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MSU Denver Experts Guide
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AnnJanette Alejano-Steele
Department: Gender Institute for Teaching and Advocacy
Title: Associate Dean - College of Professional Studies
Expertise: Child psychology, Equity issues in the classroom, Multicultural service learning, Cross-cultural psychology, Gender and diversity, Psychology of gender, Psychology of women, Human trafficking (including sex and labor), Women's health
Annie Butler
Department: Human Services and Counseling
Title: Chair and Professor, Director of the Center for High Risk Youth Studies
Expertise: Ethics, LGBTQ issues, High-risk adolescents and youth, Gang issues, Gang culture, Gang indoctrination, Transition from gang life, Addictions and recovery, Drugs and school districts, Underage drinking, Addictions (Substance abuse and behavioral addictions such as gambling and sex), Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (a trauma therapy), Grief, Domestic violence, Dating violence, Multicultural
Travis Heath
Department: Psychological Sciences
Title: Associate Professor
Expertise: Anything psychology: Addiction, Relationships, Therapeutic change, Psychopathology, Sex and gender, Sports psychology, Communication, etc.
LiYing Li
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Title: Professor
Expertise: Community corrections, Criminological theories and social issues in China
Katherine Miller
Department: Gender Institute for Teaching and Advocacy
Title: Affiliate Professor/Victim Services Coordinator
Expertise: Women’s rights, Interpersonal violence (relationship/domestic violence, sexual violence, stalking), Human trafficking, Violence against women, Victim blaming, Feminism, White privilege and white supremacy, Psychological trauma
Andrew Mrkvicka
Department: Social Work
Title: Affiliate Faculty
Expertise: Child welfare, Abuse and neglect, Interfamilial sex abuse, Secondary trauma, Compassion fatigue
Marina Pereira
Department: Social Work
Title: Associate Dean - College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Expertise: Acculturation and assimilation changes in the U.S., Mental health issues of children, adolescents and families, Child abuse, Sexual abuse, Domestic violence, Loss and grief issues, Immigration, First-generation students, Service learning, Bilingual, Bicultural
Anna Ropp
Department: Psychological Sciences
Title: Associate Professor
Expertise: Discrimination, Prejudice, Gender discrimination, LGBTQ discrimination
Mary Ann Watson
Department: Psychological Sciences
Title: Professor Emerita
Expertise: Human sexuality, Sex education, Roe v. Wade, Death and dying, Clinical psychology issues, Sexuality - child predators, Transgenderism, Sexual dysfunction, Diversity issues, Middle Eastern women's issues
