Faculty, Staff and Students at ASU

Name Expertise areas Short Bio Updated date
Govindasamy Ta… Renewable Energy TamizhMani's primary research areas of interest include solar photovoltaics (PV), fuel cells and batteries.
Grace Abrigo
Raul Yanez
Daniel Collins Collins teaches courses in intermedia and art pedagogy. He is also founding co-director of the PRISM lab, an interdisciplinary digital design facility, and coordinator of artCore, the School of Art's foundation program.
Thomas Blackson Philosophy Blackson works primarily in ancient philosophy. For more information, see https://tomblackson.com/.
Autumn Wells
Michael Hansen
Janet Kerby IT Strategy and Innovation, Digital Marketing, Technology Adoption, Information Technology, Business Model Innovation, Innovation Janet Kerby s passionate about empowering organizations to re-imagine and revolutionize their business through digital transformation.
Karen Geiger Information Systems Karen Geiger has taught courses in the Uses of Accounting Information, Principles of Accounting, Introduction to Managerial Accounting, Computerized Accounting and Accounting Information Systems.
Pamela Swan Chronic Disease, Exercise, Obesity Swan has been at ASU for 29 years. She is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and a fellow of the The Obesity Society. She studies the physiological effects of exercise on obesity and chronic disease.
Renee James American History, American Social and Cultural History, European History, Activism and Social Movements, Historical and Cultural Representations Renee D. James is the Curator for Greater Arizona Collection. She is responsible for acquiring published, manuscript, and archival resources, and engaging in outreach activities.
Victor Sidy Architecture, Real Estate Development, Design Thinking Victor Sidy, AIA LEED AP, is an architect, planning/development consultant, educational leader, and advocate for quality in the built environment.
Ruth Ann Rotzler
Sima Yazdani Activism and Social Movements, Advising - career, Analysis, Analytics Governance, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Blockchain, Building Technology, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Model Innovation, Business Networking, Business Process Management, Business Relations, Business Writing, Career Development, Change Management, Citizen Actions, Citizen Participation, Civic Engagement, Cloud Computing, Cognitive Science, Collaborative Decision Making, Communication Technologies, Community Partnerships, Complex Systems, Computation Linguistics, Computational Modeling, Computational Science, Computer Architecture and Design, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Connected Learning, Consumer Information Systems, Customer Experience, Cybersecurity, Data Analysis, Data Analytics, Data Cleaning and Information Extraction, Data Management, Data Mining, Data Models and Integration, Data Visualization, Data Warehousing, Data-fusion Technology, Database Design, Database Management, Database Systems, Decision Forecasting, Decision Making, Decision Making and Social Media, Democracy and Citizenship, Democratic Theory, Design Thinking, Education, Education Leadership and Policy, Educational Technology, Educator Professional Development, Electrical Systems, Employee Turnover, Engineering Ethics, Enterprise Document Management, Enterprise Systems, Entrepreneurship, Equity and Inclusion, Equity, Justice and Sustainability, Ethical Decision Making, Evolution, Exploration, Freedom of Religion, French, Gender Equality, Genetics, Health, Health Informatics, Health Information Technology, Health Outcomes, Health Policy, Healthcare Systems
Steven Brownstein Brownstein's teaching interests include Brief Calculus and Precalculus. He is also the course coordinator for the innovative Pathways precalculus course at ASU, and directs the Pathways precalculus tutoring lab.
Alan Simon Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data Analytics, Big Data, Enterprise Systems, Business Process Management Alan is a Principal Lecturer at Arizona State University in the Information Systems Department at WP Carey. He has been teaching at ASU since 2013, and was an undergraduate in the CIS program at ASU back in the mid- and late 1970s.
Brent Maddin Education Leadership and Policy, Online Education: Online Teaching and Learning, Science Education, Teaching and Teacher Education As Executive Director of the Next Educator Workforce, Brent collaborates with colleagues across ASU, P12 educators, and the community to redesign models of schooling based on teams of educators with distributed expertise who
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Gary Sweeten Sweeten's research interests include criminological theory, transitions to adulthood and quantitative methods.
Kara Childress
Wendy Jimenez
Stephanie Gonzalez
Joseph Axel
Kristin Winet
Christopher Norby Music Composition, Interdisciplinarity
Gabriel Bolaños Music Composition Bolaños is a Nicaraguan-American composer of solo, chamber, orchestral and electronic music.
Alex Temple Music Composition, Queer Studies Composer Temple looks for points of connection between things that aren't supposed to belong together, distorting and combining iconic sounds to create new meanings.
Leland Hartwell Cancer, Cell biology, Genetics, Global Health, Science Education Lee Hartwell is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and he received the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He directs the Biodesign Pathfinder Center at ASU.
Daniel McCarville Industrial Engineering McCarville worked 27 years in the semiconductor industry for Motorola and Mindspeed Technologies where he led teams through the development and implementation of large scale quality systems and complex manufacturing processes
Mackenzie Black
Sarah Duerden 20th Century British Literature, Business Writing, English, Literature, Narrative, Rhetoric and Composition In addition to teaching First-Year Writing, Duerden also enjoys teaching Writing About Literature for nonmajors, which ties into her own interest in contemporary British fiction.
Sher Ler
Shenandoah Brown
Maria Behnen
Kevin Bliss Kevin Bliss is excited to be an instructor as part of the Writers' Studio ENG 102 program. The Writers' Studio, founded by CISA Dean, Duane Roen, has become a thriving part of the commitment to the university's students.
Nathaniel Butler Exploration, Data Mining Nat Butler is an astrophysicist interested in the properties and evolution of the early universe.
Karen Knierman Astronomy, Astrophysics, Informal Learning Environments, Physics, Science Education, University-Level Formal Science Education Knierman teaches astronomy and studies star formation in the tidal tails of merging galaxies using multiwavelength observations.
Chad Fore Creative Writing - Fiction, Rhetoric and Composition Fore teaches composition in the Department of English.
Christopher Reyes
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Rhett Trujillo Mr. Trujillo currently teaches undergraduate courses focused on entrepreneurship and innovation. His work experience includes brand management and marketing with an educational background in science and marketing.
Jenna Wellman
Melanie Barboni Petrology, Volcanology, Geochemistry, Cosmochemistry, Environmental Geochemistry, Planetary Geochemistry, Planetary Mineralogy, Mineralogy, Mineral Physics Melanie Barboni is an isotope geochemist/igneous petrologist whose research focuses on understanding magmatic systems, both on Earth and other planetary bodies.
Emilia Martine… Martinez-Brawley areas of interest: rural communities and rural services, research paradigms, social work education, innovative models of service delivery in public organizations and diversity issues in service delivery.
Rebecca Blatt Legitimacy As senior associate dean, Rebecca Blatt directs on-campus master's programs, oversees several of the school's signature capstone programs and leads a variety of new initiatives.
Sabastian Cordova
Andrew Vandertoorn ’02 BS in aeronautical management technology, Ira A. Schools of Engineering
Laurence Garvie Decision Making, Desertification, Ecosystem Disturbances, Fire Ecology, Geochemical Cycles, Materials Analysis, Natural Resource Management, Plant Ecology, Environment, Exploration, Museum, Fieldwork, Soil, Photography, Wood, Earth Systems, Biogeoscience, Earth Surface Processes, Planetary Sciences, Planetary Geoscience, Electron Microscopy, Geochemistry, Planetary Geochemistry, Mineral Physics, UV-Vis-NIR Spectroscopy
Mollie Patten
Stephanie DeLuse Creative Non-Fiction, Interdisciplinarity, Organizational Studies, Psychology, Social Psychology Dr. Stephanie R. deLusé writes and teaches, including The Human Event and other courses, at Barrett, the Honors College at ASU.