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.
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.
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.
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.
MATTHEW JARVIS
Associate professor of political science
Matthew Jarvis studies elections, congress, voting technology, public opinion, campaign finance and the evolution of veto threats.
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.
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.
Mira Farka
Associate professor of economics
Expert in financial and monetary economics, forecasting and applied econometrics and applied macroeconomics. Co-director of CSUF’s Woods Center for Economic Analysis and Forecasting.
Anil Puri
Professor of economics
Expert in economic forecasts and policy analysis, economic impacts and environmental issues. Director of CSUF’s Woods Center for Economic Analysis and Forecasting. He also speaks Hindi and Punjabi.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Joshua Smith
Professor of physics
Expert in optics and gravitational-wave astronomy. He is the Dan Black Director of the Nicholas and Lee Begovich Center for Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy.
Jocelyn Read
Associate professor of physics
A neutron star astrophysicist expert in black holes, astronomy and physics.
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.
Cal State Fullerton received a $1.2 million grant from the Mellon Foundation for The Latinx Lab for Storytelling and Social Justice led by faculty in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (H&SS), which aims to transform communities and address structural racism through the art of storytelling. The […]
When Delilah La Pietra was placed on Academic Probation for her grades during the spring term of her freshman year at Cal State Fullerton, she felt defeated leading to a dislike for the term “probation.” During the same time, Dr. Elizabeth Boretz, assistant vice president for student success and the director of the academic advisement […]
As if being an international student isn’t hard enough alone, Mariia Nikitash has gone through the unimaginable since the crisis in Ukraine began. The international student from Ukraine is in her first year at Cal State Fullerton, where she received a scholarship to play tennis. But challenges on the court aren’t the only adversity facing […]
Born in eastern Ukraine and raised in the city of Artemovsk (recently renamed Bakhmut), Cal State Fullerton’s Associate Professor of Computer Science, Mikhail Gofman, is the director of the Center for Cybersecurity and a certified information systems security professional. As the conflict in Eastern Europe continues, Gofman, himself a Ukrainian refugee, offers his thoughts on the cybersecurity threat […]
As tensions rise, expert in international security and ethics of conflict, assistant professor of political science at Cal State Fullerton David Traven, offers his expertise on the ongoing crisis involving Russia and Ukraine. “I do think the Biden administration was too late in recognizing the threat and ruling out U.S. forces,” he continued. “When facing […]
Cal State Fullerton’s Anil Puri and Mira Farka, co-directors of the Woods Center for Economic Analysis and Forecasting at the university’s College of Business and Economics say the implications of the Russia/Ukraine conflict will be felt by the economies here in the U.S. as well as Europe. “Russia’s economy makes up only 3% of the world’s economy; […]
U.S. News Names CSUF Online Graduate Programs Among the Nation’s ‘Best’ Three Cal State Fullerton online graduate programs —business, engineering, and engineering for veterans — are in the top 30 schools ranked nationwide by U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 Best Online Programs list. The university’s online master’s in business, offered through the College of […]
New research shows college students receiving a check-in text message from a friend or family member are more likely to thrive away from home. The supportive texts can help reduce feelings of isolation and depression, says Tara Suwinyattichaiporn (Dr. Tara), Cal State Fullerton associate professor of human communication studies. Academic pressure, independence from one’s family, […]
Holistic well-being advocate Portia A. Jackson Preston, DrPH, MPH, says former Miss USA suicide should remind us all to practice sustainable self-care, and seek help via therapy. Preston is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Public Health at Cal State Fullerton and is available to speak to media about topics related to the death of […]
Celebration and festivities brings beauty and richness to both American and global communities. Over 1.5 billion people worldwide will celebrate the Lunar New Year on February 1st. Unlike the western New Year that lasts one night or day, in China, the celebration lasts 15 days. In Vietnam, the New Year celebration (also known as TET) […]
