Faculty, Staff and Students at ASU

Name Expertise areas Short Bio Updated date
Brenda Collins Mathematics Education Brenda M. Collins is in teacher preparation in mathematics methods courses. She has been with MLFTC since 2015 and is a clinical professor in the graduate supervision program and instructor in the undergraduate program.
Abby Brown Teaching and Teacher Education
Cyndi Giorgis Cyndi Giorgis has conducted extensive classroom-based research focused on reader response theory and children's literature.
Rebekah West Keur
Geoffrey Borman I am an applied methodologist whose substantive research interrogates the social distribution of school outcomes and advances evidence on policies and practices that help address and overcome educational inequality.
Dwarak Ravikumar Ravikumar's research interests are designing and implementing circular economy solutions to address climate change, and guide and improve the sustainability outcomes of large-scale technology transitions.
Cassandra Zepeda
Katherine Bynum Activism and Social Movements, American History, Chicana/o History, Policing Bynum's research focuses on the Black and Brown freedom struggles, the carceral state and oral history.
Jan Jewett
Paul Kent ’88 BS in geography, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Douglas Erickson
Nereida Gutier…
Erin Scharff Tax Law, Public Policy, Taxation, State and Local Government Law, Federalism Scharff's scholarship explores current issues in local government law and state tax law. She is the co-author of leading federal income tax and local government law casebooks.
Nicole Bowers Adult Literacy and Adult Education, Qualitative Inquiry, Qualitative Methods, Science Education, Teaching and Teacher Education
Andrew Carter Legal Writing
Keng Hsu Additive Manufacturing Hsu's research centers on the advanced manufacturing field where he is an expert in materials processing and process sciences, which combines his interests in technology, education and entrepreneurship.
Claudia Cervan… Anthropology of Education, Bilingual and Intercultural Education, Critical Cultural Studies, Chicano/a Studies, Borderlands, Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Politics, Bilingual and English Language Learners
Treavor Boyer Boyer's research focuses on drinking water and wastewater treatment, urine source separation, nutrient management and resource recovery. Undergraduate/Graduate Program Chair for Environmental Engineering.
Lindsey Moses Bilingual and English Language Learners, Bilingual and Intercultural Education, Bilingualism, Elementary Education, Learning and Instruction, Literacy, Literacy and Writing, Qualitative Inquiry Lindsey Moses is a former elementary teacher of multilingual learners and is passionate about supporting literacy instruction in diverse classrooms.
Robert Kaindl Nanoscience and Material Physics Kaindl, director of the Beus CXFEL Laboratory at ASU's Biodesign Institute, has more than two decades of experience in quantum materials and ultrafast science.
Larry Bridgesmith
Paul Valentine
Bruno Azeredo Mechanical Engineering, Nanotechnology, Electrochemistry Azeredo's research focuses on designing advanced manufacturing systems that integrate ideas from mechanical engineering, material science and chemistry.
Alexander Kurz Assessments, Tests, and Evaluation in Education, Data Visualization, Educational Technology, Educator Professional Development, Interdisciplinarity, Program Evaluation, Special Education Kurz has published on opportunity-to-learn (OTL), instructional coaching, alignment, accessibility, and testing accommodations.
Susan Carrese Carrese has 25 years of experience as an experiential educator focusing on leadership and service through classical texts and travel. She received her doctorate in cultural anthropology from Oxford University.
David Brafman
Vivan John
Samantha Calvin Public and Community Health
Carolyn Zapor Zapor has teaching and work experience in the criminal justice field in Canada and the U.S. She has taught criminal justice and intelligence courses in higher education both online and face-to-face for more than 16 years.
Bill Youngdahl Supply Chain Management, Customer Service, Operations Management Youngdahl teaches in Thunderbird’s MBA, Executive MBA, and Executive Education Programs. His is a sought-after speaker, executive coach and educator.
Gary Gibbons Financial Globalization, Entrepreneurship Gibbons is an expert in investing and corporate finance with extensive experience in portfolio management, securities valuation, financial modeling, and financial planning and evaluation of entrepreneurial firms.
Christine Pearson Pearson has built a worldwide reputation as an expert on curtailing and containing dysfunctional behavior at work, from organizational crises, to the corrosive impact of problems, from incivility to aggression.
Lily Sedigh Sa…
Sujith Puram
Evan Goldenbogen
Anton Khmelnitskiy
Karen Jean Martinson Martinson's scholarly and creative work interrogates contemporary USAmerican performance, consumer culture and neoliberalism, and processes of identification, focusing on issues of race, class, gender and sexuality.
Khemlal Nirmalkar
Matthew Ogborn
Joffa Applegate Community Partnerships, Complex Systems, Economics, Experimental Economic Methods, Urban Systems
Phil Penn
Serena Sotelo …
Anastasia Begoli
Joe Damico
Nixie Marusiak
Rebecca Murphy
Luke Alphonsus…
Kaylie Morgan
Valerie Brady Nursing Education
Christine Bowman