Faculty

Name: Karsten Creightney Title: Assistant Professor Department: Art, Printmaking Describe your research in about 200 words. Karsten Creightney grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received his BA from Antioch College, 2000. He completed the Tamarind Institute’s Professional Printer Training Program in 2001, and received his MFA from UNM, 2011. Creightney works in multiple media […] Read More

Name: Llewelynn Fletcher Title: Assistant Professor Department: Art, Sculpture Describe your research in about 200 words.   Llewelynn Fletcher’s work addresses the body as a material space of reflection and transformational potential. Collaboration is an element of her overall practice which manifests as projects made with other artists and objects that require the viewer’s participation. […] Read More

Name: Dr. Gigi Schroeder Yu Title: Assistant Professor Department: Art, Art Education Describe your research in about 200 words. Gigi Schroeder Yu, PhD is an assistant professor in art education in the art department at the University of New Mexico.  She has also previously taught at Millikin University and DePaul University. Yu has over 20 […] Read More

Name: Dr. John Phillip Abbott Title: Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing Department: Art Describe your research in about 200 words. My research is grounded in painting and drawing. I am currently making diaristic, text-based paintings. The words in the paintings come from memories and personal experiences. For example, a painting might reference my first car […] Read More

Name: Dr. Brian Gold   Title: Assistant Professor   Department: Chemistry & Chemical Biology   Describe your research in about 200 words. We specialize in physical bioorganic chemistry—working to understand the fundamental principles underlying bioorganic structure and reactivity. Combining computational and experimental techniques, we aim to develop highly specific transformations, displaying unprecedented levels of control […] Read More

Name: Dr. Maaman Rezaee   Title: Assistant Professor   Department: Film & Digital Arts   Describe your research in about 200 words. I’m an award-winning filmmaker whose work focuses on issues of exile, geopolitics and transcultural dynamics. I have made a number of films (in experimental and narrative forms) that have screened nationally, internationally and […] Read More

Name: Dr. Cristina Bailey   Title: Assistant Professor   Department: Accounting   Describe your research in about 200 words. My research examines the impact of human capital deployment for corporate enterprise risk management and internal controls.   What’s the most interesting thing you have learned from a student?

Name: Dr. Marc-Tizoc González   Title: Professor of Law   Department: School of Law  Describe your research in about 200 words. Affiliated with Latina & Latino Critical Legal (LatCrit) Theory, Professor González studies how constitutional jurisprudence, civil rights statutes, and property law affect people who are hungry, impoverished, or otherwise socially marginalized, as well as […] Read More

Name: Dr. Xi Gong Title: Assistant Professor Department: Geography and Environmental Studies Describe your research in about 200 words. His research interests include: Geographic Information Science, Big Data Science and Analytics, Spatio-Temporal Data Mining, Health and the Environment, GIS-Based Modeling, etc. His current research focuses on Geospatial Data Science, which is an emerging interdisciplinary field […] Read More

Name: Dr. Mohammad Yousuf Title: Assistant Professor Department: Communication & Journalism Describe your research in about 200 words. My research interests include big data, online media engagement, strategic management of online media, journalistic use of social media, and media ethics. My research was published or is accepted for publication in prestigious journals including Journalism & Mass […] Read More

Name: Dr. Sarah R Hernandez Title: Assistant Professor of Native American Literature Department: English Describe your research in about 200 words. My research focuses on contemporary Native American literature, with an emphasis on Oceti Ŝakowiŋ literatures. As a scholar, my goal is to bridge the gap between research and practice by ensuring that my scholarship is […] Read More

  Name: Dr. Catherine R. Rhodes Title: Assistant Professor Department: Anthropology Describe your research in about 200 words. My research interests include linguistic relativity; language diversity and cognition; epistemologies-ontologies; models of personhood; language ideologies; modernity; scale; and social identification, including around the constructs of Indigeneity and ethnicity. I conduct ethnographic research on the relationship between […] Read More

  Name: Dr. Carlos Nye Title: Assistant Professor Department: Speech & Hearing Sciences Describe your research in about 200 words. I research how to best treat bilingual children with speech sound disorders. Additionally, I am interested in how to train graduate and undergraduate students to be prepared to work with culturally and linguistically diverse populations. […] Read More

Name: Dr. Paulo Dutra Title: Assistant Professor Department: Spanish and Portuguese Describe your research in about 200 words. I specialize in the intersections of race and artistic and cultural production in Luso-Brazilian/Latin-American context. I am interested in developing independent approaches to literary and cultural production, hence presenting alternatives to mainstream practices, in order to promote a […] Read More

Name: Dr. Joshua Shapero Title: Assistant Professor Department: Anthropology Describe your research in about 200 words. Are the diverse ways that humans approach with the “natural” world a consequence of cultural differences, or is it the other way around? As this question takes on new significance in the face of ecological crisis, my research aims […] Read More

Name: Dr. Shuya Wei Title: Assistant Professor Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering Describe your research in about 200 words. My research interests are understanding the fundamentals of electrochemical processes in electrodes and at electrode/electrolyte interfaces, and on that basis developing next generation high-energy batteries for energy and environment applications. My research also focuses on nanocomposites […] Read More

  Name: Dr. Brianna Figueroa Title: Assistant Professor Department: Theatre and Dance Describe your research in about 200 words.  I am a dance maker whose practice informs my work as a dance historian and theorist. My research advocates for the presence and proliferation of Latinx contemporary choreographers living and working across the United States. I concentrate […] Read More

  Name: Dr. Nahir I. Otaño Gracia Title: Assistant Professor Department: English Describe your research in about 200 words. My theoretical frameworks include Medieval English literature and culture, translation theory and practice, the global North Atlantic, and critical identity studies. I have published a number of articles on Arthurian literature written in Old Castilian, Catalan, and […] Read More

  Name: Dr. Sergio Ascencio Title: Assistant Professor Department: Political Science Describe your research in about 200 words. My research interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics and political economy. More specifically, I am interested in political institutions, electoral competition, and party strategy in developing democracies, with a focus on Latin America. My main […] Read More

  Name: Dr. Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine Title: Assistant Professor Department: Physics and Astronomy Describe your research in about 200 words. Prof. Cyr-Racine’s research brings together a unique mix of particle physics, cosmology, and astronomy to determine the properties of the mysterious dark matter permeating our Universe. He is particularly interested in how the microphysics of dark matter affects structure formation on a […] Read More

  Name: Dr. Jessica Carey-Webb Title: Assistant Professor Department: Spanish and Portuguese Describe your research in about 200 words. I specialize in Amazonian cultural studies and my book project examines the historical development of the Amazon during the rubber boom with an ecocritical and transnational lens. I am interested in using humanities training as a […] Read More

  Name: Dr. Tameem Albash Title: Assistant Professor Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Describe your research in about 200 words. My present research interests are on understanding how and whether quantum advantages may manifest themselves in near-term quantum information processing hardware. While quantum algorithms are known to provide computational speedups over their classical counterparts, current […] Read More