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Naoko Akashi
Assistant professor of economics
Ph.D. economics, University of Virginia
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Research interests/areas of expertise: Applied microeconomics, labor and health economics, industrial organization
Languages fluent in: Japanese

Mehmet Akbulut
Associate professor of finance
B.A. economics, Koc University
Ph.D. finance, University of Southern California
Birthplace: Turkey
Research interests/areas of expertise: Corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, insider trading, internal capital markets
Languages fluent in: Turkish, German

Carol Ames
Assistant professor of communications
Ph.D. English, State University of New York, Buffalo
Birthplace: Urbana, Ill.
Research interests/areas of expertise: Communications theory and public relations as they relate to the dynamics of the entertainment industry

Caroline Bailey
Assistant professor of human services
Ph.D. clinical psychology, child development, University of Southern California
Birthplace: San Francisco
Research interests/areas of expertise: Language and reading disabilities in children with neurobehavioral disorders, social skills and coping in children with chronic illness and developmental disabilities

Erica Ball
Assistant professor of American studies
B.A. history, Wesleyan University
Ph.D. history, City University of New York
Birthplace: Panama City, Fla.
Research interests/areas of expertise: Race and ethnicity, North American slavery and abolition, 19th- and 20th-centery African American social movements

David Robert Bell
Senior assistant librarian
B.S. communications, Ohio University
M.A. cinema/television, University of Southern California
M.S.I., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Birthplace: Lewiston, Maine

Katherine Bono
Assistant professor of child and adolescent studies
B.A. psychology, University of the Pacific
M.A., Ph.D. applied developmental psychology, Claremont Graduate University
Birthplace: Lewiston, Maine
Research interests/areas of expertise: Early child development, particularly early contributions to school readiness

Nicole Bonuso
Assistant professor of geological sciences
B.A. geology, University of Rhode Island
M.S. paleontology, Syracuse University
Ph.D. paleontology, University of Southern California
Birthplace: Fair Lawn, N.J.
Research interests/areas of expertise: Invertebrate paleontologist researching marine ecological and evolutionary trends through geological time

Alain Bourget
Assistant professor of mathematics
Ph.D. mathematics, McGill University
Birthplace: Quebec City, Canada
Research interests/areas of expertise: Spectral theory, differential equations, dynamic systems
Languages fluent in: French

Erica Bowers
Assistant professor of reading
B.S. business administration, San Diego State University
M.A. curriculum and instruction, Cal State Dominguez Hills
Ed.D. literacy and language, University of Southern California
Birthplace: Santa Monica
Research interests/areas of expertise: Motivation and reading, especially in regards to struggling readers, academic vocabulary acquisitions

Gregory C. (Chris) Brown
Assistant professor of criminal justice
B.A. sociology, UC Santa Cruz
M.A., Ph.D. social ecology, UC Irvine
Research interests/areas of expertise: Sociology of street gangs, white-collar crime, prisons

Susan Cadwallader
Associate professor of marketing
B.B.A. management, University of Georgia
B.S. marketing, Georgia State University
Ph.D. business administration, Arizona State University
Birthplace: Athens, Ga.
Research interests/areas of expertise: Infusion of technology in the service encounter from employee and customer perspective, adoption of change

Dean Capper
Lecturer in finance
M.B.A. finance, George Washington University
Birthplace: Sumter, S.C.
Research interests: Corporate finance, real estate valuation

Esther Chen
Assistant professor of biological science
Ph.D. clinical psychology, child development, University of Southern California
Birthplace: San Francisco
Research interests/areas of expertise: Language and reading disabilities in children with neurobehavioral disorders, social skills and coping in children with chronic illness and developmental disabilities

Xiujian Chen
Lecturer in economics
M.A. economics, Bowling Green State University
Birthplace: Beijing, China
Research interests: Political economy and economic growth of the policy of capital account liberalization in developing countries, Chinese economy
Languages fluent in: Chinese

Barbara Cherry
Assistant professor of psychology
B.A. psychology, UCLA
M.A. psychology, Cal State Fullerton
Ph.D. psychology, University of Southern California
Birthplace: Burbank
Research interests/areas of expertise: Cognitive aging, memory, attention, hemispheric asymmetries, hormones and behavior

Myung Hee Cho
Lecturer in theatre and dance
M.F.A., Yale School of Drama
Birthplace: Seoul, Korea
Research interests: Theatre and opera
Languages fluent in: Korean

Dana Collins
Assistant professor of sociology
M.A., Ph.D. sociology, UC Santa Barbara
Birthplace: Frankfurt, Germany
Research interests/areas of expertise: Sociology of gender and sexualities, development, globalization, transnational feminisms, gender and work, urban communities, sociology of tourism, space and place, qualitative research epistemologies

Cheryl Cooky
Assistant professor of kinesiology
B.A. kinesiology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
M.A. sociology, University of Southern California
M.S. sports studies, Miami University, Ohio
Birthplace: Chicago
Research interests/areas of expertise: Sociological aspects of sport, gender and sport, youth sport, media and sport, girl cultures, sociology of gender
Languages fluent in: Spanish

Keni Brayton Cox
Assistant professor of educational leadership
B.A. English, Cal State Long Beach
M.A. secondary education, Cal State Long Beach
Ph.D. education, UC Riverside
Birthplace: San Diego
Research interests/areas of expertise: Assessment and accountability, access and the achievement gap, leadership and collaborative processes

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