Dr. Brian Burke
Professor of Psychology

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

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Dr. Dawn Mulhern
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Arts & Sciences
Professor of Anthropology & Coordinator of the Forensic Studies Minor

Areas of Expertise:

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

Education:

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

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Dr. Ryan Schwarz
Associate Professor of Biology

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

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Dr. David Vásquez-Hurtado
Associate Professor of Borders & Languages, Sociology & Human Services, and Criminology & Justice

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)  

 

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Dr. Benjamin Waddell
Professor & Chair of Sociology & Human Services

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

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