Dr. Javier Trigos-Arrieta was born in Mexico City the 31st of October of 1961. Obtained the equivalent to a BS degree in mathematics with a minor of physics from Michoacán University in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, in 1985, and a Ph. D. in mathematics from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1991 under the supervision of Professor W. W. Comfort. In 1991 he came to CSUB as an assistant professor of mathematics. Since 1999 he is professor of mathematics. In 2002 Dr. Trigos-Arrieta received the CSUB Research Faculty Award. Dr. Trigos-Arrieta’s main field of specialization is topological algebra, is author or co-author of 33 peer-reviewed articles in mathematics, and has participated in several international scientific meetings. He served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics during the period 2008-2014, and as campus coordinator of the LSAMP program during the period 2001-2014.
Hernández Muñoz, S., & Trigos-Arrieta, F. J., (2019). When a totally bounded group topology is the Bohr topology of a LCA group, Topology and Its Applications, 259 (1), 110-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2019.02.025
Ivy A.M. Cargile (B.A. California State University, Fullerton; M.A & PhD. Claremont Graduate University) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University, Bakersfield. Her research focuses on the politics of race and ethnicity in the U.S. context. Specifically, she does research on the intersection of gender and race/ethnicity, and its effects on the behavior of political elites and of voters. She analyzes how Latina political actors and other women politicians of color influence policy outcomes, and represent their constituents. She also does work around the public opinion of Latin@/x voters in order to understand how policy issues like immigration, and women’s rights effect participation. She is a co-editor of The Hillary Effect: Perspectives on Clinton’s Legacy (Bloomsbury Press, 2020). Her work appears in Political Research Quarterly, Urban Affairs Review, Politics, Groups & Identities and multiple books on Latina politicians, Latin@/x voters, and immigration policy.
Cargile, I. A .M. (2021). Stereotyping Latinas: Candidate gender and ethnicity on the political stage, Politics, Groups, and Identities. 9(4), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2021.1946097
Cargile, I. A. M., Davis, D., Merolla, J. L., & VanSickle-Ward, R. eds. (2020). The Hillary effect: perspectives on Clinton’s legacy. Bloomsbury Press https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/hillary-effect-perspectives-on-clintons-legacy-9781838603922/
Cargile, I. A. M., Morin, J. & Pantoja, A. D. (2020). Calexity: California moves left as the nation moves right. In Sanchez, G. R., Fraga, L.R. & Ramirez, R. (Eds.).Latinos and the 2016 election: Latino resistance and the election of Donald Trump, Michigan University Press. https://msupress.org/9781611863611/latinos-and-the-2016-election/
Cargile, I. A. M. (2017). Latina sophistication: Policy issues and candidate choice in the 2016 presidential election. In Kraybill, J. (Ed.), Unprecedented, unusual and polarizing: How the 2016 presidential cycle has shaped the way candidates strategize, engage, and communicate with a changing American electorate, Lexington Press. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498554152/Unconventional-Partisan-and-Polarizing-Rhetoric-How-the-2016-Election-Shaped-the-Way-Candidates-Strategize-Engage-and-Communicate
Cargile, I.A.M. (2016). Latina issues: An analysis of the policy issue competencies of Latina candidates. In Brown, N. & Gershon, S.A. (Eds.), Distinct identities: Minority women in U.S. politics, Routledge Press. https://www.routledge.com/Distinct-Identities-Minority-Women-in-US-Politics/Brown-Gershon/p/book/9781138958845
Dr. Joseph Florez is a member of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department. He graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. in History. He received his M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the intersection of religious experience and everyday life among Latinx and Latin American evangelicals. He is interested in the manifold ways religious thought and practice are inflected by issues of violence, oppression, and marginalization. Dr. Florez recently published the book Pentecostalism, Lived Religion, and Social Activism in Authoritarian Chile: Giving Life to the Faith (Brill, 2021). He has also published articles on memory studies and Pentecostal worldviews as well as evangelical social thought. He is currently working on a study of the impact of imposed measurements of identity on the religious practices of indigenous groups in Southern California.
Florez, J. (2021). Lived religion, Pentecostalism, social activism in authoritarian Chile: Giving life to the faith. Brill.
Tim is an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at California State University, Bakersfield. Tim received his PhD in Social Foundations of Education from the University of South Carolina in 2020. His interdisciplinary research interests broadly include Latinx teacher identity and subjectivity, particularly in the U.S. South, Social Studies teaching with an emphasis on Latinx history, and teacher education. He applies and develops post-structural and (relational) spatial theories with these topics in an effort to open up new, more just, potentialities. Tim’s work has appeared in journals such as Theory and Research in Urban Education, Latino Studies, Educational Policy, Urban Review, Journal of Latinos and Education, Current Issues in Comparative Education, and The Middle Grades Review. Tim was the recipient of the AERA's Latino/a/x Research Issues Best Dissertation Award and a research fellow with the Latinx Research Center at Santa Clara University. Tim was previously a middle school teacher for 11 years. He was proudly born and raised in the Central Valley, is the eldest of 9 brothers and sisters, and now dad to two girls.
Gamez, R. & Monreal, T. (2021). We have that opportunity now: Black and Latinx geographies, (Latinx) racialization, and “new Latinx South.” Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research, 7(2), 1-24. https://journals.sfu.ca/cvj/index.php/cvj/issue/view/19
Monreal, T. (2021). Stitching together more expansive Latinx teacher self/ves: Movidas of Rasquache and spaces of counter-conduct in El Sur Latinx. Theory, Research, and Action in Urban Education (Special Issue), 7(1), 17-31. https://traue.commons.gc.cuny.edu/stitching-together-more-expansive-latinx-teacher-self-ves-movidas-of-rasquache-and-spaces-of-counter-conduct-in-el-sur-latinx/
Dr. Adam Sawyer is an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at CSU Bakersfield where he also serves as Director of Liberal Studies and Academic Coordinator for the CSUB Bilingual Authorization Program. His research explores the nexus of migration and education with a focus on Latinx children, youth, and families. He is also a specialist in the design and study of bilingual education programs and models for place-based and culturally sustaining pedagogies for historically minoritized populations, especially in rural California. His recent work has been published by Journal of Latinos and Education, International Migration Review, and Teacher Education Quarterly, and he is co-editor of the 2013 Teachers College Press volume, Regarding Educación: Mexican American Schooling, Immigration, and Binational Solutions. Previous to his academic career, Dr. Sawyer served as a Spanish bilingual elementary school teacher in California and as an academic consultant to the Mexican National Ministry of Education.
Sawyer, A., Rosales, O., Medina, O., & Tronscoso Sayer, M. (2019). Improving schooling outcomes for Latinos in rural California: A critical place-based approach to farmworkers history. Journal of Latinos and Education, 20(2), 106-119. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2019.1567342
Dr. Isabel Sumaya is an alumnus of CSUB earning her BA and MA in the Department of Psychology. She completed her Ph.D. work at the University of Texas at El Paso where she was trained as a behavioral neuroscientist and went on to do her postdoctoral work at Northwestern University Medical School. As well as teaching, she has taken on numerous leadership positions during her eighteen years at CSUB, including Coordinator of the Faculty Mentor Program, Director of the Student Success and Retention Center, Director of the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program, Director of the First-Year Experience Program, and Director of the Maximizing Access to Research Careers in the Biomedical Science (MARC U*STAR) Program. She is currently CSUB’s Research Ethics Review Coordinator (RERC) overseeing the Human Subjects Institutional Review Board (HSIRB) and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), and the Director of CSUB’s Animal Colony. She has provided hundreds of students research experiences in her Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory where she uses animal models to investigate the effects of diet and enrichment on the D2 dopaminergic system, learning and memory, depression and anxiety.
Hussain, S., Villarreal, S., Ramirez, N., Hussain, A., & Sumaya, I.C. (2020). Haloperidol-induced hypokinesia in rats is dependent on the light/dark phase and age. Behavioral Brain Research, 379, http:/doi.org/10.10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112313
Andrea Terrones Anderson earned her B.A. in History from California State University, Bakersfield in 2012 and her Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science in 2015 from San Jose State University. In 2016, she started the tenure-track process at CSUB and is the current Coordinator for Library Instruction, Reference Services, FYS, and Instructional Technology at the Walter Stiern Library. Current research interests include the development of information and media literacy skills in higher education and the impact of misinformation within society. As a librarian, Andrea collaborates widely with many departments across campus to develop, re-enforce, and promote information literacy and research skills to all students at CSUB.
Anderson, A. (2013). Rosalie Hart Priour and Annie Fagan Teal: Loyalty to the land in the Irish colonies of Mexican Texas. Irish Migration Studies in Latin America, 8(2).
Alexander, J., Anderson, A., Bozarth, S., Cribbs, H., Holloway, K., Livingston, C., Overduin, T., & Zhong, Y. (2010). The efficient team-driven quality scholarship model: A process evaluation of collaborative research. Collaborative Librarianship, 12(1), 10.
Grombly, A. & AndersonA. (2020). Information and media literacy: Integrating literacies into library instruction. Media Literacy and Academic Research, 1, 6-17.
Anderson, A., & Correa, E. (2019, July). “Critical explorations of online sources in a culture of fake news, alternative facts and multiple truths". In Global Learn (pp. 439-447). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
