New Faces
Campus Welcomes More than 100 New Tenure-track Faculty and Full-time Lecturers
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Fatima A. Alali
Assistant professor of accounting
Ph.D. management, accounting and AIS, Rutgers University
M.B.A. business administration, Rutgers University
M.S. accounting, Syracuse University
B.S. accounting, United Arab Emirates University
Research interests/areas of expertise: Financial accounting, auditing, financial statement analysis
Sandra Alaux
Lecturer in secondary education
Ed.D. California Coast University
M.S. instructional leadership in curriculum and instruction, National University
B.A. and teaching credential, University of Redlands
Aziz Alimov
Associate professor of finance
Ph.D. finance, University of Oregon
M.B.A. finance and accounting, Central Michigan University
M.A. economics, Banking and Finance Academy, Uzbekistan
Research interests/areas of expertise: corporate finance, investments, international finance
Adelina Amal Samuel
Assistant professor of management
Ph.D. operations, technology and innovation management, University of North Carolina
M.B.A. operations and systems management, Indian Institute of Technology
BE industrial engineering, Anna University
Research interests/areas of expertise: health care operations, productivity, flexibility, stochastic programming
Wayne Wah Kwai Au
Assistant professor of secondary education
Ph.D. curriculum and instruction, University of Wisconsin
Master in teaching, Evergreen State College
B.A. liberal arts, Evergreen State College
Mardelle A. Azimi
Lecturer in American language
M.A and B.A. teaching English as a second language and linguistics, West Virginia University
Research interests/areas of expertise: intensive English university-bound instruction, internet-assisted language learning, ESL teacher training, adolescent and pre-adolescent ESL immersion, TOEFL preparation, socio-linguistics, phonology
Tara D. Barnhart
Lecturer in secondary education
M.A. education, Whittier College
B.A. biology, Whittier College
Andrea J. Becker
Assistant professor of kinesiology
Ph.D. education, University of Tennessee
M.S. and B.S. kinesiology, Cal State Sacramento
Jason K. Blackburn
Assistant professor of geography
Ph.D. medical geography, Louisiana State University
M.S. and B.S. geography, Louisiana State University
Research interests/areas of expertise: ecological modeling, GIS, advanced methods in spatial analysis, disease ecology, biogeography, wildlife telemetry, disease surveillance, wildlife epidemiology and monitoring
Jennifer W. Bradford
Student services professional, Counseling and Psychological Services
Ph.D. counseling psychology, University of North Texas
M.Ed. community counseling, University of Oklahoma
B.A. psychology, University of Oklahoma
April Brannon
Assistant professor of English
Ph.D. English education, Arizona State University
M.A. secondary education, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
B.A. English, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
William Breitbach
Reference librarian
M.L.I.S., UCLA
M.A. political science, Cal State Los Angeles
B.A. anthropology, UC Santa Barbara
S. Allen Broyles
Associate professor of marketing
Ph.D., M.B.A. and B.A. marketing, University of Tennessee
Research interests/areas of expertise: cross-cultural consumer similarities and differences
Todd CadwalladerOlsker
Assistant professor of mathematics
Ph.D. mathematics and education, Claremont Graduate University
M.A. and B.S. mathematics, University of Arizona
Matthew Calarco
Assistant professor of philosophy
Ph.D. philosophy, SUNY Binghamton
M.A. and B.A. philosophy, San Diego State
Research interests/areas of expertise: environmental philosophy, ethics, social and political philosophy
Christina M. Carroll-Pavia
Student services professional, Counseling and Psychological Services
Ph.D. and M.A. counseling psychology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
B.A. psychology and social behavior, UC Irvine
Amy I. Cass
Assistant professor of criminal justice
Ph.D. and M.A. sociology, University of Delaware
B.S. criminology, Florida State University
Research interests/areas of expertise: Gender and crime, criminological theory, sociology of law, public opinion and public policy, criminal justice process, victimology
Benjamin Cawthra
Assistant professor of history
Ph.D. and M.A. history, Washington University, St. Louis
B.A. English and history, Walla Walla College
Research interests/areas of expertise: urban history, American literature, history of sport, African American history and culture, U.S. history, visual arts and cultures, histories of photography and film, jazz cultural studies and American music
Orville Chapman
Lecturer in American Language
M.S. teaching English to speakers of other languages, Cal State Fullerton
B.A. history, Linfield College
David K. Chenot
Assistant professor of social work
Ph.D. social welfare, Case Western Reserve University
M.S.W., Cal State Fresno
M.Div., Fuller Theological Seminary
B.A. English, University of Hawaii
Julie Chernov
Assistant professor of political science
Ph.D. and M.A. political science, University of Colorado, Boulder
B.A. political science, George Washington University
Research interests/areas of expertise: ethnic politics, religion and politics, introduction to international relations
Daniel S. Choi
Assistant professor of educational leadership
Ph.D. education policy, Arizona State University
M.A. interdisciplinary studies, Cal State Long Beach
B.A. philosophy, UC Irvine
Research interests/areas of expertise: education policy with emphasis in policy research methods, language policy and research on teaching
Hyun-Cheol Paul Choi
Lecturer in management
Ph.D. operations management and decision sciences (pending) and M.B.A., Indiana University, Bloomington
B.S. electrical engineering, University of British Columbia
Research interests/areas of expertise: supply chain coordination and improvement by multiple channel development, and value of information sharing in supply chains by modeling and simulation of inventory problems
Carolyn Coal
Assistant professor of communications
M.F.A. film, Art Center College of Design
B.A. communications, Pennsylvania State University
Math P. Cuajungco
Assistant professor of biological science
Ph.D. psychiatry, University of Auckland
M.S. medical science, University of Auckland
B.S. psychology and mathematics, University of Auckland
Research interests/areas of expertise: stem cell and molecular biology, proteomics
Bill Cunliffe
Associate professor of music
M.M. jazz studies, Eastman School of Music
B.A. music, Duke University
Scott J. Cypers
Student services professional, Counseling and Psychological Services
Ph.D. and M.S. counseling psychology, USC
B.A. psychology/philosophy, Emory University
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