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Committee for International Research

The Committee for International Research (CIR) is open to all ´ó·¢ faculty who conduct research and scholarly and creative activities outside of the United States

Congratulations to Dr. Xioye She!

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Xiaoye She has been selected as the AY 2025-2027 International Research Faculty Fellow. Please join us in congratulating Dr. She on this prestigious achievement!

We would also like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Dr. Liz Ridder for her outstanding service as the faculty fellow over the past two years. 

Our goals:​

  • Build community​
  • Develop ideas to support international research needs​
  • Connect faculty to campus and CSU resources & guidance â€‹
  • Communicate & develop processes to further university support of international scholarly work​
  • Engage in and support interdisciplinary work across campus​
  • Promote & amplify faculty international research at annual symposium​

2024-2025 Meetings:

Meetings are open to ´ó·¢ faculty who engage in international/global research, creative, and scholarly activities.

Fall 2024 - KELL 2413 / Zoom on Mondays from 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM.

  • September 9 & 23
  • October 7 & 21
  • November 18

Contact: Dr. Elizabeth Ridder (eridder@csusm.edu), CIR Faculty Fellow

Spring 2025 KELL 2413 / | 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

  • January 27
  • February 10
  • February 24
  • March 10
  • March 24
  • April 14
  • April 28

Contact: Dr. Elizabeth Ridder (eridder@csusm.edu), CIR Faculty Fellow

Faculty Fellow:

  • 2025 - 2027 Dr. Xiaoye She

    Dr. Xiaoye She - Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

    Dr. She studies the political economy of development in Northeast and Southeast Asia. Dr. She has rich experience with cross-boarder and international research and has navigated many of the hurdles facing the Committee for International Research (CIR) members. Through navigating these systems, Dr. She has significant campus networks and relationships with colleagues across colleges, including experience working with groups and offcies such a UGAC, OGSR, IRB, and Travel. 

  • 2023-2025 Dr. Elizabeth Ridder

    Dr. Elizabeth Ridder

    - Associate Professor, Geography

    Founding Faculty Fellow 2023-2025

    Vegetation response to climate changes. Human landscape use. Urban wildlife.

    I am plant biogeographer and physical geographer and I am interested in human-environment relationships. I study climate and human-related changes to plant distributions, specifically the underlying factors that lead to land-use and land-cover change, and how human decision-making in response to environmental change influences agricultural practices. I use field-based methods to study vegetation and landscape-level disturbances by integrating geospatial analysis and modeling. From this perspective I examine prehistorical to modern vegetation change, model present-day species distributions, and combine projections of land-cover change and species distributions under multiple climate change scenarios.


Committee Members:

  • 2023-2024

    Alyssa Sepinwall, Professor, CHABSS History

    Andrew Spieldenner, Associate Professor, CHABSS Communication

    Antonio De La Garza, Associate Professor, CHABSS Communication

    Antonio Zaldivar, Associate Professor & Department Chair, CHABSS History

    Armaghan Ziaee, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

    AsherLev Santos, Associate Professor, CEHHS Public Health

    Cecilia Uy-Tioco, Associate Professor, CHABSS Communication

    Ching-Ming Cheng, Professor, CHABSS School of Arts - Music

    Dino Bozonelos, Lecturer, CHABSS Political Science & Global Studies

    Elizabeth Matthews, Professor, CHABSS Political Science & Global Studies

    Elizabeth Ridder, Associate Professor, CHABSS Liberal Studies

    Elvis Nshom, Associate Professor, CHABSS Communication

    France-Luce Benson, Assistant Professor, CHABSS School of Arts - Theatre

    Gloria Pindi, Associate Professor, CHABSS Communication

    Jon Spenard, Associate Professor, CHABSS Anthropology

    Lucy HG Solomon, Associate Professor, CHABSS School of Arts – Art, Media, and Design

    Marion Geiger, Professor, CHABSS Modern Language Studies

    Meegan Feori-Payne, Assistant Professor, CoBA Marketing

    Meshack Simati, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Global Studies

    Michael Hughes, Associate Professor, CHABSS Modern Language Studies

    Mikee Inton-Campbell, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

    Paola Ometto, Assistant Professor, CoBA Management

    Ranjeeta Basu, Professor, CHABSS Economics

    Reuben Mekenye, Associate Professor, CHABSS History

    Robert Gutierrez, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Communication

    Sandra Doller, Associate Professor, CHABSS Literature and Writing Studies

    Shannon Swanson, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Environmental Studies

    Teru Toyokawa, Associate Professor, CEHHS Human Development

    William Byun, Lecturer, CoBA Finance

    Xiaoye She, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Political Science

  • 2024-2025

    Abigail Nappier Cherup, Assistant Professor, CoBA Marketing

    Alan Malfavon, Assistant Professor, CHABSS History

    Alhelí Calderón-Villarreal, Assistant Professor, CEHHS Public Health

    Alyssa Sepinwall, Professor, CHABSS History

    Andrew Spieldenner, Associate Professor, CHABSS Communication

    Antonio De La Garza, Associate Professor, CHABSS Communication

    Antonio Zaldivar, Associate Professor & Department Chair, CHABSS History

    April Ibarra Siqueiros, User Experience Librarian, Library

    Armaghan Ziaee, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

    AsherLev Santos, Associate Professor, CEHHS Public Health

    Cecilia Uy-Tioco, Associate Professor, CHABSS Communication

    Ching-Ming Cheng, Professor, CHABSS School of Arts - Music

    Christiane Assefa, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Ethnic Studies

    Devan Romero, Associate Professor, CEHHS Kinesiology

    Dino Bozonelos, Lecturer, CHABSS Political Science & Global Studies

    Elizabeth Matthews, Professor, CHABSS Political Science & Global Studies

    Elizabeth Ridder, Associate Professor, CHABSS Liberal Studies

    Elvis Nshom, Associate Professor, CHABSS Communication

    Eric Rhodes, Associate Professor, CoBA Management

    Erika Díaz-Almeyda, Assistant Professor, CSTEM Biology

    Fernando Amador II, Assistant Professor, CHABSS History

    Fernando Soriano, Professor, CEHHS Human Development

    France-Luce Benson, Assistant Professor, CHABSS School of Arts - Theatre

    Gloria Pindi, Associate Professor, CHABSS Communication

    Jon Spenard, Associate Professor, CHABSS Anthropology

    Leonardo Silva, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Modern Language Studies

    Lucy HG Solomon, Associate Professor, CHABSS School of Arts – Art, Media, and Design

    Marion Geiger, Professor, CHABSS Modern Language Studies

    Meegan Feori-Payne, Assistant Professor, CoBA Marketing

    Meshack Simati, Associate Professor, CHABSS Global Studies

    Michael Hughes, Associate Professor, CHABSS Modern Language Studies

    Mikee Inton-Campbell, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

    Paola Ometto, Assistant Professor, CoBA Management

    Ranjeeta Basu, Professor, CHABSS Economics

    Reuben Mekenye, Associate Professor, CHABSS History

    Sandra Doller, Professor, CHABSS Literature and Writing Studies

    Shannon Swanson, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Environmental Studies

    Teru Toyokawa, Associate Professor, CEHHS Human Development

    William Byun, Lecturer, CoBA Finance

    Xiaoye She, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Political Science

    Yu Zhang, Assistant Professor, CHABSS Child and Adolescent Development


´ó·¢ International Research Collaborations:

If you want to add a new collaboration to the map or update an existing one, please contact Mar Roig Ripoll (mroigripoll@csusm.edu), Grants and Contracts Specialist at OGSR.