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2011 – 2012Faculty BiographiesBarbara ThorpeProfessor of NursingM.S.N. Nursing, 1997California State University,Dominguez HillsEd.D., Leadership andManagement,University of San FranciscoM.P. H. Public Health,University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleB.S.N. Nursing,D’Youville CollegeAreas of Specialization: NursingEducation, Leadership, Public Health,Gerontology, Palliative CareKaia TollefsonAssociate Professor of EducationPh.D., Language, Literacy, andSociocultural Studies, 2004,University of New MexicoM.A., Public School Administration,University of Alaska, AnchorageB.S., Education,Valley City State UniversityArea of Specialization: TeacherEducation, Sociology of Education,Critical TheoryLillian Vega-CastanedaProfessor of Language, Culture & LiteracyEd.D., Teaching, Curriculum andLearning Environments, 1989,Specialization in Sociolinguistics,Harvard UniversityM.A., Bilingual/Multicultural Education,California State University Los AngelesB.A., History, University ofCalifornia, IrvineAreas of Specialization: Multicultural/Multilingual Education, Language,Literacy and Culture in Diverse Contexts,Narrative, Social Justice and Equity issuesin curriculum and instruction.Kevin VolkanProfessor of Psychology;Interim Chair, PsychologyM.P.H., Public Health, 1998,Harvard UniversityPh.D., Clinical Psychology,Center for Psychological StudiesEd.D., Educational Psychology,Northern Illinois UniversityM.A., Psychology,Sonoma State UniversityB.A., Biology,University of California, Santa CruzAreas of Specialization: Quantitativeassessment of physician performance,Asian philosophy and religion,Psychoanalysis and Depth PsychologyWilliam E. Wagner, IIIAssociate Professor of SociologyPh.D., Sociology, 2003,University of Illinois-ChicagoM.A., Sociology,University of Illinois-ChicagoB.A., Mathematics,St. Mary’s College of MarylandAreas of Specialization: ResearchMethods, Statistics, Social NetworkAnalysis, Sociology of Sport, Gay &Lesbian StudiesChing-Hua WangProfessor of Immunology and MicrobiologyPh.D., Immunology, 1986,Cornell UniversityM.S., Immunology, BeijingMedical UniversityM.D., 1978, Beijing Medical CollegeAreas of Specialization: Infection andimmunity, cellular and molecular immunology,microbiologyWilliam J. WolfeProfessor of Computer SciencePh.D., Mathematics, 1976,City University of New YorkB.A., Mathematics, Queens CollegeAreas of Specialization: ArtificialIntelligence, Neural Networks,Scheduling Systems, Database-drivenWeb Sites.Gregory G. WoodAssistant Professor of PhysicsPh.D., Physics, 2000,University of California, RiversideB.S., Physics,University of California, San DiegoAreas of Specialization: StatisticalMechanics, Biophysics, ComputationalPhysicsCynthia WyelsProfessor of MathematicsPh.D., Mathematics,University of California, Santa BarbaraM.S., Mathematics,University of MichiganB.A., Mathematics,Pomona CollegeAreas of Specialization: Combinatorics,Linear Algebra, Graph Theory308 www.csuci.edu • California State University Channel Islands • 2011 - 2012 Catalog