Elinor Behana
LecturerCollege of EducationChild and Family DevelopmentSDSU[email protected]619-594-4373Area of Expertise
Various issues surrounding children and families, including foster care.
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Various issues surrounding children and families, including foster care.
Herbalism, botanical medicine, adulteration, herbs, herbal medicine, botanicals, plants, ingredients, supplements and dietary supplements.
Marketing strategy, advertising strategy, sports marketing, consumer behavior and holiday advertising.
Integrated marketing communications, marketing communications, advertising, consumer behavior, international marketing, holiday shopping and Black Friday/Cyber Monday.
Genetics, molecular biology, molecular basis of muscle function, muscle disease, fruit fly research, bioethics.
Energy, renewable energy, impacts of energy use on climate change, industrial energy use, wave energy conversion, wind energy conversion, solar thermal energy conversion, combined heat and power, cogeneration, adaptive motion and biomimicry.
Hydrological processes and modeling, remote sensing for watershed science, social-ecological systems, spatial analysis and modeling, land cover and land use change analysis, environmental planning and policy, sediment, erosion, and water quality and data science.
Program/product evaluation, research methodology, organizational accountability and organizational performance.
Interpretation, translation, writing, education, medical and legal terminology and lexicography.
Youth, society, and environment, political ecology, migration and borders, geographies of food, geographies of children, young people, and families, geographies of cities, political geography and social movements.
Paleoceanography, climate change, climate models, climate proxies, Holocene and past warm periods.
Multicultural Education; Ethnic Identity Development in Education; Teaching doctoral students and preparing teachers for public school teaching. Created a model of Ethnic Identity Development in Education, through investigations of classroom teachers facilitating students’ ethnic identity development through subject matter curricula. Intersections of culture and education and ethnic identity development in classroom teaching. Co-Founder and Director of the International Research Network of Ethnic Identity Pedagogy. Teacher preparation; valuing human diversity in the public and private sectors.
American literature, race & religion in America, Native American literature and culture, Mormonism
Higher Education Leadership, Organizational Theory, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Culture, Transcultural communication, and Discourse Analysis
Literacy and communication development for individuals with deaf-blindness or with severe/multiple disabilities
Art, participatory art, community-based art, arts in corrections, prison arts collective
Eating disorders; LGBT health; Adolescence
Energy, renewable energy, non-renewable energy, fossil fuels, fire, combustion, wildfires, pollution, emissions, nanoparticles, nanomaterials, nanoscience, soot, carbon, aerosols, chemical vapor deposition
Issues related to sex, sexuality, sex therapy and specifically sex therapy for Latinx and LGBTQIA+ people, sex therapist, factors impacting desire, attraction, and sexual self esteem in individuals and relationships.
Long-term lecturer, currently teaching as a Retired annuitant. International experience with volcanoes, volcanic activity and natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunami, landslides, etc.).
Organizational communication, family communication, health communication and leadership and team communication.
Reading, Language Arts, Visual Literacy, Arts Integration, Qualitative Research Methods
Applied and computational mathematics, mathematical physics, mathematical modeling, chaos, fractals, nonlinear waves, partial differential equations, condensed matter physics, nonlinear optics, and nonlinear time series.
Mexico/Latin America environmental politics and the San Diego-Tijuana border
Women's health, reproduction, feminist STS, qualitative methods, trauma studies, critical animal studies, disability studies, and environmental studies.
gender and ethnicity in close relationships, poetry
Intersection of law; public administration, and criminal justice; the implementation and institutionalization of federal efforts to remedy systematic police misconduct; public law; bureaucratic accountability; criminal procedure; police behavior, especially related to the use of force; and the relationship between public safety and individual liberty.
Student learning, undergraduate curricula, sustainability.
Intercultural communication, critical communication pedagogy, social justice, Pan-Asian organizing, immigrant women faculty experiences and cultural identities.
Human rights, refugees, international politics, Asia-Pacific politics, conflict and post-conflict transition.