Mira Farka
Associate Professor of Economics
Mira Farka is a leading economist, specializing in financial, macro, and global economics. She is widely known for developing and presenting the CSUF Economic Forecasts for the nation, Southern California, and Orange County. Prior to joining Cal State Fullerton, she worked as a senior economist for Deutsche Bank, New York, where she was responsible for developing economic forecast models for key national and international macroeconomic variables, currency forecasts, and financial market analyses.
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Alexei Shevchenko
Professor of Political Science
Alexei Shevchenko‘s research and teaching interests include International Relations theory, American foreign policy, Russian and Chinese foreign policy, and domestic politics.
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David J. Traven
Assistant Professor of Political Science
David J. Traven is an expert in International relations specifically in law and ethics of armed conflict. Traven completed his Postdoctoral Fellow in Nuclear Security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He is currently working on a book manuscript that examines how moral emotions shaped the evolution of the laws of armed conflict.
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Mikhail Gofman
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Director of the Center for Cybersecurity
Dr. Mikhail Gofman is a sought-after leader in the field of access control policy analysis, biometrics, virtualization, and cloud security. His work has been published in top-tier security conferences and journals. He is the director of CSUF’s College of Engineering and Computer Science Center for Cybersecurity.
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MATTHEW JARVIS
Associate professor of political science
Matthew Jarvis studies elections, congress, voting technology, public opinion, campaign finance and the evolution of veto threats.
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VALERIE O'REGAN
Professor of political science
Valerie O’Regan has authored many book chapters on women in politics. She can speak to female policy makers’ influence in industrial nations, women in state and national politics, European and Latin American politics and political behavior.
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STEPHEN STAMBOUGH
Professor of political science
Stephen Stambough studies political behavior, campaigns and elections and gender politics. He can speak to term limits and women’s representation, political experience and the success of female gubernatorial candidates, culture war politics, and partisan differences.
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MATTHEW W. KIRBY
Professor of geological sciences
Matthew Kirby researches global climate change with expertise in California’s geological past history of droughts, floods, fires, and vegetation using lake and wetland sediments.
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MOJGAN SAMI
Assistant professor of public health
Expert in global and urban health, urban planning, health equity, social justice in health, and the structural determinants of health including projects on active transportation, park access, food sovereignty and environmental justice.
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JOE CARLIN
Assistant professor of geological sciences
“Research like ours is important to establish a baseline for natural climate change that was not caused by humans, then we can compare it to climate change today — and ultimately pinpoint the impact by humans, and how we may fix this situation.”
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DARREN R. SANDQUIST
Professor of biological science
Expert in how the brittlebush, a desert shrub, is responding to climate change in water availability and temperatures, even in Death Valley. His research on water stress spans 20 years.
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Jocelyn Read
Associate professor of physics
A neutron star astrophysicist expert in black holes, astronomy and physics.
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Geoffrey Lovelace
Associate professor of physics
A computational astrophysicist specializing in numerical relativity. His research focuses on using supercomputer simulations to model colliding black holes.
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