The Work of Our Faculty

Faculty Accomplishments

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Publications
  • "Reform, Abolition, and Carcerality." Ashli Anda. Radical Philosophy Review, October 2025
Presentations
  • "Teaching Latin American Philosophy at a Hispanic Serving Institution." American Philosophical Association Pacific Division, Virtual, April 2026
Awards
  • Social Justice Advocate Award, Leadership Awards Committee

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Presentations
  • "Group Supervision: Helping Supervisees Transition from Student to Therapist." World Conference for Psychology and Behavioral Science, University of Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom, July 2025
Appointments
  • Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Systemic Therapy
  • Reviewer, Family Systems and Health
  • Reviewer, Psychological Medicine
  • Reviewer, Journal of Happiness Studies
  • Reviewer, BMC Psychology
  • Reviewer, Family Transitions

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Presentations
  • "The Anti-Cancer Properties of Myricetin, a Plant-Derived Compound." National Undergraduate Research Conference, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, April 2026
  • "Anti-cancer effects of berberine in vitro." 2026 National Research Conference, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, April 2026
  • "Berberine Reduces the Viability and Proliferation of A-673 Cancer Cells in vitro." Southern California Council for Undergraduate Research 2025, California State University, Channel Islands, Camarillo, California, November 2025
  • "Berberine Reduces the Viability and Proliferation of A-673 Cancer Cells in vitro." 2026 West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, April 2026
  • "Anti-cancer Effects of Myricetin, a Plant-based Compound." 2026 West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, April 2026

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Presentations
  • "Argentinian Choral Music: From the Bombo and the Caja to the choir." Texas Choral Directors Association, San Antonio, Texas, July 2025
  • "The Choral Music World in the US." Conservatorio de Musica Isaa­as Orbe, Tandil, Argentina, June 2025
Appointments
  • Artistic and Music Director, Conejo Valley Choral Sociaty
  • President, PSICA: Pacific Southern Intercollegiate Choral Association
Awards
  • 3rd Place in the Romano Gandolfi International Choral Conducting Competition in Parma, Italy, FENIARCO: Italian National Federation of Choral Associations

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Appointments
  • Board Member, City Impact

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Publications
  • "Covariation of symptomatic and mechanistic change during dialectical behavior therapy for suicidal self-harming youth." Bedics, J.D., Asarnow, J. R., Berk, M.S., McCauley, E., and Gallop, R. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2026
  • "Stratified Stepped-Care for Reducing Suicide Attempts and Self-Harm in Youth: A Randomized Clinical Trial." Asarnow, J.R., Clarke, G.N., Firemark, A.J., Bedics, J., Miranda, J., Zhang, L., Duan, N., and Comulada, W.S. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2025
Presentations
  • "Psychological correlates of suicidal behavior among international and domestic college students in the United States without non-suicidal self-harm." Annual Meeting of the American Association of Suicidology, St. Louis, Missouri, May 2026
  • "Psychological Factors associated with Self-Harm in the absence of Suicidal Intent in International and Domestic College Students in the United States." Western Psychological Association, Tacoma, Washington, April 2026
  • "Changes in Parental Behaviors Regarding Means Restriction for Suicide Prevention in Children and Adolescents." Western Psychological Association, Tacoma, Washington, April 2026
  • "The Impact of the Neuropsychological Testing Modality on a Task of Color Word Interference." Western Psychological Association, Tacoma, Washington, April 2026
Appointments
  • Science and Scholarship Domain Representative to the Board of Directors, Division 29, Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy Research, American Psychological Association

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Presentations
  • "Embracing Music as Vocation: A Case Study of Composer Morten Lauridsen's 'Be Still, My Soul, Be Still' as Countercultural Protest." Association of Lutheran College Faculties, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, October 2025
Appointments
  • Board Member, Association of Lutheran College Faculties

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Publications
  • "Mourning the World of Mary Magdalene (2018): Challenging Neoliberalism's Melancholic Feminism." Adam Braun. The Bible and Critical Theory, July 2025
Presentations
  • "Difference and Belonging in Galatians." ELCA's Multicultural and Intersectional Network, Tacoma, Washington, February 2026
Appointments
  • Senior Research Fellow in Psychoanalytic Theory, Global Center for Advanced Studies

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Publications
  • "On open-separated sequences," A. Bella, N. Carlson, S. Spadaro, P. Szeptycki. Acta Mathematica Hungarica, Summer 2025
  • "On o-free sequences and compacta," Nathan Carlson. Topology and its Applications, Fall 2025
  • "On local compactness, pseudocompactness, and homogeneity," Nathan Carlson. Topology and its Applications, Fall 2025
Presentations
  • "Recent Advances in Cardinal Inequalities." Set Theory and Topology Conference, Messina, Italy, September 2025

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Publications
  • "A Queer Lectionary: (Im)Proper Readings from the Margins." Peter Carlson, et al. Seabury Books, July 2025
Presentations
  • "Via Media, or Third Way? Teaching Religion in an Age of Division." Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies, Oxford, England, United Kingdom, July 2025
  • "Queer Theology is Reformation Theology." Reformation Day Lecture, Pacific Lutheran Theologian Seminary, Berkeley, California, October 2025
Appointments
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Anglican and Episcopal History

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Publications
  • "Leakage current of high-fluence neutron-irradiated 8" silicon sensors for the CMS Endcap Calorimeter Upgrade." G. Adamov et al. Preprint: 10.48550/arXiv.2510.17280. (2025), October 2025
  • "Measurements of inclusive and differential Higgs boson production cross sections at s = 13.6 TeV in the H→yy decay channel." A. Hayrapetyan, et al. Journal of High Energy Physics Volume 2025, article number 70 (2025), September 2025
  • "Observation of a pseudoscalar excess at the top quark pair production threshold." A. Hayrapetyan, et al. Reports on Progress of Physics 88 (2025) 8, 087801, July 2025
  • "Search for the pair production of long-lived supersymmetric partners of the tau lepton in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV." A. Hayrapetyan et al. pre-print: hep-ex/arXiv.2601.17576. (2026), January 2026
  • "Combination of searches for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV." A. Hayrapetyan, et al. pre-print: arXiv:2510.07527v1 [hep-ex], October 2025

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Publications
  • "A Prismatic evaluation of a k-8 school's third year of implementation." Fisher, M.E., Maghzi, K.S., McDaniel, E., Dorner, M.A., Chun, M., Wan, K., and Cavallaro, J.F. California Council on Teacher Education Spring 2026 Monograph, 2026
  • "Prismatic arts based research: An arts-based look at educational perspectives on professional learning communities." Dorner, M.A., Fisher, M.E., Chun, M., Beaty, I., McDaniel, E., Ortegon, K.M., Maghzi, K.S., Pearson, H., Falce, T.M., Tickel, D., Del Rosario, S., Cho, C., and Ramirez, J. California Council on Teacher Education Fall 2025 Monograph, 2025
  • Leadership, Organizational Change and Restorative Practice: A Prismatic Examination of Managing Complex Change in a K-8 School. Fisher, M.E., Petty, J.A., Cavallaro, J.F., Maghzi, K.S., Chun, M., Dorner, M.A., Ramirez, J., Achieng-Evensen, C., and Falce, T. Taylor and Francis, 2026
Presentations
  • "Restorative practices: A Prismatic evaluation of a k-8 school's third year of implementation." California Council on Teacher Education's Spring Policy Action Network 2026 Conference, Sacramento, California, March 2026

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Presentations
  • "The Effects of Pre-College Philosophy Instruction on Critical Thinking Skills." North Carolina Philosophical Society Conference, Greenville, South Carolina, March 2026

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Presentations
  • "From Ancestral Capital to Career Pathways: Decolonizing Career Readiness through Chicano Studies and Indigenous Epistemologies." Counseling with Purpose: Identity, Innovation, and Equity for Every Student Conference, Glendale Community College, Glendale, California, May 2026
  • "Connecting to Ancestral Wisdom and Resilient Roots: Creating Healing, Nurturing and Resilient Spaces for Community and Connection." California College Personnel Association Fall Institute, California State University, San Diego, San Diego, California, October 2025
  • "Healing in Community, Planting Seeds: Re-Connecting to Purpose, Career Readiness and Ancestral Wisdom." Women of Color Action Network Leadership Conference, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California, March 2026

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Presentations
  • "The Logic of the Illogical: A Workshop in Absurdist Performance." American College Theater Festival Region 8 Conference, Glendale, California, February 2026
  • "Director — Bela Lugosi Meets Edna St. Vincent Millay at the Hollywood Fringe Festival." Hollywood Fringe Festival, Broadwater Theater, Hollywood, California, June 2025
Exhibitions, Performances, Creative Projects
  • Director — Bela Lugosi Meets Edna St. Vincent Millay, A New One Woman Play at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, Broadwater Theater, Hollywood, California, June 5-28, 2025
  • Actress — New Play Table Read — "If I Had A Daughter" by Richard Strand, Claremont, California, November 2025

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Presentations
  • "Looking into the Reality of Housing Affordability in California, With a Focus on Ventura County: Who Are Left Behind and What Can Be Done." 24th Annual Ventura County Housing Conference hosted by HOME, Camarillo, California, October 2025

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Appointments
  • Editor (in chief), Journal of Integrated Social Sciences

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Appointments
  • Board member, Paso Pacifico
  • Review Editor, Editorial Board, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: Paleoecology

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Publications
  • "Identity matters: Exploring the role of race-based index trauma and racial identity on trauma-related psychopathology." Bauer, A., Brown, D., Ebrahimi-Azadegan, C.T., Therthani, S., Bazan, C., Cameron, A., Balaraman, A., Gilmore, A., Wildman, B., and Saraiya, T. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, May 2026
Presentations
  • "Multiple Levels of Racism, PTSD Symptoms, and Polysubstance Use among Black American Emerging Adults." 2025 Annual Meeting of International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Baltimore, Maryland, September 2025
  • "Beyond Criterion A: Significance of racial and historical trauma." Trauma Research Foundation 37th Annual Boston International Trauma Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2026

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Publications
  • "2026 U.S. Latino GDP Report: Hard-working, Self-sufficient, Optimistic." Dan Hamilton, Matthew Fienup, David Hayes-Bautista, and Paul Hsu. The Latino GDP Project, a project of Community Partners, May 2026
  • "CERF Second Quarter United States Economic Forecast Publication." Dan Hamilton and Matthew Fienup. CLU Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, April 2026
  • "2026 CERF Ventura County Economic Forecast Publication: Broken Inheritance." Dan Hamilton and Matthew Fienup. CLU Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, February 2026
  • "2026 CERF California Economic Forecast Publication." Dan Hamilton and Matthew Fienup. CLU Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, February 2026
  • "U.S. Latinos Drive Business and Employment Growth: New Establishments Data." Dan Hamilton, Matthew Fienup, David Hayes-Bautista, and Paul Hsu. The Latino GDP Project, a project of Community Partners, January 2026
  • "CERF First Quarter United States Economic Forecast Publication." Dan Hamilton and Matthew Fienup. CLU Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, January 2026
  • "U.S. Latinos Shatter Economic Records: New Population and Labor Force Data." Dan Hamilton, Matthew Fienup, David Hayes-Bautista, and Paul Hsu. The Latino GDP Project, a project of Community Partners, October 2025
  • "CERF Fourth Quarter United States Economic Forecast Publication." Dan Hamilton and Matthew Fienup. CLU Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, October 2025
  • "CERF Third Quarter United States Economic Forecast Publication." Dan Hamilton and Matthew Fienup. CLU Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, July 2025
Presentations
  • "California Latino GDP: Maximizing Economic Development and Capitalizing on Community Growth." California State Senate's Select Committee on Minority Economic Development, Sacramento, California, July 2025

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Presentations
  • "The Slaughterhouse as a Modern Allegory: Violence and the Limits of the Human in The Vegetarian and Tender is the Flesh." International Comparative Literature Conference, Tokyo, Japan, March 2026

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Awards
  • Winner of Work of Excellence Trophy, Buenos Aires International Film Festival
  • Best Comedy Short Film, Bridge Fest
  • Short Film Award, 16th SAMA International Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 16-20, 2025
Exhibitions, Performances, Creative Projects
  • Short film, "Perfect Restaurant," May 12-15, 2026

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Presentations
  • "Engaging Students in Voting Theory Projects about Faculty Voting Blocs." MathFest 2025, Sacramento, California, August 2025
Appointments
  • Section Needs and Concerns Committee Member, Mathematical Association of America
  • Web Editor and Meeting Coordinator, Southern California-Nevada Section of the Mathematical Association of America

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Publications
  • "Her Body, Their Freedom: The Black Woman and the Performance of National Virtue in France's Abolition Landscape." Sophia Khadraoui-Fortune. Suite Française, vol. 8, December 2025
  • "General Alexandre Dumas: A Century-Long Tale of Memorials." Sophia Khadraoui-Fortune. Contemporary French Civilization, vol. 50.4, December 2025

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Appointments
  • Member, Geological Society of America Joint Technical Program Committee — Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography

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Publications
  • "Effects of an app-enhanced CBT in parents of adolescents with mood or psychotic spectrum disorders." Weintraub, M.J., Ichinose, M.C., Zinberg, J.L., Salimian, A., Brown, R.D., Morgan-Fleming, G., Gamarra, J.M., Tran, T., and Miklowitz, D.J. Behavior Therapy, September 2025

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Publications
  • "Beyond the headlines: Sentiment divergence and financial distress." John Garcia. Global Finance Journal, June 2025
  • "The Power of Attention: Examining The Roles of Institutional Investor and Macroeconomic News Attention In Shaping Share Liquidity." John Garcia. Global Finance Journal, September 2025
  • "Cultural Buffers Against Social-media Noise: Religiosity and The Sentiment-Liquidity Link." John Garcia and Ran Lu-Andrews. Review of Behavioral Finance, January 2026
Presentations
  • "Decoding Social Media: How Attention and Sentiment Drive Retail Trading Behavior." Research Symposium on Finance and Economics, Virtual, Sri City, India, June 2025
  • "The Attention Economy of Retail Trading: Evidence from Robinhood and Social Media." Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, October 2025
  • "Too Smart to be Human: Can AI Agents Replace Us in Behavioral Experiments?" National Science Foundation (NSF) ACCESS Regional AI Workshop, Los Angeles, California January 2026
  • "Decoding Social Media: How Attention and Sentiment Drive Retail Trading Behavior." Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 2026
  • "Too Smart to be Human: Can AI Agents Replace Us in Behavioral Experiments?" Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 2026
Appointments
  • Treasurer, Westminster Free Clinic

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Publications
  • "2026 U.S. Latino GDP Report: Hard-working, Self-sufficient, Optimistic." Dan Hamilton, Matthew Fienup, David Hayes-Bautista, and Paul Hsu. The Latino GDP Project, a project of Community Partners, May 2026
  • "CERF Second Quarter United States Economic Forecast Publication." Dan Hamilton and Matthew Fienup. CLU Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, April 2026
  • "2026 CERF Ventura County Economic Forecast Publication: Broken Inheritance." Dan Hamilton and Matthew Fienup. CLU Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, February 2026
  • "2026 CERF California Economic Forecast Publication." Dan Hamilton and Matthew Fienup. CLU Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, February 2026
  • "U.S. Latinos Drive Business and Employment Growth: New Establishments Data." Dan Hamilton, Matthew Fienup, David Hayes-Bautista, and Paul Hsu. The Latino GDP Project, a project of Community Partners, January 2026
  • "CERF First Quarter United States Economic Forecast Publication." Dan Hamilton and Matthew Fienup. CLU Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, January 2026
  • "U.S. Latinos Shatter Economic Records: New Population and Labor Force Data." Dan Hamilton, Matthew Fienup, David Hayes-Bautista, and Paul Hsu. The Latino GDP Project, a project of Community Partners, October 2025
  • "CERF Fourth Quarter United States Economic Forecast Publication." Dan Hamilton and Matthew Fienup. CLU Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, October 2025
  • "CERF Third Quarter United States Economic Forecast Publication." Dan Hamilton and Matthew Fienup. CLU Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, July 2025

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Appointments
  • Board Member, TOArts
  • Adjudicator, Worldstrides
  • Principle Tubist, Los Angeles Symphonic Winds
Exhibitions, Performances, Creative Projects
  • Guest Conductor, Southern California high schools, February-May 2026

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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." Michele LeBlanc, Tracy White, Steven Hawkins. Journal of Mid-Life Health, June 2025

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Publications
  • "Real effort and real skill: Editors emphasize their contributions in a changing field." Appelman, A., and Hettinga, K. Journalism Practice, October 2025
  • "Exploring the potential for AI editorial assistance in student newsrooms." Hettinga, K., and Pagliassotti, D. Proceedings of the World Journalism Education Congress (pp. 301-321), August 2025
  • "Learning from the best: Lessons from corrections on Pulitzer-winning journalism." Hettinga, K., Smith, E., and Appelman, A. Proceedings of the World Journalism Education Congress (pp. 322-338), August 2025
Presentations
  • "Spanish-language student media and students' sense of belonging at an HSI." Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, San Francisco, California, August 2025
  • "Student journalists' use of Solutions Journalism to cover climate change responses." Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, San Francisco, California, August 2025
  • "Exploring the potential for AI editorial assistance in student newsrooms." World Journalism Education Congress, San Francisco, California, August 2025
  • "Learning from the best: Lessons from corrections of Pulitzer-winning journalism." World Journalism Education Congress, San Francisco, California, August 2025
Appointments
  • Associate Editor, News Research Journal
  • President, California College Media Association

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Publications
  • "If We Don't, Who Will: The New York Abortion Access Fund as a Defender of Reproductive Justice Post-Dobbs." unknown. Journal of Integrated Social Sciences - Sociology section,
  • "Public Opinion, Mobilization, and Voting in the Post-Dobbs Landscape: Are Abortion Rights Losing or Gaining Momentum?" Dr. Haco Hoang and two undergraduates, Katherine Curtis and Isabella Ramirez. Western Political Science Association Conference, April 2026
  • "Assessing the Impact of the Dobbs Abortion Ruling on Young Women and Low-Income Communities." Dr. Haco Hoang and undergraduate, Katherine Curtis. Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations in Mexico, May 2026
Presentations
  • "Public Opinion, Mobilization, and Voting in the Post-Dobbs Landscape: Are Abortion Rights Losing or Gaining Momentum?" Western Political Science Association 2026 Annual Conference, San Diego, California, April 2026
  • "Assessing the Impact of the Dobbs Abortion Ruling on Young Women and Low-Income Communities." 26th International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, National Autonomous University of México, Mexico City, Mexico, May 2026
  • "ELCA Statements as Teaching and Mentoring Documents: Lutheran Lobby Day in Sacramento." Civic Engagement and Faith-Based Institutions Conference, Texas Lutheran University, Seguin, Texas, October 2025
Awards
  • Chapter Activity Grant, Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science) National Honor Society
Appointments
  • Reviewer: "If We Don't, Who Will: The New York Abortion Access Fund as a Defender of Reproductive Justice Post-Dobbs." unknown. Journal of Integrated Social Sciences — Sociology section

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Presentations
  • "Proposed mechanism for DesD, an NIS Synthetase from Streptomyces coelicolor." Enzymology Meeting, San Diego, California, January 2026

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Publications
  • "Bidirectional associations among maternal depressive symptoms, child social skills, and child executive function development using latent change scores." Ku, S., Hooper, E.G., Wu, Q., and Feng, X. Developmental Psychology, 2025
  • "Healing Together: The Role of Social Support in Postpartum Depression." Hooper, E.G., and Ku S. The Creature Times, October 2025
Presentations
  • "Parental Depressive Symptoms and Parenting Responses to Children's Negative Emotions." Western Psychological Association Annual Conference, Tacoma, Washington, April 2026

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Presentations
  • "Can Immigration Bring the Catholic Church to Racial Justice?" Citizenship in a Changing World: Faith, Migration, and Belonging, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, March 2026

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Publications
  • The Business of God: Theological and Ethical Reflections on the Church-Industrial Complex. Dannis Matteson and Sheryl Johnson, editors. Wipf and Stock, August 2025
Presentations
  • "Embracing Change as Ecclesial Practice." Ecclesiology and Ethnography North American Conference, Chicago, March 2026
  • "Silent Night, Empty Morning: Rethinking Christmas Eve Services and the Church's Accommodation of Consumerism." Unwrapping Christmas Through Arts-Based Research: A Transdisciplinary Conference, London, England, United Kingdon/Online, December 2025
  • "Minorities on the Margins: Non-Dominant Linguistic Communities, Church Membership, and Alternative Ecclesial Practices." Ecclesiological Investigations Conference, Greece/Online, September 2025
Appointments
  • Committee Member, Justice and Witness Committee, Northern California and Nevada Conference, UCC
  • Co-Chair, Ethics Unit, American Academy of Religion Western Region
Awards
  • Wabash Institute Early Career Teaching Workshop for Theological Faculty, Wabash Institute

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Publications
  • "Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder as a Mediating Variable for Invalid Baseline Profiles on the ImPACT." Petrossian, A., Kelly, L.A., Casas, R.N., Twyford, J.M., McCrea, M.A., McAllister, T., Broglio, S.P., Benjamin, H., Buckley, T., Duma, S., Goldman, J., Hoy, A., Jackson, J., Kaminski, T., Master, C., Miles, C., Port, N., and Susmarski, A. Healthcare, July 2025
  • "A Home-Based Strength Training Intervention for Stress and Depression Symptoms in Obese Latino Adolescent Males — A Pilot Study." Kelly, L.A., Dominguez, A.M., McMillan, M.I., Petersen, R., Facey, V., Bolio, M., and Hugo. B. Healthcare, March 2026
  • "Associated With Return to Activity After Concussion Among Female Service Academy Members: Findings From the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium." Kelly, L.A., et al. Mil Med, June 2025

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Presentations
  • "Rethinking Humanitarian aid: The challenges of politicization of aid in global crises and how to overcome them." IIAS conference on Public Administration, Mexico City, Mexico, October 2025
Appointments
  • Board Member, Center for Nonprofit Leadership

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Presentations
  • "Fostering inclusion: Autistic college students' insights on social challenges and university support." Western Psychological Association Convention, Tacoma, Washington, April 2026

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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." Michele LeBlanc, Tracy White and Steve Hawkins. Journal of Mid-life Health, June 2025
Presentations
  • "The Effect of Fatigue on Hip, Knee, and Ankle Kinetics During Rear Foot-Elevated Split Squats." Southwest Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine meeting, Burbank, California, October 2025
  • "Effect of Load on Lower Extremity Joint Torques in Rear Foot-Elevated Split Squats." Southwest Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine meeting, Burbank, California, October 2025
Appointments
  • Section Editor, International Journal of Exercise Science

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Presentations
  • "Promoting Civic Engagement Through Human Trafficking Education and Community-Based Service-Learning." ITLC Lilly Conferences: Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning, San Diego, California, January 2026

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Publications
  • "Cultural Buffers Against Social-media Noise: Religiosity and The Sentiment-Liquidity Link." John Garcia and Ran Lu-Andrews. Review of Behavioral Finance, January 2026
Presentations
  • "Liquidity and Spatial Spillovers of Accessory Dwelling Units in Housing Markets." Southwestern Finance Associate Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 2026
Appointments
  • Board Director, Southwestern Finance Association

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Presentations
  • "Examining an Inside-Out Prison Exchange Course and Reentry Workshops for Young Adults in Detention." 63rd Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2026

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Publications
  • "Fire Season: Super Perennial." Jacqueline Lyons. Palette Poetry, November 2025
  • "I Am Not A Robot." Jacqueline Lyons. Broadsided Press, March 2026
Presentations
  • "From Ode to Epistolary: Direct Communication with the More Than Human." 122nd Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, San Francisco, California, November 2025
  • "Movement and Indeterminacy in Poetry." 122nd Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, San Francisco, California, November 2025
Awards
  • Palette Nature Poetry Prize, Palette Poetry, 2025
Exhibitions, Performances, Creative Projects
  • Poetry Reading, Studio Channel Islands Art Gallery, Camarillo, California, October 2025

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Publications
  • SEL Muscle Mastery. Lori Woodley-Langendorff. Endorsement by Homero M. Magaña. All It Takes Foundation, July 2025
Presentations
  • "Harvest College and Career Dreams for Families' Success." American School Counselor Association Annual Conference, Long Beach, California, July 2025
  • "Supporting Students and Families with Undocumented Immigration Status." California Association of School Counselors State Conference, Riverside, California, October 2025
  • "School Counselor Supervisor Training." Ventura County School Counselors Association Professional Development Conference, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California, December 2025

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Appointments
  • Global Education Advisory Board Member, Peregrine Global Services Business Administration Assessment

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Publications
  • You Must Become and Algorithmic Problem. Jose Marichal. Bristol University Press, October 2025
Presentations
  • "Conspiracy as Habitus: Examining the WallStreetBets Subreddit and the Limits of Traditional Mobilization Theory through BERTopic Modeling (with Aaron Heresco)." Pacific Sociolological Association Annual Conference, Long Beach, California, April 2026
Appointments
  • Affiliate Faculty, Center for Information Technology and Public Life (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  • Co-Investigator, New_Public
  • Member - Responsible AI-Generated Content Advisory Council, TikTok
  • Member, Coaching Ethics Forum (CEF) AI Open-Source Ethics Collective
  • Member, ELCA Consulting Group on AI and the Church

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Presentations
  • "The Evolution of Multiethnic Working-Class Aesthetics: Dispossession, Exhaustion, and Racial Capitalism in 1960s and 1970s US Movement Literature." 2026 MELUS Conference, Austin, Texas, May 2026

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Publications
  • "Rethinking Our Research Critically and Creatively: Concepts and Methods in Religious Studies and Theology amidst Climate Injustice. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026." Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Jeane Peracullo, Felix Roleder and Marko Jesske, eds., Global Religion and the Climate Crisis. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026
  • "Teaching Community Organizing in Theological Education: Pedagogical Conundrums and Delights." Cynthia Moe-Lobeda. Organizing Visions: Social Ethics and Broad-Based Social Activism, edited by Gary Dorrien, Charlene Sinclair, and Aaron Stauffer. Maryknoll: Orbis Press, 2026
Presentations
  • "Keynote address." Global Consultation on the Environment: Faith at the Forefront of Climate Justice and Renewal hosted by the Council for World Mission, Lusaka, Zambia, June 2025
  • "Keynote address: Heeding God's Spirit of Healing and Hope in the Age of Climate Catastrophe." 2025 Climate Conference: "Faithful Responses to Climate Change" hosted by the Central Theological Seminary's Buttry Center for Peace and Nonviolence, Kansas City, Missouri, September 2025
  • "Transformative Pedagogy: Teaching toward Moral Agency in the Face of the Seemingly Insurmountable." Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2025
  • "Reconceiving Freedoms: Roundtable on Building a Moral Economy: Pathways for People of Courage, Books 1 and 2." Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (Ecology and Religion Unit), Boston, Massachusetts, November 2025
Appointments
  • Member, Board of Trustees for Fortress Press
  • Westar Social Gospel Seminar Scholar, Westar Institute

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Presentations
  • "Loneliness, Postcrossing and The Practice of Writing to Strangers." 7th Annual Interdisciplinary Loneliness Conference, University of Gdansk, Poland, September 2025

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Presentations
  • "Transformative Social Protection: Global Perspectives on Poverty and Empowerment." International Poverty and Social Protection Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, March 2026
Appointments
  • Board Member, Buen Vecino

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Publications
  • "Social Loafing in Virtual Teams: The Persistence of Demographic Factors." Susan Murphy and Bruce Gillies. Journal of Business and Behavioral Sciences, Spring 2026
Presentations
  • "Social Loafing in Virtual Teams: The Persistence of Demographic Factors." 33rd Annual Conference of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2026
Awards
  • Best Paper of a Track ASBBS 33rd Annual Conference, American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences

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Presentations
  • "When a Child's Diagnosis Inspires a Parent to Consider their own Nuerodiverse Identity: Navigating Parent-Child Relationships and Identities during ADHD Diagnostic and Treatment Interactions." Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Long Beach, California, April 2026
  • "Postpartum Maternal Justice: Understanding Social Role Panic Resulting from Childbearing Complications." Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Long Beach, California, April 2026
  • "Everything Hurts: How Childbearing Complications Impact Postpartum Sexuality." Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Long Beach, California, April 2026

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Appointments
  • Board Member, Focus On the Masters 

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Presentations
  • "Branding from the Inside Out During Transition: A Co-Creation Model and Case Study for Nonprofits." American Marketing Association Academic Conference, Madrid, Spain, February 2026
  • "Brand Brilliance." "The Collective: Day of Empowerment" women's conference hosted by JP Morgan, Newport Beach, California, April 2026
Awards
  • PRME Report 2025 — Teaching, The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME)

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Publications
  • Photoshop Elements for Dummies. Barbara Obermeier and Ted Padova. Wiley Publishing, January 2026
Exhibitions, Performances, Creative Projects
  • Client design projects, Obermeier Design, Ventura, California, June 2025 to June 2026

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Publications
  • "Magnetic Field Monitoring of Four Massive A-F Supergiants." Wade, G.A., Oksala, M., Neiner, C., Boucher, E., and Barron, J.A. Astrophysical Journal Letters, July 2025
  • "SpecpolFlow: a new software package for spectropolarimetry using Python." Folsom, C.P., Erba, C., Petit, V., Seadrow, S., Stanley, P., Natan, T., Zaire, B., Oksala, M.E., Villadiego Forero, F., Moore, R., and Catalan Olais, M. Journal of Open Source Software, July 2025
  • Encyclopedia of Astrophysics, Volume 2: Stellar Magnetism. Petit, V. and Oksala, M.E. Elsevier, 2026
  • "New Insights from Revisiting the Rotation Period of the Strongly Magnetic O Star, NGC 1624-2." Seadrow, S., Petit, V., Wade, G.A., Bohlender, D., Maíz Apellániz, J., David-Uraz, A., Oksala, M., and MacDonald, J. Astrophysical Journal, March 2026

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Presentations
  • "Sustainable Business Development — Consultancy Practicum and Competition." 8th PRME Chapter North America (PRME NA) Biennial Meeting, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, July 2025

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Publications
  • "Exploring the potential for AI editorial assistance in student newsrooms." Hettinga, K., and Pagliassotti, D. "Is it Time to Reboot Journalism Education?": Proceedings of the World Journalism Education Congress, 2025
Presentations
  • "Exploring the potential for AI editorial assistance in student newsrooms." World Journalism Education Congress, San Francisco, California, August 2025

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Presentations
  • "Teaching Entrepreneurship with AI." GCEC Leadership Circle Meeting, Brooklyn, New York, January 2026
Appointments
  • Member, Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC)
  • Board Member, Kingsmen Shakespeare Company

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Publications
  • "Advancing Interdisciplinary Science Education: Validating the Interdisciplinary Science Assessment of Carbon Cycling II Through Internal Structure and External Factors." Hyesun You, Sunyoung Park, Cesar Delgado and Soo Hyun Yang. Research in Science Education, May 2026
  • "Evaluation of Multivariate Multiple-Membership Random-Effects Model Under Different Random-Effects Covariance Matrix Constraints." Sunyoung Park and S. Natasha Beretvas. The Journal of Experimental Education, October 2025
Presentations
  • "Improving Teaching Practices, Enhancing Learning Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis of Science Professional Development Impact on Teachers and Students." Annual meeting of the Korean Association for Science Education, Seoul, South Korea, July 2025
  • "Structure to Fairness: Validating the Interdisciplinary Science Assessment of Carbon Cycling II." Annual meeting of National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Seattle, Washington, April 2026
  • "Advancing Professional Development for K-12 Math Educators: Meta-Analysis of Effects, Challenges, and Next Steps." Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Los Angeles, California, April 2026
  • "A Comparison of Approaches for Handling Within-Study Dependency in Correlations for Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling." Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Los Angeles, California, April 2026
  • "Systematic Review on Suicidal Behavior in Individuals With ADHD." Annual meeting of Western Psychological Association, Tacoma, Washington, April 2026

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Publications
  • Conor Walton Paintings and Essays. Essays by Conor Walton, Michael J. Pearce, Donald Kuspit, John Seed and Joseph Bravo. Irish Art Press, 2026
  • “Time Traveler: Ricardo Fernandez Ortega.” American Art Collector, May 2026
  • “Vincent Desiderio, Virtuoso.” American Art Collector, April 2026
  • “Book Review: Surrealist Visions.” MutualArt, April 14, 2026
  • “Alexandra Manukyan, In a Panoply of Porcelain.” MutualArt, April 7, 2026
  • “Repin in China.” Fine Art Connoisseur, March/April 2026
  • “Alyssa Monks. In Agony & Ecstasy.” American Art Collector, March 2026
  • “Vincent Desiderio in the Underworld.” MutualArt, March 25, 2026 
  • “Robert Williams: A Fabulous Display of Wild Imagination.” MutualArt, March 5, 2026
  • “Stephen Early, The Poetry of Flesh.” American Art Collector, February 2026
  • “Abstraction is Alive and Well in Jen Stark’s Hands.” MutualArt, Feb. 24, 2026
  • “The Bennett Collection.” MutualArt, Feb. 17, 2026
  • “Richard MacDonald, The Space Between.” American Art Collector, January 2026
  • “Carol Prusa, Being and Becoming.” MutualArt, Jan. 14, 2026 
  • “Book Review: The World’s First Art Fair.” MutualArt, Dec. 30, 2025 
  • “Feeling the Weight of White Feathers: Dana Zaltzman’s Paintings of Pillows.” MutualArt, Dec. 11, 2025 
  • “Friedrich in the Arms of Winter.” MutualArt, Dec. 5, 2025
  • “Calvin Liang — Windows of Perfection.” American Art Collector, November 2025
  • “Identity, Tradition, and the American Experience: Hüicho!” MutualArt, Nov. 28, 2025
  • “The Art of Propaganda: Revolution, Napoleon, Colossus.” MutualArt, Nov. 4, 2025
  • “The Splendor of a Thousand Suns — NFN Kalyan.” American Art Collector, October 2025
  • “Love, Rebirth, and the Magic of Dolores Chiappone.” MutualArt, Oct. 29, 2025
  • “Raising Rossetti’s Ghosts.” MutualArt, Oct. 28, 2025
  • “Georgiana Houghton – In the Hands of the Dead.” MutualArt, Oct. 16, 2025
  • “What does the $13.5 Million Sale of Frank Frazetta’s Conan (Man Ape) Mean?” MutualArt, Oct. 1, 2025
  • “Chad Little, Picture Perfect.” American Art Collector, September 2025
  • “Book Review: This is What You Get.” MutualArt, Sept. 26, 2025
  • “The Sensual Beauty of Graham Toms’ Apocalypse.” MutualArt, Sept. 23, 2025
  • “The Legendary Life of Charles Winans.” MutualArt, Sept. 16, 2025
  • “Gods of the Secret Machine by Martin Wittfooth.” MutualArt, Sept. 2, 2025
  • “Old Gods in a New World” (Alan LeQuire’s Athena at the Parthenon). American Art Collector, August 2025
  • “NFN Kalyan, A Postmodern Krishna.” MutualArt, Aug. 19, 2025
  • “Bao Rui at Simulacra.” MutualArt, Aug. 5, 2025
  • “Harvest — Noah Buchanan and the Fruit of the Shadow.” American Art Collector, July 2025
  •  “The Unexpected Influence of Victor Vasarely’s Optical Illusions.” MutualArt, July 29, 2025
  • “Book Review: Amnon David Ar.” MutualArt, July 15, 2025
  • “A Ship of Fools by Jürgen Weber.” MutualArt, June 13, 2025
  • “The Beginning of the Gypsy Bohemians.” MutualArt, June 6, 2025
Exhibitions, Performances, Creative Projects
  • "Calidelic Psychefornia," 60 years of psychedelic art from California. Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, California, October-December 2025

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Publications
  • Rompiendo Barreras para Estudiantes Autistas que No Hablan: Un Kit de Herramientas para Mejorar la Comunicación en Entornos Educativos (Spanish Edition). Mihalich Quinn, L., Sando, J., and Peña, E.V. Kindle Direct Publishing, 2026
  • "The second wave is here: Grounding disability justice in higher education." Ramirez-Stapleton, L., Stephens-Peace, K. and Peña, E.V.  New Directions in Higher Education, Volume 2025, Issue 211, 2025
Presentations
  • "Beyond the academy: Faculty engaging their creative passions." Association for the Study of Higher Education, Denver, Colorado, November 2025
  • "Presumed incompetent, proven successful." Stanford Neurodiversity Summit, Sanford University, Stanford, California, September 2025
Awards
  • Shining Star Lifetime Achievement Award, Autism Society of Ventura County

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Appointments
  • Member, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America National Church Council and Executive Committee

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Publications
  • "My Third Grade Self." Jason Peplinski. EdCal, February 2026

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Publications
  • "Upper Extremity Biomechanical Analysis of Defensive Flag Pulling in Flag Football." Aguilar, Rianne L., De La Cruz, Claudia, and Peterson, T.J. International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings, October 2025
  • "Lower Extremity Movement Strategies of Defensive Flag Pulling in Flag Football." De La Cruz, Claudia, Aguilar, Rianne L., and Peterson, T.J. International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings, October 2025

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Publications
  • "Results from an Early Behavioral Intervention Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial for Social Communication in Toddlers with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex." Jeste, S., Tillis, C.H., Senturk, D., McDonald, N., Shih, W., Dong, M., Pizzano, M., Panganiban, J., Thiele, E., Nelson, C., and Kasari, C. Annals of Child Neurology, October 2025
Presentations
  • "Lessons on Adaptability and Engagement from an AI-Assisted, CFIR-Guided Analysis of Multi-Source Clinical Trial Data." Translational Impact Summit, Online, March 2026

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Presentations
  • "Reclaiming the Strategic Imperative: The Distinctive Value of Lutheran Higher Education in a VUCA World." ALCF 90th Annual Conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, October 2025
  • "Seeking Truth in the Age of AI: A Critical Thinking Approach." ALCF 90th Annual Conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, October 2025
  • "Bridging the Gap: Practitioner Perspectives on Accounting and Finance Competencies for New Graduates." Western Academy of Management 2026 Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 2026
  • "Beyond moral priming: Testing virtue framing as a stable moral activation mechanism." Western Academy of Management 2026 Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 2026
Appointments
  • President, California Society of Enrolled Agents

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Exhibitions, Performances, Creative Projects
  • Makeup Artist — The Wizard of Oz. Bedrosian Pavilion, Westlake Villiage, California, March-May 2026
  • Wardrobe Assistant/Dresser team member — Paw Patrol Live! Kavali Theatre, Thousand Oaks, California, February 2026

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Presentations
  • "Does Social Approach Protect Against Negative Outcomes of Social Media Use Among LGBTQ+ Youth?" 26th Association for Psychology Sciences Annual Convention, Barcelona, Spain, May 2026

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Presentations
  • "Downscaling Climate: Culture and Resilience in Non-Western Climate Fiction." Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment biennial conference, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, July 2025

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Exhibitions, Performances, Creative Projects
  • Production Camera Calibration, Red Digital Cinema, Westlake Village, California, July 2025 to January 2026
  • Pixel Design Analysis Application, Red Digital Cinema, Westlake Village, California, August 2025 to May 2026

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Publications
  • "Female Academics in STEM: Japanese Policy and Practice in Conflict." Rodriguez-Kiino, D., Itatsu, Y., Takahashi, Y. In Roberts, L. (ed.), The Sage International Encyclopedia of Politics and Gender. Sage Publications, Inc., 2025

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Presentations
  • "Perfect Restaurant" film screening. SAMA International Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2025
  • "Film Presentation." INCA Imperial International Film Festival, Lima, Peru, May 2026
Awards
  • Excellence Trophy, Buenos Aires International Film Festival
  • Best Comedy Short Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Bridge Fest
  • Best Short Film, SAMA International Film Festival
  • Work of Excellence Trophy, Buenos Aires International Film Festival
  • Finalist, Moondance International Film Festival
  • Finalist, The Bahamas International Film Festival
  • Finalist, Bangaluru International Short Film Festival

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Publications
  • "Public Relations Journal." Sandlin, J.K. and Gracyalny, M.L. Public Relations Journal, May 2026
Appointments
  • Board Member, Public Relations Society of America, Gold Coast Chapter

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Presentations
  • "Polycrisis and Consumer Consciousness: Online Shopping, Processes of Change, and Pathways to Sustainable Consumption." American Marketing Association Winter Conference, Madrid, Spain, February 2026
  • "Branding from the Inside Out During Transition: A Co-Creation Model and Case Study for Nonprofits." American Marketing Association Winter Conference, Madrid, Spain, February 2026

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Awards
  • Trailblazer, Ventura Medical Resource Foundation

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Presentations
  • "Interdisciplinary Global Learning in Action: Teaching and Research Insights from a Psychology/Spanish Travel Seminar to Bogota, Colombia." 21st Education and Development Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, March 2026

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Appointments
  • Scholar Member, The Collective Think Tank

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Publications
  • "Surveying best practices for undergraduate student researcher safety in the social sciences." Sell, A.J., and Garcia, A. Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research (SPUR), 2025

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Publications
  • "Developing mathematical creativity in high-potential kindergarten English learners through enrichment and tangram activities." Ã-zbek, G., Mun, R., Shen, Y., Lin, W., Spence, M., and Cho, S. Education Sciences, 2025

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Exhibitions, Performances, Creative Projects
  • String Quartet arrangement featured in commercial pop song "2805." Studio 606, Los Angeles, California, July 2025
  • Original Score to the film "Perfect Restaurant," Sama International Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweeden, October 2025

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Publications
  • "Reconstructing Lutheran Theology: Wisdom from the Jewish Faith." Kirsi Stjerna. Dialog: A Journal for Theology, Fall 2025
  • "Baptism (Matt. 28:19-20; Mark 16:15-16)." Kirsi Stjerna. The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation, Fall 2025
  • "Katharina von Bora Luthera," Kirsi Stjerna. Dialog: A Journal for Theology, Summer 2025
  • Luther and Religion. Kirsi Stjerna. Cambridge University Press, Fall 2026
Appointments
  • Member, ELCA Taskforce: Reconsiderations
  • Member, Lutheran World Federation Theological Study Group
  • Member, Lutheran World Federation Theological Group

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Publications
  • "Esports and Sport for Development in the Caribbean." Russell Stockard. Edited volume, McCree, R. (ed.) Sport Development and Sport for Development in the Caribbean: A Sociology of Emerging Trends, July 2025
Presentations
  • "Discourse about Haitian-American Claudine Gay Resigning from Harvard's Presidency." Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Georgetown, St. Martin, June 2025
  • "Esports, Peace, and Development in the Caribbean." Caribbean Sociological Association Conference, Saint Martin/Sint Maarten, September 2025
  • "Politics of Travel: Black Expats and Black Digital Nomads in Neoliberalism Capitalism." American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, February 2026
Exhibitions, Performances, Creative Projects
  • Peer-Reviewed Poetry Reading, St. Martin, June 2025

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Publications
  • "Phylogenomics of Amazonian squirrel monkeys (Saimiri: Primates, Cebidae)." Merces, M.P., Byrne, H., Finnegan, N., Harada, M.L., Paim, F.P., Silva, F.E., Stone, A.I., Lima, M., Rylands, A.B., Silva Junior, J.S.S., and Lynch, J.W. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2026
Presentations
  • "Is the seasonal fattening of male squirrel monkeys (Saimiri collinsi) associated with male-male competition?" West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, Sonoma, California, April 2026

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Presentations
  • "The impact of sibling relationship quality on mental health among young adult Latinos." Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research, California State University, Channel Islands, Camarillo, California, November 2025
  • "Parental relationship quality and developmental outcomes in young adult males." Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research, California State University, Channel Islands, Camarillo, California, November 2025
  • "Communication differences between abstinence only and comprehensive sexual health education approaches." Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research, California State University, Channels Islands, Camarillo, California, November 2025
  • "The impact of sibling dyads on relationship quality and well-being in Latino Families." Western Psychological Association, Tacoma, Washington, April 2026
  • "Cultural influences in parental relationships: Exploring within-group differences in developmental outcomes among young adult males." Western Psychological Association, Tacoma, Washington, May 2026
  • "Examining the role of screenings and consultations in sexual health communication efficacy." Western Psychological Association, Tacoma, Washington, April 2026
  • "Understanding the Role of Screenings and Consultations in Sexual Health Communication Ability." Western Psychological Association, Tacoma, Washington, May 2026

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Appointments
  • Board President, Runners for Public Lands

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Publications
  • "Ethical considerations for analysis and interpretation during longitudinal research with college students." Daniel Tillapaugh. Routledge, 2025
Presentations
  • "Do no harm: Addressing hegemonic masculinity in men's program spaces." Ventura County Regional Men of Color Conference, California State University, Channels Islands, Camarillo, California, September 2025
Appointments
  • Member, EOPS and CARE Advisory Board, Los Angeles Pierce College
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Men's Studies
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of College Student Development

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Presentations
  • "Challenging the Stigma Behind Parental Incarceration: The Experiences of Latina/o College Students." American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., November 2025
  • "Behind Bars, Beyond Barriers: Latina/o College Students' Experiences with Parental Incarceration." American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., November 2025
  • "Mexico's Drug-Related Violence: Author Meets Critic Session." American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., November 2025
  • "Behind Bars, Beyond Barriers: Latina/o College Students' Experiences with Parental Incarceration." Western Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, February 2026
  • "Challenging the Stigma Behind Parental Incarceration: The Experiences of Latina/o College Students with Incarcerated Parents." National Children of Incarcerated Parents Annual Conference (Center for Child Well-Being), Phoenix, Arizona, April 2026
Awards
  • 2025 40 Under Forty Award, Greater Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce

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Publications
  • "Unpacking essential competencies: A typology for global virtual leadership." Arora, A., Krishnan, T.N., and Vaiman, V. Human Resource Management Review, 2026
  • "Exploring the Agency of Algorithmic Technology in Talent Management Decision-Making: An Actor-Network Theory Perspective." Khoreva, V., Vaiman, V., and Kim, S. Human Resource Management Journal, 2026
  • "Mapping core business curricula: A descriptive audit of 100 U.S. MBA programs." Manoukian, A., Odabashian, V., Vaiman, V., Tshagharyan, O., and Khachikyan, N. The International Journal of Management Education, 2026
  • "Demystifying knowledge hiding and envisioning a synthesized theoretical perspective: An integrated review." Hina, M., Issac, A.C., Sithipolvanichgul, J., and Vaiman. Journal of Knowledge Management, 2025
  • "Talent Management of Assigned Expatriates." Vaiman, V., Kravariti, F., and Usanova, K. The Authoritative Research Guide to Expatriates, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2025
  • "Expatriate Mentoring." Van Bakel, M., Vaiman, V., and Vance, C.M. The Authoritative Research Guide to Expatriates, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2025
Presentations
  • "Beyond Borders and Bias: AI, Culture, and the Future of Talent." Annual Conference of the International Association for Cross-cultural Competence and Management, Budapest, Hungary, October 2025
  • "Strategy, Business, and Entrepreneurship in Conflict and Post-conflict Zones: Teaching and Research." 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Copehnagen, Denmark, August 2025
  • "Navigating the Transformation of HRM in the Age of Algorithmic Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities." 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2025
Appointments
  • Chair, Ventura County Economic Development Association (VCEDA)

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Presentations
  • "Communicating the Value of Residencies to District Stakeholder." SRTAC Communities of Residency Practice Convening, Sacramento, California, April 2026
  • "Leveraging residency staffing models." SRTAC Communities of Residency Practice Convening, Sacramento, California, April 2026

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Presentations
  • "Lutherans in Lima: Interdisciplinary Public Health Education at a Small Private Liberal Arts University." Afro-Romance Institute Conference: Borders, Belonging, and the African Diaspora, University of Missouri-Columbia, April 2026

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Appointments
  • Papers Committee Member, American Academy of Religion, Native Religious Traditions Unit

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Presentations
  • "Making Sociology Relevant to Student's Career Development: Linking Internship with Action Research." American Sociological Association Meetings, Chicago, Illinois, August 2025
Appointments
  • Sociology Main Divisional Editor, Journal of Integrated Social Sciences
  • Board Member, Child Development Institute

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Presentations
  • "Empowering Student Agency: Sustainable Assessment Practices in Higher Education." International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement Congress 2026, Doha, Qatar, January 2026
  • "Navigating Challenging Times in Higher Education Through a Lens of Ethical Leadership." International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement Congress 2026, Doha, Qatar, January 2026
  • "Bridging Borders: Implementing Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in Ethnic Studies for High School Learners." International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement Congress 2026, Doha, Qatar, January 2026
Appointments
  • Board Member, Bridges Charter School
  • Member, International Congress Planning Committee for School Effectiveness and Improvement
  • Member, Network of ECLA Colleges and Universities Diversity Equity and Inclusion Advisory Council
  • Faculty Advisor, AI in Education at Oxford University (AIEOU)
  • Review Team Member, WASC

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Appointments
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Integrated Social Sciences
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