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 Tonya Bradford | I am an associate professor of marketing and Inclusive Excellence Term Chair at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California at Irvine. I examine rituals, communities, and identity across phenomena including gifting (e.g., registry, organ, charitable), relationships with money, communities (e.g., tailgating and support), acculturation, and brand loyalty. I share my research through journals (e.g., the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Retailing, the Journal of Business Research, the Journal of Interactive Marketing, and Research in Consumer Behavior), and more mainstream outlets like the Smithsonian Institute, the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, and Ladies Home Journal. My parents are children of the Southern United States and made sure I understood that we each have a role to play in making spaces more equitable and inclusive. I recognize that there are many opportunities to help those who are not typically found in the academy—particularly traditionally underrepresented minorities and women—in terms of recruitment, retention, and career advancement. I look forward to helping our campus thrive in supporting faculty. |
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 Annalisa Coliva | I am a Philosophy Professor. I specialize in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and history of analytic philosophy. Currently, I am working on several issues in social epistemology, having to do with forms of epistemic injustice perpetrated against women and underserved groups. I am also interested in so-called “conceptual engineering”. My Wittgenstein-inspired model is designed to help develop more inclusive gender concepts. In the history of analytic philosophy, I have published widely on Wittgenstein and George Edward Moore. Lately, I have been working on Susan Stebbing, the first woman Philosophy Professor in the UK, and on the too often neglected contribution of women philosophers to the rise of analytic philosophy across the two sides of the Atlantic. At UCI I have been chair of the Philosophy department, where I have strenuously worked to achieve more gender balance among faculty, and graduate students, and to create more opportunities for under-represented groups. To that end, I have designed and directed a “Mentoring women and under-represented groups in philosophy” program. I am a strong supporter to the President/Chancellor Postdoctoral Fellowship program, that I have served in various capacities, most notably as mentor of two fellows. I have fostered inclusive excellence also by supporting the AICRE + Philosophy pivot, meant to raise awareness among faculty and graduate students of themes in Africana and Black Philosophy. |
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 Solmaz Kia | I am an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Computer Science Department. My specialty is in decentralized algorithm design for networked systems (cyber-physical systems), control theory, and probabilistic robotics. My research involves navigation in GPS-denied environments, sensor fusion, integrity monitoring, in-network coordination, distributed optimal decision-making, and multi-robot motion planning. Intuitively speaking, the essence of my research work is the analysis/synthesis of local interactions in networked multi-agent systems to produce global behaviors/solutions. My research is at the intersection of engineering, computer science, and mathematics. I am most intrigued by the mathematics behind system models and algorithm designs. I enjoy collaborating with experimentalists and application engineers to create mathematically rigorous solutions for engineering problems. I completed my Ph.D. at UCI and was a UC president postdoctoral fellow at UC San Diego before joining UCI as a faculty. As a faculty member, I have served on faculty search and graduate student admission committees and as a chair of the research committee in the school of engineering. In all these different roles, I have closely appreciated the UC system's commitment to inclusive excellence and genuine effort to promote it. I am pleased to be part of this ongoing effort, which has made the UC system, particularly UCI, a leading institution in defining and implementing best practices for inclusive excellence. As an Inclusive Excellence Professor, I plan to work on eliminating invisible burdens and implicit biases that may hinder creating a thriving collaborative environment on campus where students and faculty can bring their diverse experiences and expertise to address grand challenge research. As a mid-career and a female faculty with young children, I have an intimate understanding of some of the challenges that junior and under-represented faculty can face at the start of their careers. Therefore, I plan to work on issues related to work-life balance and faculty retention. |
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 Alessandra Pantano | I am a Professor of Teaching in the Mathematics Department at UCI, where I am also serving as Undergraduate Vice Chair and DECADE Mentor. My original training is in Unitary Representation Theory, but over the years my interests have evolved towards Mathematical Education, in particular, active learning and culturally responsive pedagogy, both in the classroom and in after-school settings. I really enjoy teaching and mentoring students, and I constantly strive to promote diversity and inclusion in education - at all levels! I am excited to mentor junior faculty across campus on inclusive teaching practices, community outreach, and diversity efforts within (and beyond) their departments and schools. I would also like to leverage my personal experience to mentor junior women faculty and teaching faculty in STEM. I am proud of UCI's commitment to inclusive excellence, and I look forward to contributing to UCI's efforts to recruit and support a diverse faculty body, and to improve climate for all members of our campus. |
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 Rocío Rosales | I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology. My research lies at the intersection of immigration, economic sociology, sociology of work, race and ethnicity, and law and society. Focusing primarily on Latinos, I examine informal practices of survival, community building, and engagement with local and federal state actors. My first book, Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles, draws from six years of ethnographic field work with a community of immigrant fruit vendors in Los Angeles. The book documents how immigrants' social networks evolve and transform as vendors struggle to get by while working on street corners throughout the city. I am currently conducting research on two projects: one focuses on immigrant detention and the other on banking practices in Black and Latino communities. Throughout my career, I have been mentored by gracious colleagues and benefited from URM-serving fellowships (e.g. Mellon Mays, Ford Foundation) invested in diversifying the professoriate. I hope to pay this forward by mentoring faculty of color and ensuring that UCI's mission of equity and inclusive excellence is sustained. As an Inclusive Excellence Professor, I am very happy to enhance our campus climate and support our junior faculty. |
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 Bryan Sykes | I am an Inclusive Excellence Term Chair Associate Professor and Chancellor’s Fellow in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society (and, by courtesy, Sociology and Public Health). My research focuses on demography and criminology, broadly defined, with particular interests in mass incarceration, population processes, global health, social inequality, and research methodology. I currently serve as an Associate Editor for Science Advances (the Open Access version of Science) and as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Perspectives. At UC-Irvine, I have assumed a number service positions in my department (as DECADE Mentor & Graduate Director), in the School of Social Ecology (as Faculty Senate Chair & Vice Chair), and at the campus level (as a Representative in the Divisional Assembly of the Academic Senate and as a Member of an Academic Planning Group (APG) on Undergraduate Racial Achievement Gaps). I believe that by building out a robust and extensive pipeline of underrepresented scholars -- from their undergraduate years into their Ph.D. studies and from their time as junior faculty to promotion and tenure -- departments and campuses can truly achieve inclusive excellence. My goal is to assist graduate students, junior faculty, and senior colleagues with the necessary resources, spaces, and information to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion through their research collaborations, service activities, course content, and public lectures. |
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