Experts Directory: Communication and Language

Alejandra Acuña

Department of Social Work
work: (818) 677-7798
email: aacuna@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish

Urban youth and families
Traumatic stress and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Resilience
Mental health in schools
School social work
Family communication
Family engagement in children’s mental health
Evidence-based mental health practices
Cognitive behavioral intervention for trauma in schools
Parenting and family therapy
Solution-focused brief therapy
Child welfare
Program evaluation
Cultural/traditional mental health practices
Social marketing campaigns for mental health

Learn more about Bernardo Attias:

CSUN Prof Finds PTSD Screening & Brief Intervention Can Improve Emotional Well-Being, Academic Success of Underrepresented Students

Vicki Allen

Student Affairs
work: (818) 677-5109
email: vicki.allen@csun.edu

Leadership development
Student development
Communication
Cross-cultural communication
Racism
Programming budgeting
Time management
Stress management
Mentoring
Goal-setting
Ethics

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Bernardo Attias

Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-2876
Personal: (323) 350 - 4065
email: bernardo.attias@csun.edu

War on terrorism
Media studies
Rhetorical studies
Political campaigns
Freedom of speech
Technology
Crime and punishment
Drug war
Peace and conflict
History of sexuality

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CSUN Professor Tackles Confederate Monuments, in 'Rhetoric of Peace and Conflict' Research

Flavia Fleischer

Department of Deaf Studies
work: (818) 677-5116 or (818) 435-7340 (video phone)
Email: flavia.fleischer@csun.edu
Also speaks: American Sign Language

Deaf culture
American Sign Language linguistics
Deaf education
Deaf sports
Deaf activism and advocacy
Media representation of deaf people

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Huge Job Growth Projected For LA Sign Language Interpreters

Tom Hatfield

Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
work: (818) 677-4708
email:

Risk communication
Risk assessment
Environmental health
Epidemiological and toxicological studies

David Keating

Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-2788
email: david.keating@csun.edu

Social influence
Public communication campaigns
Health communication

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Probing a relevance-driven account of the functional matching process for utilitarian and value-expressive attitudes

Daisy Lemus

Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-2853
email: daisy.lemus@csun.edu

Organizational communication
Group communication
Research methods
Retirement planning
Team building

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Kenneth V. Luna

Department of Linguistics
work: (818) 677-3453
email: kenneth.luna@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish

Linguistics
Phonetics (articulation, perception, acoustics and audition)
Phonology
Intonation
Languages
Romance languages
Spanish
Dialectology
Caribbean Spanish and linguistics
Puerto Rican linguistics
Theoretical linguistics
Language regulation

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Sheena Malhotra

Associate Dean, College of Humanities
work: (818) 677-7217
email: sheena.malhotra@csun.edu
Also speaks: Hindi

Film and television in India and the Indian diaspora
Gender and sexuality in popular culture
Intercultural communication
Bollywood
Call center in India
Co-author: "Answer the Call: Virtual Migration in Indian Call Center"
Co-editor: "Silence and Power: Feminist Reflection at the Edge of Sound"

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Peter J. Marston

Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-2797 / 2853
email: peter.marston@csun.edu

The experience and communication of romantic love
Cultural study of media communication
Political arguments and debate
Popular music criticism
Popular culture censorship

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`True Love Ways': The Subjective Experience and Communication of Romantic Love

Evelyn McClave

Department of Linguistics
Linguistics Program
work: (818) 677-7243
email: evelyn.mcclave@csun.edu
Also speaks: American Sign Language, German

Gesture in the context of speech
Head movements as indicators of cognition
Discourse analysis
Language attitudes

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Patricia Miller

Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
work: (818) 677-3452
email: pmiller@csun.edu
Also speaks: Italian, French

Technology mediated language acquisition
Learning centers design
Literary and technical translations
Language teaching methodology

Robin Muller

Department of Philosophy
work: (818) 677-3579
email: robin.muller@csun.edu

History of philosophy
20th century European philosophy
Phenomenology
History and philosophy of linguistics

Scott W. Plunkett

Department of Psychology
work: (818) 677-7480
email: scott.plunkett@csun.edu

Program evaluation
Parenting/family dynamics
Neighborhood, family, school and peer influences on adolescent development (ethnic minorities)
Gender differences
Non-verbal communication
Parenting education
Communication and conflict resolution

Ana Sánchez-Muñoz

Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-2734
email: ana.sanchezmunoz@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish

Language variation and change
Sociolinguistics
Bilingualism and situations of language contact, especially Spanish in the United States
Language acquisition, specifically in teaching Spanish as a heritage language
How schooling in English contributes to the loss/attrition of a heritage language
Author: “Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States: A Study of Speakers’ Register Variation”
Co-author: “Learning English/Learning America: Latino and Asian American Voices”

L. David Sannerud

Department of Music
work: (818) 677-3137
email: david.sannerud@csun.edu
Also speaks: German, Italian

German and Italian diction
Solo voice training—classical and others

Kathryn Sorrells

Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-2853
email: kathryn.sorrells@csun.edu

Intercultural communication
Intercultural conflict
Gender, race, class and sexuality
Feminism
Globalization

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Elizabeth G. Weber

Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences
work: (818) 677-2852
email: elizabeth.weber@csun.edu

Developmental language disorders
Discourse and grammar
Autism
Autism and social communication groups
Diagnosis of language disorders
Social communication groups

Scott M. Williams

Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
work: (818) 701-6898
email: scott.m.williams@csun.edu

Family, marital/couple and individual therapy
Families
Adolescent males
Parent/adolescent relationships
Parenting children with special needs
Premarital issues
Aging
Depression
Anxiety
Gender differences in communication
Co-creator of “The Discovery Tool,” a screening instrument to detect age 0 to 5 development and delays
Co-author: “My Family: Past, Present and Future”