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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