The Work of Our Faculty

Faculty Accomplishments

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Presentations
  • “A Kantian Nonideal Theory of Punishment for Human Beings” at the 14th International Kant Congress, Bonn, Germany, Sept. 13, 2024
  • “Police Violence and the Viability of Nonviolent Resistance” at the 98th American Philosophical Association's Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, California, April 17, 2024
Appointments
  • Director of the Center for Equality and Justice, California Lutheran University

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Presentations
  • “Person-Level Changes in Depression in Relation to Changes in Self-Harm and Suicidal Ideation” at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Seattle, Washington, Oct. 15, 2024
  • “Symptomatic and Mechanistic Change in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Suicidal Self-Harming Youth” at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Seattle, Washington, Oct. 15, 2024

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Presentations
  • “Poetry and Music as Epistemological Inquiry: The Artistry of Dana Gioia and Morten Lauridsen” at the Association of Lutheran College Faculties, California Lutheran University, Oct. 5, 2025
Appointments
  • President, Association of Lutheran College Faculties

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Publications
  • “The Bible without a Cure (As Emancipatory Praxis)” in The Bible and Critical Theory, Vol. 20, No.1, 2024
Presentations
  • Keynote speaker for Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Theoasis Professional Leaders’ Conference, La Quinta, California, Oct. 15, 2024
  • “Justice and Fascism in Paul’s Epistle to the Romans” at the Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center, Bangor, Pennsylvania, April 4, 2025.
  • “Christian Queering: Lessons from the Empire” at the Gender and Politics in the Postcolony: The Christian Legacy conference at Silliman University, Dumaguete, The Philippines, Jan. 7, 2025
  • “Buried in Baptism: Romans 6:1-14 with Reshe’s Negative Psychoanalysis” at the Society of Biblical Literature in San Diego, California, November 2024

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Publications
  • "On n-Hausdorff homogeneous and n- Urysohn homogeneous spaces" with Italian co-authors M. Bonanzinga, D. Giacopello, and F. Maesano published in the Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics.
  • "New bounds on the cardinality of n-Hausdorff and n-Urysohn spaces" with Italian co-authors M. Bonanzinga, and D. Giacopello published in the Mathematics journal of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.
  • "On diagonal degrees and star networks" in Topology and its Applications.
  • "Observations on a cardinality bound involving the weak Lindelof degree" with Italian co-authors Desiree Basile and Angelo Bella published in Topology and its Applications.
Presentations
  • "On diagonal degrees and star networks" at the Pittsburgh Topology Seminar (virtual), September 5, 2024.

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Appointments
  • Editorial Board, The Journal of Anglican and Episcopal History

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Publications
  • “Using graph neural networks to reconstruct charged pion showers in the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter” in paper Citation: M. Aamir et al 2024 JINST 19 P11025, November 2024
  • “Machine learning method for enforcing variable independence in background estimation with LHC data: ABCDisCoTEC” in paper Citation: CMS Collaboration, A. Hayrapetyan et al. arXiv:2506.08826v1, June 10, 2025
  • “Measurements of inclusive and differential Higgs boson production cross sections at ss = 13.6 TeV in the H ???? decay channel” in paper Citation: CMS Collaboration, A. Hayrapetyan et al. arXiv:2504.17755, April 24, 2025
  • “Observation of a pseudoscalar excess at the top quark pair production threshold” in paper Citation: CMS Collaboration, A. Hayrapetyan et al. arXiv:2503.22382, March 28, 2025
  • “Determination of the spin and parity of all-charm tetraquarks” in paper Citation: CMS Collaboration, A. Hayrapetyan et al. arXiv:2506.07944v1, June 9, 2025
  • “Measurement of WWZ and ZH production cross sections at ss = 13 and 13.6 TeV” in paper Citation: CMS Collaboration, A. Hayrapetyan et al. arXiv:2505.20483, May 26, 2025

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Presentations
  • “Writing Education in the Writing Center Through the Interstices of Administration, Peer Consultation, and the Classroom” at the 2024 Writing Education Across Borders conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 20-21, 2024
  • “Exploring Connected Experiences in a Graduate Writing Community” at the Association of Lutheran College Faculties’ annual conference, California Lutheran University, Oct. 4-5, 2024
  • “Writing Feedback: Writing Center Pedagogy and Generated AI” at the Global Horizons Initiative of the Program in Global Languages & Cultures, UC Irvine, Feb. 6, 2025

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Publications
  • “Shifting perspectives on disability: Family reflections on a life fully lived with Down syndrome” with T. Bachrach. (2024). DADD Online Journal: Research to Practice, 11 (1), 166‚ 182
  • “Prismatic narrative inquiry: Examining K-8 perspectives on professional learning communities” with M.E. Fisher, M.A. Dorner, K.S. Maghzi, et al. (2024). CCTE Fall 2024 Research Monograph, 134-141. California Council on Teacher Education
Presentations
  • “Constructivism in practice: Comparing the strengths of two approaches to building perspective taking capacity” (Conference iPoster) at the American Educational Research Association, April 23-28 (virtual)
  • “Impact of ableism in schools: Perspective of new special educators” at the 2024 TASH Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, Dec. 6, 2024

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Publications
  • “Vengeance and Coming of Age in the Late Medieval Mediterranean World” with Peter Sposato in Confluences Méditerranée, n. 131, Winter 2024-25, pp. 119-129
  • “Culture of War‚ High and Popular” in Cultural History of War, vol. 2: A Cultural History of War in the Medieval Age, ed. Clifford J. Rogers. New York: Bloomsbury, 2025
Presentations
  • “Great and Dangerous Undertakings: The Virtue of Active Military Service in Amadis de Gaula” at the 71st annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston, Massachusetts, March 20, 2025
  • “War as an Act of Vengeance: Chivalry, Masculinity, and War in Fifteenth-Century Castile” at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9, 2025

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Publications
Presentations
  • Invited master of ceremonies at “Repeating History: A Night of Memory, Meaning, and Morality,” The Agora LA in Thousand Oaks, May 16, 2025
  • “Teaching Philosophy Through Black Mirror” at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, April 2025
  • “Logistics of Running a High School Summer Philosophy Program” at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Feb. 21, 2025 (virtual)
  • “Philosophical Practice as the Foundation of Lutheran Epistemology” at the 89th Annual Association of Lutheran Colleges Faculties Conference, California Lutheran University, Oct. 5, 2024 
  • “Maybe I'm Wrong: How the Humanities are Uniquely Equipped to Foster the Intellectual Humility and Resilience Essential to Building the Beloved Community” at the 89th Annual Association of Lutheran Colleges Faculties Conference, California Lutheran University, Oct. 5, 2024

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Presentations
  • “Decolonizing and Transforming Education: Supporting Immigrant and First-Generation Students in Higher Education” at the Conference for Social Justice in Education: Trauma Resilience and the Impact of Migration, CSU Channel Islands, March 1, 2025
  • “Counseling con Corazon: Creating Healing and Supportive Spaces for immigrant students” at the  Conference for Social Justice in Education: Trauma Resilience and the Impact of Migration, CSU Channel Islands, March 1, 2025
  • “Supporting the Success and Social Mobility of First-Generation Graduate Students Through the Lens of Cultural Wealth: Research to Practice” at the National Social Mobility Symposium, CSU San Marcos, Feb. 20-21, 2025
  • “Career and Cultura: Finding Purpose Through Ancestral Capital” at the COLEGAS 2025 Webinar Series, May 22, 2025 (virtual)
  • “Honoring Indigenous Ways of Healing: Integrating the Medicine Wheel for Wellness” at the Santa Barbara Public Library, Santa Barbara, California, May 13, 2025

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Exhibition, Performance, Creative Projects
  • Performed the role of Haley Harrington in the play, Hotbed Hotel, at the Conejo Players Theater, Thousand Oaks, California, Jan. 10 to Feb.1, 2025

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Publications
  • “Affording a Dignified Life on The Central Coast of California: Challenges & Opportunities,” Center for Economics of Social Issues, February 2025

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Publications
  • “Perturbation theory analysis of the strain-dependent superconducting phase diagram for Sr2RuO4,” Physical Review, B 110, 014509/1-5, 2024

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Publications
  • “Exploring social media engagement strategies in small nonprofit organizations: From informational sharing to community calling.” RAIS Journal for Social Sciences, 8(2), 2024, pp. 23-31
Presentations
  • “Leveraging Social Media Engagement for Student Recruitment in Educational Nonprofits” at the West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference, San Diego, California, April 4-5, 2025  
  • “The Dynamics of Facebook Democracy: Analyzing Engagement Strategies of 501(C)(4) Political Organizations” at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Washington, D.C., Nov. 20-22, 2024

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Presentations
  • “Systemtheorie der Ganzheitspsychologie: Kulturpsychologische Analysen und Methoden” keynote address at the KV Zürich Business School, Zürich, Germany, June 2024

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Publications
Presentations
  • “La huella humana en los ecosistemas salvadorenos: perspectivas desde el Holoceno y su importancia en un mundo en calentamiento” keynote address to the Mesoamerican Society of Conservation Biology, San Salvador, El Salvador, June 4, 2024
  • “From plastic to purpose: empowering Salvadorian artisans,” Represented CLU and nonprofit organization Paso Pacifico in El Salvador at the World Surf League global One Ocean initiative, including the publishing of an article on converting plastic harvested from rivers in El Salvador into new products such as jewelry, wax combs, etc.

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Publications 
  • “CERF Third Quarter United States Economic Forecast Publication,” with D. Hamilton, for the Wall Street Journal Economic Forecast Survey, the National Association of Business Economists Economic Outlook Survey, and the Fannie Mae (formerly Case Shiller) Home Price Expectations Survey. Center for Economic Research & Forecasting, California Lutheran University. Thousand Oaks, California. July 2024. 
  • “Dando Vida a la Economía – Latinas Give Life to the U.S. Economy.” Center for Economic Research & Forecasting, California Lutheran University. Thousand Oaks, California. August 2024. 
  • “U.S. Latina GDP Report: Dando Vida a la Economía,” with D. Hamilton, D. Haye s-Bautista, and P. Hsu. For the Bank of America Charitable Foundation. Latino GDP Project, a Project of Community Partners, with the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health & Culture. August 2024.
  • “2024 U.S. Latino GDP Report: Hard-working, Self-sufficient, Optimistic,” with D. Hamilton, D. Hayes-Bautista, and P. Hsu. Latino GDP Project, a Project of Community Partners, with the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health & Culture. September 2024. 
  • “CERF Fourth Quarter United States Economic Forecast Publication,” with D. Hamilton, for the Wall Street Journal Economic Forecast Survey, the National Association of Business Economists Economic Outlook Survey, and the Fannie Mae (formerly Case Shiller) Home Price Expectations Survey. Center for Economic Research & Forecasting, California Lutheran University. Thousand Oaks, California. October 2024. 
  • “2025 CERF Ventura County Economic Forecast Publication,” with D. Hamilton. Center for Economic Research & Forecasting, California Lutheran University. Thousand Oaks, California. February 2025.
  • “CERF First Quarter United States Economic Forecast Publication,” with D. Hamilton, for the Wall Street Journal Economic Forecast Survey, the National Association of Business Economists Economic Outlook Survey, and the Fannie Mae (formerly Case Shiller) Home Price Expectations Survey. Center for Economic Research & Forecasting, California Lutheran University. Thousand Oaks, California. January 2025. 
  • “CERF Second Quarter United States Economic Forecast Publication,” with D. Hamilton, for the Wall Street Journal Economic Forecast Survey, the National Association of Business Economists Economic Outlook Survey, and the Fannie Mae (formerly Case Shiller) Home Price Expectations Survey. Center for Economic Research & Forecasting, California Lutheran University. Thousand Oaks, California. April 2025. 
  • “2025 U.S. Latino GDP Report: Hard-working, Self-sufficient, Optimistic,” with D. Hamilton, D. Hayes-Bautista, and P. Hsu. Latino GDP Project, a Project of Community Partners, with the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health & Culture. May 2025. 
  • “2025 EE. UU. Informe del PIB Latino: Muy Trabajador, Autosuficiente, Optimista,” with D. Hamilton, D. Hayes-Bautista, and P. Hsu. Latino GDP Project, a Project of Community Partners, with the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health & Culture. May 2025. Hamilton, Dan, Matthew Fienup, David Hayes-Bautista, and Paul Hsu. 2025. 
  • “2025 California Latino GDP Report,” with D. Hamilton, D. Hayes-Bautista, and P. Hsu. Latino GDP Project, a Project of Community Partners, with the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health & Culture. May 2025.  
Presentations
  • “Mid-Kaweah Water Market Pilot” presentation with Q&A at Mid-Kaweah Subbasin GSA Public Workshop. Tulare, California. June 2024.
  • “Houston Metro Latino GDP Report” keynote presentation for Bank of America's Houston Leadership Council. June 2024 (virtual).
  • “Atlanta Metro Latino GDP Report” keynote presentation and panel discussion at Latino Economic Forum: Building Growth Across Georgia, hosted by Bank of America. Coca-Cola World Headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia. June 2024.
  • “Ventura County’s Economy – Are We Changing Quickly Enough?” keynote presentation and panel discussion at the Ventura Chamber of Commerce 2025 Economic Outlook Breakfast. Ventura, California. June 2024.
  • “The U.S. Latina GDP: Dando Vida a la Economía”
    • Keynote presentation at the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce Annual Statewide Convention. Bakersfield, California. August 2024.
    • Keynote presentation at Bank of America Latina GDP Media Roundtable. Manhattan, New York. August 2024.
    • Keynote presentation at Bank of America's New Jersey Hispanic Latino Business Summit with Latino Leaders Magazine. Palace at Somerset Park, Somerset, New Jersey. September 2024.
    • Keynote presentation at Bank of America's Dallas Hispanic Latino Business Summit with Latino Leaders Magazine. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas Texas. and was sponsored by Latino Leaders Magazine. October 2024.
    • Keynote presentation at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce 45th Annual National Conference. Kansas City, Missouri. October 2024.
    • Presentation to State Senator Monique Limón and staff. October 2024 (virtual).
    • Presentation to CLU School of Management Dean’s Executive Council. October 2024 (virtual).
    • Keynote presentation for Bank of America Latina GDP Event, with the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce. City Club, Los Angeles, California. October 2024.
    • Keynote presentation for LatinXMBA Association annual summit. Nike Headquarters, Playa Vista, California. November 2024.
    • Keynote presentation at the Oxnard College Latina GDP Event, with the Oxnard College Foundation. Oxnard, California. April 2025.
  • “2024 U.S. Latino GDP: Latinos Lead Recovery from COVID-19” keynote presentation with UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture. Los Angeles, California. September 2024
  • “Suenos to Success: Fueling Latina Entrepreneurship” panel moderator at U.S. Federal Reserve Bank system-wide Hispanic Heritage Month Event, with Joshua Montes, Research Economist with the Board of Governors, and Claire Kramer, Research Economist with the New York Fed. September 2024 (virtual).
  • “Kaweah Subbasin Water Marketing Strategy” presentation with Q&A at Mid-Kaweah Subbasin GSA Public Workshop. Tulare, CA. September 2024
  • "Champions of Change: the Latina GDP in Action” panel discussion with Karen Chopra, the head of Bank of America's Enterprise Hispanic-Latino Strategy. U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce 45th Annual National Conference. Kansas City, Missouri. October 2024.
  • “Ventura County Economic Outlook” keynote presentation and panel discussion at the Thousand Oaks Rotary 33rd Annual Economic Outlook Forecast Breakfast. Thousand Oaks, California. February 2025.
  • “Preview of Ventura County Economic Forecast Publication” presentation at the CERF Ventura County Forecast VIP Reception. February 2025
  • “Ventura County Economic Outlook and Forecast” keynote presentation at 2025 CERF Ventura County Economic Forecast Event. Scherr Forum Theatre, Thousand Oaks, California. February 2024.
  • “Welcome to Ventura County, a Place that Loves People,” discussion moderator with Dr. Anthony Bradley, at 2025 CERF Ventura County Economic Forecast Event. Scherr Forum Theatre, Thousand Oaks, California. February 2024.
  • “2025 CERF Ventura County Economic Outlook and Forecast” 
    • Keynote presentation and panel discussion at the Greater Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce 2025 Regional Economic Townhall. Agoura Hills, California. March 2025.
    • Keynote presentation and panel discussion at the Ventura County Leadership Academy's Leader Lunch. Westlake Village, California. March 2025.
    • Keynote presentation at Limoneira annual shareholder meeting. Santa Paula, California. April 2025.
  • “2025 U.S. Latino GDP Report: Latino GDP Surges Past $4 trillion” keynote presentation and panel discussion at the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce Business Policy Summit. Sacramento, California. April 2025.
  • “Pursuing Inclusive Economic Growth for Ventura County” keynote presentation at the Moorpark's College Annual Strategic Planning Retreat. Thousand Oaks, California. April 2025.
  • “CERF's Ventura County Economic Outlook” presentation to the staff and board members of Habitat for Humanity of Ventura County. Oxnard, California. May 2025.
  • “Ventura County’s Economic Outlook” keynote presentation and panel discussion with Amy Fonzo, CEO of California Resources Corporation, and Cynthia Herrera, Vice Chancellor of the Ventura County Community College District, at Ventura Chamber of Commerce 2025 Economic Outlook Breakfast. Ventura, California. May 2025.
  • “2025 California Latino GDP: Latinos Propel Growth of California's World-Leading Economy” featured presentation during a webinar hosted by the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California for members of the Latino Legislative Caucus, California Senate and Assembly Budget Committees, and the Governor's Office. May 2025 (virtual).
  • “CERF's 2025 Ventura County Economic Forecast” keynote presentation and panel discussion with Tamara Suminski, California Association of Realtors President, and Jordan Levine, California Association of Realtors Chief Economist, at the BOOMer Exchange (Broker, Owner, Office Manager Exchange), hosted by the Conejo Simi Moorpark Association of Realtors. Simi Valley, California. May 2025

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Exhibition, Performance, Creative Projects
  • Producer, director, writer, sound designer for Viewing, an original audio fiction series. Recognition includes:
    • Finalist, Festival of Media Stories, September 2024
    • Best Audio Drama, Swedish International Film Festival, October 2024
    • Best Original Podcast, Nocturna Film Festival, November 2024
    • Official Selection, NZ Web Fest, November 2024
    • Playing on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Podchaser, Player FM, Deezer, Pocket Casts, Podcast Index and YouTube.

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Presentations
  • “Irreducible L(2,1)-Labelings for the torus graphs C5 \Box C_n” with John Villalpando at the MAA General Contributed Poster Session of the MathFest Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, Aug. 8, 2024

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Presentations
  • “Microlearning & Social Justice: Empower Via Snackable Social Media Content” at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2024
  • “Drawn into History: World War II Through Comics” at the Pedagogy Workshop: Teaching Comic Books in Language Classes, Pomona College, Claremont, California, April 2025

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Publications
  • “BFORAMS@MIKROTAX: An Online Database for Deep-Sea Benthic Foraminiferal Taxonomy,” with A.M. Burkett, B.T. Huber, J.R. Young, M.E. Katz, C. Borrelli, R.M. de Mello, K.G.D. Kochhann, S.N. Dameron, E. Thomas and L. Alegret, Journal of Foraminiferal Research (2024), 54 (4): pp. 394-403
Presentations
  • “Utilizing foraminifera to reconstruct paleo-methane seeps and paleoceanographic changes in the Norwegian Sea since the last glacial maximum” at the Coast Geological Society, Ventura, California, April 2025
  • “Expanding the View of Wildfire at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary: A Novel Molecular Marker Approach” at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., Dec. 9-13, 2024 
  • “Microfossil Charcoal and Black Carbon for Paleowildfire Reconstructions During the PETM” with co-authors S. Barkett, S. Wagner, M. Schaller, R. Barton and S. Corcoran at the The Geological Society of America Connects 2024 annual meeting, Anaheim, California, Sept. 22-24, 2024
Appointments
  • Board Member, Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research

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Publications
  • “Barcelona: Through the Looking Glass,” with co-author Rafaela Fiore Urizar, MAA FOCUS, February/March, 2025

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Publications
  • “Preferred sources of mental health information, help, and referrals for caregivers of anxious youth” with - Paper submitted in Summer 2024 and published in. G.C. Dysart, P.C. Kendall, J.M. Gamarra, B.F. Chorpita and M.E. Crane. The Behavior Therapist, Fall 2024, 47(6), pp. 292-301
  • “Effects of an app-enhanced CBT in parents of adolescents with mood or psychotic spectrum disorders” with M.J. Weintraub, M.C. Ichinose, J.L. Zinberg, A. Salimian, R.D. Brown, G. Morgan-Fleming, J.M. Gamarra, T. Tran and D.J. Miklowitz. Behavior Therapy (2025) 
  • “Navigating the maze: Caregiver perspectives on pathways to mental health care for U.S. youth at clinical high risk for psychosis” with V. Calderon, J.M. Gamarra, B. Ruiz-Yu, C.E. Bearden, D. Denneny, J. Zinberg and D.J. Miklowitz. Early Intervention in Psychiatry (2025), 19(3)

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Publications
  • “Beyond the Headlines: Sentiment Divergence and Financial Distress.” Global Finance Journal, Volume 66, Article 101126, June 2025
  • “Sentiment Divergence and its Impact on Share Liquidity.” Multinational Finance Journal, 28(1/2), pp. 3–39, January 2025
Presentations
  • “Market Buzz: The Impact of Social Media Sentiment and Attention On Robinhood Traders” at the Western Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 9-12, 2025
  • “Attention Matters: The Impact of Institutional Investor and Macroeconomic News Attention On Liquidity” and “Market Buzz: The Impact of Social Media Sentiment and Attention On Robinhood Traders” at the Southwestern Finance Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, Feb. 12-15, 2025
  • “The Power of Attention: Examining The Roles of Institutional Investor and Macroeconomic News Attention In Shaping Share Liquidity” at the Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, Oct. 16-19, 2024
  • “The Power of Attention: Examining The Roles of Institutional Investor and Macroeconomic News Attention In Shaping Share Liquidity” at the Academy of Behavioral Finance & Economics Annual Meeting,  Los Angeles, California, Sept. 18-20, 2024
  • “The Power of Attention: Examining The Roles of Institutional Investor and Macroeconomic News Attention In Shaping Share Liquidity” at the Tenure Project Conference, Marshall School of Business, Los Angeles, California, July 21-24, 2024

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Others
  • “Something More and Other: Spirituality as a Means of Transforming the Self From Independent to Interdependent in Alcoholics Anonymous,” dissertation in completion of PhD in Religious Studies from UC Santa Barbara
Presentations
  • “Cultivating and Experiencing ‘ Conscious Contact’ with a Higher Power in Alcoholics Anonymous” at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, Nov. 23-26, 2024
Publications
  • “Religion and Spirituality in Addiction Recovery.” in Religion Compass, overview of field — Hahn, J. L. (2025). Religion and spirituality in addiction recovery. Religion Compass, 19(3), e70017.

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  • “CERF Third Quarter United States Economic Forecast Publication,” with M. Fienup, for the Wall Street Journal Economic Forecast Survey, the National Association of Business Economists Economic Outlook Survey, and the Fannie Mae (formerly Case Shiller) Home Price Expectations Survey. Center for Economic Research & Forecasting, California Lutheran University. Thousand Oaks, California. July 2024. 
  • “U.S. Latina GDP Report: Dando Vida a la Economía,” with M. Fienup, D. Haye s-Bautista, and P. Hsu. For the Bank of America Charitable Foundation. Latino GDP Project, a Project of Community Partners, with the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health & Culture. August 2024.
  • “2024 U.S. Latino GDP Report: Hard-working, Self-sufficient, Optimistic,” with M. Fienup, D. Hayes-Bautista, and P. Hsu. Latino GDP Project, a Project of Community Partners, with the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health & Culture. September 2024. 
  • “CERF Fourth Quarter United States Economic Forecast Publication,” with M. Fienup, for the Wall Street Journal Economic Forecast Survey, the National Association of Business Economists Economic Outlook Survey, and the Fannie Mae (formerly Case Shiller) Home Price Expectations Survey. Center for Economic Research & Forecasting, California Lutheran University. Thousand Oaks, California. October 2024. 
  • “2025 CERF Ventura County Economic Forecast Publication,” with M. Fienup. Center for Economic Research & Forecasting, California Lutheran University. Thousand Oaks, California. February 2025.
  • “CERF First Quarter United States Economic Forecast Publication,” with M. Fienup, for the Wall Street Journal Economic Forecast Survey, the National Association of Business Economists Economic Outlook Survey, and the Fannie Mae (formerly Case Shiller) Home Price Expectations Survey. Center for Economic Research & Forecasting, California Lutheran University. Thousand Oaks, California. January 2025. 
  • “CERF Second Quarter United States Economic Forecast Publication,” with M. Fienup, for the Wall Street Journal Economic Forecast Survey, the National Association of Business Economists Economic Outlook Survey, and the Fannie Mae (formerly Case Shiller) Home Price Expectations Survey. Center for Economic Research & Forecasting, California Lutheran University. Thousand Oaks, California. April 2025. 
  • “2025 U.S. Latino GDP Report: Hard-working, Self-sufficient, Optimistic,” with M. Fienup, D. Hayes-Bautista, and P. Hsu. Latino GDP Project, a Project of Community Partners, with the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health & Culture. May 2025. 
  • “2025 EE. UU. Informe del PIB Latino: Muy Trabajador, Autosuficiente, Optimista,” with M. Fienup, D. Hayes-Bautista, and P. Hsu. Latino GDP Project, a Project of Community Partners, with the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health & Culture. May 2025. Hamilton, Dan, Matthew Fienup, David Hayes-Bautista, and Paul Hsu. 2025. 
  • “2025 California Latino GDP Report,” with M. Fienup, D. Hayes-Bautista, and P. Hsu. Latino GDP Project, a Project of Community Partners, with the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health & Culture. May 2025. 

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Publications
  • Disruption of the EmrAB-TolC efflux pump of Escherichia coli induces global metabolic changes in multiple growth conditions,” with co-authors K. Adamson and J. Wiersma, microPublication Biology, March 2025  

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Appointments
  • Music Festival Adjudication
  • Principal Tubist, Los Angeles Symphonic Winds

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Presentations
  • “Rebranding Accounting as an Inspiration Paper” at the 66th Western Academy of Management Annual Conference, Kelowna, B.C., Canada, March 19-22, 2025
Appointments
  • Senior Coordinator, Engaged Management Scholarship Doctoral Consortium

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Publications
  • “Comparison of the relationships between traditional and regional bone mineral density values and strength and lean mass for younger and older women,” Journal of Mid Life Health, June 2025

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Publications
  • “Innate Qualities or Learned Skills? Copy Editors Disagree About the Need for Training” with co-author A. Appelman, Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, Vol. 79(4), Sept. 13, 2024.
  • “Reaching New Audiences: Student News Organizations’ Spanish-language Coverage” with co-authors C. Aasen, R. Martinez, L. Seales, S. Wigginton and M. Gracyalny, College Media Review, 60, 2024
Presentations
  • “Examining Journalistic Role Performance beyond reporting” at the Annual International Communication Association Conference Preconference: Journalistic Role Performance: Paths Taken and Pathways Forward, June 2024
  • “‘Where magic happens’: The intersection of learning and job satisfaction for early career journalists” at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Aug. 8-12, 2024
Appointments
  • Editorial Board Member, College Media Review
  • President, California College Media Association
  • Editorial Board Member, College Media Review

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Presentations
  • “Exploring the Impact of the Dobbs Case on Young Women and Minorities” at the Western Political Science Association Conference, Seattle, Washington, April 17-19, 2025.

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Presentations
  • “Exploring Resilience in Low-Income Fathers in the Rural U.S.: Promoting the Development of Early Self-Regulation” at the National Conference on Family Relations Annual Conference, Bellevue, Washington, Nov. 20-23, 2024
  • “Profiles of low-income fathers: exploring paternal resilience factors that promote the development of child self-regulation” at the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Lisbon, Portugal, June 16-20, 2024

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Presentations
  • “How Attitudes on Race Shape Public Opinion on Guns in Contemporary America” at the Poverty and Social Protection Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, March 9-11, 2025
  • “Are Gun Rights the New Dog Whistle?” at the Western Political Science Association, Seattle, Washington, April 17-19, 2025

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Publications
  • “Overview of Minority-Serving Institutions in the United States” (2024). State Higher Education Executive Officers.
  • “Oceania in the Desert: A QuantCrit analysis of the (under)counting of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Students at an AANAPISI-HSI” with B.E. Rincon, B.M. Drake, J.J. Harbin and K.K. Ethelbah. (2024). Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 1-24.
  • “We will come to you: Serving newcomer immigrants and English learners at an AANAPISI community college” with F.J. Ngo, D.E. Lee and R.T. Teranishi. (2024). Innovative Higher Education, 1-26.
Presentations
  • “Are Minority-Serving Institutions Serving multiracial students? Examining two or more races graduation rates across MSI designations” with co-authors B.E. Rincon, B.M. Drake, J.J. Harbin and K.E. Ethelbah at the annual conference of the Association for Institutional Research, Orlando, Florida, May 29, 2025
  • “Racial data (re)classification: Implications for Pacific Islander students at UNLV and beyond” at the Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education National Conference, Oakland, California, April 11, 2025
  • “Are Minority-Serving Institutions Serving multiracial students? Examining two or more races graduation rates across MSI designations” with co-author J.P. Wong-Campbell at the 49th Annual Association for the Study of Higher Education Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2024
Awards
  • Outstanding Scholarship Award for 2024-2025, California Lutheran University Graduate School of Education
  • Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award for 2025, Association for Institutional Research

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Awards
  • Emerging Scholars Research Fellowship, Lake Institute on Faith and Giving
Presentations
  • “Can a shirt prevent violence? Evaluating ‘Thursdays In Black’ as Performative Allyship and/or Accessible Performance of Ecclesial Solidarity” at the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, November 2024
  • “Be Fruitful and Multiply, Have Dominion Over the All?: Decoloniality, Degrowth, and Racial Justice” at the Lake Institute on Faith and Giving Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, September 2024
  • “Church Business?: Industrial Complexes, Diversity, and Justice” at the Ecclesiological Investigations Conference, Chicago, Illinois, June 28, 2024

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Publications
  • “The Introduction to College Life Program: Transition Support for Autistic Students” Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 38 (1), Summer 2025, pp. 431-438

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Presentations
  • “The Effect of Unloading on Bilateral Femoral Cartilage Thickness in Active Females” with student co-author Sophia Muller at the Southwest American College of Sports Medicine Conference, Irvine, California, Oct. 25-26, 2024
  • “The Effect of Multidirectional Loading and Limb on Femoral Cartilage Thickness in Females Using Ultrasound” with student co-authors Mari Bufkin and Sophia Muller at the Southwest American College of Sports Medicine Conference in Irvine, California, Oct. 25-26, 2024
  • “Effect of Ball Drag Characteristics on Drag Flick Shot Velocity” with student co-authors Kylie McMasters and Ethan Smith at the Southwest American College of Sports Medicine Conference in Irvine, California, Oct. 25-26, 2026

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Presentations
  • “Exploring an Inside-Out Course for Young Adults Transfers to a Juvenile Detention Facility from a Youth Prison” on a panel titled “Restrictiveness and Interventions That Make a Difference in Juvenile Justice” at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Denver, Colorado, March 12, 2025
  • “Adapting to the changing educational landscape: Inside-Out prison exchange courses at a day reporting center” with M. Deck at the American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, Nov. 14, 2024
Awards
  • Minority and Women Section Service award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences 2025

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Publications
  • “Dialogic: Except the Rain,” Eastern Iowa Review, Issue 19, Spring 2025
Presentations
  • “Where There Is No Doctor: Peace Corps in Southern Africa” on a panel titled “Traveling and Sensory Translation Experiences” at the 121st Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Palm Springs, California, Nov. 7-10, 2024
Exhibition, Performance, Creative Projects
  • “Consider the Snowy Plover” and other poems in a series at Poetry Salon at the 121st Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Palm Springs, California, Nov. 7-10, 2024
  • Represented Thousand Oaks in a joint reading of local poets at one of the annual Ventura County Poetry Festival events, Camarillo, California, March 6-9, 2025

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Publications
  • “Enduring Harm as a By-Product of Prosecutors’ Power Over Exonerees Post-incarceration” with M. Caitlin chapter in Using Organizational Theory to Study, Explain, and Understand Criminal Legal Organizations, Sept. 29, 2024
Presentations
  • “Inherited injustice: Unraveling the impact of wrongful convictions on the lives of the children of exonerees” at the American Society of Criminology Conference, San Francisco, California, Nov. 14, 2024
  • “Stuck in Limbo: Exploring the Space Between Release and Exoneration Among the Wrongly Convicted” at the American Society of Criminology Conference, San Francisco, California, Nov. 14, 2024

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Presentations
  • “Becoming empowering change agents: A transformative dialogue on the linkage between mental health and systemic racism” during Mental Health Month, California Association of School Counselors, May 2025
Exhibition, Performance, Creative Projects
  • “From El Rancho to Scholar: Harnessing resilience, redefining gender roles, and building networks for the future” at the Ventura County Men of Color Conference, California Lutheran University, Sept. 14, 2024

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Presentations
  • “Good for Whom? Identifying Predictors of Participatory AI among UN Sustainable Development AI For Good Projects” at the 2025 Western Political Science Association Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, April 2025
  • Invited Participant: Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado Boulder, 2024
  • “You are an Algorithmic Problem: AI and the Threat of Factory Farmed Citizens” at the Socio-technical Consequences of AI conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September 2024
  • “The Promise of LLM based AI Classification in Expanding Narrative Policy Analysis” at the Workshop on Generative AI as a Method in Social Sciences, Monash University and the Imagining Sustainable Digital Futures (Aalto University, Finland), June 2024
  • "The Importance of Thinking Small: Incorporating Case Study and Fuzzy Set Methodology to the study of Social Media" at the Researching Social Media After The API workshop hosted by the Center for Digital Politics, Media and Democracy at the University of Liverpool, June 2024
Appointments
  • Affiliated Faculty, Center for Information Technology and Public Life (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

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Exhibition, Performance, Creative Projects
  • You Are (the interpreter) Here, solo show with the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, installed at the Elyze Clifford Interpretive Center at the Prime Desert Woodland Preserve, Lancaster, California, Feb.-June, 2025

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Presentations
  • “Oscar Zeta Acosta’s White-Collar Revolts” at the 121st Annual PAMLA Conference, Palm Springs, California, November 2024
  • “The Aesthetics of Diminishment in Gwendolyn Brooks's ‘In the Mecca’” at the 2025 Modern Language Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, Jan. 9-12, 2025
  • “Waged and Wageless Life in Pedro Pietri’s ‘Puerto Rican Obituary’” at the 39th MELUS Conference, Los Angeles, California, April 3-6, 2025

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Publications
  • Building a Moral Economy: Pathways for People of Courage. (Vol. 1 in Building a Moral Economy series.) Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2024.
Presentations
  • “Global Religion and the Climate Crisis: Perspectives from Practical Theology and Religious Studies in International Discourse” Global Religion and the Climate Crisis: Perspectives from Practical Theology and Religious Studies in International Discourse, De La Salle University and University of Hamburg, October 2024
  • “Transgressive Pedagogy: Cultivating Democracy and Agency for Social Justice through Arts of  Community Organizing” at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 2024
  • “Collaboratively Cultivating Subversive knowledge: Transgressing Community-Academy Boundaries” at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 2024
  • “Transgressive Pedagogy: Cultivating Democracy and Agency for Social Justice through Arts of Community Organizing” Social Ethics and Community Organizing Interest Group, Society of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, January 2025
  • “Addressing the Environmental Crisis and Social Inequality” at the Global Engagement and Empowerment Forum on Sustainable Development, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, March 2025
  • “Democracy and Inequality” at the Global Ecumenical Panel on a New International Financial and Economic Architecture, Geneva, Switzerland, March, 2025
  • “Seeking a Morally Viable Response to the Climate Crises: Informed by Voices from its Underside” World Christianity and Ecological Theologies, World Christianity Conference, Princeton University, March 2025

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Publications
  • “Food as an ‘Ingredient’ in Queer and Trans* Ecologies: A Roundtable” with T. Deutsch, Martin Manalansan, Anahi Russo Garrido, Stina Soderling and Carly Thomsen. (2024) Transgender Studies Quarterly Journal
  • “Latinx geographies.” How To Foster Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, And Justice In Geography, pp. 74-81. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024
Presentations
  • "Street Vending project across the Americas” at the 15th Poverty and Social Protection Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, March 9-11, 2025
  • “Where do we know from?” at the Journal of Latin American Geography annual meeting, Detroit, Michigan, March 24-27, 2025

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Publications
  • “‘We don’t really address the trauma’: Patients' Perspectives on Postpartum Care Needs after Severe Maternal Morbidities.” Maternal and Child Health Journal, June, 2024
  • “Love (and Lust) in the Age of Viruses: Sexual Health and Relationships.” Families as They Really Are (3rd Edition), edited by Virginia E. Rutter, Kristi Williams and Barbara J. Risman. W.W. Norton & Company: New York City, New York
  • “Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention by Laura Mamo.” Gender & Society, June 2024
Presentations
  • “The Social Context of Sexuality: Exploring US Data and Scholarly Perspectives” at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Reconsiderations Task Force on Human Sexuality, Chicago, Illinois, September 2024 (virtual)

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Presentations
  • “The Generational Impact of Korean-Born Samurai in Early Modern Japan” at the  Ohio Valley History Conference, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, Oct. 5, 2024

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Publications
  • “Online Maps and Route-Finding – Huge Success, With Some Nagging Problems.” with P.D. Witman, J. Prior, C. Njunge, S. Ng’etich and A. Chaudhry, Information Systems Education Journal, 23 (4), 22-23, (2025)

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Publications
  • “Online Maps and Route-Finding – Huge Success, With Some Nagging Problems” with P.D. Witman, J. Prior, T. Nickl,  S. Ng’etich and A. Chaudhry, Information Systems Education Journal, 23 (4), 22-23, (2025)

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Publications
  • Photoshop Elements 2025 for Dummies with Ted Padova, Wiley Publishing (2025)

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Presentations
  • “Results of the LIFE project to detect and study evolved hot, massive stars” at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Users Meeting, Lac-a-l’Eau-Claire, Quebec, Canada, May 2025
  • “Update on the LIFE project” at MiMeS 2025: Magnetic Massive Stars Across Wavelengths, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, May 2025
  • “Tracing the Evolution of Magnetic Massive Stars” at the Centennial Meeting of the Bartol Research Institute, Newark, Delaware, September 2024
Appointments
  • Subject-matter expert reviewer, NASA Peer Review

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Appointments
  • Advisory Board, Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers
Presentations
  • “Angel Investing Uncovered: Insights, Impact & Opportunity” co-hosted by Hub101 and TCA Venture Group, Westlake Village, California, April 30
  • “Liberal Starts: Why the Next Big Thing in entrepreneurship may come from an unexpected source: the liberal arts” at the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers Annual Conference, Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Nov. 14-16, 2024 
  • “Boulder Thesis Revisited: A Case Study in Creating an Inclusive Startup Ecosystem” at the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers Global Summit, Bangkok, Thailand, June 20-22, 2024

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Publications
  • “Extending Egger’s Regression: Detecting Outcome Reporting Bias in Meta-Analysis of Effects on Multiple, Dependent Outcomes” with T. Beretvas, T., and T. Smith (2025). The Journal of Experimental Education, 1-39.
  • “Unveiling effectiveness: A meta-analysis of professional development programs in science education” with H. You, M. Hong and A. Warren (2024). Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1, 1-35.
Presentations
  • “A Systematic Review on Suicidal Ideation and Attempts Among International Students” at the Western Psychological Association Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 1-4, 2025
  • “The Moderating Effect of Resilience between Trauma Experience and Trauma Symptoms in Young Adults” at the 2025 Western Psychological Association Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 1-4, 2025 
  • “Developing and Validating the Interdisciplinary Science Assessment of Carbon Cycling II” at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, National Harbor, Maryland, March 23-26, 2025 
  • “Unveiling Students' Interdisciplinary Understanding of Carbon Cycling: Employing a Topic Modeling” at the Korean Education Research Association, Kwangju, Republic of Korea, June 2024

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Presentations
  • “Benefits of collaborative, multidisciplinary approaches to AAC training in schools” at the 2024 TASH Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, Dec. 6, 2024 
  • “Increasing identification of 2e students” at the Council for Exceptional Children-Division of Autism and Developmental Disabilities Conference on Autism, Intellectual Disabilities, and Developmental Disabilities, Clearwater, Florida, Jan. 22-24, 2025
Publications
  • “Addressing accessibility through a social justice lens.” (2025). The New Accessibility in Higher Education. Oxford University Press.
  • “Leveling up college-level reading engagement among nontraditional community college students” with K. White. (2025). College Teaching, 1-10.

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Publications
  • “Machine Learning in Tetris” with student co-author Eric Tuesta, Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research, Nov. 23, 2024

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Publications
  • “Make an impact: going full circle together” with L. Held, W. Mathiyakom and A.M. Zaferiou. International Journal of Sports Biomechanics. July 9, 2024

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Presentations
  • “Rooted and Open in the Age of AI” at the 89th Annual Association of Lutheran Colleges Faculties Conference, California Lutheran University, Oct. 5, 2024

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Exhibition, Performance, Creative Projects
  • “Romeo and Juliet,” Costume Designer with Kingsmen Shakespeare Company, July 12-28, 2024

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Presentations
  • “Literacy and the Brain in Students with Hearing Loss” at No Limits for Deaf Children, May 2025

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Publications
  • “(Un)Making a Conservation Landscape: Repeat Photography and Environmental Narrative in Mexico's Sierra San Pedro Martir National Park.” Landscape Research 50.3 (2024)
  • “Condors over Cattle: Managed Wilderness and the Pastoral Tradition in Northern Baja, California.” Journal of the Southwest 66.3 (2024)

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Awards
  • Outstanding Faculty Support Award, California Lutheran University

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Presentations
  • “Supporting the Success and Social Mobility of First-Generation Graduate Students Through the Lens of Cultural Wealth: Research to Practice” with H. Coronado and student E. Delgado at the Social Mobility Symposium, California State University San Marcos, February 2025
  • “Decolonizing and Transforming Education: Supporting Immigrant and First-Generation Student Success in Higher Education” with H. Coronado and students E. Delgado and G. Perez at the Social Justice in Education Conference, California State University Channel Islands, March 2025

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Awards
  • 2024 Public Relations Professional of the Year, Public Relations Society of America Gold Coast Chapter

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Presentations
  • “Shaping sustainable behavior in Zoomers: The interplay of values, perceptions, and local activities” at the 2025 American Marketing Association Winter Academic Conference, Feb. 10, 2025

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Publications
  • “Reaching new audiences: Students news organization’s Spanish-language coverage” with C. Aaesen, R. Martinez, K, Hettinga and S. Wigginton (2024).
  • “The conceptualization of Negritude in the poetry of Carlos Guillermo ‘Cubena’ Wilson.” NaKaN: A Journal of Cultural Studies 4 (2024).

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Presentations
  • “Designing a DEIJ Informed Mentoring Blueprint for Sport Management Programs" at the North American Society for Sport Management Conference, San Diego, California, May 2025

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Presentations
  • “Protecting Undergraduate Research Students in the Social Sciences” at ConnectUR, the Council of Undergraduate Research Annual Conference, College Park, Maryland, June 24-26, 2024

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Others
  • Past-President, National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology

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Presentations
  • “Increasing Identification of 2e Students” at the Council for Exceptional Children-Division of Autism and Developmental Disabilities Conference on Autism, Intellectual Disabilities, and Developmental Disabilities, Clearwater, Florida, Jan. 22-24, 2025
  • “Sense of Self-Efficacy in Teaching Diverse Learners: A Self-Assessment for Teachers and Teacher Candidates” at the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education Conference, Long Beach, California, Feb. 20-21, 2025
  • “A District-Initiated Teacher Residency Program: Partnership Practices, Recruitment Efforts, and What We’ve Learned Along the Way” at the National Association of School and University Partnerships Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 5-8, 2025
  • “Increasing Identification of 2e Students” at the Council for Exceptional Children 2024 Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, March 12-15, 2025

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Publications
  • “Reconstructing Lutheran Theology: Wisdom from the Jewish Faith.” Dialog: Journal for Theology, Fall 2025
  • “Baptism (Matt. 28:19-20; Mark 16:15-16).” The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation, eds. Jennifer Powell McNutt and Herman J. Selderhuis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 650-664, Nov. 19, 2024
  • “Women, Religion, and Spirituality.” Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Gender and Women's History, ed. Amanda Capern. Area curator for “Religion and Spirituality,” Summer 2024
Presentations
  • “Teaching Certainty: A New Look at Martin Luther’s Vernacular Catechesis” at a Luther Lecture for Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, California, April 2025
  • “Reconstructing Lutheran Theology: Wisdom from the Jewish Encounters” at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, California, November 2024
  • “Celebrating Carter Lindberg's work” at the Sixteenth Century Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, November 2024
  • “Masculinities, Religion, and Tradition” Graduate Theological Union, March 12, 2025

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Publications
  • “Esports and Sport for Development in the Caribbean” Caribbean: A Sociology of emerging trends, July 2025

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Presentations
  • “Behavioral ecology of Collins’s squirrel monkeys (Saimiri collinsi): Insights from long-term field studies in Amazonia, Para, Brazil” at the Latin American Primate Society Congress, Pereira, Colombia, Nov. 25-29, 2024

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Presentations
  • “Sources of information, knowledge, and comfort in sexual health: A comparative study of heterosexual and LGBTQ+ young adults” at the 2025 Western Psychological Association Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada,  May 1-4, 2025
  • “Machismo values: Positive and negative values — Generational differences among Latino adult males” at the 2025 Western Psychological Association Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 1-4, 2025
  • “Fatherhood renaissance: Exploring the influence of father-child relationship quality on academic motivation, self-esteem, and mental health in young adult Black males” at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research, California State University, San Bernardino, Nov. 23, 2024
  • “The impact of machismo culture among Latino adult males” at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research, California State University, San Bernardino, Nov. 23, 2024
  • “Taboo or teaching: Generation Z LGBTQ+ experiences with sexual health education” at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research, California State University, San Bernardino, Nov. 23, 2024

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Publications
  • “Bureaucratic representation may lead to less discriminatory outcomes for American Indian and Two Spirit youth: Evidence from an online experiment on school criminalization.” (2025) AERA Open, 11.
  • “The U.S. public disapproves of corporal punishment in American schools‚ Ä for some kids more than others: Evidence from an online experiment on (school) criminalization.” (2025) Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Education, 1-25.
  • “When Parent‚ Teacher Collaboration Turns Violent: Corporal Punishment in American Schools and Subsequent (Secondary) Trauma” with R. Korchagin, B. Valla and J.R. Ford. (2025) Children 12(6):684.
  • “Left Behind in Lockdown: How COVID-19 Deepened the Crisis in K-12 Physical Education” with R. Korchagin and B. Valla. (2025). Children, 12(5), 603.
  • “The Immovable Veil of Black disability: An introduction to Black disability racial threat theory and its application to school criminalization.” Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Education, Sept. 12, 2024
  • “Corporal Punishment Is Losing Ground‚ But Some Still Favor It for Certain Kids” with R. Korchagin. (2025) Frontiers of Education.
  • “California needs a fitness revolution.” (2025). EdSource.
  • “Rebuilding K-12 Physical Education after COVID-19.” Scholars Strategy Network, May 11, 2025
  • “Empowering Disabled Black Youth Through Equitable Education Policies.” (2025). Scholars Strategy Network, May 11, 2025

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Presentations
  • “Incorporating Latin American Children’s Folk Songs into Your String Teaching” at the American String Teacher's National Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2025
  • Clinician at the 4th Annual String Day Festival, Santa Susana High School, Simi Valley, California, March 2025

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Publications
  • “Curiosity, passion, & proximity: Motivations for attending safe zone trainings.” with J. Catalano, D. Chase, R. Wagner, K. Dockendorff and N. Tissi-Gassoway. Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education, 1 (2), 1-11, June 2024
  • “The complexities of consent with men who experience gender-based violence.” Advancing sexual consent and agential practices in higher education: Toward a new community of practice, (pp. 155-173), 2024 “Advancing sexual consent and agential practices in higher education: Toward a new community of practice.” (pp. 129-147). Routledge.
Presentations
  • “Why does allyship matter? Toward a conceptual framework of liberatory allyship” at the 49th Annual Association for the Study of Higher Education Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Nov. 20-22, 2024

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Publications
  • “The Borders Between US: The Effects of Deportation on Men’s Romantic Relationships.” Sociology Compass, Feb. 21, 2025
Presentations
  • “Challenging the Stigma Behind Parental Incarceration: The Experiences of Latina/o College Students with Incarcerated Parents” at the 2024 American Society of Criminology Annual Conference with McNair Scholar Kassandra Reyes, San Francisco, California, November 2024
  • “Challenging the Stigma Behind Parental Incarceration: The Experiences of Latina/o College Students with Incarcerated Parents” at the 2025 Western Society of Criminology Annual Conference with McNair Scholar Kassandra Reyes, Seattle, Washington, February 2025
  • “Incorporating Art and Media Projects in Criminology and Justice Studies Courses” at the 2025 Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, March 2025
  • “Incorporating Experiential Learning in Criminology and Criminal Justice Courses in Urban and Rural Universities Roundtable. Moderator and Discussant” at the 2025 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, March 2025
  • Keynote Speaker at The Ebell of Los Angeles Scholarship Awards Ceremony, Los Angeles, California, Sept. 5, 2024

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Presentations
  • “Talent Retention Effectiveness in the Era of Deglobalization: The Role of National Institutions” at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, Aug. 9-13, 2024
  • “Global Talent Management in the Era of De-Globalization: Consequences for Innovation, Policy, Purpose, a symposium” at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, Aug. 9-13, 2024
Publications
  • “Strategic Human Resource Management in the Era of Algorithmic Technologies: Key Insights and Future Research Agenda.” Human Resource Management, Vol. 63, No. 3., November 2024
  • “The Effect of Sanctions on Macro Talent Management: A Case of Russia.” Journal of World Business, 59(5), 101570., July 2024
  • “Macro Talent Management: A Synthesis of Knowledge, Limitations and Strategic Research Directions.” Talent Management, April 2025

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Presentations
  • “Updates on icaps of C_m x C_n for m=3 and m=5” at the sectional meeting of the Mathematics Association of America Southern California-Nevada, Pitzer College, Oct. 5, 2024 “Updates on icaps of C_m x C_n for m=3 and m=5”

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Publications
  • “Reaching new audiences: Students news organizations’ Spanish-language coverage” with C. Aaesen, R. Martinez, L. Seales and K. Hettinga. College Media Review, 2024 

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Publications
  • “Public Lands Definition.” Runners for Public Lands, 2024

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Presentations
  • “Making sociology relevant to students’ career development: Linking Internship and Action Research” at Pacific Sociological Association meetings, San Francisco, California, March 2025

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  • “International Perspectives on Ethical Educational Leadership: Lessons from workplace cultures that have lost (and found) their way.” New York, NY: Palgrave MacMilan, October 2024
Appointments
  • Board Member, Bridges Charter School
  • Online Content Editor, National Association of School University Partnerships 
  • Faculty Advisor, AI in Education at Oxford University Research Group
Presentations
  • “Shaping change, creating conditions for deeper learning” at the International Congress on School Effectiveness and Innovation Congress, University of Melbourne, Feb. 10-14, 2025
  • “International perspectives on ethical educational leadership” at the International Congress on School Effectiveness and Innovation Congress, University of Melbourne, Feb. 10-14, 2025

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Presentations
  • “Can watching crime shows turn fans into detectives? Examining the psychological impact of crime show viewership” at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention, Denver, Colorado, Feb. 20-22, 2025
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