About our Faculty

Forensic Studies Minor

Expertise 

• Scholarship of teaching
• Motivational interviewing
• Terror management theory

Education

• Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Arizona, 2003
• M.A., Clinical Psychology, University of Arizona, 1999
• B.S., Psychology, McGill University, 1997

Interests

• Molecular neurobiology
• Neural cell biology
• Molecular genetics

Education

• Ph.D., Cell Biology, University of Alabama-Birmingham, 2000
• Bachelor of Arts, Biology, University of California-San Diego, 1991

Expertise

• Skeletal biology
• Forensic anthropology
• Bioarchaeology
• Paleopathology
• Human evolution
• Repatriation

Education

• Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1996
• M.A., Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1994
• B.S., Cornell University, 1992

Expertise

• Symbiont communities of bees
• Trypanosomatid parasites of insects
• Phylogenetics and genomics
• Honey bee biology and health
• Invertebrate immune systems

Education

• Ph.D., Biology, University of New Mexico, 2007
• B.S., Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona, 1995

Professional interests

• Hunter-gatherer behavioral adaptations during the Pleistocene/Holocene transition 
• Lithic technological organization
• Environmental archaeology
• Geoarchaeology
• Human/environment interactions
• Public archaeology

Areas of expertise

• Hispanic Studies 
• Monsters in Literature and film
• Criminology 
• Critical Theory
• Spanish for the Professions 
• Creative Writing 
• Early Modern Spanish and Colonial Literature 

Education

• Ph.D., in Spanish Literature, University of Florida
• M.A., in Spanish, University of Florida
• Lawyer, Universidad de San Buenaventura (Colombia)  

Areas of Expertise

• International migration
• Poverty and inequality
• Crime
• Race and ethnicity
• Research methods

Education

• 2013    Ph.D., Sociology, University of New Mexico
• 2009    M.A., Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico
• 2005    B.A., International Relations, University of Colorado