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Research at CSUMB

2025 Celebration of Research

Don't miss this year's Celebration of Research! This engaging event showcases the innovative research of our esteemed faculty. Explore fascinating projects, attend dynamic lightning talks, and enjoy delicious small bites while you mingle with fellow researchers and enthusiasts.

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Past Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity

CSUMB Faculty produced over 200 peer-reviewed publications in Academic Year 2021-2022. Please reach out to specific faculty for updated information.

Patrick Belanger	California Condors, Source Credibility, and Wildlife Conservation Messaging
	Wilderness, freedom, firearms: Sacred rhetoric at the 53rd parallel
Danelle Burchett	Adapting assessment processes to consider cultural mistrust in forensic practices: An example with the MMPI instruments
	Assessing negative response bias: A review of the noncredible overreporting scales of the MMPI-2-RF and MMPI-3
	Assessment of response bias in personality disorder research
	Differentiation between borderline and antisocial personality disorders in forensic settings
Althea SullyCole	Listening to Kora in New York City: Constructing Africa and Blackness in the U.S
Zuri De Miguel	Precision Exercise Medicine: Sex Specific Differences in Immune and CNS Responses to Physical Activity
	Exercise plasma boosts memory and dampens brain inflammation via clusterin
Sara Salazar Hughes	Greenwashing in Palestine/Israel: Settler colonialism and environmental injustice in the age of climate catastrophe
	Unbounded territoriality: Territorial control, settler colonialism, and Israel/Palestine.
	Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism.
Stephanie Johnson	Art installation Ancestor’s Grove: A Space Journey was included in the Autumn Lights Festival at Lake Merritt
	Here are just some of the ways theater depends on ‘women’s work,’ often unpaid
	Theatrical lighting designer embraces ‘ethereal art form’
Mridula Mascarenhas	Memes as quasi-argument: An insidious threat to public debate
Timothy Orme	Fulcrum: Award winning short animation
	10 screen installation at the new Hans Christian Andersen museum
Rebecca Pozzi	Acquiring Sociolinguistic Competence During Study Abroad: U.S. Students in Buenos Aires.
	Language-specific research on second language sociolinguistics in Spanish
	Learner development of a morphosyntactic feature in Argentina: The case of vos
	Problematizing heritage language identities: HL speakers of Mexican descent studying abroad in Argentina
	Heritage Speakers of Spanish and Study Abroad
	Heritage Speakers of Spanish and Study Abroad (pp. 1-10)
	The sociopragmatic development of heritage language learners studying abroad in a non-heritage country
Chris Pratorius Gomez	My Head is Full of Colors, Opera
	Cumbia Quinceañera for Triple Wind Quintet
	Xochitl and the Flowers, Opera
	Amazing Grace, Opera
	Untogether, Not Apart, Chamber Concerto
	Claroscuro en Flor, Harp Concerto
	Contraponientes for SATB Choir and Chamber Orchestra
	Madrigal: Neruda’s Poema XX for Mezzo-soprano and Ensemble
	Being of One’s Hour, Ballet
Sam Robinson	The Library is Open: RuCapturing Narrative and Drag Race Herstory Through Remixed Episodes and Fan Dialogue
	Confronting the Comp Classroom: Implementing Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Navigating Opposition
Christine Rosales	Wearing a mask is an act of anti-racism and radical love
	“Success” in the borderlands: Measuring success for underrepresented and misrepresented college students
Enid Ryce	MexiCali Biennial
	War and the Weather
	Atmosphere
	Large-scale Paintings
	Rising Water(colors)
	A Land for War
	Histories of the MexiCali Biennial
	Painting (Permanent installation at Natividad Medical Center)
	In conversation with Luis xago Juarez
	How do we tell science stories? Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science.
	Introducing the Getty Foundation’s Art x Science PST
	Borderlands Environmental Research Guide
	Against Eden
Lanier Sammons	The Crack-Up and War and the Weather
	War and the Weather
	Atmosphere
	Permeable Watersheds
	Snowy Plover
	Black Rock Station
	Turntable drawing no. 16
	Secant
	Bird Honesty
Shannon Snapp	“This is real, this is the way that things are”: Hooking up as a pathway for sexual identity development among LGBTQ+ youth
	School pushout: The role of supportive strategies versus punitive practices for LGBT youth of color
Daniel Summerhill	Black Joy: An Anthology of Black Boy Poems
	Our Grapes of Wrath: The Black History of Monterey County
	Confronting the Comp Classroom: Implementing Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Navigating Opposition
	Divine, Divine, Divine
	Mausoleum of Flowers
Tolga Tezcan	Religiosity Dynamics among Recently Arrived Turkish Marriage Migrants in Germany
Angie Tran	Ethnic Dissent and Empowerment: Economic Migration between Vietnam and Malaysia
	Contradictions of Multi-stakeholder Labor Relations in Vietnam
	The International Labor Organization and Vietnam’s Labor Export Policies: The Case of Vietnamese Migrant Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia, forthcoming in The Global Labour Rights
	Rights and Labour Resistance in Vietnam
	The Kafala system and Vietnam’s domestic workers: corruption and a silenced press
	Modern-day slavery: Vietnamese women domestic workers in Saudi Arabia
David Vila Dieguez	he Movida Madrileña vs Spanish Punk Culture: Disenchantment, Hedonism and the Youth’s Political Commitment during the Spanish Transición
	Vuelta a las trincheras: El declive del estilo en la música como elemento de movilización política
	Música, politización y movilización social
	El canallita machirulo’: una aproximación a las masculinidades del rock español
	Ya no puedo vivir sin ti”
	La Rumba del Coco

Caleb Bernacchio	Learning from MacIntyre, MacIntyre and Political Philosophy
Linda Glenn	Ethics for a New Humanity: Saving Our Planet and Ourselves
Jorge Hurtarte	Next Generation 5G Networks
Jennifer Kuan	Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy
	Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Open Innovation
Jenny Lin	Consumer Culture Theory in Asia: History and Contemporary Issues
Angeline Nariswari	Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of Service Studies, Service-Dominant Logic
Karlee Posteher	Encyclopedia of Sport Management, Student-Athlete
	Encyclopedia of Sport Management, Recruiting
	Sport and the pandemic: Perspectives on Covid-19's impact on the sport industry
Rosalyn Sandoval	Developing Cultural Competence and Civic Responsibility through Service-Learning
Marylou Shockley	Sustainable Dentistry
Heiko Wieland	Handbook of Research on Sales, An Exploration of Sales Activities from a Service Ecosystems Perspective

Cathi Draper Rodriguez	School success for at-risk students: A culturally responsive tiered approach
	School psychologists and the opportunities and challenges of serving dual language and English earners: An introduction to the special issue
	White paper: The provision of school psychological services to dual language learners
	A meta-analysis of mobile technology supporting individuals with disabilities
Ondine Gage	Building Meta-CulturalAwareness
	Language awareness: A personal and pedagogical practice
	Building Meta-Cultural Awareness
	Legitimate codes of exchange: Gaining awareness of transnational inquiry of language awareness
	Language awareness: A personal and pedagogical practice
	Urgently needed: A praxis of language awareness among pre-service primary teachers
	Engaging Faculty in Assessment of Institutional Learning Outcomes
Suzanne Garcia-Mateus	Ruptures of Possibilities: Mexican Origin Mothers as Critical Translanguaging Pedagogues
	Gentrification and bilingual education: A Texas TWBE school across seven years
	Vitamina C for Cultura
	Vitamina T for Tacos
	Latinx Parents Raising Bilingual Children: An Exploration of the Monolingual Norm and Translanguaging in Family Language Practices
	Interrogating our Interpretations and Positionalities: Latinx Researchers as Scholar Activists in Solidarity with Our Communities
	An Experienced Latina Bilingual Teacher and PreK Latinx Students in the Borderlands: Translanguaging Pedagogy as Humanizing Pedagogy
	A Critical Perspective on the Educational Labeling of Multilingual Students in the United States
Josh Harrower	Understanding the environmental determinants of problem behaviors
Elisabeth Kim	Using it to our advantage in a way it was not designed to be
	It's powerful. There's nothing punitive about it; you're just listening
	Equity in Secondary Career and Technical Education in the United States: A Theoretical Framework and Systematic Literature Review
Tara Kulkarni	Externalizing Behavior Problems and Low Academic Achievement: Much Ado about Nothing?
	A call to action for school psychology to address COVID-19 health disparities and advance social justice.
	Externalizing Behavior Problems and Low Academic Achievement: Does a Causal Relation Exist?
	DisCrit theory: Emotional and behavioral disturbance assessment and identification. In S. L. Proctor & Rivera, D. P. (Eds.), Critical theories for school-based practice: A foundation for equity and inclusion in practice and supervision.
	Quantitative Research as a Tool for Social Justice.
Scott Waltz	Tutor Training for Service Learning: Impact on Self-Efficacy Beliefs
	Service Learning: School-Partner Realities
Rob Weisskirch	The Impact of Death and Dying Education for Undergraduate Students during the Covid-19 Pandemic. OMEGA
	Experiences of discrimination and language brokering: Exploring risks and protective factors
	How Empathy Relates to Language Brokering
Joanna Wong	Gateway moments to literate identities
	Developing as an agentive bilingual teacher: Self-reflexive and student learning inquiry as teacher education resources
	Affordances of Critical Asset-Focused Teacher Inquiry: Discoveries, Challenges, and Shifts toward Culturally Sustaining Writing Pedagogy
	Preservice Teachers’ Conceptions about How Children’s Literature May Be Culturally Sustaining for Their Students
	Centering Critical Consciousness and Translanguaging in Mandarin/English Dual Language Bilingual Education Programs
	Using Contrasting Cases to Foster Preservice Teacher Noticing around Valuing Student Language and Ideas
	Teacher Inquiry as Dialogic Process Towards Expansive Writing Pedagogy in Restrictive Elementary Education Contexts for Emergent Bilingual Students
	A Critical Perspective on the Educational Labeling of Multilingual Students in the United States
	Centering Translanguaging and Critical Consciousness in Chinese/English Dual Language Bilingual Education Programs

Kent Adams	The Relationship Between Partial and Full Range of Motion Deadlift 1-Repetition Maximum: A Technical Note
	Allometrically Scaled Grip Strength and the Mature Adult: Brief Report III
	Prevalence of hyperglycemia in masters athletes
	The Time Management Matrix Re-Tooled: An Instrument for Academics Navigating the Tenure Process
	Tactical Masters Athletes: BMI Index Classifications
	The relationship between physical fitness and combat fitness in United States Marines: A brief report
George Beckham	Isometric Analyzer 1.0 [Computer Software]
	Plyometric Training. Advanced Strength and Conditioning: An Evidence Based Approach
Maria Bellumori	Measures of motor segmentation from rapid isometric force pulses are reliable and differentiate Parkinson’s disease from age-related slowing
Candra Carr	Comparing the Effectiveness of Virtual and In-Person Delivery of Mindfulness-Based Skills Within Healthcare Curriculums
	Wellness in Physician Assistant Education: Exploring Mindfulness, Well-Being, and Stress
Lisa Leininger	A model of iterative assessment practice
	Evaluating students’ perceived stress, sleep quality, and physical activity in Exercise is Medicine on Campus student-led health consultation program
	Effectiveness of an Exercise is Medicine-On Campus® Virtual Program on Perceived Stress Levels of Faculty and Staff
	Evaluation of physical activity participation, self-Efficacy, and outcome expectancy for employees participating in Exercise is Medicine on Campus programs
Vanessa Lopez-Littleton	Racial trauma: Dismantling anti-Black racism in classrooms and academia.
	ADORE: A framework for community building to dismantle anti-Black racism in academia.
	Coming to terms: Dismantling systemic racism and (the myth of) white supremacy.
	The National Conference on Health Disparities Student Research Forum
	I Am Not Your Negro movie review: Critical reflection and discourse to advance social equity,
Eric Martin	Impact of Instructor Generated Guided Reading Questions for University Textbooks on Learning
	Changes in University Club Athletes’ and Non-Athlete Students’ Stress and Perceived Gains Across a Semester
	Perceived benefits of participating in an undergraduate strength and conditioning internship
Ignacio Navarro	Strength-Based Case management
	Effects of Length and Predictability of Poverty Spells on Probability of Subsequent Substantiated Allegations of Child Maltreatment
Karen Rotabi	Child maltreatment and protection in Arab Gulf Cooperation Council countries: A scoping review
	Social work codes of ethics in the Arab-Muslim world: A comparison to the IFSW Code of Ethics
	Intercountry adoption swimming against the tide: Restitution in Samoa
	Social work in health emergencies: Global perspectives
Trish Sevene	Allometrically Scaled Grip Strength and the Mature Adult: Brief Report III
	Prevalence of hyperglycemia in masters athletes
	The Time Management Matrix Re-Tooled: An Instrument for Academics Navigating the Tenure Process
Lisa Stewart	Parenting a child with special health care needs and the impact of family and community support on parental employment among immigrants in the U.S. Journal of Family Issues.
	Employed Parents of Children with Typical and Exceptional Care Responsibilities: Family Demands and Workplace Supports. Journal of Child and Family Studies.
	Supporting Sleep and Health of Employed Parents with Typical and Exceptional Care Demands. Journal of Social Service Research
Justin Wolfe	Using the Health Belief Model to improve influenza vaccination rates

Liz Alter	Environmental DNA metabarcoding is a promising method for assaying fish diversity in cenotes of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
	Riverscape genomics of cichlid fishes in the lower Congo: Uncovering mechanisms of diversification in an extreme hydrological regime.
	Using environmental DNA to detect whales and dolphins in the New York Bight
	Fishomics: Genetics, Genomics and Transcriptomics of Fishes
	The virus evolves: four public health priorities for reducing the evolutionary potential of SARS-CoV-2
	Two new Phenacogrammus (Characoidei; Alestidae) from the Ndzaa River (Mfimi-Lukenie basin) of central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo
	Fishes of the Mfimi River in the central Congo basin of the Democratic Republic of Congo
	Evolution in the fast lane: diversity, ecology, and speciation of cichlids in the lower Congo River
Robert Burton	Photovoltaic solar farms in California: can we have renewable electricity and our species, too?
Judith Canner	Visualizing the Virus
	Teaching Courses Focused on Social Good
Jennifer Clickenbeard	A comparison of American student and faculty experiences in mathematics courses during the COVID-19 pandemic
	Experiences of College Mathematics Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Brief Report.
	Academic Outcomes and Experiences of Undergraduate Students Majoring in Mathematics During the COVID-19 Pandemic
	Academic Outcomes and Experiences of Freshman Students in Mathematics Courses During the COVID-19 Pandemic
	Mathematics faculty experiences teaching virtual courses during the COVID-19 pandemic
Victoria Derr	Re-awakening bio-cultural memory: Reflections on engaging diverse middle schoolers in the transformation of their school grounds
	Children’s Participation in Planning
	Applied Environmental Science Field Adventures: Sensory Walk, Garrapata State Park
Jenny Duggan	Observations on the year-round communal use of an artificial structure by Northern Pacific rattlesnakes (Crotalus oreganus oreganus) in coastal Central California
	Squirreling from afar: Adapting Squirrel-Net modules for remote teaching and learning
JP Dundore-Arias	Deciphering the Microbiome: Integrating Theory, New Technologies, and Inclusive Science
	Microbiome Metadata Standards: Report of the National Microbiome Data Collaborative’s Workshop and follow-on activities
	Removing Systemic Barriers to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Report of the 2019 Plant Science Research Network workshop “Inclusivity in the Plant Sciences”
	Potato Nitrogen Response and Soil Microbial Activity as Affected by Fumigation
Daniel Fernandez	Early Night Fog Prediction Using Liquid Water Content Measurement in the Monterey Bay Area
Corey Garza	Rethinking committee work in the research enterprise: The case of regenerative gatekeeping
	Boundary spanning leadership in community-centered geoscience research
	Using Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to map and monitor changes in emergent kelp canopy after an ecological regime shift
	Charting a course to a Just, Equitable, Diverse and Inclusive (JEDI) future
	Diversifying the ocean sciences: Thoughts on the challenge ahead
	A socio- ecological imperative for broadening participation in coastal and estuarine research and management
	Equitable Exchange: A framework for diversity and inclusion in the geosciences. AGU Advances
	Center for Coastal and Marine Ecosystems
	Drones help monitor restoration of Elkhorn Slough wetlands
Thomas Horvath	Global soil organic carbon–climate interactions: Why scales matter
	New uses for old tools: Reviving Holdridge Life Zones in soil carbon persistence research
Arun Jani	Fertilization management with sewage sludge sustains Eucalyptus productivity in Cerrado infertile soil
	Tolerance and Adaptability of Tomato Genotypes to Saline Irrigation
Cheryl Logan	Upwelling level acidification and pH/pCO2 variability moderate effects of ocean acidification on brain gene expression in the temperate surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni
	From polyps to pixels: understanding coral reef resilience to local and global change across scales
	Forecasting Climate Sanctuaries for Securing the Future of Coral Reefs
	Chapter 3: Oceans and Coastal Ecosystems and their Services, In: Climate Change
	Variation in coral thermotolerance across a pollution gradient erodes as coral symbionts shift to more heat-tolerant genera
	Quantifying global potential for coral evolutionary response to climate change
Sam Ogden	Many Models at the Edge: Scaling Deep Inference via Model-Level Caching
Lee Ritscher	Rape and Dating Violence
Doug Smith	Influence of a Post-dam Sediment Pulse and Post-fire Debris Flows on Steelhead Spawning Gravel in the Carmel River, California
Fred Watson	Predation strongly limits demography of a keystone migratory herbivore in a recovering transfrontier ecosystem
	Sizing an open-channel woodchip bioreactor to treat nitrate from agricultural tile drainage and achieve water quality targets
Suzanne Worcester	A Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) in Biology: Developing Systems Thinking through Field Experiences in Restoration Ecology

Sarah Dahlen	Measuring the transfer experience: Assessing and improving information literacy skills for transfer students and first-year registrants
Stephen Fadel	Introducing and promoting Love Data Week
	Designing a business faculty LibGuide

Natasha Oehlman	Write it down to up the impact: authentic and reflective writing to maximize the impact of undergraduate research.
	You're invited to the Rejection Party" and other strategies for normalizing rejection and failure as part of the research process. Confronting Failure: Approaches to Building Confidence and Resilience in Undergraduate Researchers
	Creating more inclusive research environments for undergraduates
	Using Propensity Score Matching to Assess High Impact Practices (HIPs) outcomes
	An examination of inclusivity and support for diversity in STEM Fields.
John Banks	Insect diversity and abundance measured two decades after farmland conversion to forest using different human-assisted restoration strategies in Gede, Kenya
	Toxicity of chlorantraniliprole and it’s formulated product, Altacor®, to individuals and populations of Ceriodaphnia dubia Richard.
	A tale of two metrics: The EPA risk quotient approach versus the delay in population growth index for determination of pesticide risk to aquatic species.

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
- Dr. Danielle Burchett - Psychology
- Ms. Meghan O'Hara - Cinematic Arts and Technology
- Dr. Sam Robinson - Humanities and Communication
- Ms. Enid Ryce - Cinematic Arts and Technology
- Dr. Yoshiko Saito-Abbott - World Languages & Cultures
- Dr. Lanier Sammons - Music & Performing Arts
- Dr. Umi Vaughn - Humanities and Communication
College of Business
- Dr. Brad Barbeau - School of Business
College of Education
- Dr. Cathi Draper Rodriguez - Education and Leadership
- Dr. Dennis Kombe - Education and Leadership
- Dr. Erin Ramirez - Education and Leadership
- Ms. Megan Sulsberger - Education and Leadership
College of Health Sciences and Human Services
- Dr. Julie Altman - Social Work
- Dr. Valerie Berry - Physician Assistant
- Dr. Amy Bullas - Social Work
- Dr. Christopher Forest - Physician Assistant
- Dr. Maria Gurrola - Social Work
- Dr. Kim Judson - Health, Human Services, and Public Policy
- Dr. Vanessa Lopez-Littleton - Health, Human Services, and Public Policy
- Dr. Kai Martinez - Social Work
- Dr. Ignacio Navarro - Health, Human Services, and Public Policy
- Dr. Renie Rondon-Jackson - Social Work
College of Science
- Dr. Susan Alexander - Applied Environmental Science
- Dr. Liz Alter - Biology & Chemistry
- Dr. Young Joon Byun - Computing & Design
- Dr. Judith Canner - Math & Statistics
- Dr. Lipika Deka - Math & Statistics
- Dr. Jennifer Duggan - Applied Environmental Science
- Dr. Jose Pablo Dundore-Arias - Biology and Chemistry
- Dr. Dan Fernandez - Applied Environmental Science
- Dr. Corey Garza - Marine Science
- Dr. Arlene Haffa - Biology and Chemistry
- Dr. Alison Haupt - Associate Professor, Marine Science
- Dr. Tomas Horvath - College of Science
- Dr. Hongde Hu - Math & Statistics
- Dr. Meagan Hynes - Biology & Chemistry
- Dr. Arun Jani - Biology & Chemistry
- Lee Johnson - Applied Environmental Science
- Dr. Nathanial Jue - Biology and Chemistry
- Dr. Andrew Lawson - Dean
- Dr. Joanne Lieberman - Math & Statistics
- Ms. Laura Lee Lienk - Applied Environmental Science
- Dr. James Lindholm - Marine Science
- Dr. Cheryl Logan - Marine Science
- Dr. Alison Lynch - Math & Statistics
- Mr. Forrest Melton - Applied Environmental Science
- Dr. Sathya Narayanan - Computing & Design
- Dr. Sherry Palacios - Marine Science
- Dr. Corin Slown - Biology and Chemistry
- Dr. Doug Smith - Applied Environmental Science
- Dr. Aparna Sreenivasan - Biology and Chemistry
- Dr. Alana Unfried - Math & Statistics
- Dr. Fred Watson - Applied Environmental Science
Extended Education
- Ms. Claudia Carter - Associate Dean
- Ms. Amy Marie Danowitz -
University College
- Dr. Sharon Anderson - Advising
- Dr. Nelson Graff - Communication Across Disciplines
- Dr. Christine Hernandez - Service Learning
- Dr. Mercadal Evans - Advising
Office of Graduate Studies & Research
- Dr. John Banks - UROC
- Dr. Krista Kamer - COAST
Student Affairs
- Dr. Kim Barber - PreCollege Programs
- Ms. Clementina Macias - Enrollment Management
- Ms. Joanne Snawder-Manzo - Student Life
- Dr. Leslie Williams - Dean of Students

Office of Graduate Studies and Research

Research at CSUMB

2025 Celebration of Research

Past Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity

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