Experts Directory

Professor of Public Health and Population Health Sciences. Expertise areas include: epidemiology, cancer research, colorectal cancer, and health disparities.

Professor of Statistics. Expertise areas include: data science, data literacy, quantitative reasoning, and education.

Assistant Professor of Plant Physiology. Expertise areas include: food safety, diseases and pests of leafy greens, agricultural workforce development, and diversity in the STEM fields.

Professor and Chair in the Department of Nursing. Expertise areas include: the nursing profession, health and wellness, palliative care, and hospice care.

Professor of Agribusiness. Expertise areas include: agricultural economics, risk management, precision agriculture, sustainable agriculture, cattle markets, and economic business cycles.

Professor in the Department of Applied Environmental Science. Expertise areas include: fog and fog water collection, infrastructure, and sustainability systems.

Associate Librarian/Research and Instruction Librarian. Expertise areas include: information literacy; health information; and diversity, equity, and inclusion in librarianship. Garcia is also co-director of the Cal State Monterey Bay Center for Latinx Student Success.

Assistant Professor and Director of the Watershed Geology Lab. Expertise areas include: geomorphology, watershed hydrology, remote sensing, topographic surveying, geological hazards, landslides, post-fire debris flow, and river restoration.

Lawton Love Distinguished Professor of Special Education and Chair of the Department of Education and Leadership. Expertise areas include: classroom behavior and school discipline support, K-12 school culture and climate, special education, autism spectrum disorder, positive behavior interventions and support, and multitiered systems of support.

Professor of Legal Studies/Pre-Law Advisor. Expertise areas include: legal history, constitutional law, immigration law, education law, religion and law, Chinese law, Indigenous rights, international human rights, social justice, and community engagement.

Professor of Marine Science and Policy and Chair of the Department of Marine Science. Expertise areas include: fish ecology, marine protected area design and monitoring, research SCUBA diving, remote sensing, and photography/videography of undersea ecosystems, and ecological impacts of fishing.

Professor of Marine Science. Expertise areas include: ocean climate change policy, ecological forecasting, global change biology, fish (especially rockfish, gobies, and flatfish), marine invertebrates, and stony corals.

Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education. Expertise areas include: dual language education, language acquisition, (bi)literacy development, identity construction, and critical teaching pedagogies.

Professor of Political Economy and Global Studies. Expertise areas include: transnational labor migration (Vietnam and Malaysia; Vietnam and Saudi Arabia), labor resistance, labor unions, guest workers, and corporate social responsibility.

Professor and Coordinator of the MS in School Psychology Program. Expertise areas include: multitiered systems of support and assessment of multilingual learners. Draper Rodriguez is also director of the Clinic for Educational Support and Project REACH.

Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Science. Expertise areas include: child development, adolescence, college students, immigrant families, acculturation, technology and parenting, social media and youth, and language brokering.

Associate Professor of Japanese Culture and Language/Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures. Expertise areas include: Japanese and Asian history, U.S.-Japan relations, Cold War history, U.S. military bases abroad, Colonialism, Imperialism, and food history.