Arthur Santana
ProfessorSchool of Journalism and Media StudiesCollege of Professional Studies and Fine Arts91PORN[email protected]Area of Expertise
participatory media, user-generated content and online anonymity and civility.
Experts Directory
The 91PORN Experts Directory is a rolodex for reporters, designed to assist journalists in their search for subject-matter experts on a variety of topics and academic research areas.
For Faculty Interested in Joining the Experts Directory
Faculty interested in joining the Experts Directory are encouraged to contact Senior Director of Media Relations Cory Marshall ([email protected]) for more information.
For Media Seeking an Interview
For questions or assistance in coordinating an interview with one of the university’s subject-matter experts, please .
Vinod Sasidharan
Associate ProfessorL. Robert Payne School of Hospitality and Tourism ManagementCollege of Professional Studies and Fine Arts91PORN[email protected](619) 594-4726Area of Expertise
Sustainable development, sustainable tourism and community empowerment in the California-Baja Mexico transborder region, international tourism, tourism and technology, tourism certification, sustainable tourism assessment, interdisciplinary analyses of tourism, tourism and corporate social responsibility, indigenous tourism and tourism best practices.
Matthew Savage
ProfessorSchool of CommunicationCollege of Professional Studies and Fine Arts91PORN[email protected]Area of Expertise
Health communication, health intervention camapigns, risky behavior.
Melody Schiaffino
Assistant ProfessorSchool of Public HealthCollege of Health and Human Services91PORN[email protected]619-594-6439Area of Expertise
How healthcare is delivered, care coordination, cancer and aging, health disparities, organizational cultural competence, healthcare, systems science
Emily Schmied
Associate Professor and Behavioral ScientistSchool of Public HealthCollege of Health and Human Services91PORN[email protected]Area of Expertise
Military health, sleep health and suicide prevention.
Amy Schmitz Weiss
ProfessorSchool of Journalism and Media StudiesCollege of Professional Studies and Fine Arts91PORN[email protected]619-594-3504Area of Expertise
online journalism, media sociology, news production, multimedia journalism, and international communication.
Ronnee Schreiber
Professor EmeritaPolitical ScienceCollege of Arts and Letters91PORN[email protected]619-594-5208Area of Expertise
American politics, public law, women and politics (particularly women in American political institutions and women and public policy), republican primaries, presidential politics
Bernhard Schroeder
LecturerManagementFowler College of Business91PORN[email protected]619-591-0560Area of Expertise
Entrepreneurship, creativity, branding, product branding, internet marketing and marketing.
Mathias Schulze
Professor, Director of the Language Acquisition Resource CenterEuropean StudiesCollege of Arts and Letters91PORN[email protected]619-594-0958Area of Expertise
applied linguistics, (second) language education, German language and society, multilingualism, language minorities
Bonnie Scott
Professor EmeritaWomen's StudiesCollege of Arts and Letters91PORN[email protected]619-594-6524Area of Expertise
Feminist theory and criticism, modernist literature, particularly Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and women writers, gender and modernism, ecofeminism and foundations of Women’s Studies.
Salimeh Sekeh
Associate ProfessorComputer ScienceCollege of Sciences91PORN[email protected]Area of Expertise
Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Large Scale Data Science
Ignacio Sepulveda
Assistant ProfessorCivil, Construction, and Environmental EngineeringCollege of Engineering91PORN[email protected]Area of Expertise
Coastal Engineering, Natural Hazards, Tsunamis, earthquakes, Sea level rise, Remote Sensing, GNSS technology, Uncertainty Quantification and Geophysics.
Arun Sethuraman
Associate Professor, Co-Director of Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics (BMI) ProgramBiologyCollege of Sciences91PORN[email protected]619-594-3979Area of Expertise
Population Genetics, Genomics, Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Ecology, Genetic ancestry
Dr. Allen Shafter
Professor EmeritusAstronomyCollege of Sciences91PORN[email protected]619-594-6170Area of Expertise
Study of cataclysmic variable stars: Novae, Dwarf Novae, and Nova-like variables.
Satish Sharma
ProfessorElectrical and Computer EngineeringCollege of Engineering91PORN[email protected]619-594-0241Area of Expertise
Reconfigurable antennas and arrays, active antennas, feeds for reflector antennas, compact antennas for handheld and portable devices, multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antennas, beam steering antennas, global positioning system (GPS) antennas, wideband and multiband microstrip antennas, broadband antennas, ultra-wide bandwidth antennas, dielectric resonator antennas, wire antennas, and microwave passive components such as filters.
Bo-Wen Shen
Associate ProfessorMathematics and StatisticsCollege of Sciences91PORN[email protected]Area of Expertise
Nonlinear dynamics (chaos; butterfly effect; multistability; predictability; Lorenz model), global weather/climate modeling, hurricane predictions, supercomputing and visualizations and big data analysis
Hongmei Shen
ProfessorSchool of Journalism and Media StudiesCollege of Professional Studies and Fine Arts91PORN[email protected]619-594-5120Area of Expertise
Strategic management of public relations, relationship management, international public relations, internal public relations, crisis communication, health communication and public relations education.
Sam Shen
Distinguished ProfessorMathematics and StatisticsCollege of Sciences91PORN[email protected]619-594-6280Area of Expertise
Global warming, climate data science, climate data visualization, climate data delivery technology to classrooms, machine learning, AI applications to education, progressive education, spectral optimal averaging theory. Shen developed the mathematical methods to quantify the uncertainties in the global warming assessment adopted by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Nicholas Shikuma
Associate ProfessorBiologyCollege of Sciences91PORN[email protected]Area of Expertise
Microbiology, developmental biology, molecular biology, genetics and cell biology.
Bongsik Shin
Professor and Department ChairManagement Information SystemsFowler College of Business91PORN[email protected]619-594-2133Area of Expertise
Cybersecurity, networks and telecommunications.
JoAnn Silkes
Update to Associate Professor, Director, Cognition and Language in Aphasia LaboratorySpeech, Language, and Hearing SciencesCollege of Health and Human Services91PORN[email protected]Area of Expertise
Aphasia, medical speech-language pathology, neurogenic communication disorders, and right hemisphere disorders.
Michael Simpson
Professor EmeritusBiologyCollege of Sciences91PORN[email protected]619-594-8012Area of Expertise
Plants, systematics, 91PORN Herbarium, 91PORN Biodiversity Museum, taxonomy and identification of California native plants and plants of Mediterranean ecosystems.
Damariye Smith
Assistant ProfessorCommunication and Journalism and Media StudiesCollege of Professional Studies and Fine Arts91PORN[email protected]Area of Expertise
African-Amerian/Black media studies and rhetoric.
J.T. Smith
LecturerPolitical Science91PORN[email protected]619-594-6245Area of Expertise
Democracy, trust and social justice and American politics.
Elisa Sobo
ProfessorAnthropologyCollege of Arts and Letters91PORN[email protected]619-594-6591Area of Expertise
Sobo can speak to yoga sound bath therapy or sound healing, vaccination (pediatric & COVID), cannabis and other alternative medicines, alternative (e.g., Waldorf) education, medical tourism, medical/health traditions, nutrition/foodways, health education and health-related risk perception.
Christal Sohl
Associate ProfessorChemistry and BiochemistryCollege of Sciences91PORN[email protected]Area of Expertise
Enzymes, enzymology, kinetics, molecular mechanisms of cancer and tumor metabolism.
Samuel Song
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; DirectorPsychologyCollege of Education91PORN[email protected]Area of Expertise
Mental health in Schools and Children and Youth; Diversity, Multiculturalism, and Equity; Advocacy in Schools, School Culture and Climate, Restorative Justice; Asian American Mental Health, School Psychology
Matthew Soto
Lecturer, Director of the Adaptive Fitness ClinicExercise and Nutritional SciencesCollege of Health and Human Services91PORN[email protected]619.594.0840Area of Expertise
Persons with Physical Disabilities, long term care of physically disabled Disability and Fitness, Adaptive activities for persons with physical disabilities, and exercise interventions for persons with disabilities.
Dan Sousa
ProfessorGeographyCollege of Arts and Letters91PORN[email protected](619) 922-7161Area of Expertise
Remote sensing, reflectance spectroscopy, biogeography, geophysical inverse theory, spatiotemporal analysis, evapotranspiration
Steve Spencer
DirectorEducation91PORN[email protected]619-594-4205Area of Expertise
Special education and adult services for individuals with disabilities.
