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CSUMB Experts Directory

If you are looking for a university expert to interview and inform your news reporting, or to speak to an audience about a particular topic, this is your first stop to find them on our campus. 

If you need further assistance, please email Public Information Officer Walter Ryce or call 831-582-3653; or email Deputy Public Information Officer Mark Muckenfuss or call 831-582-3991. More experts will be added to this list. 

If you are a CSUMB faculty member and would like to be listed and available to speak to your areas of expertise, please call or email Walter Ryce

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Daramola N. Cabral

Professor of Public Health and Population Health Sciences

Highest degree
Dr.P.H. in Epidemiology, M.P.H., P.A.

Expertise

Epidemiologist, cancer research scientist, colorectal cancer, health disparities

Judith Canner

Judith Canner

Professor of Statistics

Highest degree
PhD in Biomathematics and Zoology

Expertise

Statistics, data science, quantitative reasoning, education, ecology, psychology, and the health sciences, data literacy

JP Dundore-Arias

Jose Pablo “JP” Dundore-Arias

Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology

Highest degree
MSc and PhD in Plant Pathology (minor in entomology)

Expertise

Plant-microbe interactions, diseases and pests of leafy greens, food safety, agricultural microbiomes, agricultural workforce development

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Alyssa Erikson

Professor and Chair in the Department of Nursing 

Highest degree
RN, PhD in Nursing from University of California, San Francisco

Expertise

Nursing profession, health and wellness, palliative care, hospice care, evidence-based practice

Daniel Fernandez

Daniel Fernandez

Professor in the Department of Applied Environmental Science

Highest degree
PhD in Electrical Engineering

Expertise

Fog and fog water collection, physics, infrastructure, systems and sustainability

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Kenny Garcia

Associate Librarian; Research and Instruction Librarian

Highest degree
MA in Liberal Studies; MLIS in Library Science

Expertise

Critical information literacy, health information, cultural humility in librarianship. Diversity, equity, and inclusion in librarianship

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Joshua K. Harrower

Lawton Love Distinguished Professor of Special Education, and Chair of the Department of Education and Leadership

Highest degree
PhD in Education, BCBA-D (Board Certified Behavior Analyst-Doctoral)

Expertise

Classroom behavior support, K-12 school culture and climate, special education, autism spectrum disorder, positive behavior interventions and support (pbis), multi-tiered systems of support (mtss), behavior analysis, school discipline support

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James Lindholm

James W. Rote Distinguished Professor of Marine Science and Policy; Chair of Department of Marine Science

Highest degree
PhD in Ocean Conservation from Boston University

Expertise

Marine fish ecology (specifically landscape ecology of fishes), marine protected area (MPA) design and monitoring, anthropogenic impacts to seafloor communities, research SCUBA diving, remote sensing of undersea marine ecosystems, video and still photography to study undersea ecosystems, marine policy, ecological effects of fishing

Cheryl Logan

Cheryl Logan

Professor, Department of Marine Science

Highest degree
PhD in Biology, Stanford University

Expertise

Marine ecological physiology and genomics, global change biology, ecological forecasting, ocean climate change policy, fish (especially rockfish, gobies, flatfish) and marine invertebrates, stony corals

Suzanne-Mateus

Suzanne García Mateus

Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education, Department of Education and Leadership; Coordinator of Bilingual Authorization; Co-Director of El Centro/ Center for Latiné Student Success; Director of the Monterey Institute for English Learners (MIEL)

Highest degree
PhD in Bilingual and Bicultural Education, University of Texas at Austin

Expertise

Bilingualism, bilingual education, dual language education, identity construction, (bi)literacy development, language acquisition, bilingual teacher education, and critical teaching pedagogies (i.e., anti-racism, culturally sustaining, translanguaging, borderlands)

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Angie Ngọc Trần

Professor of Political Economy, Global Studies, CSUMB

Highest degree
PhD in Political Economy

Expertise

Transnational labor migration (Vietnam and Malaysia; Vietnam and Saudi Arabia), labor resistance, labor unions, guest-workers, corporate social responsibility

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Cathi Draper Rodriguez

Professor and Coordinator of the MS School Psychology Program, Director of the Clinic for Educational Support, Director of Project REACH

Highest degree
PhD in Special Education/School Psychology, Licensed Educational Psychologist, Nationally Certified School Psychologist

Expertise

School psychology, multi-tiered systems of support, assessment of multilingual learners

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Rob Weisskirch

Professor of Human Development; Chair of Human Development and Family Science Department
Subjects of expertise/research 

Highest degree
PhD in Human Development

Expertise

Adolescence, child development, college students, immigrant families, acculturation, social media and youth, technology and parenting, education, language brokering (when kids translate for their parents and other adults), technology and relationships, parenting, and lifespan development

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Dustin Wright

Associate Professor of Japanese Culture and Language, Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures  

Highest degree
PhD in History, UC Santa Cruz

Expertise

Japanese and Asian History, Japanese Language, U.S.-Japan Relations, Cold War History, Food History, Food Studies, U.S. Military Bases Abroad, Colonialism and Imperialism

James Guilinger

James J. Guilinger

Assistant Professor, Director of Watershed Geology Lab

Highest degree

Environmental Science (Soil and Water Emphasis), PhD, University of California, Riverside 

Expertise

Geomorphology, watershed hydrology, geological hazards, landslides, post-fire debris flows, remote sensing, topographic surveying, river restoration 

Scott Fausti

 

Scott W. Fausti

Professor of Agribusiness

Highest degree

PhD in Economics, University of Illinois 

Expertise

Economics, agriculture economics, risk management, precision agriculture, cattle markets, sustainable ag, economic business cycles