Loyola
Marymount
University
2011-2012
http://www.lmu.edu/ofd
New Faculty 2011–12: biosketches
To the Loyola Marymount Community:
I am pleased to introduce our new faculty colleagues for
2011-2012. There are 20 new tenure-track faculty, and 6
faculty who join us in in advanced status as Presidential
Professors, Casassa Chair, or as Associate Professors.
They represent disciplines from across the university.
These individuals are a demonstration of our continuing
commitment to hire highly qualified faculty as stated in
the university’s strategic plan. In addition, we welcome
22 new visiting and clinical faculty for this academic
year. Our new colleagues are committed to excellence
in teaching, scholarship, and service and will enrich our
commitment to the encouragement of learning. Please
give your warmest welcome to our new faculty and
support their induction into our community.
To all our faculty, new and returning, I wish you a most
successful and rewarding year. I look forward to meeting
with all of you and personally wishing you the very best.
Sincerely,
Joseph Hellige
Sr. Vice President for Academic Affairs
and Chief Academic Officer
Anna Bargagliotti
Assistant Professor
Mathematics
Professor Bargagliotti’s interests are in nonparametric
statistics, mathematics education, and statistics education.
Her nonparametric statistics work focuses on how ranked
data structures affect nonparametric test outcomes. Her
educational pedagogy aims to understand how teaching practices and technology
influence the teaching and learning of mathematics and statistics. Professor
Bargagliotti received her Ph.D. in mathematics from UC, Irvine and her M.S.
degree in statistics from UCLA. She joined the LMU faculty originally in 2011
as a visiting assistant professor and this year as assistant professor, Department
of Mathematics.
Elizabeth Brewer
Visiting Assistant Professor
Specialized Programs
in Urban Education
Professor Brewer earned B.A. degrees in creative writing
and political science from the University of Southern
California and her M.A. degree in secondary education
from Loyola Marymount University. She also earned her Ed.D. in Educational
Leadership for Social Justice from Loyola Marymount University. After teaching
at a private, Catholic high school for six years, Professor Brewer worked as a course
instructor and research analyst in the Student Affairs Information and Research
Office at UCLA before joining the LMU School of Education as adjunct faculty
in 2007. Her research interests include the role of technology as a tool for teaching
students about the dangers and consequences of cyber-bullying behaviors as well
as the role of teachers in this process. A Southern California native, Professor
Brewer looks forward to her new position at the University.
New Faculty 2011–12
Megan Caldwell
Sara Ryung Clement
Clinical Professor
Specialized Programs
in Urban Education
Visiting Assistant Professor
Theatre Arts & Dance
Professor Caldwell received her B.A. degree from Tufts
University and her M.A. degree in Special Education
from LMU; she was a 2006 Teach for America Corps
member, has taught math at Locke High School, and was
a founding SDP math teacher at Green Dot Transformation, Animo Locke 2
Charter High School. She led the girls’ basketball team as their coach through
to their division semifinals in 2010. Professor Caldwell lives with her family in
Redondo Beach and enjoys time outdoors, hiking, running, and golfing.
Feryal Cherif
Assistant Professor
Political Science
Professor Cherif studies international relations and politics
of the Middle East with an emphasis on gender and
human rights. She received her Ph.D. from NYU (2005).
Her work has appeared in the Journal of Politics and
International Studies Quarterly among others, and her
report on peacekeeping was published by the United Nations. She is currently
finishing her book manuscript, From Ideas to Action: Myths and Misunderstandings
about Advancements in Women’s Rights. In addition to teaching classes on
international relations, gender, and human rights, she was the founding chair
of the Middle East and Islamic Studies minor at UC, Riverside. She has had
several media appearances, including on CNN. In 2007, she was the inaugural
recipient of the Faculty Diversity Award for her mentorship of minority students
at the UC, Riverside.
Paul Chitlik
Clinical Professor
Screenwriting
Screenwriter/producer/director Paul Chitlik has written
for major networks and studios. He was story editor
for “The New Twilight Zone,” and staff writer for
Showtime’s “Brothers.” He has written features for Rysher
Entertainment, NuImage and Promark. He received a
WGA award nomination for his work on “The Twilight Zone,” a GLAAD Media
Award nomination, and won a Genesis Award for a Showtime movie. He has
taught screenwriting at UCLA; Loyola Marymount University; ESCAC, the
film school of the University of Barcelona; UNIACC in Santiago, Chile; and
EICTV, the film school of Cuba. He consults for the government of Chile’s
film development process. He has presented workshops and consulted for
ScreenWest, Australia; ScreenAustralia and the Australian Writers Guild. His
book, Rewrite, A Step-by-Step Guide to Strengthen Structure, Characters, and
Drama in Your Screenplay is now in its second printing.
Sara Ryung Clement is a Los Angeles-based set and
costume designer. Her recent projects include costumes
for the world premiere of Itamar Moses’ Completeness
and the West Coast debut of Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky
Shaw at South Coast Repertory. Regional and local credits
include Cornerstone Theatre Company, The Denver Center, TheatreWorks, Yale
Repertory, CenterStage, A Noise Within, Marin Theatre Company, SPF, The
Chance, Rogue Machine, The Elephant, and Deaf West. This fall, she will be
designing sets and costumes for the world premiere of How the World Began at
SCR. Professor Clement holds an MFA in Design from the Yale School of Drama
and received her B.A. degree from Princeton University. She loves that California
has great weather for running and fantastic places to eat.
Ernesto Colín
Assistant Professor
Specialized Programs
Education
in
Urban
Professor Colín joins the Department of Language and
Culture in Education as an Assistant Professor. He holds a
B.A. degree in Chicana/o Studies and Spanish and an M.A.
in Secondary Education, both from LMU. He completed
his Ph.D. in the Anthropology of Education, School of Education at Stanford
University (2011). His work experiences include teaching Spanish in the Culver
City and Ánimo Leadership Charter High Schools. He also served as a parttime faculty member in the School of Education at LMU and as an adjunct
faculty in Chicana/o Studies and Anthropology at Evergreen Valley College in
San José, California. Professor Colín’s research interests include Aztec Dance,
Cultural Citizenship, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Cultural Anthropology,
Interdisciplinary Chicana/o Studies and International Native American Studies.
He translated Graciela Limón’s Song of the Hummingbird into Spanish, La
Canción del Colibrí (2006) and published “A Modern Mexica Paideia: Learning
through the construction of a Calpulli,” in Educating Comprehensively: Varieties of
Educational Experiences by Linda Lin, Hervé Varenne, and Edmund W. Gordon
(2010). In his free time, he enjoys Aztec Dance and Ceremony, world travel,
sports, cooking, family, and Native American Arts. He is also a DJ at 88.9 FM
KXLU on campus and the founder of the show, “Serenata de Tríos.”
Colonel Charles Corley
Chair & Professor
Aerospace Studies
Air Force Colonel Chuck Corley is the Air Force ROTC
Detachment 40 Commander and Professor of Aerospace
Studies. He was a member of the parachute team and
earned a B.S. in Astronautical Engineering at the U.S.
Air Force Academy. He holds Master’s Degrees in
Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and National
Security Strategy from the Naval War College. Colonel Corley is a career F-16
pilot and FAA Certified Flight Instructor. He was an instructor and later the
F-16 Commander at the Air Force Weapons School. After a tour on the Joint
Staff at the Pentagon, Chuck commanded the 53d Test and Evaluation Group
and then Detachment 2 of the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center.
He and his family live in Palos Verdes Estates and enjoy cooking and hiking.
New Faculty 2011–12
Robert Cross
Antonia Darder
Clinical Professor
History
president’s Professor
Educational Leadership
Professor Cross earned his B.A. with a double major in
History and English from UC, Berkeley, and his M.A.
degree in History from Princeton University. He has
spent the past summer completing his Ph.D. dissertation,
entitled “To Counterbalance the World: England, Spain,
and Peace in the Early 17th Century,” also from Princeton. His broad range
of research interests and teaching experience includes Tudor/Stuart Britain,
Habsburg Spain, the Renaissance and Reformation in Europe, the history of
political thought, the interaction between politics and religion, the Atlantic
world, and all things transnational. Originally from the Pacific Northwest,
Robert loves travel, photography, and both listening to, and making, music. He
lives in beautiful Sierra Madre with his family and their golden retriever, Bailey.
He tries to spend as much time as humanly possible in the mountains and forest.
Deepa Dabir
Assistant Professor
Biology
Professor Dabir is an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Biology at Loyola Marymount University. She earned a
B.S. degree in Life Sciences and Biochemistry from St.
Xavier’s College, Mumbai (India) and a Ph.D. in Biology
from the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Dabir
performed postdoctoral research at the UCLA before joining the LMU faculty
in 2011. In her research, Professor Dabir focuses on characterizing protein
import pathways in the yeast mitochondria using a genetic and chemical
biology approach. She has characterized some small molecule inhibitors of
Erv1, a key import component mutation of which results in an infantile
mitochondrial disorder. The long term goal of her research is to use these
inhibitors in mammalian systems to elucidate disease mechanisms. Professor
Dabir’s interdisciplinary research crosses over into her teaching in such courses
as Cell Biology and a Biochemistry laboratory. She believes strongly in training
her students to be highly motivated scientists and apply ethical standards to the
conduct of scientific research.
Li Dai
Assistant Professor
Management
Professor Dai earned her Bachelor’s degree in Finance and
Economics from the University of Toronto and her Ph.D.
in Management from Texas A&M University. Her research
interests center around firm strategy in discontinuous
contexts, risk and decision-making processes in business,
government and society. In addition to having published in several refereed
journals and a textbook, she has presented her research at the Academy of
Management, and at the Academy of International Business and Strategic
Management Society conferences. Professor Dai’s teaching interests lie in
International Business, Strategic Management, and Entrepreneurship. Having
lived in China, Canada, England, and the U.S., Professor Dai continues to learn
about various national and sub-national cultures through reading, cooking, and
travelling.
Professor Darder is an internationally recognized critical
scholar and holds the Leavey Presidential Chair in the
Department of Educational leadership. Formerly, she
served as a distinguished professor of Education Policy,
Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois.
She has also taught at Claremont Graduate University and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Her scholarship focuses on comparative studies of
racism, political economy, education, and society. Her writings examine critically
issues tied to culture, language, racism, and other social inequalities within
schools and society. Professor Darder is the author of Reinventing Paulo Freire: A
Pedagogy of Love and After Race: Racism after Multiculturalism. She is the editor
of Culture and Difference and co-editor of Latinos and Education, The Latino
Studies Reader: Culture, Economy and Society, and The Critical Pedagogy Reader.
This fall, the 20th anniversary edition of Culture and Power in the Classroom, her
widely recognized first book, will be released, in addition to a collection of her
writings entitled A Dissident Voice: Essay on Culture, Pedagogy, and Power, which
features one of her paintings on the cover and seven of her poems, one which
opens each section. Over the years, Professor Darder---who is also a poet and
visual artist---has been active in a variety of grassroots efforts tied to educational
rights, worker’s rights, bilingual education, women’s issues, environmental
justice, and immigrant rights. She was born in Puerto Rico and raised in East
Los Angeles. Her family lives in California and beyond. She is an avid hiker,
film buff, music lover, and unabashed foodie—all which she enjoys with family
and friends.
Allan Deck, S.J.
Casassa Chair of
Catholic Social Values
Fr. Deck received a Classical Bachelor’s of Arts degree in
Philosophy from Saint Louis University (1969), a Ph.D.
in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Saint Louis
University (1973), an M.Div. from the Jesuit School of
Theology at Berkeley (1976), and an S.T.D. in Theology
at the Pontifical Gregorian University (1988). He has held faculty positions at
the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (1987-92) and previously at Loyola
Marymount University (1992-97). He was Executive Director of the National
Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry (NCCHM) (1990-1997) and of
the Loyola Institute for Spirituality in Orange, CA(1997-2008). He is First
Executive Director of the Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church of
the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, DC (20082012). Author of Francisco Javier Alegre: A Study in Mexican Literary Criticism
and The Second Wave: Hispanic Ministry and the Evangelization of Cultures, he
is also an editor of four additional anthologies, including Frontiers of Hispanic
Catholic Theology in the United States, Hispanic Catholic Culture in the United
States, Perspectivas: Hispanic Ministry, and The Treasure of Guadalupe. Fr. Deck’s
writing, research and life/work experience have sought to bridge the theoretical
and the practical, society and religion. His roots are in Los Angeles where he was
born and in Arizona and the Mexican State of Sonora just below Arizona. Both
his parents were bilingual/bicultural. His father George was of Mexican and
German descent and raised in Arizona. His mother, Amparo Figueroa, came as a
young girl to Los Angeles from Sonora during the Mexican Revolution. He is a
fan of Spanish and Latin American music both popular and classical. A member
of the Jesuit Order for more than forty-five years, Fr. Deck has enjoyed his life
in community and in the many ministries, as well as scholarly and practical
tasks for which he has been missioned by the Society of Jesus and the Catholic
Church.
New Faculty 2011–12
Scott Delanty
Clinical Professor
Accounting
Professor Scott Delanty first joined LMU’s Accounting
Department in the fall of 2009 and is appointed Clinical
Assistant Professor in the same department this year. He
teaches accounting and finance at the undergraduate
and graduate levels. Professor Delanty has served on the
Advisory Board for the College of Business Administration for nearly 10 years
and is actively involved with the Accounting Society. Prior to joining LMU,
Professor Delanty held a variety of prestigious positions ranging from Big Four
auditor to European CFO and senior finance executive of Computer Sciences
Corporation. He has extensive experience in SEC reporting, tax, audit, systems,
controls, off-shoring activities, shared service centers, debt/equity offerings,
mergers, strategic planning and risk management initiatives. Professor Delanty
recently completed the AACSB Bridge Program for educators and LMU’s
“Ignatian Spiritual Exercises for Busy Persons.” He received his B.S. degree at Cal
Poly, San Luis Obispo (1976) and his MBA at USC (1979).
Sean D’Evelyn
Assistant Professor
Economics
Professor D’Evelyn joins the LMU faculty this fall as
an Assistant Professor of Economics specializing in
Environmental Economics and Experimental Economics.
He received his B.A. degree from St. Olaf College in
Economics, Political Science, and Asian Studies, and his
Ph.D. is in Economics from the University of Hawai’i. His environmental research
focuses primarily on the economics of invasive species and his experimental work
looks at reciprocity as a means to encourage pro-social behavior. In his spare
time, Professor D’Evelyn improves his Game Theory with the aid of many-sided
dice, collectible cards, and various “Spiel des Jahres” winners.
Lindsay DeVeny
Clinical Professor
Specialized Programs
in Urban Education
Professor DeVeny received an M.A. degree from CSU, Long
Beach (2011) in Secondary Education with a Mathematics
Option, and both a B.S. degree in Mathematics and a B.A.
degree in Women’s Studies from CSULB. From 2007 to
2011, she taught Algebra and Geometry at the Marc & Eva Stern Math and
Science High School (MASS); in 2010, she served as an Adjunct Professor in
a Math Methods Course for first-year Teach for America students enrolled at
LMU. She has worked closely with LMU’s CMAST (Center for Math and
Science Teaching). Among her awards is a Mathematics Departmental Honors
Award (2011).
Andrew Dilts
Assistant Professor
Political Science
Professor Dilts is a political theorist whose work focuses
broadly on the history of political thought, and in
particular, the discursive relationships between political
membership, subjectivity, sovereignty, and punishment.
He is especially interested in the connections between
penal policy and “identity” in the contemporary United States. Born and raised
in the Midwest, Professor Dilts studied Economics at Indiana University and the
London School of Economics before earning his doctorate in Political Science at
the University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty at Loyola Marymount, he
was a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at the
University of Chicago, where he taught exclusively in the College’s “Common
Core” curriculum as a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Social Sciences. Professor
Dilts has published in The Carceral Notebooks, has forthcoming articles in Political
Theory, Foucault Studies, and Social Text, and is actively at work on several more
articles exploring the accounts of punishment, membership, identity, and the
power to pardon. In addition, he is currently at work on two book projects, one
involving felon disenfranchisement and and the other on Foucauldian thought
in relation to neo-liberal economic theories of subjectivity.
W. Wesley (Wes) Dowd
Assistant Professor
Biology
Professor Dowd studies how coastal marine animals use
physiology and behavior to cope with stress imposed by
living in the dynamic and variable environments – rocky
intertidal zone and estuaries – that occur near the landsea interface. His master’s and doctoral research focused
on several species of sharks, his more recent work examines intertidal mussels
and limpets, and planned projects will incorporate small fishes that live in the
intertidal zone of Southern California. He has conducted biological research in
North America, Australia, Africa, and Antarctica. Professor Dowd’s B.S. degree is
in Biology with a minor in English from Duke University (2000). He received an
M.S. degree in Marine Science from the College of William and Mary’s Virginia
Institute of Marine Science (2003). His Ph.D. is in Physiological Ecology from
the UC, Davis (2009). Professor Dowd was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford
University’s Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, CA (2009-11). He lives
in Westchester with his family and enjoys hiking, snowshoeing, Mexican food,
watching Duke basketball, tinkering with his boat, and good beer.
Angela Gallegos
Associate Professor
Mathematics
Professor Gallegos earned her Ph.D. in Applied
Mathematics from UC, Davis (2005). Her area of specialty
was Mathematical Biology. She previously earned a B.A.
degree in Mathematics with a minor in Biology from New
York University (1999). Professor Gallegos served as an
Assistant and then Associate Professor of Mathematics at Occidental College
(2005-11). During a junior sabbatical she spent a year at Tulane University
where she focused on Mathematical Epidemiology. She has published in three
Mathematical Biology journals on projects including Myxobacterial swarming, a
Crocodilian population, and immune cell populations. Professor Gallegos lives in
Marina del Rey and is excited to be able to run on the beach, bike to work, and
pursue her other beach and ocean loves.
Clara Garay
Clinical Professor
Specialized Programs
in Urban Education
Professor Garay received her B.S. degree in Biology from
UC, Riverside and her California Single Subject Teaching
Credential in Biology from CSU, Los Angeles. She has
taught biology, human anatomy, physiology, and AP
biology at Dr. Olga Mohan High School (2007-11). She also taught biology at
Los Angeles International Charter High School (2006-07). She lives in Whittier,
California with her seventy-five year old mom, and enjoys hiking and gardening.
New Faculty 2011–12
Michael Gottfried
Assistant Professor
Specialized Programs
in Urban Education
Professor Gottfried received his B.A. degree with Honors
in Economics from Stanford University, his M.A. degree
in Applied Economics from the Wharton Business School,
University of Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. in Applied
Economics from the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. He
holds a Certification in Education Sciences granted jointly by the University
of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and the U.S. Department of
Education. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Professor
Gottfried joined the RAND Corporation as an Associate Policy Researcher and
Professor of Policy Analysis. He joins LMU directly from RAND. Professor
Gottfried’s research focuses on urban education. He is interested in student issues
(such as attendance), classroom issues (such as peer effects), and school issues
(such as district reform). He has recently published his work in the American
Journal of Education, the American Educational Research Journal, and the Teachers
College Record. He received the 2009-2010 American Educational Research
Association, Outstanding Publication Advances in Methodology Award for a
recent publication.
Brett Hoover, C.S.P.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Theological Studies
Fr. Hoover holds a Ph.D. in the Interdisciplinary Study of
Theology from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley,
and an M.A. degree in Theology from Washington
Theological Union, Washington, D.C.; his B.A. degree
in English and psychology was awarded by UC, Santa
Barbara. He has served as Research faculty at the Institute of Pastoral Studies,
Loyola University, Chicago (2010-11), as adjunct faculty at the Franciscan School
of Theology, Berkeley (2008-2010), the Dominican School of Philosophy and
Theology, Berkeley (2009-2010)and the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara
University, Berkeley (2006-2007, 2009). His research interests include work on
Chicago parishes for a pastoral leadership project called INSPIRE and funded
by the Lilly Endowment. He has also spent a year studying a Midwestern parish
shared by English and Spanish speaking communities for which he received
a dissertation fellowship from the Louisville Institute. Among Fr. Hoover’s
publications are two books, Comfort: An Atlas of the Body and Soul (2011) and
Losing Your Religion, Finding Your Faith (1998). A forthcoming article, “When
Theology and Culture Clash: Work Culture in Chicago Parishes,” appears in
NCEA Seminary Journal and others have been published in New Theology Review,
The Way, and the Seattle Theology and Ministry. A member of the Paulists and an
ordained Catholic priest, Fr. Hoover is originally from Southern California, and
his parents and siblings live in Orange and Ventura Counties as well as the Bay
Area. He lives in Westwood.
Karen (Karie) HuchTing
Assistant Professor
Educational Leadership
Professor Huchting earned her B.A. degree in psychology
and her M.A. degree in Education from Loyola Marymount
University. She also received an M.A. and Ph.D. in
Applied Social Psychology from Claremont Graduate
University in 2009, with an emphasis in quantitative
methodology. She has been a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department
of Educational Leadership in the School of Education for the past two years
and joins the department this year as an Assistant Professor. Prior to joining
LMU as a professor, she worked for the Heads UP Alcohol Research Laboratory
housed in the Psychology Department of LMU. Her research focuses on student
perceptions of the curricular and co-curricular educational experience and she
has authored numerous manuscripts related to student health. She is also a
member of the IRB (Institutional Review Board), the moderator of Gryphon
Circle (a volunteer undergraduate service organization of approximately 40
undergraduate women), and the volunteer women’s soccer coach at LMU. She
currently lives in the Westchester neighborhood with her family. She is a certified
yoga instructor and enjoys spending time outdoors with her dog, Makena.
Captain Won In
Assistant Professor
Aerospace Studies
Air Force Captain Won In is the Air Force ROTC
Detachment 40 Recruiter Flight Commander and Assistant
Professor of Aerospace Studies. He earned a B.S. degree
in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland.
He holds an M.S. degree in Astronautical Engineering
from the Air Force Institute of Technology and a M.A. degree in Human
Relations from the University of Oklahoma. Captain Won is a career acquisition
officer and was involved in the sustainment of B-1 and B-2 Bomber Engines
and the acquisition of four satellite programs including recently launched Space
Based Infrared Systems GEO-1 Satellite. He was selected to attend the Air Force
Institute of Technology to study Astronautical Engineering. After completing his
M.S. degree, Captain Won was assigned to the Los Angeles Air Force Base. He
was selected as the Executive Officer of the high visibility Space Based Infrared
Systems Wing. He then worked in a staff organization, Independent Readiness
Review Team, directly working for the Lieutenant General, Space and Missiles
Systems Center’s Commander. Captain Won and his family just moved into
their new home in Buena Park and actively participate with the Grace Korean
Church in Fullerton. Captain Won enjoys golfing when his schedule allows and
also enjoys fishing and playing sports with his boys.
Holly Johnston
Visiting Assistant Professor
Theatre Arts & Dance
Professor Johnston is a choreographer, movement researcher
and educator. She is the artistic director of LEDGES AND
BONES, a bi-city contemporary dance company based
in both the Los Angeles and San Francisco communities.
LEDGES AND BONES promotes cultural consciousness,
open dialogue, and social justice through live performance, education, and
other public forums. Professor Johnston is committed to enriching lives by
articulating diverse perspectives on contemporary culture and articulating the
human condition through kinetic experience. With performances in New York
and throughout California, the company performs extensively in their home
regions of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Professor Johnston has received awards
from The Maggie Alesse National Center for Choreography, The Zellerbach
Foundation, The Joyce Theater A.W.A.R.D.S. Show Grant/Los Angeles, and
a Lester Horton Award for Outstanding Performance for her solo “experiment
one.” She is an international dance artist receiving commissions and residencies
from numerous colleges and universities throughout the United States. Professor
Johnston holds a B.A. degree in Dance from Loyola Marymount University and
established her career as a dancer, rehearsal director and artistic collaborator for
Tongue Contemporary Dance, AD: Stephanie Gilliland. She and LEDGES AND
BONES are artists-in-residence at ODC Theater/San Francisco.
New Faculty 2011–12
Meric Keskinel
Visiting Assistant Professor
Economics
Professor Meric Keskinel received his B.A. degree from
the University of Istanbul, completed his M.A. degree
at Northeastern University, and earned his Ph.D. in
Economics from Claremont Graduate University(2002).
His primary focus is on International Finance. He has
taught at Claremont McKenna College, Loyola Marymount University, Cal State
Fullerton, and West LA College. Dr. Keskinel is passionate about teaching and
making economics an accessible subject to everyone. In his spare time, he enjoys
traveling with his family.
Gil Klein
Assistant Professor
Theological Studies
Professor Klein earned his B.Arch. degree from the Bezalel
Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and his M.Phil.
degree and Ph.D. from Cambridge University. His doctoral
dissertation, which dealt with the Talmudic understanding
of urban architecture, merged the perspectives of both
architectural history and Judaic studies. Professor Klein had a research fellowship
at the Getty Villa in Malibu, as well as two post-doctoral fellowships at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at Harvard University. He is the author
of several articles, which emerged from his multi-disciplinary research. The most
recent of these articles is titled “Torah in triclinia: the Rabbinic Banquet and the
Significance of Architecture”. He taught for three years at Franklin and Marshall
College in Pennsylvania, and is very happy to move back to sunny, vibrant Los
Angeles. Professor Klein spends the little free time he has listening to music,
drawing and hoping for a peaceful coexistence of Israel and Palestine. He is
currently living in West Hollywood, where he might be spotted walking down
the streets and looking up at the architecture.
Captain Daniel (Dan) Krunglevich
Assistant Professor
Aerospace Studies
Professor Krunglevich earned his B.S. degree in
Management of Technical Operations from Embry
Riddle Aeronautical University and his MBA degree in
Project Management from Trident University. Captain
Krunglevich joined the Air Force in 1995 and after a twoyear break in service to complete his B.S. degree, he rejoined as a commissioned
officer in 2005. He has been stationed in Arizona, Florida, Alaska, New Mexico,
and California. Last month, he returned from a deployment to Afghanistan.
Professor Krunglevich and his family currently live in Torrance from where they
enjoy spending time near the ocean or traveling to the lake.
Yanping (Jennie) Ma
Assistant Professor
Mathematics
Professor Ma received her B.S. degree in Mathematics
and Applied Mathematics from the University of Science
and Technology of China (2006). She is expecting her
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics with a minor in Statistics
this summer from Pennsylvania State University. She is
currently working on Bio-Mathematical modeling, a collaboration with the bioengineering, aero-engineering, and statistics departments. A paper on Cellular
and Molecular Bioengineering was recently published. Professor Ma served as a
teaching/research assistant at Penn State (2007-2009) where she was promoted
to teaching associate. She has also worked for the Modeling and Simulation
division at Merck Laboratories researching Hepatitis C Virus modeling (2010).
Professor Ma enjoys cooking, watching movies, jogging and playing games with
friends during her spare time. She looks forward to joining LMU and staying
close to the ocean.
Martha McCarthy
President’s Professor
Educational Leadership
Professor McCarthy earned her B.A. degree in elementary
education and her M.A. degree in instructional management
and planning from the University of Kentucky. She
received her Ed.S. and Ph.D. degrees in educational
leadership from the University of Florida. After being
a teacher and school administrator, she became a faculty member at Indiana
University, where she most recently served as a Chancellor’s Professor and Chair
of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the School
of Education. At Indiana, she also held other administrative roles, including
Director of the Indiana Education Policy Center and the High School Survey of
Student Engagement, and Associate Dean of the Faculties. Professor McCarthy’s
research resides in primarily two areas, educational law and policy and the
evolution and reform of leadership preparation programs. In the first, she has
conducted research on most aspects of educational law, focusing recently on First
Amendment issues pertaining to church/state relations and expression rights of
students and school employees. She currently is working on the seventh edition
of Public School Law: Teachers’ and Students’ Rights (with Nelda Cambron-McCabe
and Suzanne Eckes). Her recent research on leadership preparation programs
has entailed a national study (with Don Hackmann) of educational leadership
units and the characteristics, activities, and attitudes of educational leadership
faculty members (At a Crossroads: The Educational Leadership Professoriate in the
21st Century). Professor McCarthy enjoys swimming, skiing, and most types of
dancing. She recently has taken up tennis.
Gina Messina-Dysert
Visiting Assistant Professor
Theological Studies
Gina Messina-Dysert is a feminist theologian and ethicist.
She received her B.A. degree in Sociology at Cleveland
State University, an M.B.A. in organizational leadership
and marketing from Findlay University, an M.A. degree
in religious studies at John Carroll University, and a Ph.D.
in religion at Claremont Graduate University focusing in the areas of women
studies in religion and theology, ethics, and culture. Her research interests
are theologically and ethically driven, involve a feminist and interdisciplinary
approach, and are influenced by her activist roots and experience working with
survivors of rape and domestic violence. She is the author of several articles
and has a forthcoming book entitled, Sexual Violence within a Rape Culture:
The Experience of Double Victimization, Han, and Spiritual Death. In addition,
Professor Messina-Dysert is co-founder and director of the Feminism and
Religion project and is a contributor to the Rock and Theology project. She
loves to cook and bake and lives with her family and their two dogs in Alta Loma.
New Faculty 2011–12
Philip Molebash
Assistant Professor
Specialized Programs
Education
Candice Nicolas
in
Urban
Professor Molebash received his Ph.D. in Instructional
Technology from the University of Virginia (2001),
following his B.S. degree in Mathematics from Pepperdine
(1993). He served as Assistant Professor at SDSU (200105) and as director of Administrative and Academic Technology at Loyola High
School (2006-11). He is the inventor of Web Inquiry Projects (WIPs), open
inquiry learning activities that leverage the use of un-interpreted online data and
information. At the University of Virginia, he won the All-University Teaching
Award and Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. His most recent publications
include: With K. Glassett, “Conceptual change and the process of becoming a
Digital History Teacher,” in Research in Social Studies and Technology (2009) and
with N.B. Milman, “A longitudinal assessment of Teacher Education students’
Confidence towards using Technology,” in the Journal of Educational Computing
Research (2008). He lives with his family in Pasadena and they love to travel and
go camping. He coaches pole vaulting at Loyola High School and occasionally
does a bit of pole vaulting himself.
Lizy Moromisato
Visiting Assistant Professor
Modern Languages & Literatures
Lizy Moromisato earned her B.A. degree in Linguistics and
Spanish and her M.A. degree in Spanish Linguistics from
UCLA. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Hispanic
Languages and Literatures at UCLA. Her dissertation
project is a study of a 17th Century heroic poem based on
the life of St. Rose of Lima, the first canonized saint born in the Americas. Her
research interests include epic poetry, hagiography, Spanish-American literature
and literary culture, and cultural semantics. Professor Moromisato has taught
at UCLA, Occidental College and has also taught for the Jumpstart Program
at community colleges in the Los Angeles area. She is a founding and current
member of CECI (Centro de Estudios Coloniales Iberoamericanos), a research
group for Spanish-American Colonial Studies based at UCLA. In her free time,
Professor Moromisato enjoys singing karaoke, traveling and taking photographs
of the urban, architectural and gastronomic landscapes of Los Angeles.
Adilifu Nama
Chair & Associate Professor
African American Studies
Professor Nama received his Ph.D. in Sociology at USC
(2002) and an M.A. degree in Sociology at Howard
University (1996). His B.A. degree in Sociology was from
CSU, Long Beach (1992). He will chair the Department
of African American Studies at LMU. Professor Nama’s
research is interdisciplinary and rests at the intersection of African American
studies, cultural studies, black cultural criticism, critical theory, film studies
and communication studies. He examines popular culture as a compelling
conduit that connects peoples and places, politics and power, commerce
and commodities in ways that forge new social relations, lifestyles and racial
subjectivities concerning black racial formation. His publications include Super
Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes (University Texas Press,
2011), the award winning Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film.
(University of Texas Press, 2008) along with a variety of articles examining black
racial formation and representation in Sci-Fi film, comics, hip-hop music and
television.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Modern Languages & Literatures
Professor Nicolas earned her M.A. degree from the
University of Bristol, England, and a second M.A. degree
from the University of Rennes 2, France, both focusing on
Arthur Rimbaud’s revolutionary poetry. She received her
Ph.D in French Studies from the Ohio State University.
Her research encompasses the representations of violence in literature from
fin-de-siècle through the 1950s and in European cinema (depicted via wars,
social revolutions, identities and gender conflicts, and issues of communication
in relationships), which she teaches in an historical and artistic context. She is
currently working on several articles on Rimbaud’s poetic subversion and is also
co-authoring a beginner’s French textbook, Voyage, Voyage. Professor Nicolas
moved from Paris to the U.S. in 2000 and is looking forward to new and
enriching experiences at LMU. During her free time, she enjoys traveling and
writing novels.
Margarita Ochoa
Assistant Professor
History
Professor Ochoa earned a B.A. degree in History at
UCLA, and M.A. degree in History and Political Science
at the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in Latin
American History at the University of New Mexico. She
is the Co-editor of the forthcoming , City Indians in
Spain’s American Empire: Urban Indigenous Society in Colonial Mesoamerica and
Andean South America, 1600-1830, author of a book chapter ,“‘Por faltar a sus
obligaciones’: matrimonio, género y autoridad entre la población indígena de
la ciudad de México colonial, siglos XVIII y XIX,” in Felipe Castro Gutiérrez,
ed., Los indios y las ciudades de la Nueva España (2010) and is completing an
article, “The Murder of Rodrigo de Paz: Power, Authority, and the Inquisition in
Colonial Mexico, 1521-1600.” With the generous aid of university (UNM) and
national grants (FLAS, Mellon), Professor Ochoa conducted historical research
with archaic Spanish and Nahuatl documentation in the archives in Mexico,
Spain, and England. She is also working on the transcription and translation
of a corpus of Nahuatl last wills and testaments from late-colonial Mexico City
compiled over the past three years. This work will be presented at the upcoming
(January 2012) annual meeting of the American Historical Association and will
also form part of a book-length manuscript. She enjoys circuit training, Pilates,
yoga, cycling and discovering Los Angeles.
Gene Park
Assistant Professor
Political Science
Professor Park specializes in comparative politics,
international relations, and political economy. He has
written extensively on the politics of public finance in
Japan including a book entitled Spending without Taxation:
FILP and the Politics of Public Finance in Japan (2011).
He is currently working on a comparative study of taxation. Prior to arriving at
LMU, he taught at Baruch College, City University of New York. Professor Park
has been a Japan Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
and a Shorenstein Fellow at Stanford University’s Asia Pacific Research Center
(APARC). He also spent two years as a visiting scholar at the Japanese Ministry
of Finance’s Policy Research Institute. Professor Park received his Ph.D. in
Political Science from UC, Berkeley. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Institute
of International Education fellowship. He holds a B.A. degree in Philosophy
from Swarthmore College and a Masters of City and Regional Planning from
UC, Berkeley.
New Faculty 2011–12
Andrew (Andy) Rohm
Casey Shoop
Associate Professor
Marketing
English
Visiting Assistant Professor
Professor Rohm earned his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering
from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. in
Marketing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Professor Rohm recently returned from Maastricht,
Netherlands, where he spent the 2007-2008 academic
year as a visiting professor at Maastricht University. His research examines
consumer usage and acceptance of new media as well as firms’ use of mobile and
social media marketing strategies. He has published in scholarly and managerial
publications such as the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Interactive Marketing,
the Journal of Advertising, the Journal of Consumer Behavior, the Journal of Business
Research, and the Sloan Management Review. After living in the greater-Boston
area for more than fifteen years, he is excited to be moving to Los Angeles, where
he can begin to perfect his surfing skills. Professor Rohm is currently living in
Manhattan Beach with his family, their black lab named Pretty Boy Floyd, and a
20-year old cat named Monroe.
Professor Shoop received his B.A. degree in English at the
University of California, Berkeley and his M.A. and Ph. D.
from Columbia University. He specializes in 20th Century
American literature and film. From 2008-2010, he served
as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Huntington LibraryUSC Institute on California and the West where he was conducting research
for a book on the culture and politics of the Reagan era. He is also working on
a more recent project that examines the relationship between detective fiction
and capitalism in the late 20th Century. His essay on Raymond Chandler and
Fredric Jameson recently appeared in Cultural Critique, and an essay on Thomas
Pynchon will appear this year in Contemporary Literature. Although the eight
years Casey spent in New York may have turned him into a New Yorker, he is a
native of Southern California and thrilled to be on the West coast again, where he
can watch the Lakers with other fans, see old Hollywood films in L.A.’s historic
theaters, and spend time with his family and friends.
Kenneth Rudnick, S.J.
Rosalie Siemon Lochner
Clinical Professor
Philosophy
Philosophy
Visiting Instructor
Fr. Kenneth Rudnick, S.J. re-joins LMU in the Department
of Philosophy after serving in multiple capacities at
LMU, for example, as Chaplain at Loyola School of Law
(2006-2011). He has occupied numerous posts as Dean
(Marymount College, Rancho Palos Verdes; Dean of the
College of Arts & Letters, St. Michael’s Institute, Gonzaga), Academic Vice
President, and Rector/President (St. John’s Seminary College, Camarillo), and
has taught part time in several departments. Fr. Rudnick’s Ph.D. is in Philosophy
from Fordham University and his M.Div., in Theology is from the Jesuit School
of Theology, Berkeley. His work has focused on many topics including Catholic
Studies and curriculum development.
Professor Siemon Lochner earned her B.A. degree in
Philosophy from Boston University, and has M.A. degrees
in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University
and in Philosophy from DePaul University, where she
is currently completing her Ph.D. Her dissertation in
progress is titled: “Arendt and Spivak: Worlding the Political and Ethical
Subject.” Her work concentrates on political, ethical and feminist issues. She also
works on questions related to child agency in medical ethics. Her M.A. theses
considered the ethical dimensions of Martin Heidegger and Gayatri Spivak and
the ethical and political margins in Sophocles’ Antigone. She enjoys reading and
contributing to food blogs, hiking with her family, and distance running.
Anthony (Tony) Sabatino
Justin Rodriguez
Assistant Professor
Educational Leadership
Visiting Assistant Professor
Communication Studies
Professor Sabatino received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in
education from Northern Illinois University and his Ed.D.
in Educational Leadership from California Lutheran
University. He has served for thirty-one years in public and
Catholic school administration, including K-12 elementary
and secondary schools. Recently, he was Headmaster of Villanova Preparatory
School in Ojai, CA. His current research projects examine and explore the
change process in implementing the extended calendar in the Archdiocese of
Los Angeles. Additionally, he has designed a conceptual framework to be used
in developing principled-based leaders in Catholic secondary schools. Other
research interests are leadership theory related to the Catholic school principalship, Catholic school governance, ethical decision-making, and urban Catholic
schooling. Professor Sabatino was made an Affiliate of the Order of Saint
Augustine (OSA) in May 2009 after serving the Augustinian priests and brothers
of the Province of St. Augustine for 19 years as an administrator in both of their
high schools. His wife is also an educator; he enjoys Italian cooking and biking.
Professor Rodriguez received his J.D. (2011) from Loyola Law School and a B.A.
degree from the University of LaVerne. He was a summer associate at Manatt,
Phelps, & Phillips, a judicial extern for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit, and a legal intern for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund.
He has served as a lecturer of Communication Studies as well as Assistant
Debate Coach at Loyola Marymount University (2006-08 and 2010-11). His
publications include Defining Critical Forensics (Rostrum, 2007) and The Use
of Critiques in Lincoln Douglas Debate (Rostrum, 2005). He has served as a
member of the Executive Council for the World Schools Universities Debating
Championships, U.K. and as Director and Secretary of Debate for the Southern
California Debate League.
New Faculty 2011–12
Meghna Singhvi
Chiara Sulprizio
Assistant Professor
Accounting
Visiting Assistant Professor
Classics and Archaeology
Professor Singhvi earned an MBA at Ohio University
(2002), and an M.S. degree in Accountancy from
Northern Kentucky University, as well as a Ph.d. in
Business Administration (Accounting) from Florida
International University. She served as an internal auditor
at Northern Kentucky University (2006-08), as Adjunct Professor (Accounting)
at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, and at Northern Kentucky University.
She has published a paper, ““Audit Fees after Remediation of Internal Control
Weaknesses” in Accounting Horizons (2011) with V. Munisf, K. Raghunandan,
and D. Rama. Her family lives in India and she resides in Los Angeles with her
husband who is also a professor of Accounting. In her free time, she loves to read,
travel, and exercise.
Courtney Spikes
Visiting Assistant Professor
History
Professor Spikes earned her B.A. degree in International
Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Later she
pursued her Ph.D. in French history at UCLA. At the
same time, Professor Spikes attended graduate school in
Paris at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and
then returned to France to pursue her doctoral research as a recipient of the
Chateaubriand fellowship. Her work on political culture in post-revolutionary
France has been presented at the annual conferences of the Society for French
Historical Studies and the Western Society of French History. Before attending
graduate school, Professor Spikes served as Program Director for an AmeriCorps
literacy-tutoring grant in Los Angeles and facilitated volunteer opportunities for
fellow alums in the city. Her free time is spent trying to keep up with her very
active three-year-old son in Santa Monica.
Joshua Spizman
Assistant Professor
Finance
Professor Spizman earned a Ph.D. at Binghamton
University, SUNY (2010) in Management (Finance) and
a B.S. degree at Binghamton University, SUNY (2005)
in Mathematical Sciences. He was a Visiting Assistant
Professor of Finance at Binghamton (2010-11) and the
year before was visiting lecturer of Finance at the University of Central Florida
in Orlando, Fl. His research interests focus on taxation, corporate finance,
ownership structure, and public finance. His working papers include “The
Evolution of Aggregate Stock Ownership: A Unified Explanation,” with Kristian
Rydqvist and Ilya Strebulaev, the“ Tax Benefit of Income Smoothing” with
Kristian Rydqvist and Steven T. Schwartz, and “Accounting, Finance and Adverse
Selection: Illustrations and Applications” with Murali Jagannathan, Steven T.
Schwartz, and Richard Young. In addition, Professor Spizman has presented
papers at numerous conferences including the Texas Finance Festival (2009), the
Financial Management Association Annual Meeting (2008), and the University
of North Carolina Tax Symposium (2008). Another paper will be delivered at
the Financial Management Association Annual Meeting (2011). He was married
recently at Walt Disney World and he and his family look forward to exploring
a new city and taking advantage of the great weather. They are also very excited
to visit Disneyland. He loves baseball and although a big New York Yankees fan,
he cannot wait to see a Dodgers game.
Professor Sulprizio was awarded a B.A. degree in Classics
from the University of Washington, Seattle (1999) and a
Ph.D. in Classics from USC (2007) earning as well as a
Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies. She served as a
lecturer at USC, as visiting assistant professor at Hamilton
College, and as a research scholar in the Center for the Study of Women at
UCLA. She joined LMU as a part-time faculty member in 2010. Among her
recent publications are “Eros Conquers All: Sex and Love in Eric Shanower’s Age
of Bronze,” and “You Can’t Go Home Again: War, Women and Domesticity in
Aristophanes’ Peace,” in a Special Volume of the journal, Ramus. She lives with
family and cat Circe in West Los Angeles, writes a blog about swimming pools
called “Swimming in LA,” volunteers as a tutor for “School on Wheels,” and
recently travelled to Nicaragua twice for leisure and a family visit. She enjoys
embroidery, badminton, bike riding.
Gustavo Vejarano
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering
Professor Vejarano earned his B.S. degree in electrical
engineering at Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia
(2005), and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
and computer engineering at the University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL (2009 and 2011). In 2006, he worked
for ZTE Corporation as an engineer for the deployment of a city-wide cellular
network. During his graduate studies, he conducted research on wireless
communication networks. The results of his research have been published in
the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, the Elsevier Computer
Networks Journal, and at several international conferences. His research was
also applied in the development of multimedia communication technologies
at the US Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and
Engineering Center, where he participated in the design, implementation, and
evaluation of video and audio communication systems. In higher education,
Professor Vejarano has worked on the development of constructivist learning
techniques for undergraduate students of electrical engineering. His work has
been published in the IEEE Transactions on Education. He has been a mentor of
the NASA-MUST and NSF-SEAGEP programs which provide career guidance
to undergraduate students in the science, technology, engineering, and math
(STEM) disciplines. Professor Vejarano enjoys all forms of musical expression.
He plays classical and electric guitar and he also experiments with the creation of
new electronic musical instruments.
Yanjie Wang
Assistant Professor
Asian Pacific Studies
Professor Wang earned her B.A. degree at Peking University
and her M.Phil. degree at the Chinese University of Hong
Kong. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages
and Cultures at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Professor Wang’s research focuses on modern
Chinese literature, contemporary Chinese cinema, and gender studies. She has
published journal articles including “Displaced in the Simulacrum: Migrant
Workers and Urban Space in The World” in Asian Cinema and “Contention
of Lust, Caution: Sexuality, Visuality and Female Subjectivity” in Situations:
Cultural Studies in the East Asian Context. She has also translated some Slavoj
Žižek’s works from English into Chinese. Professor Wang has taught a variety
of courses while she pursued her doctorate at the University of Illinois, and she
enjoyed tremendously the time with her students. She is excited about joining
the LMU community and about working in one of the most beautiful places in
the U.S.
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