Committee for International Research

The Committee for International Research (CIR) is open to all CSUSM faculty who conduct research and scholarly and creative activities outside of the United States

Our goals:​

• Build community​
• Develop ideas to support international research needs​
• Connect faculty to campus and CSU resources & guidance ​
• Communicate & develop processes to further university support of international scholarly work​
• Engage in and support interdisciplinary work across campus​
• Promote & amplify faculty international research at annual symposium​

2023-2024 Meetings:

Please contact Dr. Elizabeth Ridder (eridder@csusm.edu), CIR Faculty Fellow, with any questions.

Committee Members:

• Faculty Fellow

  

  Dr. Elizabeth Ridder - Associate Professor, Geography

  Founding Faculty Fellow 2023-2025

  Vegetation response to climate changes. Human landscape use. Urban wildlife.

  I am plant biogeographer and physical geographer and I am interested in human-environment relationships. I study climate and human-related changes to plant distributions, specifically the underlying factors that lead to land-use and land-cover change, and how human decision-making in response to environmental change influences agricultural practices. I use field-based methods to study vegetation and landscape-level disturbances by integrating geospatial analysis and modeling. From this perspective I examine prehistorical to modern vegetation change, model present-day species distributions, and combine projections of land-cover change and species distributions under multiple climate change scenarios.

• 2023-2024

  Alyssa Sepinwall, Professor, CHABSS History

  Andrew Spieldenner, Associate Professor, CHABSS Communication

  Antonio De La Garza, Associate Professor, CHABSS Communication

  Antonio Zaldivar, Associate Professor & Department Chair, CHABSS History

  Armaghan Ziaee, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

  AsherLev Santos, Associate Professor, CEHHS Public Health

  Cecilia Uy-Tioco, Associate Professor, CHABSS Communication

  Ching-Ming Cheng, Professor, CHABSS School of Arts - Music

  Dino Bozonelos, Lecturer, CHABSS Political Science & Global Studies

  Elizabeth Matthews, Professor, CHABSS Political Science & Global Studies

  Elizabeth Ridder, Associate Professor, CHABSS Liberal Studies

  Elvis Nshom, Associate Professor, CHABSS Communication

  France-Luce Benson, Assistant Professor, CHABSS School of Arts - Theatre

  Gloria Pindi, Associate Professor, CHABSS Communication

  Jon Spenard, Associate Professor, CHABSS Anthropology

  Lucy HG Solomon, Associate Professor, CHABSS School of Arts – Art, Media, and Design

  Marion Geiger, Professor, CHABSS Modern Language Studies

  Meegan Feori-Payne, Assistant Professor, CoBA Marketing

  Meshack Simati, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Global Studies

  Michael Hughes, Associate Professor, CHABSS Modern Language Studies

  Mikee Inton-Campbell, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

  Paola Ometto, Assistant Professor, CoBA Management

  Ranjeeta Basu, Professor, CHABSS Economics

  Reuben Mekenye, Associate Professor, CHABSS History

  Robert Gutierrez, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Communication

  Sandra Doller, Associate Professor, CHABSS Literature and Writing Studies

  Shannon Swanson, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Environmental Studies

  Teru Toyokawa, Associate Professor, CEHHS Human Development

  William Byun, Lecturer, CoBA Finance

  Xiaoye She, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Political Science

CSUSM International Research Collaborations:

If you want to add a new collaboration to the map or update an existing one, please contact Mar Roig Ripoll (mroigripoll@csusm.edu), Grants and Contracts Specialist at OGSR.