{"id":34948,"date":"2022-08-19T09:19:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T09:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/?p=34948"},"modified":"2022-08-19T09:19:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T09:19:49","slug":"welcome-to-new-faculty-2022-in-sbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/welcome-to-new-faculty-2022-in-sbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to New Faculty 2022 in SBS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"file-2901\" class=\"file file-image file-image-png view-mode-default\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/48C09ED1-5550-4134-818E-17A052EDC33E%20%281%29.png\" width=\"568\" height=\"426\" alt=\"new 2022 faculty in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Welcome to our new faculty whose expertise illustrates the breadth and depth of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. These scholars explore such topics as Latin American ethnomusicology, the politics of Israeli media, environmental history, cybercrime, game narratives, corporate social activism, Spanish-language TV, women in politics, ethnic conflicts, the gender-wage gap, applied ethics, bilingual investigative journalism, poetry on medical science, human mobility, urban design, and much more!<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Estevan Azcona<br \/>Assistant Research Social Scientist, Southwest Center<br \/>and Assistant Professor, Department of Mexican American Studies<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2902\" class=\"file file-image file-image-png view-mode-uaqs_small pull-left\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Estevan%20Azcona.png?itok=s6zrxu9n\" alt=\"Estevan Azcona \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Estevan Azcona has been active in the world of Chicano\/Latino arts and culture for over 20 years as a scholar, arts presenter, and musician. He studied ethnomusicology and Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin where he received his doctoral degree. He has taught ethnomusicology and Chicano\/Latino music, history, and culture at University of Texas at Austin, Indiana University, DePauw University, University of Houston, and San Jos\u00e9 State University prior to his appointment at University of Arizona.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Azcona&#8217;s research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of Chicano\/Latino music history and folklore, Latin American ethnomusicology, and borderlands anthropology and history.\u00a0He is particularly interested in how ethnic Mexican music-making\u00a0represent\u00a0processes of cultural and political change and exchange.\u00a0He is also co-producer of the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings release,\u00a0<em>Rolas de Aztl\u00e1n: Songs of the Chicano Movement<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Anat Balint<\/strong><br \/><strong>Assistant Professor and Jeffrey B. Plevan Chair in Israel Studies, Arizona Center for Judaic Studies<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2903\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-right\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Anat%20Balint.jpg?itok=c5Flg-sX\" alt=\"Anat Balint \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Anat Balint is the inaugural holder of the Jeffrey B. Plevan Chair in Israel Studies. Prior to joining the University of Arizona, Balint served as an Israel Institute Visiting Scholar and coordinator of the Jewish Studies Program at San Jose State University.<\/p>\n<p>A media scholar who specializes in the political economy of the media and the politics of Israeli media, Balint received her Ph.D. in media and communication from the University of London. Prior to her faculty appointment at SJSU, she was a journalist for Ha&#8217;aretz and an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Communication at Tel Aviv University.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Carolyn Barnett<\/strong><br \/><strong>Assistant Professor, School of Government &amp; Public Policy<br \/>and School of Middle Eastern &amp; North African Studies\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2904\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-left\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Barnett.jpg?itok=_AB8Uug2\" alt=\"Carolyn Barnett \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Carolyn Barnett received her Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University in 2022.\u00a0Barnett\u2019s research focuses on how public opinion, social norms, and political behavior in the Middle East and North Africa evolve in response to women&#8217;s rights reforms and other social policies. Her work has appeared in the<em>\u00a0American Journal of Political Science, PS: Political Science and Politics,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Middle East Law and Governance,\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0Hawwa<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Barnett has held Fulbright scholarships to Morocco for research and to Egypt for language study through the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) program. She has also\u00a0held a Marshall Scholarship to the UK, where she earned an\u00a0M.Sc. in Middle East Politics and M.A. in Islamic Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.\u00a0Carolyn earned a\u00a0B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University and\u00a0worked as a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies from 2012-2015.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Sarah Bratt<\/strong><br \/><strong>Assistant Professor, School of Information<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2905\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-right\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Sarah%20Bratt.jpg?itok=w1TQ4CF6\" alt=\"Sarah Bratt \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sarah Bratt holds a B.S. in philosophy from Ithaca College and M.S. and Ph.D. in library and information science and data science from Syracuse University.\u00a0Her research lies at the intersection of scholarly communication, research data management, and science of science. The overarching goal of her research is to understand and design for long-term research data sustainability and actionable science policy.<\/p>\n<p>Her research has been published in<em>\u00a0Quantitative Science Studies (QSS), Journal of Informetrics, ASIS&amp;T,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Scientometrics<\/em>. She was a research fellow at the Laboratory of Innovation Science at Harvard and a fellow at the iSchool Inclusion Institute. She received multiple awards, including the Masters\u2019 Prize in Library &amp; Information Science at Syracuse University and honorable mention as a 2022 Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellow.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Monica Chadha<br \/>Associate Professor, School of Journalism<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2906\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-left\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Monica%20Chadha.jpg?itok=FBISu0OP\" alt=\"Monica Chadha \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Monica Chadha\u2019s research focuses on entrepreneurial motivations of individuals who may want to start independent news startups, and professional role identity construction\/transition of former journalists-turned entrepreneurs. Additionally, she examines the organizational structure of these startups and the kind of journalism practiced and produced in these news sites. Her work has been published in journals such as\u00a0<em>Mass Communication &amp; Society<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Communication Methods &amp; Measures<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Journalism Practice<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Digital Journalism<\/em>,\u00a0<em>International Journal of Communication,<\/em> <em>Journalism Studies, and Journalism<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Before entering academia, Chadha worked as a news reporter for 12 years, eight of which were as a news reporter for BBC World Service Radio and BBC News Online. Chadha received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Gregory Cushman<br \/>Associate Professor, Department of History<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2907\" class=\"file file-image file-image-png view-mode-uaqs_small pull-right\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Gregory%20Cushman.png?itok=aPymO8OP\" alt=\"Gregory T. Cushman \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gregory T. Cushman specializes in global environmental history, Latin American history, the Pacific World, Indigenous peoples, and the history of science, technology, and engineering. His award-winning book\u00a0<em>Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History\u00a0<\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2013) is one of the first studies to examine the environmental and cultural history of the modern world from the perspective of the whole Pacific Basin and demonstrates how humble bird excrement changed the course of modern history.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change and variability are central issues in Cushman\u2019s work, as well as the environmental engagements of Indigenous peoples in the Andean and Pacific Worlds. In 2015-17, he was the recipient of an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship and is completing two books based on this research:\u00a0<em>Alex in Wonderland: A Political Ecology of Humboldtian Science<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Debating the Anthropocene: Biotic Exchange and Environmental Change in World History<\/em>.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Charles Gomez<br \/>Assistant Professor, School of Sociology and School of Information<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2908\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-left\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Charles%20Gomez2.jpg?itok=yDtU2QVk\" alt=\"Charles J. Gomez \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Charles J. Gomez is an assistant professor in the School of Sociology and the School of Information,\u00a0as well as a member of the applied math graduate interdisciplinary program.\u00a0He is a mathematical and computational sociologist who studies the rising inequality in global scientific knowledge production and diffusion. He uses topic models, social network analysis, and simulations in his work to study hierarchies, diversity, diffusion, and novelty.<\/p>\n<p>His work has been featured in\u00a0<em>Nature Human Behaviour<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Nature Communications, Social Networks, Journal of Informetric<\/em>s, and\u00a0<em>Sociological Science<\/em>.\u00a0He received his Ph.D. from Stanford, master\u2019s degrees from the Harvard Kennedy School and Columbia, and his B.Sc.Eng. from Duke.\u00a0He&#8217;s also the P.I. of a three-year National Science Foundation grant that studies the growing stratification in global scientific research and its implications on field innovation.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Trevor Hedberg<br \/>Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of Philosophy<br \/>and the W.A. Franke Honors College<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2909\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-right\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Trevor%20Hedberg.jpg?itok=OsRGEZsi\" alt=\"Trevor Hedberg \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Prior to joining the University of Arizona, Trevor Hedberg held postdoctoral scholar positions at The Ohio State University and the University of South Florida. His areas of specialization are ethics and applied ethics, and he examines the ways in which recent technological advancements have created new and pressing moral problems. He is the author of\u00a0<em>The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation<\/em>, which was published by Routledge in 2020. He is also examining the moral repercussions of biodiversity loss and investigating a cluster of ethical issues related to human enhancement. Hedberg received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in 2017.<\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Qingting \u201cCharlotte\u201d Hu<br \/>Assistant Professor of Practice, School of Government &amp; Public Policy <\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2910\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-left\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Qingting%20Hu%20%282%29.jpg?itok=PNhLRSPW\" alt=\"Qingting \u201cCharlotte\u201d Hu\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Charlotte Hu\u2019s research interests include courts and sentencing, cybercrime, and white-collar crime. She teaches courses in criminal justice administration, cybercrime, surveillance, and privacy. She completed her Ph.D. in criminology and criminal justice at Arizona State University. She was a visiting assistant professor with Whitman College.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Eric Jackson<\/strong><br \/><strong>Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of Linguistics<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2911\" class=\"file file-image file-image-png view-mode-uaqs_small pull-right\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Eric%20Jackson.png?itok=_3AQA5Sr\" alt=\"Eric Jackson \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Eric Jackson studied both physics and linguistics as an undergraduate at the University of Arizona and went on to graduate study in linguistics at UCLA. Since completing a Ph.D. in linguistics in 2005, he has worked in community-based applied linguistics for an international language development NGO in southern China and Southeast Asia. This work included cooperative projects with government agencies, minority language community members, and teaching in a joint master\u2019s program in Kunming.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>W. Andrew Kemp-Wilcox<\/strong><br \/><strong>Assistant Professor of Practice, School of Information<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2912\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-left\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Andrew%20Kemp.jpg?itok=hzoI0PaF\" alt=\"Andrew Kemp-Wilcox \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Andrew Kemp-Wilcox is a former game and narrative designer, writer, and producer who received his Ph.D. in moving image studies from Georgia State University in 2022, with specializations in game narrative, game phenomenology, and industry studies. He earned his B.A. in English from Kennesaw State University (2015) and is a graduate of the Vancouver Film School screenwriting program (2009). Kemp-Wilcox&#8217;s research interests are in the collaboration in narrative creation between players and games, and the complexities of player experience with game phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Diego Leal<br \/>Assistant Professor, School of Sociology<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2913\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-right\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Diego%20Leal.jpg?itok=6BEkIDtX\" alt=\"Diego Leal\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Diego Leal is interested in the analysis of social network dynamics and focuses on the social network aspects of relational inequalities, mostly as they manifest in the emergence and evolution of international migration systems and minority health outcomes. He uses a variety of methods, from focus groups to agent-based computational models.<\/p>\n<p>Leal\u2019s work has been published in the <em>American Journal of Sociology<\/em>, <em>Social Networks<\/em>, <em>Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies<\/em>, <em>PLoS ONE<\/em>, and several other outlets. He has received the James S. Coleman Outstanding Publication Award from the Rationality and Society section of the American Sociological Association. His research has been funded by national\/federal organizations, such as the Colombian Agency of Science, the National Cancer Institute, and the Defense Health Agency.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Saura Masconale<\/strong><br \/><strong>Assistant Professor, Department of Political Economy and Moral Science<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2914\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-left\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Saura%20Masconale.jpg?itok=ee874CRg\" alt=\"Saura Masconale\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Saura Masconale\u2019s research encompasses the broad domain of\u00a0law and political economy, which studies how the intersection of legal entitlements, politics, and economic forces affect society, both as a positive and\u00a0normative matter. Her scholarship has focused on exploring the implications of this intersection in the public corporation context. Her most recent work examines\u00a0the rise of corporate\u00a0social\u00a0activism and explores the hidden\u00a0democratic risk raised by such\u00a0activism. Her articles have appeared in top law journals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Masconale received a Ph.D. in law and economics from LUISS Guido Carli University (Rome) and a J.D. from University of Bologna.\u00a0She previously taught at the University of Chicago Law School and the University of Notre Dame Law School. Before entering academia, she practiced law at Clifford Chance LLC, an international law firm headquartered in London. Masconale is also the director of outreach at the University of Arizona Center for the Philosophy of Freedom.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Pate McMichael<br \/>Assistant Professor of Practice, School of Journalism<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2915\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-right\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Pate%20McMichael.jpg?itok=TWEvMnQG\" alt=\"Pate McMichael \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pate McMichael has taught journalism at the college level since 2006. He has served as the college newspaper adviser at Georgia College (<em>The Colonnade<\/em>) and California State University, Chico (<em>The Orion<\/em>). His students have won numerous national, statewide, and regional journalism awards.<\/p>\n<p>McMichael is the author of\u00a0<em>Klandestine: How a Klan Lawyer and a Checkbook Journalist Helped James Earl Ray Cover Up His Crime<\/em> (Chicago Review Press, 2015) and\u00a0<em>Operation Chrysler: Stolen Valor Behind Enemy Lines During World War II<\/em> (2019). His longform journalism has been anthologized in\u00a0<em>Words Matter<\/em>\u00a0(University of Missouri Press, 2016) and\u00a0<em>The Bitter Southerner Reader<\/em>\u00a0(2019).<\/p>\n<p>McMichael has a bachelor\u2019s in history from the University of Georgia and a master\u2019s from the Missouri School of Journalism.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Carlos Parra<br \/>Presidential Post Doc, Department of History<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2916\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-left\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Carlos%20Parra2.jpg?itok=uhyzaNdK\" alt=\"Carlos Parra \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Carlos Parra completed his Ph.D. in history at the University of Southern California in 2021 where he researched Latino cultural formation in metropolitan Los Angeles and throughout the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. During his graduate studies, Parra received several prestigious fellowships, including appointments with the National Museum of American History and the Smithsonian Latino Center. Previously, Parra served as a visiting assistant professor of Chicana\/o and Latina\/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University.<\/p>\n<p>A University of Arizona alumnus, Parra\u2019s published research covers topics ranging from the origins of the first U.S.-Mexican border fences in Southern Arizona, the cultural assimilation of ethnic Mexican students in the early New Mexico public school system, and the cultural history of Spanish-language television in greater Latino Los Angeles. During his fellowship, Parra will expand his research for a book manuscript,\u00a0<em>Televising Latinidad: Latino Los Angeles and the Rise of Spanish-Language TV in the United States, 1960-2010.\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Lori Poloni-Staudinger<br \/>Dean, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences<br \/>and Professor, School of Government &amp; Public Policy <\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2917\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-right\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Lori%20Poloni-Staudinger.jpg?itok=mAmWNmOp\" alt=\"Lori Poloni-Staudinger \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lori Poloni-Staudinger is the author of five books and over 30 articles, chapters, and reports. Her research focuses on social movements and extra institutional political participation in Europe and the United States. Over time, her work has moved to a focus on women\u2019s movements. Her recent work examines questions around women and political violence as well as women and politics more generally. Her expertise has led to publications in the <em>Washington Post<\/em> and other popular media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Poloni-Staudinger received her Ph.D. at\u00a0Indiana University\u00a0in political science, and her dissertation focused on environmental non-governmental organizations in Europe. Poloni-Staudinger has been a Distinguished Fulbright Fellow at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, Austria, a Kettering Foundation Fellow, and a consultant for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Nahrain Rasho\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Presidential Post Doc, School of Government &amp; Public Policy <\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2918\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-left\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Nahrain%20Rasho2.jpg?itok=kpNviM-u\" alt=\"Nahrain Rasho \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nahrain Rasho is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of California, Davis. During her time at UC Davis, Nahrain received several prestigious fellowships, including the Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship from the U.S. Institute of Peace for her outstanding dissertation on conflict analysis and prevention.<\/p>\n<p>A second generation Iraqi-American, Rasho\u2019s familial background as Assyrian Christian refugees and survivors of genocide deeply impacts her research interests in studying ethnic conflicts. Rasho aims to develop evidence-based policy recommendations that promote minority group inclusion in state institutions and foster peace worldwide.\u00a0During her fellowship, Nahrain will explore the implications of the return of Iraqi Christian migrants on the autonomy rights of Christians in Iraq. The project will build on research that explores the consequences of repatriation policies on domestic autonomy in the context of Middle Eastern Societies in Northern Iraq.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Mary Rigdon\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Associate Professor, Department of Political Economy and Moral Science<br \/>and Associate Director, Center for the Philosophy of Freedom<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2919\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-right\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Mary-Rigdon.jpg?itok=7CV6fPzw\" alt=\"Mary Rigdon \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mary Rigdon received her Ph.D. in economics from University of Arizona. Her recent research on gender differences in competitiveness and the\u00a0gender wage gap, published in the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>, has been covered by local, national, and international media. During her career, her research has been supported by the National\u00a0Science Foundation, International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics, and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. She is also an affiliate in the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science at George Mason University and an affiliate in the Center for Population-Level Bioethics at Rutgers University.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Sara Sams<\/strong><br \/><strong>Assistant Professor, Department of English <\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2920\" class=\"file file-image file-image-png view-mode-uaqs_small pull-left\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Sams%20Photo.png?itok=QXRxmHWD\" alt=\"Sara Sams\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sara Sams is the author of<em>\u00a0Atom City<\/em>, a book of poetry that scrutinizes various legacies of her Manhattan Project hometown: the received history of the atomic bomb, local mythologies orbiting that narrative, and stories of family and inheritance. Sams is currently researching the influence particle physics has had on contemporary poetics and is working on new poems about medical science, childbirth, infant surgery, and frontline workers, as well as on a novel about nuclear-reactor-powered ghosts and the opioid crisis in rural Tennessee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sams received her MFA in poetry from Arizona State University. Her poems and translations have appeared in\u00a0<em>Blackbird, The Volta, Matter Monthly, The Drunken Boat, Now &amp; Then: The Appalachian Magazine<\/em>, and elsewhere. She has served on the editorial staff of\u00a0<em>Parnassus: Poetry in Review\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Hayden\u2019s Ferry Review<\/em>; she has also supported student editors as a faculty mentor for\u00a0<em>The Superstition Review<\/em>.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Xavier Segura<br \/>Assistant Professor of Practice, School of Government &amp; Public Policy <\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2923\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-right\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Xavier%20segura.jpg?itok=tKrcnqG9\" alt=\"Xavier R. Segura \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Xavier R. Segura research interests includes a focus on historically underrepresented populations, law, race, gender, criminal justice ethics, diversity, and equity issues in law, legal studies, and the criminal justice system. He teaches courses at the undergraduate level on criminal justice administration, criminal justice ethics, and LGBTQ+, the law, and public policy.<\/p>\n<p>A three-time University of Arizona alumnus, Segura is a recipient of the 2022 Leadership in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award, and is one of the first professionals to earn the University of Arizona\u2019s Endorsed Leader Award and Recognition. Segura is recognized by the City of Tucson and the United States Army for his honorable and prestigious service to the community.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Liliana Soto<br \/>Assistant Professor of Practice, School of Journalism<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2922\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-left\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Liliana%20Soto.jpg?itok=6rk4CzLR\" alt=\"Liliana Soto \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Award-winning journalist Liliana Soto is the assistant director for the School of Journalism\u2019s Bilingual Journalism Program and a freelance bilingual multimedia journalist.<\/p>\n<p>Soto has 10 years of experience in broadcast news in English and Spanish with a specialization in bilingual investigative journalism, immigration, the U.S.-Mexico border, Latino issues, marginalized communities, and Mexican-centric Latin culture. Her passion for investigative journalism, her deep knowledge of the Latino community, and her determination to amplify the voices of marginalized communities through her reporting won her the highest level of recognition by the National Academy of Television Arts &amp; Sciences with nine Emmys and a national recognition by the Online Journalism Awards in 2016.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Micah Stack<br \/>Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of English &amp; Writing Program<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Micah Stack has taught creative writing, composition, and literature at a number of institutions, most recently the University of Nevada, Reno. Stack\u2019s work has appeared in <em>Juked<\/em>, <em>Gemini Magazine<\/em>, <em>AGNI<\/em>, <em>The Oxford American<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Alaska Quarterly Review<\/em>, and <em>The Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of the Small Presses (2017 Edition)<\/em>. He received a Master of Fine Arts in English from the University of Iowa (Iowa Writer\u2019s Workshop) and a Master of Arts in English\/American literature from the University of Southern Mississippi.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Yining Tan<br \/>Assistant Professor of Practice, School of Geography, Development and Environment<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2925\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-right\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/tan-yining-072-jo_0.jpg?itok=bDCZ4EKY\" alt=\"Yining Tan \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yining Tan\u2019s foci of research are urban geography, human mobility, highly skilled international migration, and transnational connections. Her dissertation develops a capital-mobility framework and employs intersectionality theory to examine the impacts of skilled U.S. migrants\u2019 capital and intentionality on both cross-border and everyday spatial mobility as well as occupational and social mobility in China. Her work has been published in journals including\u00a0<em>Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Asian Geographer<\/em>,\u00a0<em>International Migration<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>International Development Policy<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Andrea Thomer\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Assistant Professor, School of Information <\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2927\" class=\"file file-image file-image-png view-mode-uaqs_small pull-left\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Andrea%20Thomer.png?itok=T6FjaQfn\" alt=\"Andrea Thomer\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Andrea Thomer conducts interdisciplinary research in the areas of scientific data curation and data practices; science and technology studies \u2013 \u201cmeta&#8221; examinations of how scientific research gets done; and computer-supported cooperative work in scholarly research settings. She is especially interested in long-term data curation and knowledge infrastructure sustainability; database curation; integrative data reuse; and the collaborative use and curation of natural science data.<\/p>\n<p>Thomer earned her doctorate at the School of Information at the University of Illinois at Urbana\u2010Champaign in 2017. She has prior work experience in natural history museum curation and paleontology, which she continues to draw on in her research.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Mariya Tseptsura<br \/>Assistant Research Scientist, Department of English &amp; Writing Program <\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2928\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-right\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Mariya%20Tseptsura_0.jpg?itok=rcThOLeN\" alt=\"Mariya Tseptsura \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mariya Tseptsura earned her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico, where her research focused on online writing instruction and multilingual writing. For the past three years, she served as the associate director of composition at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and supported the program&#8217;s online writing courses. She is excited to join the UArizona Writing Program as the director of Online Writing. Her research interests encompass writing program administration, online education, and linguistic diversity.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Adriana Zuniga-Teran\u00a0<br \/>Assistant Professor, School of Geography, Development &amp; Environment <\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"file-2929\" class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-uaqs_small pull-left\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.arizona.edu\/sites\/sbs.arizona.edu\/files\/styles\/uaqs_small\/public\/Zuniga_2021_3.jpeg?itok=MqhpbWNx\" alt=\"Adriana Zuniga-Teran \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Adriana Zuniga-Teran obtained her Ph.D. in arid lands resource sciences with a minor in global change and holds a M.S. in architecture with a concentration in design and energy conservation from the University of Arizona. Zuniga-Teran\u2019s work examines neighborhood design patterns that affect physical activity, wellbeing, and the use of greenspace. She works with stakeholders and community partners to answer questions related to water security, urban resilience, public health, and environmental justice, by focusing on greenspace\/green infrastructure (or nature-based solutions) across the urban-rural continuum.<\/p>\n<p>Zuniga-Teran\u00a0has taught courses related to sustainability, urban design and placemaking, and history of the built environment. 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