Event Details
CISA Student-Faculty Virtual Networking Event
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Zoom
(Link provided in confirmation email)
United States

Start your journey towards your professional goals with your CISA professors! Network with instructors who have experience and expertise in a range of fields or learn more about their research and undergraduate research opportunities. On the registration page, you will be able to select TWO (2) of the following faculty members whose work you are interested in.

 
Adam Stein, Lecturer
Unit:  Science and Mathematics
Research Topics:  Evolution, Natural Resource Management, Ecology
Career Industries/Company Partners:  Multiple NGOs in various countries
 
Alisia (Giac-Thao) Tran, Associate Professor
Unit:  Counseling and Counseling Psychology
Research Topics:  Ethnic/Racial Minority Psychology, Racial/Ethnic Socialization, Socioeconomic Disparities and Financial Stress, Student-Athlete Mental Health
Career Industries/Company Partners:  Pearson, hospitals, clinics, other healthcare settings
 
Barbara D'Angelo, Clinical Professor
Unit:  Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication
Research Topics:  Information Literacy, Threshold Concepts for Writing Studies/Technical Communication, Writing Assessment, Peer Review
Career Industries/Company Partners:  Defend & Publish, LLC, Bedford St. Martin, Pearson, consulting for regulatory writing (medical devices)
 
Catherine Hart, Lecturer Sr.
Unit:  Science and Mathematics
Research Topics:  Efficacy of Selected Software Programs for Estimation of Item Response Theory Model (current), How Students Learn Mathematics at the College Level and How to Construct Multiple Choice Questions to Test Students' Understanding of Mathematical Concepts (previous)
Career Industries/Company Partners:  Worked as a chemical and environmental engineer in industry for several years prior to transitioning to teaching at ASU
 
Debra Neill, Lecturer
Unit:  Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication
Research Topics:  Religious and Ethnic Conflict, The History of Religious Toleration and Religious Liberty from the Reformation to the Twentieth Century
Career Industries/Company Partners:  None
 
Douglas Green, Associate Professor and Faculty Head
Unit:  Science and Mathematics
Research Topics:  Ecological Restoration Related to Riparian Areas
Career Industries/Company Partners:  US Forest Service Gila River Indian Community, US Army Corps of Engineers, Salt River Project
 
Elizabeth Castillo, Assistant Professor
Unit:  Leadership and Integrative Studies
Research Topics:  Organizational Leadership, Prosocial Business Practices, Sustainable Business Models for Social Enterprise & Entrepreneurship, Nonprofit Organizations, Social Accounting, Integrative Thinking
Career Industries/Company Partners:  Nonprofit organizations, higher education, community planning, Conscious Capitalism
 
Ian Moulton, Professor
Unit:  Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication
Research Topics:  English Literature, especially Shakespeare and the Early Modern Period; Cultural History of Gender and Sexuality, especially in 16th century Europe; Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture; Early Modern French Literature and Culture; History of the Book and of Reading; Cultural History of Love and Beauty
Career Industries/Company Partners:  Book series editor in academic publishing
 
Imge Oranli, Assistant Professor
Unit:  Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication
Research Topics:  Social and Political Philosophy, Social Justice, Theories of Evil, Genocide Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Feminist theory, History of Western Philosophy
Career Industries/Company Partners:  Editorial board member of the Turkish philosophy journal Cogito
 
Jennifer Chandler, Lecturer Sr. 
Unit:  Leadership and Integrative Studies
Research Topics:  Whiteness, Critical Leadership Theory, Dominant Social Norms in Leadership Contexts, Leadership and Mentoring in Engineering Research and Engineering Education Contexts
Career Industries/Company Partners:  Racial justice not-for-profits organizations, research faculty with the Engineering Research Center (ERC) at ASU, NASA, Secret Service, ATF, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
**NOTE: This faculty member is unable to attend this event. Interested students can reach out to her directly at Jennifer.L.S.Chandler@asu.edu**
 
Kat Lambrecht, Assistant Professor
Unit:  Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication
Research Topics:  Interdisciplinary Communication and Collaboration, Corpus Linguistics and Big Data Research, National Weather Service Communications, Communicating Science to Public Audiences
Career Industries/Company Partners:  Desert Research Institute (Reno, Nevada), National Weather Service, public health initiatives, secondary education
 
Kate McCain, Lecturer
Unit:  Leadership and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research Topics:  Narrative/Storytelling and Leader(ship) Identity Development, Critical Theory, Narrative and Leadership Pedagogy, Social Change Leadership
Career Industries/Company Partners:  Higher education in both Communication Studies and Leadership Studies, a traveling consultant for a marketing company specializing in training and development
 
Patricia Murphy, Principal Lecturer
Unit:  Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication
Research Topics:  Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Publishing, Social Media, Blogging, Wordpress, Drupal, Marketing
Career Industries/Company Partners:  Editor of a literary magazine
 
Pedro Chavarria, Lecturer
Unit:  Science and Mathematics
Research Topics:  Wildlife Field Ecology, Environmental Monitoring, Collaboration with Federal and State Agencies on Wildlife and Environmental Monitoring
Career Industries/Company Partners:  Worked with the National Park Service on projects with threatened and endangered species
 
Stephen Carradini, Assistant Professor
Unit:  Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication
Research Topics:  Social media, Professional Communication of Artists, Entrepreneurship, Communication in Video Games
Career Industries/Company Partners: Social media management, technical communication, arts management, blogging, nonprofit communication
 
Vanessa Fonseca-Chavez, Assistant Professor
Unit:  Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication
Research Topics:  Oral Histories and Testimonio, Chicanx and Latinx Literature, Southwest Studies, Spanish as a Heritage Language, Colonialism/Postcolonialism, Decolonial Methodologies, Place Studies, Critical Regionalism, Public History
Career Industries/Company Partners: Co-director of an oral history project called Following the Manito Trail, Chicanx/Latinx professional organizations, editorial boards for scholarly journals
 
Wendy Williams, Assistant Professor
Unit:  Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication
Research Topics:  Visual and Multi-modal Literacies, Out-of-School Writing, Learning in Communities of Practice, Youth Spoken Word Poetry, Youth Songwriting, Visual Storytelling (picture books, graphic novels, photography, film, animation, etc.)
Career Industries/Company Partners:  Education (high school and middle school English teacher in Arizona), Culinary Arts (Scottsdale Culinary Institute, work as a cook and meeting planning assistant)
 
Yujin Park, Assistant Professor
Unit:  Science and Mathematics
Research Topics:  Controlled Environment Agriculture, Sustainable Food Production, Vertical Farming, Horticulture
Career Industries/Company Partners:  Collaboration with companies related to vertical farming and production of greenhouse covering materials, professional greenhouse growers and farmers, seed companies
 
We look forward to seeing you on Zoom!