Faculty, Staff and Students at ASU

Name Expertise areas Short Bio Updated date
Paul Hirt Energy and Sustainability, Environmental History, Food, Water, and Energy Nexus, Human Dimensions of Sustainability, Modern American History, Sustainability and Water Policy Hirt is a historian specializing in the American West, environmental history, environmental policy, and sustainability studies.
Richard Burg Burg's research combines social history and various aspects of anthropology in the study of all-male sexuality within military organizations--pirates, ships' crews, cabin boys and the like.
Retha Warnicke History, European History Warnicke has published numerous books and articles on Tudor women, especially queenship, including both monarchs' consorts and hereditary queens regnant.
Peter French
Ted Guleserian
Nandita Punj
Katherine Osburn Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Politics, History Osburn is an ethnohistorian focusing on gender, race, political activism, and identity in North America.
Linell Cady Religious Studies, Cultural and Intellectual History, Feminist Theology, Theology Cady is the founding director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University.
James Foard
Richard Lerman Digital and Media Art, Sound Installation, Performance, Sound/Video/Digital and Music Composition, Film and Media Studies, Science Fiction Lerman earned his BFA (1966) with honors in music & an MFA (1970) in film, both at Brandeis Univ in Waltham, Mass. He has offered his work in more than 30 countries in Europe, Asia, N/S America and Australia and New Zealand.
Steven Hoffman Bioethics, Brain, Immunology, Neurobiology, Philosophy of Science, Science and Society Steven Hoffman is an immunologist, neuroscientist and philosopher who has studied how the immune system and brain interact, and currently is integrating this work into philosophical perspectives.
Timothy Takahashi Aircraft Design, Aircraft Performance, Drones, Aerodynamics, Propulsion, Unmanned Aerial Systems, Aviation Law, FAA, Aircraft Dispatch, Aviation Simulation, Aerospace Engineering, Aviation Prof Takahashi taught classes in aircraft performance, aerodynamics, aerospace structures and materials and engineering profession.
Terence Tracey Tracey studies vocational interest development and measurement, client-therapist interaction in psychotherapy, interpersonal models of personality and psychotherapy, and minority student academic success.
JoAnn Mulvihill Psychology, Children - Teens - Families
Richard Hinrichs
Brian Gratton Immigration, Modern American History, Population Dynamics Research and teaching interests in immigration history, Mexican American history, and demography.
cheshire calhoun Ethical Theory, Feminist Ethics, Moral Psychology, Philosophy Calhoun is professor of philosophy at ASU. She works in normative ethics, moral psychology, and feminist philosophy.
Brad Armendt Decision Making, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science Armendt is a philosopher who works on rational decision making and the epistemology of rational belief. He also works on causality, and on patterns of social interaction among individuals.
Bernard Kobes Philosophy, Philosophy of Science ​Kobes is interested in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and the philosophy of cognitive science.
Gayle Gullett History, Women Studies At the center of Gullett's research is a deep interest in how women construct and reconstruct identities.
Abdullahi Gallab African American Studies, Religious Studies At ASU, Gallab also serves as a member of the Barrett Honors faculty and on the advisory board for the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict.
Anne Feldhaus South Asian Studies, Religious Studies, Asian Studies, Hinduism Feldhaus is Distinguished Foundation Professor of Religious Studies at ASU. Her work combines philological and ethnographic approaches to study religious traditions of the Marathi-language region of India.
Dirk Hoerder
Leon Jassemidis Emeritus Professor Iasemidis is recognized as an expert in the dynamics of epileptic seizures.
Christian Ingram Arts, Media and Engineering
Myla Vicenti Carpio American Indian Gender/Sexuality, Decolonization, Federal Indian Policy, Food Sovereignty, Indigeneity, Indigeneity, the Arts and Sciences, Indigenous Methodology, Oral History Vicenti Carpio is a citizen of the Jicarilla Apache Nation and of Laguna and Isleta Pueblo heritage. Current projects explore institutional intersections of Japanese Internment and American Indian urban relocation policy.
Stephen Batalden
Jimmy Sanchez
Nan Ellin
Barbara Ainsworth Ainsworth is a Regents Professor Emerita with expertise in physical activity assessment. She is the lead author for the Adult Compendium of Physical Activity.
Kenneth Abbott Environmental and Sustainability Law, Health Law and Policy, International Law, International Relations, Rule of Law Abbott's research focuses on the interdisciplinary study of international law and politics, focusing on public and private global governance . He is is a lead faculty member of the Earth System Governance Project.
David Abbott Ceramics, Archaeology Abbott is an archaeologist fascinated by the ancient Hohokam, who engineered huge irrigation canals across the Phoenix Basin but without a political hierarchy. His research is unraveling this cultural evolutionary enigma.
Stephen West Chinese, Place, Culture, and Identity, Landscape Studies West works in the textual culture of late medieval and early modern China (1000–1600), with specialties in performance literature, drama, urban literature, and garden studies.
Lisa Morse Nutrition Morse's research interests include: nutritional care of burn, trauma and critical care patients; nutrition support; clinical nutrition; medical nutrition therapy and therapeutic diets.
Abdullah Aloraini
Patricia Huntington Communication and Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Critical Theory, Decolonization, East Asian Studies, Feminism and Gender Studies, Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Politics, Religious Studies Huntington specializes in continental philosophy, avidly engages in comparative (East-West) philosophy with an emphasis on Buddhism, and aims to globalize as well as decolonize philosophy.
Bruno Atieh
Mark Woodward Anthropology - Social and Cultural, Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, Southeast Asian Studies Woodward is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. His research focuses on Islam, religion-state-society relations and religion and conflict in Southeast Asia.
Kaye Reed Evolutionary Anthropology, Paleoanthropology, Paleobiology Reed's research uses community ecology of primates and mammals to understand biogeography, community structure, and the habitats of fossil hominins.
Tim Ayers
Robert Greenes Dr. Robert Greenes has authored more than 250 publications in the areas of clinical decision support, models and approaches for decision making; the knowledge representation to support it; and clinical application.
Filiz Ozel Ozel's research focuses on life safety issues in buildings, human behavior in fires, algorithmic and parametric approaches in digital design, as well as solar access issues in codes and zoning ordinances.
Harvey Bryan Sustainability Bryan is a specialist in building technology who has written more than 100 papers and articles, many of which focus on the interface between technology and the design of ecologically responsible environments.
T Agami Reddy Architecture Reddy is interested in energy sustainability and renewable energy (solar thermal and PV technology), building energy systems, and energy efficiency and conservation in buildings.
Paul Morris
Sarah Cohen Before joining Cronkite in 2018, Cohen was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor specializing in data journalism in investigative and long-term projects, most recently at The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Gary Adams Physics and Society, Physics Adams' research interests include nanotubes and polymerized fullerenes.
Jimmy Abbas Biomechanics, Neural Engineering, Neural Prosthetics, Neurorehabilitation, Prosthetics Abbas is the director of the Center for Adaptive Neural Systems. His research interests are in applications of neural engineering techniques and technology in the area of medical rehabilitation.
Per Aannestad Astronomy, Astrophysics
George Pettit Cancer, Organic Chemistry Pettit was a Regents Professor at ASU. His research interests include the chemistry of natural products, cancer chemotherapy, and total synthesis of natural products.