Faculty, Staff and Students at ASU

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Sybil Thornton History, East Asian Studies Thornton's research focuses on three interrelated areas of Japanese narrative: medieval Buddhist propaganda, late-medieval epic, and the period film.
Karl Weiss Materials Science
Scott Collins
Sarah Hall
Joseph Bubar
Lexis Narvaez
Morris Okun
Suzanna Sam
David Kries
Barry Ritchie Nuclear Physics Ritchie is a professor with research interests in experimental subatomic physics. A recipient of teaching awards, he has served administrative roles as department chair, interim dean, and vice provost for academic personnel.
Seth Rose Seth Rose's research is aimed at development of anticancer drugs designed to combat drug resistance by cancer cells.
Timothy Steimle Fundamental Molecular Science, Physical Chemistry Steimle is a professor of chemistry at ASU. His research focus is the generation and characterization of gas-phase metal containing molecules as it relates to remote sensing, venues for particle physics, and others.
Alicia Brune
Ignatius Tsong
Amruthesh Thir…
Ayendrila DAS
Luiz Felipe DE… I am an Evolutionary Biologist investigating how viruses evolve and modify the Tree of Life. I am also a writer. Currently I am a postdoc at the BEYOND Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science.
Jared Matteucci
Edwin GONZALEZ LOPEZ
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Cole Krause
Jacob Kraudy
Barbara Trapid… Geographic Information Science, Geography From 1987-2021, Trapido-Lurie taught courses in cartographic design, supported faculty and graduate student research by creating and advising on maps and other graphics, and coordinated internship activities of the school.
Katherine Crewe Planning, Community Development for Social Equity, Sustainability, Urban Design and Sustainable Cities Crewe's scholarship addresses the fields of planning and urban design, with an emphasis on gender and the needs of local communities.
Ruth Yabes Urban Planning, Urban Development, Environmental and Resiliency Planning Yabes, a professor emerita of planning, taught a variety of planning courses during her time at Arizona State University, including several with an international focus on planning.
Jonathan Bratt Geography, Place, Culture, and Identity, Urban Systems Jonathan Bratt is a PhD. student in Geography at Arizona State University. He is currently completing a dissertation on relations between public life, urban space, and social aesthetics in the city of Tianjin, China.
Lidia Haberman Classics, Critical Theory Haberman has taught upper-level Latin and literature courses at ASU for 50 years, as well as the occasional culture course.
Clarice Deal Portuguese Deal has taught at ASU for more than 27 years, having given hundreds of Portuguese-language classes to thousands of students.
Marie Winter French A French native who has traveled extensively, Winter became a French instructor to share her culture and language when she moved to the U.S.
Elizabeth Wong Japanese, Japan After an undergraduate degree in literature and languages, Wong went to Japan and studied Japanese and taught English, followed by graduate study in Japanese literature in the U.S.
Giuseppe Candela
Pier Baldini French, German and French History Baldini taught several advanced Italian courses, as well as a number of special topic courses semester to semester.
Eva Humbeck German Eva Humbeck is an instructor of German language in the School of International Letters and Culture at Arizona State University. Her academic interests reach from poetry to modern literature to cultural change in Germany.
Mark Curran Spanish, Portuguese Curran taught Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures: Survey of Literature of Spain, Brazil; Spanish, Spanish-American and Brazilian Civilization and published extensively on diverse cultures before/after retirement.
Francesco Papani
John Matson
Laura Tohe Indigenous American Literatures, Film and Media Studies, Creative Writing, Poetry Tohe has written and co-authored five books. She is the Navajo Nation Poet Laureate for 2015-2019.
Robert Sturges Biblical Studies, Medieval Literature, Comparative Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Textual Criticism/Textual Editing, British Literature Sturges' teaching and research interests include medieval literature (especially Chaucer), the Bible as literature, critical theory, gender studies, lesbian/gay/queer studies, and opera.
T. McNally T. M. McNally is the author of six works of fiction. His most recent book, finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, is a collection of stories—"The Gateway."
Jacqueline Wheeler Public Communication, Environmental Rhetoric and Sustainability Wheeler's research interests include the history of rhetoric and environmental rhetoric.
Rosalynn Voaden Voaden's areas of specialization includes the writings of medieval women visionaries, hagiography, and late-14th century English literature.
Shirley Rose Composition Studies, Literacy and Writing, Pedagogical Studies, Research Methodology, Rhetoric, Scholarly and Professional Writing, Writing Programs Administration Shirley Rose's research focuses on writing program administration, archival research methods, writing across the lifespan and climate activist rhetorics. She directed ASU Writing Programs in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from 2009 to 2019.
Linda Bergquist
Taylor Corse Restoration Period, British Literature Taylor Corse has published widely on John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Aphra Behn, Anne Conway, and other writers of the Restoration and 18th century.
Carolyn Hirata Entrepreneurship, Management Paradigms, Organizational Behavior Hirata is the program chair of technological entrepreneurship and management at the Polytechnic School at ASU.
Nikolai Faleev
Ben Huey
Pao-Yu Wang
James Smith
Nithyanandan T…