UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO HONORS MEMBERS OF ITS DISTINGUISHED FACULTY
2021-22
University Professors Steber Professors Herzog Endowed Scholar Class of 1975 Endowed Professorship
September 10, 2021
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WELCOME
Gail F. Baker, PhD Vice President and Provost
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Dustin N. Sharp, PhD, JD Associate Professor/Associate Dean Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies
GREETING
Kevin Guerrieri, PhD Chair of University Senate Professor, Department of Languages, Cultures and Literatures
PRESENTATION OF AWARDS James T. Harris III, DEd President
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS James T. Harris III, DEd
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Today we recognize those who have excelled in academic achievement by awarding them special professorships. The university community is pleased to congratulate these individuals because they represent the core of our mission and the scholarly values we all share.
UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS University Professors are those who have demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievements in teaching and research supporting the mission and goals of the university. STEBER PROFESSORS Steber Professors are recognized for substantial contributions in the areas of teaching, research and service to the university and are limited, by the intent of the donor, Clarence L. Steber, to faculty members in the School of Business Administration and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies.
HERZOG ENDOWED SCHOLAR The Herzog Endowed Scholar award recognizes meritorious teaching or scholarly productivity and provides funds for professional development or for increased time for research or teaching for a one-year period to School of Law faculty. CLASS OF 1975 ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP The Class of 1975 Endowed Professorship, established by the School of Law’s Class of 1975 as its 25-year reunion gift to the law school, recognizes meritorious teaching, leadership and academic accomplishments of a professor in the School of Law.
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JONATHAN M. BOWMAN Jonathan M. Bowman, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies. He is a recent winner of the Ecroyd Award for Outstanding Teaching in Higher Education, the highest teaching honor in his discipline. Dr. Bowman teaches courses in human communication processes, focusing on fostering the engaged expression of ideas alongside the elucidation of concepts within the context of inclusion and social justice. Dr. Bowman has been the recipient of the WSCA Distinguished Teaching Award, the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Keck Faculty Fellowship for undergraduate research, the Innovations in Experiential Education Award for his commitment to high-impact practices, and USD’s Outstanding Preceptor Award for excellence in teaching and advising, among others. He serves as a mentor to undergraduates in multiple capacities, including students involved in student government, Greek life, academic honors, as well as campus faithbased organizations. Dr. Bowman’s research program investigates interpersonal and small group communication processes in a variety of con-
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texts, emphasizing the revelation of unknown information. Currently working on his fifth book, he also authored Nonverbal Communication: An Applied Approach (2020), Interconnections: Foundations and Contexts in Interpersonal Communication (2019), as well as co-authored a monograph with Filar (2018) and an edited volume with Fritsvold (2016). His research has also been published in scholarly journals, such as The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Small Group Research, Communication Research Reports and multiple book chapters. In addition to scholarly publications, Dr. Bowman has contributed his expertise to national and international media outlets, including newspapers, radio, podcasts and television news programs. Recent media appearances include USA Today and Good Morning America. Dr. Bowman received graduate degrees at Michigan State University as a University Distinguished Fellow, and an undergraduate degree at the University of California Davis as a Regent’s Scholar. He was an assistant professor at Boston College before upgrading to the University of San Diego in 2007.
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AUSTIN CHOI-FITZPATRICK Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, PhD, is associate professor of political sociology at the University of San Diego’s Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies. Choi-Fitzpatrick works across the disciplines of sociology, political science, international relations, science and technology studies, and engineering in order to explore enduring challenges related to politics, culture, technology and social change. These interests led to six books and 30 peer reviewed publications. Recent book projects have focused on: social movement targets (What Slaveholders Think, Columbia UP, 2017); social movement technologies (The Good Drone, MIT Press, 2020); ethical dilemmas in peace and justice work (Wicked Problems (ed), Oxford UP, forthcoming); and the complexity of human rights narratives (Bonded, under review). His public-facing writing includes articles in Slate, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The Conversation, MIT Reader, Medium, Popular Science and Aeon, his commentary on current events includes appearances on
American, British and Canadian television, and his work on drones has been profiled in Science, Fast Company and by NBC, among others. Dr. Choi-Fitzpatrick’s new book project (Protest Futures) is made possible by sabbatical funding in the form of a Technology and Human Rights Fellowship at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights, a visiting scholar position at Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and USD’s University Professorship. Dr. Choi-Fitzpatrick came to the University of San Diego after serving as a founding faculty member of the School of Public Policy at Central European University, and currently serves as a concurrent associate professor of social movements and human rights at the University of Nottingham, where he is a principal researcher at the Rights Lab, a discipline-crossing effort to better understand slavery and emancipation. He earned his PhD in sociology from the University of Notre Dame in 2013.
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ANNE KOENIG Anne Koenig, PhD, a professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in women’s studies, graduating with honors and distinction from Iowa State University in 2001. She earned her doctorate from Northwestern University in 2007, after which she accepted a position as an assistant professor at USD. She was promoted to full professor in 2018. In 2017-2018, she served as interim director of the Center for Educational Excellence and, from 2018 to 2020, she led the Department of Psychological Sciences as the department chair. Dr. Koenig teaches social psychology, psychology of gender and cross-cultural psychology. She also enjoys teaching introduction to psychology and has participated in several first-year learning communities. Her research focuses on gender bias and gender stereotypes. She uses the lens of social role theory to investigate when and why gender bias occurs, how stereotypes develop and change, and how lay people think about gender.
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Dr. Koenig has published 16 peer-reviewed scientific articles and six book chapters. Most recently, she has published papers about the source of stereotypes and their potential for change in the journals, Current Directions in Psychological Science and Social Psychology Quarterly. Her work on whether people believe ignoring or recognizing gender and race differences is the best way to reduce bias in public and private contexts, was published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology. Her 2011 meta-analysis on the gendered stereotypes of leadership has been cited more than 1,500 times. Current projects focus on the change in prescriptive gender stereotypes, which dictate how women and men are supposed to act and lead to social and economic penalties when violated. In 2021, Dr. Koenig was accepted as a fellow into the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. She’s also a member of Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, as well as the Association of Psychological Science, the Society of Personality and Social Psychology and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology.
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ALYSON MA Alyson Ma, PhD, is a professor of economics in the School of Business. She focuses on scholarly achievements in teaching and research supporting the mission and goals of the University of San Diego. She is a trade economist, who specializes on the Chinese economy. Given her expertise on global value chain, she presented at invited conferences, including the 2016 Beijing Forum. Dr. Ma has 20 journal publications and five invited book chapters (World Bank, National Bureau of Economic Research and Asian Development Bank). She also has invited contributions to the Academy of International Business Insights, VoxEU, and the Bureau of European Policy Adviser Monthly Brief. Additionally, Dr. Ma was nominated for the Haynes Prize for the Most Promising Scholar by the Academy of International Business in 2011 and 2012. Her research made the SSRN Top Ten Download List in 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012 and provided peer reviews for more than 25 academic journals. More recently, Dr. Ma
branched out to interdisciplinary research. Her research on health is a timely focus on racial or ethnic health disparities across various measures. As an instructor, she strives for evidence-based and innovative pedagogy that engages students. Her course delivery and assessment vary depending on the topic and course level. One of her Blackboard courses was used by ITS as an exemplary teaching module. She has served as a Living Learning Community Faculty Advisor for the incoming first-year students since 2009. Dr. Ma received multiple thank you notes from Academic Affairs for being identified by students as the “most helpful person” in their college success. In 2020, alumni named her as someone who “continues to have an impact on … [their] … life today.” Her passion and dedication led her to serve in numerous roles, including associate director of the Center for Education Excellence and department chair, to promote the core values of USD in academic excellence.
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MILA SOHONI Mila Sohoni, JD, teaches and writes in the areas of administrative law, federal courts, civil procedure and health care reform. She joined the faculty of the School of Law in 2013 and now serves as the associate dean of faculty. Professor Sohoni served as a law clerk to the Honorable Judith W. Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She practiced law at Jenner & Block LLP in New York and Washington, D.C., and was an acting assistant professor of lawyering at New York University School of Law. Before attending law school, she spent two years as a correspondent for The Economist magazine in New York and in London. Professor Sohoni graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she served as the book reviews chair and a member of the articles committee on the Harvard Law Review. She was a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar at Cambridge University, where she received her MPhil with distinction (first class) in the history and philosophy of science. She graduated
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magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in chemistry in 1999. Sohoni has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee and has written and spoken extensively on the subject of universal or nationwide injunctions. She was a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School (Fall 2018) and at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (Spring 2018). Her scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, the Virginia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and elsewhere. Profesor Sohoni's article, “Crackdowns,” received the honorable mention in the 2017 Scholarly Papers Competition sponsored by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and was also awarded the AALS Section on Criminal Justice’s Junior Scholar Award for 2017. In 2019, Sohoni was chosen to be the Herzog Endowed Scholar. In 2018, Professor Sohoni was honored to be awarded the Thorsnes Prize for excellence in teaching — its recipient is chosen by a vote of upper-division law students at USD.
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RICO G. MONGE Rico G. Monge, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, whose research and teaching has a interdisciplinary focus that straddles the boundaries between theology, religious studies and philosophy. After graduating with a degree in English literature with an emphasis in religion and literature in 1998, he taught honors and advanced placement high school literature before pursuing graduate work. His formal study of religion and engagement in interreligious dialogue began with a Master’s of Divinity in Eastern Orthodox Theology from St. Vladimir’s Seminary in New York, where he was also the seminary’s lead student representative. He then earned his PhD in comparative religious studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in continental philosophy and religion, the history of Christian thought and Islamic mysticism. His published work includes articles in the Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies, Religions, and Medieval Mystical Theology, as well as contributor and lead editor to the volume Hagiography and Religious Truth: Case Studies
in the Abrahamic and Dharmic Traditions (Bloomsbury Academic 2016). His forthcoming monograph, also with Bloomsbury, is titled Religious Affirmations of the World: Theorizing Asceticism and Self-Denial. In it, he compares the philosophies of asceticism of Friedrich Nietzsche and Fyodor Dostoevsky and interrogates how their ideas can be productively appropriated through Marxian and anarchist hermeneutics of liberation in contemporary activism. With his Steber Professorship he began a new trajectory in teaching and research that focuses on: articulating a uniquely Eastern Orthodox comparative theology that overcomes difficulties in Western Christian theology; and how interreligious spirituality and radical political theory have melded in unique ways that undergird the resistance movements of the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico, and the Rojava revolution in northern Syria. The first focus will result in a groundbreaking book tentatively titled On Groundless Ground: Eastern Orthodox Hermeneutics and Comparative Theology (Fordham). The second will result in a new USD course, titled Comparative Spiritualities of Revolution: Theory and Praxis.
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JUSTINE RAPP FARRELL Justine Rapp Farrell, PhD is an associate professor of marketing and chair of the marketing department in the School of Business. She teaches Digital Marketing and Consumer Behavior, with a focus on experiential education and project-based learning. Her research interests focus on the domain of consumer welfare and, more specifically, the intersection of underrepresented consumers within public policy and consumer protection. Dr. Rapp Farrell’s research has implications for a variety of domains, including consumer behavior, public policy and advertising. She is widely published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Advertising, the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, and the Journal of Advertising Research, among others. She has also received two research grants in the area of transformative consumer research.
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Dr. Rapp Farrell is currently serving as co-editor for a special issue in the Journal of Consumer Marketing, serves as an associate editor at the Journal of Consumer Affairs, and is on the editorial review board for the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing. She previously received the Faculty Dual Excellence Award, the Innovation in Experiential Education Award and the Emerging Scholar Award from the AMA Marketing and Society Special Interest Group. Justine earned her PhD from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Prior to her time at UNL, she earned both her Master’s in Business Administration with an emphasis in marketing and her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in marketing from the School of Business at Villanova University. She is originally from the suburbs of Philadelphia, Penn.
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STEVEN D. SMITH Steven D. Smith is a Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, where he has taught since 2002. Before that, he was the Robert and Marion Short Professor at Notre Dame and the Bryon R. White Professor at the University of Colorado. A graduate of Brigham Young University and Yale Law School, Smith teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, religious freedom, jurisprudence and torts.
Along with Professor Larry Alexander, Smith is co-director of USD’s Institute for Law and Philosophy and Institute for Law and Religion. Smith grew up in Idaho, which he still regards as home. He and his wife, Merina, have raised five children.
His books include: Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law (Notre Dame 2021); Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac (Eerdmans 2018); The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom (Harvard 2014); The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse (Harvard 2010); Law’s Quandary (Harvard 2004); The Constitution and the Pride of Reason (Oxford 1998); Getting Over Equality (NYU Press 2001);
Professor Smith began his teaching career as a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School and then as an assistant professor at the University of Idaho. He has also taught courses as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia and the University of Lisbon. He was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Criminology and the Philosophical and Social Study of Law at the University of Edinburgh.
Foreordained Failure: The Quest for a Constitutional Principle of Religious Freedom (Oxford 1995); and Against the Law (Duke 1996, with Paul Campos and Pierre Schlag).
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MIRANDA McGOWAN Miranda McGowan, JD, joined the School of Law faculty in 2005 where she teaches constitutional law, employment discrimination, torts, as well as gender and the law. Professor McGowan has written on a wide range of topics, including whether the late Justice Scalia limited himself to originalist sources when he interpreted statutes (he did not), sex and gender workplace harassment, constitutional guarantees of equality for members of the LGBTQ+ community, and how a more accurate understanding of the vast similarities — between men’s and women’s capabilities, capacities and desires — should guide legal doctrine and public policy. Her most recent work argues that women’s equality in the workplace depends on combatting stereotypes and discrimination against men — not just against women — in order for men to relinquish the
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breadwinner role, which directs that they prioritize work over home. Prior to joining the USD faculty, Professor McGowan taught at the University of Minnesota Law School from 1998 to 2005. She practiced employment discrimination law and complex litigation as an associate at the law firm of Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin after clerking for the late Judge John T. Noonan, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She graduated with distinction from Stanford University’s Law School in 1995, where she was an articles editor for the Stanford Law Review. She graduated magna cum laude from University of California, Berkeley, in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science. She was awarded the departmental citation for graduating first in her department.