Patrick Abbott
Professor EmeritusEarth and Environmental SciencesCollege of SciencesSDSU[email protected]619-594-5586Area of Expertise
Natural disasters, earthquakes, emergency preparation, impact of humankind upon the earth, ancient climates
Experts Directory
The San Diego State University Experts Directory is a rolodex for reporters, designed to assist journalists in their search for subject-matter experts on a variety of topics and academic research areas.
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Farid Abdel-Nour
Professor and Department ChairPolitical ScienceCollege of Arts and LettersSDSU[email protected]619-594-6598Area of Expertise
Middle Eastern politics, political theory, Palestine and Israeli-Palestinian relations and conflict.
Mounah Abdel-Samad
Associate ProfessorSchool of Public AffairsCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsSDSU[email protected]619-594-4724Area of Expertise
Organization behavior, legislators’ behavior, legislative institutions, Lebanon, Iraq, capacity building, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Middle East water conflict and homelessness.
Alyson Abel
Associate Professor, Interim Associate Dean for Academic AffairsSpeech, Language & Hearing SciencesCollege of Health and Human ServicesSDSU[email protected]Area of Expertise
Developmental Language Disorder, child language development and vocabulary learning.
Ryan Abman
Associate ProfessorEconomicsCollege of Arts and LettersSDSU[email protected]Area of Expertise
Deforestation, economic development in less developed countries, natural resources and development, natural resource curse, environmental conservation, and trade and the environment
Zamira Abman
Assistant Professor, Director of the Comparative International Studies ProgramHistoryCollege of Arts and LettersSDSU[email protected]Area of Expertise
Soviet Union/Russia, Central Asia, Soviet Tajikistan, Soviet emancipation of women, Middle East and Gender
Brian Adams
ProfessorPolitical ScienceCollege of Arts and LettersSDSU[email protected]619-594-4289Area of Expertise
American politics, public policy, state and local politics, political behavior, intergovernmental relations
Sara Adibi
Assistant ProfessorMechanical EngineeringCollege of EngineeringSDSU[email protected]Area of Expertise
Computational mechanics, multiscale modeling of materials and material design.
Edward Aguado
Professor EmeritusGeographyCollege of Arts and LettersSDSU[email protected]619-594-5930Area of Expertise
Weather, hydrology, climate, climate change, meteorology, rainfall, precipitation, El Nino effect.
Zahra Ahmadabadi
Assistant ProfessorMechanical EngineeringCollege of EngineeringSDSU[email protected]Area of Expertise
Autonomy, robot perception, robot learning, nonlinear dynamic systems and control and acoustics.
Huma Ahmed-Ghosh
Professor EmeritusWomen's StudiesCollege of Arts and LettersSDSU[email protected](619) 594-3046Area of Expertise
Women in Asia, women and international development, women, race, and class, feminist theory, privilege and oppression.
Stuart Aitken
Distinguished ProfessorGeographyCollege of Arts and LettersSDSU[email protected]Area of Expertise
Child rights, youth activism, families and communities, geography of film and spatial philosophies.
Reza Akhavian
Associate ProfessorCivil, Construction, and Environmental EngineeringCollege of EngineeringSDSU[email protected]Area of Expertise
Construction robotics, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), future of work, digital transformation, interdisciplinary education, and workforce development.
Mikhail Alexseev
Associate ProfessorPolitical ScienceCollege of Arts and LettersSDSU[email protected]619-594-0190Area of Expertise
Russia-Ukraine war, Ukraine/Russia public opinion, societies and politics, great power competition around Eurasia & U.S. security challenges, ethnopolitical conflict and migration and ethnic relations in the former Soviet Union.
Cristina Alfaro
Associate Vice PresidentInternational AffairsSDSU[email protected]619-594-5155Area of Expertise
Bilingual credentials, dual language professional development/programs and Mexico international programs.
Magdalena Altamirano
ProfessorSpanish and Portuguese Languages and LiteraturesCollege of Arts and LettersSDSU Imperial Valley[email protected](760) 768-5614Area of Expertise
Spanish medieval and early modern literature and culture, book history, manuscript studies, interaction of popular and learned cultures, material culture, Miguel de Cervantes’s works, practices of reading and writing, poetry, and transatlantic studies –the Iberian Peninsula and colonial Mexico. The modern Mexican ballad (corrido), poetry, lyrics, ballads.
Steven Andres
InstructorGraduate Program in Homeland SecurityCollege of SciencesSDSU[email protected]Area of Expertise
Computer networking, information systems, Internet, routing, net neutrality, information security, cyber security, firewalls, next-generation anti-virus, malware, attribution, cyber sabotage, cyber warfare, cyberwar, cyber terrorism, cyber crime, dark net, TOR, credit card fraud, computer crime, phishing, staying safe online, online shopping safety and internet crimes.
Miguel Angel Zavala Perez
Associate ProfessorSchool of Public HealthCollege of Health and Human ServicesSDSU Imperial Valley[email protected]Area of Expertise
Air quality modeling, measurements of air pollution, source apportionment, health impacts, short-lived climate pollutants, environmental justice and community-based research/
Noah Arceneaux
ProfessorSchool of Journalism and Media StudiesCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsSDSU[email protected]619-594-3236Area of Expertise
New media, media studies, radio, social media (Twitter, Web 2.0, Facebook), relationship between technology and culture, social history of electronic communication from early radio to wireless delivery
Elva Arredondo
ProfessorPsychologyCollege of SciencesSDSU[email protected]619-241-1376Area of Expertise
Obesity prevention, physical activity promotion, health equity, cancer prevention, Latino health and dissemination and implementation science.
Godfried Asante
Associate Professor and Interim Director, Institute for Dialogue and Social JusticeSchool of CommunicationCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsSDSU[email protected]Area of Expertise
Intercultural communication, global health inequities, LGBTQ empowerment and social justice.
Pierre Asselin
ProfessorHistoryCollege of Arts and LettersSDSU[email protected]619-594-0148Area of Expertise
US foreign policy history; US presidential history; Cold War history; Vietnam War; history of US wars and international diplomacy and negotiations.
Guadalupe X. (Suchi) Ayala
Professor, Co-Director of SDSU HealthLINK CenterSchool of Public HealthCollege of Health and Human ServicesSDSU[email protected]619-594-6686Area of Expertise
Latino health, family health, community health, obesity, nutrition, asthma control, diabetes control, acculturation, grocery stores and restaurants.
Arlette Baljon
Professor EmeritusPhysicsCollege of SciencesSDSU[email protected]Area of Expertise
Polymers, mucus, reversible crosslinked networks and memory of matter.
Joseph Ball
Professor EmeritusAnthropologyCollege of Arts and LettersSDSU[email protected]619-594-5658Area of Expertise
Ceramic analysis, contextual analysis, depositional analysis, archaeological method and theory, archaic states, Mesoamerican cultural history, Maya archaeology, Maya ethnology, Eastern Mesoamerica and Central America. Archaeology, prehistory, cultural history and archaeological ceramics of parts of Belize, Guatemala and Mexico.
Nicholas Barber
ProfessorBiologyCollege of SciencesSDSU[email protected]Area of Expertise
Plant and animal ecology; insect ecology; habitat restoration, conservation, biodiversity in grasslands, and birds..
Steve Barbone
ProfessorPhilosophyCollege of Arts and LettersSDSU[email protected]Area of Expertise
Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza, modern philosophy, Oliva Sabuco, Ann Conway and mediaeval philosophy.
Valeria Barra
Assistant Professor, Computational Science Research CenterMathematics and StatisticsCollege of SciencesSDSU[email protected]Area of Expertise
Applied and computational mathematics, high-performance scientific computing, numerical simulations of physical and engineering systems, computational fluid dynamics
Peter Bartoli
LecturerComputer ScienceCollege of SciencesSDSU[email protected]Area of Expertise
Hacking, cybersecurity, information security and privacy.
Wayne Beach
Professor EmeritusSchool of CommunicationCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsSDSU[email protected]619-594-4948Area of Expertise
Communication and cancer (in the clinic and among family members), doctor-patient communication, communication in the courtroom, relational communication, healthcare and conversational and institutional interactions.
