College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Fall 2022 – New Faculty
First Name | Last Name | Title/Rank | Dept/Unit | |
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Eyal | Bar | Assistant Teaching Professor | PIA | |
Dr. Eyal Bar began his doctoral studies at Florida State University in 2008 where he served as a research assistant on the Ill-Treatment and Torture (ITT) Database Project under Professors Will Moore and Courtney Conrad. | ||||
Tara | Bautista | Assistant Professor | PSY | |
Dr. Tara Bautista’s research interests include stress and substance use disorders among minority populations and adapting evidence-based interventions to reduce health disparities and promote health equity. Her current work is focused on culturally adapting a mindfulness-based intervention for Latina mothers who drink alcohol to cope with stress. | ||||
Andrew | Bisto | Assistant Teaching Professor | CCJ | |
Dr. Bisto returns to NAU as an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the fall of 2022 and will teach criminology courses focusing on the social construction of power, crime, race, and the law. An example of his research can be found in Crime, Law and Social Change (Bisto 2019). | ||||
Andrew | Brown | Assistant Teaching Professor | CCJ | |
His teaching and research focus on radical social movements, faith-based disciplinary technologies, and behavior modification programs in US carceral facilities. He has years of experience with community-led organizations concerned with serving the needs of incarcerated women in Arizona. | ||||
Rima | Brusi | Professor | Anthropology | |
Rima Brusi is a writer, researcher and advocate specializing in 1)the use of anthropological research methods to study and improve policy and practice in public K-12 and higher education systems in the United States, and 2) colonialism, disaster capitalism, public education and displacement in Puerto Rico. | ||||
Candi | Corrales | Assistant Teaching Professor | ES | |
Candi teaches courses on Aztlán/Xicanx Studies, Intersectional Movements, Critical Race Theory, and Transnational Feminist Resistance. Her interests are centered around proletarian feminism, radical transformations, settler-colonialism, the Latin American diaspora, and the political economy of extractive imperialism. Her current research is focused on brown and Indigenous women leadership in militant collectives. | ||||
Carolyn | Choi | Assistant Professor | ES | |
After earning her masters in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, she completed her doctorate in Sociology from the University of Southern California where she specialized in the fields of Asia/Asian America, migration, race, and globalization. | ||||
Ashleigh | Day | Assistant Professor | COM | |
Ashleigh received her BA from University of Arizona, MA from NAU, and PhD from Wayne State University, all in Communication. Her research focuses on environmental, health, and crisis communication, including multiple publications on boil water alerts and the accommodation of pets in disaster evacuation | ||||
Ivan | Delvasto | Assistant Teaching Professor | COM | |
Visual Communication Designer skilled at designing thoughtful and engaging creative solutions to structure stories that enhance and support client's needs. With an understanding in research and interpreting complex messages into visuals and understandable form. Experience with creating visually, intellectually, and physical accessible content and inclusive of all audiences. | ||||
Elisa | Geiss | Assistant Teaching Professor | PSY | |
Dr. Elisa Geiss has been teaching psychology courses for the last 6 years in a variety of undergraduate institutions. Her favorite courses are focused on development and psychopathology. She enjoys chatting about teaching ideas, sharing resources, and mentoring students. | ||||
Christopher | Harrison | Instructor | PIA | |
An immigrant of multiethnic origins within the British Isles, Dr. Harrison teaches comparative/IR, introductory, and upper-level undergraduate political science courses at Northern Arizona University. His forthcoming book, "Genocidal Conscription" (Lexington Books, expected 2023), examines the use of mandatory military service as an institution used by some states to commit genocide under the guise of war. | ||||
Gavin | Healey | Assistant Professor | ANT&AIS | |
Dr. Healey is an interdisciplinary scholar, sociocultural anthropologist, and semiotic ethnographer interested in Native American and Indigenous place-making via muralism and public art. His work involves collaborative community-based participatory research and mixed methods approaches that investigate urban and reservation attitudes of place. | ||||
Sandy | Heath | Assistant Professor | GPR | |
Assistant Professor of Parks and Recreation Management at Northern Arizona University (NAU) where they teach and research diversity, equity, and inclusion topics related to outdoor recreation. Before NAU, Sandy worked as a (dis)abilities advocate as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Coordinator for the State of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). | ||||
Roger | Horn | Assistant Professor of Practice | COM | |
As a filmmaker and anthropologist his work engages with digital, Super 8mm, 16mm, and found images, with a strong focus on Southern Africa. He started working in film and television over 20 years ago as an actor before moving into production | ||||
Cherise | Hovis | Associate Clinical Professor | SW | |
Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Master's degree in Social Work from Denver University. Cherise has 30 years of experience working with children, youth, and families. She began her career working with children and families in a mental health outpatient setting. | ||||
Kiley | Huntington | Assistant Clinical Professor | SW | |
Kiley has worked with a wide variety of populations including: Hospice, Dialysis treatment center, work in a shelter in Seattle as well as work with homeless individuals that were identified as severely impacted by mental health, case management at a clinic serving people with disabilities, lockdown juvenile detention center, and child protective services in Utah. | ||||
Jaymie | Kennedy | Assistant Clinical Professor | SW | |
I'm passionate about creating healing communities, honoring the human experience and partnering with future generations of social workers in building their grit, competence, and resilience so they can be impactful in their acts of service. | ||||
Stefanie | Kunze | Assistant Professor | SOC | |
Dr. Kunze specializes in perpetrators of genocide and ethnocide, Native American experiences with settler colonialism and assimilation, as well as related political, societal, and social challenges. | ||||
Sara | Lowden | Assistant Teaching Professor | SOC | |
In the broadest sense, her interests include the politics of global environmental change and the social, cultural, and ecological behaviors that shape environmental policy. Her work engages with theoretical discussions in political ecology and multispecies anthropology. | ||||
Stephanie | Lowrance | Assistant Clinical Professor | SW | |
Stephanie collaborated with a variety of First Responders and community agencies to provide mental health training to many professionals as well as community members. Stephanie started teaching part-time at California State University Fullerton in 2020. She has taught classes in the Master’s in Social Work program and the undergraduate Human Services program. | ||||
Nancy | Lubick | Lecturer | CCJ | |
Nancy teachers on issues related to social inequality and social justice in the criminal justice system. Over the years she has taught different courses, including electives and core classes. She serves many needs of the department, often teaching courses like environmental crime and white-collar crime along with courses that focus on analyzing women, gender, sexuality, victimization, and crime. | ||||
Justin | Lund | Postdoctoral Scholar | Anthropology | |
Justin's studies focused on the intersection of Indigeneity, genomics, and bioethics. Justin’s genetic training has included work that explored SNP variation in human fetal hemoglobin expression, ancient DNA, and the oral and gut microbiomes of various human populations. | ||||
Carter | McCormick | Assistant Professor of Practice | COM | |
Carter McCormick has an MFA in film and television from Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia and is a PhD candidate in screen and media studies with University College Cork in Ireland. | ||||
Megan | McCoy | Assistant Professor | SW | |
Through both teaching and research, Dr. McCoy addresses the impact of historical institutionalized silences in later life and advances anti-racist and anti-ageist social work practice. | ||||
Rebecca | McCullough | Instructor | SOC | |
A passionate sociologist and educator, Rebecca expanded her graduate research to incorporate the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. She is also a proponent of Sociology as pedagogy, which addresses institutionalized inequalities through conscientious course design | ||||
Meghan | McDowell | Assistant Professor | CCJ | |
Meghan's research and community organizing is focused on building a world where punishment, prisons, and police power are unthinkable. Meghan is currently at work on a book titled, 'Block parties not jails!' Building insurgent safety in a carceral state. | ||||
China | Medel | Assistant Professor | ES | |
Dr. Medel’s research and teaching interests include U.S.-Mexico border studies, visual and media studies, Chicanx and Latinx cultural production, hemispheric and transnational American Studies and social movements. Her research focuses on the role of art and media in imagining and generating new modes of political recognition in the Americas. | ||||
Armando | Medinaceli | Postdoctoral Scholar | ANT | |
A Bolivian ethnobiologist/anthropologist with experience collaborating with indigenous peoples in Bolivia, Mexico, Guatemala, and the US. His work ranges from community conservation, ethnozoology, ethnobotany, indigenous food systems and food sovereignty, biocultural diversity, sustainability, climate change, collaborative video, and more. | ||||
Juan | Ochoa | Assistant Professor | WGS | |
Dr. Ochoa’s research explores the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality by analyzing the cultural production of queer Chicanx/Latinx artists to ask questions about desire and the ways desire structures identity formation. | ||||
Dana | Oden-Stiglitz | Lecturer | CCJ | |
Teaching media and crime, criminal psychology, criminology theory and white-collar crime. Research in the insanity defense, psychology, biology and crime, media/public perceptions of the criminal justice system | ||||
Areen | Omary | Assistant Professor | SW | |
. She emphasizes the EPAS competencies and the importance of evidence-based social work practice in her teaching. Her teaching is complemented by her research projects that aim to investigate the effectiveness of evidence-based treatments in treating depression and anxiety among diverse adult patients to provide research-informed knowledge to practitioners. | ||||
Robert | Poe | Assistant Teaching Professor | CCJ | |
After moving from Canada to Arizona in 1996, I began my academic journey through two undergraduate degrees: first in Computer Graphic Communications, then later in Philosophy. It was through the pursuit of my degree in Philosophy where I returned to a longtime goal of becoming a teacher | ||||
Lucero | Radonic | ANT | ||
As a teacher and a methodologist, I train students in qualitative methods through critical engagement with ethics and hands-on-experiences. At NAU I am excited to explore new collaborations that may develop new methods or engage with creative approaches to explore and convey the complexities in human-environment interactions | ||||
Sara | Rinfret | Professor | PIA | |
Dr. Rinfret has more than a decade of higher education administrative experience and is a nationally recognized scholar in regulatory policy, environmental policy, and public administration. She previously served as the Acting Dean for the Alexander Blewett School of Law, Chair of the Department of Public Administration and Policy, and the Director of Master of Public Administration at the University of Montana | ||||
Allison | Robb | Lecturer | CCJ | |
Alison Robb was hired as a lecturer in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She teaches courses that explore the relationship between crime and the media. Most recently, she worked in the Coconino County Attorney's Office for two years as primarily a grand jury clerk, giving her direct experience in the field." | ||||
Nicole | Rose | Assistant Teaching Professor | ANT | |
As an anthropological archaeologist, her research engages with broader anthropological questions regarding non-state social complexity and the role of mobile societies in constructing the globalized world of antiquity. | ||||
Alder | Saxena | Assistant Professor | ANT&SOC | |
Over nearly two decades, her research has explored how small-scale farmers, primarily in Bolivia and Mexico, drive the on-farm conservation of agricultural biodiversity. Her more recent work incorporates questions of both rapid-onset food system change (e.g. the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on forest-based livelihoods) and the long-term socio-environmental change often denoted as the Anthropocene. | ||||
Kayeleigh | Sharp | Assistant Teaching Professor | ANT | |
Dr. Kayeleigh Sharp (Ph.D. SIU 2019) is an anthropological archaeologist with a long-standing interest in underrepresented groups, computational methods and archaeology education. Her main research focus lies with ancient South American cultures and civilizations. | ||||
Nitika | Sharma | Assistant Teaching Professor | ES | |
My teaching and research interests include diaspora studies, Asian American studies, ethnic studies, sociology of race and gender and refugee studies. I draw on decolonial and feminist theoretical frameworks and use qualitative methods to study the social and behavioral processes of marginalized groups of people and the identity making that emerges out of these processes | ||||
Cesar | Silva | Assistant Teaching Professor | ES | |
research interests include U.S. politics, with a focus on Chicanx/Latinx public opinion and voter turnout, racial and ethnic identity in the U.S., elections and campaigns, and Chicanx/Latinx public policy issues. | ||||
Florian | Trebouet | Assistant Teaching Professor | ANT | |
After a one-year study as a field assistant focusing on macaque mating behaviors in Thailand, I moved to the USA in 2012. I completed a PhD in Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (SIUC) in 2019 with an interest on non-human primate behavior and evolution in Southeast Asia | ||||
Sonya | Xiao | Assistant Professor | PSY | |
a developmental scientist studying prosocial behavior, positive intergroup attitudes and relations with a focus on gender and race/ethnicity primarily across childhood and adolescence. Her goal is to generate solutions to promote kindness, inclusion, and justice during development. |