Diane Lacen, Visiting Lecturer III, Individual, Family, & Community Education (IFCE)
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Madelyn Finucane, Visiting Assistant Professor, Law School
Name:Dr. Madelyn Finucane Title:Visiting Assistant Professor Department:Law School Describe your research in about 200 words.Madelyn’s work focuses on residential housing: eviction, foreclosure, and other aspects of real estate. She is particularly interested in the procedures maintained by low-level courts and the experience of pro se litigants. What’s the most interesting thing you have learned from a student?There is more […] Read More
Dr. Amelia Black, Lecturer II, Linguistics
Name:Dr. Amelia Black Title:Lecturer II Department:Linguistics Describe your research in about 200 words.My research interest focuses on sustaining the Diné language as well as Diné cultural knowledge of k’é (kinship). I rely on ancestral Diné knowledges that are embedded in the Diné language to guide me. In particular, I use k’é (kinship), a concept that is essential and […] Read More
Dr. Sarah K. Dreier, Assistant Professor, Political Science
Name: Dr. Sarah K. Dreier Title: Assistant Professor Department: Political Science Describe your research in about 200 words. Sarah K. Dreier is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Mexico. Her research interests include comparative politics, human rights and state oppression, gender, religion, and integrating […] Read More
Dr. Mary Gilbreth, Visiting Lecturer III, TEELP College of Education
Name: Dr. Mary Gilbreth Title: Visiting Lecturer III Department: TEELP College of Education Describe your research in about 200 words. As an educational professional for over 48 years, I have seen an evolution in the school system. When teaching at the University of New Mexico in the College of Education, I was […] Read More
Dr. Ranita Ray, Associate Professor and Maxine Baca-Zinn Endowed Professor
Name: Dr. Ranita Ray Title: Associate Professor and Maxine Baca-Zinn Endowed Professor Department: Sociology Describe your research in about 200 words. I am interested in how racially and economically oppressed children and youth navigate schooling and labor systems, and how racial and gender violence, racial capitalism, and academic and public discourses impact […] Read More
Dr. Yuting Yang, Assistant Professor, Economics
Name: Dr. Yuting Yang Title: Assistant Professor Department: Economics Describe your research in about 200 words. My primary research interest lies in the evaluation of environmental regulations and public policies related to climate change. Specifically, I study the effectiveness of energy transition policies, the design of electricity tariffs with growing renewables, the […] Read More
Dr. Noory Etezady, Visiting Assistant Professor, Marketing, Information Systems, Information Assurance, and Operations (MIDS)
Name: Dr. Noory Etezady Title: Visiting Assistant Professor Department: Marketing, Information Systems, Information Assurance, and Operations (MIDS) Describe your research in about 200 words. Cyber physical systems are described as smart systems that are comprised of engineered networks of physical and computational components that interact with each other. Examples of cyber […] Read More
Lidón Patiño Berjas, Lecturer II in Flamenco
Name: Lidón Patiño Berjas Title: Lecturer II in Flamenco Department: Theatre and Dance Describe your research in about 200 words. My research is focused on transmitting what Flamenco in particular and dance in general have done in my life and in the people and artists I know. One of my great objectives […] Read More
Dr. Georgiann Davis, Associate Professor, Sociology
Name: Dr. Georgiann Davis Title: Associate Professor Department: Sociology Describe your research in about 200 words. My intellectual passion is nestled around the social construction of medical knowledge, specifically how diagnoses are defined and experienced through a gendered framework by medical professionals, patients, and their families. Given such, my research is centered […] Read More