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Fresno State employees are available to talk with members of the media on a variety of topics. Below are just some of our experts searchable by name, title, department or area of expertise. For further assistance, please contact our media relations specialist at media@mail.fresnostate.edu.

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Dr. Micheala Bojorquez Ford

Faculty | Finance, Real Estate and Business Law

Area of Expertise

  • Experiential learning
  • Internship program management
  • Professional and career development
  • Recruitment and talent acquisition
  • Personal branding

Dr. Michele Meisch

Faculty | Marketing

Area of Expertise

  • Marketing strategy
  • Strategic advertising
  • Internal marketing departments
  • Full-service marketing agencies
  • Brand positioning

Dr. Patricia Turnbull

Faculty | Marketing

Area of Expertise

  • Marketing
  • Advertising
  • Public relations
  • Brand identity/image
  • Sales

Dr. Peter English

Faculty | Criminology

Area of Expertise

  • Eyewitness identification

Dr. Cory Brooks

Faculty | Chemistry and Biochemistry

Area of Expertise

  • Cancer
  • Immunotherapy
  • Biochemistry
  • Immunology
  • Molecular Biology

Dr. Nicole J. Smith

Faculty | Kinesiology

Area of Expertise

  • Physical activity promotion
  • Physical education teacher education
  • Sports, Play, and Active Recreation for KIDS (SPARK)
  • Discovering Obstacles to Physical Education: Do PE!
  • Physical Education Academy
  • Systematic observation of physical activity during physical education, recess, and in park and trail environments
  • Physical activity policies
  • Heart rate monitor systems for group settings
  • Systematic observation of mask adherence and distancing

Dr. Holly Sowles

Faculty | Art, Design and Art History

Area of Expertise

  • Intelligent Design
  • Heat mitigation design
  • Adaptive reuse and sustainability
  • Alternative materials
  • Design as placemaking
  • Public used for safety

Dr. Joan K. Sharma

Faculty | Art, Design and Art History

Area of Expertise

  • Color theory
  • Pigment and light

Dr. Honora Chapman

Dean | College of Arts and Humanities

Area of Expertise

  • Ancient Christianity
  • Ancient Roman culture and history
  • Ancient Greek culture and history (including the Olympics)

Dr. Alaeddin Bani Milhim

Faculty | Mechanical Engineering

Area of Expertise

  • Robotics
  • Automation
  • Sensing
  • Actuation
  • Automated harvesting
  • Agriculture robotics

Dr. Matthew J. Sharps

Faculty | Psychology

Area of Expertise

  • Eyewitness memory and cognition
  • Psychology of paranormal observations and beliefs
  • Psychology of science and discovery
  • Thinking and memory

Dr. Aric Mine

Faculty | Earth and Environmental Sciences

Area of Expertise

  • Climate change
  • Groundwater quality
  • Nutrient management
  • Soils and water
  • Air quality
  • Water and air pollution

Dr. Nupur Hajela

Faculty | Physical Therapy

Area of Expertise

  • Digital health
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Telehealth
  • Virtual reality 

Dr. Kao-Ly Yang

Faculty | Linguistics

Area of Expertise

  • Hmong Studies: Culture, Religion, Language, Literature
  • French Studies: Teaching

Dr. Veena Howard

Faculty | Philosophy

Area of Expertise

  • Religion
  • Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism
  • Comparative religion
  • Dharma
  • Mohandas K. Gandhi's philosophy and legacy
  • Peace and nonviolence

Dr. Ginny Soethe Crisco

Faculty | English

Area of Expertise

  • Secondary and college literacy pedagogy
  • Justice pedagogy (Culturally and Linguistically Sustaining, Translanguaging, Universal Design for Learning) in literacy
  • Writing Program Administration
  • Rhetoric of 3rd Party Politics
  • Rhetorical Activism and Literacy

Dr. Jaymin Kwon

Faculty | Public Health

Area of Expertise

  • Air pollution and public health impact
  • Transportation-related air pollutants
  • Exposure monitoring and assessment
  • Land transition and dust mitigation

Dr. Negin Tahvildary

Faculty | Philosophy

Area of Expertise

  • Peer mediation
  • Peaceful problem-solving
  • Conflict management in K-12
  • Mediation in educational settings
  • School-based mediation programs 

Dr. Keith Clement

Faculty | Criminology

Area of Expertise

  • Cybersecurity
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Cyber awareness and preparedness
  • Cyber workforce development and education

Dr. Yolanda Travis

Faculty | Art, Design and Art History

Area of Expertise

  • Branding
  • Marketing campaigns
  • Marketing strategy
  • Graphic design
  • Mental health awareness
  • Identify mental health illnesses
  • Art therapy strategies 

Dr. Jenelle N. Gilbert

Faculty, department chair | Kinesiology

Area of Expertise

  • Applied sports psychology (e.g., helping athletes and other performers with their mental game - building confidence, dealing with competitive anxiety, developing focus and refocusing strategies, etc.)
  • Stress management
  • Youth sports
  • High school sports
  • College sports
  • Physical education 

Dr. Paulina A. Freire Váconez

Postdoctoral Researcher | Food Science and Nutrition

Area of Expertise

  • Dairy products
  • Artificial intelligence applications in the dairy industry
  • Spectroscopy
  • Rapid detection methods

Dr. Matthew J. Wright

Faculty | Psychology

Area of Expertise

  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Sports-related brain injury
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Memory impairment
  • Clinical neuropsychology

Dr. John Farrell

Faculty | History

Area of Expertise

  • U.S. civil rights
  • U.S. immigration
  • U.S. political history since 1865
  • Russian Imperialism
  • History of European Marxism

Dr. Matthew Ari Jendian

Faculty | Sociology/Humanics

Area of Expertise

  • Asset-based community development
  • Assimilation/adaptation patterns
  • Racial inequality
  • Change management
  • Community organizing
  • Economic inequality
  • Leadership development
  • Mindfulness practice
  • Nonprofit, community benefit organizations
  • Sociology of terrorism and genocide

Dr. Mo Fallah

Faculty | Finance, Real Estate and Business Law

Area of Expertise

  • Mergers
  • Acquisitions

Dr. Andres Jauregui

Faculty, director of the Gazarian Real Estate Center | Finance, Real Estate and Business Law

Area of Expertise

  • Real estate
  • Housing economics/finance
  • Commercial real estate
  • Economics/finance
  • Environmental economics

Dr. Hovannes Kulhandjian

Faculty | Electrical and Computer Engineering

Area of Expertise

  • Wireless communications
  • Applied machine learning
  • Robotics and artificial intelligence
  • Intelligent transportation systems
  • Precision agriculture
  • Visible light communications
  • Brain computer interfaces
  • Drones and unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs)
  • Physical layer security
  • Underwater acoustic communications

Dr. Aaron Stillmaker

Faculty | Electrical and Computer Engineering

Area of Expertise

  • Digital semiconductor engineering
  • Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI)
  • Many-core processor architecture
  • Physical chip design

Dr. María Dolores Morillo

Faculty | Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures

Area of Expertise

  • Early modern Spain
  • Miguel de Cervantes
  • Early modern women writers
  • 17th-century Spanish theater
  • Spanish language and literature
  • Internships in the humanities

Dr. Selena Van Horn

Faculty | Liberal Studies

Area of Expertise

  • LGBTQ+ topics in K-12 curriculum
  • Queering pedagogy/education
  • Critical and social justice focused literacy coaching
  • LGBTQ+ children’s literature

Dr. Lissa H. Parker

Faculty | Criminology

Area of Expertise

  • Threat assessment and management
  • Workplace violence prevention
  • Campus violence prevention
  • Targeted violence

Barlow Der Mugrdechian

Faculty | Armenian Studies

Area of Expertise
  • Armenian language
  • Armenian history
  • Armenian literature
  • Armenian culture
  • Armenian art
  • Armenian church

Dr. Brian Tsukimura

Faculty | Biology

Area of Expertise

  • Climate change
  • Marine biology
  • Club sports especially volleyball

Blake Zante

Executive Director | The Kenneth L. Maddy Institute

Area of Expertise

  • Civic Engagement
  • Legislative internships
  • Legislative politics
  • Political campaigns and elections
  • Public policy

Dr. Fernando Parra

Faculty | Accountancy

Area of Expertise

  • Small business accounting and systems
  • Accounting information systems (QuickBooks, SAP, Oracle)
  • Data analytics in accounting (audit automation, tax preparation, analytics)
  • Certified information systems auditor 
  • Pedagogy in accounting and IS
  • Information systems security and controls

Dr. Andy Stratemeyer

Faculty | Marketing and Logistics

Area of Expertise

  • Advertising
  • Services marketing
  • Market research

Jes Therkelsen

Faculty | Media, Communications and Journalism

Area of Expertise
  • Filmmaking
  • Documentary filmmaking
  • Photography
  • Visual storytelling

Josephine Hazelton-Boyle

Faculty | Public Administration

Area of Expertise
  • Public administration
  • Transportation planning and policy
  • Public libraries
  • Social equity
  • Public service ethics
  • Intersectional feminist theory
  • Politicization of bureaucracy

Laura Ramos

Director | California Water Institute

Area of Expertise

  • Water rights
  • Surface water distribution
  • Groundwater recharge
  • SGMA

Boutsaba Janetvilay

Catalog/Metadata Librarian | Metadata and Resource Description

Area of Expertise
  • Lao/Laotian
  • Cataloging
  • Metadata description

Candace Egan

Faculty | Media, Communications and Journalism

Area of Expertise
  • Screenwriting
  • Film and television production
  • Career Technology Education (CTE)

Chris Fiorentino

Director | Director of the Richter Center

Area of Expertise
  • Community service
  • Service-learning efforts
  • Partnerships with nonprofit organizations
  • Benefits of community service

Dr. Breck Harris

Faculty | Marketing and Logistics

Area of Expertise

  • Social media
  • Product, price, distribution and promotion marketing concepts
  • Global marketing/tariffs
  • Business ethics
  • Advertising
  • Professional selling
  • Supply and demand

Diniz (Dennis) Borges

Faculty, director of the Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute | Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures

Area of Expertise
  • Portuguese language and culture
  • Portuguese-American literature
  • Azorean literature
  • Portuguese media in the United States
  • Portuguese-American identity
  • Portuguese-Americans in public service in California
  • Cultural awareness, identity, and cultural traditions in the Portuguese-American community

Dr. Ahran Koo

Faculty | Curriculum and Instruction

Area of Expertise
Art and visual culture education
  • Artificial intelligence in art education
  • Identity and visual culture
  • Community-based art
  • Contemporary art and art education
  • Mental health and wellbeing in art education
  • Art and technologies in education
Research and practical framework
  • Visual storying and arts-based research
  • Minority experiences and stories (Asian immigrant and Asian American studies)
  • Belonging pedagogy
  • Critical multiculturalism
  • Culturally responsive/sustaining pedagogy
  • Critical theory (Asian Crit)
  • Female/mother scholarship in higher education
  • Participatory action research
  • Service-learning
  • Digital narratives and narrative inquiry
  • Collaborative autoethnography
  • Community outreach and engagement
  • Diversity, social justice, and equity
  • Globalization and educational leadership

Dr. Alexandria (Ali) Hansen

Faculty | Biology

Area of Expertise
  • STEM education
  • Teacher education
  • K-12 learning/teaching

Dr. Alyssa Wilson

Faculty | Psychology

Area of Expertise
  • Behavioral/process addictions including problem gambling and video gaming
  • Neurodevelopmental differences

Dr. Amber Crowell

Faculty | Sociology

Area of Expertise
  • Residential segregation
  • Social inequality
  • Housing justice
  • Evictions
  • Rent exploitation
  • Co-director of the Center for Community Voices

Dr. Amila Becirbegovic

Faculty | Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures

Area of Expertise
  • Genocide studies
  • Human rights
  • Representations of war
  • Memory and trauma studies
  • German-Balkan history
  • Bosnian genocide
  • Holocaust representations
  • German comics, film and literature

Dr. Andrea Polegato

Faculty | Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures

Area of Expertise
  • Niccolò Machiavelli’s political language
  • Renaissance Florence
  • Art of war and strategic leadership
  • Representations of power in literature, philosophy, and media
  • Comparative studies
  • Italy-East Asia cross-cultural analysis
  • Italian studies
  • Study abroad programs and international education

Dr. Andrew Fiala

Faculty, director | Philosophy

Area of Expertise
  • Founding director of Ethics Center
  • Morality, ethics, existentialism, social and political theory

Dr. Antonio Avalos

Faculty, chair | Economics

Area of Expertise
  • Economic development
  • Political economy of Latin America
  • Forensic economics

Dr. Aris Athanasios Panagopoulos

Faculty | Computer Science

Area of Expertise
  • Artificial intelligence
  • AI for social good
  • Machine learning
  • Deep learning

Dr. Benjamin Boone

Faculty | Music

Area of Expertise
  • Award-winning saxophonist/composer; jazz recording artist.
  • US Fulbright Scholar to Ireland (2022-23), Ghana (2017-18), Moldova (2005)

Dr. Brian Agbayani

Faculty | Linguistics

Area of Expertise
  • Linguistics
  • Language structure
  • Linguistic diversity and change
  • Language preservation
  • Endangered languages

Dr. Brian J. Griffith

Faculty | History

Area of Expertise
  • Authoritarianism
  • Europe
  • Fascism
  • Italy
  • Nationalism
  • Nazism
  • Neo-fascism
  • Neo-Nazism
  • Political violence
  • Southern Europe

Dr. Brittany A. Clason

Faculty | Kinesiology

Area of Expertise
  • Athletic training and rehabilitation sciences
  • Immediate and emergency care of injuries
  • Heat illness and acclimatization
  • Psychology of injury
  • Education, pedagogy, and student success
  • Motivation and motivational theories
  • Integrated sport injury model
  • Social cognitive theory (including self-efficacy)
  • Self-determiniation theory
  • Social identity theory
  • Psychosocial and emotional responses to injury

Dr. Bryan Tune

Faculty | Nursing

Area of Expertise
  • Anesthesia
  • Street medicine
  • Border health
  • Migrant health
  • Health care in the Central Valley

Dr. Carlos D. Martinez

Faculty | Information Systems and Decision Sciences

Area of Expertise
  • Smartphone technology
  • Smartphone technology use among undocumented immigrants
  • Smartphone technology use among Spanish speaking Hispanics in the U.S.
  • Smartphone technology use among farmworkers and blue collar workers
  • Smartphone cybersecurity issues
  • Use of YouTube technology for employment among Hispanic Immigrants in the U.S. for skill acquisition
  • BYOK (Bring Your Own Knowledge) through self-taught technology like YouTube
  • Higher education issues related to the Hispanic Community in the U.S.
  • I speak Spanish and am available for Spanish-speaking media or events

Dr. Chelsey Juarez

Faculty | Anthropology

Area of Expertise
  • Forensic anthropology
  • Forensic science
  • Isotope analysis
  • Bone chemistry
  • Provenance analysis
  • Dietary analysis
  • Clandestine recovery
  • Osteology
  • Trauma analysis
  • Thermal damage in human remains

Dr. Chris Miller

Faculty | Psychology

Area of Expertise
  • Brain imaging (e.g., fMRI);
  • Meta-analysis & machine learning algorithms;
  • Psychiatric disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder);
  • Pharmacological treatments (e.g., antidepressants, ketamine/psychedelics)
  • Brain stimulation treatments (e.g., TMS, ECT)
  • Invisible disabilities, lived experiences, disclosure, and destigmatization
  • Culturally informed and inclusive teaching and mentoring practices

Dr. Christopher Ludwig

Faculty | Kinesiology

Area of Expertise
  • Athletic training
  • Sports medicine
  • Neuroscience and pain
  • Primary care
  • Point of care ultrasound - musculoskeletal and eFAST exam
  • Therapeutic interventions - modalities and pharmacology
  • Manual therapy
  • Patient reporter outcome measures
  • Research literacy in healthcare

Dr. Cierra Raine Sorin

Faculty | Sociology

Area of Expertise
  • Sex- and gender-based violence
  • University Title IX implementation and challenges
  • Sexual consent
  • Minority sexual communities
  • LGBTQ+ issues and gender inequality related to these issues

Dr. Cliff (Runze) Yu

Faculty | Viticulture and Enology

Area of Expertise
  • Berry/wine flavonoid composition as affected by abiotic stress
  • Vineyard cultural practices
  • Vineyard mechanization
  • Precision viticulture

Dr. Dermot Donnelly-Hermosillo

Faculty | Chemistry and Biochemistry

Area of Expertise
  • Science education
  • Chemistry education
  • Teacher science education
  • Science educational technologies
  • Science educational research

Dr. Diane Blair

Faculty | Communication

Area of Expertise
  • Rhetorical criticism and theory
  • Social movement rhetoric
  • Feminist theory and practice.
  • She has published several articles and book chapters on women and politics, including the rhetorical performances of U.S. first ladies.

Dr. Ellen Woo

Faculty | Psychology

Area of Expertise
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Dementia
  • Neurodegenerative disease
  • Neuropsychology, aging and memory, brain health

Dr. Ethan Kytle

Faculty | History

Area of Expertise
  • Nineteenth-century America
  • Intellectual and cultural history
  • Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Slavery and abolition
  • U.S. South
  • Historical memory
  • Civil Rights Movement

Dr. Everett A. Vieira III

Faculty | Political Science

Area of Expertise
  • Comparative politics
  • International relations
  • Terrorism
  • Political violence
  • Civil war
  • Latin America
  • Human rights
  • Democratization
  • Qualitative methods
  • Politics of memory

Dr. Fariborz Tehrani

Faculty | Civil and Geomatics Engineering

Area of Expertise
  • Structural engineering, mechanics, and materials
  • Infrastructure sustainability and resilience
  • Earthquake resistant design and engineering
  • Buildings, roads, and bridges design and management
  • Construction materials and methods
  • Engineering education and leadership

Dr. Gurreet Brar

Faculty | Agricultural Sciences and Technology

Area of Expertise
  • Horticulture/tree physiology and orchard systems in pistachio and other tree fruit and nut crops
  • Particularly interested in working on plant responses to environmental stress and climate change; chill accumulation, fruit/nut growth and development 

Dr. Helen Miltiades

Faculty, director | Gerontology program

Area of Expertise
  • Best practices for providers in the aging industry, older adults and their families

Dr. Hyunjin Shim

Faculty | Biology

Area of Expertise
  • Next-generation antibiotics
  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Phagenome
  • Phage therapy

Dr. Jamie Levitt

Faculty | Food Science and Nutrition

Area of Expertise
  • Consumer behavior
  • Food tourism
  • Restaurant authenticity
  • Sustainability

Dr. Janine Nkosi

Faculty | Sociology

Area of Expertise
  • Housing inequities (evictions, habitability, slumlording)
  • Housing justice (tenants rights and protections, decommodified housing, etc.)
  • Green social housing, (community land trusts, public housing, cohousing)
  • Community based participatory research
  • Co-founder Radical Possibilities CoLab (https://radicalpossibilities.com)
  • Community organizing

Dr. Jennifer Randles

Faculty, interim associate dean | Sociology

Area of Expertise
  • Sociology of family,
  • Marriage/gender/social inequality/poverty
  • Childhood
  • Qualitative methodologies
  • Diaper affordability

Dr. Jenny Banh

Faculty | Anthropology

Area of Expertise
  • Hong Kong
  • SE Asian American college student Education Barriers and Bridges
  • East Asian Popular Culture
  • Asian Disneylands
  • Foodways (Chinese Restaurants)
  • Anthropology of Asia/Asian America PedagogyAsian Popular Culture: K- Pop, Disneyland, Asian American
  • Anthropology of Hong Kong 
  • No China studies.

Dr. Jill Fields

Faculty, founding coordinator of the Jewish Studies Program | History

Area of Expertise
  • U.S. women's history
  • American and American Jewish popular culture
  • Fashion studies
  • U.S. politics

Dr. Joel Slade

Faculty | Biology

Area of Expertise
  • Avian biology (birds)
  • Zoonotic diseases
  • Urban ecology
  • Immunology
  • Animal conservation

Dr. John Green

Faculty | Civil and Geomatics Engineering

Area of Expertise
  • High-speed passenger rail systems
  • Railroad freight transportation
  • Railroading education

Dr. John Williams

Faculty | Plant Science

Area of Expertise
  • Mechanized agriculture
  • Equipment safety
  • Machinery management
  • Welding
  • Fabrication
  • Small gas engines
  • Diesel engines
  • Hydraulics
  • Power-transmission
  • Agriculture mechanics
  • Shop safety
  • Agriculture education
  • Emerging technologies in ag machinery
  • DC electrical systems

Dr. Joseph Ross

Faculty | Biology

Area of Expertise
  • Genetics
  • Evolution
  • Ancestry testing
  • Genetic testing
  • Inheritance of genetic disorders
  • Genetically modified organisms
  • Responsible and ethical conduct of research
  • Educational technology
  • Use of mobile devices in classrooms
  • Creation and use of instructional videos

Dr. Juliet Wahleithner

Faculty | Literacy, Early, Bilingual and Special Education

Area of Expertise
  • Teacher preparation (pre-service and in-service)
  • Performance assessment
  • Accreditation
  • Education evaluation
  • Writing instruction
  • Literacy instruction

Dr. Justin Shaffer

Faculty | Biology

Area of Expertise
  • Mycology
  • Plant pathology
  • Microbiology
  • Microbiome science

Dr. Katherine Waselkov

Faculty | Biology

Area of Expertise
  • Botany/plant science
  • Plant identification
  • Evolutionary biology

Dr. Kelly D. Carrasco

Faculty | Psychology

Area of Expertise
  • Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), particularly in assessment and support for children and adolescents in home and educational settings.
  • Assessment of neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Use of advanced technologies as diagnostic tools
  • School psychology practice nationally and internationally

Dr. Kenneth Hansen

Faculty | Political Science

Area of Expertise
  • Public administration
  • Public policy
  • International relations
  • Defense / security policy
  • American indian law and tribal self-governance

Dr. Kimberly Coy

Faculty | Literacy, Early, Bilingual and Special Education

Area of Expertise
  • Inclusive education, specifically using the lens of Universal Design for Learning in digital environments

Dr. Larry King

Faculty | Management

Area of Expertise
  • Employee engagement
  • Quiet quitting
  • General HR management expertise

Dr. Lisa Bryant

Faculty, department chair | Political Science

Area of Expertise
  • American politics and government
  • Election sciences/election administration
  • Voting behavior
  • Political behavior
  • Public opinion/polls
  • Campaigns and elections
  • Gender and politics
  • Race/ethnicity and politics
  • Public policy
  • Political methods (surveys, experiments, polling)

Dr. Lori Clune

Faculty | History

Area of Expertise
  • Modern United States
  • Cold War
  • Diplomatic history
  • Espionage
  • Games/video games

Dr. Luis Fernando Macias

Faculty | Chicano and Latin American Studies

Area of Expertise
  • Immigrant education
  • Social justice education
  • Critical multiculturalism
  • Latina/o/x studies
  • Race and ethnicity
  • Undocumented studies
  • Immigration studies

Dr. Lynn Jakobs

Faculty, director | Nursing

Area of Expertise
  • Mobile Health Unit director
  • Nurse practitioner
  • Rural health care
  • Faculty teaching models for nurse practitioners
  • Pathological underpinnings of disease states
  • Access to rural medical care

Dr. Michael Botwin

Faculty | Psychology

Area of Expertise
  • Evolutionary psychology
  • Personality psychology
  • Personality traits / structure
  • Human mate preferences
  • Romantic relationships
  • Human intersexual flirtation
  • Romantic infatuation
  • Mating intelligence

Dr. Monique Bell

Faculty | Marketing and Logistics, interim chair

Area of Expertise
  • Branding and marketing communications
  • Multicultural marketing
  • Wine and food marketing
  • Underrepresented consumers and entrepreneurs
  • Culture (language, values, identity)
  • Barriers Black wine entrepreneurs face
  • Need for more funding to promote more inclusivity in the wine industry
  • Social sustainability

Dr. Naomi Bick

Faculty | Political Science

Area of Expertise
  • Public policy
  • Environmental policy
  • Urban politics
  • American politics and government
  • Political institutions
  • Women and politics
  • Federalism, local government; municipal policy; climate change policy; local and regional sustainability planning

Dr. Shahab Tayeb

Faculty | Electrical and Computer Engineering

Area of Expertise
  • Network security and privacy (internet of things)
  • Security via complex network analysis (big data analytics)
  • Embedded systems (cyber-physical systems), communications (wireless sensor networks, network protocols)
  • Cybersecurity education and workforce development

Dr. Srinivasa Konduru

Faculty | Agricultural Business

Area of Expertise
  • Agribusiness management

Dr. Steve Chung

Faculty | Mathematics

Area of Expertise
  • Data science
  • Statistics
  • Predictive modeling
  • Data analysis

Dr. Steven Waite

Faculty | Kinesiology

Area of Expertise
  • Motivational influences on exercise relating to lifestyle, competition, mood, stress, and sleep patterns
  • Functional movement pattern assessment and application to sport and training
  • Aerobic performance and training methods for endurance athletes
  • Heat stress adaptations for endurance athletes

Dr. Stuart McFeeters

Faculty | Geography and City and Regional Planning

Area of Expertise
  • Remote sensing (published first author)
  • Climate change (equivalent MS in earth and atmospheric sciences)
  • Physical geography (weather, climate, weather hazards, general hydrologic resources, landform development)
  • Geographic information systems (certified GIS Professional - GISP)

Dr. Sue Basile

Faculty | Kinesiology

Area of Expertise
  • Sports biomechanics
  • Youth biomechanics
  • Youth sports performance
  • Overuse injuries

Dr. Susan Schlievert

Faculty | Curriculum and Instruction

Area of Expertise
  • Teacher education
  • Arts integration
  • Statewide Academic Senate
  • Teaching/best practices
  • Global educational systems
  • School/classroom environments
  • School evaluation and leadership
  • Informal mentoring

Dr. Tania Pacheco-Werner

Director | Central Valley Health Policy Institute

Area of Expertise
  • Social determinants of health
  • Maternal-child health
  • Community engagement for policy efforts
  • Co-creator of the COVID-19 Equity Project in Fresno County

Dr. Tanisha Garcia

Faculty | Public Health

Area of Expertise
  • Public health
  • Healthcare initiatives to address health policy and inequities in healthcare
  • Organizational change
  • Leadership

Dr. Thomas Holyoke

Faculty | Political Science

Area of Expertise

Dr. Ulrike Muller

Faculty | Biology

Area of Expertise
  • Scientific publishing
  • Science communication
  • Equity and inclusion in academia
  • Research on how organisms move (how fish swim, birds fly, etc.)

Dr. Wade Gilbert

Faculty | Kinesiology

Area of Expertise
  • Sports psychology
  • Coaching, youth sport
  • Athlete development
  • Leadership

Dr. William Force

Faculty | Sociology

Area of Expertise
  • Popular culture (film, music, TV)
  • Subculture (punk, metal, tattoos, outlaw country)
  • LGBTQ/queer culture
  • Deviance
  • Masculinity and masculinities
  • Anarchism
  • Prison abolitionism

Dr. Yang Sao Xiong

Faculty | Anthropology

Area of Expertise
  • International migration
  • Race and ethnicity
  • Political sociology
  • Asian American studies
  • Importance of cultivating a racially and ethnically diverse campus in order to create a safe space for students

Faith Sidlow

Faculty | Media, Communications and Journalism

Area of Expertise
  • Media
  • Media literacy
  • Media bias, journalism
  • Broadcast journalism
  • Online journalism

Hanayo Oya

Faculty | Media, Communications and Journalism

Area of Expertise
  • Multi-award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker and producer
  • Co-Producer, Netflix documentary series Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War (2024)
  • International journalism and reporting
  • International education
  • Intercultural and international communication
  • International affairs
  • Asian Pacific region
  • Okinawa
  • Japan

Jacob Hurst

Faculty | Plant Science

Area of Expertise
  • Crop nutrition
  • Plant propagation
  • Soils

Jim Boren

Faculty, executive director of the Institute for Media and Public Trust | Media, Communications and Journalism

Area of Expertise
  • Evolving trends in the national news industry
  • Newsroom leadership and management
  • Training programs for journalists of color 
  • Journalism ethics and identifying misinformation/disinformation

Jon F. Morse, Sr.

Faculty | Criminology

Area of Expertise
  • Leadership development
  • Rehabilitation of incarcerated individuals

Kathy Luo

Faculty | Theatre and Dance

Area of Expertise
  • Modern and contemporary dance
  • Dance choreography
  • Yoga and pilates
  • Dance pedagogy
  • Asian diaspora dance studies

Mai Der Vang

Faculty | English

Area of Expertise
  • Award-winning poet
  • Pulitzer Prize finalist
  • Creative writing
  • Refugee poetics

Michelle Bellaver

Faculty | Theatre and Dance

Area of Expertise
  • Theater performance
  • Film acting
  • Film directing
  • Theater directing
  • Feminist theatre
  • Performance art
  • Experimental film
  • New play development
  • Somatic performance
  • Polyvagal theory
  • Performance training
  • Neurodiversity in performance
  • Neurodivergent performers
  • The female gaze
  • Shakespeare
  • Directing
  • Theater theory
  • Theater performance history
  • Film performance history

Monica Rivera

Faculty | Physical Therapy

Area of Expertise
  • Parkinson's Disease: Exercise and Functional Activity
  • Fresno State Research on posture, fall prevention, and gait improvement
  • Turning strategies in Parkinson's disease
  • Sensory changes in Parkinson's disease
  • Spina Bifida and early mobility in infancy 
  • Mobility and spatial cognitive development in infant disability
  • Chronic pain and neuroscience

Neil Tung

Faculty | Agriculture Business

Area of Expertise
  • Supply chain
  • Commodity buyers flour and palm oil
  • Flour prices in the United States
  • How much yield per acre
  • How the war in Russia impacted prices
  • How the weather impacted farmers planting winter wheat crops
  • The rise in cost of transportation, especially diesel prices and regulations
  • California carb rule - new regulations will impact how we get our product to bakery and donuts shop

Sean Fulop

Faculty | Linguistics

Area of Expertise
  • Phonetics
  • Language and speech
  • Speech processing and analysis
  • Forensic speech analysis

Shuyi Liu

Librarian | Research Services

Area of Expertise
  • Consumer health information
  • Interactive media in health
  • Health literacy
  • Digital storytelling

Yiliang Cheng

Faculty | Viticulture and Enology

Area of Expertise
  • Tannin management
  • Wine chemistry
  • Sensory Evaluation