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Lynn Horton

Program Director and Associate Professor of Sociology

(714) 997-6976

horton@chapman.edu

Dr. Horton’s research has emphasized social movements, environmentalism, and women’s rights in Central America. She has worked for NGOs in Washington D.C. and Latin America on issues of human rights and sustainable development. Dr. Horton’s first book, Peasants in Arms: War and Peace in the Mountains of Nicaragua, draws on fieldwork carried out in Nicaragua's conflict zones to analyze the origins and outcomes of that country's decade-long civil war. Her second book, Grassroots Struggles for Sustainability in Central America, explores from a comparative perspective, processes of grassroots empowerment in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, and the mobilization or rural and indigenous communities in favor of sustainability.

Deepa Badrinarayana

Associate Professor of Law

(714) 628-2673

badrinar@chapman.edu

Professor Badrinarayana's areas of expertise include environmental law, public health law, international trade, and corporate social responsibility. She has served as a consultant with the United Nations Global Compact and on India-World Bank environmental projects.

Victoria Carty

Assistant Professor of Sociology

(714) 744-2137

carty@chapman.edu

Victoria Carty's research focuses on transnational social movements in the United States, Mexico and Panama and role of the internet in social mobilization. Her research has explored cross-border union organizing and anti-sweatshop movements in Latin America.

Laura Loustau

Associate Professor of Spanish

(714) 744-7084

loustau@chapman.edu

Dr. Loustau's expertise includes Latin American literatures written in the United States as well as U.S. Latino/a literatures. Her research explores notions of border, de(re)territorialization, nomadism, and transculturation.

Andrea Molle

Post Doctorial Research Associate, Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Society Associate Researcher in Sociology and Political Science

molle@chapman.edu

Andrea Molle is an associate researcher in Sociology and Political Science at Chapman University. Prior to coming to Chapman, he was Post-doc fellow at Baylor University. From November 2006 to November 2008, he conducted anthropological researches on new religions in Japan working at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture (Nagoya) under the JSPS programme. He is also Associate Researcher with the Italian School for East Asian Studies in Kyoto. Current projects at Chapman focus on computational social science, non-Christian religions and spiritualties, religious markets. He has published a book on new religions (in Italian) and several articles in journals in the fields of sociology and anthropology

Crystal Murphy

Assistant Professor of Political Science

(714) 628-2763

crmurphy@chapman.edu

Dr. Murphy's research focuses on conflict and post-conflict development, political economy and sustainability topics, and promotes qualitative methods for policy oriented scholarship. She has recently worked in the Sudan exploring micro-credit programs in post-war societies.

Matthew Sant

Adjunct Faculty

sant@chapman.edu

Professor Sant is a business attorney with broad experience representing innovative companies on the cutting edge of technology. At Broadcom Corporation, Mr. Sant serves as division general counsel of the Broadband Communications Group, one of three multi-billion dollar business units within the company. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Sant is deeply involved in public policy and international affairs. He teaches graduate level courses on law and policy at Chapman University, is an active member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and served as Chairman of the World Affairs Council of Orange County. Of particular interest are issues relating to national security, economics and globalization.

Raymond Sfeir

Professor of Economics and Management Science

(714) 997-6551

sfeir@chapman.edu

Dr. Sfeir's areas of expertise include microeconomics, applied econometrics, statistics, and forecasting. His research explores operations research, capital asset pricing, and manufacturing sector performance.

Pilar Valenzuela

Associate Professor of Spanish

(714) 997-6516

valenzuela@chapman.edu

Dr. Valenzuela's research focuses on Latin America, indigenous languages, and intercultural bilingual education. With funding from the National Science Foundation, she has documented endangered indigenous languages in the Amazon.

Tekle Woldemikael

Professor of Sociology

(714) 744-7840

woldemik@chapman.edu

Dr. Woldemikael's areas of expertise include immigrants and refugees, racial identity, ethnicity and nationalism, language and public policy. His recent research has focused on the formation of Eritrean nationalist movements and religion.