New Faculty - New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Mary L. Dudy Bjork
Assistant Professor, Department of Language, Cultures, and History
Dr. Bjork received her doctorate in English literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She returns to ASU at the West campus after a semester of teaching there in the spring of 2004. Her research centers primarily on the influence of Golden Age Spanish literature on the late English Renaissance, and she is currently working on a book-length manuscript on this topic. Her scholarly interests include Renaissance rhetoric and theories of translation, an area on which she published in the journal Mediterranean Studies. She recently edited the newly published autobiography of the former director of the Medieval Academy of America, Paul Meyvaert. Dr. Bjork has served on the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association of America.
Graham Boorse
Assistant Professor, Department of Integrated Natural Sciences
Dr. Boorse received his doctorate from the University of Michigan in biology with a specialization in developmental neuroendocrinology. Prior to joining the Department of Integrated Natural Sciences at the West campus, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Arizona State University at the Tempe campus. The general focus of his research is to better understand the neuroendocrinology of stress by utilizing cellular and molecular techniques. While he takes a comparative approach and has research interests across different vertebrate groups, his primary emphasis is in the study of amphibians. Current research areas include investigating the roles of stress hormones during amphibian development, the identification of novel vertebrate stress neuropeptides, and understanding how the central stress circuits are organized and regulated in response to environmental stress. Most recently, his research has been published in scientific journals including Endocrinology, General and Comparative Endocrinology, Journal of Integrative and Comparative Biology, and the Journal of Experimental Biology.
Connie M. Borror
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences and Applied Computing
Dr. Borror received her doctorate from Arizona State University in industrial engineering, with a specialization in quality and reliability engineering. Prior to coming to ASU, she was an assistant professor in the General Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . She has also held a senior lecturer position at ASU at the Tempe campus. Dr. Borror is a co-author of two books and several articles in the areas of applied statistics and quality engineering. She is a senior member of the American Society for Quality and the Institute of Industrial Engineers, a Chartered Statistician in the Royal Statistical Society, and a member of the American Statistical Association and the American Society for Engineering Education.
Jeffrey S. Juris
Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Juris comes to ASU from the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication where he was a postdoctoral fellow in globalization and communication. He earned his doctorate in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2004, and is currently writing a book based on his doctoral dissertation entitled, “Digital Age Activism: Anti-Corporate Globalization and the Cultural Politics of Transnational Networking.” Dr. Juris’s work has or will soon appear in numerous edited volumes and journals, including Critique of Anthropology and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He previously served as an organizer and consultant with grassroots organizations in New York, San Francisco, and Guatemala. His research and teaching interests include globalization, social movements, new digital technologies, Spain , and Latin America.
Marianne M. Kim
Assistant Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Arts & Performance
Marianne M. Kim received her M.F.A. in 2004 from the Department of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles with a focus on choreography and technology. Her most recent interdisciplinary works were presented by the man.i.fest International Experimental Theatre Festival in Cluj-Napoca, the DeBalie Center for Culture and Politics in Amsterdam, the St. Petersburg International Dance Film Festival, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has served on the faculty at the University of Alaska, Anchorage; the University of Chicago Lab School; and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ms. Kim directed theatre for Chicago’s Goodman Theatre and the ARGE Kultur House in Austria as well as presented her video work at festivals, galleries, and performance spaces in Portugal, Atlanta, New York City, Anchorage, Salzburg, Ontario, Transylvania and throughout the Midwest. Ms. Kim is a recipient of fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council and the Jacob K. Javits Foundation, and grants from the Chicago Artists Assistance Grants and NEA/Dance USA to create new work. She received Chicago’s Ruth Page Award for Choreography and Performance in 1999.
Luis F. B. Plascencia
Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Plascencia obtained his doctorate in social anthropology from the University of Texas, Austin. His primary research interests are citizenship, migration, guestworker programs, and the Mexico-United States border. Prior to joining ASU, he was project coordinator/research associate for the Public Policy Institute in the Government Department and lecturer for the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin . He also has taught courses at Northeastern Illinois University, Elmhurst College, and the University of Texas, San Antonio. In addition, he has held the position of policy and budget analyst at the Texas Governor’s Office, and co-directed a project that estimated the size and distribution of the U.S. migrant agricultural workforce, the results of which were used by the U.S. Congress in the allocation of funding for the Migrant Legal Services program. Included in his publications are articles on citizenship and migration, which have appeared in International Migration Review, Social Science Quarterly, Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, and the Encyclopedia of American Immigration.
Elias Robles
Associate Professor, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Robles earned his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Arizona in 1990. He then spent two years as a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. His research has focused on the development of behavioral treatments for heroin, prescription opioids, cocaine, and nicotine dependence. Current research interests include the role of impulsiveness in the development of addictions and other high-risk behavior, and the design of information technology-based systems to facilitate access to health services by underserved populations. Some of Dr. Robles’ recent work has been published in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, Clinical Experimental Psychopharmacology, the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, and Nicotine and Tobacco Research. Dr. Robles teaches research methods in psychology, statistics for the behavioral sciences, health psychology, and substance abuse research.
Michelle Téllez
Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies Department
Dr. Téllez received her doctorate from Claremont Graduate University in the School of Educational Studies with a focus on critical community studies in spring 2005. In 2004-2005 she was a dissertation fellow in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has taught several courses in women’s studies and ethnic studies at California Polytechnic, Pomona; the University of California, San Diego; and Southwestern College. Her dissertation, “Globalizing Resistance: Maclovio Rojas, a Mexican Community En Lucha,” explored the ways in which the globalization of economic and cultural sectors have adversely affected the lives of those who cannot compete in the global market. This project examines the ways in which local communities are resisting global capitalism by exploring the community of Maclovio Rojas, an autonomous community settlement along the San Diego-Tijuana border. Furthermore, the gender dynamics of the community are analyzed from the oral narratives of women residents. Her publications include the article “Doing Research at the Borderlands: Notes from a Chicana Feminist Ethnographer,” published in Chicana/Latina Studies: the Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social in spring 2005 and a forthcoming book chapter, “Generating Hope, Creating Change, Searching for Community: Stories of Resistance at the U.S./Mexico Border” in Re-inventing Critical Pedagogy: Widening the Circle of Anti-Oppression Education edited by Cesar Rossatto, Ricky Lee Allen, and Marc Pruyn, and published by Rowman and Littlefield.
Barbara Tinsley
Professor and Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Tinsley received her Ph.D. in human development in 1984 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She was a lead health educator at a county public health department in Illinois for the following two years, focusing on the development and implementation of childhood lead poisoning prevention and intervention. She joined the faculty at the University of Illinois in the College of Communications as an assistant professor of health education in 1987, and after three years moved to the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, as a tenured associate professor, and later professor. During her 16 years at the University of California, she chaired an interdisciplinary department of human development and the campus honors program. In addition, she held joint appointments at Loma Linda University Medical School in obstetrics/gynecology/pediatrics and was appointed as a behavioral scientist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, in the Office of HIV/AIDS. Her research and teaching interests are focused on family and cultural influences on the development of children’s health-promoting and risky behavior and pediatrician-parent communication in the medical setting. Her research has been funded by a wide variety of federal, state, and private sources, including the National Institutes of Health, the National Foundation of the March of Dimes, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In August 2005, Dr. Tinsley joined the faculty at the West campus to chair the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Qiong Zhang
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences and Applied Computing
Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas, Dallas in 2005. She joined ASU at the West campus as an assistant professor in the Mathematical Sciences and Applied Computing Department in 2005. She teaches courses on computer networks and programming languages. Dr. Zhang’s current research interests include optical networks, network security, and grid computing. Her research work has been published in journals and conference proceedings.
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