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Our synergistic blend of academic disciplines, perspectives, and methods enhances the capacity to tackle problems, intimate and large-scale, and to improve lives in local and global communities. Over fifty research-active faculty lead a dozen undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degrees, including internationally-recognized programs in Social Justice & Human Rights, Forensic Psychology, and Social Technologies.
Leadership
Our faculty
Professors
Scott Barclay
Professor
Political Science
Areas of expertise: American Politics; Law and Society; Public Policy; Social Movements
Natasha Behl
Associate Professor
Political Science, Social Justice and Human Rights
Areas of expertise: Democracy and Citizenship; Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Politics; India; Social Movements
Brian Bornstein
Professor
Law and Psychology
Areas of expertise: Law and Psychology
Mary Burleson
Professor
Psychology
Areas of expertise: Interpersonal Touch; Psychophysiology; Stress and Emotion; Women's Reproductive Health
Alexandra Carstensen
Assistant Professor
Psychology; Cognition, Behavior and Information
John Coffey
Associate Professor
Psychology
Areas of expertise: Emotion; Mental Health: Adults; Mental Health: Youth; Developmental Psychology; Resilience
Allan Colbern
Assistant Professor
Political Science
Areas of expertise: Political Science; American Politics; Immigration; Civil Rights; Democracy and Citizenship; Qualitative Methods
Audrey Comstock
Assistant Professor
Political Science, Social Justice and Human Rights
Areas of expertise: Human Rights; International Law; International Relations; LGBTQ Studies
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Nicholas Duran
Associate Professor
Psychology; Cognition, Behavior and Information
Areas of expertise: Cognitive Science; Complex Systems; Computation Linguistics; Data Science; Deception; Discourse Analysis; Dynamical Systems; Informatics; Interpersonal Communication; Language; Motion Capture; Statistical Analysis; Team Cognition
Ben Falandays
Assistant Professor
Psychology; Cognition, Behavior and Information
Malay Firoz
Assistant Professor
Anthropology, Social Justice and Human Rights
Areas of expertise: Global Humanitarian Issues; Institutional Ethnography; Middle Eastern Studies; Refugee Studies; Sociocultural Anthropology; Violence, Conflict and Human Rights
Patricia Friedrich
Professor
Socio-Linguistics, Social Justice and Human Rights
Areas of expertise: English Linguistics; Linguistics; Rhetoric and Composition
Kendall Funk
Assistant Professor
Political Science
Areas of expertise: Political Science; Women and Politics; Governance; Gender; Public Policy; Latin American Studies; Comparative Politics; Race and Gender Politics
Nisa Göksel
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Max Guyll
Associate Professor
Law and Psychology
Alexander Halavais
Associate Professor
Data and Society
Areas of expertise: Artificial Intelligence; Big Data; Complex Systems; Connected Learning; Data Science; Design Thinking; Emerging Technologies; History of Technology; Human Computer Interactions; Human Dimensions of Science and Technology; Human-centered Computing; Network Science; Online Communities; Online Platforms; Social Media; Social Movements; Social Networks; Sociotechnical Systems; Technology and Society; Ubiquitous Computing; User-generated Content; Youth Education Development
Deborah Hall
Associate Professor
Psychology
Areas of expertise: Identities; Intergroup Relations; Social Influences; Social Interaction; Social Media; Social Psychology
Jeffrey Kassing
Professor
Communication
Areas of expertise: Dissent in Organizations; Community Sports
Jennifer Keahey
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Areas of expertise: Agri-Food Systems; Decolonizing Methodologies; Environmental and Resiliency Planning; Fair Trade; Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Politics; Political Economy; Postcolonial Theory; Sustainable Development
Andrew Kirby
Professor
Geography
Areas of expertise: Urban Development; Bibliometrics
Jessica Kosie
Assistant Professor
Psychology; Cognition, Behavior and Information
Sangmi Lee
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Areas of expertise: Anthropology - Social and Cultural; Comparative Diaspora Studies; Fieldwork; Migration, Race, Ethnicity, and Culture; Place, Culture, and Identity; Qualitative Methods
Nicole Lee
Assistant Professor
Communication
Areas of expertise: Science Communication; Strategic Communication; Social Media
Rufan Luo
Assistant Professor
Psychology
Stephanie Madon
Professor
Law and Psychology
Areas of expertise: Social Psychology; Law and Psychology
Lindsey Mean
Associate Professor
Communication
Areas of expertise: Identities; Gender; Discourses; Language and Culture; Community Sports
Kristin Mickelson
Professor
Psychology
Areas of expertise: Gender; Interpersonal Relationships; Social Health Psychology
Majia Nadesan
Professor
Communication, Social Technologies
Areas of expertise: Ecocriticism; Ecological Ethics; Emerging Technologies; Environmental Policy; Health Law and Policy; Human Dimensions of Science and Technology; Public Health; History of Science; Philosophy of Science; Science and Society; Critical Social Theory; Biopolitics; Financial Globalization; Autism; Risk-taking; Activism and Social Movements
Katherine Nelson-Coffey
Associate Professor
Psychology
Karey O'Hara
Assistant Professor
Law and Psychology
Derek Powell
Assistant Professor
Psychology; Cognition, Behavior and Information
Nicholas Proferes
Assistant Professor
Data and Society
Ramsey Eric Ramsey
Professor
Communication
Areas of expertise: Critical Theory; Hermeneutics; Philosophy of Communication
Tricia Redeker-Hepner
Associate Professor
Anthropology, Social Justice and Human Rights
Areas of expertise: Activism and Social Movements; African Studies; Anthropology; Refugee Studies; Transnational Migration; Violence, Conflict and Human Rights
tricia.m.redeker-hepner@asu.edu
Nicole Roberts
Associate Professor
Psychology
Areas of expertise: Clinical Disorders, Couples, Culture, Emotion, Psychophysiology
Amit Ron
Associate Professor
Political Science
Areas of expertise: Citizen Participation; Civil Communication; Democratic Theory; Economic Justice; History of Political Thought; Philosophy of Science; Political Theory
Jessica Salerno
Associate Professor
Law and Psychology
Areas of focus: Emotion; Forensic and Correctional Psychology; Jury Decision Making; Law and Psychology; Legal Decision Making; Moral Psychology; Social Psychology and the Law
Nick Schweitzer
Associate Professor
Law and Psychology
Areas of expertise: Law and Psychology; Legal Decision Making; Law and Neuroscience; Forensic and Correctional Psychology; Forensic Science
Laura Smalarz
Assistant Professor
Law and Psychology
Areas of expertise: Law and Psychology
Heather Smith-Cannoy
Associate Professor
Political Science, Social Justice and Human Rights
Areas of expertise: Gender; Human Rights; International Law
Vincent Waldron
Professor
Communication
Areas of expertise: Family Communication; Personal and Work Relationships; Conflict Management; Resilience; Forgiveness
Shawn Walker
Assistant Professor
Data and Society
Areas of expertise: Activism and Social Movements; Social Media; Decision Making and Social Media; Big Data; Informatics; Data Cleaning and Information Extraction; Data Science; Computational Modeling
Greg Wise
Professor
Communication, Social Technologies
Areas of expertise: New Media Studies; Cultural Studies and Technology; Surveillance; Globalization
Teaching Professors, Clinical Professors and Instructors
Emrah Aktunc
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Alma Arce
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Andrea Arndorfer
Associate Teaching Professor
Law and Psychology
Tyler Barratt
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Area of expertise: Mental Health: Adults; Psychology
Catalina Cayetano
Assistant Teaching Professor
Communication
Areas of expertise: Family Communication; Intercultural Communication; Language and Culture; Language and Identity
Taleen Der-Ghazarian
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Natalie Fabert
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Jason Frizzell
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Cynthia Gaffney
Associate Teaching Professor
Communication
Areas of expertise: Communication; Rhetoric Theory; Critical Cultural Studies
Sarah Gavac
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Areas of expertise: Gender and Sexuality; Online Education: Online Teaching and Learning; Research Methodology; Social Psychology
Natalie Gildar
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Areas of expertise: Child and Adolescent Development; Clinical Psychology; Mental Health: Youth; Online Education: Online Teaching and Learning
Timothy Grainey
Instructor
Communication
Liza Hita
Associate Clinical Professor
Psychology
Steven Holloway
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Areas of expertise: Neuroscience; Cognitive Science; Cognitive Development
Marianna Kaneris
Instructor
Psychology
Linda Kim
Teaching Professor
Sociology
Ji-Soo Kim
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Alissa Knowles
Assistant Teaching Professor
Law and Psychology
Gregory Koop
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Erin Kube
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Kenneth Kunkel
Instructor
Communication
Trudy Kuo
Associate Clinical Professor
Psychology
Areas of expertise: Cognitive Science; Learning and Memory; Neural Electrophysiology
Stephen Lewis
Associate Teaching Professor
Psychology
Carrie Lloyd
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Melanie MacEacheron
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Areas of expertise: Social Psychology and the Law; Social Psychology; Family and Couple Relationships; Evolution
Bethney Michaels
Assistant Teaching Professor
Communication
Haiden Perkins
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Laura Petrolle-Clemons
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Elise Poll
Instructor
Communication
Seth Rachlin
Assistant Teaching Professor
Social Data Science
Aaron Romans
Instructor
Communication
Kai Sun
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology; AZX (Cintana, China)
Jameien Taylor
Assistant Teaching Professor
Communication
Areas of expertise: Interpersonal Communication; Interpersonal Relationships; Civil Communication; Visual Arts and Media
Shanni Tromp
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Kathleen Waldron
Associate Teaching Professor
Communication
Areas of expertise: Caregivers; Children - Teens - Families; Coping with Stressful Events in Children and Adults; Couples; Family Communication; Healthy Aging; Parenting; Stress Management
Michael Walker
Assistant Teaching Professor
Communication
Areas of expertise: Communication; Rhetorical Studies; Critical Cultural Studies
Baoyu Wang
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Bonnie Wentzel
Teaching Professor
Communication
Areas of expertise: Communication; Instructional Communication
Karen Weston
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Areas of expertise: Psychology; Learning and Memory; Developmental Psychology; Mental Health: Youth; Resilience
Lifan Yu
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology
Areas of expertise: Developmental Psychology
Lesley Zannella
Assistant Teaching Professor
Law and Psychology
Jinghui Zhang
Assistant Teaching Professor
Psychology