New Faces

Campus Welcomes More than 100 New Tenure-track Faculty and Full-time Lecturers

New Faculty: A - C | D - I | J - M | N - R | S - Z

Michael Shafae
Assistant professor of computer science
Ph.D. and M.S. information and computer science, UC Irvine
B.S. computer science, UC Santa Cruz
B.A. politics, UC Santa Cruz
Research interests/areas of expertise: parallel rendering, tiled displays, graphic clusters, level-of-detail rendering

Kristen L. Shand
Assistant professor of secondary education
Ph.D. education, UC Riverside
M.A. education, Cal Poly Pomona
B.A. history, Cal Poly Pomona
Research interests/areas of expertise: interplay of graph and text in middle school history books: under what conditions are comprehension and acquisition of historical constructs affected; history textbooks and the lenses through which they are written: in what ways is comprehension of historical constructs affected; Knowledge transfer; graphic ability assessment; research design

Heather L. Snavley
Lecturer in American language
M.A. teaching English to speakers of other languages, Biola University
M.A. intercultural studies, Biola University
B.A. history, Messiah College

Myungsoo Son
Associate professor of accounting
Ph.D. accounting, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
M.S. accounting, Ohio University, Athens
B.A. economics, Yonsei University
Research interests/areas of expertise: capital markets, audit quality, international accounting

Traci A. Statler
Assistant professor of kinesiology
Ph.D. exercise and sport science, University of Utah
M.S. kinesiology, Cal State Fullerton
B.A. journalism, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
B.S. psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Jessica S. Spivey
Assistant professor of history
A.B.D., Johns Hopkins University
M.A. history, Johns Hopkins University
B.A. history, Reed College

Brandon E. Strathmann
Assistant professor of arts
M.F.A. drawing, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
B.F.A. animation, Rhode Island School of Design

Megan M. Tommerup
Lecturer in biological science
Ph.D. botany, Claremont Graduate University
B.S. biology, Cal Poly Pomona

Ofir Turel
Associate professor of information systems and decision sciences
Ph.D. management science and systems, McMaster University
M.B.A. technology management, Tel Aviv University
B.S. industrial engineering, Tel Aviv University
Research interests/areas of expertise: behavioral, social and technological issues in IT management and use, e-collaboration, human-computer interaction, e-customer service/online dispute resolution, mobile services, IT governance, cross-cultural issues in IT

Kazuha Watanabe
Lecturer in modern languages and literatures
Ph.D. (pending) and M.A. linguistics, Cornell University
M.A. linguistics, UC Davis
B.A. communication studies, Cal State Sacramento
B.A. French studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Research interests/areas of expertise: corpus, cognitive, Japanese and romance linguistics; syntax; philosophy of language; phonology; structure of Korean and Chinese; typology; academic writing; bilingualism; literacy; ESL; Japanese as a foreign language; Japanese history, art, literature and films; Classical Japanese

Doreen E. Wesolosky
Lecturer in American Language
M.A. teaching English to speakers of other languages, Biola University
B.A. social science, Biola University

J. Chris Westgate
Assistant professor of English, comparative literature and linguistics
Ph.D. English, UC Davis
M.A. and B.A. English, Cal State Sacramento
Research interests/areas of expertise: North American drama, modern European and American drama, 20th-century American literature

Dolores E. Winter
Lecturer in American Language
M.S. teaching English to speakers of other languages, Cal State Fullerton

William R. Wood
Assistant professor of sociology
Ph.D. sociology, Boston College
MDiv., Union Theological Seminary
B.A. liberal arts, Evergreen State College

Jennifer A. Yee
Assistant professor of Asian American studies
Ph.D. and M.A. higher education and organizational change, UCLA
M.A. higher education administration, Stanford University
B.A. journalism and public relations, Cal State Long Beach

Hassan Yousefi
Assistant professor of mathematics
Ph.D. mathematics, University of New Hampshire
M.S. and B.S. mathematics, Isfahan University of Technology

Dawit Zerom
Associate professor of information systems and decision sciences
Ph.D. statistics, University of Amsterdam
M.S. econometrics and operations research, University of Groningen
B.A. economics and finance, University of Asmara
Research interests/areas of expertise: applied statistics, time series analysis