COLIN CAMPBELL, Ph D
Colin Campbell is an associate professor of marketing and editor in chief of the Journal of Advertising Research. Additionally, he is on the editorial review board of nine other journals. Colin has published over 70 research articles and was recently ranked as one of the most influential advertising researchers in the last decade. He is regularly interviewed and has been quoted in outlets such as Time magazine and Forbes.
Colin’s research focuses on the innovations, opportunities and challenges that the internet presents for marketers. He is an expert in online and social media marketing, having published on topics such as video advertising in online environments,
influencers, deal collectives, deepfakes and instagrammability. Colin is also an expert in the strategic use of analytics, AI and machine learning.
Colin’s research appears in journals such as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Journal of Advertising, Journal of Advertising Research, California Management Review and Business Horizons. His work spans quantitative, qualitative and conceptual methodologies. In addition to presenting at academic conferences, he has also presented his work at the FTC, New York Advertising Week and at advertising agencies in New York and London.
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UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR DOV FOX, DPhil, JD
Dov Fox is the Herzog research professor of law at the University of San Diego, where he founded and directs the Center for Health Law Policy and Bioethics. Recognized as a San Diego Changemaker and Urgent Challenges Innovator for his work with local communities, Fox received the law school’s Thorsnes Prize for excellence in teaching in 2021 and the Thorsnes Prize for outstanding legal scholarship in 2020.
Fox’s articles have been published in leading journals of law (e.g., Harvard Law Review and Yale Law Journal ), medicine (e.g., New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American Medical Association), bioethics (e.g., Journal of Medical Ethics and American Journal of Bioethics) and public health
( Foreign Affairs and American Journal of Public Health). His academic research has also been featured in national newspapers (e.g., The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal ), magazines (e.g., The Atlantic and The Economist), and television programs (e.g., CBS This Morning and NBC’s TODAY Show). His original series “Donor 9623” was named Audible’s No. 1 podcast of 2020 and submitted for a Pulitzer Prize in investigative journalism. The second season was released in June 2023. Fox’s latest book is Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law (Oxford University Press). His next book project is The Conscience of Care: Policing the Boundaries of Health in Post-Roe America.
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MAYA KALYANPUR, Ph D
Maya Kalyanpur is professor and chair in the Department of Teaching and Learning, having received her PhD in special education from Syracuse University, New York. Currently, she teaches courses on educational research methods in the master’s program and on globalization and education and qualitative research methods in the doctoral program. During her sabbatical in 2020, she was Cognizant Foundation visiting chair at the Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. She was an international advisor in inclusive education to the Cambodian Ministry of Education under the World Bank-supported Global Partnership for Education program. She has conducted research on the intersections of culture, international development and disability studies in India, the U.S. and Cambodia.
Her books and publications focus on the uncritical applications of disability-related constructs, policies and practices from the Global North to the Global South and offer cultural reciprocity as an approach towards recognizing and incorporating indigenous
funds of knowledge. She received a Fulbright Foundation Senior Researcher Fellowship award in 2017-2018 to study services for students with learning disabilities in India, which resulted in her sole-authored book, Development, Learning Disability, and Education in India, published by Springer. Her most recent book, co-authored with SOLES
Associate Dean Sarina Chugani Molina and others, titled The Politics of English Language Education and Social Inequality: Global Pressures, National Priorities and Schooling in India, explores the complexities of English language education within the current context of neoliberal globalization.
In 2020, she was awarded the American Educational Research Association’s Carlos J. Vallejo Memorial Award for Lifetime Scholarship from the Multicultural/ Multiethnic Education Special Interest Group. She co-founded the Proteep project, which supports girls to complete high school and university education in Cambodia.
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UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR NATHALIE REYNS, Ph D
Nathalie Reyns is a marine ecologist who studies the biological and physical factors that influence marine organisms. She has two primary lines of research: one that focuses on understanding the dispersal of larvae of marine organisms and a second that focuses on characterizing the population dynamics of invasive species in coastal systems. One of the most satisfying and important components of her work is engaging undergraduate and graduate students in her research, which mostly involves field work in local San Diego ecosystems.
Nathalie earned an undergraduate degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Arizona, followed by Master
of Science and PhD degrees in marine sciences from Stony Brook University and North Carolina State University, respectively. She was a postdoctoral scholar at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution before beginning her faculty position at USD.
At USD, Nathalie has mentored over 30 undergraduate research students and seven Master of Science students. Nathalie is passionate about providing experiential learning opportunities for her students and teaches classes in oceanography, research applications and marine community ecology. She is grateful for the wonderful colleagues and students at USD.
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KATHRYN C. STATLER, Ph D
Kathryn C. Statler has taught 21 different classes over the past 24 years, including masters, LLC, Honors and advanced integration courses. Student favorites are The Vietnam Wars, 20th Century U.S. Foreign Relations, World War I and World War II through Literature and Film, and Armed Conflict and American Society. She is the author of Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam and co-editor (with Andrew Johns) of The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War as well as numerous articles, book chapters, book reviews and conference papers. Her most recent article is “Death-Grip Handshakes and Flattery Diplomacy: The MacronTrump Connection and Its Larger Implications for Alliance Politics” in Chaos Reconsidered: The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics. She is also series editor of “Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace” at the University Press of
Kentucky and has appeared on the History and Smithsonian channels.
She has been elected or appointed to multiple councils and editorial boards and is currently a councilmember for the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association and on the editorial board for The Journal of American-East Asian Relations. She has engaged in many different administrative and service roles at USD, currently as vice president of the Phi Beta Kappa Phi chapter, Fulbright student program faculty advisor and member of the Faculty Research Grant Award Committee. She is finishing a manuscript titled “Lafayette’s Ghost: How Women and War Kept the Franco-American Alliance for 250 Years,” which explains how the United States and France constructed and maintained the most honest, longest and strongest alliance the world has ever seen through cultural initiatives that began with the Marquis de Lafayette.
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STEBER PROFESSORS
EMILY REIMER-BARRY, Ph D
Emily Reimer-Barry, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. Dr. ReimerBarry is a teacher and scholar trained in Catholic theological ethics. She teaches courses in theology and ethics utilizing feminist and antiracist pedagogies, including Christian Changemakers, War and Peace in the Christian Tradition, Sexual Ethics in the Catholic Tradition and more. Dr. Reimer-Barry’s research explores topics that probe the relationship between social justice and sexuality.
Her first book, Catholic Theology of Marriage in an Era of HIV and AIDS, was published in 2015. Her second book, which focuses on reproductive justice in a post-Roe America, will be published in 2024. Dr. Reimer-Barry co-edited the 2023 special issue of the Journal of Moral Theology, focusing on intersectional methods in moral theology. Three widely cited articles are “Amoris Laetitia at Five” (Theological Studies, 2022), “Another Pro-Life Movement Is Possible” (Catholic Theological Society of America
Proceedings, 2019) and “On Women’s Health and Women’s Power: A Feminist Appraisal of Humanae Vitae” (Theological Studies, 2018).
Dr. Reimer-Barry’s public scholarship includes articles for National Catholic Reporter, Conscience, Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church Forum blog and Catholic Moral Theology blog. She is currently working on a series on saints and reproductive justice for U.S. Catholic to highlight Catholic saints whose stories can be creatively retrieved to complicate narratives about reproductive health discernments.
Dr. Reimer-Barry’s service commitments and leadership experience are extensive and include a two-year term as chair of the CAS Academic Assembly and five years serving as THRS department chair. Dr. ReimerBarry is on the board of Faith in Public Life and serves as a lector and Christian action coordinator at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Chula Vista.
STEBER PROFESSORS WENLI XIAO, Ph D
Dr. Wenli Xiao is an associate professor of operations and supply chain management in the Knauss School of Business at the University of San Diego. She also serves as the chair of the Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, International Business and Interdisciplinary programs.
Dr. Xiao’s research interests lie in the areas of knowledge management, management of technology, new product development, sustainable supply chain, manufacturing and knowledge outsourcing. She explores topics that aim to examine and understand the product development processes in high-tech firms, the transfer of information and knowledge among different projects and cross-functional departments, and the
dynamic nature of decisionmaking in product development. In the field of sustainable supply chains, she focuses on topics related to recycling standards in plastic and electronic waste processing, taxation and regulations to promote plastic waste collection and recycling, and the impact of product bans on plastic recycling. At the University of San Diego, Dr. Xiao teaches graduate and undergraduate level courses in operations and supply chain management, supply chain analytics and business analytics.
Dr. Xiao received her PhD in operations management from the University of Georgia Institute of Technology.
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HERZOG ENDOWED SCHOLAR ADAM HIRSCH, JD, Ph D
Adam Hirsch was the William and Catherine VanDercreek professor of law at Florida State University. He is an academic fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and served on the Florida Historical Commission. He joined the USD School of Law faculty in 2013. His areas of expertise are wills and trusts, debtor/creditor law, property and American legal history.
Hirsch’s doctoral dissertation received the George Washington Egleston Prize for the best dissertation on American history. The dissertation was expanded into a book, The Rise of the Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Early America (Yale University Press, 1992). He has also served as the Roger Traynor fellow at Hastings College of Law.
Hirsch is the current editor of the California Probate Code Annotated (Thompson, Reuters) and publishes a new edition each year. He is the author of over 40 articles in the field of wills and trusts, including articles in the Michigan Law Review, the Cornell Law Review and the Washington University Law Review. Hirsch also serves as co-editor of the electronic book review series JOTWELL for trusts and estates.
Within USD, Hirsch has received the Thorsnes Prize for outstanding legal scholarship and has been named the Herzog endowed scholar for the current academic year.
CLASS OF 1975 ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP
ALLEN CHARLES SNYDER, JD
Born in 1946, Allen Snyder grew up in a small steel town in eastern Pennsylvania. He graduated from Washington and Jefferson College and was drafted into the Army where he trained as a combat engineer. After deployments in Kentucky and Vietnam, he was honorably separated from active duty, then attended and graduated from Northwestern Law School in 1974. In 1975, he went to work at the Legal Aid Society of San Diego where he focused mostly on health and mental health issues. Grant Morris, a USD law professor dedicated to enhancing advocacy for patients in the mental health system, encouraged him to come to USD.
He joined USD’s faculty in 1978 as the clinical supervisor for the Mental Health Law Clinic. Over time, he supervised other clinics. From the start, his classes in important legal skills, including those he taught in USD’s summer programs throughout Europe, have been taught experientially.
As part of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and other governmental agencies
and private foundations, he organized, taught in and directed advocacy programs for practicing lawyers in the U.S. and in many foreign countries, including the Balkans and the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe. He also collaborated with faculty from UNAM Mexicali and USD’s CrossBorder Institute on programs in Baja Mexico.
His focus changed after training as a mediator and dispute resolver. He has used those skills to teach classes and train students, faculty, judges and nonlawyers at USD and around the globe (including Hong Kong, Tsinghua-Temple in Beijing and University of Melbourne).
Allen has been an active board member of SDVLP, the San Diego County Bar Foundation and other local organizations.
He and his wife, Lynne Lasry, have two children, Rachelle (Minix) and Charles, and four grandchildren.
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