New Faculty on Campus

Jeffrey D. Atherton
Assistant Professor, Art
Creative Interests: Foundation Art Color Theory

Heather R. Barker
Assistant Professor, Design
Creative Interests: Research Interests: System and Sustainability in Design, Architecture, Urbanism and Strategy
 

Ezra LeBank
Assistant Professor, Theatre Arts
Creative Interests: Theatre Arts, Movement

Ming Chen
Assistant Professor, Management and Human Resources Management
Research Interests: Revenue Management/Supply Chain Management

Xuan Huang
Assistant Professor, Accountancy
Research Interests: Financial Accounting
 

Dana M. McDaniel
Assistant Professor, Management and Human Resources Management
Research Interests: Organizational Behavior

Beverly L. Booker
Assistant Professor, Advanced Studies and in Education and Counseling
Participatory action research in addressing systemic issues in K-12 public education; Impact of international service on students' leadership skills and levels of community engagement.
 

Jared R. Stallones
Single-Subject (Secondary) Credential Program Coordinator
Tenured Professor, College of Education
Research Interests: Education History, Biography

Praveen Shankar
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Aerospace Engineering – Control Systems

Lisa M. Star
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management
Research Interests: Soil and Structure Interaction
 

Rebeka Sultana
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management
Research Interests: Hydrology and Water Resource

Melissa Dyo
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Research Interests: Suffering and Sprituality in Heart Failure
 

Anthony W. McGuire
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Research Interests: Depression in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients
 

Christian E. Molidor
Director, School of Social Work
Tenured Professor, Social Work
Research Interests: Adolescent Dating Violence; Gang Structure; Female Gang Members; Juvenile Violence; Substance Abuse and Family Structure
 

Cesar G. Abarca
Assistant Professor, Social Work
Research Interests: Minority Community Health
 

George J. Beneck
Associate Professor, Physical Therapy
Research Interests: Physical Therapy for low back pain
 

Namhee Kim
Assistant Professor, Communicative Disorders
Research Interests: Early Speech Development
 

Lei Sun
Assistant Professor, Communicative Disorders
Research Interests: Child Language Development and Disorders

Araceli Esparza
Assistant Professor, English
Research Interests: American Literature; Chicano – Latino Literature; Ethnic Literature
 

Dennis Lopez
Assistant Professor, English
Research Interests: 20th Century American Literature/U.S. Ethnic Literature

Armando X. Mejia
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Research Interests: Urban Sociology; Political Sociology/Social Movements; Environmental Justice

James D. Miles
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Research Interests: Human Factors

Gwen L. Shaffer
Assistant Professor, Journalism
Research Interests: Telecommunications Policy, New Media

John W. Shrader
Assistant Professor, Journalism
Research Interests: Sports Media and Culture; Social Media; Documentary Film

Michael R. Peterson
Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Research Interests: Condensed Matter Theory; Strongly Correlated Systems; Quantum Topological Phases; Computational Physics

 

Deborah A. Fraser
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Research Interests: Innate Immunology

Tianni Zhou
Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
Research Interests: Biostatistics; Statistical Methods in Clinical Trial