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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Patrick Abbott

Patrick Abbott

Professor EmeritusCollege of SciencesGeological SciencesSDSU[email protected]619-594-5586

Area of Expertise

Natural disasters, earthquakes, emergency preparation, impact of humankind upon the earth, ancient climates

Farid Abdel-Nour

Farid Abdel-Nour

Professor and Department ChairCollege of Arts and LettersPolitical ScienceSDSU[email protected]619-594-6598

Area of Expertise

Middle Eastern politics, political theory, Palestine and Israeli-Palestinian relations and conflict.

Mounah Abdel-Samad

Mounah Abdel-Samad

Associate ProfessorCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsSchool of Public AffairsSDSU[email protected]619-594-4724

Area of Expertise

Organization behavior, legislators’ behavior, legislative institutions, Lebanon, Iraq, capacity building, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Middle East water conflict and homelessness.

Alyson Abel

Alyson Abel

Associate ProfessorCollege of Health and Human ServicesSpeech, Language & Hearing SciencesSDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Developmental Language Disorder, child language development and vocabulary learning.

Ryan Abman

Ryan Abman

Associate ProfessorCollege of Arts and LettersEconomicsSDSU[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

Zamira Abman

LecturerCollege of Arts and LettersHistorySDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Soviet Union/Russia, Central Asia, Soviet Tajikistan, Soviet emancipation of women, Middle East and Gender

Brian Adams

Brian Adams

ProfessorCollege of Arts and LettersPolitical ScienceSDSU[email protected]619-594-4289

Area of Expertise

American politics, public policy, state and local politics, political behavior, intergovernmental relations

Sara Adibi

Sara Adibi

Assistant ProfessorCollege of EngineeringMechanical EngineeringSDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Computational mechanics, multiscale modeling of materials and material design.

Zahra Ahmadabadi

Zahra Ahmadabadi

Assistant ProfessorCollege of EngineeringMechanical EngineeringSDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Autonomy, robot perception, robot learning, nonlinear dynamic systems and control and acoustics.

Huma Ahmed-Ghosh

Huma Ahmed-Ghosh

Professor EmeritusCollege of Arts and LettersWomen's StudiesSDSU[email protected](619) 594-3046

Area of Expertise

Women in Asia, women and international development, women, race, and class, feminist theory, privilege and oppression.

Stuart Aitken

Stuart Aitken

Distinguished ProfessorCollege of Arts and LettersGeographySDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Child rights, youth activism, families and communities, geography of film and spatial philosophies.

Reza Akhavian

Reza Akhavian

Associate ProfessorCollege of EngineeringCivil, Construction, and Environmental 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

Mikhail Alexseev

Associate ProfessorCollege of Arts and LettersPolitical ScienceSDSU[email protected]619-594-0190

Area 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.

Magdalena Altamirano

Magdalena Altamirano

ProfessorSan Diego State University Imperial ValleySpanish and Portuguese Languages and LiteraturesSDSU Imperial Valley[email protected](760) 768-5614

Area 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

Steven Andres

InstructorCollege of SciencesGraduate Program in Homeland SecuritySDSU[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

Miguel Angel Zavala Perez

Associate ProfessorSan Diego State University Imperial ValleySchool of Public HealthSDSU 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

Noah Arceneaux

ProfessorCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsSchool of Journalism and Media StudiesSDSU[email protected]619-594-3236

Area 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

Elva Arredondo

ProfessorCollege of SciencesPsychologySDSU[email protected]619-241-1376

Area of Expertise

Obesity prevention, physical activity promotion, health equity, cancer prevention, Latino health and dissemination and implementation science.

Godfried Asante

Godfried Asante

Assistant ProfessorCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsSchool of CommunicationSDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Intercultural communication, global health inequities, LGBTQ empowerment and social justice.

Pierre Asselin

Pierre Asselin

ProfessorCollege of Arts and LettersHistorySDSU[email protected]619-594-0148

Area 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

Guadalupe X. (Suchi) Ayala

ProfessorCollege of Health and Human ServicesSchool of Public HealthSDSU[email protected]619-594-6686

Area of Expertise

Latino health, family health, community health, obesity, nutrition, asthma control, diabetes control, acculturation, grocery stores and restaurants.

Arlette Baljon

Arlette Baljon

Associate ProfessorCollege of SciencesPhysicsSDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Polymers, mucus, reversible crosslinked networks and memory of matter.

Joseph Ball

Joseph Ball

Professor EmeritusCollege of Arts and LettersAnthropologySDSU[email protected]619-594-5658

Area 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.

Mark Ballam

Mark Ballam

Managing Director, Wendy Gillespie Center for Advancing Global BusinessFowler College of BusinessSDSU[email protected]619-594-3947

Area of Expertise

International business international trade, U.S. competitiveness, and trade  policy.

Nicholas Barber

Nicholas Barber

Assistant ProfessorCollege of SciencesBiologySDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Plant and animal ecology; insect ecology; habitat restoration, conservation, and biodiversity in grasslands.

Steve Barbone

Steve Barbone

ProfessorCollege of Arts and LettersPhilosophySDSU[email protected]

Area of Expertise

Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza, modern philosophy, Oliva Sabuco, Ann Conway and mediaeval philosophy.

Wayne Beach

Wayne Beach

Professor EmeritusCollege of Professional Studies and Fine ArtsSchool of CommunicationSDSU[email protected]619-594-4948

Area 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.