Luisa Blanco is an Affiliated Research Scholar in the St. Mary’s University, Economics Department. Her role supports the University’s National Science Foundation Diabetes research grant under the direction of Belinda Román, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics.  Blanco is also a scholar at UCLA Resource Center for Minority Aging Research-Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly (RCMAR-CHIME), a 91ߣ����Ƶing Senior Scholar at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank (2017-2018), an Adjunct Researcher at RAND Corporation, and a Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College at Oxford.

Blanco’s funded research projects focus on financial behavior and financial planning for retirement among minorities in the United States. She conducted a community-based randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of an educational intervention on retirement saving among Hispanics in the Los Angeles area. Blanco also leads the mobile money diary project, which collects data about financial behavior and health among Hispanics in California.

Jason King, Ph.D., is the Beirne Chair and Director of the Center for Catholic Studies at St. Mary’s University.�� He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. As an undergraduate student, he majored in Mathematics and Philosophy and graduated from Berea College in Kentucky.

King has published extensively, including several books. Most recently, he co-authored a book titled, The Green Mister Rogers: Environmentalism in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (University Press of Mississippi) and co-edited the book Love, Sex, and Families: Catholic Perspectives (Liturgical Press) which won the 2021 Association of Catholic Publishers first place award in theology and the 2021 Catholic Media Association Award first place award in marriage and family living.�� In 2017, he published Faith with Benefits:��Hookup Culture on Catholic Campuses��(Oxford University Press), and in 2016, he received the Catholic Press’ third place award in gender issues for his God Has Begun a Great Work in Us (Orbis).

King has received several honors for teaching, including the Thoburn Teaching Award at Saint Vincent College and the San Damiano Service Learning Award from Lourdes University. He was a Faculty Fellow at the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media. He has served on boards and committees for the Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, College Theology Society, Society of Christian Ethics, as well as New Wine, New Wineskins.�� He currently serves as Editor Emeritus for the Journal of Moral Theology.

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1994
M.S., Vanderbilt University, 1989
B.S., Texas Tech University, 1983

Introduction to Engineering
Circuits and Systems
Circuits and Systems Lab
Programming for Engineers
Senior Design I & II
Electronics I
Electronics I Lab

Instrumentation and signal processing
Real-time and high-performance computing
Model-based systems and machine learning
Cyber physical systems

Ben Abbott, Ph.D., is an Instructor of Electrical Engineering at St. Mary’s University. He received his B.S. in Computer Science with an Electrical Engineering emphasis from Texas Tech University in 1983. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1989 and 1994, respectively.

Prior to joining St. Mary’s in August 2019, Abbott was an Institute Engineer at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). During his 20 years at SwRI, he rose to the position of Institute Engineer, the highest technical level. In that capacity, he provided expert consultation services for the Institute’s programs and tackled highly specialized problems on behalf of clients. He worked with senior Institute and division staff to plan future technology needs and to lead the development of new programs in his areas of expertise. He also served as a member of SwRI’s Advisory Committee for Research.

Abbott holds nine patents, is a two-time winner of R&D 100 awards and has more than 80 published book, journal and conference papers.

Willden, G., Abbott, B., Green R.: “Wireless Sensing Technology” Chapter 89 in Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition: Spatial, Mechanical, Thermal, and Radiation Measurement, Webster & H. Eren (editors), CRC Press, January 2014.

Abbott, et.al.: “Model-Based Software Synthesis”, IEEE Software, pp. 42-52, May 1993.

Ledeczi, B. Abbott, et.al.: “Parallel DSP System Integration”, Microprocessors & Microsystems, Vol. 17, No. 8, pp. 460-470, 1993.

Cripps, B. Abbott, “The Use of Capacitance to Detect Icing,” Journal of Weather Modification. Vol. 29. 1997.

Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2011
M.S., University of Ibadan (Nigeria), 2003
B.S., University of Ibadan (Nigeria), 2000

Pius Adelani, Ph.D., received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. He obtained his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Notre Dame under the direction of Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt. An innovative contribution of his graduate work was the development of a facile and high yield route to a uranium diphosphonate with a nanotubular structure. This compound represents the first highly stable functional uranyl nanotubule with exceptional ion-exchange properties toward monovalent cations.

After graduation, Adelani joined Peter Burns’ group as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Notre Dame, where he investigated uranyl peroxide and uranyl arsonate nanocages as part of the chemical quest for materials for use in advanced nuclear energy systems. He continued his research in Jeffrey Rinehart’s lab at the University of California in San Diego to work on the air-free synthesis and magnetic studies of FePt nanoparticles.

Prior to joining the St. Mary’s community as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in August 2016, Adelani was an Assistant Lecturer with the Department of Industrial Chemistry at Crawford University in Nigeria from 2005 to 2007. His current research interests remain in the areas of the structural elucidation, physico-chemical properties, and structure-property relationships in coordination polymers and nanomaterials. His long-term career goals are to (1) develop undergraduate curriculum in materials, solid state, environmental and inorganic chemistry alongside with (2) establishing a research program that would foster a hands-on learning environment where students will be trained in a variety of synthetic methods, structural analysis using X-ray diffractions, nuclear magnetic resonance, electron microscopy, magnetic measurements, and spectroscopic characterization of materials.

* Denotes honors thesis completed with undergraduate students.

*Kenya V. Medina,��Pius��O. Adelani (2022). “Synthesis of Phosphonate-Based Diimide Ligands”. St. Mary’s University Honors Theses and Projects. 12.����

*Juan Pinedo (2021). “Synthesis and Characterization of Pyridine-Based Diimide Ligands and Metal Phosphonate Coordination Polymers”. St. Mary’s University Honors Theses and Projects. 5.����

Pius O. Adelani,�� Josemaria S. Soriano, Bryan E. Galeas, Ginger E. Sigmon, Jennifer E. S. Szymanowski, Peter C. Burns, Hybrid Uranyl–Phosphonate Coordination Nanocage. Inorganic Chemistry 2019, 58(19), 12662-12668.

Pius O. Adelani, Peter C. Burns, Ginger E. Sigmon, Jennifer E. S. Szymanowski. High Nuclearity Uranyl Cages Using Rigid Aryl Phosphonate Ligands. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2019, 5052-5058. (Recognized with Cover Art Feature and Cover Profile)

Josemaria S. Soriano, Bryan E. Galeas, Paul Garrett, Ryan A. Flores, Juan L. Pinedo, Tsuyoshi A. Kohlgruber, Daniel Felton, Pius O. Adelani. In situ decarbonylation of N, N-dimethylformamide to form dimethylammonium cations in the hybrid framework compound {[(CH₃)₂NH₂]₂[Zn{O₃PC₆H₂(OH)₂PO₃}]}_n. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications 2019, 75(10), 1540-1543.

Pius O. Adelani, Aaron N Duke, Benjamin H Zhou, & Jeffrey D. Rinehart. Role of Magnetic Concentration in Modulating The Magnetic Properties of Ultra-Small FePt Nanoparticles. Inorganica Chimica Acta 2017, 460, 114-118.

Jie Ling, Franklin Hobbs, Steven Prendergast, Pius O. Adelani, Jean-Marie Babo, Jie Qiu, Zhehui Weng & Peter C. Burns. Hybrid Uranium – Transition Metal Oxide Cage Clusters. Inorganic Chemistry 2014, 53, 12877–12884.

Pius O. Adelani, Nicholas A. Martinez, Nathaniel D. Cook & Peter C. Burns. Uranyl–Organic Hybrids Designed from Hydroxyphosphonate. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2015, 340–347.

Pius O. Adelani, Nathaniel D. Cook & Peter C. Burns. Use of 2,2-Bipyrimidine for the Preparation of UO₂²⁺─3d Diphosphonates. Cryst. Growth Des. 2014, 14, 5692–5699.

Pius O. Adelani, Nathaniel D. Cook, Jean-Marie Babo & Peter C. Burns. Incorporation of Cu²⁺ Ions into Nanotubular Uranyl Diphosphonates. Inorganic Chemistry 2014, 53, 4169–4176.

Craig A. Obafemi, Pius O. Adelani, Olatomide A. Fadare, David A. Akinpelu, & Samson O. Famuyiwa. Synthesis, crystal structure and in-vitro antibacterial activity of 2,3a,8b-trihydroxy-3-(thiophen-2-ylcarbonyl)-2-(trifluoromethyl)-2,3,3a,8b-tetrahydro-4H-indeno[1,2-b]furan-4-one. Journal of Molecular Structure 2013, 1049, 429–435.

Pius O. Adelani, Michael Ozga, Christine M. Wallace, Jie Qiu, Jennifer E. S. Szymanowski, Ginger E. Sigmon & Peter C. Burns. Hybrid Uranyl-Carboxyphosphonate Cage Clusters. Inorganic Chemistry 2013, 52, 7673–7679.

Pius O. Adelani, Ginger E. Sigmon & Peter C. Burns. Hybrid Uranyl-Arsonate Coordination Nanocages. Inorganic Chemistry 2013, 52, 6245–6247 (Featured article in Chemistry Views and TOC graphic placed on the highlight module located on the IC homepage).

Pius O. Adelani, Laurent J. Jouffret, Jennifer E. S. Szymanowski & Peter C. Burns. Correlations and Differences between Uranium(VI) Arsonates and Phosphonates. Inorganic Chemistry 2012, 51, 12032–12040.

Pius O. Adelani & Peter C. Burns. One-Dimensional Uranyl-2,2′-bipyridine Coordination Polymer with Cation–Cation Interactions: (UO₂)₂(2,2′-�����)(���₃CO₂)(O)(OH). Inorganic Chemistry 2012, 51, 11177–11183.

Adebomi A. Ikotun, Pius O. Adelani & Gabriel O. Egharevba. 11-(4-Methoxyphenyl)-3,3-dimethyl-2,3,4,5,10,11-hexahydro-1H-dibenzo[b,e][1,4]-diazepin-1-one monohydrate. Acta Cryst. 2012, E68, o2098.

Olatomide A. Fadare, Pius O. Adelani, Adebomi A. Ikotun & Craig A. Obafemi. 11-(4-Methoxyphenyl)-3,3-dimethyl-2,3,4,5,10,11-hexahydro-1H-dibenzo[b,e][1,4]-diazepin-1-one monohydrate. Acta Cryst. 2012, E68, o1508-o1509.

Pius O. Adelani & Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt. Layered Uranyl Coordination Polymers Rigidly Pillared by Diphosphonates. Cryst. Growth Des. 2012, 12, 5800–5805.

Pius O. Adelani, Allen G. Oliver & Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt. Uranyl Heteropolyoxometalates: Synthesis, Structures, and Spectroscopic Properties. Inorganic Chemistry 2012, 51, 4885−4887.

Pius O. Adelani & Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt. Thorium and Uranium Diphosphonates: Syntheses, Structures, and Spectroscopic Properties. J. Solid State Chem. 2012, 192, 377–384.

Pius O. Adelani & Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt. Metal-Controlled Assembly of Uranyl Diphosphonates toward the Design of Functional Uranyl Nanotubules. Inorganic Chemistry 2011, 50, 12184-12191 (Recognized with Cover Art Feature).

Pius O. Adelani & Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt. Heterobimetallic Copper(II) Uranyl Carboxyphenylphosphonates. Cryst. Growth Des. 2011, 11, 4676–4683.

Pius O. Adelani & Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt. Syntheses of Uranyl Diphosphonate Compounds Using Encapsulated Cations as Structure Directing Agents. Cryst. Growth Des. 2011, 11, 4227-4237.

Pius O. Adelani & Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt. Pillared and Open-Framework Uranyl Diphosphonates. J. Solid State Chem. 2011, 184, 2368-2373.

Pius O. Adelani, Allen G. Oliver & Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt. Layered and Three-Dimensional Framework Cesium and Barium Uranyl Carboxyphenyl-phosphonates. Cryst. Growth Des. 2011, 11, 3072–3080.

Pius O. Adelani, Allen G. Oliver & Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt. Hydrothermal Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Organically Templated Uranyl Diphosphonate Compounds. Cryst. Growth Des. 2011, 11, 1966–1973.

Pius O. Adelani & Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt. Differential Ion Exchange in Elliptical Uranyl Diphosphonate Nanotubules. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2010, 49, 8909-8911; Angewandte Chemie 2010, 122, 9093-9095.

Pius O. Adelani, Allen G. Oliver, and Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt. “Crystal structures and physico-chemical properties of actinide carboxyphosphonates” Plutonium Futures- The Science 2010, 145-146.

Pius O. Adelani & Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt. Comparison of Thorium (IV) and Uranium (VI) Carboxyphosphonates. Inorganic Chemistry 2010, 49, 5701–5705.

Pius O. Adelani & Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt. Uranyl Diphosphonates with Pillared Structures. Inorganic Chemistry 2009, 48, 2732-2734.

Pius O. Adelani. Synthetic Pathway of 8-Hydroxyl-9, 10 Dimethoxy-anthracene-2-Aldehyde (Oruwalol). European Journal of Scientific Research 2007, 16, 44-54.

• Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, 2015
• M.S., University of Missouri-Columbia, 2011
• B.Sc., Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2008

Nazia Afrin, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at St. Mary’s University. She received her B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2008. She obtained her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2011 and 2015, respectively.

Prior to joining St. Mary’s  in August 2018, Afrin was a research specialist at the University of Missouri-Columbia where she analyzed computational optimization in multiphase systems and performed uncertainty quantification in thermo fluid science. She was research assistant at a multiscale thermal transport laboratory from 2009 to 2015. Her research led to eight journal papers and three conference papers. She was teaching assistant for thermodynamics and engineering graphics design at University of Missouri- Columbia.

Journals

Afrin, N., Zhang, Y., and J., Chen, J.K., 2011, “Thermal lagging in living biological tissue based on nonequilibrium heat transfer between tissue, arterial and venous bloods,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 54 (11-12), 2419-2426

Afrin, N., Zhou, J., Zhang, Y., Tzou,D. Y., and J., Chen, J.K., 2012, “Numerical simulation of thermal damage to living biological tissues induced by laser irradiation based on a generalized Dual Phase Lag model,” Numerical heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, 61(7), 483-501.

Afrin, N., Feng, Z.C., Zhang, Y., and Chen, J.K., 2013, “Inverse Estimation of Front Surface Temperature of a Locally Heated Plate with Temperature-Dependent Conductivity via Kirchhoff Transformation,”&�Բ�����;International Journal Thermal Sciences, 69, 53-60.

Afrin, N., Zhang, Y., and Chen, J.K., 2014, “Dual-Phase Lag Behavior of Gas-Saturated Porous Medium Heated by a Short-Pulsed Laser,”&�Բ�����;International Journal of Thermal Sciences, International Journal of Thermal Science, 75, pp 21-27.

Afrin, N., Zhang, Y., and Chen, J.K., 2016, “Uncertainty Analysis of Melting and Resolidification of Gold Film Irradiated by Nano- to Femtosecond Lasers Using Stochastic Method,” J. Heat Transfer, 138(6), p. 062301.

Afrin, N., Mao, Y., Zhang, Y., Chen, J.K., Ritter R., Lampson, A., Stohs, J., 2016, “Multicomponent Gas-Particle Flow and Heat/Mass Transfer Induced by a Localized Laser Irradiation on a Urethane-Coated Stainless Steel Substrate,” Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, 7, p. 7.

Afrin, N., and Zhang, Y., “Uncertainty analysis of thermal damage to living biological tissues by laser irradiation based on a generalized duel-phase lag model,” Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A 71(7), pp. 693-706.

Mao, Y., Afrin, N., Chen, J.K., and Zhang, Y., 2018, Numerical Simulation of Complex Flow and Heat Transfer Induced by Localized Laser Heating on a Urethane-Coated Substrate, Numer. Heat Transfer, Part B, 73(2), pp. 63-77

Conferences

Mao, Y., Afrin, N., Chen, J.K., and Zhang, Y., Multi-physics simulation of complex flow and phase change induced by a localized laser irradiation on a urethane coated Stainless Steel substrate, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Tampa, FL, November 3-9

Afrin, N., Ji, P., Zhang, Y., and Chen, J.K., “Effects of beam size and pulse duration on the Laser Drilling Process,” ASME 2016 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Washington, DC, July 10-14, 2016.

Afrin, N., Zhang, Y., and Chen, J.K., “Uncertainty analysis of melting and resolidification of film irradiated by nano-to femtosecond lasers using Stochastic method,” ASME 2016 5th Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, Biopolis, Singapore, January 4-6, 2016.

• Ph.D., The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007
• M.S., The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2002
• B.S., Istanbul Technical University, 1999

Ozgur Aktunc, Ph.D., is a Professor of Software Engineering in the St. Mary’s University Engineering Department. He joined St. Mary’s in August 2009.

Aktunc received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2007. He also received his M.S.E.E. from UAB in 2002. He came to the United States from Istanbul, Turkey, where he received his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University.

Aktunc’s main research area is software engineering with an emphasis on component-based software development. In particular, his research relates to software analysis, software metrics, and usability of web applications.

He also performs outreach activities to improve computing education in San Antonio through summer programs for middle and high school students. He is the director of the St. Mary’s Pre-Engineering Summer Program.

In addition, Aktunc is a member of ASEE. He has published many journal and conference papers in various organizations including IEEE, ASEE and SDPS. He is the author of the book “An Entropy-Based Measurement Framework for Component-Based Systems.”

M. Angulo and O. Aktunc, “Using GitHub as a Teaching Tool for Programming Courses,” Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference, April 2018, Austin, TX, 2018.

M. Angulo and O. Aktunc, “A Framework for Teaching Web Application Development Without Getting Lost in the Technology Universe,” Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference, March 2017, Dallas, TX, 2017.

O. Aktunc and F. Sarac, “Comparison of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools for Visually Impaired and Blind People,” International Conference on Applied Informatics for Health and Life Sciences, Kusadasi, Turkey, October 2014.

O. Aktunc, “A Teaching Methodology for Introductory Programming Courses using Alice,” International Journal of Modern Engineering Research, 3(1), 350-353, 2013.

O. Aktunc, B. A. Erol, and J. D. Garcia, “Redesign of a Seismic Monitor using Contextual Design,” International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA), 3(6), 01-18, 2012.

O. Aktunc, “Entropy Metrics for Agile Development Processes,” 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE 2012, Dallas, TX, November 2012.

O. Aktunc and C. Togay, “A Teaching Methodology for Introductory Programming Courses using Alice,” Transformative Systems Conference, SDPS 2010, Dallas, TX, June 2010.

O. Aktunc, “Design Metrics for Measuring the Complexity of Component-based Software,” 12th¬ Transdisciplinary Conference on Integrated Design and Process Science: Informatics and Cyberspace, Montgomery, AL, November 2009.

Mark Alexander’s performances have been described as “technically brilliant” and “full of expressive beauty.” He has won competitions, performed recitals and played with orchestras throughout the United States and Mexico. Since 2006 he has been on the faculty of AIMS in Graz, Austria where he has played master classes for Christa Ludwig and Barbara Bonney. He holds a M.M and D.M.A from the University of Texas at Austin, and a B.M. from the University of Michigan. Dr. Alexander teaches at San Antonio College and St. Mary’s University and is a native of Caledonia, Michigan.

• Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 1989
• M.S., University of Oklahoma, 1982
• B.S., Sari College (Iran), 1978

• Electronics
• Signals and Systems
• Communication Theory
• Semiconductor Devices
• Senior Design Project
• Neural Networks

Mehran Aminian, Ph.D., joined St. Mary’s University in 1988 after graduating from the University of Oklahoma with a doctorate in Electrical Engineering.

His research interests include artificial neural networks, machine learning, quantum electronics, quantum computing, quantum mechanics, quantum collision theory and semiconductor devices.

He has published numerous papers in journals such as Physical Review A, Journal of Physics B, IEEE Transactions and the Journal of Electronic Testing Theory and Application. He has served in numerous committees such as the Campus Technology Committee, Campus Safety Committee, Academic Assessment Committee and the Tenure and Promotion Committee.

Calculating Vibrational-Excitation Cross Section off the Energy Shell, A First-Order Adiabatic Theory;” Mehran Abdolsalami and Michael A. Morrison; Physical Review A; Volume 36; Number 11; 1 December 1987; pp5474-5477.

“Improved accuracy in adiabatic cross sections for low-energy rotational and vibrational excitation of molecules by electron impact;” Michael A. Morrison, Mehran Abdolsalami, and Brian K. Elza; Physical Review A; Volume 43; Number 7; 1 April 1991; pp3440-3459.

“Implementation of nonseparable exact exchange effects in the first-order nondegenerate adiabatic theory;” Mehran Abdolsalami, Farzan Abdolsalami, Hector Gonzalez; Physical Review A; Volume 50; Number 1; July 1994; pp412-417.

“Study of electron-molecule collisions via the finite-element method and R-matrix propagation technique: Model exchange;” Farzan Abdolsalami, Mehran Abdolsalami, Pedro Gomez; Physical Review A; Volume 50; Number 1; July 1994; pp360-363.

“Study of electron-molecule collision via finite-element method and R-matrix propagation technique: Exact exchange;” Farzan Abdolsalami, Mehran Abdolsalami, Lennard Perez, Pedro Gomez, Mark Silva; Journal of Computational Physics; Volume 121; March 1995; pp314-323.

“Study of rigid-rotor exact exchange electron-N2 scattering using the first-order non-degenerate adiabatic theory;” Mehran Abdolsalami, Farzan Abdolsalami, Lennard Perez; Journal of Physics B; Volume 30; October 1996; pp713-728.

“Neural Network Based Analog Fault Diagnosis Using Wavelet Transform as Preprocessor;” M. Aminian and F. Aminian; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing; Vol. 47; No.2; February 2000; pp151-156.

“Fault Diagnosis of Analog Circuits Using Bayesian Neural Networks with Wavelet Transform as Preprocessors;” F. Aminian and M. Aminian; Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications; Vol. 17; February 2001; pp. 29-36.

“Fault Diagnosis of Non-Linear Analog Circuits Using Neural Networks;” F. Aminian and M. Aminian; Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications; Vol. 17; August 2001; pp. 471-481.

“Analog Fault Diagnosis of Actual Circuits Using Neural Networks;” F. Aminian, M. Aminian and B. Collins; IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement; Vol. 51; No. 3; June 2002; pp. 544-550.

“Forecasting Economic Data with Neural Networks;” F. Aminian, E. Dante, M. Aminian and T. Walz; Journal of Computational Economics; Vol. 28; No. 1; August 2006; pp. 71-88.

“A Modular Fault Diagnosis System for Analog Electronic Circuits Using Neural Networks with Wavelet Transform as Preprocessor;” M. Aminian, F. Aminian; IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and measurement; October 2007.

“Multiprocessor Implementation of Modular Fault Diagnosis System for Analog Electronic Circuits Using Neural Networks with Wavelet Transform as Preprocessor;” M. Aminian and F. Aminian; Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and measurement.

• Ph.D., Florida Institute of Technology
• M.S., Braunschweig University of Technology (Germany)
• B.S., Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana)

George Anquandah, Ph.D., received his B.S. in Chemistry from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. He continued to Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany to pursue an M.S in Chemistry where he studied in the Institute of Ecological and Waste Analysis. He further obtained a Ph.D in Analytical Chemistry from Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida. His Ph.D was involved remediation and the use of iron as an oxidizing agent to remove pharmaceutical from drinking and waste water.

After graduating from Florida Tech 2011, Anquandah was appointed as an instructor in the College of St. Benedict and St. John University in St. Joseph, Minnesota. He taught both introductory and measurement chemistry using a problem base learning pedagogy. He was appointed a visiting assistant professor in St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, in 2014. Anquandah taught analytical and general chemistry courses until joining the St. Mary’s community in August 2016.

Pettine, M; McDonald, T.J.; Sohn, M.; Anquandah, G.A.; Zboril, R.; Sharma, V.K. A Critical review of Selenium Analysis in Natural Water Samples. From Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry 2015, 5, 1-7

Sharma V.K.; McDonald T.J.; Sohn M.; Anquandah G.; Pettine, M.; Zboril R. Biogeochemistry of Selenium. A Review. Environmental Chemistry Letters 2015, 13(1) 49-58.

Winkelmann, K.; Baloga, M.; Marcinkowski T.; Giannoulis, C.; Anquandah, G.; Cohen P. Improving Students’ Inquiry Skills and Self-efficacy through Research-inspired Modules in the General Chemistry Laboratory. Journal of Chemical Education 2015, 92(2), 247-255.

G. Anquandah, V. K. Sharma, V. R. Panditi, P. R. Gardinali, H. Kim, M.A. Oturan; Ferrate(VI) Oxidation of Propranolol: Kinetics and Products. Chemosphere Vol 91, 105-109, Mar 2013

V.K. Sharma, M. Sohn, G. Anquandah, N. Nesnas Kinetics of the Oxidation of Sucralose and Related Carbohydrates by Ferrate(VI). Chemosphere 2012

G. Anquandah, V. K. Sharma, D. A Knight, S. R. Batchu, P. R. Gardinali; Oxidation of Trimethoprim by Ferrate(VI): Kinetics, Products, and Antibacterial Activity. Environ. Sci & Technol. 2011.

G. Anquandah, M. B. Ray, A. K. Ray, A. J. Al-Abduly, V. K. Sharma; Oxidation of X-ray Compound Ditrizoic Acid by Ferrate(VI). Environ. Technol. 2011

Ph.D., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
M.B.A., St. Mary’s University
M.A., Illinois State University
B.A., Marquette University

Research Methods
Race and Ethnicities
Religion

Social Inequalities and Inequities
Gender, Race and Ethnicity as Identities and Intersectionalities
Health, Wellbeing, and Compassion
Religion

Janet S. Armitage, M.B.A., Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at St. Mary’s University. She is currently a co-director of the Online Public Health Certificate program.

Current Research

Much of her recent research focuses on compassion, wellbeing and health at individual, organizational and institutional levels. She continues to examine the development and application of active compassion in medical education and is exploring the presence of organization compassion to relieve workplace distress and suffering in its various forms. Her ongoing applied research is informed by her continuing compassion training through the Compassion Institute (California), The Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics at Emory University, and as a San Antonio Compassion Institute Fellow.

Sociology and Public Health Applied Projects

Catholic Sociology (Sociology of Religion) and Racial Justice for African American Marianists
Catholic Sociology (Sociology of Religion) and Marianists
Food Insecurity across Marianists Campuses—Chaminade, Dayton and St. Mary’s
Veterans in the San Antonio Community
Compassion Tool Kits for Undergraduate Students
Annual Regional San Antonio Public Health Case Competition

Articles in TRAILS, The American Sociologist, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Qualitative Research, The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Medical Teacher

Northside Independent School District (NISD) Community Partner of the Year
Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching
Alice Franzke Distinguished Feminist Scholar
Faculty Development India Fellowship, Council of American Overseas Research Centers

• Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
• J.D., Hofstra University
• M.A., University of Notre Dame
• M.A., Boston College
• B.A., Fairfield University

• Foundations of Reflection: God
• Catholic Social Ethics
• Contemporary Catholic Moral Life
• Theological Perspectives on Violence and Peace
• Civic Engagement and Social Action
• Christian Social Ethics (graduate-level)

James Ball, Ph.D., J.D., began his professional life as a legal aid attorney with Keystone Legal Services in Pennsylvania representing low-income people in civil cases. His work as a moral theologian/Christian ethicist responds to a desire to explore and apply the gospel call for love and justice in our world. Ball’s research interests include Catholic social teaching, grassroots movements for social change, inter-religious dialogue, and the ethics of non-violence and war. He was Graduate Program Director of the Master of Arts in Theology and is a Marianist Educational Associate committed to the educational ideal of serving the whole person for personal and social transformation.

“St. Mary’s Professor Says Reactions to Pope’s Encyclical Often Off-Base.” Today’s Catholic, July 24, 2015

“What College Catholics Don’t Know ― And Why it Matters: A View from the Classroom.” Momentum: Journal of the National Catholic Education Association. November/December 2014 Volume XLV no. 4, pp. 46-47

“Pope Francis’ Overlooked Sentence: An Important Statement on Islam and Violence.” U.S. Catholic. online.

“Why Don’t They Love Jesus?” U.S. Catholic 78, no. 2 (February 2013): 31-32

“Inter-religious Dialogue with the Fethullah Gῡlen Movement.” In Flying with Two Wings: Interreligious Dialogue in an Age of Global Terrorism, edited by Virginia Burnett and Yetkin Yildirim. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, pp. 33-45

“Catholic Social Teaching: Addressing Globalization in Catholic Business Education” (with Zaida Martinez and Brian Toyne). Journal of Catholic Higher Education 28.1 (2009): 63-81

“A Second Look at the Industrial Areas Foundation: Lessons Learned for Catholic Social Thought and Ministry.” Horizons 35.2 (2008): 271-297

“William Ferree, SM, Social Justice, and the Formation of our Marianist Social Habits.” Paper presented at the Association of Marianist Universities Symposium: Right Relationships in Marianist Universities.” St. Louis, MO. June 13, 2016. Available at marianistuniversities.org.

“Nonviolence: Theological Roots and Contemporary Possibilities.” A six hour adult education course presented for the interfaith Sol Center at University Presbyterian Church, San Antonio, TX. Fall 2015

“Why is our Parish the Way it Is? Lumen Gentium and the Seeds of the Modern Church.” Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church 2014 Theology Café lecture series. November 4, 2014

“Pope Francis’ Church in the Postmodern World.” Paper presented at the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies 2014 Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 8, 2014

Valerie Ballesteros, D.B.A, MSFE, is a career financial services professional and academic. She spent more than 25 years as a financial services professional in financial institutions. Ballesteros worked in banks, credit unions and wealth management firms including Bank of America Merrill Lynch where she was a Senior Financial Advisor and International Financial Advisor. Her practitioner experience includes securities operations, client and advisor support, financial advising and wealth management for both U.S. and international clients.

Ballesteros is currently an Instructor of Finance at St. Mary’s University Greehey School of Business.��Her passion for finance led her to the academic community in 2011 as an instructor where she has taught economics, finance, and quantitative methods and statistics in globally-recognized graduate and undergraduate programs at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio Business School and the University of London’s London School of Economics. Over the past decade she was a faculty member at Texas State University’s School of Family and Consumer Science, University of the Incarnate Word’s H-E-B School of Business, Texas A&M-San Antonio’s School of Business and Leadership, and Our Lady of the Lake’s School of Business and Leadership.��

Ballesteros has a Doctor of Business Administration, a Master of Business Administration, and Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, and a Master of Science in Finance and Economics from West Texas A&M University. She is a wife and mother of three, an advocate and volunteer in the autism and special needs community, and for immigrant and refugee rights. Her research interests include first-generation and underrepresented groups (specifically women and ethnic minorities) in the finance and economic marketplace, and in business, entrepreneurship and higher education.

• Ph.D., University of Alabama
• M.A., University of Alabama
• B.A., University of North Alabama

Timothy Barnett, Ph.D., has been teaching Spanish language and literature classes at St. Mary’s University and other area universities in San Antonio for more than 10 years. His research interests include comedias by Lope de Vega and the novela picaresca. His lives in San Antonio with his wife and two children and numerous pets.

Other academic activities include:

• Reviewed 3rd edition of Viva by Vista Higher Learning
• Participated as a speech sample evaluator for the Vista Higher Learning speech recognition research project
• Reviewed 4th edition of Vistas by Vista Higher Learning
• AP Reader in Spanish for Educational Testing Services
• Texas LOTE grader for Educational Testing Services

Of Wonder and Invention: Three Mythological Plays by Lope de Vega, Ph.D. Dissertation, August 2002, The University of Alabama

“Lope and Tasso: The Presence of Torquato Tasso in Three of Lope’s Mythological Plays.” in Bulletin of the Comediantes, vol. 57, no. 2 (2006)

Ph.D., University of Waterloo (Canada), 2013
M.S., Ain Shams University (Egypt), 2004
B.S., Ain Shams University (Egypt), 2000

Advanced Computer Networks
Cryptography
Files and Databases
Object Oriented Programming
Visual Programming
Cloud Computing
Computer Security and Privacy
Network Security
CISSP
Web Programming

Ayad Barsoum, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Computer Science, Graduate Program Director of Cybersecurity, and Director of NSA/DHS Designated Center for Cyber Excellence. Barsoum joined St. Mary’s University in 2013 and has dedicated his time and effort to putting St. Mary’s University on the cybersecurity map — not only in San Antonio, but also Texas and the USA. He led the efforts to propose and develop the Master of Science in Cybersecurity program and the Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity program. He also contributed to bringing the cybersecurity lab to St. Mary’s, developed through grants from the Hearst Foundation and the Valero Energy Foundation. Barsoum spearheaded the NSA/DHS project to have a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity – Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) and to have an NSA/DHS designation for the MS in Cybersecurity Program. Currently, he serves as a reviewer and mentor for NSA CAE-CD. Barsoum received the Distinguished Faculty Award, School of Science, Engineering and Technology, 2022-2023 91ߣ����Ƶ.

Barsoum received his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo (UW) in Canada in 2013. He is a member of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research at UW. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from Ain Shams University in Egypt in 2000 and 2004, respectively.

Barsoum has received the Amazon Web Services in Education Faculty Grant for funding his research and teaching activities. At the UW, he received the Graduate Research Studentship, the International Doctoral Award and the University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship.

Barsoum is the author of the book Data Integrity in Cloud Computing Systems: Challenges and Solutions. He published many refereed technical papers in leading research journals and conference proceedings. He has been nominated to the editorial review board of International Journal of Cyber Research and Education. Currently, he is serving as a Faculty Evaluator at the American Council on Education.

Barsoum has also been a guest speaker for several international conferences. He is a reviewer for many international conferences and leading research journals that include IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Access, The Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Annals of Telecommunications Journal, and Computers & Security Journal.

Barsoum has served in various capacities, including but not limited to: University’s Research Integrity Officer (RIO), a member of the Institutional Review Board; a judge at the Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair; an advisory board member at St. Philip’s College; a chair of School of Science, Engineering and Technology poster competition at the Annual Research Symposium; a reviewer for SURF proposals; and a member of the Cyber Innovation and Research Consortium Committee.

Barsoum’s passion for teaching and propagating knowledge to students is his primary motivation to continue his career in academia. Teaching gives him the opportunity and responsibility to contribute in developing young minds by offering them his expertise for a field. He doesn’t just teach concepts to his students; he engages them in discussions and debates. This type of interaction, Barsoum believes, is crucial to helping students understand the subject at hand. Barsoum also brings industry experience to his role as Associate Professor of Computer Science, having previously served as a postdoctoral fellow of Intrafinity Inc. in Toronto.

His main research interests include cybersecurity, data integrity in cloud computing systems, information and network security, access control and cryptographic protocols, data science and machine learning.

Books

Ayad Barsoum, “Data Integrity in Cloud Computing Systems: Challenges and Solutions”, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2014, ISBN-13: 978-3659370892

Selected Journals

David Culbreth, Ayad Barsoum, “High Bandwidth Applications: An Analysis of Strategies Employed by Video Hosting and Distribution Platforms to Handle High-Volume Traffic”, Journal of Network and Information Security, vol.11, no.1 2023 91ߣ����Ƶ.

Nathalie Ayala Santana and Ayad Barsoum, “Network Access Control for Government: An Analytical Study”, IJCRE vol.4, no.1 2022

Maria Isaura Lopez and Ayad Barsoum, “Traditional Public-key Cryptosystems and Elliptic Curve Cryptography: A Comparative Study”, International Journal of Cyber Research and Education, Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2022

Samman Tyata, Ayad Barsoum, “Network Management Protocols: Analytical Study and Future Research Directions”, Journal of Network and Information Security, Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2021

David Culbreth, Adan Guadarrama, Ayad Barsoum , “Effective Security Assessments and Testing”, International Journal of Cyber Research and Education (IJCRE), Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 17 – 23, 2020

Mark Maldonado and Ayad Barsoum, “Machine Learning for Web Proxy Analytics”, International Journal of Cyber Research and Education (IJCRE),  Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 30-41, July 2019

Richard Thames and Ayad Barsoum, “Cloud Storage Assured Deletion: Considerations and Schemes”, Journal of Network and Information Security, Volume 6, Issue 2, pp. 19-22, December 2018

Ayad Barsoum and Athanasios Vasilakos, “Remote Integrity Verification for Multiple Data Copies in Cloud Environments: A Comparative Analysis and Open Research Issues”, Journal of Network and Information Security, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 24 – 37, September 2016

Ayad Barsoum, “Provable Data Possession in Single Cloud Server: A Survey, Classification, and Comparative Study”, International Journal of Computer Applications, Foundation of Computer Science, New York, USA, 123(9):1-10, August 2015

Ayad F. Barsoum, M. Anwar Hasan, “Provable Multi-Copy Dynamic Data Possession in Cloud Computing Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 10, Issue 3, pp. 485 – 497. March 2015

Ayad F. Barsoum, M. Anwar Hasan, “Verifying Outsourced Replicated Data in Cloud Computing Storage Systems”, International Journal of Computer Applications, Foundation of Computer Science, New York, USA, Volume 99, No. 7, August 2014

Ayad Barsoum and M. Anwar Hasan, “Enabling Dynamic Data and Indirect Mutual Trust for Cloud Computing Storage Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. vol. 24, no. 12, pp. 2375-2385, Dec. 2013

Adikari, Ayad Barsoum, M. A. Hasan, A. H. Namin, and C. Negre, “Improved Area-Time Trade-offs for Field Multiplication using Optimal Normal Bases”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 193-199, Jan. 2013

Selected Conferences

Abdullah Alghamdi and Ayad Barsoum, “A Comprehensive IDS to Detect Botnet Attacks Using Machine Learning Techniques”, The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence (ICMI 2024), Mount Pleasant, Michigan, 2024

Ayad Barsoum, “Bridging the Divide: Mapping Hands-on Labs to Cybersecurity Competency Statements”, 11th annual CAE in Cybersecurity Community Symposium, Louisville, KY, 2024

Eden Woldeselassie and Ayad Barsoum, “Big Data: Related Technologies and Challenges”, UTSA College of Sciences Research Conference, UTSA, SA, Texas, October 05, 2018

Ayad Barsoum, “Cybersecurity Education at St. Mary’s University”, AFCEA Alamo, San Antonio, TX, November 14, 2017

Ayad Barsoum, “CyberMary: St. Mary’s University at the Cyber-Map of San Antonio”, 53^rd ACET (Association for Computer Educators in Texas) conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 2017

Ayad Barsoum, “Cloud Security: Challenges, Mitigation, and Future Directions”. In Proceedings of BSides 2016, San Antonio, Texas, USA, May 2016

Sravanthi Sunkireddy and Ayad Barsoum, “Secure Cloud-Based Storage System with Remote Data Auditing Services”. 17^th Annual Research Symposium and Exhibition (judged poster),  St. Mary’s University,  San Antonio, Texas, USA, April 2016

Sravanthi Sunkireddy and Ayad Barsoum, “Remote Data Integrity for Cloud-Based Storage System”. In Proceedings of SSPC 2016, Information Technology Track, San Antonio, Texas, USA, January 2016

Moutaz Shedid and Ayad Barsoum, “Corporate Network Simulator”. In Proceedings of SSPC 2016, Information Technology Track, San Antonio, Texas, USA, January 2016

Ayad Barsoum, “Data in the Cloud: Risks and Mitigation”, 50^th ACET (Association for Computer Educators in Texas) conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 2014

Ayad Barsoum and M. Anwar Hasan, “Integrity Verification of Multiple Data Copies over Untrusted Cloud Servers”. In Proceedings of the 12^th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, CCGRID ’12, Canada, 2012

Born and raised in the Lone Star State, Lydia Bartlett, Ed.D., has been working for over 30 years in public education. Starting as a teacher after earning her Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Education and Special Education at St. Mary’s University, she transitioned into a multitude of leadership roles including Assistant Superintendent and District Coordinator of School Improvement for Gonzales Independent School District, Director of Special Education and Counselor and Campus Testing Coordinator at San Antonio Independent School District, and Adjunct Professor at St. Philip’s College to name a few. 

Bartlett earned a Master of Science degree in Guidance and Counseling and a Doctor of Educational Leadership both at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. As an expert in her field, she focuses on preparing the next generation of teachers for success with instructional strategies to develop students in the areas of reading, vocabulary and classroom content area material.

At home, Bartlett cares for her precious pets: a cat (Gypsy), a dog (Gabby) and two hens (Loretta and Gladys). In her spare time, she enjoys reading, visiting state parks, hiking and kayaking.

Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 2010
MPH, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 2021
B.S. (Honors), Angelo State University, 2006

General Biology
Physiology
Neurophysiology
Biostatistics for Life Sciences
Genes, Genomes, and Genomics
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics Capstone
Fundamentals of Epidemiology
First Year Seminar

Lori Boies, Ph.D., MPH, teaches undergraduate students on a wide range of topics in the biological sciences from introductory courses to neurophysiology and genomics, along with public health courses. Boies works with undergraduate students on research projects focusing on gene annotation as well as epidemiological and biostatistical studies. 

Boies graduated magna cum laude from Angelo State University with a B.S. in Biochemistry, a minor in Biology, and with highest honors from the Honors College. As an undergraduate research student, she was a Carr Research Fellow and was awarded a Welch scholarship. The research focused on the effects of glucocorticoids in American dietary components.

Her education continued at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences where she earned a Ph.D. in Cancer Biology. She performed her graduate research in a neuro-oncology laboratory where she characterized two novel inducible-expression astrocyte transgenic mouse models. Her astrocyte research led her to identify two distinct populations of adult neural stem cells and transient progenitors that persisted well into advanced age.

While faculty at St. Mary’s University, Boies completed a Master in Public Health in Epidemiology with a Graduate Certificate in Genomics and Bioinformatics from University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health. She elected to do a research-based thesis and completed a genome-wide association study for the identification of genetic variants with potential influence on the occurrence of cardiotoxicity in childhood cancer survivors treated with anthracyclines.

Additionally, she is an active volunteer in the community and has been a member of the Bexar County Medical Society Alliance (BCMSA) for over a decade, serving as president of the BCMSA during its centennial year in 2017 and has served on the board of the Texas Medical Association Alliance (TMAA) since 2011.  She has served as an Alliance Representative on several Texas Medical Association (TMA) committees and councils including the Council on Medical Education, Committees on Infectious Disease, Cancer, Socioeconomics, and the History of Medicine.  Additionally, Dr. Boies’ love of the breadth of the biology field encourages her exploration of nature and observation of the natural world – many times through the lens of photography.

Aleman J, Adkins A, Boies L, Al-Quiati F, Sako E, & Bhattacharya, S. (2017) Effects of Cinching Force on the Tricuspid Annulus: A Species Comparison. Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases & Diagnosis, 05(04), 1 – 12. https://doi.org/10.4172/2329-9517.1000283

Adkins, A., Aleman, J., Boies, L., Sako, E., & Bhattacharya, S. (2015). Force Required to Cinch the Tricuspid Annulus: An Ex-Vivo Study. The Journal of Heart Valve Disease, 24(5), 644–652.

Adkins A,* Aleman J*, Boies L, Sako E, Bhattacharya S, Force required to cinch the tricuspid annulus: an ex vivo study (2015) Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport  Conference (SB3C), 135-136, Snowbird, Utah

* co-first authors

Loomis L and Flynn NE (2006) Determining glucocorticoid receptor activity in American dietary components using S-gal as a novel reporter substrate. Journal of Undergraduate Chemistry Research. 3: 111-114.

Ph.D., Purdue University

Environmental Philosophy
Ethics
Intro to Philosophy

Environmental ethics
Biomedical ethics
Early modern philosophy
Rights theory
Ethical theory

Associate Professor of Philosophy Andrew Brei, Ph.D., holds degrees in German and Philosophy. His doctoral studies were completed at Purdue University, culminating in a dissertation titled Our Right to Health and Our Duty to Nature. He regularly teaches classes on environmental ethics, philosophical anthropology, human nature and professional ethics. Research interests include moral motivation, the normative nature of love and the ethics of extra-terrestrial settlement. His pursuit of the good life includes being a devoted husband and father, an advocate of philosophical studies and an aspiring blues guitarist.

“Being Loyal and Being Ethical,” IEEE Potentials 41 (3), 2022

“Torture and the Corrida,”&�Բ�����;Between the Species: Vol. 24 (1), 2021

“Persons vs. Members,”&�Բ�����;Irish Philosophical Society Journal ‘Humans and Other Animals’ Special Edition, 2019

Ecology, Ethics and Hope��(editor and contributor), December 2015, Rowman & Littlefield

“Catholic Complementarianism: An Apology of Sorts,”&�Բ�����;Southwest Philosophy Review, Volume 30 (2) July 2014

“Rights & Nature,” The Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Volume 26 (2) April 2013, ISSN: 1187-7863 (Print) 1573-322X (Online)

“Laudato Si’ and Hope,” Gold and Blue Go Green (Earth Day Event), St. Mary’s University, April 2022

“Moral Development and Motivation,” Hospitality and Financial Technology Professionals (webinar), January and March 2020

“Defining the Moral Community,” New Mexico Texas Philosophical Society, Houston, April 2018

“Persons vs. Members: Motivating Moral Action,” Humans & Other Animals, Carlow College, Ireland, November 2017

“Climate Change and Human Rights”, Trinity University, September 2017

“Alienation: An Argument Against Extra-Terrestrial Settlement,” Space Settlement Symposium, Texas State University, Sept. 23, 2016

“Equipoise and Ebola: The Ethics of Ebola Research,” Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, March 14, 2015

“Comments on Complementarianism and Gender Apartheid,” 75th Annual meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society, Nov. 9, 2013

“The Nature of Moral Progress and the Threshold of Revolution,” Aldo Leopold Foundation Brown Bag Seminar Series, July 26, 2013

Morgan Bruns is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012 where he studied the thermal decomposition of plastics in applications such as ablative heat shields and flammability. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and his master’s degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology. 

After graduate school, Bruns went to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, as a National Research Council postdoctoral associate. After completion of his postdoctoral fellowship, he stayed at NIST as a mechanical engineer in the Fire Research Division where he worked on many projects such as material property determination, fire modeling, the fire resistance of gypsum wallboard, the ignition propensity of cigarettes and the fire hazard associated with residential upholstered furniture. 

Bruns left NIST in 2018 when he accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Virginia. While at VMI, he developed an undergraduate level course in computational fluid dynamics and continued his research in fire safety engineering. 

Bruns joined the faculty at St. Mary’s University in Fall of 2021. He remains active in the fire research community as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Fire Sciences, and through his service on the organizing committee on the International Association of Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) Measurement and Computation of Fire Phenomena (MaCFP) workshop.  

Bruns greatly appreciates the family-spirited atmosphere of the St. Mary’s community. He continually looks forward to working with students to understand the basics of mechanical engineering as a tool for making the world a better place, particularly with regards to energy and fire safety. 

• Ph.D., Marquette University
• M.B.A., St. Mary’s University
• M.A., St. Mary’s University
• M.A., The University of Texas at San Antonio
• B.A., The University of Texas at San Antonio

Buhrman joined St. Mary’s in 2010 as a professor and department chair. He was named Associate Dean for Program Administration in 2012 and served as the Assistant Provost for Academic Operations and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs before being named Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.

Buhrman’s research interest is probably best described as theological anthropology. He investigates the role of Christian teachings about Christ, salvation, and grace in interpreting our experience. At the same time, he is particularly interested in the way our experience of freedom poses important questions for theology to answer meaningfully for the culture in which we live. This often leads him to an interdisciplinary focus in theology and literature, but also to other areas such as Black Theology of Liberation or consideration of the relation of theology to modernity.

“The Critical Role of Assessment in Faculty Governance,”&�Բ�����;Academy of Educational Leadership Journal

“Common Core or Common Commitments?,”&�Բ�����;Association of General and Liberal Studies

“Narrative Testimony of Kierkegaard and Rowling; Fidelity as the Basic Criterion of Substitutionary Atonement,”&�Բ�����;Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, 63.4, Summer 2011:273-286.

“Nostalgia and Redemption in Joseph Kanon’s The Good German.”&�Բ�����;Literature and Theology 22.4 (2008): 475-490.

Nathan Scott’s Literary Criticism and Fundamental Theology. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.

“Learning Outcomes as Statements of Value: A Proposal,” presented at the National Conference of the Association of Institutional Research

“Faith, Grace, and Community in the Evangelii Gaudium and the Encyclicals of Benedict XVI,” presented at the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies

“Learning Outcomes and Values: Some Suggestions from the New Institutionalism,” presented at the International Organization of Behavioral and Social Sciences

“Assessment that Supports Faculty Governance,” presented at the Conference of the National Association of University Professors

• Ph.D., Loyola University
• M.A., Boston College
• B.A., Boston College

Calogero began his career at St. Mary’s in 1990. He received his doctorate from Loyola University of Chicago in 1994, by defending his dissertation, Meaning and Action: Relating Knowledge and Action in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Boston College, in 1982 and 1985. In between these degrees, he spent 11 months living and volunteering at the Jesuit high school in Belize City, Belize. During his education, Calogero specialized in Neo-Thomism and the thought of Bernard Lonergan. His research in Aquinas, while broad ranging, culminated in a manuscript on Aquinas’s analysis of prudentia or practical wisdom, a topic that connects ethics with metaphysics. He completed his Master’s degree with the financial support of a Lonergan Fellowship and his doctorate with the support of several fellowships, including the Schmitt Fellowship.

While at St. Mary’s, Calogero’s research interests have diversified. He has worked (both with respect to teaching and publications) on the following topics: service-learning and ethical development; Mexican and Latin American thought; the thought of Soren Kierkegaard, Albert Camus, Eric Voegelin and Bernard Lonergan; positivism and nineteenth century thought. In 2007 and 2008, Calogero served as a Texas Campus Compact Faculty Fellow (1 of 5, statewide). In 2005, he received a St. Mary’s University Alumni Faculty Development Grant with funds to support further research on social ethics and service-learning, and in 1999 was awarded the St. Mary’s University Distinguished Service Award for the use and promotion of service-learning pedagogy.

Currently, he is preparing a paper for publication that critiques August Comte’s theory of altruism, is developing class lectures on political economy, and completing further research on the thought of Albert Camus.

Recent service includes:

• 2019 academic year: mentored a high school student who earned high school credit for an independent study in philosophy.
• Active participation of in the series of eight seminars sponsored by Glen Hughes, Ph.D., in his capacity as holder of the St. Mary’s Chair in Catholic Philosophy. The eight seminars include:
  • Spring 2016: participant in General Seminar I.
  • Fall 2016: participant in Core Curriculum Seminar I.A.
  • Winter Retreat participant, Dec. 2016.
  • Spring 2017: participant in General Seminar II.
  • Spring Retreat participant, May 2017.
  • Fall 2017: Moderator for General Seminar I.
  • Spring 2018: participant in the Lonergan Seminar.
  • Fall 2018: participant in Lonergan Seminar

“Altruism: A Selfless Act.” In process.

“What is Contemplation?”��International Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 59, #4, Issue 236 (December 2019), pp. 385–396.

“Caritas and Consciousness: Aristotle and Aquinas on Love of Neighbor.”��Philosophy & Theology: Marquette University Journal, vol. 25, #2, fall 2013, 167-180.

“Why Positivism Failed in Latin America.” In��Latin American Positivism: New Historical and Philosophical Essays, edited by Gregory D. Gilson and Irving W. Levinson (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013), 83-107.

“Why Positivism Failed Latin America.”��Inter-American Journal of Philosophy, vol. 3, #1, June 2012.��.

“Who is my Neighbor? Teaching Philosophical Reflection on Service” in��Compact Impact: Best Practices Partnerships in the State of Texas, vol. 1 (2009), pp 11-25.

“The Self in Aristotle’s Ethics.”��Philosophy in the Contemporary World, vol. 5 (1998), 85-95.

Essay review of��Quest for Self-Knowledge: An Essay in Lonergan’s Philosophy��by Joseph Flanagan (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997). In��Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies, 16 (Spring 1998), 70-77. Also at the Lonergan Website (www.lonergan. on.ca/index.htm).

Essay review of��A Primer of Modern Virtue Ethics��by Steven M. Duncan (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1995). In��American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 71 (autumn 1997), 623-627.

Essay review of��Is There a Universe? The Forwood Lectures for 1992��by Stanley Jaki (Wethersfield Institute, 1993). In the��American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 70��(Spring 1996), 301-305.

• Texas Campus Compact Faculty Fellow, 2007  and  2008 (1 of 5, statewide).
• St. Mary’s University Alumni Faculty Development Grant recipient, 2005, with funds to support further research on social ethics and service-learning.
• St. Mary’s University Distinguished Service Award, 1999. Award for the use and promotion of service-learning pedagogy.
• “Distinguished Service Award,” as Chapter Advisor for the Delta Epsilon Sigma National Honor Society, The Alpha Eta Chapter, St. Mary’s University, 1997.
• “Schmitt Fellowship,” Loyola University of Chicago, 1989.
• “Teaching Fellowship,” Loyola University of Chicago, 1988.
• “Lonergan Fellowship,” Boston College, 1983 – 1985.

University of Texas at San Antonio, Ph.D.
St. Mary’s University, M.A.
St. Mary’s University, B.A.

Rhetoric and Composition
Multi-Ethnic Literature
Literature and the Immigrant Experience
Advanced Research and Writing for Publication
Special Studies: Latino American Literature
Women Authors
Approaches to Teaching Multi-Ethnic Literature
Women of Color, Writing as Memoir and Resistance

U.S. Latinx/Chicanx Literature
Chicanx Literary and Cultural Studies
Native American Literary and Cultural Studies
Border Studies
Women’s Studies
Multicultural Children’s Literature
Multi-Ethnic Literature
Postcolonialism
Chicanx/Latinx Education
Chicanx Feminist Theory

Margaret Cantú-Sanchez was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. She is an alumna of St. Mary’s University’s English undergraduate and graduate programs. St. Mary’s holds a special place in her heart for numerous reasons including the fact that her aunt, brother, sister-in-law, and husband graduated from there. St. Mary’s was the place where Margaret honed her teaching skills in preparation to teach high school, and it was the first place where she taught college-level courses. At St. Mary’s, Margaret also had the opportunity to take part in the London Study Abroad Program and the 5-Year English Degree Teaching Certification Program. St. Mary’s is where Margaret met her husband and they now have 2 rambunctious children together.

Margaret has been teaching at St. Mary’s since 2015 and enjoys exposing her students to Multi-Ethnic and Chicanx/Latinx literature, authors, and cultural studies. Her approach is one that simply asks students to contemplate the importance of their identity and place in the world in relation to the literature they read.

Her book, “,” is a pragmatic and inspiring offering of how to apply Anzaldúa’s ideas to the classroom and in the community rather than simply discussing them as theory.

Mexican American Studies Summer Symposium

Cantú-Sanchez organized St. Mary’s University’s inaugural Mexican American Studies Summer Symposium which addressed the passage of the Texas State Board of Educations Mexican American Studies/Ethnic course at the secondary levels. During the symposium, attendees participated in a variety of workshops and lectures on Mexican American history, cultural studies, literature, pedagogy and activism facilitated by St. Mary’s faculty, Mexican American studies experts and community activists.

Cantú-Sanchez also penned an op-ed based on the topic of the symposium, , which was featured in the San Antonio Express-News.

To view a list of helpful resources from the conference, visit or .

The Symposium continues to be offered every other spring, visit the Mexican American Symposium page for more information.

Peer-Reviewed

2021. “En Memoria: Celebrating Gloria E. Anzaldúa and ‘Doing Work that Matters.’” Con pan y cafecito, te recordamos en todo, tanteamos sin tapaojos, desde los márgenes, como mestizas en Nepantla mientras practicamos magia, the path of conocimiento. Humanística: Revista de Estudios Literarios. Eds. Margo Echenberg and Raúl Verduzco.

2021 “Antiracism, Anzaldúa, and the Path of Conocimiento.” Journal of Latina Critical Feminism. Ed. Jorge Valdez. Issue 3.1.

2019-present: Colectiva, Co-Editor Margaret Cantú-Sánchez. Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Actias en Letras Cambio Social.

2020: Eds. Margaret Cant­ú-Sánchez, Candace de León-Zepeda, and Norma Cantú. Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldúa: Pedagogy and Practice for Our Classrooms and Communities The University of Arizona Press. (Fall 2020)

2019:: “The #MeToo Movement and the College Literature Classroom: Creating Safe Spaces of Expression, Healing, and Consciousness.” Journal of Latina Critical Feminism. Ed. Jorge Valdez. Issue 2.1.

2018: “Norma Elia Cantú’s �䲹��í���ܱ��� (1997) and Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands, La Frontera (1987) in a Multi-Ethnic Literature Classroom. Teaching Mexicana and Chicana Writers of the Twentieth Century.”&�Բ�����;MLA Options for Teaching, Ed. Elizabeth C. Martinez.

2018: “The Fourth Choice:” Forging the Future of Chicanx Mother/Daughter Relationships through Storytelling and The Path of Conocimiento in Erika Sánchez’s I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter and Barbara Renaud González’s Golondrina, why did You Leave Me?, Label Me Latina/o: Journal of Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Latino Literary Production. Eds. Michele Shaul and Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez

2016: “In/civilities of the American Classroom: A Clash between a Chicana Teacher and an Anglocentric School System”&�Բ�����;El Mundo Zurdo 5: Selected Works from the Meetings of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa 2015.  San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute Books.

2011: “A Mestizaje of Epistemologies in American Indian Stories and Ceremony.”&�Բ�����;Nakum Journal. Vol. 1-2.  San Marcos, TX: Indigenous Cultures Institute.

2010: Cantú, Margaret. “Embracing Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera as Multicultural Pedagogy,” in El Mundo Zurdo: Selected Works from the Meetings of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa 2007 & 2009. San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute Books.

“Teaching Anzaldúa: Pedagogies for our Classrooms and Communities Roundtable.” Love in the Time of La Corona, NACCS 2021.

“Opening Spaces for Immigration Reform in the College Composition Classroom: An Examination of Social Justice-Guided Curriculum.” Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference 2020.

“Resisting Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric in Mexican American Literature: Approaches to Immigration Reform in the Multi-Ethnic Literary Classroom.” Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference 2019.

“Interdisciplinary Approaches to Identity: An Examination of Indigenous and Chicanx Identity in the Multi-Ethnic Literature College Classroom.” National Association of Chicano and Chicana Studies (NACCS), “Indigenous Knowledge for Resistance, Love, and Land: Lecciones for our Children, for our Future. 2019

“Re-Shaping American Patriotism and Raising Consciousness in the “Ideal Soldier:” An Examination of Military Students in the Multi-Ethnic Literature Classroom.” Conference of College Teachers of English (CCTE). 2019.

“T�𲹳��󾱲Բ�&�Բ�����;Borderlands: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Gloria Anzaldúa.” South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA), 2018.

“Reaching Conocimiento: Personal Stories as Healing and Coping with Cultural Identity Conflict in the Literature Classroom.” El Mundo Zurdo: International Conference on the Life and Works of Gloria Anzaldúa, 2018.

“Bridging American and Mexican Cultures and Reinforcing Chicana/o Identity in the Nepantla Classroom.” El Mundo Zurdo: International Conference on the Life and Works of Gloria Anzaldúa, 2016.

“In/civilities of the American Classroom: A Clash between a Chicana Teacher and an Anglocentric School System,” El Mundo Zurdo: International Conference on the Life and Works of Gloria Anzaldúa, 2015.

“Transformative Praxis: A Mestizaje of Epistemologies y Barrio Consciousness,”2014

NACCS Tejas Regional Conference, February 2014.

“Chicana Education Testimonios as a Methodology of a Mestizaje of Epistemologies,” NACCS XL, March 2013.

“’Healing the Split:’ Reconciling Cultural and Academic Epistemologies in Latina Testimonios.”&�Բ�����; Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) Summer Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, July 2012.

Percussionist Joseph “Joe” Caploe is a well-known educator and performer, and has appeared at music festivals and clinics at universities and high schools across the United States. His band, Neck N Neck, is a proponent of cross-cultural sounds, blending world music and jazz.

Before relocating to San Antonio in 2010 he spent 13 years serving as Director of Percussion and Jazz Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville. He is a past-president of the Wisconsin Percussive Arts society and hosted the 2003 Wisconsin PAS Days of Percussion at University of Wisconsin–Platteville. His major concert appearances include the Israel Festival (Jerusalem), Festival de Theatre (Montreal), Day of the Drum Festival (San Francisco), Watts Day of the Drum Festival (Los Angeles), Monterey Jazz Festival, Concord Jazz Festival, Iowa City Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, America Festival, Jazz Alive (San Antonio) and Wisconsin Public Radio. He has performed workshops and clinics at universities and high schools in California, Wisconsin, Iowa, Tennessee, Mississippi, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota and Texas. He can be heard with many groups in San Antonio, including the San Antonio Jazz Orchestra, Primetime Jazz Orchestra, South Texas Jazz, Alto Madness, Ulterior Motive, Zarabande, Hot Sauce and is an adjunct professor at St. Mary’s University, University of the Incarnate Word and Alamo Colleges.

• Ph.D., Texas Tech University, 2001
• M.S., Columbia University, 1990
• B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1988

Richard Cardenas, Ph.D., joined the physics faculty of St. Mary’s University in the fall of 2000. He received his bachelor’s degree in physics and applied mathematics, and his master’s degree in applied physics. After earning his master’s degree, he worked in industry for Lockheed Technical Operations Company (now called Lockheed Martin Technical Operations) and Incyte Genomics.

He has published papers in journals including the American Journal of Physics, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Neuroradiology. He has also presented his findings at conferences in Texas and Pennsylvania, among others. Cardenas’ grants and contracts include the following:

National Science Foundation S-STEM Grant ($600,000). Title: St. Mary’s University STEM Scholars Program

Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) awarded in 2011

Department of Defense Instrumentation Program for Hispanic Institutions ($200,000). Title: Creating an Biophysical Characterizations Laboratory for Education and Research

Physics on the Road, the World Year of Physics Grant for Outreach ($10,000). Title: The Fiesta of Physics (With Olga Lobban)

San Antonio Area Foundation, Grant for Education and Outreach ($5,600). Title: The Fiesta of Physics (With Olga Lobban)

DoD Instrumentation Program for Hispanic Institutions ($192,738). Title: Acquisition of advanced scientific instrumentation for multi-disciplinary research training and education

Cardenas has research interests in biophysics, medical physics and physics pedagogy. His main research area involves the study of the effects of radiation on aqueous polymer gel systems and their uses in radiation dosimetry. These aqueous polymer gels are tissue-like, hence are useful tools for modeling radiation response of various types of tissue.

In addition to the polymer gel studies, he has done research in physics pedagogy in collaboration with Texas Tech University and Harvard University using the force concept inventory.

Ph.D., University at Buffalo, SUNY
M.A., Northern Illinois University
B.A., Hamline University

Contemporary Philosophy
Early Modern Philosophy
Eastern Philosophy
Symbolic Logic
Self
Ethics
Capstone Seminar

Phenomenology
Social Philosophy
Continental Philosophy

Eric Chelstrom, Ph.D., received his B.A. in Music and Philosophy from Hamline University and an M.A. in philosophy from Northern Illinois University. His Ph.D. in philosophy is from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York in 2010. His doctoral research applied Husserlian phenomenology to contemporary debates in collective intentionality.

Chelstrom serves as Director of the First-Year Experience, overseeing the University’s First-Year Seminars. Chelstrom’s research is broadly concerned with the nature of intersubjectivity and the building blocks of the social world. In particular, he focuses on collective intentionality, shared experiences and norms, horizon intentionality, and most recently how oppression and systematic injustices undermine mainstream social theory. He also has interests in aesthetics and the historical development of phenomenology.

Social Phenomenology: Husserl, Intersubjectivity, and Collective Intentionality. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2012

“Between Worlds: Naomi Nagata and the Nature of Multiplicitous Subjectivity.” In The Expanse and Philosophy, Jeffrey Nichols, ed. Blackwell. 2021.

“Aron Gurwitsch.” Routledge Handbook of the Phenomenology of Emotions. Thomas Szanto and Hilge Landweer, eds. Routledge, 2019. 

“The Checkered Legacy of Marvin Farber’s Idiosyncratic Interpretation of Phenomenology.” In The Reception of Husserlian Phenomenology in North America. Michela Beatrice Ferri & Carlo Ierna, eds. Springer, 2019. 

“Identities of Oppression: Collective Intentionality’s Seriality Problem.” Collectivity: Ontology, Ethics and Social Justice.. Kendy Hess, Violetta Igneski, & Tracy Isaacs, eds. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

“Phenomenology.” In The History of Evil in the Early Twentieth Century (1900-1950). Victoria Harrison, Charles Taliaferro, Chad Meister, eds. Routledge. 2018.

 “LEGO and the Social Blocks of Autonomy.” In LEGO and Philosophy. Roy T. Cook & Sondra Bacharach, eds. Blackwell, 2017.

“Aesthetic Horizons: A Phenomenologically Motivated Critique of Zuidervaart.” Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, 2016, 3.1: 1-14

“Gurwitsch and the Role of Emotion in Collective Intentionality.” In The Phenomenology of Sociality: Discovering the ‘We’. Dermot Moran and Thomas Szanto, eds. Routledge. 2015.

Review of Predrag Cicovacki, The Analysis of Wonder: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann. (The Review of Metaphysics, 68.2, 2014)

“Horizon Intentionality and Aristotelian Friendships.” In Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics, Kevin Hermberg & Paul Gyllehammer, eds. Bloomsbury, 2013.

“Pluralities Without Reified Wholes: A Phenomenological Response to Hans Bernhard Schmid’s Collectivism.” Investigaciones Fenomenológicas, Issue 3, 2011

• Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1998
• M.S., Nanjing University (China), 1994
• B.S., Nanjing University (China), 1985

After earning his doctorate, Chen had 15 years of experience in an oncology-focused pharmaceutical company, BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals. As Group Leader of the Medicinal Chemistry Drug Discovery Team, he successfully advanced two novel drug candidates from concepts to completed phase 3 trials.

His research interests focus on the development of new strategies in organic, bioorganic and medicinal chemistry to solve biochemical problems at the interface of chemistry and biology. Particularly, he is interested in optimization of drugs in development, on the market or those that are shelved because of lack of efficacy, to develop their second generation new drugs, which benefit patients through a potential new therapy or a better therapy sooner.

This research involves understanding the complex biochemistry involved in drug metabolism and developing innovative chemical solutions to reduce or eliminate the biochemical metabolism to inactive metabolites.

Patents

Geng, Z.; Chen, X.; Parker, A.; Peng, W.; “Substituted 1-[2-(2,4-Dimethyl-thiophenyl)-phenyl] piperazine Compound Or Derivative Thereof, And Pharmaceutical Composition And Use Thereof” PCT/CN2014/087662

Chen, Xinghai; Kochat, Harry; Huang, Qiuli. “Total Synthesis of Karenitecin”. US 8,722,886
Chen, Xinghai; Kochat, Harry; “Germanium-containing Camptothecin Analogues”. US Application number: 20140073793

Chen, Xinghai; Kochat, Harry; Huang, Qiuli. “Deuterated analogs of7-(2-TMS ethyl)-20-S-Camptothecin” US 20120282261

Chen, Xinghai; Petluru, Pavankumar N. V.; Huang, Qiuli; Narkunan, Kesavaram; Hausheer, Frederick. “Platinum analogs with Bis-nitrile-containing Ligands.” US 7777060

Narkunan, Kesavaram; Kochat, Harry; Chen, Xinghai. “Process for preparing highly lipophilic camptothecin derivatives”. US 6723849.

Kochat, Harry; Chen, Xinghai; Wu, Ye; Huang, Qiuli; Wang, Jianyan; Gerusz, Vincent. “Process for synthesizing L-methyleneglutamic acid and analogs.” US 6977311

Huang, Jerry; Kochat, Harry; Chen, Xinghai; “Medicinal disulfide salts”. US 7282602

Narkunan, Kesavaram; Chen, Xinghai; Kochat, Harry; Hausheer, Frederick. “C10-Substituted Camptothecin Analogs.” US 7687497

Narkunan, Kesavaram; Chen, Xinghai; Kochat, Harry; Hausheer, Frederick. “Synthesis of C7-substituted camptothecin analogs as antitumor agents”. US 7687496

Hausheer, Frederick H.; Chen, Xinghai; “ Camptothecin analog with a novel, “flipped” lactone-stable, E-ring and methods for making and using same”. US 7687487

Kochat, Harry; Chen, Xinghai; Huang, Qiuli; Peddaiaghari, Seetharamulu; Hausheer, Frederick H. “Novel highly lipophilic camptothecin analogs” PCT Int. Appl. (2000), WO 2000/066127

Kochat, Harry; Chen, Xinghai; Wu, Ye; Huang, Qiuli; Wang, Jianyan; Gerusz, Vincent. “Process for synthesizing L-methyleneglutamic acid and analogs.” PCT Int. Appl. (2004), WO 2004/039314

Huang, Jerry; Kochat, Harry; Chen, Xinghai; “Medicinal disulfide salts”. PCT Int. Appl. (2006), WO 2006/034327.

Chen, Xinghai; Petluru, Pavankumar N. V.; Huang, Qiuli; Narkunan, Kesavaram; Hausheer, Frederick. “Platinum analogs with Bis-nitrile-containing Ligands.” PCT Int. Appl. (2008), WO/2008/100301

Narkunan, Kesavaram; Chen, Xinghai; Kochat, Harry; Hausheer, Frederick. “C10- Substituted Camptothecin Analogs.” PCT Int. Appl. (2009), WO 2009051578

Narkunan, Kesavaram; Chen, Xinghai; Kochat, Harry; Hausheer, Frederick. “C7- Substituted Camptothecin Analogs.” PCT Int. Appl. (2009), WO 2009051580

Yao S.; Petluru, P. N.; Parker, A. R.; Ding D.; Chen, X.; Kochat H.; Hausheer, F. H.;  “  In preparation.

Yao S.; Petluru, P. N.; Parker, A. R.; Ding D.; Chen, X.; Huang, Q.; Kochat H.; Hausheer, F. H.; “ EC Chemistry 2015, 2(1): 97-110

Petluru, P. N.; Ayala, P. Y.; Parker, A. R.; Zhao M.; Jair, K. W.; Chen, X.; Kochat H.; Hausheer, F. H.; “Comprehensive Comparative Analysis of the Morphological Changes in a 12-mer DNA Oligonucleotide upon Platination by Cisplatin, Oxaliplatin and BNP3029 (a Substituted Cyano ligand-based Platinum analogue) using Molecular Dynamics Simulation Studies”, J Phys Chem Biophys 2015, 5:1 1000172

Yao S.; Petluru, P. N.; Parker, A. R.; Ding D.; Chen, X.; Huang, Q.; Kochat H.; Hausheer, F. H.; “Stabilization of the Karenitecin® lactone by alpha‑1 acid glycoprotein”, Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology 2015, 75,  719-728

Petluru, P. N.; Ayala, P. Y.; Parker, A. R.; Zhao M.; Jair, K. W.; Chen, X.; Kochat H.; Hausheer, F. H.; “Comprehensive Comparative Study Using Ab Initio Computational Approaches on the Structures of Cisplatin, Oxaliplatin and BNP3029 (A Novel Substituted Cyano Ligand-based Platinum Analogue) and Activation Energy Barriers for the Attack of Nucleophiles on Cisplatin and BNP3029 and their Monoaquated Derivatives”, J Phys Chem Biophys 2014, 4:6 1000163

Hausheer, F. H.; Parker, A. R.; Petluru, P. N.; Jair, K. W.; Chen, S.; Huang, Q.; Chen, X.; Ayala, P. Y.; Shanmugarajah, D.; Kochat, H. “Mechanistic study of BNP7787-mediated cisplatin nephroprotection: modulation of human aminopeptidase” Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology 2011, 67(2), 381-391.

Hausheer, F. H.; Ding D.; Shanmugarajah, D.; Leverett, B. D.; Huang, Q.; Chen, X.; Kochat H.; Ayala, P. Y.; Petluru, P. N.; Parker, A. R. “Accumulation of BNP7787 in Human Renal Proximal Tubule Cells”, Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2011, 100(9), 3977-3984.

Hausheer, F. H.; Shanmugarajah, D.; Leverett, B. D.; Chen, X.; Huang, Q.; Kochat H.; Petluru, P. N.; Parker, A. R. “Mechanistic study of BNP7787-mediated cisplatin nephroprotection: modulation of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase.” Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology 2010, 65(5), 941-951.

Shanmugarajah, D.; Ding, D.; Huang, Q.; Chen, X.; Kochat, H.; Petluru, P. N.; Ayala, P. Y.; Parker, A. R.; Hausheer, F. H. “Analysis of BNP7787 thiol-disulfide exchange reactions in phosphate buffer and human plasma using microscale electrochemical high performance liquid chromatography.” Journal of Chromatography, B: Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences 2009, 877(10), 857-866.

Comins, D. L.; Chen, X.; Larry, M., “Enantiopure N-Acyldihydropyridones as Synthetic Intermediates: Asymmetric Synthesis of (-)-Septicine and (-)-Tylophorine”, Journal Organic Chemistry, 1997, 62, 7435.

Comins, D. L.; LaMunyon, D. H.; Chen, X., “Enantiopure N-Acyldihydropyridones as Synthetic Intermediates: Asymmetric Synthesis of Indolizidine Alkaloids (-)-205A, (-)-207A and (-)-235B”, Journal Organic Chemistry. 1997, 62, 8182.

Comins, D. L.; Joseph, S. P.; Hong, H.; Al-awar, R. S.; Forti, C. J.; Zhang, Y.; Chen, X. LaMunyon, D. H.; Guerra-Weltzien, M., “Asymmetric Synthesis and Synthetic Utility of 2,3-dihydro-4-pyridones”, Pure & Applied Chemistry 1997, 69, 477.

Comins, D. L.; Chen, X.; Joseph, S. P., “Synthesis of 2, 4-Disubstituted N-Acyl-5, 6-dihydro-2-pyridones”, Tetrahedron Letters 1996, 37, 9275.

Comins, D. L.; Joseph, S. P.; Chen, X., “Regiospecific Substitution of N-Acyl-2, 3-dihydro-4-pyridones at C-5 via Halogenation and Cross-coupling”, Tetrahedron Letters, 1995, 36, 9141.

Wang, Y., Chen, X., et al, “Effect of Plasma Protein Binding on the in vitro activity of Karenitecin (BNP1350) and Other Camptothecins”, American Association for Cancer Research, 97th Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2006

Yao, S., Chen, X., et al, “Pharmacological Mechanisms Behind the Extended Stability of Karenitecin, A Novel Camptothecin Analogue: Potential Role of -1-Acid Glycoprotein in Chemotherapeutic Efficacy”, American Association For Cancer Research, 96th Annual Meeting, Anaheim, 2005

Ma,H., Chen, X., et al, “Investigation of the uptake of Tavocept into Dorsal Root Ganglia (DRG) cells”, American Association for Cancer Research, 96th Annual Meeting, Anaheim, 2005

Yao, S., Chen, X., et al, “Pharmacological Mechanisms Behind the Extended Stability of Karenitecin, A Novel Camptothecin Analogue: Potential Role of -1-Acid Glycoprotein in Chemotherapeutic Efficacy”, American Association for Cancer Research, 96th Annual Meeting, Anaheim, 2005

Ding, D., Chen, X., et al, “Further investigation of the mechanism(s) of action of Tavocept and preliminary studies on its protective ability as a free radical scavenger”, American Association for Cancer Research, 95th Annual Meeting, Orlando, 2004

Yao, S., Chen, X., et al, “Molecular Modeling and Simulation Data Applied to the Study of Experimentally Observed Physiologically Relevant Interactions of Karenitecin, a Novel Highly Lipophilic Camptothecin Analogue”, American Association for Cancer Research, 95th Annual Meeting, Orlando, 2004

Ding, D., Chen, X., et al, “Nucleic acid binding preferences and intracellular distribution of Karenitecin (BNP1350), a novel highly lipophilic camptothecin analogue”, American Association for Cancer Research, 94th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2003

Yao, S., Chen, X., et al, “Studies of the protein binding properties of Karenitecin (BNP1350), a novel highly lipophilic camptothecin analogue”, American Association for Cancer Research, 94th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2003

Ma,H., Chen, X., et al, “Development of a new pathophysiological and pharmacological model of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neurotoxicity: Preliminary results from histopathological studies on fetal rat dorsal root ganglion cells”, American Association for Cancer Research, 94th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2003

Hausheer, F., Chen, X., et al, “Studies on the potential mechanism(s) underlying the neuroprotective and nephroprotective effects of BNP7787”, American Association for Cancer Research, 94th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2003

Hausheer, F., Kochat, H., Chen, X., et al, “BNP1350s (Karenitecin) Superior Molecular Characteristics: Enhanced Therapeutic Performance of Novel, Lipophilic, Lactone Stable Camptothecin Analogues”, American Association for Cancer Research, 92th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2001

Hausheer, F., Kochat, H., Chen, X., et al, “BNP7787: A Novel Neuroprotective Agent in Taxane and Platinum Regimens Does not Interfere with Chemotherapeutic Effects”, American Association for Cancer Research, 92th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2001

Hausheer, F., Kochat, H., Chen, X., et al, “Karenitecin: Further Developments With BNP1350 – A Novel, Highly Lipophilic, Lactone Stable Camptothecin”, American Association for Cancer Research, 91th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2000

Hausheer, F., Kochat, H., Chen, X., et al, “BNP7787: A Novel Chemoprotecting Agent for Taxane and Platinum Toxicity”, American Association for Cancer Research, 91th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2000

Hausheer, F., Kochat, H., Chen, X., et al, “Karenitecin: New preclinical developments with BNP1350 a novel, potent highly lipophilic camptothecin”, American Association for Cancer Research, 90th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, April 10-14, 1999

Comins, D. L.; Chen, X.; Joseph, S. P, “Synthesis of 5-Substituted-2, 3- dihydropyridones”, 109th North Carolina Section Conference, American Chemical Society, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, April 22, 1995

Ying “Caroline” Chen, D.B.A., CPA, CMA, is an Assistant Professor of Accounting in the Greehey School of Business at St. Mary’s University. She has more than 10 years of experience in higher education and three years in the hotel industry’s internal control. Chen earned her doctorate in accounting from Davis College of Business, Jacksonville University, in April 2019.

Her research interests include earnings management, capital structure, operating efficiency, accounting education and accounting information systems. Her scholarly work has been published in the peer-reviewed journal of her discipline. She has presented her research at the American Accounting Association annual meetings and serves as a reviewer for academic conferences and peer-reviewed journals.

Chen has taught various courses, including Accounting Principles, Managerial Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, Accounting Data Analytics, Financial Statement Analysis, Intermediate Accounting, Advanced Accounting, and Accounting for Decision Making. She emphasizes incorporating analytical and critical thinking skills into Accounting courses to offer students a competitive advantage to succeed in their future professional field.

Ph.D., Oklahoma State University
M.A., University of the Incarnate Word
B.A., University of the Incarnate Word

Freshman Composition
Advanced Composition
American Literature
British Literature
Critical Theory
International Film
Foundations of Communication
Feminist Theory

Mallory Coley, Ph.D. currently teaches as a full-time lecturer/instructor for the English Language and Literature Department at St. Mary’s University. In this capacity, she has taught undergraduate English courses and graduate English as well as Communication graduate and under graduate courses too. 

Her teaching style relies on discussion and lecture as well as group work and her philosophy for teaching is simple: when you show your passion, there’s a good chance the student will become passionate too. Dr. Coley’s aim is to show students how the liberal arts environment connects so many disciplines with each other.

In her literature classes, Dr. Coley brings in a cultural ideological approach to the course work, relying on her acumen in post-modern theory to help flesh out the time periods being studied.

Lt. Col. Steve Conrad enlisted in the Army on August 6, 1990, serving as an infantryman and x-ray technologist. He was awarded the Army’s Green to Gold Scholarship in July 1999 and received a Bachelor of Science in management science in May 2001 from Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2001, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant through Morgan State University’s ROTC program in Baltimore.

His military education includes the Aviation Officer Basic Course, Aviation Captain’s Career Course and the Command and General Staff Officer Course. He also holds a Master of Science in Administration with a concentration in Public Administration from Central Michigan University.

Conrad completed flight school at Fort Rucker, Alabama, in 2002 as a UH-60 pilot. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 82nd Aviation Regiment as an assistant S-3 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. While at Fort Bragg, Conrad deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as an air assault platoon leader and flew more than 150 combat hours. In 2005, Conrad was reassigned to HHC, 2nd Battalion, 82nd Aviation Regiment and served as the sole U.S. Army Liaison to the U.S. Embassy in Nassau, Bahamas, in support of Operation Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, a joint, multi-national, counterdrug operation. In 2007, he serve as a rear detachment battalion commander to the 2nd Battalion, 82nd Aviation Regiment. From 2008 to 2010, Conrad served as company commander of the Warrior Transition Battalion at Fort Bragg.

In 2010, he was assigned as the aviation officer in the Combined Operations and Intelligence Center for Coalition Forces Land Component Command and U.S. Army Central in Kuwait. Following this assignment, Conrad redeployed and PCSed to Fort Rucker to serve as an aviation accident investigator at the U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center and deployed multiple times to Afghanistan. In 2013, he was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 13th Aviation Regiment as the battalion S-3.

Conrad PCSed to the Great Place of Fort Hood, Texas, in 2014. While at Fort Hood, he was assigned as an executive officer for both the 2nd and 3rd Battalions, 227th Aviation Regiment and deployed to Europe in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve. He PCSed to Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, in 2016, and served as the senior personnel management officer for the U.S. Army Physical Evaluation Board. He assumed battalion command of the 1-222 Aviation Regiment at Fort Eustis, Virginia, in 2020. Conrad was selected to serve as a Professor of Military Science at St. Mary’s University and later PCSed back to San Antonio, Texas, in 2022.��

Conrad is married to the former Yolanda Johnson and they have three daughters, Nyah, Stevie and Jaime.

Awards and Decorations

Meritorious Service Medal
Air Medal
Army Commendation Medal
Army Achievement Medal
Army Aviation Association of America’s honorable Order of St. Michael bronze medal

Skill Badges

Expert Infantry Badge
Expert Field Medical Badge
Aviators Badge
Basic Parachutists Badge
Combat Actions Badge
Air Assault Badge
German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge

Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCA), 2003
B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz, 1995

Verónica Contreras-Shannon, Ph.D., is a Professor of Biological Sciences. She teaches a number of courses including General Biology for Majors, Cell and Molecular Methods Lab, and Toxicology. Contreras incorporates evidence-based practices like student engagement and course-based research experiences into the classes she teaches. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Award from the St. Mary’s Alumni Association for excellence in teaching.

In addition to teaching, Contreras is Program Director for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (URISE) program, and previously, the Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research (U*STAR). Both programs provide St. Mary’s students with a two-year training program designed to give them the technical, operational, and professional skills necessary to transition into research-focused higher degree programs and the biomedical or behavioral sciences workforce. Contreras is committed to training the next generation of scientists and ensuring that all undergraduates in the School of Science, Engineering, and Technology can take advantage of undergraduate research experiences and the academic benefits of research.

Contreras is actively engaged in biomedical research. Her research extensively involves undergraduate students to study 1) the mechanism of metabolic side effects associated with certain atypical antipsychotics, and 2) the role of the cytoskeleton during various cell phenomena associated with disease. In 2018, she received a Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Pilot Project Award (SC2) from the NIH to study “Specific Beta-tubulin Isotype Involvement in Foam Cell Formation and Progression of Atherosclerosis.” In 2012 and 2023 91ߣ����Ƶ, she was the recipient of the Undergraduate Research Mentor Award from the St. Mary’s Alumni Association and the Senior Faculty Research Mentoring Award from the Office of Student Research and Inquiry, respectively. Contreras has been an active member of the American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) since 2005; she serves on the ASIP Leadership Council and as the Chair for Career Development Committee (2021 – 2027).

Contreras earned her bachelor’s in Biology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. After earning her B.A., she participated in research at Los Alamos National Lab in Los Alamos, New Mexico studying the application of supercritical fluids in polymer synthesis. Later, she earned her doctorate from the Department of Biochemistry in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences where she elucidated the role of three differentially compartmentalized isozymes of NADP⁺-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase in yeast.

After completing her doctoral work in 2003, she completed two postdoctoral fellowships addressing the molecular mechanisms associated with disease states. During Contreras-Shannon’s first fellowship, she examined how the regeneration of damaged muscle was influenced by inflammatory cells following injury. During her second fellowship, she studied the functional role of proteins encoded by genes that were found to be amplified in prostate cancer. She is trained in the Pathobiology of Occlusive Vascular Disease, Immunology, Muscle Regeneration, Genetics and Cancer Biology. Contreras was a first-generation college student. She was the first in her large extended family to participate in scientific research as an undergraduate and then pursue a doctorate in the biomedical sciences.�� When Contreras is not “actively” being a scientist, she spends time with her family and pets. When she had time for hobbies, they used to include puzzles, yoga, hiking, natural science illustration, and a love for birds.

Stertz L, Contreras-Shannon V, Monroy-Jaramillo N, Sun J, Walss-Bass C.  BACE1-Deficient Mice Exhibit Alterations in Immune System Pathways. Molecular neurobiology 2018, 55(1), 709–717. PMID: 28004339

Gray C and Contreras-Shannon V. Research and Teaching: Using Models from the Literature and Iterative Feedback to Teach Students to Construct Effective Data Figures for Poster Presentations. J College Science Teaching 2017; 46(3): 74-82.

Torres A, and Contreras-Shannon V. Characterization of Beta Tubulin Isotypes During Foam Cell Formation. 2017.bioRxiv 141457; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/141457 (preprint)

Contreras-Shannon V, Heart D*, Catano G, Maffi S, Navaira E, and Walss-Bass C. Clozapine-induced mitochondria alterations and inflammation in brain and insulin-responsive cells. PLoS One 2013 Mar; 8(3):e59012.

Winklmeier A, Contreras-Shannon V, Arndt S, Melle C, Bosserhoff A-K. Cadherin-7 interacts with melanoma inhibitory activity protein and negatively modulates melanoma cell migration. Cancer Sci 2009 Feb; 100(2):261-8.

Shireman PK, Contreras-Shannon V, Ochoa O, Karia BP, Michalek JE, McManus LM. MCP-1 deficiency causes altered inflammation with impaired skeletal muscle regeneration. J Leukoc Biol 2007 Mar; 81(3):775-785.

Contreras-Shannon V, Ochoa O, Reyes-Reyna SM, Sun D, Michalek JE, Kuziel WA, McManus LM, Shireman PK. Fat accumulation with altered inflammation and regeneration in skeletal muscle of CCR2-/- mice following ischemic injury. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2007 Feb; 292(2):c953-c967.

Shireman PK, Contreras-Shannon V, Reyes-Reyna SM, Robinson SC, McManus LM. MCP-1 parallels inflammatory and regenerative responses in ischemic muscle. J Surg Res 2006 Jul; 134(1):145-157.

Zúñiga JE, Groppe JC, Cui Y, Hinck CS, Contreras-Shannon V, Pakhomova ON, Yang J, Tang Y, Mendoza V, López-Casillas F, Sun L, Hinck AP. Assembly of TbetaRI:TbetaRII:TGFbeta ternary complex in vitro with receptor extracellular domains is cooperative and isoform-dependent. J Mol Biol. 2005 Dec; 354(5):1052-1068. PMID: 16289576 

Contreras-Shannon V, Lin AP, McCammon MT, McAlister-Henn L.. Kinetic properties and metabolic contributions of yeast mitochondrial and cytosolic NADP+-specific isocitrate dehydrogenases. J Biol Chem. 2005 Feb; 280(6):4469-4475. PMID: 15574419

Contreras-Shannon V and McAlister-Henn L. Influence of compartmental localization on the function of yeast NADP+-specific isocitrate dehydrogenases. Arch Biochem Biophys. 2004 Mar; 423(2):235-246. PMID: 15001388

• M.S., University of Texas at San Antonio, 2012
• B.S., National University of Colombia at Medellin, 2005

Miguel Cortina Ponton is an Instructor of Engineering in the St. Mary’s University. He joined St. Mary’s in August 2017 as an adjunct professor.

Cortina received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Colombia at Medellin in 2005. He obtained his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) in 2012. He is working on his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at UTSA.

Prior to joining St. Mary’s, Cortina worked as a project engineer for Indisa-Hatch in Colombia from 2008 to 2010, research assistant for the Reliability and Visualization Laboratory at UTSA from 2010 to 2012, and research assistant for the Multiphase Flow Laboratory at UTSA from 2012 to 2016. He also was a lecturer for the Mechanical Engineering department at UTSA from 2016 to 2018.

Cortina’s main research area includes computational fluid dynamics for multiphase flow, specifically the application of Lagrangian methods such as smoothed particle hydrodynamics for the study of heat and mass transfer in particulate flow. He is also interested in probabilistic analysis and reliability applied to engineering problem such as the application of sensitivities analysis method to fracture mechanics problems.

Ph.D., Rice University, 2010
M.A., Wake Forest University, 2005
B.A., Southwestern University, 2000

Organizational Behavior
Organizational Psychology (Graduate)
Advanced Statistics (Graduate)

Aging Workforce Issues
Corporate Culture
Diversity
Training and Development
Workplace Health and Safety, Leadership

Cody Cox, Ph.D., received his doctorate from Rice University in 2010 and has taught undergraduate and graduate students in business and psychology programs. Cox teaches in the Industrial/Organizational Psychology Graduate Program and the Greehey Business School at St. Mary’s University. He teaches graduate courses on training and development, multivariate statistics, organizational behavior, organizational psychology and human resource management. At the undergraduate level, he teaches courses on organizational behavior and has taught courses on research methods, leadership, social psychology, psychological measurement and industrial/organizational psychology.

Cox won the National Society of Leadership and Success Excellence in Teaching Award in 2015. He joined St. Mary’s in 2016 after teaching at Texas A&M University-San Antonio and the University of Texas at Brownsville.

Since receiving his Ph.D., Cox has published 17 peer-reviewed empirical papers, given 40 presentations at regional and national professional conferences, one of which was awarded the Best Symposium by a division of the Academy of Management. He has supervised numerous master’s theses. His current research focuses on talent development and workplace diversity with an emphasis on issues related to the generational differences and the aging workforce. Cox is an active member of the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology, SHRM, the Academy of Management and the San Antonio Human Resource Management Association.

Cox, C. B., Barron, L., Davis, W., de la Garza, B. (in press). Using Situational Judgment
Tests (SJTs) in Training Delivery: Development and Evaluation of a Structured, Low-Fidelity Scenario-Based Training Method. Personnel Review.

Bohmann, A., & Cox, C. B. (in press). The Emergency Responsiveness Scale.
Current Psychology.

Cox, C. B. & Coulton, G. (2015). Fire all the Boomers : How generational labelling
legitimizes age discrimination. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice

Cox, C. B., Johnson, J., & Coyle, T. (2015). Coping strategies moderate the
relationships between exposure to community violence and workplace outcomes. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 20, 348-358.

Cox, C. B., Yang, Y. & Bohmann, A. (2014). What do collectivists want in a mentor?
A model of protégé culture, mentorship expectations, and performance, The Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 13, 359-376.

Cox, C. B. (2014). Miles to go: Continuing to explore the effects of stereotype threat
on older trainees. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 7, 466-468.

Cox, C. B., & Beier, M. E. (2014). Too old to train or reprimand: Evaluating the effect
of Intergroup Attribution Bias in the evaluations of older workers. Journal of Business and Psychology, 29, 61-70.

Ruggs, E., Law, C., Cox, C. B., Roehling, M., Weiner, R., Hebl, M., Barron, L. (2013).
Gone fishin’: I-O psychologists’ missed opportunities to understand marginalized employees’ experiences with discrimination. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 6, 39-60. doi: 10.1111/iops.12007

Cox, C. B. & Barron, L. (2012). The effect of changing anti-discrimination legal
standards on the evaluation of older workers. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 42, E198-E221. doi: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2012.01040.x

Beier, M. E., Teachout, M. S., & Cox, C. B. (2012). The training and development of an
aging workforce. To appear in J. W. Hedge & W. C. Borman (Eds.), Work and Aging Handbook (pp. 436-453). New York: Oxford University Press.

Cox, C. B., & Yang, Y. (2012). Getting off on the wrong foot: Longitudinal effects of
Hispanic students’ stability attributions following poor initial test performance. Learning and Individual Differences, 22, 123-127.

Ruiz, N., Pacheco, L. F., Farrell, B., Cox, C. B., Ermolinsky, B. S., Garrido-Sanabria, E.
R., & Nair. S. (2011) Metabolic gene expression changes in the hippocampus of obese epileptic male rats in the pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy. Brain Research.

Crook, A. E., Beier, M. E., Cox, C. B., Kell, H. J., Hanks, A. R., & Motowidlo, S. J.
(2011). Measuring relationships between personality, knowledge, and performance using single response situational judgment tests. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 19, 363-373.

Cox, C. B., & Beier, M. E. (2009). The effects of the framing of courses on interest:
Age, self-efficacy efficacy, and goal orientation as moderators. The International Journal of Training and Development, 13, 247-261.

Leary, M. R., & Cox, C. B. (2008). Belongingness motivation: A mainspring of social
action. In J. Shah & W. Gardner (Eds.), Handbook of Motivation Science. New York: Guilford.

Cox, C. B., & Giuliano, T. (1999). Constructing obstacles versus making excuses: Examining perceiver’s reactions to behavioral and self-reported self-handicapping. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 14, 419-432.

Monica Cruz, Ph.D. earned her doctorate in Applied Demography at UTSA and her master’s degree at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin. She currently serves as the State Data Center Lead for the Texas Demographic Center, where she is a liaison for state and local governmental units regarding demographic-related research. She has worked as a legislative aide for the Texas Senate, as a program director for the City of San Antonio, and with other non-profit organizations as a policy analyst and researcher.

Prior to pursuing doctoral studies, Cruz served as Assistant Director of the McNair Scholar’s Program at St. Mary’s University and as Director of the Ettling Center for Civic Leadership at the University of the Incarnate Word.

Colton L. Daniels, Ph.D., joined St. Mary’s University in 2022 with the goal of providing students a chance to engage in criminological understandings of delinquent and criminal behaviors and promoting active student research. A San Antonio native, Daniels has previously taught at the University of Texas at San Antonio and Texas Lutheran University.

He has published on a wide array of topics that include public health behaviors and attitudes with a focus on military members with HIV and the effects it has on a myriad of health-related effects and behaviors, the impact of personality traits on the prevalence of intimate partner violence, and how religious beliefs and practices can dampen the effect of risk-taking behaviors.

Ph.D., University of Nebraska at Lincoln
M.A., University of Nebraska-Omaha
B.A., University of Texas at Austin

Qualitative Research Methods
Communication Studies
Business Communication
British Literature
International Literature

Bonita Dattner Pfleiger, Ph.D. teaches both graduate and undergraduate level courses in the areas of Contemporary Literary Theory, Communication Research Methods, British Literature,  International Literature, Composition. 

She has taught Qualitative Communication Studies for the Communication Department and has served on the admissions and review board for the Graduate Communication Program’s M.A. candidates. She was also on the Advisory Board for the McGraw Hill Annual Editions Publication of Mass Media and has reviewed textbooks for publishers.

Her focus on critical action research has proved to be useful in her numerous years of teaching Civic Engagement and Social Action. Her research has focused on organizational behavioral practices as they regard a corporation’s relationship with its consumers and interest groups. Her article “The Strategic Raiding of a Campaign Discourse of Change”&�Բ�����;was the outcome of this research. 

Dattner Pfleiger also enjoys reading and examining cultural and postcolonial theories, exploring both the interpersonal and intrapsychic social relations that take place within various kinds of cultures. Her ongoing research, both in and outside the classroom, examines how various conceptual systems limit and engender the dynamics that take place.

2010: “The Strategic  Raiding of a Campaign Discourse of Change,” The International Journal of the Humanities, 8(3), 199-205.

1999: Identity through the Social Phenomenon of Sadomasochism in Conrad, Wilde, and Poe,” DAI: 48(1999): 2089A

“Technology in the Classroom: Using a Crowd-Sourced Database  for Education.” Summer Faculty Institute on Learning Technologies,  St Mary’s University, 2015

“Intertextuality in the Classroom.” The Association of Texas Colleges & Universities (ATCU) Our Lady of the lake University, 2004.

“Intertextual Literacy: Rescuing the Theory  of Reading from the Anarchy of Pure Subjectivism.” Guest speaker, St Mary’s University, 2002

Derek J. Delgado was born and raised in El Paso, Texas, a city along the U.S.-Mexico border, where the rich influences of both cultures inspired an interest in identity studies. He is the author of several works of short fiction, including “Sweat Pea” (The Thing Itself, 2008) and was a finalist for the Artist Foundation of San Antonio for Literature (2011). His academic research includes work interrogating identity through the sport of boxing in American literature and journalism.

Delgado received his B.A. from St. Mary’s University, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is currently completing his Ph.D. at the University of Texas San Antonio. He lives in San Antonio with his twin sons and teaches courses in Rhetoric and Composition, Literature and Food, and Literature and Medicine.  

Delgado presented his non-fiction essay, “Fire Watchers” for Gemini Ink’s Con el Córazon en la Mano: Writers Respond to Art in SAMA’s Latin American Collection. In 2011, he was named a finalist for the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers.

University of South Dakota, B.F.A.

• Introduction to Stagecraft
• Special Studies in Drama

• Technical theatre design

Dion Denevan has served in this capacity of Technical Director and Designer in the Department of Drama since fall 2008. Before his position here at St. Mary’s University, he worked as a technical director and designer for educational, community and professional theatres having designed and supervised more than 100 shows.

Work History

Educational
Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Sioux Falls University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota (Freelance)
USD, Vermillion, South Dakota
Vermillion High School, Vermillion, South Dakota (Freelance)
Lewis & Clark Playhouse, Yankton, South Dakota
St. Mary’s University, San Antonio (Present)

Community
Sioux Empire Community Playhouse, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
The Point Theatre , Ingram
JCC Children’s Theatre Program, San Antonio

Professional
Granbury Opera House (20 shows in two years), Granbury
The Texas Family Musicals (six shows in four months), Granbury
The Zach Scott Theatre Center, Austin (Construction Crew)
Lighting designer for Glen Roses The Promise, Glen Rose (Freelance)

Freelance
Scenic and Lighting Designer since 1986
St. Mary’s Music Department’s Opera Workshop
Jewish Community Center Children’s program
B:Mo Productions
Lighting Designer for Glen Rose

Currently for B:Mo Productions (Bobby McMorris) three original shows

Ph.D., The University of Texas-Pan American, 2011
M.S., EGADE Business School (Monterrey Tech), 2004
B.S., ITESM (Monterrey Tech), 1999

Violeta Díaz is Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Finance at the Greehey School of Business. Díaz is an award-winning researcher with 20 years of teaching experience. She is the Faculty Advisor for the $3.7 million Student Managed Fund and teaches Investments and Seminar in Finance. Prior to joining St. Mary’s University, she was Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University for five years where she led the banking program and taught varied undergraduate and graduate courses. Before earning her Ph.D. in Finance from The University of Texas-Pan American, she taught at Monterrey Tech in Monterrey, Mexico.

Her recent scholarly work has been published in top journals in her discipline, such as the Journal of Banking and Finance, Managerial Finance, and Financial Research Letters. She has presented her research at the Financial Management Association (FMA), the American Economic Association (AEA), and other major academic conferences in the U.S. and abroad. She frequently serves her profession as a reviewer for academic conferences and peer-reviewed journals. At St. Mary’s, she serves as the faculty advisor for the Association of Latino Professionals for America (ALPFA) and the St. Mary’s Investments Club.

Díaz regularly mentors students and prepares them for finance competitions, internships, and graduate school. She is passionate about diversity and inclusion and being a role model, not only to her students, but also to her lovely daughters, Teresa and Mercedes.

Diaz, V., Ibrushi, D., and Zhao, J.. (2021). Reconsidering Systematic Factors During the Covid-19 Pandemic – The Rising Importance of ESG. Finance Research Letters (38).

Diaz, V., Sankaran, H., Ayer, S. R. (2018). The Information Content of an Increase in Federal Funds Rate from a Zero Lower Bound Environment. Managerial Finance (2), 257-277.

Diaz, V., Huang, Y. (2017). The Role of Governance on Bank Liquidity Creation. Journal of Banking and Finance, 77, 137-156.

Diaz, V., Hales, A. D. (2015). Issuing Level 2 vs. Level 3 ADRs: Do Country Characteristics Matter? Journal of International Business Research, 14(2), 67-74.

Sankaran, H., Diaz, V., Espinosa, S. (2013). The Structure and Estimation of Bi-National Bonds as a Mechanism to Finance the Strategic Infrastructure in the US-Mexico Border Region. Journal of Structured Finance, 19(2), 71-88.

Diaz, V., Soydemir, G. (2013). Regional Foreclosures and Mexican Remittances: Evidence from the Housing Market Crisis. North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 24(1), 74-86.

Diaz, V. (2012). The Effect of Liberalization on Banking Efficiency: Evidence form the Five Largest Banks in Mexico. North American Journal of Finance and Banking Research, 6(6), 27-38.

Distinguished Faculty Award, St. Mary’s University, 2020
Best Paper Award, Southwestern Finance Association, 2016
Jentz Fellowship, Graduate Banking School at the University of Colorado at Boulder, 2014
Outstanding Junior Research Award, New Mexico State University, 2014
Dissertation Session Panelist, American Economic Association, 2011

Ph.D., Florida State University
M.A., Southern Methodist University
B.A., Baylor University

Capstone Seminar: Prospects for Community and Civilization
Civic Engagement and Social Action
General Psychology
First Year Seminar
Higher education, institutional change, the administrator’s role in the university
Service learning
Ageism, sexism, racism
Prejudice and stereotyping
Unobtrusive and nonreactive measures of social behavior
Focus of the Social Sciences for the Honors Program

Janet Dizinno, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies. She teaches classes in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and in the core curriculum. She is proud of the University’s reputation as a campus that is engaged with the larger community, as well as its being an institution that has a clearly defined, highly respected Catholic, Marianist, Hispanic-Serving, liberal arts identity.

She is the former dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at St. Mary’s University, with nearly 20 years of dedicated service as dean. Dizinno has been a leading advocate for the liberal arts, emphasizing St. Mary’s University’s foundations in the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, teacher education and military science.

Her recent collaborative service work includes contributions to St. Mary’s core curriculum, the development of the first-year seminar, and planning efforts toward the University’s identity as an institution that is committed to community engagement.

St. Mary’s University (2019). Re-Classification for Community Engagement Application: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Dizinno, J. B. (2016) St. Mary’s University’s partnership with ROTC.  Presentation to Hispanic Serving Institutions workshop hosted by cadet command April 2016, San Antonio, Texas.

Dizinno, J. B.  (2014) Things I wished I had known when I took the dean’s job. Roundtable conducted at the annual meeting of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, San Antonio, Texas.

Dizinno, J. B. (2013) Setting your work (service learning work) within your institution. “Diving In Institute” sponsored by Campus Compact.

Dizinno, J. B. (2009). The dean’s role in resolving conflict within departments Roundtable conducted at the annual meeting of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland.

Alderman, R., Gaier, N. G., Lopez, G., Winston, M., and Dizinno, J. (2008). Academic success in a diverse student population. Team participation at the summer academy of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, Lumina Foundation for Education, Birmingham, Alabama.

Dizinno, J. B. (2006). Institutional change and Kubler-Ross’s stages of dying: Some parallels. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Texas Association of Deans of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Dizinno, J.B. (2001). Critical studies as a retention tool. Paper presented at the meeting of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences.

Dizinno, J. B. (2000). Moving into the deanship. Panel chair for the meeting of the National Conference of Academic Deans, Denton, Texas.

Dizinno, J. B. (1999). The care and feeding of the academic administrator: How can institutional researchers and academic administrators collaborate more effectively? Paper presented at the meeting of the Southern Association of Institutional Research.

Dizinno, J. B. & Silva, W. (1998).  Using multiple methods in assessing the academic major.  Round table paper presented at the meeting of the Southern Association of Institutional Research, Savannah, Georgia.

Dizinno, J. B. (1998). Using a standardized test as an assessment tool in the major. In C. Olney (Chair), Assessment in the major. Panel presented at the meeting of the Texas Association for Institutional Research, Austin, Texas.

Dizinno, J. B.  (1996). A capstone course for undergraduate psychology majors. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Psychology Society’s Institute on the Teaching of psychology, San Francisco, California.

Dizinno, J. B. (1994). The faculty member’s role in orientation. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Orientation Directors’ Association, San Antonio, Texas.

Dizinno, J.B. (1993). Teaching the psychology of aging: Assignments that work. Paper presented at the National Science Foundation summer institute of the psychology of aging, College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota.

Dizinno, J. B. (1993). Developing a capstone course for psychology majors. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Social Science Association, San Antonio, Texas.

Dizinno, J. B. (1990). Interrelationships of tobacco, caffeine, and alcohol use among participants of an Air force-sponsored health promotion program. Report to the USAF/Universal Energy Systems Summer Faculty Research Program.

Hayden, S. R. & Dizinno, J. B. (1988). Program evaluation issues: Assessment of a management training course. Paper presented at the meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Dizinno, J. B. (1987). Predicting pro-social behavior with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Paper presented at the meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dizinno, J. B. & Friedman, K. (1987). Harassment vs. behavior: The effects of wording on questionnaire responses. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, New York, New York.

Yeo, R. A. & Belew (Dizinno), J. E. (1986). Social and neuropsychological aspects of aging. Paper presented at the professional update conference, Charter Sunrise Hospital, sponsored by the University of New Mexico’s Department of Psychology, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Dizinno, J. B. (1986). Sexual harassment on a college campus: Measurement issues. Paper presented at the meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Fort Worth, Texas

Folger, R., & Belew (Dizinno), J. (1985) Nonreactive measurement: A focus for research on absenteeism and occupational stress. Research in Organizational Behavior, 7, 129-179.

Belew (Dizinno), J. E. (1985). Photography as a nonreactive measure of attitudes. Paper presented at the meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Austin, Texas.

Belew (Dizinno), J. E. (1984). Age and quality: A nonreactive measurement of prejudice. Paper presented at the meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, New Orleans,      Louisiana.

Crossen, J., Dougher, M., & Belew (Dizinno), J. (1984). Comparison of reactive and nonreactive measures of smoking cessation at follow-up. Addictive Behaviors, 9, 295-298.

Belew (Dizinno), J. E. (1983). The relative merits of littering and interviewing for the assessment of attitudes. Paper presented at the meeting of the Southwestern Psychological   Association, San Antonio, Texas

Sechrest, L., & Belew (Dizinno), J. (1983). Nonreactive measures of social attitudes. Applied Social Psychology Annual, 4, 23-63.

Webb, E.J., Campbell, D. T., Scwartz, R.D., Sechrest, L., & Grove (Dizinno), J. Belew (1981), Nonreactive measures in the social sciences, (2^nd ed.).  Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Atkins, M., Belew (Dizinno), J. E., Licht, M. H., & Pelham, W. E., Jr. (1981). Classroom behavioral observations in the diagnosis of attention deficit disorder. In W. E. Pelham, Jr., (Chair) Identification and diagnosis of children with attention deficit disorder/hyperactivity. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

Sechrest, L., & Grove (Dizinno), J. Belew. (1980). Toward a generative taxonomy of unobtrusive measures. In L. Sechrest (Chair), Current research on unobtrusive measures. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

Clark, R.D., III, Sechrest, L., & Grove (Dizinno), J. Belew. (1980). Attitude assessment of fraternity members using unobtrusive measures. In L. Sechrest (Chair), Current research on unobtrusive measures. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

Cosgrove, R., Sechrest, L., & Grove (Dizinno), J. Belew. (1980). The lost letter technique: What does it measure? In L. Sechrest (Chair), Current research on unobtrusive measures. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

Folger, R., Rosenfield, D., Grove (Dizinno), J. Belew, & Corkran, L. (1979). Effects of “voice” and peer opinions of responses to inequity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 2253-2261.

Ph.D., University of British Columbia (Canada)
M.A., Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales-FLACSO (Ecuador)
B.A., Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (Ecuador)

Feminism and Development
Critical Human Security
Human Rights
International Political Economy
Ethics in International Relations
Sustainable Development
Conflict Transformation
Inter-American Security Issues

Critical security studies
Border security
Human security
Latin American politics
Feminist international relations
Intersectional feminism

Claudia Donoso, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Graduate International Relations at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. She holds a B.A. in Social Communication and a M.A. in International Relations. She completed her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan. The topic of her doctoral research was Feminist Critical Human Security: Women’s (In) Security and Smuggling on Ecuador’s Borders. This research, which utilized qualitative methods, was carried out with a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.

In addition to her experience in academia, she worked as a Security Advisor for the Ecuadorian Government. From April 2007 to September 2010, she served as Security and Defense Advisor in the Ministry of Internal and External Security and as Human Security Consultant at the National Migrants Secretariat, the Ecuadorian Agency for International Cooperation and the National Secretariat of Intelligence. As Under Secretary of Sovereignty and Border Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she coordinated the visit of the General Secretary and the Verification Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS). The purpose of that visit was to show to the OAS Mission the effects of the Colombian conflict on Ecuador’s border region.

Donoso, Claudia (2020). “The Biopolitics of Migration: Ecuadorian Foreign Policy and Venezuelan Migratory Crisis,” Journal of Borderlands Studies, DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1713854

Donoso, Claudia (2020). “Securitisation of female asylum seekers and healthcare in detention centres in Texas,” Int. J. Migration and Border Studies. Vol. 6, No. 3, pp.186–205.

Donoso, Claudia (2019). “I was working!” Women Smugglers on Ecuador’s Borders. Espaço Acadêmico, 19 (219), 1-18.

Donoso, Claudia (2017). “Mujeres, inequidad y contrabando en las fronteras ecuatorianas.”&�Բ�����;Estado y Comunes No 5. Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales-IAEN.

Donoso, Claudia (2016). “Feminist Critical Human Security: Women’s (in) Security and Smuggling on Ecuador’s Borders.” Conference Proceedings June 1-3 2016, Canadian Association of Latin American Studies-CALACS. Latin America Research Centre, University of Calgary.

Donoso, Claudia y James Rochlin (2015). “Analytical Conclusions.” In: Profits, Security and Human Rights in Colombia – Regulating Canada’s Extractive Sector in Developing Countries. James Rochlin, editor. Routledge Press.

Donoso, Claudia (2011). Interdependencia en Seguridad en la Frontera Colombo-ecuatoriana: Propuesta de Política Pública. Editorial Académica Española.

Donoso, Claudia and Moreano, Hernán (2010). “Democratización de la Seguridad y la Defensa en Ecuador.” [Translated as Democratization of Security and Defense in Ecuador], Relaciones Internacionales No 38.

Bonilla, Adrián y Claudia Donoso (2010). “Defensa y democracia en América Latina: retos actuales y desafíos futuros.” En: La reconstrucción de la Seguridad Nacional, Defensa, democracia y cuestión militar en América Latina., Marcela Donadio (ed.). Buenos Aires: Prometeo.

Donoso, Claudia (2009). Ecuador-Perú: Evaluación de diez años de paz y desarrollo. Claudia Donoso (comp.). Quito: FLACSO-Ecuador, ESQUEL Foundation, and CAF-the Andean Foment Corporation.

Donoso, Claudia (2006). “Integración Regional: El Caso Ecuatoriano.” En: La integración latinoamericana: visiones regionales y subregionales.  [Translated as “Regional Integration: The Ecuadorian Case.” In: Latin American Integration: Regional and Sub-regional Visions] Francisco Rojas Aravena y Luis Guillermo Solis Rivera, coordinadores. San José: FLACSO – Secretaria General; Observatorio para las Relaciones Europa – América Latina (OBREAL); Ed. Juricentro.

Donoso, Claudia and Moreano, Hernán (2006). “Populismo y Neopopulismo en Ecuador.” [Translated as Populism and Neopopulism in Ecuador], Revista Opera. Universidad Externado, Colombia.

• 19th-century American literature
• Literature and medicine
• Digital humanities

Josh Doty, Ph.D., teaches American literature with an emphasis on the connections among writers, texts, and cultures. His teaching interests include American literature before 1900, critical theory, the digital humanities, and the medical humanities.

Doty’s research focuses on science and medicine in nineteenth-century American literature. His book, (UNC Press, Fall 2020) examines the intersection of medicine, health reform, and literature in the antebellum United States. His essays on literature, medicine, and culture have been published in journals such as Early American Literature, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, and The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. His current research project explores depictions of health and illness in Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

The Perfecting of Nature: Reforming Bodies in Antebellum Literature. University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

“Fourierism and Nervous Sympathy in The Blithedale Romance.”&�Բ�����;Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 45.1 (Spring, 2019): 26-45.

��ྱ������پ��Բ�&�Բ�����;Moby-Dick.”&�Բ�����;Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 19.1 (Spring, 2017): 85-101.

“Satire, Minstrelsy, and Embodiment in Sheppard Lee.”&�Բ�����;Early American Literature 51.1 (Spring, 2016): 131-156.

“William Faulkner’s Embodied Subjectivities.”&�Բ�����;Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature: Ethics and the Reconstitution of Subjectivity. Ed. Donald Wehrs. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2013. 111-131.

M.B.A., Texas A&M University, 1998
B.S., Texas A&M University, 1984
B.A., Texas A&M University, 1984

Managerial improvisation
Cultural integration
Internal marketing
Innovation
Mindset shifts

As a professor and now a senior lecturer, Diane Dowdell has designed and delivered courses in Organizational Culture, Leadership and Ethics, Team Performance and Productivity, Rapid Innovation, Marketing Principles, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Selling and Sales Management, Promotion, Organizational Improvisation, Marketing Research, and Marketing Strategy at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio and Texas A&M University in College Station.

She holds two bachelor degrees, a Master of Business Administration, and an ABD designation from her Aggie alma mater. For years, she has operated her own consulting firm, specializing in professional development, innovation management, brand evaluation, customer service issues, consumer behavior trends, global marketing, public relations, marketing communications and organizational identity. A native New Yorker who ended up at Texas A&M University through a series of mysterious events, Dowdell is dedicated to free-form teaching methods and the use of humor in seminars. She believes that it is a teacher’s sacred duty to engage her audience and, having accomplished this, to impart knowledge clearly, directly, and memorably.

As a consultant, Dowdell has administered various studies for both nonprofit and for-profit organizations in a variety of industries. For corporate clients, she has also developed and conducted courses and learning experiences in Critical Thinking, Problem Identification, Creative Problem Solving, Continuous Improvement, Strategic Improvisation, Navigating Personal Change, Bi-Directional Mentorship, Interaction Intelligence (involving unconscious bias), Dynamic Decision-Making, Emotional Intelligence, Tactical Empathy, Personal Branding, Team Building, Team Performance, Team Decision Making, Leadership, Collaboration, Communication, Innovation Management, and Change Management.

At Rackspace, Dowdell found a home. As Rackspace’s Global Learning and Development Architect, she (1) develops and delivers courses for Rackspace Leaders across all offices and all functions; (2) serves as an internal consultant on issues such as strategy, collaboration, communication, innovation management, and accountability; (3) acts as a mentor and executive coach; and (4) is having the most rewarding professional experience of her life.

Dowdell is a member of more than a dozen national honor societies and the Ph.D. Project, an organization of minority doctoral students and professors in Business. In May 2003, she was recognized for outstanding teaching effectiveness by the Texas A&M Department of Marketing, the Texas A&M College of Business, and the American Marketing Association. In November of 2006, she was awarded the Douglass Award for Innovative Teaching by St. Mary’s University. And, in February 2007, she was granted “Master Teacher” status, a nationally recognized designation of teaching excellence and innovation, by the Marketing Management Association. In 2009, she was a featured speaker on the National Coca-Cola Lecture Series. She enjoys writing poetry, listening to music, and making people laugh.

Ph.D, Rice University, 2009
M.A., Rice University, 2007
B.S., Texas Christian University, 2004

Ryan Dunning, Ph.D., joined the St. Mary’s University Department of Mathematics faculty in 2009. He received his bachelor of science in mathematics from Texas Christian University in 2004, and his master of arts and doctorate in mathematics from Rice University in 2007 and 2009, respectively.

His primary research interest is knot energy, with a current focus on the energy of knots in lattices. His teaching interests include inquiry-based learning.

Dunning serves as a Marianist Educational Associate. He is a member of the National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences and the San Antonio Community for Mathematics Inquiry in Teaching.

Dunning, R. Mathematical Logic for the Humanities. Journal of Inquiry-Based Learning in Mathematics. Issue 55. January 2023 91ߣ����Ƶ.

Dunning, R. Optimally Immersed Planar Curves Under Möbius Energy. Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications. Volume 20. Issue 10. October 2011.

Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2008
M.S., Texas A&M University, 2003
B.E., Bharathiar University (India), 2000

Industrial Engineering
Industrial Management

Gopalakrishnan Easwaran, Ph.D., has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from PSG College of Technology. He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in industrial and systems engineering from Texas A&M University.

Easwaran has industry experience from consultancy research projects for a variety of firms and government organizations including Master Halco, Frito-Lay, PepsiCo, City of San Antonio, NatureSweet, UPS, Fiesta Warehousing and Distribution, Season Group, and the South Texas Veterans Health Care System. He has published papers in peer-reviewed journals such as Interfaces, Naval Research Logistics, IIE Transactions and Transportation Science.

He referees research articles for internationally reputed journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Decision Sciences, Journal of Operational Research Society, Computers & Operations Research, Computers & Industrial Engineering, and Applied Math and Computation. He is also a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences.

Easwaran has served as the faculty adviser for the St. Mary’s IIE Student Chapter since fall 2012.

Easwaran has served as a mentor for students with McNair scholarship and Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship at St. Mary’s University. He is one of the organizers of the Pre-Engineering Summer Program at St. Mary’s and he is involved in teaching Operations Research techniques to high School students.

His research interests include supply chain management, international logistics, applied optimization, business intelligence and analytics, scheduling and sequencing, revenue management, and high performance computing.

Easwaran and his research team that worked on supply chain optimization for Frito-Lay was a finalist in the Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice. Easwaran’s logistics optimization research for the Solid Waste Management Department of the City of San Antonio was featured in the San Antonio Express-News. Also, his research publication on closed-loop supply chain network design was highlighted in IIE Transactions.

2012-2013 Distinguished Faculty Award; School of Science, Engineering and Technology

Christian Elguera, Ph.D., is a 91ߣ����Ƶing Assistant Professor of Spanish at St. Mary’s University. His research is concerned with the production and circulation of cultural translations by and about Amerindian peoples from the 16th century to present in Abiayala, particularly in Andean and Amazonian areas. His first book-manuscript, Traducciones territoriales: defensoras y defensores de tierras indígenas en Perú y Brasil (1960-2000), analyzes poems, chronicles, radio programs and paintings enacted by Quechua, Munduruku, Yanomami and Ticuna subjects in order to defy the dispossessions, extermination, and environmental destruction promoted by the Peruvian and Brazilian States. In this investigation, he considers translation as a linguistic tool that serves to produce networks between Quechua, Portuguese, English and Spanish speakers.

As an instructor, Elguera’s principal goal is to activate his students’ critical thinking skills. Every student has specific needs in a foreign language and culture class; each one interacts with the class materials and topics according to their interests and backgrounds in global cultures. He has tackled this issue by facilitating lively discussions in which everyone is encouraged and given the opportunity to participate, as a means to make students realize the importance of contributions in learning. His teaching methodology thus involves stimulating as well as guiding students’ participation in class, combined with giving them punctual lectures and explanations that clarify their specific doubts or questions.

As of 2020, Elguera works as an Indigenous Literature correspondent for Latin American Literature Today (LALT), a magazine sponsored by The University of Oklahoma. Considering his expertise in Indigenous Studies, his principal role has been to invite Amerindian writers to publish their works in LALT. His duties also involve translating literary pieces from Portuguese to Spanish, and from Quechua to English.

• Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2003
• M.S., Sharif University of Technology, 1997
• B.S., Sharif University of Technology, 1995

Ghebremeskel, V. Emamian , “ECG Arrhythmia Classification Using a Convolution Neural Network”, Engineering and Technology Journal, Vol 4 No 04 (2019): Volume 04, 30 April 2019, Page No.: 570-577

Rane, K. Shah, V. Emamian, “Blood Pressure Estimation Using Electrocardiogram and Photoplethysmogram”, International Journal of Science and Engineering, Page No. 20 to 25, December 2018.

Shah, M. Rane, V. Emamian, “Detection of Heart Defects using Electrocardiogram (ECG)”, Published in International Journal of Science and Engineering, Page No. 15 to 19, November 2018.

Savalia, V. Emamian, “Cardiac Arrhythmia Classification by Multi-Layer Perceptron and Convolution Neural Networks”, Published in MDPI Journal of Bioengineering, May 4, 2018.

Arivalagan, N. N. Peddi, W. Bazuhair, V. Emamian, “Study of Wireless Security Attacks on Medical Devices”, Published in Journal of Multidisciplinary in Cryptology and Information Security, ISSN 2320 -2610, Volume 6, No.6, December 2017.

Savalia, E. Acosta, V. Emamian, “Classification of Cardiovascular Disease Using Feature Extraction and Artificial Neural Networks”, Published in Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, ISSN Print: 2327-5081, Pages 64-79, Nov 2017.

Alomari, M. Shujauddin, V. Emamian, “EKG Signals: De-noising and Features Extraction”, Published in American Journal of Biomedical Engineering ISSN: 2163-1077, pp 180-201, 2016.

Alharthi. V. Emamian, “Automated Mechanism for Early Screening and Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy in Human Retinal Images.” published in British Journal of Applied Science & Technology, Volume 11 Issue 6, 2015.

V. Emamian, “Outage Analysis of a Multi-User Spatial Diversity System in a Shadow-Fade Propagating Channel”, Journal of Applied Science & Technology, England, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2014.

Shahhosseini, B. Rezaie, V. Emamian, “Sequential Image Registration for Astronomical Images”, Published in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), pp. 314-317, ISM.2012.65, 2012.

C. Sauer, V. Emamian, “Application of Guided Wave Technology and DSP Techniques for Fault Detection and Characterization”, Appeared in IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, April 16-18, 2007, San Antonio, Texas.

M. McLelland, V. Emamian, “Benefits of Cooperative Wireless Communication applied to Robots Exploring a Planet Surface”, Appeared in the 2007 IEEE Aerospace Conference.

C. Sauer, V. Emamian, “Fault Detection and characterization using Guided Wave Technology and Signal Processing Techniques”, ISSPIT 2006, The 6th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, August 27-30, 2006, Vancouver, Canada.

M. McLelland, V. Emamian, “Application of Cooperative Wireless Networks in Reducing Power Consumption of Robots Exploring a Planet”, Appeared in IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, April 16-18, 2007, San Antonio, Texas.

V. Emamian, “Study of Power Consumption in a Cooperative Wireless Network”, Journal of Communications Software and Systems, published in Volume 1, Number 2, March 2006 issue of the journal.

V. Emamian, M. Kaveh, A. H. Tewfik, Z. Shi, L. Jacobs, and J. Jarzynski, “Robust Clustering of Acoustic Emission Signals Using Neural Networks and Signal Subspace Projections”, Published in Journal on Applied Signal Processing, March 2003 issue.

V. Emamian, M. Kaveh, and M-S Alouini, “Outage Probability with Transmit and Receive Diversity in a Shadowing Environment”, Published in Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, vol. 1, pp 54-57, Mar. 17-21, 2002, Orlando, FL.

V. Emamian, P. Anghel, and M. Kaveh, “Outage Probability of a Multi-User Spatial Diversity System in a Wireless Networks”, Published in Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2002-fall), Sept. 24-28, Vancouver, Canada.

V. Emamian, and M. Kaveh, “Power Analysis of a Collaborative Wireless Network”, IEEE International Symposium on Advances in Wireless Communications (ISWC’02), pp 205-206, Sept. 23 – 24, 2002, Victoria, Canada.

V. Emamian, and M. Kaveh, “Comparing Power Consumption of Collaborative and non-Collaborative Systems”, Published in Proceedings of the 36th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Nov 3-6, 2002.

V. Emamian, and M. Kaveh, “Combating Shadowing Effects for Systems with Transmitter Diversity by Using Collaboration among Mobile Users”, Published in Journal of CIEE, vol. 9, No. 4, November 2002.

V. Emamian, and M. Kaveh, “Combating Shadowing Effects for Systems with Transmitter Diversity by Using Collaboration among Mobile Users”, Published in Proceedings of International Symposium on Communications, no. 9.4, pp. 105.1 ~ 105.4, Nov. 13-16, 2001, Taiwan.

V. Emamian, M. Kaveh, A. H. Tewfik, and Z. Shi, “Acoustic Emission Classification Using Signal Subspace Projection”, Published in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 2001, vol. 5, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2001.

V. Emamian, M. Kaveh, and A. H. Tewfik, “Acoustic Emission Classification for Failure Prediction Due to Mechanical Fatigue”, Published in Proceeding of SPIE conference on Sensory Phenomena and Measurement Instrumentation for Smart Structure and Materials, March 2000.

V. Emamian, M. Kaveh, and A. H. Tewfik, “Robust Clustering of Acoustic Emission Signals Using the Kohonen Network”, Published in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 2000, pp 3891-3894, vol.6, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2000.

Ph.D., The University of Missouri-Rolla, 1992
M.S., The University of Missouri-Rolla, 1990
B.S., Bangalore University, 1985

Winston Erevelles is a Professor of Engineering and Dean Emeritus of the School of Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) at St. Mary’s University. He served as dean for 12 years before returning to the Engineering faculty in June 2021.

During his 12-year tenure as dean, he led the development and enhancement of the school’s STEM education and research capabilities, community and industrial outreach, growth and reputation. Working with SET and the broader University community he raised over $45 million to realize the SET Vision for Excellence – the school’s strategic plan. Erevelles’ current projects include the Blank Sheppard Innovation Center – an interdisciplinary center for teaching, research and outreach. The building is slated for completion in 2024. He also serves as Special Advisor to the President for the development of the Nursing program with a projected launch date of Fall 2024 pending approval by Texas Board of Nursing and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).

Erevelles previously served in faculty and leadership roles at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh (2000-2009) and Kettering University (formerly General Motors Institute) in Flint, Michigan (1992-2000). He began his career as a manufacturing engineer and plant manager at Mykron Engineers in India where he was responsible for machining systems and maintenance operations.

Erevelles earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University, India, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering Management (Manufacturing Engineering emphasis) from the University of Missouri-Rolla. He is a member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the American Society for Engineering Education and the American Society for Mechanical Engineers.

Erevelles serves as an Adjunct Director of Accreditation for the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET. He served on the commission and its executive committee from 2004 to 2015 and served as chair of EAC in 2013-2014. He has served as a manufacturing engineering program evaluator for EAC/ABET since 1997 and is a member of SME’s Accreditation Committee. He serves as an evaluator for the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. He serves as a proposal reviewer for the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and is the 2023 91ߣ����Ƶ President-Elect.  He also serves on the Leadership Advisory Council of the San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind.

He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the SME Education Foundation, as chair of the Grants Trustee Committee and as secretary to the board. He has also served on the Board of Directors for Biomed SA and KIPP San Antonio, on the Education Committee of the San Antonio Manufacturers Association and on the Education Committee of the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Erevelles is married to Christine R. Erevelles, M.D., an emergency physician and system director of the Baptist Neighborhood Hospitals for San Antonio. Erevelles and his wife have four children – David, Claire, Joseph (deceased) and Michael.

ABET Fellow, 2015
Texas Diversity Council Individual Award, 2011
SME Education Award for Contributions to the Manufacturing Profession, 2008
Carnegie Science Center Award for Excellence – University/Post-Secondary Educator, 2005
Rodes Professorship at Kettering University for Research in Robotic Polishing, 1997
Society of Manufacturing Engineer’s Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, 1996
GMI Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Teaching in Manufacturing Systems Engineering, 1996

• Ph.D., University of Houston, Bauer College of Business, 2016
• M.B.A., Louisiana State University, E.J. Ourso College of Business, 2009
• B.S., Nicholls State University, 2004
• B.B.A., Mari-El State Polytechnic University, Department of Accounting and Audit, Russia, 1997

• Business Policy and Strategy
• Human Resource Management
• Leaders, Strategy & Society (Graduate)

• Strategic management
• Corporate governance
• Socially generated assets

Klavdia Ballard Evans is an Associate Professor of Strategy at St. Mary’s University. She received her Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston. She earned an MBA from the Louisiana State University and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the Volga State University of Technology, Russia.

Evans’ research is in the areas of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, and socially generated assets and liabilities. She has published in academic and practitioner publications such as Journal of Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, Organizational Dynamics, and Journal of Business Strategy. She is a member of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society.

Evans is an award-winning professor, teaching courses at the undergraduate and master’s levels in the areas of strategic management and strategic leadership.

Before pursuing her doctoral studies, Evans’ industry experience was in the financial and hospitality sectors in Russia and the United States with organizations such as The Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Whitney Bank, and Brinker International Inc.

Ballard, K., Vera, D.M., Pathak, S.M. and Salaiz, A., 2014, January. Boards and Corporate Social Performance: The role of community influentials and interlocks. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2014, No. 1, p. 17697). Academy of Management

Banks, M.A., Vera, D., Pathak, S. and Ballard, K., 2016. Stakeholder management as a source of competitive advantage. Organizational Dynamics, 1(45), pp.18-27

University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award 2015
Ballard, K. and Vera, D. University of Houston, $3,000. “The Board of Directors’ Functional
Background and Its Effect on Firms’ Corporate Social Performance”
University of Houston, Bauer College of Business – Jesse Jones Dissertation Completion Grant

Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), 2009
M.S., Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK), 2001
B.S., University of Alexandria-Egypt, 1992

General Biology for Majors I and II
Cell Biology
Biochemistry I and II
Cell and Molecular Methods

Ahmad Galaleldeen, Ph.D., earned his bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. in Biochemistry. During his Ph.D. and postdoctoral tenure at UTHSCSA, he was trained as a biochemist and a structural biologist. Following his bachelor’s, he held a chemistry and biology teaching position in Egypt for six years before moving to the US. While pursuing his master’s, he also held an algebra and chemistry teaching position at the Presbyterian Pan American School in Kingsville.

Galaleldeen joined the laboratory of Dr. John Hart at UTHSCSA in 2003 and focused his research on the familial form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. ALS is the most common adult motor neuron disease, characterized by the progressive destruction of both upper and lower motor neurons. The disorder typically manifests as muscle weakness in the extremities that progresses throughout the body, resulting in paralysis and death generally within five years post-diagnosis. Approximately 20 percent of the familial cases are linked to mutations in the copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD1) gene. Galaleldeen determined the crystal structure of several pathogenic SOD1 mutants including A4V, the most common ALS mutation in North America, in its metal free form.

During his postdoctoral training in the Hart lab, Galaleldeen collaborated with Dr. Guangming Zhong on a project to understand Chlamydial pathogenesis. Chlamydia trachomatis is an intracellular gram negative bacterial pathogen with many different strains that infect and cause disease in humans and animals. C. trachomatis infection of the urinogenital tract is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the world. C. trachomatis can also infect the eye, causing trachoma that can lead to blindness. Galaleldeen characterized and determined the structure of pgp3, an immunodominant antigen that is heavily secreted by C. trachomatis into the cytoplasm of the host cells in the first 24 hours post-infection.

Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara
M.A., University of Arizona
B.A., St. Mary’s University

Sonia Garcia, Ph.D., was born and raised in Laredo, Texas. Her research focuses on Latina politics (candidates, public officials, and community activists), U.S. Latino civil rights, and Texas politics. In addition to a number of journal articles, she is a co-author of several editions of the textbook, Practicing Texas Politics (2023 91ߣ����Ƶ). She is also the co-author of the book, Mexican Americans & the Law (2004), and lead author of the book, Politicas: Latina Public Officials in Texas (2008). Her book, Politicas, was featured in the Texas Book Festival in Austin in 2008. Dr. Garcia has presented her research in various scholarly conferences, university campuses, and candidate training sessions.

She is the recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Award, School of Humanities & Social Sciences (Spring 2009) and the Alice Franzke Feminist Award at St. Mary’s University (Spring 2008).

• M.Ed., South West Texas State University
• B.A., Our Lady of the Lake University

As a former teacher, principal, and Assistant Superintendent, Joann Gawlik, M.Ed. brings and shares a wealth of experience with her students and colleagues at St. Mary’s University. During her 36 year career in education, she was awarded the Outstanding Leader in Catholic Education in the Archdiocese of San Antonio, the National Distinguished Principal Award and the Parent Partnership Award by the National Catholic Education Association.

Gawlik earned a B.A. in Biology/Chemistry from Our Lady of the Lake University and a M.Ed. in Educational Administration and Supervision with a Minor in Psychology and Sociology from Texas State University.  She has also earned 7 Texas Education Teaching Certifications.

She began her work at St. Mary’s as a University Supervisor supporting Clinical Teachers in 2013. She has also taught a wide range of undergraduate education courses such as Adolescent Development, Essential Elements of Life-Earth Science, and Teaching Reading in the Content Areas. Her focus each semester remains guiding students in developing an understanding of the American school system in The American Elementary School and The American Secondary School courses. These courses serve to prepare each student for their future education courses and their ultimate career as an educator. Gawlik also serves as the Performance Assessment and Technology Coordinator for the Department of Education. Her current projects focus on the Texas Education Agency initiatives – Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA), the Science of Teaching Reading (STR), and initiates related to technology application, implementation and effectiveness.

“Curriculum Development and Implementation”, Catholic Schools Office Staff Development Workshop, Diocese of Brownsville, TX (2012)

“Technology Integration for the Enhancement of Effective Math and Science Instruction”, Staff Development Workshop, St. Augustine K-12 School, Diocese of Laredo, TX (2011)

“Mission into Action:  Learning in the 21^st Century”, Administrator and Teacher Inservice, Catholic School Office, Diocese of Laredo, TX (2010)

“Best Practices in School Health Care Services”, School Health Coordinators Workshop, Diocese of Laredo, TX (2010)

“Exploring Recipes for Alphabet Soup: Developing Literacy in Young Students”, Staff Development Workshop, Catholic Schools Office, Diocese of Laredo, TX (2009)

“Teaching with Style – The Differentiated Classroom”, Staff Development Workshop, Catholic Schools Office, Diocese of Victoria, TX (2007)

“Service Learning Program”, published in Practices of Blue Ribbon Catholic Schools 2001, ed. Janice A. Kraus, NCEA, 2002.��http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED466568.pdf

• Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington, 1997
• M.B.A., University of North Texas, 1993
• B.A., University of North Texas, 1991

• Business Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility

• Ethical leadership
• Executive compensation
• Outsourcing

Matthew (Matt) Gilley, Ph.D., knew St. Mary’s University was a great fit for him when he learned he would be able to teach topics he was passionate about. Joining St. Mary’s in 2007 as the first holder of the Bill Greehey Chair in Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Gilley teaches undergraduate and graduate courses with a special emphasis on ethical leadership and corporate culture. His goal as a teacher is to inspire and empower his students to lead lives of significance and deep personal meaning.

In 2008, Gilley co-founded the Greater San Antonio Ethics & Compliance Roundtable, which has grown into a successful non-profit organization providing ethics practitioners in the region an opportunity for professional development and networking. Current and former member organizations include USAA, Rackspace, AT&T, HEB, Frost Bank, the City of San Antonio, the City of Austin, Valero Energy, Boeing, CPS Energy, Petco, NuStar Energy, Siemens, and many others.

Gilley is an Invited Academic Fellow of the Ethics and Compliance Initiative (ECI), a think-tank based in Washington, DC. The ECI is the oldest non-profit organization in the United States devoted to the study and practical application of ethics in the workplace. The ECI fellows are comprised of approximately 70 business executives from America’s largest corporations, senior government officials, and select academicians from top universities. In his work with the ECI, Gilley has led research groups examining corporate social responsibility and the evolving role of the ethics professional.

Prior to joining St. Mary’s, Gilley spent almost eight years on the faculty of the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. Before moving to OSU, Gilley spent two years on the faculty of James Madison University’s business school.

Gilley has been recognized for excellence in both teaching and research numerous times. His accolades include the St. Mary’s University Alumni Association Outstanding Faculty Award, the Greehey School Service Excellence Award, the OSU Regents’ Distinguished Teaching Award (that university’s top teaching honor), and the Greiner Teaching Award, among others. His research has been cited thousands of times in studies dealing with ethics, corporate responsibility, sustainability, strategic management, leadership, human resources management, and international business.

Active in service to the community and his profession, Gilley served the Northside Independent School District as an advisory board member for the Northside School of Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship for over a decade. He has also provided numerous pro bono training and development workshops for non-profit organizations in the region and nationally. Gilley has served as an editorial board member for the Journal of Management and the Journal of World Business, as well as a reviewer for many leading empirical research journals and professional conferences.

Gilley has advised senior executives across the United States in organizations of all sizes, from startups to the Fortune 500, on matters related to strategy, leadership, and corporate responsibility. His clients have operated in global healthcare, automobile manufacturing, e-commerce, electric distribution, petroleum services, composites manufacturing, oilfield services, trucking, lodging, environmental management, and more.

Raised on a farm and ranch in North Texas, Gilley enjoys fishing, hunting, boating, and long-range overland travel with his wife and three children.

Gilley’s research has been published in the world’s most prestigious management journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Research, and others. His studies have also been presented at research conferences across the globe.

Select Publications

Gilley, K.M., Palacios, S., & Robertson, C.J.  2020.  “Moral Resources and Competitive Advantage: A Strategic Management Class Activity.”&�Բ�����; Journal of Business Ethics Education, 16: 81-102.

Gilley, K.M., Weeks, K.P., Coombs, J.E., Bell, M.P., & Kluemper, D. 2019.  “Board Gender Diversity, Social Performance, and CEO Compensation.”&�Բ�����;Journal of Business Strategies 36(2): 1-27.  

Kaciuba, G., Gilley, K.M., Evans, K., Dess, G.G.  2018.  “Training MBAs to Use Management Research.”&�Բ�����;Journal of the Academy of Business Education, Winter:  329-344.

Coombs, J.E., Gilley, K.M., O’Connor, J.P., Thorley, T.E., & Wesley, C.L. 2018. “Religiosity and Corporate Illegal Activity.”&�Բ�����; Journal of Business Strategies, 35(2): 22-47.

Gilley, K.M.  2017.  “A Pharmaceutical Executive’s Dilemma:  Balancing Competing Demands of People and Profits.”&�Բ�����; (Case and teaching notes.)  SAGE Business Cases.

Robertson, C.J., Olson, B.J., Gilley, K.M., & Bao, Y.J.  2014.  “National Differences in Stakeholder Pressure to Adopt Codes of Ethics:  A Four-Country Study.”&�Բ�����; Journal of Business and Management, 3(4): 28-39.

Bell, R.G., Gilley, K.M., & Medaille, J.  2013.  “Ethics and Institutions:  Taking a Closer Look at Rewards.”&�Բ�����;Journal of Business Ethics Education, 10:  261-274.

Janney, J.J., Gilley, K.M., & Dess, G.G.  2013.  “The Countervailing Forces of Diffusion and Scarcity on Resource Acquisition: Insights from Naming Rights Agreements.”&�Բ�����; Journal of Marketing and Strategic Management, 7(1): 1-16.

Benson, B., Davidson, W., Duesing, R., & Gilley, K.M.  2010.  “Investor Reactions to Substitution-Based Outsourcing Agreements.”&�Բ�����; Journal of Managerial Issues, 22 (3):  410-427.

Gilley, K.M., Robertson, C.J., & Mazur, T.  2010.  “The Bottom Line Benefits of Ethics Code Commitment:  Stakeholder Effects and Influences on Competitive Advantage.”&�Բ�����; Business Horizons, 53:  31-37.

Robertson, C.J., Olson, B.J., Gilley, K.M., & Bao, Y.J.  2008.  “A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Ethical Orientations and Willingness to Sacrifice Ethical Standards:  China versus Peru.”&�Բ�����; Journal of Business Ethics, 81:  413-425.

Robertson, C.J., Gilley, K.M., Crittenden, V., & Crittenden W.F.  2008.  “An Analysis of the Predictors of Software Piracy within Latin America.”&�Բ�����; Journal of Business Research, 61:  651-656.

Robertson, C.J., Gilley, K.M., & Crittenden, W.F.  2008.  “Trade Liberalization, Corruption, and Software Piracy.”&�Բ�����; Journal of Business Ethics, 78:  623-634.

Connelly, C.E., Gallagher, D.G., & Gilley, K.M.  2007.  “Organizational and Client Commitment among Contracted Employees:  A Replication and Extension with Temporary Workers.”&�Բ�����; Journal of Vocational Behavior, 70:  326-335.

O’Connor, J.P., Priem, R.L., Coombs, J.E., & Gilley, K.M.  2006.  “Do CEO Stock Options Prevent or Promote Fraudulent Financial Reporting?”&�Բ�����; The Academy of Management Journal, 49:  483-500.  Featured in “What’s in the Journals?”&�Բ�����;Economist.com, July 31, 2006.

Coombs, J.E., & Gilley, K.M.  2005.  “Stakeholder Management as a Predictor of CEO Compensation:  Main Effects and Interactions with Financial Performance.”&�Բ�����; Strategic Management Journal, 26:  827-840.

Rasheed, A., & Gilley, K.M.  2005.  “Outsourcing:  National- and Firm-Level Implications.”&�Բ�����; Thunderbird International Business Review, 47(5):  513-528.

Gilley, K.M., McGee, J.E., & Rasheed, A.  2004.  “Environmental Dynamism and Managerial Risk Aversion as Antecedents of Manufacturing Outsourcing:  The Moderating Effects of Firm Maturity.”&�Բ�����; Journal of Small Business Management, 42(2):  117-133.

Robertson, C.J., Gilley, K.M., & Street, M.  2004.  “The Relationship Between Ethics and Firm Practices in Russia and the United States.”&�Բ�����; Journal of World Business, 38:  375-384.

Gilley, K.M., Greer, C.R., & Rasheed, A.  2004.  “Human Resource Outsourcing and Organizational Performance in Manufacturing Firms.”&�Բ�����; Journal of Business Research, 57(3):  232-240.

Gilley, K.M., Walters, B.A., & Olson, B.  2002.  “Top Management Team Risk Taking Propensities and Firm Performance:  Direct and Moderating Effects.”&�Բ�����; Journal of Business Strategies, 19(2):  95-114.

Shaffer, M.A., Harrison, D.A., Gilley, K.M., & Luk, D.  2001.  “Struggling for Balance Amid Turbulence: Work, Family, and Identity on International Assignments.”&�Բ�����;Journal of Management, 27:  99-121.

Gilley, K.M., Worrell, D.L., Davidson, W.N., & El-Jelly, A.  2000.  “Corporate Environmental Initiatives and Anticipated Firm Performance:  The Differential Effects of Process-Driven versus Product-Driven Greening Initiatives.”&�Բ�����; Journal of Management, 26:  1199-1216.

Gilley, K.M., & Rasheed, A.  2000.  “Making More by Doing Less:  An Analysis of Outsourcing and its Effects on Firm Performance.”&�Բ�����; Journal of Management, 26:  763-790.

Shaffer, M.A., Harrison, D.A., & Gilley, K.M.  1999.  “Dimensions, Determinants, and Differences in Expatriate Adjustment.”&�Բ�����; Journal of International Business Studies, 30:  557-581.

Media Highlights

• Texas CEO Magazine, , Dec. 9, 2017
• Texas CEO Magazine, , Sept. 3, 2017
• Texas CEO Magazine, , Aug. 5, 2017
• San Antonio Business Journal, , Dec. 15, 2016
• San Antonio Magazine, , January, 2016

Ph.D., M.A., The University of Chicago
M.A., The University of Chicago Divinity School
B.A., University of Puget Sound

Allison L. Gray, Ph.D., studies the New Testament and early Christian literature of the first four centuries CE. Her current research focuses on tales about saints, martyrs, and miracle workers, and she examines how biographers adopt and adapt features of Greco-Roman literature from their contemporary world to present Christianity to a variety of readers. She is more broadly interested in the many ways early Christian writers (including the evangelists) thought about education and the ongoing role of texts in shaping religious people and religious communities. What work did ancient authors think their stories could accomplish? How do religious communities today use stories to describe or motivate social change?

Gray teaches courses on New Testament texts and their historical contexts, including the religions and philosophical traditions of the Roman Empire. She also teaches a two-semester sequence of Koine Greek, the language used by New Testament authors and their contemporaries. Her classes are designed to introduce students to the history of New Testament composition and interpretation; courses also offer students practical experience applying historical-critical methods and various contemporary interpretive lenses to the academic study of the Bible and early Christianity.

Gray is the recipient of the 2019 Alice Wright Franzke Feminist Award and the 2020 Distinguished Faculty Award. She was also invited to teach a week-long Bible study series on Reforming the Household of God in August 2019 at Holden Village in Chelan, Washington.

What Does the Bible Say About Education? (New City Press, 2023 91ߣ����Ƶ).

Reforming the Household of God: Paul’s Models of Belonging (Paulist Press, 2022).

Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer: Weaving Lives for Virtuous Readers, Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity, Volume 123 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021).  

“Passing Notes and Throwing Rocks: Catechesis and Episcopal Authority in the Life of Gregory Thaumaturgus,” Vigiliae Christianae 74.5 (November 2020): 515-539.

“Marriage, New Testament,”&�Բ�����;Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception Volume 17, ed. Christine Helmer, Steven L. McKenzie, Thomas Römer, Jens Schröter, Barry Dov Walfish, and Eric J. Ziolkowski. Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. pp. 998-1000.

“‘Away with the Atheists!’ The Motivations for Early Christian Martyrdom,”&�Բ�����;The Bible Today, Volume 55, Number 3 (May/June 2017): 203-210.

Teaching Materials

“Graphic Insight: Hands-on Biblical Reception History” The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching 2.1 (March 2021): 223.

Study Guide for Course Hero&�Բ�����;–&�Բ�����; (invited subject matter expert) 

Study Guide for Course Hero&�Բ�����;–&�Բ�����; (writer and editor)

Study Guide for Course Hero&�Բ�����;–&�Բ�����; (editor)

Videos and teaching materials for the La Biblia Project at

• Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2005
• B.S., DePaul University, 1986

• General Biology for Majors I and II
• Developmental Biology
• Evolutionary Biology
• Genetic Principles
• Cell and Molecular Methods Lab

Christine E. Gray, Ph.D., is a molecular geneticist with an interest in mechanisms of gene regulation and development. Much of her early research involved the identification and initial characterization of a CTCF-like protein in both Aedes aegypti (the primary vector of both yellow fever and dengue fever) and Anopheles gambiae (the principal vector of malaria). CTCF is a well-known insulator binding protein in vertebrates, and its mosquito homologue may provide a useful means to increase the efficiency of the process used to make transgenic mosquitoes.

Transgenic mosquitoes are made for two key reasons: to learn more about key mosquito genes involved in the natural transmission of pathogens and to potentially create mosquito strains that are unable to transmit pathogens such as viruses, filarial worms and protozoans.

At St. Mary’s, Gray is working with several undergraduates on a project to investigate role of small regulatory RNAs in a phenomenon known as cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) in fruit flies (Drosophila). CI results when specific bacteria (Wolbachia) infect the reproductive tissues of insects. These bacteria are then passed very efficiently from mother to offspring, while uninfected females who mate with infected males are essentially sterile. 

Gray hopes that greater understanding of this natural phenomenon might assist others who utilize Wolbachia as part of a strategy to reduce the ability of insect vectors of disease to transmit pathogens. The system highlights the dynamic natural interaction between three distinct sources of DNA in two types of living cells: the fly cells are infected with Wolbachia which have previously been infected by a virus. Expression of genes from any of these three DNA sources affects and is affected by expression of genes from the others. This dynamic gene expression clearly affects the success of both the flies and the parasitic bacterial strain they harbor. Understanding the changing gene expression in the system is important in monitoring the success of this type of vector control strategy. 

Finally, Gray enjoys developing new teaching and learning strategies with faculty colleagues and St. Mary’s students. She has co-facilitated a Faculty Learning Community in the School of Science, Engineering and Technology for the past several years and is engaged in on-going course revision that facilitates more active and reflective learning. In 2015, she was recognized by the St. Mary’s University Alumni Association by receiving the Distinguished Faculty Award.

Gray, C.E. and Contreras-Shannon, V.E. (2014) Using models from the literature and iterative feedback to teach students to construct effective data figures for poster presentations. Journal of College Science Teaching 46:74-82.

Gray, C.E. and Coates, C.J. (2005) Cloning and characterization of cDNAs encoding putative CTCFs in the mosquitoes, Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae. BMC Molecular Biology 6:16.

Gray, C.E. and Coates, C.J. (2004) High-level gene expression in Aedes albopictus cells using a baculovirus Hr3 enhancer and IE1 transactivator. BMC Molecular Biology 5:8.

Ph.D., University College Dublin

Medieval philosophy
Political philosophy
Philosophy of law
Philosophy of religion
Philosophical anthropology

James Greenaway, Ph.D., holds the St. Mary’s San José-Lonergan Chair in Catholic Philosophy. Previously, he was the inaugural Charles H. Miller Sr., M.D., Chair in Human Dignity. The work of both Chairs aims to enhance the Catholic dimension and identity of St. Mary’s University and is housed in the Center for Catholic Studies, which promotes the study and appreciation of Catholic life and thought, as well as Marianist spirituality. 

Aside from regular academic responsibilities, Greenaway has taught philosophy courses in TDCJ prisons that aim at restoring and cultivating an understanding of human dignity among inmates. He has also promoted awareness of human trafficking in south Texas with public events that have allowed victims and survivors of trafficking to tell their own stories. Greenaway has a philosophical commitment to liberal arts education in a Catholic setting, and currently runs seminars that promote self-appropriation and a dialogical search for the unity that underpins the uni-versity.

Greenaway holds degrees in philosophy and education. His dissertation in the field of medieval political philosophy was rewarded with a Ph.D. by University College Dublin. Following a year of further research, his book entitled, The Differentiation of Authority: The Medieval Turn toward Existence (Catholic University of America Press) explores some of the philosophical foundations of Western society, especially the emergence of the human person in the late medieval period as a source of autonomy, dignity, and rights. He co-wrote and edited Human Dignity, Education, and Political Society: A Philosophical Defense of the Liberal Arts, and his current book project concerns the meaning of belonging. It is entitled, Belonging: The Reciprocity of Persons, Politics, and Cosmos.

Belonging: The Reciprocity of Persons, Politics, and Cosmos (Under contract with The University of Notre Dame Press, publication date likely late 2022, early 2023 91ߣ����Ƶ)

Human Dignity, Education, and Political Society: A Philosophical Defense of the Liberal Arts. Lanham: Lexington Press, 2020

“Foreword”, in Tilo Schabert, The Figure of Modernity: On the Irregularity of an Epoch, trans. Javier Ibáñez-Noé, foreword, James Greenaway. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2020

The Differentiation of Authority: The Medieval Turn Toward Existence. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2012.

“Reluctant Mystics: Remarks on Glenn Hughes’s From Dickenson to Dylan: Visions of Transcendence in Modernist Literature.” In Political Science Reviewer, forthcoming Spring 2022.

“Searching for History: A Review Essay of Wherefrom Does History Emerge? Inquiries in Political Cosmogony.” In Voegelinview.com, January, 2022.

“David Walsh’s The Sacramentality of the Person.” Perspectives in Political Science. Vol. 50, 4 (2021), 224-228.

Marder, Michael, Political Categories: Thinking Beyond Concepts. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 75, 2  (2021), 386-88.

• Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2002
• M.S., University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1998
• B.A., University of California in Santa Cruz, 1994

Patrick B. Greene, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Physics at St. Mary’s University. A native of California, he received his B.A. in physics in 1994 from the University of California at Santa Cruz, graduating with highest honors in the major and college honors. He then earned an M.S. in physics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1997. In 2002, Greene was awarded his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Toronto where he studied at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. For his Ph.D., he studied particle creation in the very early universe.

Greene’s work experience includes postdocs at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, and the Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics at Columbia University in New York. Before joining St. Mary’s, he lectured at Alice Lloyd College in Kentucky, the University of Texas in San Antonio, the University of San Diego, and in the San Diego community college system.

Hui and P. Greene, “Correlated Fluctuations in Luminosity Distance and the (Surprising) Importance of Peculiar Motion in Supernova Surveys,” Phys. Rev. D73 123526, (2006)