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Name: Peter H. Antoniou
Title: Instructor
Dept: Business Administration 
Areas of Expertise: Strategic management, international business, specialization in China since 1989. Principal of Pomegranate International, a firm involved in international venturing, educational programs and consulting activities and one of the founders of the Ansoff Institute. Published 20 books.
Office Phone: 310-954-4151
Email: pantoniou@msmc.la.edu 
 

Name: Margaret Avila
Title: Assistant Professor
Dept: Nursing
Areas of Expertise: public health nursing; community health nursing; nursing management; women's health: menopause and gynecology; gerontology nursing
Office Phone: 213.477.2630
Email: mavila@msmc.la.edu

Name: Matthew Brosamer
Title: Associate Professor
Dept: English
Areas of Expertise: medieval and renaissance literature and society; cultural studies (esp. consumer culture and food-related studies); religion/Catholicism; science fiction and Tolkien.
Office Phone: 310.954.4240
Email: mbrosamer@msmc.la.edu

Name: Katherine Brueck
Title: Professor
Dept: English
Areas of Expertise: truth; Christian Platonism; integrating the spiritual dimensions of world religions with literary criticism
Office Phone: 310.954.4282
Email: kbrueck@msmc.la.edu

Name: J. Scott Bryson
Title: Professor
Dept: English
Areas of Expertise: 20th century U.S. literature; multicultural and environmental literature; Los Angeles literature; sports literature
Office Phone: 310.954.4284
Email: sbryson@msmc.la.edu

Name: Charles L. Bunce
Title: Lecturer
Dept:s: Sociology; Film and Social Justice
Areas of Expertise: cultural anthropology; culture, music, and broadcasting; Disney Inc. and popular culture; sociology of religion
Office Phone: 310.954.4212
Email: cbunce@msmc.la.edu

Name: Helen Boutrous
Title: Chair; Assistant Professor; Pre-law Advisor; Mock Trial Coach
Dept: History and Political Science
Areas of Expertise: presidential influence on regulatory policy; California government; Supreme Court nominees; the role of courts and interest groups in the development of public policy and social change; the shifting roles of federal, state and local governments in the development of public policy
Office Phone: 310.954.4207
Email: hboutrous@msmc.la.edu

Name: Tori Canillas-Dufau
Title: Associate Professor
Dept: Nursing
Areas of Expertise: nursing education, medical-surgical nursing; pharmacology
Office Phone: 213.477.2723
Email: tcanillasdu@msmc.la.edu

Name: Deniz Cizmeciyan-Papazyan
Title: Professor
Dept: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Areas of Expertise: physical chemistry and nuclear magnetic resonance
Office Phone: 310.954.4107
Email: dcizmeciyan@msmc.la.edu

Name: Jennifer Chotiner
Title: Associate Professor
Dept: Biological Sciences
Areas of Expertise: learning and memory, including spinal cord injuries; general nervous system function; neurodegenerative disorders: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, epilepsy, and dementia; mental health disorders; women in science
Office Phone: 310.954.4184
Email: jchotiner@msmc.la.edu

Name: Deborah Diaz
Title: Assistant Professor
Dept: Physical Therapy
Areas of Expertise: physical therapy; spinal cord injury rehabilitation; the coping of caregivers of people with spinal cord injuries; psychological coping and adjustment related to health; aging, balance, and falls. Director of the California Physical Therapy Association -- Research Special Interest Group (2009).
Office Phone: 213.477.2986
Email: ddiaz@msmc.la.edu

Name: Julie Feldman-Abe
Title: Director of Elementary Teacher Preparation Program and the College's Center for Cultural Fluency
Dept: Education
Areas of Expertise: Intercultural learning process of educators working with diverse youth; intercultural communication consultant in educational and corporate settings.
Office Phone: 213.477.2625; 213.477.2533
Email: jabe@msmc.la.edu

Name: Eugene Frick
Title: Associate Professor
Dept: Religious Studies
Areas of Expertise: Elected member of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies at the University of Hawaii's East-West Center.
Office Phone: 310.954.4167
Email: efrick@msmc.la.edu

Name: Laurie Wright Garry
Title: Assistant Professor
Dept: Religious Studies
Areas of Expertise: systematic theology
Office Phone: 310.954.4067; 213.477.2717
Email: lgarry@msmc.la.edu

Name: Pam Gist
Title: Associate Professor
Dept: Psychology
Areas of Expertise: causes and effects of stereotypes, biases, discrimination, and prejudice (racism, sexism, homophobia/heterosexism, ageism)
Office Phone: 310.954.4160; 213.477.2658
Email: pgist@msmc.la.edu

Name: Robin Gordon
Title: Director of Secondary Education
Dept.: Education
Areas of Expertise: Secondary education, adolescent psychology, teacher education in general.
Office Phone: 213.477.2624
Email: rgordon@msmc.la.edu

Name: Keith Gosselin
Title: Instructor
Dept.: Business Administration
Areas of Expertise: Marketing, Internet marketing, consulting, advertising, sales, market research.
Office Phone: 310.954.4162
Email: kgosselin@msmc.la.edu

Name: Paul Green
Title: Associate Professor
Dept: Philosophy
Areas of Expertise: morality of manners; etiquette; politeness; philosophy of technology
Office Phone: 310.954.4291
Email: pgreen@msmc.la.edu

Name: Rev. Guillermo C. Garcia, CJ
Titles: Lecturer
Dept: Religious Studies
Areas of Expertise: systematic theology, church history, and Hispanic ministry
Office Phone: 213.477.2641
Email: ggarcia@msmc.la.edu

Name: Pam Haldeman
Titles: Professor; Director, Film and Social Justice
Dept: Sociology, Social Work and Gerontology
Areas of Expertise: educating students for lifelong activism in global affairs; film and social justice/social issues
Office Phone: 310.954.4366
Email: phaldeman@msmc.la.edu

Name: Sande Harte
Title: Chair, Professor
Dept: Sociology, Social Work and Gerontology
Areas of Expertise: family; social deviance; violence; race; poverty; social stratification; urban criminology.
Office Phone: 310.954.4365
Email: sharte@msmc.la.edu

Name: Sister Darlene Kawulok, CSJ
Title: Chair, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Religious Studies
Dept: Religious Studies
Areas of Expertise: Catholic Church; compassion; sacramental theology; liturgy and feminist theology; social ethics and the Catholic peace and justice tradition
Office Phone: 213.477.2677 or 310.954.4166
Email: dkawulok@msmc.la.edu

Name: Michele Lewis
Title: Director, Learning Assistance Programs/ISAE (TRIO SSS)
Dept: Institute for Student Academic Enrichment
Areas of Expertise: Federal TRIO (Title IV) Student Support Services programs, student disability services
Office Phone: 310.954.4141
Email: mlewis@msmc.la.edu

Name: Eileen McArow
Title: Associate Professor
Dept: Nursing
Areas of Expertise: gerontology: theory and clinical
Office Phone: 310.954.4232
Email: emcarow@msmc.la.edu

Name: Michelle Melendres
Title: Instructor
Dept: Sociology, gerontology, social work
Areas of Expertise: gerontology, gerontological social work, Asian/Pacific Islander culture
Office Phone: 310.954.4206
Email: mmelendres@msmc.la.edu

Name: Patricia Melnick
Title: Junior Level Coordinator, traditional BSN program
Dept: Nursing
Areas of Expertise: care of the childbearing family
Office Phone: 310.954.1784
Email: pmelnick@msmc.la.edu

Name: Linda Moody
Title: Graduate Dean
Dept: Graduate Division
Areas of Expertise: Protestant theology; women in religion; feminist theology; women’s hymnology.
Office Phone: 213.477.2560
Email: lmoody@msmc.la.edu

Name: Fr. George O’Brien
Title: Chair, Associate Professor
Dept: English
Areas of Expertise: the role of mythology in society, literature, and religion
Office Phone: 310.954.4281
Email: gobrien@msmc.la.edu

Name: Nancy Pine
Title: Director, Bridging Cultures: US /China Program
Dept: Education
Areas of Expertise: Chinese education; cultural mismatches between China and the West
Office Phone: 626.797.5916
Email: npine@msmc.la.edu|

Name: Montserrat Reguant
Title: Professor
Dept: Languages and Culture
Areas of Expertise: nationalism and building communities through literature
Office Phone: 310.954.4240
Email: mreguant@msmc.la.edu

Name: Merrill Rodin
Title: Dean
Dept: Weekend College
Areas of expertise: non-traditional college students; adult learners; degree-completion programs for adults
Office Phone: 213.477.2861
Email: mrodin@msmc.la.edu

Name: Joanna "Jo" Rowan
Title: Assistant director/assistant professor traditional BSN program
Dept.: Nursing 
Areas of expertise: critical care nursing, nursing education and leadership.
Office phone: 310-954-4243
Email: jrowan@msmc.la.edu

Name: Susan Salem
Title: Director, Counseling and Psychological Services
Dept: Psychology
Areas of expertise: women and stress
Office Phone: 310.954.4112
Email: ssalem@msmc.la.edu

Name: Dennis Signorovitch
Title: Lecturer
Dept.: Business Administration
Areas of Expertise: corporate and executive communications; corporate advertising; employee communications
Office phone: 310.203.8655
Email: signorovitch@aol.com

Name: Michele Starkey
Title: Assistant Professor
Dept: Physical Science and Mathematics
Areas of Expertise: mathematical problem-solving, mathematics self-efficacy, assessing student learning outcomes, quantitative literacy for students
Office Phone: 310.954.4103
Email: mstarkey@msmc.la.edu

Name: Elizabeth M. Sturgeon
Title: Associate Professor
Department: English
Areas of Expertise: Early Modern Historiography; History of the Book; Shakespeare; the ghostly voice in print; writing and reading about current controversies across the curriculum; free speech and censorship in literature and life; prison writing; multicultural immigrant literature
Office Phone: 213-477-2731
Email: esturgeon@msmc.la.edu

Name: Wanda Teays
Title: Chair, Professor
Dept: Philosophy
Areas of Expertise: Ethics Through Movies, Philosophy of Film, Philosophical themes in Popular Culture (e.g., male/female heroes, authenticity vs. inauthenticity, good v evil, parallel worlds, cyborgs and other "persons"), Biomedical Ethics, Contemporary Moral Problems (e.g., patenting life forms, global issues in human rights, violence, torture, indefinite detention--"war ethics"), Critical Thinking, Teaching Logic & Critical Thinking skills (K- college), innovative teaching techniques, hybrid learning, and incorporating technology into the classroom.
Office Phone: 310-954-4290
Email: wteays@msmc.la.edu

Name: Marcos M. Villatoro
Title: Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of Writing
Dept: English
Areas of Expertise: novelist, poet
Office Phone: 310.954.4241
Email: mvillatoro@msmc.la.edu

Name: Katherine Whitman
Title: Associate Professor
Dept: Business Administration
Areas of Expertise: the economy of China and how China relates to the United States; international marketing and economics
Office Phone: 310.954.4152
Email: kwhitman@msmc.la.edu