Faculty, Staff and Students at ASU

Name Expertise areas Short Bio Updated date
Lawrence Clark Clark's areas of expertise include low power high performance VLSI Radiation hardening and harsh environment VLSI CAD and device behavior for VLSI.
Michael Rubinoff American History, American Politics, Cold War Studies, Cultural Studies, Film and Media Studies, Holocaust Studies, Interdisciplinarity, Jewish Studies, Music Theatre Rubinoff is an American historian with a focus on the 1920s, World War II, and the 1950s. He teaches interdisciplinary studies (core and electives), organizational leadership, and U.S. history.
Ruth Jones Political Science, American Politics Jones joined the Arizona State University faculty in 1981. Her current consulting focuses on state-level campaign finance and her research and teaching interests include money and politics and political scandals.
Richard Herrera Political Science, American Politics Herrera joined the ASU faculty in 1989. He received his bachelor's and master's from St. Mary's University and his doctorate from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Daniel Arreola Geography, Place, Culture, and Identity Arreola is a cultural geographer who specializes in the study of the Mexican American borderlands.
Sarah Buel Criminal Justice, Domestic Violence
Roberto Gaxiola Agriculture, Cell biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Plant Biology Gaxiola studies the physiological mechanisms by which plants regulate root activity and nutrient uptake. His work may be used to engineer crops that could help secure future food supplies.
Michael Hutt
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Partha Dasgupta Cybersecurity Dasgupta’s research interests include computer security, operating systems, distributed and parallel systems.
Judith Martin Intercultural Communication, Sojourner Communication Martin investigates what it means to be an effective communicator when interacting with individuals from different cultural groups, in both online and face to face contexts.
Janet Alberts Conflict Transformation, Relational Communication, Interpersonal Communication Alberts' research focused on conflict in personal and professional relationships. She is also the founder of the Transformation Project, which focuses on how communication can transform people’s lives.
Anna Barker Barker designs and implements new research knowledge networks, projects and models to address major problems in biomedical research and biomedicine.
Robert McPhee Organizational Communication McPhee's scholarly interests are in organizational communication, communication theory, general social theory and (especially quantitative) research methods.
Nemi Jain
Larry Mays Mays' research interests include water resources sustainability, real-time operation of water resources systems, ancient water technologies, and hydrologic and hydraulic modeling.
Valerie Stout Bacteria, Microbes, Toxins
Paisley M. Benaza Digital Narratives, Social Movements, Strategic Communication, Data Analysis, Strategy, Digital Media, Sports Marketing, Branding, Digital Marketing, Multicultural Marketing, Design Thinking, Social Justice, Digital Storytelling, Identity Development, Media Representations, Equity and Inclusion, Storytelling, Communications, Business Writing Paisley M. Benaza, MBA is a culture & communications strategist and PhD student researching intersectional identity, technology, and socio-economic justice in the business of media, entertainment & sport in a digital world.
Diana Espinoza
Janet Denhardt
Suzanne Vaughan Institutional Ethnography, Gender and Housing, Statistics Vaughan is known internationally for her innovative application of a new research strategy called institutional ethnography.
Ronald Roedel
Talha Hameed
Peter Killeen Autism and Applied Behavior Analysis, Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology Killeen studies behavioral decision theory, statistical inference and information theory.
Ann Hibner Koblitz Ann Hibner Koblitz's research interests generally revolve around the relationships of gender with science, technology (broadly defined) and medicine.
Leanne Nash Animal Behavior, Ecology, Evolutionary Anthropology Nash's areas of focus is in physical anthropology: primate social behavior and ecology, Galagos and the role of gum.
Andrea Pittman Dr. Pittman's research interests include hearing loss in children (and adults) and the configuration of amplification devices to restore hearing sensitivity and function.
William Yost Sound Studies Yost studies auditory perception, i.e., hearing in humans with normal and impaired hearing and in animals.
David Kaye Kaye is a Regents' Professor Emeritus at ASU and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at PSU. His research focuses on the law of evidence, the use of science and statistics in litigation, and forensic genetics.
Gitta Honegger Honegger is the authorized translator of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek. She is a Guggenheim and Fulbright/IFK Fellow.
Ed Hackett Environmental Social Science, Group Decision Making, Urban Social-ecological Systems Hackett's interests focus on sociology and the social organization and dynamics of scientific research.
Jerry Coursen Coursen's most recent goal is to refine a curriculum that will continue to focus on the the education of bioengineers in all facets of practical medicine.
Natalia Dounskaia Biomechanics, Motor Control and Learning Dounskaia investigates how the central nervous system adjusts its descending signals to the biomechanical properties of the limbs. Her teaching interests include fundamental issues of motor control and their applications.
Patricia Fall Geography, Earth Systems, Sustainability, Climate Science While at ASU, Fall directed the Laboratory of Palynology and Paleoecology. Her work focused on biogeography, human impact on ancient and modern environments, and paleoecology of Pacific Islands and the Mediterranean Basin.
M_Adelaida Restrepo Bilingual and English Language Learners, Diagnostics, Diverse Learners and Educational Equity, Education of Immigrants, Heritage Language Pedagogy, Learning and Instruction, Learning Sciences, Literacy and Writing, Second Language Acquisition, Spanish Restrepo is a professor of speech and hearing science and associate dean for research. Her research focuses on better understanding bilingual children’s language and literacy skills.
David Ingram David Ingram is a professor of speech and hearing science. He directs the Child Language Research Laboratory and conducts research on how young children acquire language across linguistic contexts.
Brian Sullivan Herpetology, Population Ecology, Urban Impacts Sullivan is a professor and adjunct curator in herpetology. He works on the ecology, behavior, systematics and conservation of amphibians and reptiles of the desert Southwest.
Jeffrey Kleim Studies in Kleim's laboratory are being used to test novel therapies for enhancing motor recovery in stroke patients.
Gregg Zachary
Frank Tuzzolino Finance, Financial Analysis
Philip Hedrick Genomics, Evolution, Bioinformatics Phil Hedrick is a population geneticist and conservation biologist who studies genetic variation in populations, including how genetics can impact the survival of rare and endangered species.
Stephen Massia
Phillip Stafford
Lee Gutkind Creative Non-Fiction Lee Gutkind founded Creative Nonfiction, the first and the largest literary journal to publish narrative/creative nonfiction exclusively. At ASU, he founded the ThinkWritePublish program, supported by NSF and Templeton Fnd..
Anton Lawson
Thomas Nash
Dale Davison Dale L. Davison, Ph.D., CPA, is a Clinical Professor of Accounting in the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. His areas of expertise include global accounting and global taxation.
Patrick Lynch Global Leadership Lynch is also the founder of a technology startup and consultancy, pioneering innovations in organizational assessment and dashboard analytics.
Martin Ramirez Data Mining, Decision Making, Emerging Technologies, Informatics, Bioinformatics, Cancer, Entrepreneurial Finance, Entrepreneurship, AI Differential Diagnosis Engines, Medical Device Design, Medical Diagnostic Devices Industry pioneer mobile 3G/4G/5G and now 6G; award-winning fintech: investment banking, personal finance/advising, cognitive/behavioral finance; e-commerce; healthcare: insurance, AI-guided Dx/decision-support in finance & medicine, tele-medicine.
Margaret Yancy Margaret Yancy's research interests include diabetes and adolescent healthcare. She received her D.N.P. from ASU in 2008.