About our Faculty
Forensic Studies Minor

Education:

• L.L.M., Indigenous Peoples’ Law and Policy, University of Arizona College of Law, 2005
• J.D., University of Arizona College of Law, 2004
• M.A., American Indian Studies, University of Arizona, 2000
• B.A., International Relations, Fort Lewis College, 1997

Areas of expertise: 

• International Human Rights Law and Policy
• Comparative Law and Policy on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
• Legal Pluralism and Transitional Justice
• Public Law and Public International Law

Areas of expertise

• Analytical and environmental chemistry
• Chemical education
• Culturally responsive teaching/professional development
• Implicit biases in STEM

Education

• Ph.D., Chemical Education, University of Northern Colorado, 2007
• M.S., Chemistry, University of Northern Colorado, 2004
• B.S., Chemistry, North Dakota State University, 2002

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

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

Areas of Expertise:

• Crime and Deviance
• Juvenile Delinquency and Sociology of Youth
• Social Inequality and Stratification
• Social Network Analysis

Education:

• Ph.D., Sociology, Washington State University, 2023
• M.A., Sociology, Washington State University, 2018
• B.A., Sociology and American Studies, Eckerd College, 2015

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

Areas of Expertise:

• Horror and Monstrosity in Latin American Film
• Monstrosity in Early Modern and Colonial Hispanic Literature and Culture 
• Cultural Criminology and Critical Theory 
• Law and State of Exception in Colombia
• Spanish for the professions

Education:

• Ph.D., Hispanic Studies / Spanish, University of Florida, 2016
• M.A., Spanish, University of Florida, 2016
• LL.M., Administrative Law, Universidad Santiago de Cali (Cali, Colombia), 2006
• Lawyer, (L.L.B, five years program) St. Bonaventure University (Colombia), 2001

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