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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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)
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
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
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
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 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 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