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2022 New CHABSS Faculty and Staff
- Patricia (Risha) Bale - Psychology, Lecturer
Patricia (Risha) Bale received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1987.
She specializes in working with trauma, women’s issues and group therapy. She has practiced in a range of settings including women’s prisons, addiction treatment programs and inpatient hospital units. An important theme of her work has been to reach populations underserved by mental health treatment. In addition to clinical work, Risha has consistently been involved in teaching and training. - Barbara Diederichs - Modern Language Studies, Lecturer
Barbara Diederichs was born and raised in Germany. She studied German literature and history in Würzburg, Vienna, and Munich, and she finished with a master's degree in 1990.
She moved to St. Louis, MO, and started a Ph.D. program in comparative literature at Washington University. She finished her Ph.D. in German literature (using quantitative analysis to compare literature and music) at the University of Giessen and started working as a linguist for a company that produced translation software.
In 1995, she and her husband moved to San Diego where they adopted their first daughter. Since the birth of her younger daughters, she has been fascinated by Montessori pedagogy, taking Montessori training as they grew up from infants to adolescents, and teaching at Montessori schools. Now that the children are grown, she is happy to be back in college, teaching German at various community colleges as well as 4-year colleges. - Leslie Foster - Art, Media, and Design, Assistant Professor
Leslie Foster is an artist based in Los Angeles (occupied Gabrielino-Tongva land) whose work folds experimental film into multi-sensory installations to create contemplative ecologies and pocket universes that explore Black and queer futurity through a lens of dream logic. His love for storytelling is inspired by a childhood spent in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Berrien Springs, Michigan.
Leslie, who received his MFA from UCLA in 2022, seeks to create fleeting pocket universes and contemplative ecologies that explore Black and queer futurity through the lens of dream logic. Leslie’s aesthetic sensibility comes from a childhood spent growing up in Southeast Asia, straddling multiple Asian cultures and his own Black American roots. His work, which has been exhibited internationally and includes two solo shows, is designed to quietly subvert existing power dynamics while inviting viewers into turbulent space through the beautifully strange.
The work utilizes ritual, movement, and dream logic in an effort to embody unnamed and undefined emotions while challenging viewers to share space with their own discomfort.
His work has been exhibited internationally and includes numerous group exhibitions and two solo shows. He can often be found daydreaming about running away with a band of nomadic, seafaring artists - Holly Gilzow - Psychology, Lecturer
Holly received her Bachelors and Masters degrees here at CSUSM. She was in Kimmie Vanderbilt's development lab as an undergraduate, where she spent time looking at children's understanding of biased advertising messages. Her graduate program was completed in Carrick Williams's cognition and visual memory lab, focusing on memory for unusual (nameless) objects.
- Monica Gonzalez - Modern Language Studies, Lecturer
Monica Gonzalez is a Spanish instructor. She received her MA in Spanish from CSUSM in 2012. She is a firm believer that it is crucial to empower students to lead inquiring, ethical, and productive lives as global citizens through the study of a world language, its literature, and culture. - Jessica Gove - Modern Language Studies, Lecturer
Jessica Gove is a recent graduate from CSUSM where she received her M.A. in Spanish.
Her interests are in language acquisition and pedagogy. She enjoys Latin American literature and genealogy work.
- Robert Gutierrez-Perez - Communication, Assistant Professor
Robert Gutierrez-Perez earned his PhD at University of Denver. As a critical/cultural communication scholar, Gutierrez-Perez studies the intersectional power dynamics of everyday life from a performance studies approach utilizing decolonial and indigenous theories and methodologies that center subaltern, non-Western knowledge systems.
He is the author of Jotería Communication Studies: Narrating Theories of Resistance published as part of the Critical Intercultural Communication Studies series. Jotería is an identity, a community, and an area of study by/to nonheteronormative mestizas/os who perform their sexuality and gender in queer practices and communicative forms. By utilizing multiple methods, this book provides a cultural map or political snapshot that highlights reflexivity, cultural/queer nuances, and decolonial acts of resistance. Specifically, this book locates "theories in the flesh" in the borderlands narratives of Jotería, such as cuentos, pláticas, chismé, testimonio, mitos, and consejos. These theories of power and resistance create knowledge about how Jotería make sense of their own difference, how people interpret their assumed or perceived difference, and ultimately, how difference is managed as an emancipatory tool toward the goal of queer of color world making.
Gutierrez-Perez has been published in several international and national research journals as well as edited collections over the last decade. His research interests include queer of color communication and critique, Latina/o/x communication and culture, performative writing, poetic inquiry, and Anzaldúan studies. He is the award-winning editor of the collection: This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis. - Cherie Hill - Dance, Assistant Professor
Cherie Hill is a dance educator and choreographer whose art explores human expression through the body in collaboration with nature, music, and visual imagery. She has published in Gender Forum, the Sacred Dance Guild Journal, Dance Education in Practice, and In Dance, and has presented at international conferences including the International Association of Black Dance Conference and the International Conference on Arts and Humanities.
An advocate for equity and inclusion, Cherie has shared work on embedding dance, race, and equity into practice at NDEO, National Guild for Community Arts Education, and Alameda County Office of Education conferences. As a choreographer, she’s held artist residencies with Footloose, Milk Bar, the David Brower Center, and CounterPulse. Cherie holds a BA in Dance and Performance Studies and African American Studies from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Dance from the University of Colorado Boulder with certificates in Women and Gender Studies and Somatics. - Aaron Humble - Music, Assistant Professor
Described as remarkably virtuosic by the Columbus Republic and transcendent by the Daytona Beach News Journal, tenor and conductor Aaron Humble originally hails from Northeast Ohio.
A graduate of Millikin University, Aaron holds the Doctor of Music degree in vocal performance and literature from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Aaron has enjoyed solo appearances with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Columbus Philharmonic, the Mankato Symphony, and the Boston Pops and concert appearances at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, Wolf Trap, and the Chautauqua Institute.
During his tenure with Cantus, Aaron sang nearly 1000 concerts and recorded 10 albums with one of the nation’s premier vocal ensembles. Aaron has recently sung as a soloist and ensemble singer with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Tucson’s Grammy-nominated True Concord Voices, and Orchestra, and the Grammy-nominated South Dakota Chorale while also remaining active as a soloist in recital and oratorio.
Aaron was an associate professor of voice and the director of Choral Activities at Minnesota State, Mankato and the artistic director and principal conductor of the Apollo Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Known for his work in voice and community building in choral settings, Aaron looks forward to joining the CSUSM Faculty. For more information, please visit www.aaronhumble.com. - Richard Ibarra - History, Lecturer
Richard Ibarra is a historian of the late-medieval and early modern Iberian world. His research interests focus on the construction of community (particularly in urban contexts) and identity, and the practices that shape varieties of integration and naturalization. He has published articles on the integrative potential of early modern burial practices and the identity claims that permeated medieval tomb sculpture. Articles on the early modern use of family histories in claims to communal membership and charitable practices bridging the Iberian Atlantic are in progress.
His current book project looks at the assimilative practices of Italian merchant diasporas (especially from Genoa) in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Seville and the Atlantic, from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean and New Spain. These merchants' mobilization of foreign identity in claims about noble status (hidalguía), blood purity (limpieza de sangre), and their ties to host Iberian communities reinforced the liminality that allowed them to bridge the Atlantic and western Mediterranean. They thus reinforced the social and economic networks that facilitated their mercantile activities and Habsburg imperial ambitions. Nonetheless, as anxieties over ambiguous identities and foreign economic actors came to a head at the beginning of the seventeenth century, such claims shifted toward the dissimulation of ties to a foreign community or past.
A UCLA Cota-Robles and CSU Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive fellow, he will receive his PhD in History from UCLA in Spring 2023.
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- Robert Knight - Political Science, Lecturer
Bob Knight was a professor of Political Science at Chadron State College, specializing in Comparative Politics with a focus on Latin America politics. He earned his doctorate from Claremont Graduate University. His research interests center on comparative political institutions, especially legislative politics. Dr. Knight’s most recent publication analyzed agenda setting in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies. He has taught courses in all of the main fields of the discipline, developing and teaching courses from Introduction to Political Science to the political economy of economic development. While at Chadron State he served as Department Chair and on Faculty Senate among several other committees and task forces. - Karla Lamari - Modern Language Studies, Lecturer
Karla Lemari is a Spanish instructor. She began teaching Spanish in 2002 in her native country, Ecuador. In 2006, she moved to San Diego, California. She obtained her master’s degree in Spanish at California State University San Marcos in 2016 and taught courses at the university while completing her degree. Additionally, Karla has taught Spanish at Palomar College, and currently, she teaches Spanish at Irvine College. Karla is very excited to teach again at CSUSUM!
She loves helping students learn about her native language and culture using differentiated instruction because she understands that every student has different needs and challenges. She takes advantage of her personal experience as a language learner in English and Italian to remind her students that the sky is the limit. Karla has presented workshops on the use of technology tools and strategies at the World Languages Symposiums hosted by Cal State San Marcos, Palomar College, and MiraCosta College. Additionally, she gave salsa classes during several events hosted by the World Languages Department at Palomar College.
Karla is living her dream of becoming a Spanish teacher. She is very grateful that Mark Twain’s quote applies to her profession, “Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” - Arlie Langager - Music, Lecturer
Arlie Langager conducts the choirs, coordinates the music performance program, and teaches voice at MiraCosta College.
After receiving her undergraduate degree in vocal performance, Dr. Langager maintained a full voice studio in the Conservatory of Music at the University of Lethbridge. She studied voice performance and pedagogy at the University of Calgary for her Master of Music degree in Conducting. She taught courses in choral music education, supervised student teachers at elementary and secondary levels, and directed choirs at several universities in Canada before pursuing her doctoral studies in the US.
Dr. Langager has conducted tours and festivals with choirs from children through college ages. With the Youth Singers of Calgary, she toured her 80-voice choir to the Bahamas, New York, Australia and New Zealand. As Artistic Director of the Calgary Boys Choir organization, she toured across Canada and the United States with the boys and changed-voices choirs. She also conducted a major tour through Mexico City, Guanajuato, and Guadalajara as Conductor of the Mount Royal University Youth Choir.
Dr. Langager is active with several nonprofit organizations. As Vice President of the Musical Merit Foundation of Greater San Diego, she coordinates annual scholarship auditions awarding over $100,000. She is President-Elect of the California Choral Directors Association.
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- Felix Mantz - Political Science, Assistant Professor
Felix Mantz teaches and researches the entanglements of Global Studies, political ecology and anti-colonial politics. Employing a transdisciplinary approach that combines anti/decolonial thought, anarchist and abolitionist theories, anti-capitalist literature, and Indigenous scholarship, he tries to address a variety of global issues. These include ecological crises, coloniality and settler colonialism, state violence, economic injustice, and displacement and migration. He is interested in how the gendered, racialized, and colonial dimensions of these crises manifest globally and what this means for liberation struggles.
Felix joins from Queen Mary University of London where he conducted his doctoral research. His recent work examined the extent to which colonial logics of power and knowledge shape the politics of land grabbing in Tanzania. Working primarily with land rights, pastoralist, farmer, and Indigenous organizations, Felix analysed how historically-rooted logics of formalization, “unused lands” narratives, and colonial futurities shape contemporary land alienation.
Felix’s new project seeks to theorize so-called False Solutions to climate and environmental crises from the perspectives, experiences, and analyses of colonized peoples who have first-hand knowledge of their implementation. This includes an examination of carbon schemes, “green” energy technologies and transitions, and population-centred approaches. The project also seeks to examine alternative pathways for socially-just and ecologically-balanced futures. - Michael D. Mathiowetz - Anthropology, Lecturer
Michael D. Mathiowetz obtained his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2011 from UC Riverside. His research over the past fifteen years crosscuts the archaeology, art and symbolism, ethnohistory, ethnology, and oral histories of Indigenous societies spanning the US Southwest, north and west Mexico, Mesoamerica, and lower Central America. His work examines prehispanic interregional connectivity by situating local social changes within continental-scale or “Big Picture” contexts.
Mathiowetz’ interdisciplinary and collaborative research has been funded by fellowships and grants from UC MEXUS-CONACYT, the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, and the SAA Fred Plog Award, including a recent grant from the National Science Foundation (with Dr. Meradeth Snow) to study ancient DNA and population dynamics in west Mexico.
He is co-editor (w/ Dr. Andrew Turner) of the volume Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest (University of Arizona Press, 2021) and co-editor (w/ Dr. John M. D. Pohl) of the volume Reassessing the Aztatlán World: Ethnogenesis and Cultural Continuity in Northwest Mesoamerica (University of Utah Press, in press).
- Cameron Milani - Economics, Lecturer
Cameron Milani is an economics PhD student at Claremont Graduate University. He’s an applied microeconomist with research interests in labor economics, environmental economics, and health economics. He received his master’s degree in economics from San Diego State University, and his undergraduate degree is in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
He is particularly interested in the labor and human capital impacts of discrimination. He is deeply motivated by a longstanding interest to enhance economic mobility for populations that are often discriminated against. Methodologically, he utilizes quasi-experimental research designs to understand the consequences of discrimination and to assess the impact of policies designed to mitigate it.
- Kellie Miller - Literature & Writing Studies, Lecturer
Kellie Miller is a literary scholar in the field of English Literature. Her research specialties include British Literature, Victorian Literature, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, and Popular Culture. When teaching in the classroom, Kellie aims to introduce students to a wide variety of sources, both digital and print, to help students make connections between course topics and their own personal experiences. She graduated from San Diego State University, for her Master's in English, and Syracuse University for a Bachelor's Degree in English & Textual Studies, with a concentration on Creative Writing. She is currently working on her dissertation at UC San Diego, with a topic focus on contemporary productions of Victorian narratives.
- Jodi Olbin - Psychology, Lecturer
Jodi Olbinis a professional Social Studies Educator who has taught in the public school system in Minnesota for the last 24 years. She earned a Bachelor of Applied Arts Degree with a major of Teaching Secondary Social Studies in 1996 and a Masters of Education Degree in 2002 from the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Just this past year, she earned a Certificate in International Baccalaureate Education from Bethel University.
Jodi has taught College-in-the-Schools General Psychology and Introduction to Sociology courses since 2010, which is a partnership program with the University of Minnesota-Duluth and Lake Superior College that offers college level courses to juniors and seniors in high school. This program provides students the opportunity to earn college credit while remaining in a high school setting.
Jodi is passionate about education and Psychology and has earned 18 graduate credits in Psychology as a continuation of her understanding and knowledge of the discipline. - Jennifer Quiroz Avila - Admin Support Assistant, Psychology & Child and Adolescent
Development
Jennifer Quiroz Avila was born and raised in north county San Diego. Her educational background is in sociology and in critical race & ethnic studies from UC Santa Cruz.
For the last 3 years, she has worked for the city of Carlsbad in the library and cultural arts department. She is concurrently employed with the city of San Marcos' finance department as it relates to her current pursuit of an accounting certificate from Palomar College.As a first-generation college graduate, she is passionate about supporting underrepresented student groups navigating higher education and facing disproportionate barriers to success. She is excited to begin her journey at CSUSM in support of that goal.
In her free time, she is very much a homebody who enjoys sharing tasty food with family and friends, tending to her plants, photo journaling, watching cartoons and playing videogames.
- Roberto Rivera - Sociology, Lecturer
Roberto Rivera is a 2022 graduate of sociology from UC Riverside. He is a proud alum of the sociology department at CSUSM, class of 2013. His travels as an undergraduate, took him to the indigenous communities of Ecuador that informs his research.
The focus of his research is on governmental structure and organizational behavior as it intersects the variables of trust in marginalized communities. He is committed to the advancement of restorative justice practices through his holistic policing methods. He is currently working on a GIS mapping project in the Caribbean on climate change.
He is a 2018-19 U.S. Fulbright Scholar awardee in criminology to Jamaica. In 2017, he was profiled as one of two non-attorneys by author Kim Wright, “Lawyers as Change Makers: The Emerging Integrative Law Movement. Bobby’s Story”. His M.A. thesis appears as a chapter in 2019, Gringo Injustice: Insider Perspectives on Police, Gangs, and Law. He has two books in the works. Mama Jamaica, Memories of a U.S. Fulbright Scholar (2024), is on the construction of whiteness in the Caribbean and The Art of the Performance: The Quest for a Holistic Policing Approach (2023) on community policing.
- Matthew Salazar-Thompson, Theatre Arts, Lecturer
Matthew Salazar-Thompson is the former Associate Artistic Director /Dramaturg of North Coast Repertory Theatre where he directed several main stage productions, and has also directed for The San Diego Repertory Theatre, The La Jolla Playhouse and other theatres in Southern California. He has been commissioned as a playwright by The San Diego Repertory Theatre and North Coast Repertory Theatre. In 2016, Mr. Thompson collaborated with La Mama Experimental Theatre Group in Umbria, Italy with resident master playwright Mac Wellman in the development of his academic non-linear piece The Complete History of Theatre (abridged) and the revision of his short play The 146 Point Flame which was mentioned in Southern Theatre Magazine as one of the top ten plays to produce on the social topic of immigration.
He has received research grants for topics such as The Exclusive Element of Writing with Inclusivity, History of City Sourcing and the Identity of Native Sands, and Cross Reference Identifiers in Academic Research. His plays have been published by Dramatic Publishing. He has also worked as an actor at The La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Cygnet Theatre, Moxie Theatre, Lambs Players Theatre and others. His television credits include Days of Our Lives, CSI, Baywatch, Veronica Mars, 18 Wheels of Justice, Cover Me, Frasier and many others.
He received his MA in Theatre from San Diego State University and his MFA in English - Creative Writing with an emphasis in Playwriting from University of California, Riverside. He previously has lectured at San Diego State University, San José State University, Santa Clara University and other two-year collegiate institutions.
Academic Interests: Chicanx Identity and Rhetoric, Environmental Criticism, Native Storytelling of the Americas, Commedia dell'arte, Cross Identity & Immigration. - Yasmine Sherafat - Psychology, Assistant Professor
Yasmine Sherafat is a behavioral neuroscientist with a focus on understanding the neurobiological mechanisms underlying addiction and learning and memory. She graduated from UC Irvine with her PhD in neurobiology and behavior, where she studied neurobiological modulators underlying nicotine addiction. During her graduate training, she was also a fellow of the CSU Long Beach Pre-Professor Program (PREPP), where she gained experience in working with faculty and students at a comprehensive master’s granting institution. Afterwards, she continued her research at a postdoctoral position at the University of Iowa where she studied learning and memory in drug seeking.
Dr. Sherafat’s ultimate research interests are to examine allosteric modulators in learning and memory underlying addiction like behaviors, with the goal of providing the necessary basic science to discover therapeutic targets for more efficacious treatments. - Leonardo Silva - Modern Language Studies, Assistant Professor
Leonardo Silva is a scholar in Literary Studies specializing in Latin American culture. His research focuses on visual art as well as poetry and prose in Spanish and Portuguese about war, humor, and race.
Leonardo’s first book Plural has been adopted in language instruction in several universities in the US, including Harvard, UC Berkeley, and the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California Davis in 2022. His next book project explores the roots of racism and nationalism in the four combatant countries of the War of the Triple Alliance (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay). In this work, Leonardo studies literature and caricature from the war period, analyzing how military conflicts impacted art and how art framed the ways we represent war.
He is currently working on a translation from Portuguese to English of Bom Crioulo (one of the first queer novels in Western literature) and a Portuguese adaptation of poems by Afro-Argentinian author Horacio Mendizábal.
His research interests are language instruction, 19th-century literature, Polemology and Peace Studies, and African Diaspora Studies. - Shannon Switzer Swanson - Environmental Studies, Assistant Professor
Shannon Swanson is a marine social ecologist and interdisciplinary scholar by training, utilizing methods across the natural and social sciences. Her research brings a critical lens to marine conservation to understand the overlap and disconnect in worldviews of coastal inhabitants and stakeholder groups to design management programs and policies that are more effective and equitable.
Her work to date has focused on understanding how specific ontologies and epistemologies motivate varying approaches to marine resource use in Oceania, primarily in the Philippines and Indonesia. Specifically, her thesis work while at Stanford University was based in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, and utilized a decolonizing community photography method known as photovoice to explore links between understandings of time, engagement with non-governmental organizations, and marine resource use in two fishing communities.
She is currently expanding her focus to the California coastline to examine equity in coastal access and participation in conservation to understand how these shape feelings of “belonging” in ocean spaces, as well as how fishing contributes to the nutrition and well-being of southern California families. - Ran Tal - a Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative Visiting Artist
Ran Tal is a world-renowned director whose documentaries focus on Israeli reality through a historic social perspective. His most current film, “1341 Frames of Love and War” will premiere at the Berlin Film Festival this year. Dr. Tal also teaches cinema at Tel Aviv University, where he founded the Masters in Documentary Film, an international program taught in English.
- Jonathan Trinidad - Sociology, Assistant Profesor
Jonathan Trinidad completed a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He also completed a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Research Institute on Addictions in Buffalo, NY.
Jonathan’s research broadly focuses on bias and discrimination in academia. Specifically, Jonathan is interested in how campus climate moderates the effects of microaggressions on academic performance and well-being. He is also interested in professor/student access/correspondence rates based on race/ethnicity and gender using experimental audit design.
Jonathan has been serving as Lecturer Faculty at CSUSM since 2015. Prior to CSUSM, Jonathan served as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Point Loma Nazarene University.
- Lorena Vivar - Admin Support Coordinator, Liberal Studies and Environmental Studies
Lorena Vivar was born and raised in Escondido. Her educational background is in human development focused on health services & anthropology from CSU San Marcos. She will be returning this fall to obtain her master’s in public health from CSU San Marcos.
In previous years she has worked with the elderly in assisted livings. Her passion is with those that have memory impairments and giving them the same quality of life as other elderly residents. She wishes to continue her journey in healthcare and help those in need.
During her free time, she likes to teach herself different methods of painting. She is also a fan of escaping to nature with family or friends to go camping. - Mael Vizcarra - Art, Media, and Design, Lecturer
Mael Vizcarra is a filmmaker and anthropologist from Tijuana, Mexico. She holds a doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies from the Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University. Her ethnographic research studies the emplaced sensory and affective experiences of working-class people along the Mexico-U.S. border, to reframe debates around borders and mobility through a perspective that centers the phenomenological experiences of the bodies that labor, perform, and circulate in these spaces. - Matan Yair - a Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative Visiting Artist
Matan Yair is a director and writer. His award-winning, debut feature, “Scaffolding” was based on his own life experiences and premiered at Cannes in 2017. Dr. Yair studied at the Sam Spiegel School for Film and Television and Tel Aviv University.
- Armaghan Ziaee - Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Assistant Professor
Dr. Armaghan Ziaee is an interdisciplinary architecture historian and women’s and gender studies scholar. Her work centers on transnational and decolonial studies, intersectional methods and pedagogy, and history of gender and space particularly in the Middle East. Her projects expand narratives of marginalized and disenfranchised groups that have been systematically excluded in grand narratives. She pays attention to micro-histories, everyday spaces, and unknown figures.
Dr. Ziaee received her Ph.D. in Architectural History, Theory, and Criticism and her second master’s degree in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Cincinnati. She has been the recipient of awards, grants, and fellowships including from the National Women’s Studies Association and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-GAHTC. Before joining CSUSM she worked and taught in women’s and gender studies at the University of North Texas and the University of Cincinnati.