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NEW FACULTY

Yoshitaka Iwasaki Shaun Fletcher
Department Chair Assistant Professor

Department of School of Journalism and
Health Science and Recreation Mass Communications
Research Interests: Research Interests:
Community-engaged research and education, Diversity problems within the tech industry,
knowledge mobilization, and capacity- health communication among underserved/
building through addressing social justice underrepresented communities, political
issues which include poverty, empowerment discourse and rhetoric of social protest.
and mental health.

Vicky Gomez Nisha Garud
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor

Department of School of Journalism and
Health Science and Recreation Mass Communications
Research Interests: Research Interests:
Community-developed digital storytelling Interaction between digital content and
intervention for increasing colorectal cancer new media technologies, communication
screening intention among Latinos. mediated via social media and its influence
on political and social factors and
relationships between different entities such
Deborah Hicks as global events that are still evolving and are
Assistant Professor likely to influence international relations.

School of Information
Research Interests: Ted Hayduk
Professional identity of information Assistant Professor
professionals and how this informs the work
they do, the organizations they run, and the Department of Kinesiology
relationships and communities they build. Research Interests:
Entrepreneurship, innovation, technology
adoption and analytics.
Michele Villagran
Assistant Professor
Alex Feng
School of Information Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Cultural intelligence, diversity, inclusion, Department of Nutrition,
community and equity, serving disabled Food Science and Packaging
populations, serving multicultural Research Interests:
populations, social justice in library and Food chemistry, with emphasis on functional
information science, implicit bias and food, food flavors, food processing
microaggressions, and faculty of color. technologies and preservation.

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