Faculty, Staff and Students at ASU

Name Expertise areas Short Bio Updated date
Kristin Koptiuch Cultural Anthropology, Global Urbanism, Transnational Migration, Visual Ethnography, Digital Humanities Koptiuch is a cultural anthropologist and urban ethnographer who tries to practice anthro as much performance art as social science. Global urbanism, transnational migration, diversity/inequality, digital humanities.
Frances Bernat
Shapard Wolf
Marianne Jennings Marianne Jennings is an award-winning author and speaker. She teaches business ethics and the legal environment of business at ASU.
Roger Berger Berger's areas of expertise include hypothesis testing, (bio)equivalence, generalized linear models, biostatistics and statistics education. He is an ASA Fellow and IMS Fellow.
Pegge Vissicar…
Marta Sanchez Sánchez is an Emeritus Professor of Chicano, US Latino, and Latin American Literature from the School of Transborder Studies.
Barbara Lafford Applied Linguistics, Spanish Lafford 's research areas include second language acquisition and Spanish applied linguistics.
Susan Somerville
Cynthia Hogue Poetry, Creative Writing, Criticism-History and Theory Hogue as published seven collections of poetry.Also known for her criticism, she has also published essays on poetry, ranging from that of Emily Dickinson to Kathleen Fraser and Harryette Mullen.
Denis Viri
Robert Williams Epidemiology, Genetics, Evolution and Developmental Biology Williams studies physical anthropology: transplantation and Native American genetics and epidemiology.
Randy Virden
Edward Greenberg
Jeffery Cochran
Dan Shunk Shunk's area of expertise includes agile, enterprise and CIM systems, group technology, planning systems, economics of computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) strategy and strategic role of technology.
Stephen Mackinnon Historian of Modern China. Most Recent book, 2023, Chen Hansheng China's Last Romantic Revolutionary, Chinese U. Press of Hong Kong and Columbia University Press. Earlier books on the China-Japan War during World War II.
Eric Guilbeau Guilbeau's research areas include biosensor development, biotransport phenomena, systems analysis and simulation of biological and physiological systems with applications in diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Mutsumi Nakamura
Susan Urban Urban's research has addressed integrated techniques for event, rule, and transaction processing to address data consistency and active behavior in distributed, data-centric applications
Ester Ruiz
Kimberly Vana Asthma, Educational Technology, Nursing, Nursing Education, Sleep Disorders Kimberly Vana is a Clinical Professor Emerita at the College of Nursing and Health Innovation. She recently taught in the RN-BSN and Concurrent Enrollment Programs in the Undergraduate Nursing Programs.
Marcia Jasper
Shannon Dirksen
James Rush History, Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Studies, Global Studies, Islamic Studies, Biography and Autobiography, Indonesian Rush is a historian of Southeast Asia who explores themes of colonialism, religion, biography, and current affairs. His latest books are Hamka's Great Story and Southeast Asia: a very short introduction.
Terrence Wiley
Stanley Parkinson
Barry Leshowitz
Richard Lanyon Clinical Psychology, Law and Psychology Lanyon is currently studying the development and validation of methods to assess response distortions in forensic contexts.
José Cobas Cobas is an Emeritus Professor in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics.
Larry Dumka Family and Couple Relationships, Parenting, Self Management, Youth Development, Community Development, Public Policy I am interested in how people accomplish changes in their immediate social contexts. I also originated the Community Action Research Experiences (CARE) program.
Mary Benin Benin is an Emeritus Associate Professor from the T. Denny School of Social and Family Dynamics.
Daniel Landers Landers examines the effects of exercise on relaxation/mood alteration, including anxiety and depression; ability to cope with psychosocial stressors; quality and quantity of sleep; and cognitive function.
John Johnson
Lynda Williams Biogeochemistry, Geochemical Cycles, Geological Processes, Soil Williams' research focuses on the chemical composition of clays and their interactions with organics and microbes.
Charles Christian
Alleen Nilsen
Karen Leong American and Ethnic Studies, Feminism and Gender Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory, Oral History In Leong's research, teaching, and community engagement, she explores overlapping and mutually reinforcing discourses of gender, race, class, and nation, and advantage and disadvantage in U.S. society.
Mary Rothschild Rothschild specializes in the history of American women and feminism, women's oral history and gender equity in education.
Georganne Scheiner Scheiner Gillis' research interests include girlhood and adolescence, and women in popular culture.
Herbert Kaufman
Michael Denning
Charles Deutch Deutch's research focuses on the physiological and biochemical mechanisms by which bacteria adapt to high-salt environments and the potential implications for medicine and environmental biology. He teaches part time.
Gary Whysong
Robert Youngblood
Wendy Hultsman Parks and Recreation One area where Hultsman has had significant impact is in the creation of special event management education at ASU.
Avinash Singhal
Barbara Crowe
Walter Cosand Piano, Music Cosand is a pianist, experienced recitalist and chamber music performer.
Janice Meyer