroeconomics public finance. Before joining ASU, he served four years as vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and as a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. His more than 30 articles have appeared in more than 20 national and international economics-related journals.

Mark SeasholesPh.D. Harvard UniversityProfessor Seasholes conducts research in the field of financial economics in the Department of Finance. He has written on cross-border equity investments, herding behavior of individual investors and loss aversion. Seasholes has taught in a number of countries, cultures and universities, including Harvard, Santa Clara University, University of Texas-Austin, London Business School, INSEAD and University of Grenoble in France, and HKUST in Hong Kong.

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Arizona State University

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Christine ShropshirePh.D. Arizona State University An associate professor in the Department of Management, Shropshire’s research interests include corporate governance, board composition and effectiveness, diversity in the upper echelons and stakeholder management. Her studies currently explore the effects of diverse leadership on firm risk-taking and shareholder activism, and the evolution of board capital with firm growth and internationalization. Prior to joining academia, Shropshire worked as a human capital consultant.

Jessie Jiaxu WangPh.D. Carnegie Mellon UniversityAn assistant professor in the Department of Finance, Wang’s research focuses on how frictions such as network externalities, contracting and labor search affect systemic risk and asset prices. In 2015, she was awarded the Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in Economic Theory and the WRDS Award for an Outstanding Paper in Asset Pricing by the Midwest Finance Association.

David WelshPh.D. University of Arizona Welsh is an assistant professor in the Department of Management. His research focuses primarily on issues related to unethical behavior in the workplace and has been published in scholarly journals including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. His research has been featured in numerous media outlets. He also holds a J.D. from the University of Utah.

Zhongju (John) ZhangPh.D. University of WashingtonZhang’s research interests include incentives, user behaviors, decision choices related to online collaborative platforms and social media, and big data analytics. His research focuses on the problems at the interface of information systems/technologies, management science, marketing and economics. Zhang was the founding director of the M.S. degree program in business analytics and project management at the University of Connecticut.

Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications

Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

Sada ReedPh.D. University of North Carolina-Chapel HillReed is an assistant professor and specializes in the examination of sports journalism practices and processes. Her dissertation analyzed American sports reporters’ conflicting roles as journalists, community members and sports enthusiasts, and how these roles influence their interactions with whistleblowers. She previously was a sports journalist for several regional media outlets.

Daniel Aukes Ph.D. Stanford UniversityAukes is an assistant professor in the Polytechnic School. He focuses on the design and manufacturing of robots as it relates to new fabrication techniques, and creates design tools to broaden the community of robot designers. His research topics include design, manufacturing, kinematics, dynamics and simulation of robotic and mechatronic devices. He has industrial experience in manufacturing system automation.

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Arizona State University

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Hani Ben AmorPh.D. Technical University Freiberg (Germany)Ben Amor is an assistant professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering. His research focuses on developing robot learning algorithms, which enable intelligent interactive agents, such as robots and virtual characters, to autonomously acquire and improve motor skills through supervised and unsupervised methods. This includes the abilities to act and manipulate objects, recognize and predict human behavior, and interact with human partners.

Otakuye Conroy-BenPh.D. University of ArizonaConroy-Ben is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and the first Lakota to earn a doctorate in environmental engineering. Her research interests include water/wastewater treatment and reuse, endocrine disruption, analytical and environmental chemistry, and metal resistance systems in bacteria. She plans to work with Native American and female students to build their presence in engineering.

Shuguang DengPh.D. University of Cincinnati Deng is a professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy. He is a chemical engineer who develops new adsorbents, catalysts and membranes for sustainable energy and clean water applications. Deng’s group is also actively involved in conversion of algae to biofuels and bioproducts. He has12 years industrial experience and received the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Energy Conservation in 2012.

Mohammad EbrahimkhaniM.D. Tehran University of Medical Sciences (Iran)Ebrahimkhani is an assistant professor in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering who joins ASU from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His interdisciplinary research focuses to systematically understand the principles of tissue repair and organ regeneration in vitro and in vivo. He combines synthetic biology and human stem cells to engineer novel multicellular systems and personalized human tissue models.

Emma FrowPh.D. University of Cambridge (England)Frow is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering and the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes. She has graduate training in both natural and social sciences. Her research focuses on standards development and governance in contemporary life sciences, with a particular focus on biological engineering and synthetic biology.

Julianne HollowayPh.D. Drexel UniversityHolloway is an assistant professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy. Her research interests are in the field of tissue engineering, with a focus on designing materials to mimic the native biochemical and biophysical cues of orthopedic tissues and developing a better understanding of the role dynamic biomechanics plays on cellular behavior.

Feng JuPh.D. University of Wisconsin-MadisonJu is an assistant professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering. His research interests include stochastic modeling and control with applications in manufacturing systems, battery management systems and healthcare delivery systems. He has received many awards, including the best paper award at an IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control (MIM), and the Most Popular Article in TASE, 2013.

Samira KianiM.D. Tehran University of Medical Sciences (Iran)Kiani is an assistant professor in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering and completed her postdoctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research spans foundational and applied mammalian synthetic biology. She develops and applies new CRISPR-based technologies and genetic engineering tools to engineer synthetic genetic circuits with therapeutic applications in vitro and in vivo.

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Arizona State University

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Richard KingPh.D. Stanford UniversityKing is a professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering and research director for ASU’s Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies (QESST) center. Over the last 30 years, his research on photovoltaics has explored materials, sublattice ordering, high transparency tunnel junctions and high-efficiency multijunction solar cells. In 2006, this work led to the first solar cell of any type to reach 40 percent efficiency.

Hyunglae LeePh.D. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLee is an assistant professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy. He uses robotic technologies to better understand underlying neuromuscular mechanism in human movement. His goals are to innovate physical human-robot interaction by incorporating key principles in human motor control into robotics, and to advance robot-aided neurorehabilitation for patients with sensory-motor impairment.

Qin Lei Ph.D. Michigan State UniversityLei is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. Her expertise focuses on high power converters for high/medium voltage direct current (HVDC/MVDC) transmission, medium voltage drive, grid-integration of renewable energy sources, electric vehicle/hybrid electric vehicle, smart-grid/micro-grid, wide-band gap device application (SiC, GaN) and energy storage.

Jeremi LondonPh.D. Purdue UniversityLondon is an assistant professor in the Polytechnic School. She employs mixed methods research designs and computational tools to address complex problems. Her research interests include science policy issues surrounding STEM learning in cyberlearning environments, characterizing and measuring the impact of STEM education R&D, and applications of simulation and modeling tools to understand and conduct accreditation assessment processes in undergraduate engineering education.

Hamidreza MarviPh.D. Georgia Institute of TechnologyMarvi is an assistant professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy. He studies the fundamental physics behind interactions of biological systems with their surrounding solid, granular and fluidic environments. Utilizing biological insights derived from these studies, he would like to develop bio-inspired robotic systems and programmable interfacial structures for search and rescue, exploratory and medical applications.

Brent NannengaPh.D. University of WashingtonNannenga is an assistant professor of chemical engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy. His research focuses on protein engineering and studying the structure-function relationships of designed proteins. Additionally, he is interested in developing and improving new techniques for structural biology, specifically cryo-electron microscopy.

Paolo PapottiPh.D. Università Roma Tre (Italy)Papotti is an assistant professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering. His research focuses on databases, with an emphasis on data integration and data cleaning at large scale. Prior to joining ASU, he served as a senior scientist in the Data Analytics center at Qatar Computing Research Institute and as an assistant professor at Università Roma Tre.

Theodore PavlicPh.D. The Ohio State UniversityPavlic is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering and the School of Sustainability. He studies complex adaptive systems using a combination of theoretical and empirical methods. His research seeks out unifying theoretical frameworks of rational behavior that cut across biology, economics and engineering.

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Arizona State University

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François PerreaultPh.D. University of Quebec (Canada)Perreault is an assistant professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment. After completing his doctoral degree in environmental sciences, he moved to Yale University as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. His research explores the interface between biological and engineered systems, with an emphasis on environmental nanotechnology, nanotoxicology, environmental microbiology and water quality.

Panagiotis PolygerinosPh.D. King’s College (England)Polygerinos is an assistant professor with the Polytechnic School. He is a mechanical engineer and his research interests focus on the realization of tasks that are essential to the design, implementation and integration of novel, affordable robotic systems and mechatronic devices that have significant potential to improve patient care and human activity.

Jiangchao QinPh.D. Purdue UniversityQin is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. He focuses on the investigation and development of highly efficient, modular, reliable, fault-tolerant power electronic converters and their utility applications, including integration of renewable and distributed energy resources, power quality solutions, transmission, distribution and power electronic loads.

Jorge SefairPh.D. University of Florida Sefair is an assistant professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering. His research focuses on the use of optimization techniques for decision-making under uncertainty. In particular, he develops models for optimal design of resilient systems that will maintain a critical level of operation even under adverse uncertain circumstances. In particular, he is motivated by applications of operations research in environment, public policy and urban planning.

Georgios TrichopoulosPh.D. The Ohio State UniversityTrichopoulos is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. He has expertise in electromagnetic and antenna design. His research focuses on millimeter wave (mmW) and terahertz (THz) technology for biomedical sensing, imaging and high data-rate wireless communication applications. He comes to ASU from a senior researcher position with ElectroScience Lab at OSU.

Wenlong ZhangPh.D. University of California-BerkeleyZhang is an assistant professor in the Polytechnic School. His academic specialty lies in dynamic system analysis, modeling and control. His research focuses on the design and control of large-scale and/or human-involved cyber-physical systems, with applications to gait analysis and rehabilitation, collaborative robotics and advanced manufacturing.

Ming ZhaoPh.D. University of FloridaZhao is an associate professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering. His research is in the areas of experimental computer systems, including distributed/cloud, big-data and high-performance computing systems. He is also interested in the interdisciplinary studies that bridge computer systems research with other domains. In 2013, he was recognized with a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

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Arizona State University

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Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College

Katie BernsteinPh.D. University of California-BerkeleyBernstein is an assistant professor. Her research, supported by The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF), focuses on the language and literacy practices of emergent bilingual children learning English in preschool. Before graduate school, Bernstein spent several years as a teacher of linguistically diverse preschoolers in Belgium and in California.

Kathleen FarrandPh.D. The Ohio State UniversityFarrand is an assistant professor interested in practices that improve the social and academic success of all learners in inclusive early childhood classrooms. Her research includes teacher pedagogy, self-efficacy of preservice teachers and technology interventions in early childhood. She is on the editorial and executive board of the Council for Exceptional Children-Division of Visual Impairments and Deaf/Blindness.

Danah HenriksenPh.D. Michigan State UniversityHenriksen is an assistant professor. She has published more than 20 articles/chapters in venues such as TC Record and Educational Technology, and practitioner journals such as Educational Leadership. She is associate chair of the creativity SIG for the Society of Information Technology and Teacher Education. She is also an award-winning instructor, teaching across online, F2F and hybrid contexts.

Yi-Chun (Shelly) HongPh.D. University of GeorgiaHong is an assistant professor of educational technology. Her experiences in teaching and in instructional design have contributed to her interest in developing learners’ real world ill-structured problem-solving abilities. Her research investigates ways to design effective online learning environments that facilitate a learner’s reflective thinking skills and collaborative learning abilities during problem-solving processes. 

Jeongeun KimPh.D. University of MichiganKim is an assistant professor who studies how the social, political and economic environments affect the organization and administration of colleges and universities, and how diverse constituencies on campus are influenced. Her scholarship and teaching intersects methodology and organizational theory and policy. She applies methodological tools to address organizational changes, strategies and policy in the context of higher education institutions.

Craig MertlerPh.D. Florida State UniversityMertler is an associate professor. He teaches action research, statistical analysis and assessment methods. He has served as a methodology expert on more than 100 dissertations and theses. He has authored 10 books, numerous refereed articles and presented more than 35 research papers at education conferences. He conducts workshops on action research, classroom assessment and data-driven decision-making.

Amanda VickeryPh.D. University of Texas-Austin Vickery is an assistant professor. Her research utilizes a Black feminist framework to examine the pedagogical practices of Black teachers. Additionally, she explores the silences of Black women in the social studies curriculum and how these narratives can be integrated into the curriculum. Vickery regularly presents her work at the National Council for the Social Studies and the American Education Research Association.

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Arizona State University

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School for the Future of Innovation in Society

Diana BowmanPh.D. Monash University (Australia)Bowman is an associate professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Her research analyzes and informs the development of smarter governance and regulation of innovation in order to simultaneously enhance creativity, improve public health, and stimulate deliberation of the ethical, legal and societal dimensions of emerging technologies.

Lynne WatanabePh.D. Michigan State UniversityWatanabe is an assistant professor of literacy education. Her research focuses on how context influences young children’s abilities to read and write different genres – particularly informational texts. Her examinations of contexts both within the U.S. and in Botswana focus on how connecting home, community and school contexts can foster language and literacy learning.

Mark Wiederspan Ph.D. University of MichiganWiederspan is an assistant professor. His research focuses on the impact of college affordability and financial aid on college access and persistence. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a policy analyst for the National Student Loan Program.

College of Health Solutions

Andrew MaynardPh.D. University of Cambridge (England)Professor Maynard directs the Risk Innovation Laboratory and is a world leader in the responsible development and use of emerging technologies and innovative strategies of risk assessment, management and communication. His integrative approaches to risk support sustainable development in a complex, interconnected and resource-constrained world.

Lekelia (Kiki) JenkinsPh.D. Duke UniversityJenkins is an assistant professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society. A marine conservation scientist, she specializes in theorizing and developing novel innovation strategies that effectively combine technology development, stakeholder engagement and conservation policy to reduce by-catch, improve renewable energy projects, and enhance environmental, social and economic sustainability for marine communities.

Bradley DoebbelingM.D. University of Colorado Doebbeling is a professor in the School for the Science of Health Care Delivery. He is a physician-researcher, mentor and consultant in informatics, healthcare systems engineering and implementation science. He focuses on making a difference in improving care, using data and technology to drive practice change, and involves active partnership with operations, clinicians and patients.

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Arizona State University

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Bruce KaplanM.D. Columbia University A leader in transplantation, Professor Kaplan’s work in the School for the Science of Health Care Delivery has created a better understanding of complex systems. He has held two endowed chairs, has more than 250 peer-reviewed publications (with 14,000 citations) and published the definitive text book in immunotherapy. He is deputy editor of the American Journal of Transplantation and advisor to the journal Nature Reviews.

Li LiuM.D. Peking Union Medical College (China)Liu is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. With special interest on genomic medicine and bioinformatics, she develops computational methods to integrate genomics, machine learning and evolution to discover disease biomarkers.

Xin LuoPh.D. University of Science and Technology of ChinaLuo is an assistant professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science. He is a hearing scientist with an engineering background who uses an interdisciplinary approach of signal processing, psychoacoustics, electrophysiology and computational modeling to understand the mechanisms of electric hearing with cochlear implants and design signal processing strategies to enhance cochlear implant performance in challenging listening tasks.

Lynda RansdellPh.D. Arizona State UniversityAssociate dean for faculty affairs in ASU’s School of Nutrition and Health Promotion, Professor Ransdell served previously at Montana State (dean), Boise State (department head) and the University of Utah (Employee Wellness and Graduate Programs). She is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), and has more than 100 publications. Her research interests include theory-based interventions, improving athletic performance and enhancing faculty success.

Meghan Vidt Ph.D. Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University Vidt is an assistant professor in exercise science and health promotion in the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion. Using a comprehensive approach, she studies musculoskeletal biomechanics of the shoulder and upper limb to assess mobility, function, and injury risk in various populations, including older adults, patients with a rotator cuff tear and workers. This work is accomplished through the application of experimental, computational and medical imaging techniques.

Dongwen WangPh.D. Columbia UniversityWang is a professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. His research focuses on the use of information technology to disseminate clinical evidence, manage information in collaborative workflows and provide technology-mediated behavioral interventions. His work has been applied to address a number of clinical and public health challenges such as the improvement of childhood immunization rates.

Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

Jason CaslorD.M.A. Arizona State UniversityCaslor is an assistant professor of instrumental conducting in the School of Music. Prior to ASU, he served as assistant professor at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada where he conducted the Wind Ensemble and oversaw the undergraduate and graduate instrumental conducting programs. Caslor also spent three seasons as resident conductor with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra.

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Arizona State University

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Chingwen ChengPh.D. University of Massachusetts-Amherst Cheng is an assistant professor in Landscape Architecture/Urbanism within The Design School. Her research interests lie in the understanding of interaction between social and ecological systems and the role that planning and design interventions can play to improve resilience and sustainability of our built environments. She is a Registered Landscape Architect and a LEED Accredited Professional.

Brian DeMarisM.M. New England ConservatoryDeMaris joins the ASU School of Music as director of the Lyric Opera Theatre program. He also serves as music director of Mill City Summer Opera and artist-faculty at the Aspen Music Festival. He has worked with a wide range of opera companies and festivals, and appeared in recitals, competitions and master classes throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Laura EmmeryPh.D. University of California-Santa BarbaraEmmery is an assistant professor of music theory in the School of Music. Prior to ASU, she taught at Emory University and University of California-Santa Barbara. Her dissertation on Elliott Carter’s string quartets incorporates sketch study in tracking Carter’s historical evolution and compositional process. Emmery has publications in peer-reviewed journals, forthcoming articles and a monograph on Carter’s string quartets under review.

Heather GreenM.F.A. University of ArizonaGreen is an assistant professor in the School of Art. Her projects and installations examine historical and ecological narratives of the northern Gulf of California and Sonoran Desert. She has worked in collaboration with a diverse range of individuals including scientists, poets and fishermen. Her work has been exhibited in Uruguay, Mexico and in museums and galleries both regionally and across the U.S.

Gordon HawkinsM.M. University of Maryland Hawkins is an assistant professor in the School of Music and critically acclaimed internationally for his in-depth interpretations and luxuriant baritone voice. Most recent engagements include Der Ring des Nibelungen, Rigoletto, Tosca, Nabucco, Der Freischütz, Lohengrin, Un Ballo in Maschera, Porgy and Bess, and Aida. Hawkins has shared the stage with such distinguished artists as Placido Domingo, Mirella Freni and Luciano Pavarotti.

Lauren HayesPh.D. University of Edinburgh (Scotland)Hayes is an assistant professor in the School of Arts, Media + Engineering. A composer and performer originally from Glasgow, Scotland, she works with combinations of bespoke software, prepared piano, analogue monosynths, drum machines and live electronics. Her practice explores new strategies for live electronic performance by investigating the performer’s physical relationship with the digital realm, and seeking to deepen this through the modality of touch.

Kristin HuntPh.D. University of Wisconsin-MadisonAn assistant professor in the School of Film, Dance and Theatre, Hunt studies the adaptation, contestation and activist reclamation of ancient/classical performance structures. Her professional practice includes applied theatre, theatre in education, theatre for social justice and devising.

Adam NocekPh.D. University of WashingtonNocek is an assistant professor in the School of Arts, Media + Engineering. His research and teaching are at the intersections of continental philosophy, science/technology studies, digital culture/aesthetics and design/technoscience. Nocek has published essays on media theory, artificial life, architecture, the history of biotechnology and process philosophy. He received a M.S. in philosophy from Boston College.

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Arizona State University

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Peter SchmelzPh.D. University of California-BerkeleySchmelz is an associate professor in the School of Music. His primary area of expertise is 20th-century music, especially music after 1945, with a focus on the music produced in Russia, Ukraine and the Soviet Union, including that by Shostakovich, Schnittke and Silvestrov. His other interests include popular music and culture in the U.S. and Eastern Europe, music and the cold war, politics, film and sound studies.

Jason ThompsonPh.D. Northwestern UniversityThompson is an assistant professor of music education in the School of Music. He teaches courses that explore sociocultural issues in arts education, socially engaged practice in design and the arts, and arts in urban contexts. Thompson is particularly interested in research on how culture influences and mediates music instruction and how music teachers develop the competencies needed for working in diverse teaching environments.

Christopher WellsPh.D. University of North Carolina-Chapel HillWells is an assistant professor of musicology in the School of Music and managing editor of the Journal of Jazz Studies. He received the Glen Haydon Award for an Outstanding Dissertation in Musicology and the Edgar A. Toppin Award for Outstanding Research in African American Music for his work on drummer/bandleader Chick Webb and swing music in Harlem during the Great Depression.

New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

Sreetharan KanthaswamyPh.D. University of California-DavisKanthaswamy is an associate professor in the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences. His expertise is in population, forensic and conservation genetics. His research on primate genetics and genomics centers on the investigation of anthropogenic and natural forces that shape and structure genetic variation of natural and captive animal populations. His research aims to establish species-specific genetic markers and enhance population genetics databases.

Francine McGregorPh.D. University of Connecticut McGregor is an assistant professor in the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies. She is a medievalist who writes on 14th-15th-century British literature, particularly Chaucer and secular narrative. Her current project considers the intersections of equine veterinary medicine and late medieval popular literature.

Sian MooneyPh.D. Oregon State UniversityMooney is associate dean and professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is an applied economist working on problems at the interface of human decision-making and the environment, particularly climate change, agriculture and water. She is adept at working with multidisciplinary teams and is also interested in exploring faculty motivations and rewards from team-based science.

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Tess NealPh.D. University of AlabamaNeal is an assistant professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is a researcher and licensed psychologist. Neal’s research focuses on human inference and decision-making. The core questions motivating her research are: “How do people reason with and integrate information to make inferences and judgments?” and “What affects people’s ability to do this well?” She studies these basic science questions in applied settings, such as in the legal system, scientific healthcare, mental health systems and government.

Denise BatesPh.D. University of Arizona Bates is an assistant professor of interdisciplinary studies and organizational leadership. She is an historian whose interdisciplinary research focuses on leadership, activism, community development and nation-building among southeastern Native communities in the mid-20th century. Her book, “The Other Movement: Indian Rights and Civil Rights in the Deep South,” led to the development of two forthcoming books and a leadership project with the Coushatta Nation of Louisiana.

Heather CurryPh.D. University of South FloridaCurry is an assistant professor of communication studies. Her research focuses on the relationship between community and economic insecurity in urban spaces and places, engaging semiotic phenomenology as a means of seeing into urban problems, such as homelessness and, just as importantly, public policies and responses to those who live homeless. She received her M.A. in women’s and gender studies.

College of Letters and Sciences

Marianne MoorePh.D. Boston UniversityMoore is an assistant professor of science and mathematics. She uses ecological, physiological and evolutionary tools to examine relationships between wildlife and their pathogens and to uncover mechanisms by which species evolved to resist or succumb to infectious diseases. She focuses on bat white-nose syndrome, its impacts on exposed populations and its potential threat to Arizona species.

Eric NystromPh.D. Johns Hopkins UniversityNystrom is an assistant professor. Prior to joining ASU, he was associate professor of history at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is an historian of science and technology whose book “Seeing Underground: Maps, Models, and Mining Engineering in America” investigates the creation and impact of the visual culture of mining engineering in the late 19th and early 20th century, particularly upon the process of engineering professionalization.

Fábio Suzart de AlbuquerquePh.D. Universidad de Alcalá (Spain)Suzart de Albuquerque is an assistant professor of science and mathematics. His research focuses on the macroecological issues, including the spatial patterns of species, the effect of habitat loss and fragmentation on biodiversity, and conservation biogeography over broad scales.

Leandra SwannerPh.D. Harvard UniversitySwanner is an assistant professor and a researcher withASU’s Center for Biology and Society. She is an historian ofscience and technology whose cross-disciplinary research explores the role of narrative in shaping scientific development, as well as the intersection of Big Science, Native communities and spiritual geographies.

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Wendy WilliamsPh.D. Arizona State UniversityWilliams is an assistant professor of English education in interdisciplinary humanities and communication at the Polytechnic campus. Her research examines the out-of-school writing practices of culturally diverse spoken word poets and rappers in order to build bridges between formal academic literacy instruction and the voluntary writing adolescents compose in their everyday lives.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Athena Aktipis Ph.D. University of PennsylvaniaAktipis is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology whose transdisciplinary research investigates the interrelationship between biological and cultural influences on human generosity. Her work on cooperation and conflict in biological systems includes cancer evolution and the human microbiome. Aktipis is a cooperation theorist, social psychologist, theoretical evolutionary biologist and cancer biologist working at the intersection of these fields.

Marlon BaileyPh.D. University of California-BerkeleyBailey is an associate professor of women and gender studies in the School of Social Transformation. He is an ethnographer whose research focuses on gender, sexuality, performance and HIV/AIDS prevention among Black LGBT communities. His book, “Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit,” received the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize from the GL/Q Caucus at the Modern Language Association.

Jonathan BarthPh.D. George Mason UniversityBarth is an assistant professor in the School for Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, and is associated with the Center for Political Thought and Leadership. Barth specializes in the history of money, with a particular focus on early America and early modern Britain, and he is especially interested in the influence of money in political, economic and cultural questions.

Heather BeanPh.D. Georgia Institute of TechnologyBean is an assistant professor in the School of Life Sciences. She is a bioanalytical chemist who uses multidimensional chromatography and mass spectrometry to characterize the metabolomes of pathogenic microbial communities in chronic lung infections. These data are mined for biomarkers that will be incorporated into new diagnostics for lung infections, as well as for novel avenues for therapeutic intervention.

Daniel BerlinerPh.D. University of WashingtonBerliner is an assistant professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies. He studies the politics of transparency and open government policies around the world, as well as social and environmental governance in global supply chains. His research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, and World Development.

H. Russell BernardPh.D. University of Illinois Trained as an anthropologist, Bernard is the director of ASU’s Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) and a research professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. An expert on social science research methods, he has pursued research in Greece, Mexico and the U.S. on diverse topics, including technology and social change, language death and social network analysis. Bernard is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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José CausadiasPh.D. University of Minnesota-Twin CitiesCausadias is an assistant professor in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics. His research and teaching focuses on advancing the field of culture and biology interplay, that inquiry of how cultural and biological processes (especially genetic) have evolved together to shape human and animal behavior, and particularly, how this relationship shapes mental health and well-being among immigrants.

Marisa Elena DuartePh.D. University of WashingtonDuarte is an assistant professor in the School of Social Transformation and researcher with the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes. She is an information scientist who applies qualitative and decolonizing methodologies to reveal the social impacts of information, knowledge and technology in indigenous and U.S.-Mexico borderland contexts.

Christian DwyerPh.D. University of Cambridge (England)Dwyer is an associate professor in the Department of Physics. His field of expertise is electron microscopy, where electrons are used to probe the properties of materials at the nanometer and atomic length scales. Dwyer’s research involves a close coupling of state-of-the-art instrumentation with electron scattering theory in order to extract maximum quantitative information from the experiments.

Meagan EhlenzPh.D. University of PennsylvaniaEhlenz is an assistant professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. Her major fields of study include urban revitalization and community development, with specializations in the role of anchor institutions in urban places and mechanisms for building community wealth. Prior to joining ASU, she was a research associate at the Penn Institute for Urban Research, a planning consultant in Southeastern Wisconsin and senior planner for the City of Milwaukee.

Kit ElamPh.D. Southern Illinois UniversityElam is an assistant professor in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics. His research in developmental psychology and behavior genetics investigates how the interplay between children’s genetic predisposition and family processes contributes to children’s socio-emotional, behavioral and health outcomes over time.

Emir EstradaPh.D. University of Southern California Estrada is an assistant professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change whose academic focus on immigration and gender is influenced in great part by her own immigration experience. She studies immigrants from Mexico and Central America who work in the informal sector of unregulated or semi-regulated jobs. Currently, she is doing research with the children of these workers, examining their role in the family’s economic survival.

Gillian GilePh.D. University of British Columbia (Canada)Gile is an assistant professor in the School of Life Sciences. She is an evolutionary microbiologist who uses molecular biology and comparative genomics approaches to investigate aspects of microbial eukaryote evolution, particularly plastid evolution and the biodiversity of termite hindgut symbionts.

Cassandra Gipson-Reichardt Ph.D. University of KentuckyGipson-Reichardt is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology whose research includes the exploration of the neurobiological substrates of addiction and the identification of novel pharmacological and behavioral interventions for the treatment of drug abuse. Her work has the potential to contribute to the development of novel therapeutic options aimed at reversing nicotine-induced alterations and improving smoking cessation outcomes.

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William Graves Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-MadisonGraves is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and a researcher in the Center for Applied Structural Discovery. He is an accelerator physicist who is building a novel x-ray light source on campus that will be used in a wide range of applications including finding the atomic-level structure of biomolecules, phase-contrast medical imaging and x-ray studies of condensed matter.

William HedbergPh.D. Harvard UniversityHedberg is an assistant professor in the School of International Letters and Cultures. His research focuses on the Japanese reception of Chinese vernacular fiction and drama during the Edo and Meiji periods (17th–20th century). He explores the ways in which engagement with unfamiliar linguistic forms and literary genres engendered new ways of conceptualizing Japan’s cultural relationship to China.

Katie HindePh.D. University of California-Los Angeles Hinde is an associate professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. She studies the effects of primate and human breastmilk on offspring, such as how it helps babies grow, shapes immune and neurobiological development, and is linked to health and disease. Hinde is a passionate advocate of public science, best known for creating “March Mammal Madness.” She joins ASU as part of the new Center for Evolution and Medicine.

Adam LampertPh.D. Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) Lampert is a theoretical ecologist and assistant professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. He is interested in general principles that apply to a wide variety of ecosystems at different spatial, temporal and organismal scales. He has wide-ranging interests in sustainability, including identifying cost-effective management efforts for restoration of degraded ecosystems and identifying how asymmetric and cooperative behaviors/traits evolve.

Jianling LiaoPh.D. University of IowaLiao is an assistant professor in the School of International Letters and Cultures. She specializes in second language acquisition and focuses her study on the development of second language speaking and writing abilities, and computer mediated communication in second language learning. At ASU, she also directs the Chinese Language Flagship program and the Chinese language program.

Julian LimPh.D. Cornell UniversityLim is an assistant professor of history in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. Trained in history and law, she focuses on immigration, the U.S.-Mexico border and race. Using interdisciplinary and transnational approaches, Lim studies the history of diverse immigrants in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and the development of immigration policy and law on the border. She also holds a J.D. from University of California-Berkeley.

Sarah Lindstrom JohnsonPh.D. Johns Hopkins UniversityLindstrom Johnson is an assistant professor in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics. Her work uses a positive youth development approach to identifying ways to prevent youth involvement in risk behaviors, which focuses on supporting development assets and improving the environments in which youth learn and grow. Much of her work involves partnerships with youth-serving organizations.

Wei LiuPh.D. The Ohio State UniversityLiu’s interests range from lipids, a class of small yet essential molecules in cellular membranes and controlling the conformation, to the biological behavior of membrane proteins. Most recently, his research builds understanding of receptors, primarily GPCR-mediated biological processes involved in cancer development. He joins ASU as an assistant professor in the School of Molecular Sciences.

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Sabina LowPh.D. University of DenverLow is interested in applied research on relationship dynamics in family, peer and school contexts. An assistant professor in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, her research agenda incorporates school and community-based studies focused on understanding and promotion of healthy relationship adjustment, school success and mental health, with emphasis on the role of socio-economic and cultural factors on relationship functioning.

Alejandro LugoPh.D. Stanford UniversityLugo is professor and director of the School of Transborder Studies. As a sociocultural anthropologist who specializes in the study of culture, gender and history at the U.S.-Mexico border, his research and teaching interests range from border theory, Latino studies, colonialism, and capitalism to cultural production and transformation in the context of transnationalism and globalization.

Joshua MacFadyenPh.D. University of Guelph (Canada)MacFadyen is an assistant professor of environmental humanities in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies and the School of Sustainability. He uses digital history methods such as historical geographic information systems (GIS) to examine the social and ecological problems of energy in Canadian and U.S. agriculture, particularly during the transition from traditional to modern agro-ecosystems.

Carlo MaleyPh.D. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaley is an associate professor in the School of Life Sciences. His research team investigates genomic data mining, phylogenetics, computational modeling and wet lab techniques to solve these problems. He focuses on developing better methods to prevent cancer and improve cancer management, including evolution of cancer suppression mechanisms in large, long-lived animals such as elephants and whales (a problem called Peto’s Paradox).

Samuel McClurePh.D. Baylor College of MedicineMcClure is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology’s Cognitive Science Program. His research uses a combination of human neuroimaging (fMRI and EEG), behavioral studies and computational models. McClure’s work has made fundamental contributions to understanding the function of the human dopamine system in learning and decision-making, including novel methodologies that permit direct measurement of activity from dopaminergic nuclei.

Jeremy MillsPh.D. Scripps Research InstituteMills is an assistant professor in the School of Molecular Sciences. His research interests center on using computational modeling algorithms to engineer proteins with new or enhanced properties. Mills comes to ASU from Seattle where he carried out postdoctoral studies at the University of Washington.

William MoorePh.D. University of ColoradoProfessor Moore’s research in the School of Politics and Global Studies focuses on dissident–state interactions: coercion, human rights, protest, rebellion, repression and terror. He is particularly interested in how political institutions (the popular franchise, legislatures, courts, civil and political rights) impact those interactions, and in escalatory and de-escalatory dynamics.

Salvatore OddoPh.D. University of California-IrvineOddo is an associate professor in the School of Life Sciences and researcher with the ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Research Center in the Biodesign Institute. He uses genetics to better understand the molecular mechanism underlying age-dependent neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s. He is also a faculty member in ASU’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience.

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Matthew PeeplesPh.D. Arizona State University As an archaeologist, Peeples brings an array of evidence to understanding how and why large-scale social groups emerge, spread, change or dissolve over time. He is an assistant professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change with research currently focused on the prehistory of the Cibola region of New Mexico and Arizona.

Jonathan PettigrewPh.D. Pennsylvania StatePettigrew joined the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication as an assistant professor. He is a health communication scholar with expertise in developing, implementing and evaluating health interventions. His current research in prevention science includes leading a team in Nicaragua, Central America, to develop culturally-grounded drug and violence prevention programs.

Alyssa RhodenPh.D. University of California-BerkeleyRhoden joins the School of Earth and Space Exploration as an assistant professor. She studies icy satellite lithospheres and tidal tectonics. She has worked on icy lithospheres since her undergraduate study with University of Arizona, when the Galileo spacecraft returned the first images of Jupiter’s satellite Europa. Today, she is a mainstay in the steadily growing field of icy satellite geophysics.

Jennifer RichterPh.D. University of New MexicoRichter is an assistant professor in the School of Social Transformation and the School for the Future of Innovation and Society. Her research examines justice, equity and democracy in technology innovation, emphasizing how the creation and operation of large-scale energy systems distributes benefits, risks and opportunities for effective participation in energy system design across diverse groups and communities.

David Sailor Ph.D. University of California-BerkeleySailor joins ASU as a professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. His research focuses on the urban climate system and its implications for energy, air quality, and human health and comfort. Sailor will take a leadership role in developing a new Urban Climate Research Initiative. 

Rashad ShabazzPh.D. University of California-Santa CruzShabazz’s academic expertise brings together theories of race and racism, Black cultural studies, gender studies and critical prison studies, within a methodological framework that draws on history, human geography, philosophy and literature. He is an associate professor in the School of Social Transformation. His research explores the ways in which race, class, sexuality and gender articulate through geographies of anti-Black racism.

Evgenya ShkolnikPh.D. University of British Columbia (Canada)Shkolnik joins the School of Earth and Space Exploration as an assistant professor. She comes to ASU after four years at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Her research interests include exoplanet magnetic fields and the radiation environments of exoplanets with the implications for habitability. Additionally, she is the lead or co-investigator of two CubeSat missions.

Nicholas StephanopoulosPh.D. University of California-BerkeleyStephanopoulos is an assistant professor in the School of Molecular Sciences and the Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics at the Biodesign Institute. His work focuses on engineering protein-DNA nanomaterials, with applications in drug delivery, nano-robotics, renewable energy and tissue engineering for regenerative medicine.

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Cindi SturtzSreetharanPh.D. University of California-Davis Trained as a linguistic anthropologist, SturtzSreetharan studies contemporary language use, especially as it is related to ideas of gender. Focusing in on masculinity, her current field-based research in Japan considers such issues as men’s social authority as nested in their everyday conversational style. She is an associate professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change.

Heather ThroopPh.D. State University of New York-Stony BrookThroop is an associate professor with a joint appointment in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Life Sciences. She is an ecosystem scientist who studies relationships among vegetation change, biogeochemical cycles and climate change. Throop’s work focuses on desert ecosystems in the southwestern U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa.

Dov ZazkisPh.D. University of California-San DiegoZazkis is an assistant professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences. His research is in the area of mathematics learning at the college level. In particular he explores how students comprehend and learn how to construct mathematical proofs. He has a master’s from University of Northern British Columbia and pursued postdoctoral appointments at Rutgers and Oklahoma State.

College of Nursing and Health Innovation

Felipe Gonzales CastroPh.D. University of WashingtonFor more than 30 years, Professor Castro has conducted health research with Hispanics, studying factors in the prevention of drug abuse, cancer, type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases. He is the originator of the Integrative Mixed Methods research methodology that informs the design of efficacious interventions to prevent chronic disease and enhance health.

Julie McNultyPh.D. Oregon Health and Science UniversityMcNulty is an assistant professor whose research interest is holistic care and psychosocial support for cancer survivors and the financial impact of cancer. Also a registered nurse, she conducts a needs and resource assessment study at the Mayo Clinic and works toward developing a support and empowerment intervention to improve quality of life in Latina breast cancer survivors.

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Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law

Laura Napoli CoordesJ.D. University of Chicago Law SchoolCoordes is an associate professor. Her research interests include corporate reorganizations, venue and forum shopping, and municipal bankruptcies under chapter 9 of the Bankruptcy Code. Her teaching interests include bankruptcy law, secured transactions, corporations and contracts. Before coming to the College of Law, Coordes practiced in the Business, Finance and Restructuring Department at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York.

Erik LunaJ.D. Stanford Law SchoolLuna is a Foundation Professor of Law. He teaches and writes primarily in the areas of criminal law and procedure. He has served as a Fulbright Scholar in New Zealand and held visiting positions with the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, the Cuban Society of Penal Sciences, and the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

College of Public Service and Community Solutions

Stuart BretschneiderPh.D. The Ohio State UniversityBretschneider is a Foundation Professor in the School of Public Affairs. He joins ASU from Syracuse University where he was professor of public administration and international affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and director of the Center for Technology and Information Policy. Bretschneider is widely recognized as a scholar and as one of the most prolific and productive academic mentors in public administration.

Mary BrownPh.D. Louisiana State UniversityBrown is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work. Her expertise is community transformation, vulnerable children and families, social determinants of health and social capital. She received her M.P.A. from Louisiana State University and M.S.W. from the University of South Carolina.

Katie CotterPh.D. University of North Carolina-Chapel HillCotter is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work. Her research focuses on the risk and protective factors associated with youth development, with a particular emphasis on aggressive and violent behavior. Cotter plans to further develop the knowledge base and ultimately use this information to develop and evaluate prevention and intervention programs. She received her M.S.W. from the State University of New York-Buffalo.

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Kristin Ferguson-ColvinPh.D. University of Texas at ArlingtonFerguson-Colvin is an associate professor in the School of Social Work. Her expertise is in homelessness and runaway youth, supported employment, social enterprises, university-agency research partnerships and global social work. She received her M.S.W. from the University of Michigan and B.A. from the University of Virginia.

Brian GerberPh.D. State University of New York-Stony BrookGerber is an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs and director of the Emergency Management Homeland Security program. He has extensive experience performing policy analysis and evaluation work for state and local government agencies, as well as major national nonprofits engaged in disaster relief and recovery work.

Anthony (Tony) GrubesicPh.D. The Ohio State UniversityProfessor Grubesic is the director of the Center of Spatial Reasoning and Policy Analytics. His areas of interest are diverse, including geographic information science, urban health, environmetrics, economic analysis, public policy evaluation and spatial analytic methods. He received his M.A. in geography from the University of Akron, Ohio.

Eric LeggPh.D. University of UtahLegg is an assistant professor in the School of Community Resources and Development. His research interests include community sports and youth development with specific interests in sense of community and transformational leadership. He is the founder of a community-based youth sport not-for-profit organization, and is the current national volunteer chair of learning and leadership development for the United States Tennis Association (USTA).

Hyunsung OhPh.D. University of Southern CaliforniaOh is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work. His research expertise is depression, chronic illness and co-morbidity, social networks and self-care behaviors, and primary care settings. His goal is to promote healthy life of low-income racial minorities in primary care settings or communities. He received his M.S.W. and B.A. from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.

Dustin PardiniPh.D. University of AlabamaPardini is an associate professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. His research focuses on the precursors and outcomes associated with the development of antisocial (e.g., violence, theft) and substance-using behaviors from childhood to adulthood, as well as evaluating the impact that early psychosocial interventions can have on these problems. He received his M.A. in child clinical psychology from University of Alabama.

Jesenia PizzaroPh.D. Rutgers UniversityPizzaro is an associate professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Pizarro has worked with various police departments throughout the country in joint efforts to curb the violence in the municipalities they serve. Her research focus is on violence and homicide. She received her M.S. and B.S. in criminal justice from Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Akheil SinglaPh.D. The Ohio State UniversitySingla is an assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs. His research expertise is public finance and public sector management. His dissertation was entitled “Risk Management or Risky Business?”

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Stacia StolzenbergPh.D. Claremont Graduate UniversityStolzenberg is an assistant professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Her expertise is child maltreatment, promoting and protecting children and their families. She received her M.S. in applied development psychology from Claremont Graduate University.

William TerrillPh.D. Rutgers UniversityProfessor Terrill is in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. His research focuses on police behaviors, with an emphasis on police use of force policies and practices. He holds a M.A. from Rutgers University, New Jersey, and a B.S. in criminal justice from Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg.

Christine VogtPh.D. Indiana University-BloomingtonProfessor Vogt is in the School of Community Resources and Development and is the director of the Center for Sustainable Tourism. The center will host faculty and student research, discovery and outreach in tourism and related fields, and sharpen tourism development and industry performance toward more sustainable thinking, planning and outcomes. She conducted tourism and parks research at Michigan State University for 16 years.

School of Sustainability

Datu Buyung AgusdinataPh.D. Delft University of Technology (Netherlands)Agusdinata is an assistant professor. Working together with subject-matter experts, he develops and applies system approaches and tools to understand the dynamic behaviors of complex systems in order to inform decision-making in addressing sustainability issues in domains such as energy, transportation, supply chain, nanomedicine and climate change adaptation.

Tyler DesRochesPh.D. University of British Columbia (Canada)DesRoches is an assistant professor. His area of specialization is the history and philosophy of economics. DesRoches is a founding editor of the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics and his articles have appeared in journals such as the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, and History of Political Economy.

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Thunderbird School of Global Management

Seigyoung AuhPh.D. University of MichiganAuh is an associate professor of marketing and a research faculty member with the Center for Services Leadership in the W. P. Carey School of Business. His research interests include front-line employee customer orientation and engagement. His teaching efforts range from service marketing and consumer decision-making to global marketing strategy and global marketing management. He is the associate editor of the Journal of International Marketing.

Lena Chua BoothPh.D. Arizona State UniversityBooth is an associate professor of finance and a multiple-time teaching award winner in the Thunderbird graduate degree programs. She’s also taught in various custom executive education programs around the world. Her academic research has appeared in several distinguished peer-reviewed journals. She’s also authored various case studies on financial analysis, investment analysis and valuation, risk management, leveraged buyout and global financial management.

David BowenPh.D. Michigan State UniversityProfessor Bowen is the G. Robert and Katherine Herberger Chair in Global Management and an affiliated faculty member within the Center for Services Leadership, W. P. Carey School of Business. Bowen also twice served as Thunderbird’s chief academic officer. His areas of expertise in teaching executive education and academic degree programs, and in publications include leadership, human resources management and services.

Richard EttensonPh.D. Kansas State UniversityProfessor Ettenson is the Keickhefer Fellow of Global Marketing and Brand Strategy. His expertise helps companies and executives align their business strategy with their marketing and branding efforts to create value for customers, employees and shareholders. He has published extensively in the world’s leading management journals, including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Ad Age.

Andrew InkpenPh.D. University of Western Ontario (Canada)Inkpen is the J. Kenneth and Jeanette Seward Chair in Global Strategy. His research and teaching interests include the management of multinational firms, with a particular focus on strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, organizational learning and global strategy. He is a coauthor of “The Global Oil and Gas Industry: Management, Strategy, and Finance.” He is actively involved in a variety of executive education programs at Thunderbird.

Mansour JavidanPh.D. University of MinnesotaJavidan is the Garvin Distinguished Professor and director of Najafi Global Mindset Institute. An award-winning executive educator and author, he is also an expert advisor to the World Bank and a senior research fellow to the U.S. Army. He is the vice chair of the board of directors of the International Leadership Association and served on the board of directors of the world-renowned research project titled GLOBE.

Michael MoffettPh.D. University of ColoradoProfessor Moffett has held academic positions at the Brookings Institution, Oregon State University, University of Michigan, University of Hawaii and universities in Denmark, Finland, India, Norway and Yugoslavia. His primary fields of expertise are international finance and the global oil and gas industry. He has served as an executive education consultant to more than 50 global companies and organizations.

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Roy NelsonPh.D. Cornell UniversityNelson is an associate professor of global studies and academic director of Thunderbird’s Bachelor of Global Management program. He teaches courses on principles of global management, corporate social responsibility, states and markets in the global economy, and the regional business environment of Latin America. He received his M.A. from Cornell, M.A. from Yale and B.A. at Stanford University.

Christine PearsonPh.D. University of Southern CaliforniaA professor of global leadership, Pearson’s research has an applied focus in the dark side of organizations, from exceptional, highly dramatic organizational crises (e.g., workplace homicide, executive kidnapping, product tampering) to much more frequent, low-intensity workplace disregard and disrespect of civility. Her research and teaching in Europe, Asia, Middle East and Latin America has examined leadership, crisis management, teaming, interpersonal relations and personal leadership development.

Kannan RamaswamyPh.D. Virginia TechProfessor Ramaswamy’s primary research expertise is in global strategy issues facing large multinationals. He designs and directs a suite of senior leadership programs for global companies. His research interests include institutional development in emerging markets, private-public partnerships in oil and gas, and leadership acumen for global corporations. He has won numerous awards for top-tier research publications and teaching excellence at national and institutional levels.

Graeme RankinePh.D. University of WashingtonRankine is an associate professor of marketing and a research faculty member with the Center for Services Leadership in the W. P. Carey School of Business. His expertise includes corporate reorganization and restructuring, global finance and accounting, and activity-based costing and management. His research on corporate name changes and on stock splits has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and other outlets.

Mary Sully de LuquePh.D. University of NebraskaSully de Luque is an associate professor of management whose research interests include the micro and macro influences of culture in organizations, global leadership, organizational effectiveness, CSR, stakeholder decision-making and training. She is a research scholar with the GLOBE project and serves on its board. Also, she is academic co-director of Project Artemis, a program that helps women entrepreneurs grow their businesses in developing countries.

Mary TeagardenPh.D. University of Southern CaliforniaProfessor Teagarden’s expertise is in global strategic management and strategic human resource management. Her research focuses on global competitiveness and capability building through offshore manufacturing and service, innovation, high technology transfer, sustainable development and talent management in Latin America, the Asian Pacific Rim, and big emerging markets including India and China. She has more than 125 publications and is the editor of Thunderbird International Business Review.

Bill YoungdahlPh.D. University of Southern CaliforniaAn associate professor, Youngdahl designs and delivers executive education programs that focus on leading diverse global teams. He coauthored a book titled “Leading Global Projects - for Professional and Accidental Project Leaders” and has a long list of top-tier journal articles. His industry experience includes work as an engineer, a project manager and a consultant. He is also the founder of a tech start-up.

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