Meet the new faculty of 2023

Research and teaching interests:
French language and culture; linguistics, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition; teaching texts and technology

Name of most recent institution or company/industry:
Washington State University

Education and training:
PhD, French linguistics, Indiana University; Licence, linguistics, Université de Rouen; MA and BA, French, University of Wyoming

Outside of work, I enjoy playing baseball/softball, video games, hiking, and helping my young children discover the world.

Email: mark.black@wsu.edu

Research and teaching interests:
Latin American history; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; transnational history; history of education and science

Previous post:
University of Maryland, College Park

Education and training:
PhD, history, University of Maryland, College Park

Honors and achievements:
Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) Dissertation Prize honorable mention; Dr. Mabel S. Spencer Award for Excellence in Graduate Achievement, University of Maryland; Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award, Latin American Studies Center & Honors Humanities, University of Maryland

Outside of work, I enjoy organizing events and communities, spending time with friends and family, gardening, hiking, and playing video games.

Email: sabrina.gonzalez1@wsu.edu

Research and teaching interests:
Writing compositions for various combinations of acoustic instruments ranging from solo instruments to full orchestra; coalescing polar opposite ideas: the traditional with the experimental, the past with the future, and as of late, Eastern and Western traits. 

Previous post:
Oberlin Conservatory

Education and training:
DMA, composition, Cornell University; MM, composition, Indiana University; BM, composition, Yonsei University

Honors and Achievements:
Consortium Commission from American Composers Orchestra, Alabama Symphony, American Youth Symphony; ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award; League of Composers winner, International Society for Contemporary Composers

Outside of work, I enjoy running, reading books, taking photos of my cats, and playing video games!

Email: jihyun.kim1@wsu.edu

Research and teaching interests:
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century global anglophone literature; environmental humanities; queer and trans ecologies; studies of empire and settler colonialism; Caribbean studies; postcolonial studies of diaspora and the Global South; queer/trans and feminist theory; gender and sexuality studies; film studies

Previous post:
University of Nevada, Reno

Education and training:
PhD, English, emphasis in feminist theory & research, University of California, Davis; MFA, creative writing, Mills College; BA, anthropology and English, University of Denver

Honors and Achievements:
Dissertation writing fellowship and marine laboratory fellowship, Bilinski Educational Foundation; Author, “Organ/ic Gender and Trans*-Planted Selves in Manjula Padmanabhan’s The Island Of Lost Girls And Harvest,” in Transgender Science Fiction and “Cultivating Colonial Sexualities: Queer Extinction in Anglo-Persia, the Qajar Dynasty to Post-Revolutionary Iran” in Routledge Companion to Global Victorian Literature and Culture (both forthcoming)

Outside of work, I enjoy competitive Muay Thai kickboxing and I enjoy vinyasa yoga. I have two cats: Bippity and Citrus. My favorite ecosystems are coastal wetlands and the intertidal. My favorite marine invertebrates are helmet urchins and sand dollars. My favorite geological material is chalk.

Email: m.a.miller@wsu.edu

Research and teaching interests:
Interdisciplinary graphic design, branding design, and storytelling

Previous post:
Washington State University

Education and training:
MFA, Washington State University; BFA, illustration, Parsons/The New School.

Email: seoryung.park@wsu.edu

Research and teaching interests:
Asian American studies, environmental studies, and the history of medicine and science; weaving these disparate fields together to strengthen interdisciplinary conversations that span both the humanities and the sciences

Previous post:
Soka University of America

Education and training:
PhD, history, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; MA, Asian American studies, University of California, Los Angeles; BA, history and political science, La Sierra University

Honors and Achievements:
Author, Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950 (University of Chicago Press). Honors include longlist for the ICAS Book Prize (Humanities) and honorable mention for the Frederick Jackson Turner Award at the International Convention of Asia Scholars

Outside of work, I enjoy hiking, biking, reading non-academic books, testing vegan/vegetarian recipes, and practicing Japanese. If you want to talk about bugs and Asian plant immigrants, I am your person.

Email: jeannie.shinozuka@wsu.edu

Research and teaching interests:
Marching band design and program coordination; effective pedagogical techniques for wind bands; aural listening hierarchy in music educational training; student leadership and development

Previous post:
Purdue University

Education and training:
DMA, University of Kentucky; MM, Stephen F. Austin State University; BS, music and education, Abilene Christian University

Honors and achievements:
Adjudicator, Marching Band Championships, State of Kentucky; marching band designer for many universities and high schools throughout the country

Outside of work, I enjoy Lego, golf, reading, and a good cup of coffee.

Email: jonathan.sweet@wsu.edu

Research and teaching interests:
Latin American and U.S. Latinx/e literature and cultural production, with a focus on Jewish life and culture; multilingualism and Jewish languages, Yiddish and Ladino; diaspora and immigration, and their intersections with race, class, gender, sexuality, culture; transnational cultural flows and production

Previous post:
Washington State University

Education and training:
PhD and MA, comparative literature, University of Texas, Austin; MA, Latin American studies, New York University; BA, English literature, Seattle University

Outside of work, I enjoy reading, cooking, watching films and TV shows, getting to know the Palouse, becoming more involved in my community, and spending time with my kiddo, Lucy (3).

Email: raelene.wyse@wsu.edu

Research and teaching interests:
Systematic botany: the evolutionary relationships among plants, particularly polyploidy as a mode of evolution; also teaching science to students who may not be going on to pursue scientific careers

Previous post:
Washington State University/Spokane Falls Community College

Education and training:
PhD, systematic botany, and BA, English and secondary teaching certification, Washington State University

Outside of work, I enjoy volunteering with the Whitman County Extension in 4-H; volunteering at the Palouse Empire Fair; quilting; playing with my sheep, chickens, rabbits and cats; cooking for anyone who shows up at my house! Also just completed homeschooling my kiddos.

Email: lcook@wsu.edu

Research and teaching interests:
Material response at extreme conditions, including multiphase equations-of-state, phase transitions and kinetics, and understanding material strength; real-time, novel diagnostics (X-ray diffraction, temperature, density, and stress) that can access length scales from the microscopic to the continuum on relevant time scales.

Previous post:
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Education and training:
PhD, physics, Washington State University; BA, physics, Knox College

Honors and Achievements:
Los Alamos Laboratory Fellows’ Prize; Fellow of the American Physical Society; chair, APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter

Outside of work, I enjoy reading, traveling, cooking, and spending time with family and friends.

Email: bjjensen@wsu.edu

Research and teaching interests:
Mathematics education focusing on teacher preparation; PCK and MKT in teacher preparation; and history of mathematics. 
my teaching spans mathematics education, methods, and high-level undergraduate courses.

Previous post:
University of New Mexico

Education and training:
PhD, teaching, learning, and teacher education, and MS, mathematics, University of New Mexico; BA, mathematics and general education, Lakeland University

Honors and Achievements:
Twice named as Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University of New Mexico

Outside of work, I enjoy staying with family and seeing new places.

Email: peterson.moyo@wsu.edu

Research and teaching interests:
Theoretical condensed-matter and atomic-molecular-optical physics, with interests in superconductivity, superfluidity, Bose-Einstein condensation, and fundamental quantum mechanics.; teaching spans introductory physics with labs, advance labs, and quantum physics.

Previous post:
University of Texas, Dallas

Education and training:
PhD, physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Outside of work, I enjoy hiking in mountains.

Email: kuei.sun@wsu.edu

Research and teaching interests:
Best practices for teaching mathematics, especially for underserved populations; teacher learning with an emphasis on teachers’ learning on the job.

Previous post:
Southern Methodist University

Education and training:
PhD, mathematics education, and MEd, curriculum and instructional leadership, Vanderbilt University; MA, mathematics, University of Washington; BS, mathematics and computer science, Santa Clara University

Honors and achievements:
Early Career Publication Award, American Education Research Association SIG-RME; current co-PI on two NSF-funded grants: “Validation of the Equity and Access Rubrics for Mathematics Instruction” and “Supporting School Administrators in Leading Towards Racially Just and Ambitious Mathematics Instruction” and on another funded by the McDonnell Foundation: “Understanding How Elementary Teachers Take Up Discussion Practices to Promote Disciplinary Learning and Equity”

Outside of work, I enjoy being active with my family. My husband and I have 2 children (ages 6 and 8). My favorite activities include walking, biking, playing basketball, and baking.

Email: anne.wilhelm@wsu.edu

Research and teaching interests:
Collaboration and asset-based community development to improve the lives and wellbeing of communities; organizational collaboration and collaborative philanthropy with an emphasis on veteran-serving networks, food systems, and community development, teaches includes courses on collaboration, community development, nonprofit management, and fund development. 

Previous post:
Syracuse University

Education and training:
PhD, management, University of Arizona

Honors and achievements:
Co-convener of “Minnowbrook at 50” event; member of the board of directors for the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action and the University Network for Collaborative Governance; co-founder of the Indy Food Council

Email: julia.carboni@wsu.edu

Research and teaching interests:
The incorporation pathways and educational experiences of Latino/a families; employing qualitative methods to examine how Latino/a families navigate punitive immigration laws and policies and a restrictive socio-political climate.

Previous post:
Stony Brook University

Education and training:
PhD and MA, sociology, University of California, Irvine; BA, sociology, Washington State University

Honors and achievements:
Linda Burton Award, American Sociological Association Family Section; Early Career Fellow, Center for College to Workforce Transitions, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Cristina Maria Riegos Distinguished Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association Latino/a Section

Email: vanessa.delgado@wsu.edu

Research and teaching interests:
Pueblo archaeology; gender; power; social identity; depositional processes; assemblages; museum representation; collaborative practice; ethics; indigenous ontologies; history of archaeology; archival research

Previous post:
University of Colorado Boulder

Education and training:
PhD and MA, anthropology, University of Arizona; BA, anthropology and archaeology, University of Virginia

Honors and achievements:
Seed grant, Research & Innovation Office, University of Colorado, Boulder; Museums for American grant, Institute of Museum and Library Services; Lead author, “Trash Reconsidered: A Relational Approach to Deposition in the Pueblo Southwest” in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Outside of work, I enjoy family time with my husband and young daughter, baking, hiking, and running.

Email: samantha.fladd@wsu.edu

Research and teaching interests:
Global social, environmental, economic, and political change; how world culture shapes nation-states, societies, and individuals; how economic globalization such as foreign direct investment, trade, and foreign credit impact the environment, social welfare, and demographic outcomes; quantitative methodological approaches; analyzing country-level data

Previous post:
San Jose State University

Education and training:
PhD, University of California, Irvine; BA, University of California, Los Angeles

Honors and achievements:
Publications in the International Journal Of Comparative Sociology and Sociological Forum.

Outside of work, I enjoy lifting weights, video games, shopping, and enjoying time with my wife.

Email: steven.mejia@wsu.edu

Research and teaching interests:
Indigenous sociology and Indigenous law

Previous post:
University of Toronto, Mississauga

Education and training:
PhD and MA, sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz; BA, sociology and women’s & gender studies, Eastern Washington University; AA, ethnic studies, Yakima Valley Community College

Honors and achievements:
“Unsettling the Spectacle of Settler Sovereignty: Democracy and Indigenous Justice” in Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies, New York University Press; Black, Indigenous, and Racialized Scholar Grant, University of Toronto, Mississauga

Outside of work, I am also a language warrior with the Syilx Language House.

Email: yvonne.sherwood@wsu.edu