At the Leading Edge 2022-2023

AT THE LEADING EDGE

The Work of Our Faculty

LEADING EDGE AT THE

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.

Leanne Neilson

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

This edition of At the Leading Edge is an opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of Cal Lutheran faculty from June 2022 through May 2023. It includes conference presentations, journal articles, books, grants, exhibitions, performances, creative projects, awards and appointments.

As we focus on issues of social justice at Cal Lutheran, many of our faculty members directed their scholarship toward underrepresented groups. Some examples of this from the past year include:

• Sofia Ramirez Davis (Learning and Teaching) presented “Transitioning Deaf/Hard of Hearing Students from High School to Adulthood” at the No Limits for Deaf Children and Families Building Connections Three Day Parent Workshop.

• Cynthia Duarte (Sociology) published “Beyond Symbolic Ethnicity: Strategic Ethnicity and the Negotiation of Identity among Third-plus Generation Mexican Americans in Los Angeles” in Interdisciplinary Humanities: Latinx Identities.

• Matthew Fienup and Dan Hamilton (Center for Economic Research and Forecasting) presented Metro-level Latino GDP Reports for 10 separate regions: Dallas, Miami, Chicago, Inland Empire, New Jersey, New York, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Silicon Valley and Charlotte with the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health & Culture.

• Greg Freeland (Political Science) published Music and Black Community in Segregated North Carolina: “It’s all right...”

• Emma Hooper (Graduate School of Psychology) published “White and Black parents’ emotion coaching beliefs: Differential associations with preschooler’s behavioral problem tendencies” in the Journal of Family Psychology.

• Jodie Kocur (Psychology) presented with students “Continued Development of an Online College Transition Program for High School Students on the Autism Spectrum” at the Western Psychological Association Annual Convention.

• LaVerne Seales (Languages and Cultures) presented “Emerging Voices in the African Diaspora: The (Re)Presentation of African Identity and Negritude in Panama” at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference.

• Adrijana Sekulovic (School of Management) presented “Exploring Black and African American sport workers’ experiences of racism in sporting space and field” at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference.

• Russell Stockard (Communication) presented “Climate and Environmental Communication and Race and Ethnicity in the U.S., the Caribbean, and Latin America” at the Caribbean Studies Association Conference.

• Daniel Tillapaugh (Counselor Education) presented “‘More than Lip Service’: LGBTQ+ Social Justice Educational Interventions as Institutional Benign Neglect” at the Association for the Study of Higher Education Annual Conference.

• Jose Torres (Bachelor’s Degree for Professionals) presented “The Impact of the U.S. Crimmigration System on Salvadoran Fathers in the United States and in El Salvador” at the American Society of Criminology Annual Conference.

• Dominique Vargas (English) presented “Latinidad and Indigeneity: Racial Identity in Process” at Berry College in Georgia.

The quality of work by Cal Lutheran faculty members, from theater and music performances, to artistic exhibitions, to an array of conference presentations and journal articles, continues to be impressive. I invite you to read through this booklet to see for yourself the range of successes achieved by Cal Lutheran’s faculty in 2022-2023.

Leanne Neilson, PsyD Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

2023 President’s Award for Teaching Excellence

Michael Gagliardo, PhD

BS, Southwestern University

MA, PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Michael Gagliardo, professor of mathematics, received the 2023 President’s Award for Teaching Excellence. The award was created in 1995 to recognize professors who are held in high esteem by their peers, students and the rest of the university community.

In nominating Gagliardo for this award, a colleague wrote, “Above all, he is truly committed to constantly improving the effectiveness and academic quality of his courses by fearlessly searching [for] and implementing some of the newest teaching methods at the forefront of mathematics educational research.”

Always looking for new ways to teach complex concepts to his students, Gagliardo recently started using the Inquiry-Oriented Linear Algebra (IOLA) teaching method in his upper-division linear algebra course. IOLA focuses on developing student materials composed of challenging and coherent task sequences that facilitate an inquiry-oriented approach to the teaching and learning of linear algebra. Students work on activities that use the concepts of linear algebra before they are defined. When it is time to define the terms, the definitions seem obvious because the students have been using the ideas to solve problems.

“Whether he is traveling to Spain with Dr. Fiore Urízar and students as part of the Mathematics, Architecture and Detective Fiction seminar; participating in countless Center for Teaching and Learning workshops; using a flipped classroom technique and drawing from InquiryOriented Linear Algebra; or advising the Mathematics Club or Student Life Committee, Dr. Gagliardo’s passion for teaching, mathematics and student engagement is obvious,” Cal Lutheran President Lori E. Varlotta said in presenting the award.

When accepting the award, Gagliardo told students, “As faculty, not only are we preparing you for the questions of today, we are preparing you for the unknown questions over the next five, 10, 20 years. Many of us do this by asking you to work on questions or problems that are messy or open. We ask you to think about concepts where the path to the solution has not been laid out in front of you, but instead, left for you to discover. Not only do we ask you to do this in your major, but in other disciplines as well. This relates to one of the core ideas of the liberal arts university: that a math major, through the guidance of faculty, can benefit from learning about the other sciences, the humanities, the social sciences, art, theater and music. As faculty, we hope that you recognize value in what you are learning, but sometimes it takes new challenges to help you see that.”

PROVOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARDS

The Provost Distinguished Scholar Award was developed to further the building of a community of scholars at Cal Lutheran. Each year the award is granted to two faculty members, one undergraduate faculty and one graduate faculty, who have demonstrated significant achievement in research or creative work. The award is funded by a gift from the estate of Pamela M. Jolicoeur, who was provost at Cal Lutheran from 1993 to 2004.

Michael Cosenza, EdD Professor, Graduate School of Education

Michael Cosenza has been an active and consistent scholar for many years as a leading voice in the teacher preparation residency program model known as Professional Development Schools (PDS). Since 2018, Cosenza has been a co-editor of one book and co-author of a second about the model; written seven articles and eight chapters; and given multiple national, state and local presentations. At Cal Lutheran, Cosenza has established a network of PDS schools that serve our teacher education candidates. The PDS program at Cal Lutheran was recognized in 2021 as an exemplary partnership by the National Association for Professional Development Schools and in 2020 by the California Association of School-University Partnerships.

Cosenza serves as the principal investigator and program director for the TEAMS (Teacher Experiences Advancing Mathematics and the Sciences) project, which was funded in January 2023 by a grant of up to $1.2 million over five years from the National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. This project encourages STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) majors and STEM professionals to pursue careers in K-12 teaching, especially in high-need school districts.

“We know from the districts we work with in Ventura County that there is a high need for math and science teachers,” Cosenza said. “We’re hoping to help students understand why teaching has benefits even though it might not compete financially with other career options.”

Cosenza’s new book, being published in summer 2023, presents case studies of eight universities and their partner schools that are successful in developing and sustaining P-12 school-university partnerships.

Anita Stone, PhD Associate Professor, Biology

A native of Brazil, Anita Stone is a behavioral ecologist specializing in Neotropical primates. Her field research takes place in eastern Amazonia, where she has studied the same population of squirrel monkeys since 2000. Stone is interested in primate life histories, social behavior and sexual selection, and actively integrates undergraduate students into her fieldwork.

“I am a teacher-scholar, and my research is intimately tied to my teaching,” Stone said. She uses a model in which students join her lab group for three semesters, during which they are involved in every step of the research process, from the development of their research question and hypotheses, to study design, proposal writing, data collection and analysis, and presentation of their findings. Stone often recruits research students from historically underserved communities in STEM. In the past three years, Stone has co-authored one peer-reviewed article and three poster presentations with her research students as first authors.

A colleague wrote, “Research with Dr. Stone provides a unique, often life-changing experience for students, both academically (the research experience itself) and culturally. While conducting their research, students spend eight weeks immersed in a remote village in Amazonian Brazil, living with a host family and interacting with the local community. This experience develops their emotional maturity, flexibility, independence and cultural competence.”

In 2022, Stone received Cal Lutheran’s largest National Science Foundation grant to date, $307,486, to study sexual selection in Brazilian squirrel monkeys. Stone and nine undergraduate students will spend three summers studying sexually selected traits and behaviors in the Saimiri collinsi species living in the eastern Amazonia forest.

FACULTY AWARDS

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Dean’s Award for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice

Cynthia Duarte, PhD

Assistant Professor, Sociology

Cynthia Duarte received the Dean’s Award for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice, for co-founding the DREAMers Ally Training Program to support undocumented students. Duarte, Assistant Professor and director of the Sarah W. Heath Center for Equality and Justice, identified a need on our campus to train faculty and staff about the experiences and support needed for DREAMer students. Now, as you walk around campus, you can see the butterfly stickers, a physical representation of all those who have participated in the training. The ideas imbedded in the program have created an even more inclusive Cal Lutheran community.

Dean’s Award for Innovation in Pedagogy

Kirstie Hettinga, PhD

Associate Professor, Communication

Kirstie Hettinga received the Dean’s Award for Innovation in Pedagogy. As the faculty adviser for The Echo, Cal Lutheran’s award-winning student newspaper, Hettinga helps educate the next generation of media professionals. The Dean’s Award for Innovation in Pedagogy recognizes her efforts to keep her classes current and prepare students for a changing media landscape. Specifically, she revised a course to include investigative reporting, data-driven journalism and solutions journalism, and invited top-notch journalists to demonstrate their use. A student wrote, “This course taught me so much, not just about journalism but about teamwork, social skills, proofreading, giving, and applying feedback, etc.”

Dean’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Work

Mahmoud Salimi, MFA

Assistant Professor, Film and Television

Mahmoud Salimi received the Dean’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Work. During the past few years, Professor Salimi’s films and screenplays have been selected for inclusion in over 50 film festivals and have won several awards including a writer’s residency award, best short film award, two best short screenplay awards and a feature length screenplay award. In addition to these wins, he has been nominated for eight awards in several categories. Salimi’s excellent creative work continues, as he currently has two films, a documentary and short drama in post-production, and is completing two screenplays.

Nathan Carlson, PhD

Professor, Mathematics

Nate Carlson received the Dean’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Work. Carlson’s research in set-theoretic topology is recognized internationally, with recent presentations in the Czech Republic, Italy, and Hungary. Within the past two years Carlson has had seven papers accepted for publication and three more under review. He has collaborators from around the country and the world, including those in Sicily with whom he has received grants to conduct research. Carlson’s work influences the approach he takes in the classroom with upper division material and collaborations with undergraduate research students.

Dean’s Award for Service

Julie Kuehnel, PhD

Professor, Psychology

Julie Kuehnel received the Dean’s Award for Service. In her role as the faculty Regent representative this year, Kuehnel served on the Faculty Senate Executive Committee and advocated for the faculty with the Board of Regents. Throughout her 43-year tenure at Cal Lutheran, Kuehnel has shown a strong commitment to the university. Among her many contributions, Kuehnel started the First Year Seminar, implemented the first assessment plan as associate provost, and revised the Faculty Handbook. In the Social and Behavioral Sciences, she has administered the Culver grants since their inception and served as the Psychology Department chair for many years.

Delil Martinez, PhD

Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Delil Martinez received the Dean’s Award for Service. Martinez is the chair of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and co-chairs the Faculty Learning Circles branch of Project CHESS, a collaborative project of California Lutheran University and Moorpark College that aims to offer faculty the support, tools, and a community to adjust course offerings to make them more inclusive, equitable, and culturally relevant. In the classroom, Martinez is reimagining how statistics is taught within the Mathematics Department. Her time, effort and leadership are appreciated.

Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Mentoring

Megan Fung, PhD

Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Megan Fung received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring. Fung has over 30 mentees in both the environmental sciences and geosciences majors. She teaches the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department capstone course which prepares students for careers and graduate programs. Through the Office for Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship, Fung mentors research students in the ALLIES in STEM and Swenson Summer Research Programs. Fung oversees students who work in the SEEd Garden and as departmental assistants. She also serves as the Faculty Advisor for the Earth Society Club and the Pacific Northwest Club on campus.

Travis Peterson, PhD

Assistant Professor, Exercise Science

Travis Peterson received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring. Peterson has mentored in many programs across the university including the STEM Academy, the ALLIES in STEM Program, and the Swenson Summer Research Program. He always is available for students, and they appreciate his supportive nature and positive attitude. Students who have been mentored by Peterson have been admitted to prestigious graduate programs, presented at professional conferences and published papers in peer-reviewed journals. Peterson also serves as the director of First Year Experience, faculty advisor for the Swimming and Diving Program and faculty mentor to the Exercise Science Club.

FACULTY AWARDS

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Scholarship Award

Trudy Arriaga, EdD

Associate Dean of Equity and Outreach and Program Director for the MA in Educational Leadership, Oxnard and Main Campus

Trudy Arriaga received the Graduate School of Education’s award for scholarship. During the last year, Arriaga has given over 120 virtual and in-person presentations that include national conferences, workshop sessions, district professional development, and long-term consultation focused on systemic and gender equity, board and superintendent relationships, and women in leadership. Although her work has been focused primarily on K-12 and higher education, Arriaga extended her reach to the National Institutes of Health, CSULA, Library Services, and corporate businesses. In addition to her two books, Opening Doors and Leading While Female, Arriaga recently published a companion journal to the latter book, Leading While Female: A Guided Reflective Journal.

Service Award

Tymika Wesley, EdD

Associate Professor, Learning and Teaching

Tymika Wesley received the Graduate School of Education’s service award for her efforts in bringing the Bilingual Language Authorization (BLA) to the credentialing program, addressing a need within our neighboring school districts to produce bilingual educators. Since securing the BLA, she has worked tirelessly to bring the BLA to our partner school district, Santa Maria-Bonita, as a residency program. This has included trainings and reworking elements of our program. In addition, Wesley secured a $300,000 grant from Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity to strengthen equity initiatives within the Department of Learning and Teaching.

Teaching Award

Nicolas Mize, EdD

Visiting Lecturer, Educational Leadership

Nick Mize is the recipient of the Graduate School of Education’s teaching award. He is an accessible and devoted teacher in the Ed Leadership EdD, MA and PASC programs. His expertise in the California Administrative Performance Assessment has ensured the tremendous success rate of passage for our students. His knowledge and experience in Educational Leadership have impacted hundreds of Cal Lutheran students as they move forward in leadership. His door is always open to Cal Lutheran students to assure that they have all they need to succeed. We applaud Mize’s excellence in teaching.

SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Scholarship Award

Dazhi Chong, PhD

Associate Professor, Business Administration

Dazhi Chong received the School of Management Advisory Council’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Research and Scholarship. Chong joined the School of Management in 2016 as an assistant professor. Since then, he has excelled in teaching courses, mostly at the graduate level, and has developed a steady output of scholarly articles in journals such as the Journal of Management Analytics, Information Discovery and Delivery, and the Journal for Industrial Integration and Management. He also has given presentations at conferences such as the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, the Workshop on Database and Datamining and the Workshop on eBusiness.

Matthew Fienup, PhD

Executive Director, Center for Economic Research and Forecasting

Matthew Fienup received the School of Management Advisory Council’s Award for Excellence in Service. As executive director of the Center for Economic Research and Forecasting (CERF), Fienup has produced impactful research that increases the visibility of the university in both regional and national arenas. CERF’s forecasting work received three consecutive annual national forecasting awards. He also has pioneered widely lauded and frequently cited research that documents the large and rapidly growing economic contribution of Latinos living in the U.S. His achievements have elevated the standing of the School of Management and extended the reach of our brand far outside our traditional geography.

Teaching Award

Susan Murphy, PhD

Professor, Business Administration

Susan Murphy received the School of Management Advisory Council’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Helping students to learn and acquire knowledge, skills and abilities has always been at the core of Murphy’s commitment to the profession, and she excels at it. Murphy has taught courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her students talk about how much they have learned about organizations and individuals; others recall a truly exciting and inspiring classroom experience; and yet others remember Murphy’s sincere care for each student’s story and their learning progress. Murphy also received the President’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2015.

Service Award

FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Gerhard Apfelthaler, PhD, Dean, School of Management

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Board Member, The Valley Economic Alliance.

• ●Board Member, Economic Development Collaborative Ventura County.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Is international business good for the world? A dialogue with senior global executives” with S. Sengupta at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, Washington, August 2022.

• ●“Water in the Valley of Death: Creating a University Program for Early-Stage Startup Grants” at the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2022.

Trudy Arriaga, EdD, Associate Dean of Equity and Outreach, Graduate School of Education

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Director, Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) New Superintendent Seminar Series.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●Presentations in the area of equity, access and inclusion in excess of 100 venues and 15 states from June 2022May 2023. Major national conference keynotes and presentations included Cultural Proficiency Convocation Conference, Women’s History Event, Leading While Female Conference, and Women in Leadership United Way Conference.

PUBLICATIONS

• My Leading While Female Journey: A Guided Reflective Journal, the companion book to Leading While Female, with S.L. Stanley and D.B. Lindsey. Corwin, January 2023.

Roxanne Bañuelos, MA, Lecturer, Communication APPOINTMENTS

• Board Member, Youth Services Network.

Chad Barber, PhD, Professor, Biology PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) Exposure Induces Apoptosis and a Decrease in Proliferation in Healthy Human Cells” with student M. Hays at the Southern California Council on Undergraduate Research Conference held at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, November 2022.

• ●“Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) Exposure Induces Apoptosis and a Decrease in Proliferation in Human SY Cells” with student M. Hays at the 46th Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference held at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, April 2023.

• ●“Generation of a Novel Immortalized Canine Cell Line via hTERT transfection for In Vitro Cancer Research” with student P. Berkel at the 46th Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference held at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, April 2023.

• ●“The Anti-Cancer Effects of Methyl Protodioscin on MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells and Its Role in Apoptosis” with student L. Minasian at the 46th Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference held at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, April 2023. 1st Place Cell Biology Category.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“CRISPR/Cas9 as a Treatment for Cancer” with student T. Shaljian. Journal of Student Research, Vol. 12(1), 2023.

Jamie Bedics, PhD, Professor, Graduate School of Psychology APPOINTMENTS

• ●Conference Program Co-Chair, Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (Division 29), American Psychological Association.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Is There Still Value in Teaching with Probability Threshold Heuristics?” with N. Talarico and A. Sell at the PsychTERMS Conference, December 2022 (virtual).

• ●“Are there differences in the understanding of statistical versus practical significance among undergraduate psychology students?” with N. Talarico, A. Sell and A. ElBassiouny at the 103rd Annual Convention for the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

• ●“Dialectical Behavior Therapy Outcomes for Adolescent Suicide Attempts, Suicidal Ideation and Emotion Regulation” with student M. Wong and S. Park at the 103rd Annual Convention for the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

• ●“Exploring the Definition of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents: A MetaAnalysis” with student M. Wong and S. Park at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C., May 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Crisis Management in Clinical Practice: Theoretical and Practical Integration: Introduction” in Psychotherapy, Vol. 59, J.D. Bedics (Ed.), 2022.

Rachelle Belinga, PhD, Assistant Professor, Bachelor’s Degree for Professionals PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Share-ownership and responsible shareholders” with B. Segrestin in Ecological Money and Finance T. Lagoarde-Segot (Ed.), London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2023.

• ●“Governing institutional investor engagement: from activism to stewardship to custodianship?” with

Jim Bond, PhD, Associate Professor, English PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Inspired by Broadway: the American Story Songs of Composer Morten Lauridsen” at the Society for American Music Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Morten Lauridsen’s ‘I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes’: A Meditation on Psalm 121.” Choral Journal, Vol. 63(2), September 2022.

• ●“Spell-Bound: Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium,” with Dana Gioia. The Catholic Thing, an online forum for the Catholic community, September 1, 2022.

JIM BOND

Associate Professor, English

“When I share my passion and creative process for interdisciplinary scholarship in the arts, my students are inspired to draw from their diverse backgrounds to cultivate their own innovative projects.”

ADAM BRAUN

Lecturer, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

“Diversity is not something we need to create or invent. The world is already diverse. A diverse classroom means inviting the world in. The more diverse our students and assignments are, the more expansive our imaginations can be.”

Adam Braun, PhD, Lecturer, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Rethinking Badiou’s Paul: Subjectivity, Jewishness, and PTSD” at the Towards Polyphonic Subjectivities conference held at Chonnam University, Gwangju, South Korea, December 2022.

• ●“The Good Criminal in Acts: An Approach from Political Theology” for the Political Biblical Criticism panel at the International Society of Biblical Literature Conference, Salzburg, Austria, July 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“‘My Light is Darkness’: Reading (the Bible in) Baldwin for #BLM.” Activist Hermeneutics of Liberation in the Bible, J.Y. Choi and G.L. Cuellar (Eds.), Routledge 2023.

EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES AND CREATIVE PROJECTS

• ●Wrote and performed “Imago Dei Ex Machina” at the Easter Vigil for University Lutheran Chapel, Berkeley, California, April 2023.

Lisa Buono, EdD, Dean, School for Professional and Continuing Studies

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Board Chair, United Way of Ventura County.

Nathan Carlson, PhD, Professor, Mathematics

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Reviewer, Topology and its Applications

• ●Reviewer, Axioms.

• ●Reviewer, zbMath, the European online math article database.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“On the cardinality of a power homogeneous compactum” at the Prague Symposia on General Topology, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2022.

• ●“On spaces with a pi-base with elements with compact closures” at the Messina Workshop, Messina, Italy, July 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Power homogeneous compacta and variations on tightness.” Topology and its Applications special issue, October 10, 2022.

Scott Chien-Hsiung Chiu, PhD, Associate Professor, English APPOINTMENTS

• ●Proposal Reviewer, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference.

• ●Proposal Reviewer, International Writing Centers Association Conference.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Reposition the Writing Center through a CourseEmbedded Tutoring Program Initiative” at the International Writing Centers Association Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 2022.

Dazhi Chong, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Management

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“The State of IS Curricula for Digital Transformation: A Semantic Approach” with H. Shi and H. Drew. 2023 IEEE 12th International Conference on Educational and Information Technology (ICEIT 2023) proceedings, Chongqing, China, March 2023.

Samuel Claussen, PhD, Associate Professor, History

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“‘I leave behind my virtue’: Death and Remembrance in Castilian Border Wars” at the International Medieval Congress, July 2022 (virtual).

• ●“A Challenging Empire: Chivalry and Disorder in the Conquest of the Canary Islands” at the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Birmingham, Alabama, November 2022.

• ●“‘Impelled by Honor and Vengeance’: Chivalry and Empire according to Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana” at the Renaissance Society of America’s Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2023.

Brian Collins, PhD, Associate Professor, Philosophy APPOINTMENTS

• ●Reviewer, Southwest Philosophy Review

• ●Founder and Director, SoCal Philosophy Academy.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“The Effects of Pre-College Philosophy Instruction on Critical Thinking Skills” with students L. Ortiz, K. Knapp and G. Wachbrit at the 2022 PLATO Conference: Ethics in Schools, Communities, and the Public Sphere held at the University of Washington, Seattle, June 2022.

• ●“Thinking Philosophically: A Distinctive Human Capacity” at the Association of Lutheran College Faculties (ALCF) Conference held at Concordia University, Irvine, California, October 2022.

• ●“Can Utilitarianism Make Sense of ‘Political Obligation?’” at the Southwestern Philosophical Society Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2022.

• ●“Creating a Philosophical Community Through ‘Council’” at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Denver, Colorado, February 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“A Critique of Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.” Philosophy Now: A Magazine of Ideas, Issue 154, February/March 2023.

• ●“Can Utilitarianism Make Sense of ‘Political Obligation’?” Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol. 39(1), January 2023.

Jesus Cordova Guerrero, PhD, Assistant Professor, Chemistry PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Total Synthesis of Corniculatolide B” with student E. Caudill at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research held at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, November 2022.

• ●“Synthesis of Iron-based Metal” with student M. Segeberg at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research held at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, November 2022.

• ●“Synthesis of Metal-Organic Frameworks as Efficient Drug Carrier System” with student S. Cochiolo at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research held at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, November 2022.

Heidi Coronado, PhD, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Organizer and Facilitator, Mindfulness and Resiliency Day Conference for high school students.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Honoring Ancestral Medicine, Healing Ourselves, and Counseling con Corazon: Re-connecting to our stories and decolonizing Ourselves and Our communities” with students Z. Juarez and J. Herrera at the Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social Conference, Fort Collins, Colorado, July 2022.

Michael Cosenza, EdD, Professor, Graduate School of Education

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Executive Director, National Association for Professional Development Schools.

• ●Vice President, California Council on Teacher Education.

• ●At-large Board Member, National Coalition of Educators.

• ●Treasurer, California Association of School-University Partnerships.

• ●Reviewer, University Partners, the journal of the National Association of Professional Development Schools.

• ●Reviewer, Teacher Education Quarterly, the journal of the California Council on Teacher Education.

• ●Advisory Board Member Emeritus, Ventura County Catholic Charities.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“The Common Characteristics of Exemplary School University Partnerships” with J. Ferrara and D. Gomez at the annual meeting of the National Association for Professional Development Schools, Jacksonville, Florida, March 2023.

• ●“The Nine Essentials: What do they mean?” with B. Badiali and D. Polly at the annual meeting of the National Association for Professional Development Schools, Jacksonville, Florida, March 2023.

• ●“NAPDS Essential One as Policy and Action” with R. Burns, A. Villarreal, N. Wall and K. Zenkov panel discussion of NAPDS Position Paper on Diversity, Equity, Social Justice, and Racism at the annual meeting of the National Association for Professional Development Schools, Jacksonville, Florida, March 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“A Shared Commitment to Reflection, Innovation and Generative Knowledge” with D. Stoicovy, B. Badiali, et al. PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice, A journal of the National Association for Professional Development Schools, Vol. 17(1), 2022.

• ●“‘Clinical Practice’ is What Professional Development Schools Do” with R. West-Burns, B. Badiali, et al. PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice, A journal of the National Association for Professional Development Schools, Vol. 17(1), 2022.

• ●“Equity, Anti-Racism, and Social Justice in SchoolUniversity Partnerships: A Position Paper by the National Association for Professional Development Schools” with B. Badiali, R. Burns, et al. National Association for Professional Development Schools, 2023.

• ●“A Refresh of the Essentials of Professional Development Schools: The Second Edition of the NAPDS Nine Essentials” with D. Polly, B. Badiali, et al. CASUP Connections, a peer edited magazine of the California Association of SchoolUniversity Partnerships, Vol. 12(1), 2023.

Jamshid Damooei, PhD, Professor, School of Management

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Board Member, Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy.

• ●Housing Think Tank Member, The Valley Economic Alliance.

• ●Advisory Board Member, Equity Study of Fund for Santa Barbara.

• ●Advisory Committee Member, Ventura County Comprehensive Transportation Plan.

• ●Member, Ventura County Community Health Improvement Collaborative.

• ●Member, Santa Paula Isabella Project (Developing a Universal High-Quality Early Childhood Education for Ventura County).

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Examining Child Deprivation Across California and How It Could Be Addressed with Early Childhood Education” with R. Korchagin. California Journal of Politics and Policy Vol. 15(1), February 2023.

JOHN DEISZ Professor, Physics

“A diverse team can accelerate the process of generating creative solutions to challenging problems.”

• ●“Undocumented Immigrants and Their Economic Impact On the Central Coast of California: A Close Look Into Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.” Center for Economics of Social Issues, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, February 2023.

Sofia Ramirez Davis, EdD, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Advocacy for Middle School and High School Students with Hearing Loss” at the Ventura County Office of Education Equity Conference, Camarillo, California, March 2023.

• ●“Transitioning D/HH Students from High School to Adulthood” at the No Limits for Deaf Children and Families Building Connections 3 Day Parent Workshop, April 2023 (virtual).

Michele R. Dean, EdD, Field Placement Director and Lecturer, Graduate School of Education

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Planning Committee Member and Scholarship Chair, Ventura County Chapter, California Association for Bilingual Education Annual Conference, October 2022.

• ●Advisor, Oxnard School District’s African American Parent/Community Advisory Committee.

• ●DEI Consultant, MATES Charter School, Thousand Oaks, California.

John Deisz, PhD, Professor, Physics

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Fellow, The Siebold-Collegium Institute for Advanced Studies of Julius Maximilians Universität Würzburg, JanuaryJuly 2022. International scholar in residence at the SCIAS’s Welzhaus, in Würzburg, Germany. Conducted research at the university in the group of Professor Fakher Assaad of the Theoretical Physics I group.

• ●Member, Committee on Careers and Professional Development, American Physical Society.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“FLEX modeling of the superconducting Tc vs. strain in Sr2RuO4” at the American Physical Society Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2023.

Ryan DeMoss, MS, Senior Lecturer, Mathematics

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Student Chapters Coordinator, Mathematical Association of America.

Rainer

Diriwächter, PhD, Professor, Psychology

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Integrated Social Sciences

• ●Associate Editor, Culture and Psychology (SAGE Publications).

• ●Editorial Board Member, Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science (Springer Publications).

• ●Editorial Consultant, Theory & Psychology (SAGE Publications).

Sharon Docter, PhD, Professor, Communication APPOINTMENTS

• ●Board of Governance, The Salvation Army College for Officer Training.

• ●Chair, Academic Committee, The Salvation Army College for Officer Training Board of Governance.

• ●Member, Executive Committee, The Salvation Army College for Officer Training Board of Governance.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Student media coverage of censorship and press freedom” with K. Hettinga and R. Medders at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Detroit, Michigan, August 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Student media coverage of censorship and press freedom” with K. Hettinga and R. Medders. College Media Review, October 17, 2022.

Cynthia Duarte, PhD, Assistant Professor, Sociology

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Beyond Symbolic Ethnicity: Strategic Ethnicity and the Negotiation of Identity among Third-plus Generation Mexican Americans in Los Angeles.” Interdisciplinary Humanities: Latinx Identities, September 22, 2022.

Robert Dull, PhD, Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Board Member, Paso Pacifico, biological conservation nonprofit working in Central America.

• ●Review Editor, Editorial Board, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: Paleoecology, Nature Publishing Group.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“La erupción Tierra Blanca Joven: evidencia de su fecha, importancia regional, e impactos globales” at the Salvadoran Ministry of the Environment Virtual Seminar “Caldera de Ilopango, Un volcán active en el Área metropolitana de San Salvador,” El Salvador, September 2022.

• ●“A Late Holocene paleoenvironmental record from Barka Slough, Santa Barbara County, CA.” at the Pacific Climate Workshop, Monterey, California, February, 2023.

Amanda ElBassiouny, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychology APPOINTMENTS

• ●Reviewer, Journal of Integrated Social Sciences

• ●Editorial Advisory Board, Routledge Open Research

• ●Government Relations Committee Member, The Society of Personality and Social Psychology.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Incarcerated Person’s Race/Ethnicity, Conversion/ Lifestyle, and Mental Health Impacts Parole Decisions” with students K. Sircy ’21 and R. Ayala ’21 at the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2022.

• ●“Juror Decision-Making Based on Defendant’s Race/ Ethnicity, Religion, and DNA Evidence” with student M. Caltrider at the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2022.

• ●“Are there differences in the understanding of statistical versus practical significance among undergraduate psychology students?” with N. Talarico, A. Sell and J. Bedics at the 103rd Annual Convention for the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

• ●“Interpreting DNA evidence in a murder case: How juror’s perceptions are influenced by the defendant’s race/ ethnicity and religion” with student M. Caltrider at the 103rd Annual Convention for the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

• ●“Imagining positive interactions moderates allophilia ratings of outgroup members based on the perceiver’s identity salience” with N. Talarico at the 103rd Annual Convention for the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

• ●“Sofa sleuths: Exploring the personality predictors of crime show viewership” with A. Young and student S. Knopp at the 103rd Annual Convention for the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Dr. Nuha Abudabbeh: A trailblazing Arab American woman who earned a PhD in Psychology.” Early Psychological Research Contributions from Women of Color, Volume 1, J. Grahe, M. Ceynar & R.S. Mason (Eds.), Routledge, 2023.

Matthew Fienup, PhD, Executive Director, Center for Economic Research and Forecasting AWARDS

• ●2022 Valley 200: Most Influential People in the San Fernando Valley Award. San Fernando Valley Business Journal

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Advisory Board Member, Habitat for Humanity of Ventura County.

• ●Member, Business Advisory Council for California Assembly Member Jacqui Irwin.

• ●Board of Directors (Treasurer), Homes for Generations of Ventura County

• ●Housing Chair, Ventura County Economic Vitality Strategic Plan Steering Committee.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Miami Metro Latino GDP Report” keynote for L’Attitude Miami Business Summit, with Bank of America, Miami Beach, Florida, June 2022.

• ●“Dallas Metro Latino GDP Report” keynote for L’Attitude Dallas Business Summit, with Bank of America, Dallas, Texas, June 2022.

• ●“Inland Empire Latino GDP Report” keynote for L’Attitude IE Business Summit, with Bank of America, Riverside, California, July 2022.

• ●“Chicago Metro Latino GDP Report” keynote for L’Attitude Chicago Business Summit, with Bank of America, Chicago, Illinois, July 2022.

• ●“Challenges Facing California Farmers: Water, Labor & International Competition” presentation and moderated discussion at the Rodale Institute, Camarillo, California. August 2022.

• ●“Los Que Superan: U.S. Latino GDP” keynote for the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce 43rd Annual Statewide Convention, Oakland, California, August 2022.

• “New York Metro Latino GDP Report” keynote for L’Attitude NYC Business Summit, with Bank of America, Bank of America Tower, Midtown Manhattan, New York, August 2022.

• “New Jersey Metro Latino GDP Report” keynote for L’Attitude New Jersey Business Summit, with Bank of America, Newark, New Jersey, August 2022.

• ●“2022 U.S. Latino GDP” at the Latino Donor Collaborative press event, 2022 L’Attitude Conference, San Diego, California, September 2022.

• ●“2022 U.S. Latino GDP” presentation and live interview on stage with Barron’s Editor-in-Chief, David Cho at the 2022 L’Attitude Conference, San Diego, California, September 2022.

• ●“The First SGMA Water Market is Trading: The Importance of Good Design and the Risks of Getting it Wrong” at the PERC Conference: Priming the Pump for Groundwater Markets held at The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Bozeman, Montana, September 2022.

• ●“Los Angeles Metro Latino GDP Report” keynote for L’Attitude Los Angeles Business Summit, with Bank of America, Los Angeles, California, September 2022.

• ●“Los Que Superan: U.S. Latino GDP” keynote presentation and moderated discussion for Adelante: Spanish Heritage Event, Federal Reserve System with Federal Reserve Vice Chair, Lael Brainard, October 2022 (virtual).

• ●“Los Que Superan: the remarkable story of the U.S. Latino GDP” keynote for the Latino GDP Youth Project, an initiative of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco held at East Los Angeles College, California, November 2022.

• ●“The First SGMA Water Market is Trading: The Importance of Good Design and the Risks of Getting it Wrong” guest lecture at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, November 2022.

• ●“What Lies Ahead? Recession, Staglation?” keynote for CBIZ and Citizen’s Business Bank, Camarillo, California, December 2022.

• ●“2023 Phoenix Metro Latino GDP Report” keynote for the Bank of America Phoenix Latino Business Summit, Phoenix, Arizona, January 2023.

• ●“CERF Outlook and Forecast” keynote for the 13th Annual CERF Ventura County Economic Forecast Event, Thousand Oaks, California, February 2023.

• ●“Economic Outlook” keynote for the 31st Annual Thousand Oaks Rotary Economic Forecast Breakfast held at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California, February 2023.

• ●“2023 Silicon Valley Latino GDP Report” keynote for the Bank of America Silicon Valley Latino Business Summit, San Jose California, February 2023.

• ●“The Latino GDP Project: Los Que Superan | Those Who Overcome.” Preus-Brandt Forum, California Lutheran University. Thousand Oaks, California, March 2023.

• ●“CERF Outlook and Forecast for Ventura County” to the Ventura County Economic Vitality Strategic Plan Steering Committee, Camarillo, California, March 2023.

• ●“An Unconventional Take on the U.S. Economic Outlook and Banking Crisis” for the Association for Corporate Growth ACG-101 State of the Economy Event, Westlake Village, California, March 2023.

• ●“CERF Outlook and Forecast” keynote for the Greater Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce Economic Forecast Event, Westlake Village, California, March 2023.

• ●“An Unconventional Take on the U.S. Economic Outlook and Banking Crisis” to the Executive Management Team of AgriBank. St. Paul, Minnesota, April 2023 (virtual).

• ●“The First SGMA Water Market is Trading: The Importance of Good Design and the Risks of Getting it Wrong” at the Thelma Hansen Symposium on the Future of Water in Agriculture, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, May 2023.

• ●“Charlotte Metro Latino GDP Report” keynote for Bank of America Charlotte Latino Business Summit held at Bank of America World Headquarters, Charlotte, North Carolina, May 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“2023 Metro State-level Latino GDP Report” with D. Hamilton, D. Hayes-Bautista and P. Hsu for the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, with the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health & Culture, June 2022 – May 2023. (Ten separate reports: Dallas, Miami, Chicago, Inland Empire, New Jersey, New York, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Silicon Valley, and Charlotte.)

• ●“2022 LDC U.S. Latino GDP Report: Quantifying the New Mainstream Economy” with D. Hamilton, D. Hayes-Bautista and P. Hsu. Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC), Los Angeles, California, with the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health & Culture, September 22, 2022.

• ●“CERF Quarterly United States Economic Forecast

Publication” with D. Hamilton. Center for Economic Research & Forecasting, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California. (Surveyed quarterly by The Wall Street Journal, the National Association of Business Economists, and the Zillow Home Price Expectations Survey.)

• ●“2023 CERF Ventura County Economic Forecast

Publication” with D. Hamilton. Center for Economic Research & Forecasting, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California, February 2023.

John Fitch III, MFA, PhD, Associate Professor, Film and Television

AWARDS

Recognition for The Lowest Deep, audio narrative series, (Producer/Director/Writer/Sound Designer):

• ●Winner, Best Podcast, Beyond the Curve International Film Festival.

• ●Winner, Best Podcast, Swedish International Film Festival.

• ●Winner, Best Audio Story, Echonation Audio and Film Festival.

• ●Winner, Best Podcast Over 30 Minutes, Echonation Audio and Film Festival.

• ●Nominee, Best Thriller Podcast, LA Webfest.

• ●Honorable Mention, Like It Film Fest.

Recognition for Viewing, original screenplay:

• ●Second Round Selection, International Screenwriters’ Association.

• ●Fast Track Fellowship Semi-Finalist, Filmmatic Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship.

• ●Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriters Suspense Competition.

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Academic Member, Television Academy Foundation.

• ●Creative Advisory Board Member, Louisville Film Society.

• ●Judge, Louisville Film Society’s Fall and Spring Short Film Slams.

• ●Judge, Louisville Film Society, Flyover Film Festival.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“When AI Breaks Audience Trust – Neville’s Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain.” Journal of Media Ethics, August 23, 2022.

• ●“Real-Life College Professors on Cinematic Faculty: Educators, Makers, and Users.” Kentucky Journal of Communication, Vol. 40(2), November 1, 2022.

Karrolyne Fogel, PhD, Professor, Mathematics

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Board Member, Southern California-Nevada section of the Mathematical Association of America.

Julia Fogg, PhD, Professor, Religion

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Board Member, The Abundant Table.

• ●Leadership Council Member, Leadership Foundations.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Jesus Crossed Borders… And Other Immigrant Stories” and “Developing an Ethic of Border Crossing: Getting Uncomfortable and Sharing Stories” at the annual Showers Endowed Lecture Series held at the University of Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Discovering the Contours of Vocation through Undergraduate Summer Research.” Vocation Matters: Insights and Conversations from the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Research (NetVUE), Aug 18, 2022. https://vocationmatters.org/author/julialfogg/

• ●“Can the Carnegie Hour Support the Vocation of Student Learning?” Vocation Matters: Insights and Conversations from the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Research (NetVUE), May 11, 2023. https://vocationmatters.org/ author/julialfogg/

Gregory Freeland, PhD, Uyeno-Tseng Professor in Global Studies, Political Science

PUBLICATIONS

• Music and Black Community in Segregated North Carolina: “It’s all right...” London, UK: Lived Places Publishing, May 22, 2023.

Megan Fung, PhD, Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Board Member, Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Assessing the Impact of Diagenetic Bias on Marine Isotope Stage 3 Sea-Level Reconstructions Based on Deep-Sea Benthic Foraminiferal Stable Isotope Records” with R. Poirier and C. Borrelli at the Geological Society of America Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, November 2022.

GRADY HANRAHAN Professor, Chemistry

“Mentoring, as part of the research experience, leads to greater understanding of how to respond to diversity in students’ backgrounds, skills, interests, and extraordinariness.”

• ●“Evaluating the Foraminifera Preservation Index on Cibicidoides during Glacial-Interglacial Cycles with R. Poirier, C. Borrelli and student S. Worley at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research held at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, November 2022.

• ●“Analyzing the Impact of Temperature Changes on the Preservation of Marine Microfossils” with R. Poirier, C. Borrelli and student C. Lopez at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research held at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, November 2022.

Jennifer Gamarra, PhD, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Psychology

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Impacts of Cannabis Use on Psychiatric Symptoms in Teens at High Risk for Mood Disorders” with student

R.D. Brown, M. Weintraub, D.M. Denenny, et al., at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Conference, New York, New York, November 2022.

• ●“Relationship between preferred help source, trusted source of mental health information, and actual referral source for caregivers of anxious youth” with student

G.C. Dysart, P.C. Kendall, B.F. Chorpita, et al., at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Conference, New York, New York, November 2022.

• ●“How do treatment protocols affect the use of engagement practices in youth mental health services?” with E.G. Wu, K.D. Becker, R.E. Kim, J.I. Martinez and B.F. Chorpita in G. Lawson (Chair), Engaging stakeholders to improve implementation of evidence-based mental health

services for youth. Symposium presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Conference, New York, New York, November 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“How do treatment protocols affect the use of engagement practices in youth mental health services?” with E.G. Wu, K.D. Becker, et al. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, Vol. 49(6), November 2022.

John Garcia, DBA, Assistant Professor, School of Management APPOINTMENTS

• ●Undergraduate Operations Research Prize Committee Member, The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

• ●Reviewer, Journal of Economics & Finance

• ●Reviewer, Applied Finance Letters

• ●Reviewer, Expert Systems with Applications

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Do Employees Waive Financial Red Flags Through the Glassdoor” at the Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting, Key West, Florida, November 2022.

• ●“Herding the Crowds: How Sentiment Affects Amateur Analysts’ Earnings Estimates” at the Southwestern Finance Association Annual Conference, Houston, Texas, March 2023.

• ●“Measuring Valuation Uncertainty: A PCA Approach” at the Southwest Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference, Houston, Texas, March 2023.

• ●“Sentiment Divergence and its Impact on Share Liquidity” at the Financial Markets and Corporate Governance conference, Melbourne, Australia, April 2023 (virtual).

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Analysts’ stock ratings and the predictive value of news and Twitter sentiment.” Investment Analysts Journal, Vol. 51(4), September 2022.

• ●“Bankruptcy prediction using synthetic sampling.” Machine Learning with Applications, Vol. 9(15), September 2022.

• ●“Measuring Valuation Uncertainty: A PCA Approach.” Applied Finance Letters, Vol. 12(1), April 26, 2023.

Virginia Gean, MBA, CMA, Senior Lecturer, School of Management

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Accounting Profession” at the 30th Annual Conference of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Theoretical Constructs Critical to Understanding the FASB Conceptual Framework” with F. Gean. Journal of Business and Accounting, Vol. 15(1), Fall 2022.

Bruce Gillies, PsyD, Assistant Professor, School of Management

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“The Virtual Workplace and Motivation Loss: An Examination of the Post COVID-19 Organization” with S. Murphy at the 30th Annual Conference of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2023.

Monica Gracyalny, PhD, Professor, Communication

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“When Good Guys Apologize Badly: Exploring Apology Delivery on YouTube” with J. Sandlin at the International Public Relations Research Conference, Orlando, Florida, March 2023.

• ●“Reputational Difference Impacts YouTube Apology Effectiveness” with J. Sandlin at the Institute for Public Relations Bridge Conference, Washington, D.C., March 2023.

Dan Hamilton, PhD,

PRESENTATIONS

Associate Professor, School of Management

• ●“The U.S. Outlook: Macroeconomic Risks” at the Thriving Today & Tomorrow AgriBank conference, Eagan, Minnesota, September 2022.

• ●“The U.S. Outlook: A Preliminary Take on SVB” at the Conejo Valley Estate Planning Council, Thousand Oaks, California, March 2023.

• ●“The U.S. Outlook: A Forecast Upon a Crises” to AgriBank, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 2023 (virtual).

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“2023 Metro-level Latino GDP Report” with M. Fienup, D. Hayes-Bautista and P. Hsu for the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, with the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health & Culture, June 2022 – May 2023. (Ten separate reports: Dallas, Miami, Chicago, Inland Empire, New Jersey, New York, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Silicon Valley, and Charlotte.)

• ●“2022 LDC U.S. Latino GDP Report: Quantifying the New Mainstream Economy” with M. Fienup, D. Hayes-Bautista and P. Hsu. Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC), Los Angeles, California, with the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health & Culture, September 22, 2022.

• ●“CERF Quarterly United States Economic Forecast Publication” with M. Fienup. Center for Economic Research & Forecasting, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California. (Surveyed quarterly by The Wall Street Journal, the National Association of Business Economists, and the Zillow Home Price Expectations Survey.)

• ●“2023 CERF Ventura County Economic Forecast Publication” with M. Fienup. Center for Economic Research & Forecasting, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California, February 2023.

Shauna Hannan, PhD, Professor, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary APPOINTMENTS

• ●Core Doctoral Faculty, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California.

• ●Cooperative Candidacy Committee Member, Pacifica and Southwest California Synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“What Preachers Can Learn from Filmmakers” with G. Chandler at the Perkins School of Theology: Center for Excellence in Preaching, Dallas, Texas, April 2023.

• ●“The Peoples’ Sermon: Revitalizing your Congregation’s Preaching Ministry” keynote at the Eastern North Dakota and Northwest Minnesota Synod Theological Day, Grand Forks, North Dakota, April 2023.

Grady Hanrahan, PhD, Professor, Chemistry

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Metabolic Elucidation and Chemical Toxicity Modeling of Natural Medicines and Herbal Remedies” with student T. Robinson at the American Chemical Society National Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2023.

• ●“Kinetic examination of the uranium-238 decay chain: A predictive modeling approach” with student A. Huerta at the American Chemical Society National Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Modeling the Oxidative Metabolic Breakdown of Ethanol and Its Effects on the Cardiovascular System” with student J.F. Farfan and A. Knox. International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings, Vol. 14(2), October 2022.

DANA HARMON

Assistant Professor, Biology

“Diversity in classroom and research settings fosters a sense of belonging. When students feel as if they belong, it creates a space in which students are inspired to learn, are inspired by each other’s experiences, and can grow to recognize and appreciate the viewpoints and talents of diverse perspectives.”

Dana Harmon, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biology

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“The Multidrug Efflux Regulator AcrR of Escherichia coli Responds to Exogenous and Endogenous Ligands to Regulate Efflux and Detoxification” with C. Ruiz. mSphere, the American Society for Microbiology journal, Vol. 7(6), December 21, 2022.

Michael Hart, DMA, Associate Professor, Music

APPOINTMENTS

Principal Tubist:

• ●San Fernando Valley Symphony, Los Angeles, California.

• ●LA Symphonic Winds, Los Angeles, California.

Guest Conductor/Clinician:

• ●Colina Middle School Band, Thousand Oaks, California, February 2023.

• ●Newbury Park High School Wind Ensemble, Newbury Park, California, March 2023

• ●Hart High School Wind Ensemble, Santa Clarita, California, March 2023.

• ●Isbell Middle School Concert Band, Santa Paula, California, March 2023.

• ●Santa Paula High School Bands, Santa Paula, California, March 2023.

• ●Rancho Campana High School Symphonic Band, Camarillo, California, March 2023.

• ●Santa Susanna High School Band and Orchestras, Simi Valley, California, March 2023.

Adjudicator:

• ●Heritage/WorldStrides Music Festival, Cuyamaca College, San Diego, California, March 2023.

• ●SCSBOA Band and Orchestra Festival, University High School, Irvine, California, March 2023.

• ●Simi Valley Public Schools Festival, Santa Susanna High School, Simi Valley, California, March 2023.

• ●SCSBOA Band and Orchestra Festival, Rancho Campana High School, Camarillo, California, March 2023.

• ●Heritage/WorldStrides Music Festival, Rose Center Theater, Westminster, California, April 2023.

• ●Heritage/WorldStrides Music Festival, Rose Center Theater, Westminster, California, May 2023.

EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES AND CREATIVE PROJECTS

• The Good, the Band, and the Ugly – Ennio Morricone, custom music arrangement for the California Lutheran University Wind Ensemble, 2022.

Steven Hawkins, PhD, Professor, Exercise Science

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Member, Working Group on Nutrition and Physical Activity for Bone Health for the National Osteoporosis Foundation.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Angular kinematics and critical power of younger and older cyclists during the 3-min all-out test” with M. LeBlanc, T. Peterson and S. McClave. Journal of Science & Cycling, Vol. 11(1), June 30, 2022.

Andrea Heilman, MFA, EdD, Associate Professor, Theatre Arts and Dance

EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES AND CREATIVE PROJECTS

• ●Lighting Designer, Green Day’s American Idiot, directed by J. McHale, Chance Theater, Anaheim, California, July 2022.

• ●Lighting Designer, Snow White, adapted by G. Banks, directed by H. Adam Harris, South Coast Repertory Theatre, Costa Mesa, California, November 2022.

• ●Set Designer, 36 Yesses, written by M.J. Garcés, directed by Sha Cage, Cornerstone Theater Company, Los Angeles, California, December 2022.

Timothy Hengst, MA, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Executive Director and Producer, Kingsmen Shakespeare Company.

Kirstie Hettinga, PhD, Associate Professor, Communication

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Associate Editor, Newspaper Research Journal

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“New directions, new minors: Building an interdisciplinary media minor offering experiential opportunities in Spanish language curriculum” with L. Seales and S. Wigginton at the Twentieth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece, June 2022 (virtual).

• ●“Student media coverage of censorship and press freedom” with R. Medders and S. Docter at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Detroit, Michigan, August 2022.

• ●“‘We are exhausted!’: Student newsrooms in times of COVID” with E. Smith, L. Lyon Payne and J. Norman at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Detroit, Michigan, August 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Student media coverage of censorship and press freedom” with R. Medders and S. Docter. College Media Review, October 17, 2022.

Michael Hillis, PhD, Dean, Graduate School of Education

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Committee on Accreditation, California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

• ●Board Member, River Oaks Academy.

• ●Board Member, Center for Urban Educational Ministries.

• ●Board Member, Ventura County P-20 Council.

Haco Hoang, PhD, Professor, Political

PRESENTATIONS

Science

• ●“Navigating Student Self-Assessment and the Gradual Release of Faculty Control Over the Assessment Process in Higher Education” with B. Yee at the WASC Senior College and University Commission ARC Conference, Orange County, California, April 2023.

Katherine Hoffmann, PhD, Associate Professor,

PRESENTATIONS

Chemistry

• ●“Towards Structure Based Drug Design of DesD in the NIS Sythetase Family” at the American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, July 2022.

• ●“Towards a Mechanism for DesD, a Model NIS Sythetase” with student A. Dumas at the American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, July 2022.

• ●“Glu445A in DesD Crystallization and ATP binding with Kinetics” with student P. Paredes at the American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, July 2022.

• ●“Mechanism of the Iterative NRPS-Independent Siderophore (NIS) Synthetase DesD” at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March 2023.

• ●“Establishing a Substrate Binding Assay using Desferrioxamine D Variant R306Q” with student G. Cornejo at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March 2023.

“Diversity in the creative arts leads to a more vibrant, inclusive, and just artistic landscape that reflects the depth and breadth of human experiences.”

MICHAEL HART

Associate Professor, Music

KIKU HUCKLE

Assistant Professor, Political Science

“Including and valuing diverse perspectives helps us recognize that we all have something to learn from others; it makes us more effective problem solvers as we learn to think “outside the box” of what has always been done; and most importantly, it teaches us to respect others’ experiences and expertise.”

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Select Intermediates and Natural Products of the Desferrioxamine E Siderophore Pathway” with J. Kingsbury and students N. March, M. Hutt, J. Nguyen and Y. Jang. Current Trends Towards Natural Products Synthesis, a special edition of the journal Molecules, September 20, 2022.

Rick Holigrocki, PhD, Dean and PsyD Program Director, Graduate School of Psychology

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Toward the articulation of mission: Heeding the ELCA’s call for affordable mental health care and authentic diversity while guiding students’ journeys toward counseling and clinical vocations.” Dialog, Vol. 61(4), Winter 2022.

Emma Hooper, PhD, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Psychology

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Development and mother-child bidirectional relations: Examining emotion, maternal depressive and child internalizing symptoms across early childhood” with student S. Kaviya and X. Feng in E. G. Hooper and S. Ku (Co-Chairs), Development across preschool years in emotional and executive functioning: Roles of maternal depressive symptoms, emotionality and emotion coaching, at the 26th biennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Island of Rhodes, Greece, June 2022.

• ●“Maternal emotion socialization in the home: Prospective associations with preschoolers’ regulation of anxiety” with K. Inboden, X. Feng, et al. in E. G. Hooper and S. Ku (Co-Chairs), Development across preschool years in emotional and executive functioning: Roles of maternal depressive symptoms, emotionality and emotion coaching, at the 26th biennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Island of Rhodes, Greece, June 2022.

• ●“Bidirectional and temporal association between mother’s regulatory strategies and child emotion” with M.H. Chan, X. Feng and K. Inboden in X. Feng (Chair), Mother-child biobehavioral coregulation in the U.S. and Chinese Families, at the 26th biennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Island of Rhodes, Greece, June 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Dynamic, bidirectional influences of children’s emotions and maternal regulatory strategies” with M.H.M. Chan, X. Feng, et al. Emotion, Vol. 22(8), 2022.

• ●“White and Black parents’ emotion coaching beliefs: Differential associations with preschooler’s behavioral problem tendencies” with Q. Wu. Journal of Family Psychology, Vol. 37(4), 2023.

Kiku Huckle, PhD, Assistant Professor, Political Science APPOINTMENTS

• ●Advisory Council Member, Catholic Immigrant Integration Initiative, Center for Migration Studies.

• ●Section Chair, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, April 2023.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Community cultivates democracy: how efficacy, CBO engagement, and neighborhood perceptions influence white and racial minority political behavior” with M. Garcia-Castanon, I. Cargile and A. Molina at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, April 2023.

Andrea Huvard, PhD, Professor, Biology

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Quantification of Microfibers from Marine Sediments from Three Locations in Southern California: An Exposed Beach (Ventura County), a Watershed (Los Angeles County), and an Enclosed Harbor (Orange County)” with students A. Ebrahim and M. LeClerc. American Journal of Undergraduate Research, October 18, 2022.

Virginia Ilie, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Management APPOINTMENTS

• ●Associate Editor, Health Systems Journal

• ●Reviewer, MIS Quarterly

• ●Reviewer, Decision Sciences

• ●Reviewer, Communications of the Association in Information Systems

Louise Kelly, PhD, Associate Professor, Exercise Science

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Editor, Journal of Athletic Enhancement

• ●Reviewer, Diabetes Care

• ●Reviewer, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

• ●Reviewer, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

• ●Reviewer, Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Sensitivity and Specificity of the ImPACT Neurocognitive Test in Collegiate Athletes and US Military Service Academy Cadets with ADHD and/or LD: Findings from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium” with L.L. Czerniak, S.W. Liebel, et al. Sports Medicine, Vol. 53(3), March 2023.

• ●“Premorbid Risk Factors and Acute Injury Characteristics of Sport-Related Concussion Across the National Collegiate Athletic Association: Findings from the Concussion Assessment, Research, and Education (CARE) Consortium” with A.K. Memmini, K.M. Mosesso, et al. Sports Medicine, March 16, 2023.

• ●“Early Exercise is Associated with Faster Concussion Recovery Among Collegiate Athletes: Findings from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium” with L.B. Lempke, E.F. Teel, et al. Sports Medicine, May 20, 2023.

Sabith

Khan,

PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Management

APPOINTMENTS

• ●South Asia Section for Public Administration Chair, American Society for Public Administration.

• ●Reviewer, Public Administration Review

• ●Reviewer, Voluntas

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Democratic governance and innovation at grassroots: How local governments in Southern California are fostering creative partnerships with a university” at the NIG conference at the Netherlands Institute for Governance, Tilburg, Netherlands, October 2022.

• ●“Lessons from the Civil Society during COVID-19 pandemic in West, East, South and Central Asia” at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action Conference, Fall 2022 (virtual).

Assistant Professor, School of Management

“Diverse opinions/perspectives are key to learning and growth. Only when we test our ideas and worldviews with others can we truly grow and the classroom is a great place to do that.”

SABITH KHAN

• ●“Institutionalizing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility: Preparing Public Service Professionals to Function in a Multifaceted World” at the NASPAA Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Impact of India’s New CSR Policy on Corporate DecisionMakers” with S. Verghese. South Asian Journal of Management, October – December 2022.

Jason Kingsbury, PhD, Associate Professor, Chemistry

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Reviewer, Journal of the American Chemical Society

• ●Reviewer, Journal of Organic Chemistry (ACS journal).

• ●Reviewer, Organic Letters (ACS journal).

• ●Reviewer, Chemical Reviews (ACS journal).

• ●Reviewer, Tetrahedron Letters (Elsevier journal).

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Select Intermediates and Natural Products of the Desferrioxamine E Siderophore Pathway” with K. Hoffmann and students N. March, M. Hutt, J. Nguyen and Y. Jang. Current Trends Towards Natural Products Synthesis, a special edition of the journal Molecules, September 20, 2022.

JODIE KOCUR

Professor, Psychology

“In my Child Development course, students have the opportunity to share their personal stories and examples of class material. Hearing each other’s diverse experiences is a critical component of our shared learning in the classroom.”

• ●“Maximum Aerobic Exercise Induces Common Carotid Vasoconstriction and Increased Vascular Resistance: 2411” with M. Diaz, Z. Opara, et al. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Vol. 54(9S), September 2022.

• ●“Modeling the Oxidative Metabolic Breakdown of Ethanol and Its Effects on the Cardiovascular System” with student J.F. Farfan and G. Hanrahan. International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings, Vol. 14(2), October 2022.

• ●“Body Composition and Performance Associations with Common Carotid Artery Hemodynamics and Stiffness Indices in Males and Females” with L. Sandhu, Z. Opara et al. International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings, Vol. 14(2), October 2022.

• ●“Peripheral and Cerebral Arterial Hemodynamic and Mechanical Responses to a Maxima Oxygen Consumption Exercise Test in Males and Females” with O. Gosnell, Z. Opara, et al. International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings: Vol. 14(2), October 2022.

• ●“Cardiorespiratory and Resistance Exercise” with Z. Opara, M. Diaz, et al. International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings, Vol. 14(2), October 2022.

• ●“Brachial, Common Carotid, and Internal Carotid Arteries to a Maximal Strength Test in Males and Females” with G. Hernandez, M. Diaz, et al. International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings, Vol. 14(2), October 2022.

Allan Knox, PhD, Assistant Professor,

Exercise Science APPOINTMENTS

• ●Guest Editor, Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal esterase L1 is not elevated in the serum of concussed rugby players: an observational cross-sectional study” with J.O. Harrell, J.E. Morgan, et al. Scientific Reports, July 18, 2022, Vol. 12(1).

• ●“Serum Amyloid Beta Precursor Protein, Neurofilament Light, and Visinin-like Protein-1 in Rugby Players: An Exploratory Study” with J.E. Morgan, S.A. Gaynor-Metzinger, et al. Sports (Basel), November 29, 2022, Vol. 10(12).

• ●“Resistance training responses across race and ethnicity: a narrative review” with B.I. Tarar, C.A. Dean, et al. Ethnicity and Health, May 15, 2023.

Jodie Kocur, PhD, Professor, Psychology

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Board member, Autism Communication Center, Thousand Oaks, California.

• ●Director, Introduction to College Life and Exploring Your Options summer programs for high school students with autism, July 2022 (virtual).

• ●Co-Director, College Bound Academy, for high school autistic students who use augmentative communication (typing and spelling), Thousand Oaks, California, October 2022.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Continued Development of an Online College Transition Program for High School Students on the Autism Spectrum” with students L. Asulin and H. Wadalia at the Western Psychological Association Annual Convention, Riverside, California, April 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Coping with the Researcher’s School of Hard Knocks: How Undergraduate Research Students and Their Mentors Respond to Failure and Rejection” with A. Sell and student K.J. Hall. Confronting Failure: Approaches to Building Confidence and Resilience, L.A. Corwin, L.K. Charkoudian and J.M. Heemstra (Eds.), Council of Undergraduate Research, 2022.

Michele LeBlanc, PhD, Nena Amundson Professor of Biomechanics, Exercise Science

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Fellow, American College of Sports Medicine.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Bilateral Differences in Normalized Vertical and Lateral Ground Reaction Forces in Back Squats with Different Loads” with O. Kemp and T. Burns at the National American College of Sports Medicine Meeting, San Diego, California, June 2022.

• ●“Symmetry in back squats: Which leg is which?” at the Southwest American College of Sports Medicine Meeting, Costa Mesa, California, October 2022.

• ●“The Effect of Sex and Age on Lower Extremity Joint Power Asymmetry During a Squat Jump” with students K.B. Garcia and I.G. Martinez at the Southwest American College of Sports Medicine Meeting, Costa Mesa, California, October 2022.

• ●“The Effect of Age and Sex on Lower Extremity Joint Power Coordination” with students I.G. Martinez and K.B. Garcia at the Southwest American College of Sports Medicine Meeting, Costa Mesa, California, October 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Angular kinematics and critical power of younger and older cyclists during the 3-min all-out test” with T. Peterson, S. McClave and S. Hawkins. Journal of Science & Cycling, Vol. 11(1), June 30, 2022.

• ●“Bilateral Differences in Normalized Vertical and Lateral Ground Reaction Forces in Back Squats with Different Load” with O. Kemp and T. Burns. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Vol. 54(9S), 2022.

• ●“The Effect of Sex and Age on Lower Extremity Joint Power Asymmetry During a Squat Jump” with students K.B. Garcia and I.G. Martinez. International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings, Vol. 14(2), 2022.

• ●“The Effect of Age and Sex on Lower Extremity Joint Power Coordination” with students I.G. Martinez and K.B. Garcia. International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings, Vol. 14(2), 2022.

Helen Ahn Lim, PhD, Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice APPOINTMENTS

• ●Board Member, The Garden Church, Chatsworth, California.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Teaching Human Trafficking and Improving Learning Outcomes Through Service-Learning” at the ITLC Lilly Conference, Austin, Texas, May 2023.

Ran Lu-Andrews, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Management

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“The Impacts of Climate Risk on Commercial Real Estate: Evidence from REITs” at the Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2022.

Schannae Lucas, PhD, Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice APPOINTMENTS

• ●Affirmative Action Committee Chair, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

• ●Ethics Committee Member, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

• ●Steering Committee Member, Inside-Out 25+ Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

• ●Executive Board Member, Coalition for Family Harmony.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“High Impact Practice and Creative Student Engagement” panel chair and presentation on “Lessons Learned: An Inside-Out Course at a Day Reporting Center Compared to at a Correctional Institution” with student M. Armienta Ojeda at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., March 2023.

Jacqueline Lyons, PhD, Professor, English

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Poetry in a Time of War: Can Poetry Make Something Happen?” at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 119th Annual Conference held at the University of California, Los Angeles, November 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●Literary essay “Into All Four Corners.” The Ocean State Review, Vol. 12(1), 2023.

Homero M. Magaña, MS, PPS, MA, Instructor, Graduate School of Education

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Social Justice, Equity, and Anti-Racism Committee Member, California Association of School Counselors.

• ●Chairperson, School Site Council, Mesa Verde Middle School, Moorpark Unified School District.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Harvesting Opportunities: A guide to harvesting opportunities for the Student Support Team (School Counselors, Principals, Psychologists, Mental Health Clinicians, Social Workers, and Teachers)” for the Standard Unified School District, Bakersfield, California, August 2022, January 2023, February 2023, April 2023, and June 2023.

• ●“Harvesting Opportunities: From El Rancho to the White House” keynote at the California Lutheran University Project CHESS Men’s Initiative and Oxnard College OMEGA Program, Thousand Oaks, California, October 2022.

• ●School Counselors of Color Affinity Group National Presentation on behalf of CASC Social Justice, Equity, and Anti-Racism Committee at the American School Counselor Association Meeting, December 2022 (virtual).

• ●“Harvesting Opportunities to Support Your Students’ College and Career Dreams!” at the National School Counseling Leadership Conference, San Diego, California, February 2023.

• ●“How can entire communities wrap around our kids to support improved postsecondary readiness?” at the National School Counseling Leadership Conference, San Diego, California, February 2023.

• ●“Harvesting Opportunities: From El Rancho to Professor” at the Oceanview Middle School College and Career Day, Oxnard, California, March 2023.

M.

Instructor, Graduate School of Education

• ●“Cosechando Oportunidades Para Apoyar Los Sueños Profesionales de Sus Hijos” at the Pacifica High School District English Language Advisory Committee Parent Meeting, Oxnard, California, May 2023.

• ●“Harvesting Opportunities: From El Rancho to Professor” at the Hueneme High School Migrant Program Ceremony, Hueneme, California, May 2023.

David Marcey, PhD, Fletcher Jones Professor of Developmental Biology

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“A Forensic Analysis and Genomic Mapping of a white+ Transgene (Racing Stripe) in Drosophila melanogaster” with students B. Vincze and L. Prelooker at the 46th Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference held at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, April 2023. Won award for best research presentation in the Genetics section.

• ●“Mapping the Racing Stripe, Pinstripe, and Swoosh white+ Transgenes in Drosophila melanogaster” with students

A. Long, A. McAdoo, N. Alvandian and G. Moreno at the 46th Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference held at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, April 2023.

Dave Martin, MFA, Visiting

EXHIBITIONS,

Lecturer, Visual Arts

PERFORMANCES AND CREATIVE PROJECTS

• ●A video installation and several sculptures included in Currents, a limited group exhibition curated by Larissa Nickel, held at Antelope Valley College Art Gallery, Lancaster, California, January/February 2023.

“Our faculty and students’ diversity enhances learning through critical pedagogy. We cultivate social connections, empathy, respect for others, creativity, and problem-solving skills. Consequently, students pursue counseling education with persistence, passion, and purpose, impacting K-16 education nationwide.”

HOMERO

MAGAÑA

Kyle McIntosh, CPA, MBA, Lecturer, School of Management APPOINTMENTS

• ●Finance Committee Member, Dayle McIntosh Center for the Disabled.

• ●Board Member (Secretary) and Coach, Newbury Park Track Club.

• ●Graduate, Ventura County Leadership Academy (Cohort XXVIII).

Jolivette Mecenas, PhD, Associate Professor, English APPOINTMENTS

• ●Nominating Committee Member, Council of Writing Program Administrators.

• ●Selection Committee Member, Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship, College Composition and Communication Conference.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Life Writing and Graphic Narrative: Writing the Personal into the Political” at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Conference, Los Angeles, California, November 2022.

• ●“Refusal as Renewal: An Asian/American Woman Saying No While WPA-ing” at the College Composition and Communication Conference, Chicago, Illinois, February 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Come out and dance.” Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, Vol. 6(2), December 2022.

Ryan Medders,

PhD, Professor, Communication

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Student media coverage of censorship and press freedom” with K. Hettinga and S. Docter at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Detroit, Michigan, August 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Student media coverage of censorship and press freedom” with S. Docter and K. Hettinga. College Media Review, October 17, 2022.

Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, PhD, Professor, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Global Fellow 2022, Center for Advanced Study of Religion at the MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society.

• ●Advisory Board Member, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology.

• ●Alumni Advisory Board Member, Union Theological Seminary.

• ●Advisory Board Member, Institute for Christian Socialism.

• ●Editorial Board Member, Dialog: A Journal of Theology

• ●Editorial Council, Tikkun Magazine

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Protecting Our Common Home” keynote at the SIGNIS World Congress, Seoul, Korea, August, 2022.

• ●“Building an Economy of Life” keynote for the World Council of Churches General Assembly’s “Ecumenical Conversation on Building an Economy of Life,” Germany, August-September, 2022.

• ●“Climate Racism: Response to Maina Talia” at the e-DARE (Discernment and Radical Engagement) Global Forum, Council for World Mission, October 2022 (virtual).

• ●“A “New” International Financial and Economic Architecture in Light of Climate Catastrophe” plenary address at the 2022 meeting of the commission appointed by the World Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, and the World Communion of Reformed Churches to advise their work on the New International Financial and Economic Architecture Initiative, Bali, Indonesia, October 2022.

• ●“Beyond Capitalism: Four Constructive Proposals Toward Ecological, Equitable, Democratic Economic Life” at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 2022.

• ●“God’s Beloved in a Broken World: How then Shall We Live” keynote at the Lutheran Executives Alumni Network Annual Meeting, February 2023 (virtual).

• ●“Advocacy as Spirit Work” keynote for Advocacy Days, Lutheran Office of Public Policy, Sacramento, California, May 2023.

• ●“Growing Beloved Community by Building Moral Economies” for the Sacred Earth: Growing Beloved Communities Webcast series, Episcopal Diocese of California, May 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• An Earthed Faith, Vol. 2: How Would We Know What God is Up To? C. Moe-Lobeda and E. Conradie (Eds.), Portland: Wipf & Stock, 2023 and Capetown: Aosis, 2022.

• ●“Method in Eco-Theology: A Perspective from the Belly of the Beast” in C. Moe-Lobeda and E. Conradie (Eds.), An Earthed Faith, Vol. 2: How Would We Know What God is Up To? Portland: Wipf & Stock, 2023 and Capetown: Aosis, 2022.

• ●“Telling the Story en route: On this Road (hodos) and its Logic (logos)” with E. Conradie in C. Moe-Lobeda and E. Conradie (Eds.), An Earthed Faith, Vol. 2: How Would We Know What God is Up To? Portland: Wipf & Stock, 2023 and Capetown: Aosis, 2022.

• ●“Ecology” in T.M. Johnson, G.J. Kim, and K.R. Ross (Eds.), Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity Vol. 7: Christianity in North America, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Marja Mogk, PhD, Professor, English PRESENTATIONS

• ●“The Geography of Our Minds in the Moment: Fostering Student Engagement Through Free Writing” at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 119th Annual Conference held at the University of California, Los Angeles, November 2022.

• ●“Where’s Wellness? Finding It in the Geography of Our Lives, Pedagogy, Literature and/or Culture” session inaugurator and chair at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 119th Annual Conference held at the University of California, Los Angeles, November 2022.

TRACY NICKL Lecturer, School of Management

“Diverse perspectives and experiences brought to the classroom by students, professors, and guests not only create better discussions and opportunities for learning but also help prepare students for the world outside of the classroom.”

Lorena Muñoz, PhD, Associate Professor, Ethnic and Race Studies

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Queering the (In)Formal Economy and Messy Urban Futures” at the 13th Poverty and Social Protection Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, March 2023.

• ●“Queering the (in)formal economy: Spatial recovery and anti-vending local policies in the Global South” at the Social Anthropology, Ethnic and Migration Studies Conference, Cancun, Mexico, April 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Queering the (In)Formal Economy: Spatial Recovery and Anti-Vending Local Policies in the Global South.” World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 17(4), 2023.

Susan Murphy, PhD, Professor, School of Management

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“The Virtual Workplace and Motivation Loss: An Examination of the Post COVID-19 Organization” with B. Gillies at the 30th Annual Conference of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2023.

Adina Nack, PhD, Professor, Sociology

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Community Advisory Board Member, California Health and Longevity Institute.

Leanne Neilson, PsyD, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Board Member, Thousand Oaks Alliance for the Arts.

• ●Member, United Way Women United.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Achieving Excellence Under the 2022 Standards” plenary with S. Hamill, J. Studley, C. Oberg, S. Huie, and S. Gil at the WSCUC Accreditation Resource Conference, Orange County, California, April 2023.

David Nelson, PhD, Professor, History

AWARDS

• ●Personal Recognition Award at the 2023 National Conference of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society for service as a member of the National Advisory Board from 2020-2023 and for 10 years serving as the Alpha Xi Psi Chapter Advisor at Cal Lutheran.

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Conference Organizer, Phi Alpha Theta Southern California Regional History Conference, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California, March 2023.

• ●English Translation Consultant, Studies in the History of Education: Research Bulletin of the Japan Society for the Historical Studies of Education.

• ●National Advisory Board Member, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society.

• ●Board of Directors, Scandinavian American Cultural and Historical Foundation.

BARBARA MIYUKI OBERMEIER

Lecturer, Visual Arts

“When people of all backgrounds are encouraged to share their various talents and perspectives, it fosters a much richer creative experience for everyone. It is a vital component in the ability to create deep and meaningful artistic expression.”

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“The Prose, Poetry, and Correspondence of a Korean-born Samurai: A Translation of the Family Narrative of Wakita Kyūbei, Studies on Asia 7, no.1, June 2022.

Tracy Nickl, MBA, Lecturer, School of Management APPOINTMENTS

• ●Board of Managers, Finance Committee, Ketchum Downtown YMCA.

• ●Board of Trustees, Finance Committee, Providence Little Company of Mary Hospital Foundation.

• ●Board Member, Las Madrecitas Auxiliary of the Orthopaedic Institute for Children - UCLA Partner.

Christopher Njunge, PhD, Assistant Professor, Bachelor’s Degree for Professionals PRESENTATIONS

• ●“The Potential of Hybrid Events for Emerging Arts Entrepreneurs” at the Society for Arts Entrepreneurs Conference, April 2023 (virtual).

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Using Analytics to understand Performance and Wellness for a Women’s College Soccer Team” with P. Holmberg, P. Witman and J. Canacoo. Journal of Information Systems and Applied Research, Vol. 15(3), October 2022.

• ●“Data Analysis and Visualization with Google Data Studio” with B. Hilton, L. Olfman and J. Hilton. Americas Conference on Information Systems Proceedings, August 2022.

Barbara Miyuki Obermeier, MBA, Lecturer, Visual Arts

PUBLICATIONS

• Photoshop Elements 2023 for Dummies with T. Padova. John Wiley & Sons Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, November 2022.

Mary Oksala, PhD, Associate Professor, Physics

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Reviewer, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

• ●Vice Chair of the International Astronomical Union Working Group on Active B stars.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“New results of the LIFE project: characterization of the A5Ib-II supergiant 19 Aur and the newest sample of magnetic stars” at the American Astronomical Society Meeting #240, Pasadena, California, June 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Ultraviolet spectropolarimetry with Polstar: using Polstar to test magnetospheric mass-loss quenching” with M.E. Shultz, R. Casini, et al. Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 367(12), December 2022.

Michael Panesis, MBA, Executive Director, Steven Dorfman Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, School of Management

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Board Member, Kingsmen Shakespeare Company.

• ●Dorfman Incubator Grant Selection Committee, Steven Dorfman Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Advisory Council.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Water in the Valley of Death: Creating a University Program for Early-Stage Startup Grants” at the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers Conference held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, October 2022.

SUNYOUNG PARK

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Psychology

“My classes and research focus on strengthening students’ research skills, especially their methodological backgrounds. Under a solid methodological basis, students can share their talents and views to the CLU community academically.”

Sunyoung Park, PhD, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Psychology

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Vice President, Korean-American Women in Science and Engineering.

• ●Treasurer, SIG-Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Program, American Educational Research Association.

• ●Mentor, Center for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WISET).

• ●Reviewer, SIG-Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, AERA

• ●Reviewer, Journal of Human Understanding and Counseling, Sogang University

• ●Reviewer, SAGE Publications.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Dialectical Behavior Therapy Outcomes for Adolescent Suicide Attempts, Suicidal Ideation and Emotion Regulation” with student M. Wong and J. Bedics at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

• ●“Adverse Childhood Experiences Effect on Substance Use in Adulthood: A Meta-analysis” with student E. Maurer at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

• “Effectiveness of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Children and Adolescents to Reduce Symptoms of PTSD: Meta-Analysis” with student A. Moreno and A. Klacsmann at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

• “Effectiveness of Professional Development for STEM Teachers on Teachers and Students: Meta-Analysis” with H. You and M. Hong at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 2023

• ●“Exploring the Definition of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents: A Meta-

Analysis” with student M. Wong and J. Bedics at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C., May 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Exploring the Effects of the First-Hand Experience of Deliberative Practice: The Case of the Shin-Gori Nuclear Reactor No. 5 & 6 in South Korea” with J.W. Kim. Asian Journal of Communication, Vol. 32(2), October 2022.

• ●“The ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR prolonged grief criteria: Validation of the Traumatic Grief Inventory-Self Report Plus using exploratory factor analysis and item response theory” with K.C. Kokou-Kpolou, L.I.M.M. Lenferink, et al. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Vol. 29(6), November/ December 2022.

• ●“The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) Profiles of Crime Victims” with S. Beak and M. Yi. The Korean Journal of Forensic Psychology, Vol. 14(1), 2023.

• ●“News Podcast Use, Press Freedom, and Political Participation: A Cross-National Study of 38 Countries” with Y.M. Sang and J. Kim. International Journal of Communication, Vol. 17, 2023.

Michael Pearce, PhD, MFA, Professor, Visual Arts

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Editor, The New Journal of the Philosophical Research Society

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“The Occult Art of J. Augustus Knapp” at the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, California, February 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

• Kitsch, Propaganda, and the American Avant-Garde Cambridge Scholars Publishing, April 1, 2023.

Articles:

American Art Collector:

• ●“Echoes of Nature.” June 2022.

• ●“Alexandra Manukyan, A Golden Dance.” July 2022.

• ●“Daniel Barkley – The Blue Bacchanal.” August 2022.

• ●“The Secret Pathway - Roger and Freyja Dean.” October 2022.

• ●“The Golden Eye: Julio Reyes.” November 2022.

• ●“A Bestiary Born of War - Denis Sarazhin.” December 2022

• ●“Medicine and Magic - Luke Hillestad.” January 2023.

• ●“Mark Trujillo – American Purgatory.” March 2023.

• ●“An Improbable Punk - Paintings by Mark Dennis.” April 2023.

• ●“Renato Muccillo Exhibit Preview.” May 2023.

American Fine Art Magazine:

• ●“A Fleeting Fantasy - The Lost Murals of the Panama Pacific Exposition.” March/April 2023.

• ●“Modernist Mystic - Agnes Pelton.” May/June 2023.

Fine Art Connoisseur:

• ●“Carl Dobsky, Fiery Poet of Paint.” July/Aug 2022.

• ●“Florence - Where Past, Present and Future Converge.” November/December 2022.

• ●“Ezra Tucker’s Fresh Look at the West.” May/June 2023.

The Martin Center:

• ●“Birds of Paradise - Poverty and the Faculty Freedom Fighters.” June 17, 2022.

• ●“The New Masters of the Atelier.” October 14, 2022.

Mutual Art:

• ●“The Art of Propaganda: A Web of Propagandists at MoMA.” June 2, 2022.

• ●“Book Review: Félix Vallotton, Painter of Disquiet.” June 8, 2022.

• ●“The Art of Propaganda: Putting the Machinery to Work.” June 16, 2022.

• ●“Adrian Cox’s Border Creatures.” June 23, 2022.

• ●“Wildmother: Martin Wittfooth’s Unwitting Symbols for a New Era.” July 4, 2022.

• ●“Book Review: Andrew Wyeth – Life and Death.” July 13, 2022.

• ●“The Art of Propaganda: FDR’s Secret Contempt for the Avant-garde.” July 15, 2022.

• ●“The Art of Propaganda: Four Snaps of Tourist Traps.” July 28, 2022.

• ●“The Living Academy.” August 11, 2022.

• ●“Book Review: Agnes Pelton, Desert Transcendentalist.”

August 18, 2022.

• ●“From Universal Love to Nazism and Back: Fidus.”

August 24, 2022.

• ●“Of Goddesses, Folk Tales, and Genetic Modification: Freyja Dean.” September 1, 2022.

• ●“Painting Naked Women in the Nude Millennium.” September 9, 2022.

• ●“Book Review: The Poppy Non-Pop Art of Wayne Thiebaud.” September 15, 2022.

• ●“The Romantic Artist Is Dead. AI Has Killed Him.” September 22, 2022.

• ●“The Nude Tsunami.” September 29, 2022.

• ●“The Flying Eye.” October 20, 2022.

• ●“Queen of the Night.” October 27, 2022.

• ●“On Artemisia’s Honour.” November 3, 2022.

• ●“Book Reviews: The Life and Death Power of Flowers.” November 17, 2022.

• ●“Lori Nelson: Coming of Age in the Forest.” December 1, 2022.

• ●“Book Review: Brad Kunkle’s Search for Spirituality in Feminine Beauty.” January 19, 2023.

• ●“Luke Hillestad and the Plant Lore Priesthood.” February 2, 2023.

• ●“Augustus Knapp’s Secret Teachings.” February 24, 2023.

• ●“Book Review: Nick Cave’s Glamorous Activism and Grim Remembrance.” March 1, 2023.

• ●“The Brangwyn Effect. Frank Brangwyn and Visionary Californian Art.” March 8, 2023.

• ●“Oliver Vernon, Resurrection Man.” March 15, 2023.

• ●“Book Review: Gustav Klimt’s Inspirations.” March 29, 2023.

• ●“Book Review: A Bar Set Too High – Zaech’s Nefertiti.” April 12, 2023.

• ●“Jean-Pierre Roy’s Transhuman Musings.” April 19, 2023.

• ●“Francien Krieg: Age and Interface.” April 19, 2023.

• ●“Book Review: Charlotte Berend-Corinth (Rediscovered).” May 5, 2023.

The New Journal of the Philosophical Research Society:

• ●“In the Hermetic Light of the Marseilles Sun.” June 15, 2022.

• ●“The Tarot Painter.” July 15, 2022.

• ●“Three Flames.” August 12, 2022.

• ●“Allegory and the Emerald Tablet.” September 10, 2022.

• ●“Entering the Underworld of Ancient Britain.” October 7, 2022.

• ●“Samhain.” November 4, 2022.

• ●“The Occult Art of August Knapp.” March 3, 2023.

• ●“Stanley Kubrick’s Transhuman Star-child.” May 6, 2023.

Western Art Collector:

• ●“Guardians of the Past: Thomas Blackshear, Ezra Tucker and Dean Mitchell.” November 2022.

• ●“Sunlight on the West: Terry Spehar-Fahey.” November 2022.

EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES AND CREATIVE PROJECTS

• ●Exhibiting Artist, Some Secrets, Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, California, 2023.

Chang-Shyh Peng, PhD, Professor, Computer Science

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Editor, Global Science and Technology Forum Journal on Operating Systems and Programming Languages

• ●Editorial Board Member, Emerging Science Journal

• ●Editorial Board Member, Italian Journal of Science and Engineering

• ●Reviewer, Springer Publishing.

• ●Reviewer, Mathematics, an MDPI Journal

• ●Faculty Representative, National Center for Women & Information Technology Academic Alliance.

• ●Liaison, Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance.

• ●Program Committee, 24th IEEE/ACIS International Winter Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing.

• ●Program Committee, 2022 International Conference on Computational Science/Intelligence & Applied Informatics.

• ●Program Committee, 2022 International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Study of Machine Learning using the game Snake” with student K. Lenz at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research held at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, November 2022.

Moses Penumaka, ThD, Director, Theological Education for Emerging Ministries (TEEM), Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

APPOINTMENTS

• ●President, Association of Asian and Pacific Islanders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

• ●Member, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Advisory Boarsd for Strategic Diversity.

• ●Member, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Educational Debt Task Force.

• ●Candidacy Committee Member, Alaska Synod, Eastern Washington and Idaho Synod, and Oregon Synod.

Travis Peterson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Exercise Science

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Judge, Southwest American College of Sports Medicine Graduate Student Research Competition, October 2022.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Are There Balance Differences Between Aquatic and Land Athletes?” with student B. Metcalfe at the Southwest American College of Sports Medicine Conference, Costa Mesa, California, October 2022.

• ●“Alternative Concussion Balance Testing Between Land and Aquatic Athletes” with student T. Garcia at the Southwest American College of Sports Medicine Conference, Costa Mesa, California, October 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Angular kinematics and critical power of younger and older cyclists during the 3-min all-out test” with M. LeBlanc, S. McClave and S. Hawkins. Journal of Science & Cycling, Vol. 11(1), June 30, 2022.

• ●“Concussion Balance Testing Between Land and Aquatic Athletes” with students T. Garcia and B. Metcalfe. International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings, Vol. 14(2), October 2022.

• ●“Are there Balance Differences between Aquatic and Land Athletes?” with students B. Metcalfe and T. Garcia. International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings, Vol. 14(2), October 2022.

Bryan Rasmussen, PhD, Professor, English

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Storytelling in Ecologically Critical Places” as part of a panel on California’s Ecological Pasts at the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, California, January 2023.

Michaela Reaves, PhD, Professor, History

PUBLICATIONS

• ●Review of Living on the Edge: The American Generation’s Journey through the 20th Century by R.A. Settersten, Jr., G.H. Elder, Jr., and L.D. Pearce, Oxford University Press for The American Historical Review, Bloomington, Indiana: 2021. Published April 2023.

Diane Rodriguez-Kiino, PhD, Professor, Graduate School of Education

PUBLICATIONS

• Advancing Equitable Dual Enrollment: Initial Findings from the ‘Dual Enrollment for Equitable Completion’ Initiative with R.D. Purnell, A.T. Redix, et al. Hayward, California: RDP Consulting, 2023.

Angela Rowley, MS, Lecturer, Graduate School of Education

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Honoring Ancestral Medicine, Healing Ourselves and Counseling con Corazon: Re-connecting to our Stories and Decolonizing Ourselves and Our Communities” with H. Coronado, and students J. Herrera and Z. Juarez at the Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) Conference held at Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado, July 2022.

Hossein Salehi, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Management

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Reviewer, Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning

• ●Reviewer, Academy of Financial Services Conference.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“The nexus between investor sophistication and annuity insurance ownership: evidence from FINRA’s National Financial Capability Study” with T. Korankye and B. Pearson. Managerial Finance, Vol. 49(2), September 16, 2022.

• ●“Financial Advice Use and Saving for Children’s College Education: A Propensity Score Matching Approach” with T. Korankye and B. Pearson. Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, Vol. 34(1), April 2023.

Jean Kelso Sandlin, EdD, Professor, Communication PRESENTATIONS

• ●“When Good Guys Apologize Badly: Exploring Apology Delivery on YouTube” with M. Gracyalny at the International Public Relations Research Conference, Orlando, Florida, March 2023.

• ●“Reputational Difference Impacts YouTube Apology Effectiveness” with M. Gracyalny at the Institute of Public Relations Bridge Conference, Washington, D.C., March 2023.

LaVerne Seales, PhD, Associate Professor, Languages and Cultures APPOINTMENTS

• ●Chair and Presiding Officer of the Spanish and Portuguese (Latin American) permanent session for the 2023 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference.

• ●Chair, Youth Strategy Committee for The Afro-Antillean Museum of Panama.

• ●Corresponding Secretary, San Fernando Valley Chapter of Jack and Jill of America.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“New directions, new minors: Building an interdisciplinary media minor offering experiential opportunities in Spanish language curriculum” with K. Hettinga and S. Wigginton at the Twentieth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece, June 2022 (virtual).

• ●“Emerging Voices in the African Diaspora: The (Re) Presentation of African Identity and Negritude in Panama” at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California, November 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“The Role of the United States in Panama’s Journey Towards Independence.” International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies, November 2022.

• ●“A Panamanian of West Indian Descent: An Autoethnographic Study of Citizenship and Belonging” in Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean

M.A. Medeiros and J.R. Guzman (Eds.). Toronto, Canada : University of Toronto Press, 2023.

Adrijana Sekulovic, PhD, Lecturer, School of Management APPOINTMENTS

• ●Reviewer, Journal of Sport Management

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“The Role of Athlete Agents in the Context of Name, Image and Likeness Activities” at the North American Society for Sport Management Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2022.

• ●“Exploring Black and African American sport workers’ experiences of racism in sporting space and field” at the 2022 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2022.

• ●“A Social Capital Approach to the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics’ Culture of Remembrance” at the Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research Conference, Fullerton, California, March 2023.

Andrea Sell, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychology APPOINTMENTS

• ●Reviewer, Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Mentoring Through Failure, The Role of Leaders When Confronting Failure” with A. Dunbar-Wallis, A.M. Greenwall, et al. at the Council of Undergraduate Research Conversation Series, November 1, 2022 (virtual).

• ●“Is There Still Value in Teaching with Probability Threshold Heuristics?” with N. Talarico and J. Bedics at the PsychTERMS Conference, December 2022 (virtual).

• ●“Using Social Annotation Platforms for Pre-Lecture Preparation and Post-Lecture Practice in an Introductory Statistics Course” at the PsychTERMS Conference, December 2022 (virtual).

• ●“Are there differences in the understanding of statistical versus practical significance among undergraduate psychology students?” with N. Talarico, A. ElBassiouny and J. Bedics at the 103rd Annual Convention for the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

• ●“Crunchin’ Adorable! The Perceptions of Dog vs. Human Crunching Sounds among the General Population” with student M. Allen, M. Ramirez, et al. at the 103rd Annual Convention for the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

• ●“Protecting Undergraduate Student Researchers” with student A. Garcia at the 103rd Annual Convention for the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

• ●“The Effects of Cognitive Control on Motivated Forgetting” with student K. Kriesel at the 103rd Annual Convention for the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

HOSSEIN SALEHI

Assistant Professor, School of Management

“Diverse backgrounds and experiences of individuals foster a dynamic learning environment in the Cal Lutheran community, where different perspectives can be shared and understood. It also promotes creativity in the classroom and research setting by bringing forth more innovative solutions, breakthrough discoveries, and a broader range of research possibilities.”

• ●“Theater of the Mind: Finding a Connection Between Tabletop Role-Playing Games and Quality of Visual Imagery” with student K. Hall at the 103rd Annual Convention for the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

• ●“Agents of Adventure: Processing Tabletop Role-Playing Game Actions as an Extension of Self or Other” with student K. Hall at the 103rd Annual Convention for the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Contextual factors associated with the morale of academic and support staff in universities.” Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, Vol. 27(2), 2023.

• ●“Coping with the Researcher’s School of Hard Knocks: How Undergraduate Research Students and Their Mentors Respond to Failure and Rejection” with J. Kocur and student K.J. Hall. Confronting Failure: Approaches to Building Confidence and Resilience, L.A. Corwin, L.K. Charkoudian and J.M. Heemstra (Eds.), Council of Undergraduate Research, 2022.

Christine Sellin, PhD, Professor, Visual Arts APPOINTMENTS

• ●Research Associate, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Mary Jo Shane, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Management PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Applying cultural intelligence in higher education to prepare for a VUCA world” with A. Azebedo at the InnovaT International Conference: Innovative Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Piura, Peru, June 2022 (hybrid).

MARY JO SHANE

Associate Professor, School of Management

“Increased diversity and inclusion in our learning environment broadens our perception and creativity which can take us to places we could never imagine on our own.”

Ryan Sharma, PsyD, ABPP, Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Graduate School of Psychology

APPOINTMENTS

• ●President-Elect, National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology.

• ●Treasurer and Secretary, American Board of Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Professionalism” at the National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology Summer Meeting, August 2022 (virtual).

• ●“Behavioral health and the fire service” with S. Odom, K. Green, et al. at the Cal Cities Fire Chiefs Leadership Seminar, Monterey, California, December 2022.

• ●“Charting your course with valued action: An approach to managing work-life balance” at the Cal Chiefs Fire Services Support Section, San Diego, California, May 2023.

Bethany Simmons, PhD, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Psychology

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Dismantling the Systems of White Supremacy: Challenging MFTs to Lead Systemic Second-Order Change” keynote with R. Jardine at the North Carolina Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Annual Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 2023.

Mel Spence, EdD, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Reviewer, Educational Researcher

• ●Program Reviewer, Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Identification and development of skills for gifted and talented students, including twice exceptional students with ASD, from underrepresented backgrounds” for the California Council for Exceptional Children Webinar Series, September 16, 2023 (virtual).

• ●“Project for the advancement of gifted and exceptional students” at the Javits Program Directors Annual Meeting, December 2022 (virtual).

Mark Spraggins, DMA, Professor, Music EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES AND CREATIVE PROJECTS

• ●Completed a film score to Mahmoud Salimi’s short film Perfect Restaurant

Walter Stewart, PhD, Professor, Languages and Cultures PUBLICATIONS

• Murder at Sea: A Mystery. Falken Arts, August 23, 2022.

Kirsi Stjerna, PhD, Professor, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary APPOINTMENTS

• ●Chair, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies of Religion and Spirituality, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California.

• ●Core Doctoral Faculty, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California.

• ●Local Committee Chair, 14th International Congress for Luther Research, August 2022.

• ●Advisory Board Member, Graduate Theological Union, Women Studies in Religion.

• ●Editorial Board Member, Dialog: A Journal of Theology

• ●Editorial Board Member, Svenk teologisk tidskrift

• ●Editorial Board Member, Lutheran Quarterly Journal

• ●Advisory Board Member, The Foundation for Religious Sciences John XXIII, Bologna, Italy.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Hermeneutically suspicious and spiritually constructive: the gift of feminist scholarship in (late) medieval and reformation studies” at The Significance of Feminism and Gender Studies in Academia and Beyond Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, June 2022.

• ●“Mysteries of Faith with Luther and the Mystics,” “Mysteries of Faith: Luther and Theosis,” and “Mysteries of Faith: Women and the Reformations” at The Synodical Meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, Svenska Kyrkan/Swedish Church, September 2022.

• ●“Luther as a Freedom Theologian” and “Women of the Reformation” keynotes at The Gross Lectures held at Valparaiso University, Indiana, October 2022.

• ●Panel on the book Women Reformers (2022) at the Society for Sixteenth Century Studies, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2022.

• ●“Women Reformers” three keynote lectures at the Montana Synod Pastoral Leaders Meeting, Chico, Montana, April 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Luther across the borders: The 14th International Congress for Luther Research, Thousand Oaks, California, 2022” with V. Leppin. Dialog: A Journal for Theology, Vol. 61(3) Fall 2022.

• ●Women Reformers in Early Modern Europe: Profiles, Texts, and Contexts, editor and contributor. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2022.

Russell Stockard Jr., PhD, Professor, Communication APPOINTMENTS

• ●Board Member and Past President, UCLA Alumni Association, Conejo Valley Chapter.

• ●Board Member, Ventura County Poetry Project.

RUSSELL STOCKARD JR. Professor,

Communication

“I teach small group communication which gives me insight about the value of diverse individuals in group settings such as classrooms. When individuals of diverse backgrounds and experience participate in the classroom and research, they bring different perspectives that help with innovation and problem solving in these community settings.”

VICTOR THASIAH Professor, Religion

“The more diverse our classrooms get, the better we all become at finding our way through an absolutely beautiful, consistently complex, and increasingly endangered world.”

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Climate and Environmental Communication and Race and Ethnicity in the U.S., the Caribbean, and Latin America” at the Caribbean Studies Association Conference, June 2022 (virtual).

EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES AND CREATIVE PROJECTS

• ●“Arts in Exile #1” invited poetry reading on Ventura Cable Channel 6, January 20, 2023.

Anita Stone, PhD, Associate Professor, Biology APPOINTMENTS

• ●Editorial Board Member, Neotropical Primates

• ●Reviewer, American Journal of Primatology

• ●Reviewer, International Journal of Primatology

• ●Reviewer, Primates

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Factors influencing terrestriality in primates of the Americas and Madagascar” with T.M. Eppley, et al. PNAS, Vol. 119(42), 2022.

• ●“When food fights back: At nest predation of larval and adult paper wasps (Polistinae, Vespidae, Hymenoptera) by Cebus albifrons and Saimiri collinsi (Cebidae, Primates) and the high-energy yield of three risk-sensitive foraging techniques” with A.A. Barnett, B. Ronchi-Teles, et al. Austral Ecology, Vol. 48, 2023.

Nicole Talarico, PhD, Visiting Lecturer, Psychology

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Is There Still Value in Teaching with Probability Threshold Heuristics?” with J. Bedics and A. Sell at the PsychTERMS conference, December 2022 (virtual).

• ●“Are there differences in the understanding of statistical versus practical significance among undergraduate psychology students?” with A. ElBassiouny, A. Sell and J. Bedics at the 103rd Annual Convention for the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

• ●“Imagining positive interactions moderates allophilia ratings of outgroup members based on the perceiver’s identity salience” with A. ElBassiouny at the 103rd Annual Convention for the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

• ●“Adverse Childhood Experiences, Hippocampal and Amygdala Volume, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder” with graduate student A. Ranck at the 103rd Annual Convention for the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

Victor Thasiah, PhD, Professor, Religion APPOINTMENTS

• ●Board Member, Los Padres ForestWatch, an organization that protects and restores forests, chaparral, grasslands, rivers, wildlife and wilderness along California’s Central Coast.

• ●Board Member, Runners for Public Lands.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh on Environmental Justice” at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Denver, Colorado, November 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Race and Climate: Decolonizing Liberal Arts Education” in So That All May Flourish, M.J. Bunge, J.A. Mahn and M.E. Stortz (Eds.), Fortress Press, 2023.

Daniel Tillapaugh, PhD, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education

APPOINTMENTS

• ●Editorial Board Member, Journal of College Student Development

• ●Guest Co-editor, Journal on Women and Gender in Higher Education, curating a special issue on critical perspectives on gender and leadership in higher education to be published in 2024.

• ●Editorial Board Member, Journal of Men’s Studies

• ●Application Reader, The National LGBTQ Scholarship Fund, The Point Foundation.

• ●Program Reviewer, 2023 Association for the Study of Higher Education Conference.

• ●Leadership Specialist, Hazing Prevention Consortium, StopHazing.

• ●EOPS and CARE Advisory Board Member, Pierce College, Los Angeles, California.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“‘More than Lip Service’: LGBTQ+ Social Justice

Educational Interventions as Institutional Benign Neglect” with D.C.J. Catalano, S. Simms and R. Christiaens at the Association for the Study of Higher Education Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Masculinity as violence: college men sexual violence survivors and the impact of hegemonic masculinity.” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, September 23, 2022.

• “Individual and systemic impacts of hegemonic masculinity on college men sexual violence peer educators.” Journal of College Student Development, Vol. 64(2), 2023.

Jose Torres, PhD, Assistant Professor, Bachelor’s Degree for Professionals

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“The Impact of the U.S. Crimmigration System on Salvadoran Fathers in the United States and in El Salvador” on the “Latina/o/x Criminology: Victimization and Immigration” panel at the 2022 American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2022.

Vlad Vaiman, PhD, Professor, School of Management APPOINTMENTS

• ●Board Member, European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM), an academic nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering excellence in responsible research and doctoral education in management and governance.

• ●Vice Chair and Board Member, Ventura County Economic Development Association.

• ●Chief Editorial Consultant, European Journal of International Management

• ●Editorial Board Member, Human Resource Management Review

• ●Editorial Board Member and Reviewer, Journal of Global Mobility

• ●Editorial Board Member, Journal of Knowledge Management

• ●Editorial Board Member, Advances in Global Leadership

• ●Editorial Board Member, Journal of Organizational Effectiveness

• ●Reviewer, Academy of Management Learning and Education

• ●Reviewer, Journal of International Business Studies

• ●Reviewer, Management and Organization

• ●Reviewer, Journal of Organizational Change Management

• ●Reviewer, International Business Review

• ●Reviewer, Human Resource Management

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Sustainable Global Talent Management” at the annual Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) conference, Toronto, Canada, May 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• Talent Management: A Decade of Developments with D.G. Collings and H. Scullion (Eds.). London, UK: Emerald Publishing, 2022.

• ●“HR Professionals and Talent Management: Navigating the Dynamic Macro Context” with E. Farndale. Talent Management: A Decade of Developments, with D.G. Collings and H. Scullion (Eds.), London, UK: Emerald Publishing, 2022.

• ●“They Lose, You Win: Benefits of Managing Talent at Country Level.” C-Suite Quarterly Magazine, September 14, 2022.

• ●“Talent Retention Strategy: Creating Sticky Jobs.” C-Suite Quarterly Magazine, November 2, 2022.

• ●“Being an “Outsider in”: Skilled Migrants’ Career Strategies in Local Organizations” with K. Usanova and J. Zikic. Journal of Global Mobility, February 2023.

• The improvement of Skills & Talents in the Workplace. Edited with A. Pelser and S. Nagy, Axiom Academic Publishers, Potchefstroom: South Africa, March 2023.

• ●“Smart Talent Management: The Productive Fusion of Talent and Knowledge Management” with C.M. Vance. Smart Talent Management: Managing People as Knowledge Assets, 2nd Edition, with C.M. Vance and L. Ju (Eds.), Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Dominique Vargas, PhD, Assistant Professor, English APPOINTMENTS

• ●Executive Council Member, Western Literature Association.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Embodied Cartography as Poetic Resistance” at the Western Literature Association Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 2022.

• ●“Fugitive Ceremony: Modern Atlantic Entanglements in Morrison’s Paradise and Llanos-Figueroa’s Daughters of the Stone” at the Modernist Studies Association Conference, Portland, Oregon, October 2022.

• ●“Communal Care | Communal Lyric in Janet Campbell Hale’s Women on the Run and Sandra Cisneros’s Woman Hollering Creek” at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Los Angeles, California, November 2022.

• ●“Latinidad and Indigeneity: Racial Identity in Process” invited lecture at Berry College, Rome, Georgia, February 2023.

Sheridan Wigginton, PhD, Professor, Languages and Cultures

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“New directions, new minors: Building an interdisciplinary media minor offering experiential opportunities in Spanish language curriculum” with K. Hettinga and L. Seales at the Twentieth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece, June 2022 (virtual).

Colleen Windham-Hughes, PhD, Professor, Religion APPOINTMENTS

• ●Editor, Intersections, the biannual publication by the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities.

• ●Faculty Working Group, Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“The Geography of Compassion in Our Bodies, Individual and Collective” at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference held at University of California, Los Angeles, November 2022.

SHERIDAN WIGGINTON

Professor, Languages and Cultures

“We can’t address issues if we don’t know they exist. My role is to help students notice which voices are included in a decision-making process and, more importantly, which ones are not.”

Paul Witman, PhD, Professor, School of Management APPOINTMENTS

• ●Chair, 2023 ISCAP (Information Systems & Computing Academic Professionals) Conference on Computing Education + Information Systems Applied Research, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 2023.

• ●Senior Editor, Information Systems Education Journal

• ●Associate Editor, Cybersecurity Pedagogy and Practice Journal

• ●Proposal Reviewer, International Conference on Information Systems.

• ●Proposal Reviewer, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

• ●Proposal Reviewer, Americas Conference on Information Systems.

• ●Proposal Reviewer, Education Special Interest Group Conference (EDSIGCON).

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Risk assignments and tradeoffs on the road to driverless vehicles: Yours, mine and ours” with J. Prior and S. Mackelprang at EDSIGCON (Education Special Interest Group of the Information Systems and Computer Academic Professionals), Clearwater Beach, Florida, November 2022. The paper was selected as the Best Case Study for 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Using Analytics to understand Performance and Wellness for a Women’s College Soccer Team” with C. Njunge, P. Holmberg and J. Canacoo. Journal of Information Systems and Applied Research, Vol. 15(3), October 2022.

• ●“Yours, mine and ours: Risk assignments, management, and tradeoffs on the road to driverless vehicles” with J. Prior and S. Mackelprang. Information Systems Education Journal, Vol.21(3), 2023.

Akiko Yasuike, PhD, Professor, Sociology APPOINTMENTS

• ●Sociology Main Divisional Editor, Journal of Integrated Social Sciences

Brandy Yee, PhD, Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies in Education APPOINTMENTS

• ●Board Member, MATES Charter School.

• ●Editor, PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice. Digital Content.

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“From Research to Praxis, Social Emotional Learning in the Kindergarten Classroom” with graduate student M. Dennin at the National Association of Professional Development Schools Annual Conference, Jacksonville, Florida, March 2023.

• ●“Navigating Student Self-Assessment and the Gradual Release of Faculty Control Over the Assessment Process in Higher Education” with H. Hoang at the WASC Senior College and University Commission ARC Conference, Orange County, California, April 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“Community Building in the Kindergarten Classroom: Addressing the Social Emotional Needs of Students” with graduate student M. Dennin. California Association of School-University Partnerships Connections Journal, Vol. 12, Spring 2023.

• ●“Imagine a school: Strengthening the skills and competencies of teachers and school leaders –Viewpoints from Canada and the United States.” Empirische Pädagogik, a European journal on the theory and practice of educational research, Vol. 23(4), March 2023.

Ariana Young, PhD, Associate Professor, Bachelor’s Degree for Professionals APPOINTMENTS

• ●Editorial Board Member, Journal of Integrated Social Sciences

PRESENTATIONS

• ●“Sofa sleuths: Exploring the personality predictors of crime show viewership” with student S. Knopp and A. ElBassiouny, K.T. Young, et al. at the 103rd Annual Convention for the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, California, April 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• ●“How parasocial relationships affect our selfconcepts” with S. Gabriel, E. Naidu and V. Schneider. The Oxford handbook of parasocial experiences R. Tukachinsky Forster (Ed.). Oxford University Press, 2023.

ARIANA YOUNG

Associate Professor, Bachelor’s Degree for Professionals

“Students from diverse backgrounds bring unique perspectives to the classroom, contributing to a dynamic and inclusive learning experience.”

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

Center for Economic Research and Forecasting

Matthew Fienup, PhD, Executive Director, Center for Economic Research and Forecasting

Dan Hamilton, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Management

• ●$275,000 from Community Partners to support research related to and preparation of the 2022 U.S. and Metro Latino GDP Reports.

• ●$200,000 from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation to produce 2023 Metro Latino GDP Reports for Phoenix, Silicon Valley, Charlotte, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Atlanta, and California’s Central Valley.

• $50,000 from CoBank, AgWest Farm Credit, Conejo Simi Moorpark Association of Realtors, Citizen’s Business Bank, City of Thousand Oaks, et al., to sponsor the Center for Economic Research and Forecasting’s publication of the Ventura County Economic Forecast.

• $40,000 from Meta to provide feedback on research design and economic models

Other Program Grants and Contracts

Brian Collins, PhD, Associate Professor, Philosophy

• ●$1,610 from the Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization to support the annual Summer Philosophy Institute for high school students who are interested in philosophy and engaging in philosophical discussions.

• $1,000 from the Mellon Foundation through the Council of Independent Colleges’ New Currents in Teaching Philosophy program, November 2022.

Michael Cosenza, EdD, Professor, Graduate School of Education (PI)

Diane Rodriguez-Kiino, PhD, Professor, Graduate School of Education

Roni Hooper, MPPA, Office of Sponsored Research and Projects

Michael Hillis, PhD, Dean, Graduate School of Education

Gabriela Cazares, PhD, EDUCAL Program Director

Megan Fung, PhD, Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Co-PI)

Nathan Carlson, PhD, Professor, Mathematics (Co-PI)

• ●$1,200,000 from the National Science Foundation, Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program for the project “Teacher Experiences Advancing Mathematics and the Sciences (TEAMS).”

Robert Dull, PhD, Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences

• ●$1,500 from Pando Days to restore native habitat to a riparian zone on Cal Lutheran’s campus behind the SEEd garden and baseball fields.

Rafaela Fiore Urizar, PhD, Professor, Languages and Cultures

Ryan Medders, PhD, Professor, Communication

Diane Rodriguez-Kiino, PhD, Professor, Graduate School of Education

Christina Sanchez, PhD, Associate Provost for Global Engagement.

• $159,692 from the U.S. Department of Education, Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Programs, for a two-year project, “Embracing Spanish for the Professions at Home and Abroad (ESPHA).”

Megan Fung, PhD, Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences

• ●$40,691 from the G.A. Foster Legacy Foundation: Reimagining and Reinvesting Educational Practices in the SEEd Garden: New Directions.

• ●$10,000 from an anonymous funder for the SEEd Garden to continue improvements within the garden, such as building raised bed covers and creating new signage.

• ●$5,000 from an anonymous funder: Rededicating Community Involvement in the SEEd Garden: Year 2 to support the creation of permanent educational displays and brochures and upholding critical infrastructure in the garden.

Dana Harmon, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biology

• ●$34,710 Research Publication Grant in Engineering, Medicine and Science from the American Association of University Women for a research study “Characterizing the role of multidrug efflux pumps in regulation of metabolism in E. coli.”

Michael Hillis, PhD, Dean, Graduate School of Education

Victoria Kelly, EdD, Lecturer, Graduate School of Education

Tymika Wesley, EdD, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education

• $625,000 per year California Teacher Residency Implementation Grant, Santa Maria Bonita School District and the Graduate School of Education.

Rick Holigrocki, PhD, Dean and PsyD Program Director, Graduate School of Psychology

• $54,500 from Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Entitlement Program to fund CLU Oxnard Cares: Affordable Mental Health Services for City of Oxnard Residents

• $36,960 from Southern Smoke Foundation to fund Mental Health Counseling for California-Based Food and Beverage Industry Workers

Jolivette Mecenas, PhD, Associate Professor, English

• $2,500 from the Center for Critical Education: Radical Teacher Fellowship for 2023 First-Year Writing Common Read program on the food justice movement in Ventura County.

Lorena Muñoz, PhD, Associate Professor, Ethnic and Race Studies

• $5,000 from the Council of Independent Colleges to expand, digitize and create curriculum content in order to institutionalize HSI at Cal Lutheran.

Adina Nack, PhD, Professor, Sociology

Colleen Windham-Hughes, PhD, Professor, Religion

• $10,000 from Kaiser Permanente to support internships and scholarships for students in the public health minor.

David Nelson, PhD, Professor, History

• $8,100 from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to support the 2022 Lyceum Lecture Series, “Flipping the Script: Unexpected Moments that Time Forgot,” a lecture series in which a visiting scholar and Cal Lutheran faculty discuss historical events with intergenerational audiences.

Michaela Reaves, PhD, Professor, History

• $28,555 from the California State Library to continue the project “Taking a Stand: Civil Liberties Then and Now,” in which secondary teachers and their students analyze primary sources, then visit sites of importance.

Mel Spence, EdD, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education

Tymika Wesley, EdD, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education

• $300,000 from Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity for preparing and producing highly effective and diverse teachers.

Brandy Yee, PhD, Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies in Education

• ●$500,000 from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing for the purpose of expanding the current Integrated Teacher Preparation Program at Cal Lu, and building on existing relationships with Oxnard and Moorpark Colleges.

California Lutheran University has seen remarkable growth since its founding in 1959. The university keeps pace with the changing needs of students while remaining true to its mission: to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice. Our Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) designation demonstrates the university's commitment to living out its mission within the changing context of student demographics.

The 225-acre main campus in Thousand Oaks is home to a dynamic liberal arts and sciences university with 3,500 undergraduate and graduate students who represent a diversity of faiths and cultures. Cal Lutheran has other locations in Westlake Village, Oxnard and Santa Maria as well as Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley.

Cal Lutheran offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs through the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Management, Graduate School of Education, Graduate School of Psychology, School for Professional and Continuing Studies and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. Forty-one majors and 41 minors are offered in the traditional undergraduate program.

The Bachelor’s Degree for Professionals program offers degrees in eight majors. Graduate programs include doctorates in educational leadership, higher education leadership, clinical psychology and theology; and master’s degrees in education, psychology, business, economics, information technology, public policy and administration, and divinity.

Cal Lutheran is deeply involved in service to communities in Ventura County and beyond. Examples include affordable counseling services, the Autism and Communication Center, professional development for nonprofit leaders, economic forecasting, a program to teach K-12 subjects using drama techniques, a community swimming pool, and NPR and local news through KCLU Radio. The university’s thriving arts programs promote cultural awareness and provide intellectual and educational benefits to the region.

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