I was an Early Childhood Special Education teacher and Early Interventionist for 11 years before returning to school to pursue my Doctoral Degree at the University of California Santa Barbara. I am also the parent of a son with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and feel that having a child with a disability made me a better teacher.
I joined the faculty at California State University, Los Angeles in 2017 after completing my doctoral degree in the Sociology Department at the State University of New York, Albany. My areas of specialization are social psychology, with a focus on the transformation of identity and emotion, and crime and deviance, with a focus on individuals' experiences of traumatic loss and criminal victimization. My research is largely qualitative in nature, often including phenomenological explorations using intensive interviewing, focus groups, and participant observation.
Dr. Jamie Marsh is Associate Professor of Literacy Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at California State University, Los Angeles. She teaches courses in the Multiple Subject Teaching Credential program and supports future educators in designing responsive, engaging, and reflective literacy instruction.
My primary teaching interests include psychology & the law, human memory, social cognition, and psychology & film.
I joined Cal State LA and the M.A. in TESOL Program in 2015. Some of my research interests include critical discourse analysis and conversation analysis, language pedagogy, language assessment, second/foreign language acquisition and learning, and neurobiology and cognition research on language learning and use.
Dr. Ellis completed her B.A. at San Diego State University and her clinical work as well as her Ph.D. in Language and Communicative Disorders at San Diego State University & University of California, San Diego. Dr. Ellis is clinically certified and licensed in Speech Language Pathology.
I joined Cal State LA in 2015 as part of the Geography program faculty. Previously I worked for Wright State University, University of South Florida, Esri, Inc., and the Center for Urban Transportation Research. My areas of teaching focus include urban geography, urban transportation, political geography, geographic thought, and GIS (spatial analysis and mobile GIS); my research focuses on uneven geographical development within the urban space.
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Dr. Fazzi is Associate Dean for the Charter College of Education and a Certified Orientation & Mobility Specialist (COMS) and coordinates the Orientation & Mobility (O&M) Specialist Training Program in Visual Impairment & Blindness in the Division of Special Education and Counseling. The O&M program at Cal State LA was started in 1967 and has continued to grow and evolve to meet state and national standards for the preparation of O&M specialists to serve children and adults with visual impairments.
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