At the Leading Edge 2016-2017

2016-2017

AT THE LEADING EDGE The Work of Our Faculty

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LEADING EDGE At California Lutheran University, our faculty remain focused on discovery and the future. They lay claim to their profession not as dispensers of cold facts, but as researchers and innovators who bring their subjects to life. They strive to instill in each generation of students the same sense of purpose they bring to their own work, the same desire for knowledge of what’s coming next, and the same need for greater understanding. This is why our students are such active participants in their own education. They see their professors as both leaders and fellow learners who guide them into chosen fields where passion fuels their pursuits. We admire our faculty for their boldness, for daring to illuminate and push the boundaries of knowledge past the conventional. They teach at the leading edge, helping students to become the creators and leaders of a future where our understanding of the world – and ourselves – will be greater than today. It is with great pride that we honor their achievements and recognize their commitment to ever-expanding scholarship.

CONTENTS FACULTY AWARDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE . . . . . . . 6 FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 GRANTS & CONTRACTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Leanne Neilson Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Cal Lutheran students in all majors and specializations have opportunities to participate in research and creative scholarship, allowing them to make original contributions to their fields of study. Both in the classroom and outside of it, faculty members help students pursue their passions, discover their purpose and follow that purpose to transform their communities and the world. The faculty members who mentor our undergraduate and graduate students are accomplished in all types of scholarship – laboratory research, creative works, and quantitative and qualitative explorations. This edition of At the Leading Edge features our Science Initiative on pages 20-21. I am pleased to highlight some of the ways our Science faculty are advancing research and exposing Cal Lutheran students to exceptional experiences: •

David Marcey (Biology), Kelly Owens (Sponsored Research), Diane Rodriguez-Kiino (Graduate School of Education) and Matthew Ward (Enrollment Management and Marketing) collaborated on a $4.6M HSI STEM grant from the U.S. Department of Education to develop new programs and resources intended to increase retention of Hispanic and low-income students in STEM majors. All students will benefit from additional resources and tutoring available for science and math courses.

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Sebastian Carron Montero (Physics) joined the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN, Switzerland in association with the UCSB experimental high energy physics group, working on the development of a new generation of particle detectors for CERN, as well as a variety of particle accelerator based searches for yet unidentified “dark matter.”

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Michele LeBlanc (Exercise Science) gave two conference presentations involving three Cal Lutheran students at the Southwest Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine Conference.

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Interdisciplinary research projects were completed by Michael Gagliardo (Mathematics) in an Arts and Mathematics presentation at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in Atlanta, and Anita Stone (Biology) collaborated with Matthew Fienup (School of Management) on the article “Reproductive status affects the feeding ecology and social association patterns of female squirrel monkeys in an Amazonian rainforest.”

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Chad Barber (Biology) provided opportunities for Cal Lutheran students to engage in science education experiences with funding received for Biological Science Exposure in the pre-school and K-12 School Setting.

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Nate Carlson (Mathematics) was one of many faculty members who presented research internationally. Dr. Carlson gave research presentations in Prague and in England.

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Louise Kelly (Exercise Science) published four journal articles this year, with three of them co-authored by Cal Lutheran undergraduates.

Please join me in congratulating our faculty members for their achievements as scholars, mentors, and educators.

Leanne Neilson Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

FACULTY AWARDS Michael Brint, D.Phil. Outstanding Faculty Support Award Uyeno-Tseng Professor of International Studies, Political Science The Leadership Awards Committee, comprised of faculty, staff and students, selected Michael Brint to receive their Outstanding Faculty Support Award. From 2000 to 2005, Brint served as Cal Lutheran’s dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of political science. In 2006, he was named the Uyeno-Tseng Professor of International Studies. As an alumnus of Balliol College, Oxford, he developed a study abroad program to Oxford University and Europe in 2008 and now serves as the program’s permanent faculty director. ​

Peter Carlson, Ph.D. Cultural Diversity Professor of the Year Assistant Professor, Religion Undergraduate seniors selected Peter Carlson as Cultural Diversity Professor of the Year. Carlson’s research has two primary areas: Christian religious history, and gender and religion. He studies religion in the late medieval and early modern eras, and his interest in gender began with his work on the constructions of masculinity and femininity in those periods. This historical work has expanded to include modern theologies of sexuality and gender construction primarily in Christianity, but also across religious traditions. He is director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program. ​

Sarah Fischbach, Ph.D. School of Management Scholarship Award Assistant Professor, Management & Marketing The School of Management Advisory Council selected Sarah Fischbach as the recipient of the SOM Scholarship Award for outstanding achievement in professional scholarship. Fischbach is a marketing researcher who has focused on ethics, bribery, social media analytics, data automation and pedagogy. Her recent work on the ethics of native advertising and sponsored content has been widely accepted in the academic community. She received a 2016 Pacific Coast Business Times “40 Under 40” Award recognizing up-and-coming businessmen and women from the central coast.

Michael McCambridge, Ed.D. Outstanding Advisor Award Professor, College of Arts and Sciences/Graduate School of Education The faculty, staff and student members of the Leadership Awards Committee selected Michael McCambridge, director of Interdisciplinary Educational Studies, as the recipient of its Outstanding Advisor Award. With 47 years of teaching and administrative experience at the elementary, middle school, secondary and higher education levels, McCambridge creates opportunities for teachers and teachers-in-preparation to explore how teaching and learning theory informs good practices that result in academic, personal, social, and moral growth and development of K-12 students.

Edlyn Vallejo Peña, Ph.D. Graduate School of Education Service Award Associate Professor, Educational Leadership The Graduate School of Education selected Edlyn Vallejo Peña as the recipient of its annual Service Award. Peña is an award-winning researcher who studies social justice issues for students with disabilities, particularly autism, in the preschool through higher education pipeline. As co-director of the Autism and Communication Center and member of the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, Peña is best known for her service to the autism community at the state and national level. She also is director of Cal Lutheran’s Doctoral Studies in Higher Education Leadership.

Mary Jo Shane, Ph.D. School of Management Service Award Assistant Professor, Management & Marketing In recognition of outstanding service to the university, the School of Management Advisory Council selected Mary Jo Shane as the recipient of the SOM Service Award. Shane teaches MBA courses in organization behavior, organization design, training and development, and applied international management. As director of International Student Success, she works closely with administrators, faculty and staff to develop and implement programs, projects and events to support international graduate student success within the School of Management.

Harry Starn Jr., M.S., CFA, CFP® School of Management Teaching Award Executive in Residence, Economics, Accounting & Finance Harry Starn received the School of Management Advisory Council’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Starn is a senior lecturer in Cal Lutheran’s School of Management and serves as director of the Financial Planning Program. He has been teaching, creating and refining online courses for the program since 2005. In May 2010, the United States Distance Learning Association presented him with the bronze award for Excellence in Distance Learning Teaching. He served on the CFP Board’s Council on Education (2012-2015) and was appointed chair in 2015.

Daniel Tillapaugh, Ph.D. Graduate School of Education Scholarship Award Assistant Professor, Counselor Education The Graduate School of Education selected Daniel Tillapaugh as the recipient of its annual award for Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship. Tillapaugh’s research focuses on intersectionality and social contexts of higher education, college men and masculinities, LGBT issues in higher education, and leadership development and education. He has been recognized as an Emerging Scholar Designee by ACPA - College Student Educators International for his research pertaining to student development in higher education.

Jennifer Twyford, Ph.D. Outstanding Advisor Award Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Psychology

Graduate School of Education Teaching Award Professor, Counselor Education

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The Graduate School of Education selected Gail Uellendahl as the recipient of its annual award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching. Uellendahl, who teaches a variety of courses focused on the theory and practice of counseling, received the President’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2013. Her current research focuses on the experiences of first-generation students succeeding in graduate studies. She has made presentations about assessment and school counseling, critical incident stress management in K-12 settings, using student outcomes data for program development, and cultural proficiency in counselor education.

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Gail Uellendahl, Ph.D.

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The Leadership Awards Committee, comprised of faculty, staff and students, selected Jennifer Twyford to receive their Outstanding Advisor Award for the second year in a row. Twyford has clinical expertise in child and adolescent assessment and research methodology. Her research interests include identification and prevention of disruptive behavioral problems in children and adolescents, in particular, school and juvenile justice system response to youth’s mental health needs and the prevention of school violence. Twyford received the Early Career Scholar Award from the American Psychological Association’s Society for the Study of School Psychology.

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2017 President’s Award for Teaching Excellence Karrolyne Fogel B.S., Santa Clara University Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin Associate professor of mathematics Karrolyne Fogel was honored last spring with the university’s highest award for excellence in teaching. A dedicated teacher and supportive mentor, Fogel is committed to her students’ success and the idea that math is more fun when it makes sense. One student writes, “Dr. Fogel is the most amazing math professor I’ve probably ever had. She has wonderful communication skills. She is always there for students who are having trouble understanding something. Her office hours are made according to the student’s schedule and she is always willing to meet.” Another student writes, “Dr. Fogel really cares about her students and wants her students to be successful and enjoy learning.” The President’s Award for Teaching Excellence was created in 1995 to recognize professors who are held in high esteem by their peers, students and the rest of the university community. When nominating Fogel for this award, one colleague wrote that she “has mastered the teacher-scholar model…. She has an extraordinary ability to inspire students to become global leaders, no matter their background, so that they can, in turn, touch the lives of and inspire countless others to follow their dreams.” Fogel joined the Cal Lutheran faculty in 1998. She teaches upper division electives for math majors as well as classes for nonmajors. She educates aspiring elementary school teachers in the Interdisciplinary Educational Studies program and directs the Mathematics Single Subject Program for those planning to teach high school. In addition to serving as an academic adviser and mentor to math majors and minors, Fogel is adept at helping undeclared and transfer students identify and transition into fields of study. She has served on the leadership team for the Pacific Coast Undergraduate Math Conference, which was recognized in 2015 by the American Mathematical Society as a Mathematics Program that Makes a Difference. She is a member of the governing board of the Southern California-Nevada section of the Mathematical Association of America. Respected by her colleagues, she has been elected to many leadership positions on campus such as the Appointment Rank and Tenure Committee, the Faculty Executive Committee, and the Faculty Affairs and Development Committee. She served as chair of the Mathematics Department for eight years. Fogel’s background is in algebraic number theory, and her current research is in graph labeling. She also enjoys the mathematics of voting and has mentored student projects in that topic and introduced the subject to local elementary school students.

FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS Gerhard Apfelthaler, Ph.D., Dean, School of Management

Michael Arndt, M.F.A., Professor, Theatre Arts

APPOINTMENTS • Board Member, Workforce Development Board of Ventura County. • Board Member, Economic Development Collaborative of Ventura County. • Associate Editor, European Journal of International Management. • Advisory Board Member, Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. • Teaching Committee Member, Academy of Management, International Management Division. • External Reviewer, University of Redlands, School of Business.

AWARDS • 2017 Patriotic Citizen of the Year, Conejo Chapter of the Military Order of the World Wars and the Sergeant Michael A. DiRaimondo Chapter 750 Military Order of the Purple Heart. • Finalist, Outstanding Director of a Play, Broadway World Los Angeles.

PRESENTATIONS • “Learning from Being There without Being There: Action Learning through Experiential Exercises” at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Professional Development Workshop, Anaheim, California, August 2016. • “The Future of Management Education” keynote address at the 2nd International Conference on Accounting, Management & Innovation in Business, Iran, September 2016. • “Entrepreneurship and the Future of Cities” keynote address at the International Conference on Civil Engineering, Architecture, Urban Management and Environment, Iran, September 2016. • “Innovative Approaches to Export Promotion: Insights and Examples from Practice of Global Export Institutions” at the International Conference on Export Promotion, the Netherlands, December 2016.

PRESENTATIONS • “Shakespeare Workshop” at the Region VIII Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Mesa, Arizona, February 2017. EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES • “Under Fire: Stories of Combat Veterans Across Generations” at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Chaplains Education and Training event, San Diego, California, June 2016. • Director, Shakespeare’s Henry V, Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival held at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California, Summer 2016.

Trudy Arriaga, Ed.D., Distinguished Educator in Residence, Graduate School of Education AWARDS • The Association of California School Administrator’s Professor of Education of the Year Award. APPOINTMENTS • Co-chair, Association of California School Administrators’ “New Superintendents Seminar Series.”

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PRESENTATIONS • “Opening Doors to Access and Equity” keynote address at the Iowa Educators State Conference, Des Moines, Iowa, August 2016. • “Opening Doors” keynote address at the Association of California School Administrators (Northern California), Pleasanton, California, August 2016. • “Opening Doors to Female Leadership” at the Women’s Leadership Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2016. • “Opening Doors to Female Leadership” keynote address at the Washington Women’s Leadership Conference, Chelan, Washington, April 2017. • “Opening Doors to Access and Equity” keynote address at the annual Washington State Administrators Conference, Chelan, Washington, April 2017.

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PUBLICATIONS • “Integrated Corporate Social Responsibility Communication – A Global and Cross-cultural Perspective” with M. Karmasin, et al. Handbook of Integrated Corporate Social Responsibility Communication. Hamburg: Springer, 2017. • “One size does not fit all: Generalizing entrepreneurial insights in a world of differences” introduction with W. Gartner and A. Kammel, co-authors and co-editors of the special issue Entrepreneurship: Cross-national and Crosscultural Perspectives, European Journal of International Management, Vol. 11(3), May 2017. • “India’s Brand Equity Foundation” and “India’s Reverse Visits” with S.S.S. Potti. Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (Ed.), Learning from Global Innovative SME Export Assistance Programs, 2017. • “Germany’s Accounting Services” and “Australia’s Women in Global Business” with N. Shah. Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (Ed.), Learning from Global Innovative SME Export Assistance Programs, 2017. • “Austria’s Go Silicon Valley.” Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (Ed.), Learning from Global Innovative SME Export Assistance Programs, 2017.

APPOINTMENTS • Artistic Director, Kingsmen Shakespeare Company. • Board Member, War Fighters Advance.

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MICHAEL BRINT Uyeno-Tseng Professor of International Studies, Political Science

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“Surrounded by the largest research library in the English-speaking world, students who participate in the CLU-Oxford program are inspired to engage in the life of the mind. This past year, their research projects have ranged from analyzing Brexit and globalization to arguing for a socio-economic basis for

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Affirmative Action to tracing the relationship between architecture and politics.”

Rose Aslan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Religion PRESENTATIONS • “Muslim Americans on the Hajj: The Challenge of a Modern Pilgrimage in an Ancient Land” at the International Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Conference held at Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey, June 2016. • “The Day ‘Ali Reversed the Sun: Embodied Miracles and the Sanctity of Place” at the American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, Texas, November 2016. PUBLICATIONS • Book review of H. Munt’s The Holy City of Medina: Sacred Spaces in Early Islamic Arabia, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 33(3), Summer 2016. • “Room at the Table: Reflections on Identity and Inclusion from a Lutheran-Friendly Muslim.” Intersections: Faith, Learning, and the Vocation of Lutheran Higher Education, 45, 2017.

Jamie Banker, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Graduate School of Psychology APPOINTMENTS • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Family Psychotherapy. • Reviewer, Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy. • Reviewer, Psychological Medicine.

Chad Barber, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biology PRESENTATIONS • “Role of integrins in canine cancer” with students M. Jajour and M. Guerrero at the Southern California Council on Undergraduate Research Conference, Riverside, California, November 2016.

PUBLICATIONS • “Distinct Genetic Networks Orchestrate the Emergence of Specific Waves of Fetal and Adult B-1 and B-2 Development” with E. Montecino-Rodriguez, M. Fice, et al. Immunity, 45(3), 2016. • “Perspective: Time for Harmonising Nomenclature and Definitions Surrounding Endothelial Progenitors” with R.J. Medina, O. Ohneda, et al. Stem Cell Translational Medicine, 6, 2017.

Jamie Bedics, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Graduate School of Psychology PRESENTATIONS • “An analysis of the interpersonal function of non-suicidal self-injury using the structural analysis of social behavior” with V. Olivera at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Suicidology, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2017.

Elizabeth Brennan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education PUBLICATIONS • “Autism, Inclusion and Communication in Higher Education” with E. Peña. Developments, 3, November 2016.

Michael Brint, D.Phil., Uyeno-Tseng Professor of International Studies, Political Science APPOINTMENTS • Organizer, “Brexit and Globalization” Roundtable with K. Nicolaides, at the European Studies Centre, Oxford University, England, September 2016.

Nathan Carlson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mathematics PRESENTATIONS • “On the Cardinality of Hausdorff Spaces and H-closed Spaces” at the Symposium on General Topology, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2016. • “On Cardinality Bounds Involving the Weak Lindelof Degree” at the Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications, Leicester, England, August 2016. PUBLICATIONS • “On homogeneity and the H-closed property” with J. Porter and G. Ridderbos. Topology Proceedings, Vol. 49, 2017. • “On the Cardinality of Hausdorff spaces and H-closed spaces” with J. Porter. Topology and its Applications, 2017.

Peter Carlson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Religion APPOINTMENTS • Steering Committee Member, Ventura County LGBTQIA.

Sebastian Carron Montero, Visiting Assistant Professor, Physics PUBLICATIONS • “Charge transfer in dissociating iodomethane and fluoromethane molecules ionized by intense femtosecond X-ray pulses” with co-authors. Structural Dynamics 3, 043207, 2016. • “Shapes of rotating superfluid helium nanodroplets” with co-authors. Phys. Rev. B, 95, 6, 064510, 2017. • “Magnetic Switching in Granular FePt Layers Promoted by Near-Field Laser Enhancement” with co-authors. Nano Lett.17, 4, 2017. • “Accurate prediction of X-ray pulse properties from a freeelectron laser using machine learning” with co-authors. Nature Communications 8, 15461, 2017.

PRESENTATIONS • “Los resultados neuropsicológicos y evaluación de la exposición a pesticidas” with students L. Ornelas, S. Perry and A. Aguirre at the XVII Congreso Ibercentroamericano de enfermedad neurologica cronica y epilepsy, Guatemala City, Guatemala, September 2016. • “Desarorollando investigacioes cultural y lingüísticamente apropriadas en el campo de la neuropsicologia” with students A. Aguirre, S. Perry, and L. Ornelas at the Mexican Neuropsychological Association, Monterrey, Mexico, October 2016. • “Diagnóstico diferencial de los desórdenes neurocognositivos” with students L. Ornelas, S. Perry and A. Aguirre at the Taller de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Escuela de Ingeniera y Negocios, Mexicali, Mexico, January 2017. • “Practicing socially responsible neuropsychology: An ethical mandate” with P. Suarez, D. Lechuga and X. Cagigas at the California Psychological Association Convention, San Francisco, California, March 2017. PUBLICATIONS • “Socially responsible neuropsychology in action” with P. Suarez, D. Lechuga and X. Cagigas. The California Psychologist, 49(4), 2016. • “A global perspective on neuropsychological assessment” with M. Calamia and D. Tranel. Clinical Psychology: A Global Perspective, S. Hofmann (Ed.). Jon Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017. • “Geographic Distribution of California Mental Health Professionals in Relation to Sociodemographic Characteristics” with R. Sharma, N. Crawford and L. Mills. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, March 23, 2017.

Xiang Chen, Ph.D., Professor, Philosophy

APPOINTMENTS • Co-organizer, International Center for Academic Integrity Southern California Regional Conference held at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, April 2017.

PRESENTATIONS • “Origins of Teleological Biases” invited presentation at the Department of Philosophy, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China, November 2016.

APPOINTMENTS • Co-chair, Cultural Neuropsychology Summit Policy Workgroup. • Editorial Board Member, Psychological Services. • Member, Hispanic Neuropsychological Society Conference Task Force. • Reviewer, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. • Reviewer, The Clinical Neuropsychologist.

PRESENTATIONS • “Translingual writing group: A translingual approach to creating better writers at the Writing Center” with student C. Castillo at the International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2016. • “A community literacies project that enacts the missions and re-defines the boundaries” with T. Patel at the International Writing Centers Association Conference, Denver, Colorado, October 2016. • “Directing a New Writing Center as a Cultivating Project on Campus” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, Oregon, March 2017.

Dazhi Chong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Management PUBLICATIONS • “The Impact of XBRL on Information Asymmetry: Evidence from Loan Contracting” with H. Shi, L. Fu, H. Ji and G. Yan. Journal of Management Analytics, 4(2), 2017.

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Rachel Casas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Psychology

Scott Chien-Hsiung Chiu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, English

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PRESENTATIONS • “Using a Change Process Model in Academic Integrity” with M.J. Shane at the International Center for Academic Integrity Southern California Regional Conference held at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, April 2017. • “Academic Strategies for Integrating Resources with International Students” with M.J. Shane at the NAFSA Conference, Los Angeles, California, May 2017.

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Loredana Carson, MPPA, Lecturer, School of Management

APPOINTMENTS • Reviewer, Synthese, an International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science.

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Samuel Claussen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, History PRESENTATIONS • “Places of Honor: Physical Space and Honor in the Late Medieval Castilian Holy War” at the 55th Annual Southeastern Medieval Association Conference – Place and Power, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 2016. • “Familial Honor and Physical Space on the Castilian Frontier in the 15th Century” at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 2017. • “Rocking Gibraltar: Chivalry, Violence and Tuna in the 15th Century” at the 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies held at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2017. PUBLICATIONS • “Chivalric and Religious Valorization of Warfare in High Medieval France.” Prowess, Piety, and Public Order in Medieval Society: Studies in Honor of Richard Kaeuper, C. Nakashian and D. Franke (Eds.). Leiden: Brill, 2017. • Book review of S. Cockerill’s Eleanor of Castile: The Shadow Queen, Stroud: Amberley, 2015. De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History, August 2016. • Book review of Charlemagne and his Legend in Early Spanish Literature and Historiography, M. Baily and R.D. Giles (Eds.), Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2016. Mediaevestik, March 2017.

Brian Collins, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Philosophy APPOINTMENTS • Founder, SoCal Philosophy Academy. PRESENTATIONS • “Global Law and Political Obligation” at the Philosophical Foundations of Global Law meeting held at the Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia, August 2016. • “Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy” at the annual American Philosophical Association Pacific Division meeting, Seattle, Washington, April 2017. PUBLICATIONS • “Obligations, Responsibility, and Whistleblowing: A Case Study of Jeffrey Wigand and Brown & Williamson.” Business in Ethical Focus: An Anthology, 2nd Edition, F. Allhoff, A. Sager and A.J. Vaidya (Eds.). Calgary, Canada: Broadview Press, December 2016.

Carol Coman, M.S., Associate Professor, School of Management APPOINTMENTS • Co-organizer, International Center for Academic Integrity Southern California Regional Conference held at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, April 2017. PRESENTATIONS • “Fostering a Culture of Honor and Integrity - From the Ground Up” at the Southeastern Consortium of the International Center for Academic Integrity held at Kennesaw State University, Georgia, November 2016.

Jonathan Cordero, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Sociology PRESENTATIONS • “Indigenous Methodologies: When Place and Space Are Home” at the Converting Spaces Conference held at the

University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2017. • “The Failed Conversion of the California Indians” at the California Missions Foundation Conference, Santa Ynez, California, March 2017.

Heidi Coronado, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education PRESENTATIONS • “Counseling Con Corazón: Resiliency Circle Framework and Its Impact on First Generation High School and College Students” at the Mujeres Activas En Letras y Cambio Social Conference held at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, August 2016. • “Decolonizing and Connecting Mind, Body and Spirit: Healing Historical Trauma Through Indigenous Pedagogies” at the Mujeres Activas En Letras y Cambio Social Conference held at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, August 2016. • “Spiritual Activisim and La Consciencia de la Mestiza: Connecting Mind, Body, Spirit…Healing in the Borderlands” at The International Conference of The Life and Work of Gloria Anzaldua, San Antonio, Texas, November 2016. • “Healing Ourselves and our Communities: Ancestral Knowledge, Connection and Radical Love in Education” with students C. Delatorre, A. Lara and J. Licea at the National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference, San Francisco, California, March 2017. • “Reclaiming Ancestral Sabiduria and The Power of Story: Chicana/Latina Counselors Decolonizing and Transforming Communities and The Academy” with students D. Razana-Maroke, M. Robles, M. Sand and B. Soriano at the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies Conference, Irvine, California, March 2017.

Michael Cosenza, Ed.D., Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education APPOINTMENTS • Board of Directors, National Association of Professional Development Schools. • President, Southern California Professional Development School Consortium. • Board Member, Ventura County Catholic Charities. PRESENTATIONS • “PSDEA: Using a 5-step Protocol to Determine School/ University Partnership Readiness” at the Conference of the California Council on Teacher Education, San Diego, California, October 2016. • “PDS Directors Forum Standards or Guidelines: NAPDS NINE ESSENTIALS” workshop at the National Association of Professional Development Schools Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., March 2017.

Lisa Dahill, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Religion APPOINTMENTS • Past President, Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality. • Editorial Board Member, Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality.

MICHELE DEAN Field Placement Coordinator and Lecturer, Graduate School of Education

“The opportunity to mentor teacher candidates as they pursue their teaching credential is a blending of their fresh, newly acquired knowledge and skill set with my experiences as a 35+years, PreK-12 practitioner. Overall, students emerge better prepared to serve in their role as a professional educator and I am constantly invigorated and inspired by their deep sense of purpose.”

Jamshid Damooei, Ph.D., Professor, School of Management APPOINTMENTS • Board Member, Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE).

PRESENTATIONS • “Evaluating Children’s Literature for Bias: What does your classroom library tell you?” at the California Association for Bilingual Education Ventura County Chapter and Migrant Education Region XVII Conference, Ventura, California, September 2016. • “Ethical Decision Making for K-12 Administrators” at the Ventura County Office of Education, California Professional Standards of Educational Leaders meeting, Camarillo, California, March 2017.

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APPOINTMENTS • Board Member, The Arts Collaborative. • Member, 2017 El Concilio Latino Leadership Awards Selection Committee.

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Michele Dean, Ed.D., Field Placement Coordinator and Lecturer, Graduate School of Education

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PUBLICATIONS • “Addressing God with Names of Earth.” Currents in Theology and Mission 43/3, July 2016. • “Out of the Box: Pedagogies of Outdoor Christian Spirituality.” Berkeley Journal of Theology and Religion 2/2, special issue honoring Arthur Holder and Judith Berling, Summer 2016. • “Life in All Its Fullness: Christian Worship and the Natural World.” Liturgy 31/4, Fall 2016. • “Into Local Waters: Rewilding the Study of Christian Spirituality.” Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality 16, Fall 2016. • Eco-Reformation, Grace and Hope for a Planet in Peril co-edited with J. Martin-Schramm. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock/Cascade, 2016. • “Rewilding Christian Spirituality: Outdoor Sacraments and the Life of the World.” Eco-Reformation, Grace and Hope for a Planet in Peril co-edited with J. Martin-Schramm. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock/Cascade, 2016. • Book review of Diane Reynolds’ The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Women, Sexuality, and Nazi Germany, Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2016. The Christian Century 135, March 1, 2017.

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MICHAEL GAGLIARDO

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Associate Professor, Mathematics

“Research connects a student’s courses to each other and to the practice of the discipline. It also gives motivation and context for students to ask deeper questions and pursue their own ideas.”

John Deisz, Ph.D., Professor, Physics PRESENTATIONS • “Cluster-based many-body calculations of flux quantization and superfluid density” with N. Meisner at the 2017 American Physical Society Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2017. PUBLICATIONS • “Weak-coupling analysis of quasiparticle excitations in Sr2RuO4 along the Г−M cut” with T.E. Kidd. Physical Review B, 95(4), 2017.

Rainer Diriwächter, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Psychology APPOINTMENTS • Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Integrated Social Sciences. • Editorial Board Member, Culture and Psychology (Sage Publications). • Editorial Board Member, Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science (Springer Publications). PRESENTATIONS • “The Phenomenon of Boredom and Social Perception” with student M. Nelson at the Western Psychological Association 97th Annual Convention, Sacramento, California, April 2017. PUBLICATIONS • “Attitudes towards Puberty Blockers for Children Experiencing Gender Dysphoria” with student K. Randazzo. Journal of Integrated Social Sciences, 6(1), 2016.

• “Holism.” The SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology, A. Wenzel (Ed.). Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2017.

Sharon Docter, Ph.D., Professor, Communication AWARDS • Robert M. O’Neil Award for Top Paper, Freedom of Expression Division for “Why Bloggers and Journalists Should be Treated the Same under Libel Laws” at the National Communication Association Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2016. APPOINTMENTS • Advisory Board Member, The Salvation Army’s College for Officer Training.

Harry Domicone, Ph.D., Professor, School of Management AWARDS • ELS Lifetime Achievement Award at the NAFSA Conference, Denver, Colorado, June 2016. APPOINTMENTS • Editorial Review Board, European Journal of International Management.

Cary Dritz, Ed.D., Distinguished Educator, Graduate School of Education APPOINTMENTS • Director, Association of California School Administrators Personnel Academy.

Cynthia Duarte, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology

Mark Edwards, MBA, Lecturer, School of Management

PRESENTATIONS • “Counseling and Creating a Culture of Care” with P. Vargas, E. Jaloma, M. Maxwell-Doherty and student C. Bustillos at The Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities’ Moving Forward: Empowering our Communities Symposium held at Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, March 2017.

APPOINTMENTS • Board Member, Ventura County Financial Planning Association.

Morris Eagle, Ph.D., Distinguished Educator in Residence, Graduate School of Psychology APPOINTMENTS • Editorial Board Member and Advisory Board Member, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. • Editorial Board Member, American Journal of Psychotherapy. • Editorial Board Member, Psychoanalytic Psychology. • Editorial Board Member, Psicoterapia e Scienze umane. • Editorial Board Member, Attachment & Human Development. • Co-chair, Research Committee, New Center for Psychoanalysis. • Co-chair, Research Education Committee, American Psychoanalytic Association.

Therese Eyermann, Ph.D., Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Graduate School of Education APPOINTMENTS • Member, Ventura County United Way Education Focus Team. PRESENTATIONS • “The Work We Do Together Matters” at the United Way of Ventura County and Families in Schools’ GradNation Community Summit, Oxnard, California, September 2016.

Matthew Fienup, M.A., Lecturer, School of Management PUBLICATIONS • “Reproductive status affects the feeding ecology and social association patterns of female squirrel monkeys (Saimiri collinsi) in an Amazonian rainforest” with L.P. Ruivo and A. Stone. American Journal of Primatology, March 2017.

PUBLICATIONS • Psychoanalytic perspectives on conflict, co-edited with C. Christian and D.L. Wolitzky. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Professor, Theatre Arts

“Every time I direct a play, original or published, it is a creative journey into a new world. Students and I not only research the world of the play but experience it as well.”

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KENNETH GARDNER

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MOLLY GEORGE Associate Professor, Criminal Justice and Sociology

“I view mentoring students as a natural extension of my role as a teacher. Also, having personally benefited from extensive mentoring as an undergraduate, I understand how mentored research projects can not only augment a student’s education, but also potentially transform one’s life trajectory.”

Rafaela Fiore Urízar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Languages and Cultures PUBLICATIONS • “Writing Herstory: How Latina Grafiteras are Asserting their Place in Los Angeles Graffiti and Urban Art” with student M. Alvarez. Cincunloquios: Revista de Estudios Culturales, Vol. 3, 2016. • “Coming Out of the Closet: The Politics of Fear and State Violence against the Gay Community in the Documentary 108 Cuchillo de palo” with student C. Holt. Cuarto Propio, May 2017.

Sarah Fischbach, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Management AWARDS • Pacific Coast Business Times “40 under 40” Award recognizing up-and-coming businessmen and women from San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. APPOINTMENTS • Vice President, Marketing Educators’ Association. • Reviewer, Journal of Business Ethics. • Reviewer, Journal of Advertising. • Reviewer, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing. • Reviewer, Marketing Educators’ Association.

• Co-organizer, International Center for Academic Integrity Southern California Regional Conference held at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, April 2017. • Trustee, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation. PRESENTATIONS • “Growing Perspective: Student and Faculty Outlook on Multimedia in the Classroom” with V. Guerrero, J. Richards, and students T. Vanwingerden, S. Dimaggio, K. Rocha, J. Finnerty and T. Moorehead at the Marketing Educators Association Conference, San Diego, California, April 2017. • “Rocking Brand Anthropomorphism: Applying Multimedia Techniques to Build Brand Concepts” with students S. Dimaggio, J. Finnerty, T. Moorehead, K. Rocha, D. Rotchschild and T. Vanwingerden at the Marketing Educators Association Conference, San Diego, California, April 2017. PUBLICATIONS • “Native Advertising: Trickery or Technique? An Ethics Project and Debate” with J. Zarzosa. Marketing Educators Review special issue on Teaching Innovations, 2017.

Karrolyne Fogel, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mathematics APPOINTMENTS • Website Editor, Southern California/Nevada Section, Mathematical Association of America.

PRESENTATIONS • “Irreducible L(2,1)-Colorings for Trees” at the Mathematical Association of America Southern California-Nevada section meeting held at California State University, Los Angeles, October 2016. PUBLICATIONS • “Trees for given values of the span, caps, and icaps for L(2,1)-colorings” with V. Coufal, J. Villalpando, A. Higgins, W. Higgins, R. Ray and K. Yerion. Congresses Numerantium, 227, 2016.

Julia Fogg, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Religion APPOINTMENTS • Writing Coach for the Faculty Success Program, The National Center for Faculty Diversity and Development. PRESENTATIONS • “Paul and Politics, Poverty in the Biblical World” at the Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November 2016. PUBLICATIONS • “Philippians.” The Letters and Legacy of Paul: Fortress Commentary on the Bible, Study Edition, M. Aymer, C. B. Kittredge and D. A. Sánchez (Eds.). Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016. • “Galatians,” “Ephesians,” and “Colossians.” The CEB Women’s Bible, J. Clark-Soles (Ed.). UMC Publishing House, 2016.

Gregory Freeland, Ph.D., Professor, Political Science AWARDS • Lifetime Achievement Award, Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) Action Fund.

Michael Gagliardo, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mathematics

Virginia Gean, MBA, CMA, Lecturer, School of Management PRESENTATIONS • “Success Stories of Women Leaders in Business and Education” keynote speech at the 24th Annual American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2017.

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Psychology

“Mentoring demands that teaching be relevant. While psychology is replete with theories, they have little value beyond academic exercises unless one learns to apply them to enhance living.”

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EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES • Writer and Director, Hamlet, Disco Dane of Denmark, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, Calif., Spring 2017.

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Kenneth Gardner, M.F.A, Professor, Theatre Arts

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PRESENTATIONS • “Barcelona through the Looking Glass: A Travel Seminar on Mathematics, Architecture, and Detective Fiction” at the Joint Mathematics Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2017. • “Using 3D Printed Surfaces in an Inquiry Style Multivariable Calculus Course” at the Construct3D Conference, Durham, North Carolina, May 2017.

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• “IFRS-Allow Disclosure Options for the Statement of Cash Flows That Are Preferable to What US GAAP Allow” at the 24th Annual American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2017. PUBLICATIONS • “A Three-Way Cost Classification Model for Understanding the Supply Side of the Firm” with F. Gean. Journal of Business and Educational Leadership, Vol. 6, No.1, Fall 2016.

Molly George, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Criminal Justice and Sociology PUBLICATIONS • “Policing on the Surveillance Frontier: Officer Perspectives of Body-Worn Cameras” with R. Meadows. Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology, 67(4), 2016.

Marylie Gerson, Ph.D., Professor, Psychology APPOINTMENTS • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Integrated Social Sciences. • Executive Board Member, Western Psychological Association. PRESENTATIONS • “Relative benefits of experiencing awe and mindfulness meditation” with students I. Carranza, B. Gomez and K. Hernandez at the Association for Psychological Science Convention, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2017.

Rahuldeep Singh Gill, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Religion APPOINTMENTS • Consultant, Inter-Religious Task Force, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. • NetVUE Scholar, Resources Project, Council of Independent Colleges. • Consultant, BRIDGE Curriculum Committee, Interfaith Youth Core. • Content Review Expert, History-Social Science Adoption, California Department of Education. PRESENTATIONS • “From Diversity to Pluralism” at the Annual Meeting of American Theological Librarians Association, Long Beach, California, June 2016. • “A Different Kind of Doctor: Reflections of a Sikh Scholar” at the Annual Meeting of the North American Sikh Medical and Dental Association, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, September 2016. • “Personal Dimensions of Interfaith Conflict” at the Southern California Multi-Faith Conference, Thousand Oaks, California, November 2016. • “Drinking from Love’s Cup” at the Jakara Sikholars Conference, Palo Alto, California, February 2017. • “Interfaith Learning” at the Council of Independent Colleges NetVUE Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 2017.

PUBLICATIONS • Drinking from Love’s Cup: Selections from the Vārs of Bhai Gurdas Bhalla. New York: Oxford University Press, December 2016.

Herbert Gooch, Ph.D., Professor, Political Science APPOINTMENTS • Executive Board Member, Lutheran College Washington Semester Consortium. • Board Member, Elton and Janice Gallegly Foundation. • Advisory and Planning Board Member, Ventura County Leadership Academy. • Board of Advisors, Naval Postgraduate School Center for Asymmetric Warfare. • Board Member, Ventura County Transportation Advisory Board.

Monica Gracyalny, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Communication PRESENTATIONS • “The Role of Uncertainty in Communication and Relational Outcomes Following Hurtful Events in Dating Relationships: A Relational Turbulence Perspective” with D.C. Jackson at the International Association of Relationship Research Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 2016. • “Associations between Insecure Adult Attachment and the Experience and Expression of Remorse in Close Relationships” at the International Association of Relationship Research Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 2016. • “The Role of Uncertainty in Forgiveness and Forgivenessgranting Communication Following Hurtful Events in Romantic Relationships” with D.C. Jackson and L.K. Guerrero at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2016. • “The Sorry State of Social Media: Analyzing Public Apologies” with J. Sandlin at the 20th Annual International Public Relations Research Conference, Orlando, Florida, March 2017. PUBLICATIONS • “Scales, Likert statement.” Encyclopedia of communication research methods, M. Allen (Ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc., 2017.

David Grannis, M.F.A., Assistant Professor, Communication PRESENTATIONS • “Defeating the Drought in Southern California: Making the Documentary” with students K. Jones and K. Portillo at the Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference held at the University of Maryland, College Park, March 2017. • “Challenges of Teaching TV and Film Production at a Small University” at the Broadcast Education Association Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2017. PUBLICATIONS • “Ethics in Broadcast Television News: Blurring the Lines.” Real World Media Ethics, Inside the Broadcast and Entertainment Industries, Second Edition, P. Perebinonssoff. New York; Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016.

MONICA GRACYALNY Assistant Professor, Communication

“Mentoring students keeps me energized as a teacher and scholar. I love helping them find answers to their questions, and their curiosity and enthusiasm are inspirational.”

Sandra Grunewald, MBA, Assistant Professor, School of Management

PRESENTATIONS • “MBA Education and Negotiation Competence: Examining the Impact of Experiential Learning on Negotiation Self- Efficacy” with J. Richards and students T. Vanwingerden, S. Dimaggio and T. Moorehead at the 2017 Marketing Educators Conference, San Diego, California, April 2017.

APPOINTMENTS • Planning Committee Chair, Association of Teaching Theologians. • Multi-Synodical Candidacy Committee Member, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. • Graduate Theological Union Faculty Council Member, Berkeley, California. PRESENTATIONS • “Preaching the Catechism” at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Churchwide Assembly Grace Gathering, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 2016. • “Preaching Exodus as a Paradigm of Liberation” for the Homiletics and Biblical Studies Group at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, Texas, November 2016. • “Hospitality: An Old Practice for a New Era” at the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Sacramento, California, March 2017.

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Veronica Guerrero, Ed.D., Associate Professor, School of Management

Shauna Hannan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

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EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES • Performances with the Swedish Dancers of Southern California at the SWEA Christmas Festival, VASA Park Host Marknad, Norrona Lodge and Scandinavian Festival. • Performances with the Skandia Dancers of California at the International Festival in Laguna, Soka University International Festival, Swedish Festival in Kingsburg, Scandinavian Festival in Thousand Oaks, and Statewide Festival in Reseda.

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APPOINTMENTS • CFO, Skandia Workshop at Julian, California. • Treasurer, Ventura County and Santa Barbara Folk Dancers.

• “Growing Perspective: Student and Faculty Outlook on Multimedia in the Classroom” with J. Richards, S. Fischbach and students T. Vanwingerden, S. Dimaggio, K. Rocha, J. Finnerty and T. Moorehead at the 2017 Marketing Educators Conference, San Diego, California, April 2017.

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Assistant Professor, Communication

“Guiding students through the research process, from general curiosity to specific knowledge, is one of the most rewarding things as a teacher.”

• “Preaching as a Ministry of the Whole Congregation” at the Northern Rockies Institute of Theology, Kalispell, Missoula and Helena, Montana, April 2017. • “Preaching as a Ministry of the Whole Congregation” at the Presbyterian Preaching Conference, Zephyr Point Presbyterian Conference Center, Zephyr Cove, Nevada, May 2017. PUBLICATIONS • “Incarnation.” Refo500 Series in The Living Lutheran, December 2016. • “Commentary from a Scholar on Four Sundays of Lectionary Readings: Easter 1-4.” Sundays and Seasons: Preaching, 2017, Year A. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2017. • “Commentary on Exodus 32:7-14” and “Commentary on Psalm 8.” WorkingPreacher.org.

Grady Hanrahan, Ph.D., Professor, Chemistry, and Associate Provost of Experiential Learning, Research and Faculty Development PRESENTATIONS • “Cross-disciplinary undergraduate research: Tools for overcoming the challenges and maximizing the benefits” with A. Sell at the New American Colleges and Universities Summer Institute on Undergraduate Research held at Manhattan College, Bronx, New York, June 2016. • “Novel experiential learning activities as a means to promoting research in liberal arts education” at the 7th International Conference on Language, Education & Innovation, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, May 2017.

Michael Hart, D.M.A., Assistant Professor, Music APPOINTMENTS • Adjudicator, Southern California School Band and Orchestra Directors Association. EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES • World premiere performance of “Frolic,” a composition for solo tuba and wind ensemble by Los Angeles-based film composer Charles Fernandez, accompanied by the Los Angeles Symphonic Winds.

Steven Hawkins, Ph.D., Professor, Exercise Science APPOINTMENTS • Reviewer, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. • Reviewer, Journal of Aging and Physical Activity. • Reviewer, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. • Reviewer, Age and Ageing. • Reviewer, Physician and Sports Medicine. • Reviewer, Sports Medicine. • Member, American College of Sports Medicine, Exercise is Medicine on Campus National Committee. • Member, American College of Sports Medicine, National Kinesiology Association, and American Kinesiology Association Joint National Committee – Physical Activity Promotion in Colleges and Universities. • Member, American College of Sports Medicine Referral Network.

Timothy Hengst, M.A., Professor, Multimedia

Kirstie Hettinga, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Communication

AWARDS • 2017 Oxnard High School Multimedia Business Academy’s Business Champion Award.

PRESENTATIONS • “Newswriting textbooks earn low grades for teaching accuracy” at the World Journalism Education Congress, Auckland, New Zealand, July 2016. Paper published in the conference proceedings. • “Student newspaper manuals need clarification on correction practices” at the World Journalism Education Congress, Auckland, New Zealand, July 2016. Paper published in the conference proceedings. • “Source perception of student journalists’ professionalism” with A. Sell at the World Journalism Education Congress, Auckland, New Zealand, July 2016. Paper published in the conference proceedings.

APPOINTMENTS • President, Association of Lutheran College Faculties. • Executive Director and Producer, Kingsmen Shakespeare Company. • Advisory Board Member, Oxnard High School Multimedia Business Academy. • Juror, Inaugural International Art Show at the California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks. EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES • Solo art show of 60 original illustration and digital fine art works at the Conejo Valley Art Museum, Thousand Oaks, California, December 2016 – March 2017.

Aaron Heresco, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Communication PRESENTATIONS • “Financial Eyes – Credit Scores and the Actuarial Gaze” at the International Association of Internet and Media Researchers Conference, Leicester, United Kingdom, July 2016. • “The Antidote to Fear is Greed – CNBC and the Facebook IPO” at the International Communication Association Conference, San Diego, California, May 2017. PUBLICATIONS • “An Ambivalent Political Economy of Kickstarter.” Journal of Political Economy of Communication, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2016.

PUBLICATIONS • “Repeating error lowers perception of correction’s importance” with A. Appelman. Newspaper Research Journal, 37(3), September 2016.

Larkin Higgins, M.F.A., Professor, Art PUBLICATIONS • “Sense’s Census,” a written rumination on Higgins’ sametitled performance art piece with corresponding image. EMERGENCY INDEX: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, Vol. 5, Y. Gluzman, S. Cleary & K. Gaydos (Eds.). Brooklyn, New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016. • “‘thread/wrap/web’ -- for Hannah Höch” mixed media collage. DADA CENTENNIAL: Day of the Dead Exhibition Catalogue, C. Touchon (Ed.). Ontological Museum Publications, Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 2017.

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Professor, Graduate School of Education

“I believe mentoring students is a reciprocal process. We learn from engaging one another and this leads to a more enriching educational experience for the students and challenges me to step up as a teacher.”

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CYNTHIA JEW

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Advancing the Sciences at Cal Lutheran At a time when the demand for science professionals is greater than ever, we have the unique opportunity to propel more Cal Lutheran graduates into science careers in research, healthcare, business, and academia – all doing work that will have an immediate and lasting impact on our world.

The Science Initiative campaign will allow us to build a new, modern science facility at the center of campus, giving us 90% more space for teaching and research to meet the demand and growth in our number of science majors. It will include new flexible lab spaces, collaborative research areas for students across disciplines, faculty offices, and new technology and equipment. Learn more at Science.CalLutheran.edu

These are just a few of the ways Cal Lutheran is building momentum in the sciences: •

As a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), Cal Lutheran has been awarded a $4.6 million HSI STEM grant, allowing us to create the ALLIES in STEM program aimed at providing academic support to underrepresented students in STEM fields.

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A portion of the HSI STEM grant provides a matching grant opportunity of $300,000 from the U.S. Department of Education to establish the ALLIES in STEM Endowment in support of faculty-mentored summer research fellowships.

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Cal Lutheran’s new STEM Academy is a free, three-week summer bridge program designed to help future STEM students succeed by giving them a jump start on their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classes and research. Learn more at CalLutheran.edu/academy

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The Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship (OURCS) facilitates numerous fellowships for undergraduate students to participate in full-time, paid research and creative scholarship over the summer alongside faculty mentors. Learn more at CalLutheran.edu/ourcs

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EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES • Invited participant in the herstorical concept-event titled “Now Be Here, L.A.” of 733 women artists of Los Angeles being photographed together at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel Gallery, Downtown Los Angeles, by Isabel Avila, Carrie Yury, and Kim Schoenstadt, August 2016. • “Intersection,” “Allied to Eucalyptus,” and “with which moves” were among selected poems painted on umbrellas, water bottle labels, and piñata prizes for inclusion in “NEVERMORE: METRO Immersive Arts Festival,” Van Nuys Civic Plaza, California, October 2016. • “‘thread/wrap/web’ -- for Hannah Höch” mixed media collage exhibited in “Dada Centennial: Day of the Dead” at The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage & Construction, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Nov. 4, 2016 – Jan. 31, 2017. The artwork is now part of the permanent collection of IMCAC. • “Ode to You,” a braided song and spoken word piece cowritten and co-performed with C. Higgins, Green Bough Gardens, Long Beach, California, March 2017.

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Michael Hillis, Ph.D., Dean, Graduate School of Education APPOINTMENTS • Past President, Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education. • Thrivent Fellow.

Haco Hoang, Ph.D., Professor, Political Science PRESENTATIONS • “Barriers to Public Engagement in Low-Income Communities: The Case Study of Farmworkers in Oxnard, California” at the Annual Conference on Management and Social Science, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2016. • “Promoting Health Literacy in Low-Income Communities: The Case Study of Farmworkers in Oxnard, California” at the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research Studies held at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., March 2017.

Richard Holigrocki, Ph.D., Dean, Graduate School of Psychology APPOINTMENTS • Member, Board of Educational Affairs Standing Appeal Panel Pool (tasked with the review of APA accreditation decision appeals).

ERIC KINSLEY Senior Lecturer, Music

“Mentoring students in music is a tradition handed down from the greatest teachers of our culture. Plato stated, ‘Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.’ Still closer to our Lutheran heritage, Martin Luther wrote, ‘...next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise...’ The reward is developing students’ musical talent and interest.”

Virginia Ilie, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Management PRESENTATIONS • “Social Inclusion across Information Systems Specializations” with C. Njunge and P. Witman at the Americas Conference on Information Systems, San Diego, California, August 2016.

Carol Jacobson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary APPOINTMENTS • Candidacy Committee Member, Sierra Pacific Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. • Steering Committee Member, East Bay Lutheran Ministry to Nursing Homes. • Steering Committee Member, East Bay Lutheran Youth Program.

Cynthia Jew, Ph.D., Professor, Graduate School of Education

Jodie Kocur, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Psychology

PRESENTATIONS • “Cultural Proficiency and Special Education” at the 2016 Cultural Proficiency Institute, San Marcos, California, June 2016.

PRESENTATIONS • “Postsecondary transition experiences for students with autism and their families” with E. Peña at the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, Bethesda, Maryland, July 2016. • “Could the acceptance of one parent act as a buffer against the rejection of another parent?” with student P. Fahmy at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Denver, Colorado, August 2016.

Kristopher Karsten, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biology PUBLICATIONS • “Camaleón común: Chamaeleo chamaeleon” with M. Cuadrado. El Corzo, Vol. 4, 2016.

Louise Kelly, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Exercise Science

Michele LeBlanc, Ph.D., Nena Amundson Professor of Biomechanics, Exercise Science

PUBLICATIONS • “Development of Actigraph GT1M Accelerometer cutpoints for young children aged 12-36 months” with J. Villalpando, B. Carney, S. Wendt, R. Haas, B.J. Ranieri and T.K. Berg. Journal of Athletic Enhancement, Vol. 5(4), 2016. • “Comparison of Two Modes of Inducing Potentiation of Sprint Cycling Performance” with B. Carney and H. Lamont. Journal of Athletic Enhancement, 5(6), 2016. • “Patterns of Sedentary Behavior in Female Office Workers” with A. Kirk, A.M. Gibson, et al. Public Health 3(2), 2017. • “A national study on the effects of concussion in collegiate athletes and U.S. military service academy members: The NCAA-DoD Concussion Assessment, Research and Education Consortium structure and methods” with coauthors. Sports Medicine, April 2017.

PRESENTATIONS • “The Effects of Gender on Stair Descent Mechanics in the Elderly” at the Southwest Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine Conference, Costa Mesa, California, October 2016. • “Leg Strength and Transition Step Preference during Stair Descent in Elderly Subjects” with students B. Davis and S. Pappas at the Southwest Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine Conference, Costa Mesa, California, October 2016. • “Kinematics of Shod, Barefoot and Simulated Barefoot Treadmill Running” with student H. Ferkranus at the Southwest Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine Conference, Costa Mesa, California, October 2016.

Jason Kingsbury, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Chemistry

PRESENTATIONS • “The Necessity of Academic Service-Learning for Criminology and Criminal Justice Majors” at the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and Learning, Anaheim, California, February 2017.

APPOINTMENTS • Reviewer, Journal of Organic Chemistry. • Reviewer, Organic Letters.

EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES • Faculty Recital commemorating 15 years since 9/11, remembering the victims of senseless violence through the healing power of music, held at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California, September 2016.

PRESENTATIONS • “Personalize Your Training” with A. Lopez and K. Picha at the Region XII NAFSA Conference, Palm Springs, California, September 2016. • “Data-Driven Decision-Making: Documenting Study Abroad’s Impact on Academic and Career Success” with A. Hubbard and G. Rhodes at the Institute of International Education Generation Study Abroad Summit, Washington, D.C., October 2016.

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APPOINTMENTS • Director of Music, St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, Thousand Oaks, California. • Adjudicator, Young Artists Competition, Music Teachers National Association.

APPOINTMENTS • Advisory Board Member, American Institute for Foreign Study. • Council of Academic Advisors, IAU College study abroad program based in Aix-en-Provence, France. • Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities liaison to Cal Abroad, regional organization for study abroad. • Reviewer, Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad.

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Eric Kinsley, D.M.A., Senior Lecturer, Music

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PRESENTATIONS • “Applications of Sc-Catalyzed Diazoalkane–Carbonyl Homologation Reactions in Target-Oriented Synthesis” with H.Z. Kaplan, V.L. Rendina and students B.A. Smolarski and J.S. Burman at the 16th international meeting of the French American Chemical Society held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, June 2016.

Helen Ahn Lim, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Criminal Justice

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HELEN AHN LIM Associate Professor, Criminal Justice

“Mentoring students on their research-related projects not only deepens engagement with my students, but also enriches the learning experience for us both.”

Kenneth Long, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biology PRESENTATIONS • “The effect of amino acids on the feeding response of freshwater snails, Lymnaea stagnalis and Helisoma trivolvis” with students C. Sharkey and J. Enders at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference, San Diego, California, November 2016. • “Demonstrating the Stimulus Strength-Duration Relationship Using the Cockroach Leg” at the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2017.

Maureen Reilly Lorimer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education APPOINTMENTS • Advisory Board Member, “Situation Room Experience,” Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. • Coordinator, 2016 Arts and Learning Symposium: Design Thinking – A Universe of Potential. PRESENTATIONS • “Reading art as text: Inquiry approaches that foster historical thinking” at the Teaching History through Art Conference held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California, July 2016.

• “Uncovering the Mission Curriculum from Multiple Perspectives: A Reformative Approach” with M.D. Lorimer at the California Indian Summit held at Sacramento State University, California, September 2016. • “A Multi-Faceted Curricular Focus for California History” with M.D. Lorimer at the California Indian Conference, San Diego, California, October 2016. • “Engaging Your Students in Decision-Making Role Play Simulations Using Documents” with M. Cohen at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2016. • “Design Thinking Bookmaking Project” at the National Art Education Association Conference, New York, New York, March 2017. • “Examining the Role of the Visual and Performing Arts in California Teacher Education” at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, April 2017.

Ran Lu-Andrews, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Management APPOINTMENTS • Reviewer, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. • Reviewer, International Journal of Strategic Property Management.

PRESENTATIONS • “The Asymmetric Conditional Beta-Return Relations of REITs” at the Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting, Little Rock, Arkansas, March 2017. • “Unobserved Quality and Anchoring to Purchase Price and Fundamentals over a Housing Market Cycle” at the American Real Estate Society Meeting, San Diego, California, April 2017. • “The Asymmetric Conditional Beta-Return Relations of REITs” at the American Real Estate Society Meeting, San Diego, California, April 2017.

Jacqueline Lyons, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, English AWARDS • Second prize for poetry, Tucson Literary Festival Competition, for a selection of “Earthquake Daily” poems, March 2017. APPOINTMENTS • Preliminary Judge, Center for Literary Publishing Colorado Prize for Poetry, Spring 2017.

PRESENTATIONS • A selection of sonnets from “Adorable Airport” (poetry manuscript) presented at the 114th Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Pasadena, California, November 2016. PUBLICATIONS • Book review of Gabriel Gudding’s Literature for Nonhumans (poetry), Ahsahta Press, 2015. Center for Literary Publishing, 2016. • “Epoch Quake,” “Seven-Year Quake,” and “Second Quake Today” (poems). Salamander, Spring/Summer Issue 2017. • “Too Silver for a Seam” (essay). The Journal, Issue 41.2, Spring 2017.

Valeria Makarova, Ph.D., MBA, Assistant Professor, School of Management APPOINTMENTS • Clean/Green Workforce Committee Member, Workforce Development Board of Ventura County.

KENNETH LONG Associate Professor, Biology

“Research experiences strengthen student critical thinking skills—students learn laboratory techniques, but more importantly, they learn to ask questions, design and re-design experiments, trouble-shoot equipment, and gain confidence that should aid them in their chosen careers. Student research projects have helped me develop laboratory experiments that I use in my courses.”

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RAN LU-ANDREWS Assistant Professor, School of Management

“Mentoring students in research helps both teachers and students stay current in the discipline(s) and form a bridge between classroom and real world issues.”

David Marcey, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Professor of Developmental Biology APPOINTMENTS • Editorial Board Member, Life Science Education. • Advisory Board Member, Life (Sinauer Press). • Fellow, PULSE (Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education). PRESENTATIONS • “Implementing Vision and Change at the Departmental Level with PULSE Rubrics” with L. Elfring, S. Robinow and S. Gusky at the National Association of Biology Teachers Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, November 2016. • “Using the Online Macromolecular Museum, Case Studies, and a New Assessment Tool to Engage Students in Hands-On Learning about the Biology of Sickle Cell Anemia” at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, December 2016.

Michael McCambridge, Ed.D., Professor, Graduate School of Education APPOINTMENTS • Youth Drama Director, Holy Trinity Church, Thousand Oaks, California. • Board Member, River Oaks Charter School, Westlake Village, California. EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES • Director and Producer, The Nordic Princess Breaks the Ice.

Robert Meadows, Ed.D., Ph.D., Professor, Criminal Justice PRESENTATIONS • “The Use of Body Cameras in Policing” at the 16th annual European Society of Criminology Conference, Muenster, Germany, October 2016. PUBLICATIONS • “Policing on the Surveillance Frontier: Officer Perspectives of Body-Worn Cameras” with M. George. Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology, 67(4), 2016.

Ryan Medders, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Communication APPOINTMENTS • Reviewer, Journal of Communication. PUBLICATIONS • “The role of news brands and news leads in selective exposure to political information on the Internet” with M.J. Metzger. Digital Journalism, May 26, 2017.

Luis Menéndez-Antuña, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary APPOINTMENTS • Reviewer, Anglican Theological Review. PRESENTATIONS • “Converting Paul: Exploring the Contribution of Art for Queer Hermeneutics” at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November 2016.

PUBLICATIONS • “Cuerpos ambiguos. Un estudio comparativo del status antropológico y político de las mujeres en las Cartas Pastorales y los Hechos Apócrifos de Pablo y Tecla.” Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones, 21, 2016. • “San Juan 11:1-45. Comentario,” “San Mateo 27:11-54. Comentario,” “San Juan 13:17, 31b-35. Comentario,” and “San Juan 18:1-19:42. Comentario.” WorkingPreacher.org, 2017.

Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Ph.D., Professor, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary APPOINTMENTS • Editorial Board Member, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. • Editorial Council Member, Dialog: A Journal of Theology. • Contributing Editor, Tikkun Magazine. • Contributing Editor, Christ and Cascadia.

Marja Mogk, Ph.D., Associate Professor, English PRESENTATIONS • “Travel and the Selfie Age in Contemporary Popular Film” at the 114th Annual Conference of the Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association, Pasadena, California, November 2016.

Nancy Myers, M.A., Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Education AWARDS • International Literacy Association: Celebrate Literacy Award 2017, Ventura County Reading Association. • Rio School District Recognition for Distinguished Partnership 2017.

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PRESENTATIONS • “Empowering Teacher Researchers through Action Research: Highlights of a Multiyear Journey” at the California Subject Matters Project LeadLearn Conference held at the University of California, Los Angeles, October 2016. • “Developing Foundational Literacy Skills through Job Embedded Teacher Preparation” at the California Reading Association Professional Development Institute, Visalia, California, November 2016.

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APPOINTMENTS • Regional Director, California Reading and Literature Project. • Organizer, California Reading and Literature Project Summer Literacy Conference: “Comprehension Pathways: Advancing Literacy for All Students,” June 2016. • Member, Rio School District Network Improvement Committee. • Member, year-long Teacher Educator Institute offered by the Center for Reaching & Teaching the Whole Child.

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PRESENTATIONS • “A Two-Fold Moral Crisis and Spirituality of Hope and Moral Agency” keynote address at the annual convocation of the Marianist Social Justice Collaborative “Changemakers: Creating New Responses for New Times,” San Antonio, Texas, July 2016. • “Climate Justice” at the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions Conference “Our Religions, Our Earth, Our Future,” Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 2016. • “Loving the World: Eco-Economic Shake-up” keynote address at the conference of that title sponsored by Emmanuel College of the University of Toronto and Ruah Community, Toronto, Canada, October 2016. • “Climate Debt, Climate Justice: A Crucifixion, Resurrection, Incarnation Perspective” plenary address at the Pacific Coast Theological Society Annual Meeting, Berkeley, California, November 2016. • “Earth-Honoring Faith and Climate Justice” keynote address for the Mid-Atlantic Region session at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 2016. • “Is Climate Change Structural Violence?” at the Society of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2017. • “The Baptismal covenant to seek justice – Lutheran Gifts” plenary lecture for the “500th Anniversary of the Reformation: Its Relevance for Today and Tomorrow” lecture series held at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Naples, Florida, February 2017. • “Climate Justice: A Spiritual-Political Calling” keynote address at the Yolo Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice Annual Conference, Davis, California, March 2017. • “Subversive Moral-Spiritual Power in Dangerous Times: Roots and Water” keynote address at the annual convocation of Justice and Peace Promoters, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Chicago, Illinois, March 2017. • “DARE (Discernment And Radical Engagement)” at the Global Forum, Council for World Mission, Bangkok, Thailand, May 2017. • “Hope and Wisdom for Love that Seeks Justice” keynote address at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Pennsylvania state public policy office Advocacy Day, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, May 2017.

PUBLICATIONS • “A Haunting Contradiction, Hope, and Moral-Spiritual Power.” Eco-Reformation: Grace and Hope for a Planet in Peril, L. Dahill and J. Martin-Schramm (Eds.). Wipf & Stock, 2016. • “The Subversive Luther.” The Forgotten Luther: Reclaiming the Social-Economic Dimension of the Reformation, C. Lindberg and P. Wee (Eds.). Minneapolis: Lutheran University Press, 2016. • “Climate Change as Climate Debt: Forging a Just Future.” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 36.1, Spring/ Summer 2016. • “Yom Kippur’s Call for Environmental Repentance: Overcoming Social Sin.” Tikkun, Fall 2016. • “Liturgy Re-Forming Society.” Liturgy, 31:4, 2016. • “Re-radicalizando la justificación.” Revista ESPIGA (Medio oficial de la Escuela de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Estatal a Distancia, San José, Costa Rica), 2017. • “From Climate Debt to Climate Justice: God’s Love Embodied in Garden Earth.” The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Ecology, J. Hart (Ed.). Oxford: John Wiley and Sons, 2017.

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Adina Nack, Ph.D., Professor, Sociology APPOINTMENTS • National Conference Program Committee Co-chair, Council on Contemporary Families. • Member, Discrimination and Academic Justice Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society. • Research Advisor, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Task Force on Women and Justice. PRESENTATIONS • “Women’s Health: A Matter of Justice” seminar to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Task Force on Women and Justice held at the ELCA Lutheran Center, Chicago, Illinois, February 2017. PUBLICATIONS • “Patient-Practitioner Interaction Styles” and “Illness Stigma Management.” SAGE Video Case Studies, London, U.K.: SAGE Publications Ltd., 2017.

Leanne Neilson, Psy.D., Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs APPOINTMENTS • Board Chair, Thousand Oaks Alliance for the Arts. • Member, Council of Independent Colleges Chief Academic Officer Task Force. • Member, 2016-17 American Academic Leadership Institute Executive Leadership Academy. • Chair, Women United, United Way of Ventura County. PRESENTATONS • “Workshop for New Academic Team Members” copresenter at the Council of Independent Colleges Chief Academic Officers Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2016. • “Recruiting and Retaining a Diverse Faculty” with M. Evans, K. Morris and J. Schuster at the Council of Independent Colleges Chief Academic Officers Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2016. • “Dealing with Difficult Faculty Conversations” at the Council of Independent Colleges Department and Division Chair Workshop, Kansas City, Missouri, May 2017.

David Nelson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, History PRESENTATIONS • “U.S. Cultural History” panel moderator at the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Southern California Regional Conference held at California State University, Northridge, April 2017.

Mary Oksala, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Physics APPOINTMENTS • Reviewer, Astrophysical Journal. PRESENTATIONS • “The evolution of magnetic fields in hot stars” at the International Astronomical Union Symposium No. 329: The Lives and Death-Throes of Massive Stars, Auckland, New Zealand, November 2016.

Michael Panesis, MBA, Executive Director, Center for Entrepreneurship, School of Management APPOINTMENTS • Steering Committee Member, Ventura County Greek Festival. PRESENTATIONS • “Entrepreneurship in the Liberal Arts” at the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers held at the University of Rochester, New York, September 2016.

Michael Pearce, Ph.D., M.F.A., Associate Professor, Art PUBLICATIONS • Art in the Age of Emergence (2nd edition). Newcastle, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2017.

Edlyn Vallejo Peña, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education AWARDS • 2016 Spotlight Award from the Center4SpecialNeeds for advocacy for children and families with disabilities in the community. APPOINTMENTS • Member, National Institutes of Health’s Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. • Coordinator, Spectrum of Opportunity Conference on Autism, Communication and Inclusion held at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California, October 2016. PRESENTATIONS • “Postsecondary transition experiences for students with autism and their families” with J. Kocur at the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, Bethesda, Maryland, July 2016. • “Thinking Beyond Students with Disabilities: Why Do Disability Frameworks Matter for Qualitative Researchers?” with K. Brown, E. Broido, L. Stapleton and N. Evans at the Association for the Study of Higher Education Conference, Columbus, Ohio, November 2016. • “Intersections of Autism, Race, and Class: A New Social Justice Agenda for Inclusive Leadership Practices” with M. Spence at the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities Conference, Clearwater Beach, Florida, January 2017. • “Autism in College: Creating a Spectrum of Opportunity” at the Spring 2017 Raines Colloquium held at Michigan State University, East Lansing, April 2017. PUBLICATIONS • “Autism, Inclusion and Communication in Higher Education” with B. Brennan. Developments, 3, November 2016. • “Exceptional faculty members who responsively teach students with autism spectrum disorders” with K. Austin. Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 30(1), 2017.

MICHAEL PANESIS Executive Director, Center for Entrepreneurship, School of Management

“Through programs such as the New Venture Competition and Hub101 internships, the Center for Entrepreneurship gives students opportunities to experience startup life for themselves while still in school.”

Chang-Shyh Peng, Ph.D., Professor, Computer Science APPOINTMENTS • Editor, Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF Journal on Operating Systems and Programming Languages). • Editorial Board Member, Italian Journal of Science and Engineering. • Reviewer, Springer Publishing. • Reviewer, Mathematics, a MDPI Journal. • Faculty Representative, National Center for Women & Information Technology Academic Alliance. • Liaison, Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance. • Program Committee, 14th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications. • Program Committee, 2016 IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing. • Program Committee, 2016 IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science. PRESENTATIONS • “Automated Drone Usage in Crime Scene Investigations” with student H. Bulmer at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research held at the University of California, Riverside, November 2016.

• “An Android Geofencing App for Autonomous Remote Switch Control” presentation at the 19th International Conference on Applied Computer Science and Engineering, Prague, Czech Republic, March 2017.

Moses Penumaka, Th.D., Director, Theological Education for Emerging Ministries (TEEM), Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary APPOINTMENTS • Organizer, Vesper Society Symposium on “Culture of Hate and Culture of Exclusion: Inter-faith Responses,” Berkeley, California, October 2016. • Candidacy Committee Member, Eastern Washington and Idaho Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. • Select Learning Board Member, ELCA. PRESENTATIONS • “Reformation and Theological Education in Asian Context” at the 9th Asian International Lutheran Conference, Medan, Indonesia, February 2017. • “Towards Inter-religious Spiritual Hospitality” at the Mira and Ajay Shingal Center for Dharma Studies and Graduate Theological Union Conference on “Towards Sustainable Societies: Inter-religious and Interdisciplinary Responses,” Berkeley, California, April 2017.

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BRYAN RASMUSSEN Associate Professor, English

“Mentoring students in research feels like being in a feedback loop of curiosity, in which we get to share in each other’s excitement of discovery. That first experience of curiosity is sustaining, both intellectually and emotionally, when the research questions inevitably get tough and the outcomes uncertain.”

Noelle Raffy, M.F.A., Assistant Professor, Theatre Arts

Karen Renick, Ph.D., Professor, Languages and Cultures

EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES • Costume Designer, Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias, Grand Arts Theatre, Los Angeles, California, October 2016. • Costume Designer, Garson Kanin’s Born Yesterday, Ocean State Theatre, Warwick, Rhode Island, January 2017. • Costume Designer, Straight Talk Wireless commercial, March 2017.

APPOINTMENTS • Editor-in-Chief, Pi Delta Phi (National French Honor Society) International Newsletter.

Eva Ramirez, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Languages and Cultures PRESENTATIONS • “El relato histórico desde la ficción. El caso de Efraín Calderón Lara en la novela Charras de Hernán Lara Zavala” at the 51st Conference of SCOLAS, the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies held at the Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, Mexico, March 2017.

Bryan Rasmussen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, English PUBLICATIONS • “Invertebrate Psychology before and after Darwin.” BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History, an extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, D.F. Felluga (Ed.), 2017.

Judith Richards, MBA, Lecturer, School of Management PRESENTATIONS • “MBA Education and Negotiation Competence: Examining the Impact of Experiential Learning on Negotiation SelfEfficacy” with V. Guerrero and students T. Vanwingerden, S. Dimaggio and T. Moorehead at the 2017 Marketing Educators Conference, San Diego, California, April 2017. • “Growing Perspective: Student and Faculty Outlook on Multimedia in the Classroom” with V. Guerrero, S. Fischbach and students T. Vanwingerden, S. Dimaggio, K. Rocha, J. Finnerty and T. Moorehead at the 2017 Marketing Educators Conference, San Diego, California, April 2017.

Linda Ritterbush, Ph.D., Professor, Geology PRESENTATIONS • “Hidden Hypostomes: How covert preservation in agnostoids increases information on the ventral mouthplate” with student M. A. Miguel at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, September 2016.

Diane Rodriguez-Kiino, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education PRESENTATIONS • “STEM Education in Japan: Examining the Pipeline for Female Leadership” at the Berkshire Conference on Women’s History, New York, New York, May 2017.

Theresa Rogers, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biology PUBLICATIONS • “Galactomannan catabolism conferred by a polysaccharide utilisation locus of Bacteroides ovatus: Enzyme synergy and crystal structure of a βß-mannanase” with V. Bågenholm, S.K. Reddy, et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 292, 2017.

Jean Kelso Sandlin, Ed.D., Associate Professor, Communication APPOINTMENTS • President, Public Relations Society of America, California Gold Coast Chapter. PRESENTATIONS • “The Sorry State of Social Media: Analyzing Public Apologies” with M. Gracyalny at the 20th Annual International Public Relations Research Conference, Orlando, Florida, March 2017.

Christine Sellin, Ph.D., Professor, Art APPOINTMENTS • Research Associate, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. • Editorial Board Member, Canadian Association for the Advancement of Netherlandic Studies. PRESENTATIONS • “Colophon to Sir Walter Raleigh’s Waerachtighe ende gronidghe beschryvinge van het groot ende Goud-rijck Coninckrijck van Guiana (Amsterdam, 1598)” with P.R. Sellin at the International Conference for Netherlandic Studies held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 2016.

Sumantra Sengupta, Ph.D., Lecturer, School of Management APPOINTMENTS • Board Member, Workforce Development Board of Ventura County.

Mary Jo Shane, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Management APPOINTMENTS • Co-organizer, International Center for Academic Integrity Southern California regional conference held at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, April 2017.

PUBLICATIONS • “Beyond baby steps: Today’s use of social networking sites and the nursing profession” with D. Hinmon. Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing, Vol. 30 Issue 3, July/ September 2016. • “Explaining ethics: Using the explainer genre to integrate ethics into advertising curricula.” Journal of Advertising Education, Vol. 20, Issue 1-2, Summer 2016.

PRESENTATIONS • “Using a Change Process Model in Academic Integrity” with L. Carson at the International Center for Academic Integrity Southern California Regional Conference held at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, April 2017. • “Academic Strategies for Integrating Resources with International Students” with L. Carson at the NAFSA Conference, Los Angeles, California, May 2017.

Lorynn Selby, Ed.D., Lecturer, Graduate School of Education

Ryan Sharma, Psy.D., Associate Professor, Graduate School of Psychology

Andrea Sell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Psychology

Melissa Spence, Ed.D., Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education

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PRESENTATIONS • “Intersections of Autism, Race, and Class: A New Social Justice Agenda for Inclusive Leadership Practices” with E. Peña at the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities Conference, Clearwater Beach, Florida, January 2017. • “Strategies to Promote Reading Comprehension in Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders” at the CalTASH Conference, San Diego, California, March 2017.

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PRESENTATIONS • “Cross-disciplinary undergraduate research: Tools for overcoming the challenges and maximizing the benefits” with G. Hanrahan at the New American Colleges and Universities Summer Institute on Undergraduate Research held at Manhattan College, Bronx, New York, June 2016. • “Source perception of student journalists’ professionalism” with K. Hettinga at the World Journalism Education Congress, Auckland, New Zealand, July 2016. • “Adaptive health behaviors: The relationship between the behavioral immune system and memory” with students C. Gregorio and G. Steffon at the Western Psychological Association Conference, Sacramento, California, April 2017. • “Memory errors in dangerous situations: The relationship between weapons focus error and beliefs in a dangerous world” with students T. Pasko, K. Gregg, G. Steffon, L. Rosales, S. Aviles, A. Albert and S. Jackson at the Western Psychological Association Conference, Sacramento, California, April 2017.

PUBLICATIONS • “Geographic Distribution of California Mental Health Professionals in Relation to Sociodemographic Characteristics” with R. Casas, N. Crawford and L. Mills. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, March 23, 2017.

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APPOINTMENTS • Board of Institutional Reviewers, California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

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PUBLICATIONS • “Instructional strategies for promoting reading comprehension in non-verbal students with autism spectrum disorders.” DADD Express, Vol. 28(2), Summer 2017, a publication of the Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities, a unit of the Council for Exceptional Children.

Harry Starn, M.S., Executive in Residence, School of Management

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PRESENTATIONS • “Creating an Integrated Cross-Disciplinary Course” at the CFP Board’s Registered Programs’ Conference, Washington, D.C., February 2017. PUBLICATIONS • How to Succeed at a Private College or University. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, November 2016.

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Walter Stewart, Ph.D., Professor, Languages and Cultures PUBLICATIONS • Book review of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy, trans. Margaret Kirby, Indianapolis: Focus/Hackett, 2015. Goethe Yearbook, Vol. 24, 2017.

Kirsi Stjerna, Ph.D., Professor, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary APPOINTMENTS • Co-chair, Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions group of the Academy of Religion. • Advisory Board Member, Dialog: A Journal of Theology. • Scientific Advisory Board Member, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII (FSCIRE), Bologna, Italy. • Advisory Board Member, Lutheran Quarterly. • Co-organizer, Spring Meeting of the American Church Historians’ Association and the Catholic Historical Association, Berkeley, California, April 2017.

KIRSI STJERNA Professor, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

“Learning is about inquiry, relationships, and empowerment. Mentoring fosters critical and constructive interaction that equips the student to follow their passion, keeps things real, and fuels the teacher’s imagination of the possibilities in the field.”

PRESENTATIONS • “Luther for the Future” keynote lecture at the Luther 500-Conference on Theology of Martin Luther, Melbourne, Australia, June 2016. • “Women and the Reformation” and “Large Catechism and Luther’s Freedom Theology” at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Grace Gathering, Freed & Renewed in Christ, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 2016. • “Luther for the Future” at the Northern Rockies Institute of Theology: Luther Lectures, Chico, Montana, September 2016. • “Episcopacy: 1) From Early to Medieval Church. 2) From the Reformation to Modern Day” at the Eastern Washington and Idaho Synod Bishop’s Convocation, Walla Walla, Washington, October 2016. • “Reformation Revisited and Ongoing,” “Reformation and Women,” and “Luther for the Future” at the Sierra Pacific Synod Pastoral Leaders’ Conference, Lake Tahoe, California, October 2016. • “Reformation Theology in the Hands of Argula von Grumbach” at the Stanford Primary Source Symposium held at the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, November 2016.

• “Luther’s Theses and Freedom Theology” at the Pacific Coast Theological Society, Berkeley, California, February 2017. • “Reformation in Finland: Commitments to Education, Welfare, and Culture” at the Nordic Spirit Symposium “All Power is of God. Reform in Sweden and Finland,” Thousand Oaks, California, February 2017. • “Luther for Today, Freedom Theology,” “Luther’s Core Theological Insight - Dancing with Law and Gospel,” and “Luther and the Reformation Mothers” at the FartsrupMortonsen Lectures, Solvang, California, February 2017. • “Luther for the Future” and “Gender and the Reformation” at the Westar Institute of Theology, Santa Rosa, California, March 2017. • “Gender and Luther” at the Luther and the Subaltern Symposium held at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, California, March 2017. • “Women and the Reformation” at Concordia Lutheran University, Austin, Texas, April 2017. • “Catholic Women and the Reformation” and “Reformation and the Body” at the American Church Historians’ Association and Catholic Historical Association Spring Meeting, Berkeley, California, April 2017. • “Lutheran Perspectives” ecumenical panel on women’s ordination held at the Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, California, April 2017. • “Mothers of Faith, Women and the Reformation” at the Society of the Holy Trinity Spring Retreat, St. Benedict, Oregon, May 2017. • “The Reformation Call for Freedom – and Freedom in 2017” at the Concordia Seminary and McGill University “Reformation and the City” Conference, Montreal, Canada, May 2017. • “Dashed Hopes and Dark Sides of Luther’s Reformation” at the Theological Seminary Saskatoon Annual Study Conference, Saskatoon, Canada, May 2017.

Russell Stockard, Jr., Ph.D., Professor, Communication PRESENTATIONS • “Discourse about the Internet after the Restoration of U.S.Cuba Ties” at the Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 2016. • “Discourse about African Americans, race and Cuba after normalized U.S.-Cuba diplomatic ties: Implications for Black Studies” at the Association of Latin American and African American Research Conference, Willemstad, Curacao, August 2016. • “Talking the (White) City in the Neoliberal World Order: Gentrification Discourse in New Orleans” at the American Association of Geographers Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, April 2017.

Anita Stone, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biology APPOINTMENTS • Editorial Board Member, Neotropical Primates. • Reviewer, American Journal of Primatology. • Reviewer, Primates. • Reviewer, PLOS ONE. PUBLICATIONS • “Collins’ squirrel monkey” with J.S. Silva Junior. All the World’s Primates, N. Rowe and M. Myers (Eds.). Charlestown: Pogonias Press, 2016. • “First assessment of helminth parasites in wild squirrel monkeys (Saimiri collinsi) in northeastern Pará State, Brazil” with D.F. Conga. Neotropical Primates, Vol. 23, 2017. • “Reproductive status affects the feeding ecology and social association patterns of female squirrel monkeys (Saimiri collinsi) in an Amazonian rainforest” with L.P. Ruivo and M. Fienup. American Journal of Primatology, March 2017. • “The Cebids.” International Encyclopedia of Primatology, A. Fuentes (Ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.

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Victor Thasiah, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Religion APPOINTMENTS • Reviewer, Yale University Press. • Co-founder and Steering Committee Member, Ventura County Democratic Socialists of America.

PUBLICATIONS • “Religion, Forestry, and Democracy in Rwanda after Genocide.” Eco-Reformation: Grace and Hope for a Planet in Peril, L. Dahill and J. Martin-Schramm (Eds.). Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2016.

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PRESENTATIONS • “Gentrification as Structural Violence” at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s National Network of Community Organizers Conference, Portland, Oregon, September 2016.

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PUBLICATIONS • “Introduction.” Encounters with Luther: New Directions for Critical Studies. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, Fall 2016. Co-editor with B. Schramm. • “That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew.” The Annotated Luther: Word and Faith, Volume 5. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2017. General editor with H. Hillerbrand and T. Wengert, of the six-volume series. • The Large Catechism of Dr. Martin Luther, 1529: The Annotated Luther, Study Edition, from the Annotated Luther. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2016. General editor with H. Hillerbrand and T. Wengert, of the six-volume series. • “Baptism.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther, D. Nelson, et al. (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Spring 2017. • “Current Questions with Gender in Reformation Research.” Suomen Kirkkohistorian Seura: A Reformation Anniversary Book. Kirjapaja, 2017. • “Naiset ja Reformaatio.” Juhlakirja. Aikapaja, Spring 2017. [Women and the Reformation. An Anniversary Book. Published in Finland.] • “Eine Prophetin, eine Verlegerin, und eine Schriftstellerin: Ursula Jost, Margaretha Prüss und Marie Dentière.” “Hör nicht auf zu singen” Zeuginnen der Schweizer Reformation. S. Scheuter and R. Giselbrecht (Eds.). TSZ, Spring 2017.

• “Women and the Reformation.” Reformation 500, Sourcebook. Augsburg Press, Fall 2016. • “Katharina Luther.” Together by Grace: Introducing Lutherans, R. Farlee and K. Kleinhans (Eds.). Augsburg Press, Fall 2016.

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“I always learn from and alongside the students I mentor in research and other projects—and that makes me a stronger teacher. We create and problem-solve together, and the projects and outcomes

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Sam Thomas, Ph.D., Professor, Religion APPOINTMENTS • ARC-USA (Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches) national religious scholars dialogue team. • Review Editor, Early Judaism, Marginalia Review of Books. • Editorial Board Member, Society of Biblical Literature Bible Odyssey Project. • Board Member, Los Padres ForestWatch. • Founding Board Member and Secretary, Slow Food Ventura County. PRESENTATIONS • “A Biblical Ethic of Attention” at the 34th Annual Spiritual Life Institute held at St. Martin’s University, Lacey, Washington, July 2016. • “Theological Anthropology in the Anthropocene” at the 34th Annual Spiritual Life Institute held at St. Martin’s University, Lacey, Washington, July 2016. • “Watershed Discipleship and the Bioregional Economy” at the 34th Annual Spiritual Life Institute held at St. Martin’s University, Lacey, Washington, July 2016. • “Indigenous Lifeways, Environmentalism, and Cultural Appropriation” at the 34th Annual Spiritual Life Institute held at St. Martin’s University, Lacey, Washington, July 2016. • “Interfaith Cooperation and Environmental Justice” at the 34th Annual Spiritual Life Institute held at St. Martin’s University, Lacey, Washington, July 2016.

Nathan Tierney, Ph.D., Professor, Philosophy APPOINTMENTS • Director, Stoner Clark Lectures: hosted Paul Thompson lectures, February 2017.

PRESENTATIONS • “Ethical Decision Making” at the Ventura County Office of Education, California Professional Standards of Educational Leaders Meeting, Ventura, California, March 2017.

Daniel Tillapaugh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education AWARDS • The American College Personnel Association–College Student Educators International Annuit Coeptis Emerging Professional Award. • ACPA Coalition on Men and Masculinities Harry Cannon Outstanding Professional Award. • ACPA Association-Wide Coalition Advocate Award. • 2016-2018 ACPA-College Student Educators International Emerging Scholar. APPOINTMENTS • Leadership Specialist, Hazing Prevention Consortium, StopHazing.org. • Past-Chair, Coalition on Men and Masculinities, ACPACollege Student Educators International. • Advisory Board Member, Center for the Study on Masculinities and Men’s Development. • Reviewer, Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice. • Reviewer, Journal on Critical Scholarship in Higher Education and Student Affairs. • Associate Editor for Series, Developments. PRESENTATIONS • “Diverse Perspectives and Critical Approaches to Sexual Violence on Campus” with J. Harris, C. Linder, S. Iverson and J. Garvey at the Association for the Study of

Higher Education Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio, November 2016. • “Critical influences affecting the experiences of public university LGBT services graduate assistants” with C. Catalano at the ACPA–College Student Educators International Convention, Columbus, Ohio, March 2017. • “Critical perspectives on gender and student leadership” with S. Komives, H. Shea and C. Beatty at the ACPA– College Student Educators International Convention, Columbus, Ohio, March 2017. • “Critical perspectives on gender and student leadership” with P. Haber-Curran, K. Guthrie and C. Beatty at the NASPA–Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Conference, San Antonio, Texas, March 2017. PUBLICATIONS • “College Men’s Perceptions of Their Leadership Practice: Unpacking Power and Influence” with P. Haber-Curran. Journal of Leadership Education, 15(3), 2016. • “Resisting Erasure: Critical Influences for Men Who Survived Sexual Violence in Higher Education.” Social Alternatives, 35(3), 2016. • “Critical perspectives on gender and student leadership” with P. Haber-Curran. New Directions for Student Leadership, No. 154. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2017.

Janice Tucker, Ed.D., Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education PRESENTATIONS • “The Challenges of Working with English Language Learners in Secondary Mainstream Classroom” with C. Cervera at the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies (NAAAS), Dallas, Texas, February 2017.

Jennifer Twyford, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Psychology

APPOINTMENTS • Advisory Board Member, Extended Opportunity Programs and Services, Pierce College and Oxnard College.

PRESENTATIONS • “Talent status awareness: An alternative perspective” with V. Khoreva at the Academy of Management Annual Conference, Anaheim, California, August 2016. • Co-organizer and presenter of the International Symposium on “Exploring Meaningful Solutions to Real Business Talent Challenges” at the Academy of Management Annual Conference, Anaheim, California, August 2016. • “Global Talent Management Challenges: Home and Abroad” at the 2016 California Human Resources Conference, Long Beach, California, August 2016. • “Macro-perspective on global talent management: Application in the Russian context with a view to learn” with O. Kuznetsova and N. Holden at the 5th Annual EIASM Workshop on Talent Management, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2016. PUBLICATIONS • “Talent Management Practice Effectiveness: Investigating Employee Perspective” with V. Khoreva and M. Van Zalk. Employee Relations, Vol. 39(1), 2016.

Alicia Vargas, Ph.D., Dean, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary APPOINTMENTS • Member, Association of Theological Schools Research Advisory Committee. • Member, Association of Hispanic/Latin@ Presidents and Deans of ATS schools. PUBLICATIONS • “‘No Longer Jew or Greek’: Multiculturalism Has Pauline Roots.” Together by Grace: Introducing the Lutherans, K.A. Kleinhans (Ed.). Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2016. • Commentaries: “Galatians 2:15-21,” “Galatians 3:2329,” “Galatians 5:1, 13-25,” and “Galatians 6:[1-6] 7-16.” WorkingPreacher.org, June/July, 2016.

Paloma Vargas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biology PRESENTATIONS • “Counseling and Creating a Culture of Care” with C. Duarte, E. Jaloma, M. Maxwell-Doherty and student C. Bustillos at the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities’ Moving Forward: Empowering our Communities Symposium held at Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, March 2017.

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Gail Uellendahl, Ph.D., Professor, Graduate School of Education

APPOINTMENTS • Editor, Talent Management book series, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. • Scientific Committee Member, International Network of Business and Management Journals. • Executive Committee Member, Ventura County Economic Development Agency. • Steering Committee Member, City of Thousand Oaks Vision 2064.

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PRESENTATIONS • “Screening Latina/o Students with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire” with students L. Buckley, K. Moffa and E. Dowdy at the National Association of School Psychologists Convention, San Antonio, Texas, February 2017.

Vlad Vaiman, Ph.D., Professor, School of Management

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APPOINTMENTS • Board Member, Boys and Girls Club of Oxnard and Port Hueneme. • Editorial Board Member, Journal of School Violence. • Editorial Board Member, Contemporary School Psychologist. • Reviewer, Psychological Sciences Journal. • Reviewer, Youth and Society. • Principal Investigator, School Violence Prevention Project, Ventura County Special Education Local Plan Area. • Co-principal Investigator, Safe Passage Project Evaluation, Thousand Oaks Police Department, Conejo Recreation and Parks District and Conejo Valley Unified School District.

• Inaugural Member, California Association of School Counselors Emeritus Committee.

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PALOMA VARGAS Assistant Professor, Biology

“I really believe participating in research gives students the hands-on experience needed to grow personally and professionally beyond academics. Having a student in my lab has made me appreciate the ‘simple’ tasks in lab more. They are in fact not simple, my student reminds me of that and makes me more conscious of explanations I provide.”

PUBLICATIONS • “The Student Center for Science Engagement (SCSE): An Urban Hispanic Serving Institution Model of Achievement for STEM Undergraduate Recruitment and Retention” with T. Simeon, et al. 9th Annual Mentoring Conference Proceedings: Developmental Networks: The Power of Mentoring and Coaching, N. Dominguez & D. Alexander (Eds.). University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2016.

Leslie Veen, D.Min., Director of Contextual Education, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary APPOINTMENTS • Editorial Board Member, Reflective Practice Journal. • Convener, ELCA Seminaries’ Contextual Education Conference. • Chair, Committee on Preparation for Ministry for the Presbytery of San Francisco. • Executive Committee Member and Chair of the Nominating Committee, YWCA of Berkeley/Oakland.

PUBLICATIONS • Book Review of Enriching Ministry: Pastoral Supervision in Practice, M. Paterson and J. Rose (Eds.), London: SCM Press, 2014. Reflective Practice Journal, Vol. 37, 2017.

John Villalpando, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mathematics PRESENTATIONS • “Trees for Given Values of the Span, Caps and Icaps of L(2,1)-Colorings” at the Joint Mathematics Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2017. PUBLICATIONS • “Development of Actigraph GT1M Accelerometer cut-points for young children aged 12-36 months” with L. Kelly, B. Carney, S. Wendt, R. Haas, B.J. Ranieri and T.K. Berg. Journal of Athletic Enhancement, Vol. 5(4), 2016. • “Trees for given values of the span, caps, and icaps for L(2,1)-colorings” with V. Coufal, K. Fogel, A. Higgins, W. Higgins, R. Ray and K. Yerion. Congresses Numerantium, 227, 2016.

Timothy Weaver, MBA, Lecturer, Business APPOINTMENTS • Director, Community Leaders Association, California Lutheran University. • President-elect, Thousand Oaks Rotary.

Tymika Wesley, Ed.D., Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education APPOINTMENTS • Advisory Board Member, California Reading and Literature Project.

Sheridan Wigginton, Ph.D., Professor, Languages and Cultures PRESENTATIONS • “Education and Racial Identity: Textbooks and Blackness in the Dominican Republic” at the Advancing Latino Academic Success (ALAS) Lecture Series held at Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, California, January 2017.

Colleen Windham-Hughes, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Religion APPOINTMENTS • Chair, Order of Deacons, California-Pacific Annual Conference, United Methodist Church. PRESENTATIONS • “Family of Faith” at the Pacifica Synod Women’s Retreat, Los Alamitos, California, November 2016. • “In Hope of Full Communion” at the National Workshop on Christian Unity, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2017.

Joan Wines, Ph.D., Professor, English PRESENTATIONS • “Distancing the Homeland: Huxley’s 1961 Summer Diary” at the International Huxley Symposium held at the Universidad de Almeria, Almeria, Spain, March 2017.

PRESENTATIONS • “Collective effervescence: Belongingness based on participating in large groups” with S. Gabriel, J. Valenti and K. Gainy at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, San Antonio, Texas, January 2017. • “So you’re interested in a teaching-focused academic job, now what?” with S.P. Lupien, S.E. Branch, et al. at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, San Antonio, Texas, January 2017. • “Teaching and supporting non-traditional students” at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, San Antonio, Texas, January 2017. • “Examining the relationship between binge-watching and psychological well-being” with student M. Nelson at the Western Psychological Association Conference, Sacramento, California, April 2017. • “The effects of celebrity crushes on romantic relationship outcomes” with students M. Freeman, B. Mena, M. Nelson, R. Ramirez and K. Sigler at the Western Psychological Association Conference, Sacramento, California, April 2017. PUBLICATIONS • “Let’s stay home and watch TV: The benefits of shared media use for close relationships” with S.C. Gomillion, S. Gabriel and K. Kawakami. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, July 26, 2016. • “Social surrogate use in those exposed to trauma: I get by with a little help from my (fictional) friends” with S. Gabriel, J.P. Read, R.L. Bachrach and J.D. Troisi. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 36(1), 2017. • “The psychological importance of collective assembly: Development and validation of the Tendency for Effervescent Assembly Measure (TEAM)” with S. Gabriel, J. Valenti and K. Naragon-Gainey. Psychological Assessment, March 6, 2017.

Paul Witman, Ph.D., Professor, School of Management

Ariana Young, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Psychology APPOINTMENTS • Editorial Board Member, Self and Identity. • Reviewer, Journal of Integrated Social Sciences. • Reviewer, Body Image.

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APPOINTMENTS • Sociology Main Divisional Editor, Journal of Integrated Social Sciences.

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Akiko Yasuike, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Sociology

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PRESENTATIONS • “Providing a Clear Path for Future Leaders” at the Southern California CIO Executive Summit, Los Angeles, California, June 2016. • “Social Inclusion across Information Systems Specializations” with V. Ilie, C. Njunge, et al. at the Americas Conference on Information Systems, San Diego, California, August 2016.

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GRANTS AND CONTRACTS Center for Economic Research and Forecasting (CERF) Consulting Projects

Matthew Fienup, M.A., Lecturer, School of Management Dan Hamilton, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Management • $15,000 contract from the Southern California Association of Governments for economic outlook consulting. • $5,000 contract from Dole Packaged Foods Company for a water study. • $4,450 contract from participants in the CERF Water Market Pilot for the Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency.

Other Program Grants and Contracts

David Marcey, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Professor of Developmental Biology Kelly Owens, Ph.D., Director of Sponsored Research and Projects Diane Rodriguez-Kiino, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education Matthew Ward, Ph.D., Vice President for Enrollment Management and Marketing • $4,628,340 HSI STEM grant from the U.S. Department of Education to develop new programs and resources intended to increase retention of Hispanic and low-income students in STEM majors.

Grady Hanrahan, Ph.D., Professor, Chemistry, and Associate Provost of Experiential Learning, Research and Faculty Development Michael Hillis, Ph.D., Dean, Graduate School of Education Michael McCambridge, Ed.D., Professor, Graduate School of Education • $1,455,684 Title III grant from the U.S. Department of Education, in partnership with Oxnard College, to support the preparation of STEM educators.

Gerhard Apfelthaler, Ph.D., Dean, School of Management Vlad Vaiman, Ph.D., Professor, School of Management • $2,500 grant from the Community Leaders Association to run “Start-Up Kids,” an entrepreneurship program at the elementary school level.

Jamie Banker, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Graduate School of Psychology Bethany Simmons, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Psychology • $1,000 grant from the Community Leaders Association to support two research groups: a firefighter family study and a sleep circle study for women ages 18-94 suffering from insomnia.

Scott Chien-Hsiung Chiu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, English • $1,000 grant from the Community Leaders Association to serve Cal Lutheran Latino employees and senior residents from University Village and celebrate their stories in writing by hosting writing workshops and reading receptions. • $1,800 grant from the Community Leaders Association for scholarships to support underprivileged and low-income children from the local community to participate in the Cal Lutheran Summer Youth Writing Camp.

Brian Collins, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Philosophy • $1,500 grant from the Community Leaders Association to help start an annual summer philosophy camp for local high school students.

Jamshid Damooei, Ph.D., Professor, School of Management Kelly Owens, Ph.D., Director of Sponsored Research and Projects • $12,000 grant from the Charles Koch Foundation to fund a speaker series as part of the Gallegly Center for Public Service and Civic Engagement.

Jamshid Damooei, Ph.D., Professor, School of Management • $20,000 contract from the Ventura County Civic Alliance for a 2017 State of the Region Report for Ventura County.

Sarah Fischbach, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Management • $1,000 grant from the Community Leaders Association for a poster session at the Southern California Regional Consortium of the Center for Academic Integrity 2017 Conference.

Michael Gerson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Graduate School of Psychology • $500 grant from the Community Leaders Association to purchase an additional workstation license for the software to carry out additional research projects with special needs populations such as autistic spectrum young adults.

Veronica Guerrero, Ed.D., Associate Professor, School of Management • $500 Grant from the Community Leaders Association for use in a Non-Profit Leadership class.

Timothy Hengst, M.A., Professor, Multimedia • $28,200 grant from the Conejo Valley Unified School District for Kingsmen Shakespeare Company “Shakespeare Educational Tours” in local schools. • $5,500 grant from the City of Thousand Oaks Community Event Endowment Fund for the Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival. • $1,500 grant from the City of Westlake Village for the Shakespeare Educational Tour.

Kirstie Hettinga, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Communication • $2,000 grant from the Page and Johnson Legacy Scholar competition for a project with Dr. Alyssa Appelman (Northern Kentucky University) on “Errors and Corrections in Digital News Content.”

Richard Holigrocki, Ph.D., Dean, Graduate School of Psychology • $5,000 grant from the Foundation of Ventura County Credit Union for development of a Cal Lutheran Community Counseling Services Assistance Fund Program to offer sessions at a reduced cost to community behavioral health clients in Ventura County.

to increase competence of Ventura County middle school science teachers to teach science consistent with Next Generation Science Standards.

Nancy Myers, M.A., Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Education • $75,395 annual grant from No Child Left Behind (U.S. Department of Education) and California Subject Matter Projects (California Department of Education) for the California Reading and Literature Project for 2017 – 2020.

Mary Oksala, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Physics • $2,000 grant from the Community Leaders Association to update the equipment in the Physics Department for practical laboratory exercises in astronomy.

Michael Panesis, MBA, Executive Director, Center for Entrepreneurship, School of Management • $10,000 grant from U.S. Department of Agriculture to sponsor the Hacks4Health Hackathon on Health and Nutrition at Hub101 in September 2016. • $1,000 grant from the Community Leaders Association for the 2017 Entrepreneur Speaker Series. • $1,000 grant from the Community Leaders Association for the 2017 New Venture Competition.

Edlyn Vallejo Peña, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education

• $1,800 Community Service Grant from the City of Westlake Village for the Community Counseling Services Assistance Fund Program to enable children, adults, couples and families in the City of Westlake Village to receive counseling services at a reduced fee or free.

• $63,616 grant from the Disability and Communication Fund to fund a one-year research project to examine the extent to which a brain-computer interface can be used by people with limited speech for communication purposes.

• $1,500 Community Service Grant from the City of Westlake Village to sponsor the Cal Lutheran “Intimate Partner Violence: Contemporary Theory and Clinical Interventions” conference.

Moses Penumaka, Th.D., Director, Theological Education for Emerging Ministries (TEEM), Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

Maura Martindale, Ed.D., Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education

• $60,000 grant from Amgen for the NGSS Circles Program: A professional development program intended

Victor Thasiah, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Religion • $40,000 Sabbatical Grant for Researchers Award from the Louisville Institute for work on “Christianity and Community Organizing.”

Sam Thomas, Ph.D., Professor, Religion • $1,500 grant from the Community Leaders Association to construct an outdoor Teaching Kitchen at the SEEd Garden.

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Michael McCambridge, Ed.D., Professor, Graduate School of Education Kelly Owens, Ph.D., Director of Sponsored Research and Projects

• $600 grant from the Community Leaders Association to purchase assessment materials used by doctoral students in external practicums.

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• $2,500 grant from the Community Leaders Association for candidates in the Cal Lutheran Deaf and Hard of Hearing Credential Program to participate at No Limits for Deaf Children in Oxnard so they interact directly with families from Latino heritage homes, thus increasing their cultural competence.

Ryan Sharma, Psy.D., Associate Professor, Graduate School of Psychology

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• $8,000 contract from the Economic Development Collaborative to develop the research framework for using gross revenue per employee data for identifying firms at risk of worker layoffs.

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Kirk Lesh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Management

• $4,950 grant from The Margaret Neusom Suiter Memorial Fund-InFaith Community Foundation to support the Theological Education for Emerging Ministries (TEEM) students serving Hispanic congregations.

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