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International Studies and Languages

Realizing the Sustainability of Portfolio Assessment in Second-Language Writing

Analysis of Psychology of Religion Content in Introductory Psychology Textbooks

Social Science

She Speaks for Millions: The Emergence of Female Diplomatic Voices in the Russo-Ukrainian War

The Importance of a Title V Center for “People Like Me”

Natural Science

At the intersection of religion, spirituality, and clinical psychology: A conversation with two Jewish psychologists.

Predicting Outcomes in Video Games with Long Short Term Memory Networks

Natural Science

What Do Correctional Leaders Think About Faith-Based Programs? Results From a National Survey

Exploring the Role of Faith Community Involvement, Loneliness, and Sociocultural Pressures on Body Dissatisfaction Among College Students

Social Science

Undergraduate Perceptions of Teaching Science Abroad as a Service-Learning Experience

Krista L. Lucas, Loan P. Kim, Donna Nofziger (faculty), Vanessa Zubas, Amanda Kiang (students) and Hung Le

Natural Science

Pepperdine Law Review, Volume 51, Issue 2

Mini Review: Psychological/Behavioral Interventions for Emerging Adults with Chronic Pain

Is quitting an option? The power of brotherhood among non-scholarship college football players in risk decision-making

Communication

The Godless Crusade: Religion, Populism and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West, Worldly Politics and Divine Institutions: Contemporary Entanglement of Faith and Government, and Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics

Social Science

Panel Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation and Income Distribution in 136 Countries

Power to the People: Measuring Social Media and Mass Media Impact for Promotion and Tenure in Social and Applied Sciences

Abstract A011: Association between Estrogen-Related Genetic and Microbial Factors in Breast Tissue: Implications for Breast Cancer Risk

Natural Science

Abstract A016: The breast cancer genome and its association with the breast tissue bacteriome

Natural Science

Religion and spirituality in psychotherapy: A personal bedrock of faith

Correcting One or Two False Notions: Reading Surprised by Joy as a Counternarrative

Humanities and Teacher Education

And on the Third Wave: Using Intersectionality to Resurrect Heightened Scrutiny in Public Education Litigation

Political Polarization and Internal Conflict: A Cross-National Analysis Using Popular Support and Government Cohesion as Proxies

Pepperdine Law Review Volume 51, Issue 1

Determinants of North American Chief Executives’ Immigration Actions: Racial Ideology, Partisanship, or Ethnic Identity?

Social Science

Benchmarking Open-Source Large Language Models, GPT-4 and Claude 2 on Multiple-Choice Questions in Nephrology

Sean Wu, Michael Koo, and Fabien Scalzo

Natural Science 

CEO stock options and corporate climate change: the behavioral agency model and the moderating effect of social capital

Maretno Agus Harjoto

Jesus was a Refugee: Religious Values Framing can Increase Support for Refugees Among White Evangelical Republicans

Brian Newman

Social Science

Green growth assessment across 203 economies: Trends and insights

John Taden

International Studies and Languages

The Penalty of Party on Black Homeownership: The Impacts of Judicial Institutional Settings on the Black Political Economy

Kendrick Roberson

Social Science

CEO Current and Prospective Wealth Option Compensation and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Behavioral Agency Model

Maretno Agus Harjoto

Disputed Messiahs: Jewish and Christian messianism in the Ashkenazic world during the reformation

Bryan Givens

Humanities and Teacher Education

Unlearning colonial practices and (re)envisioning graduate education in psychology

Carrie Castaneda-Sound

NCAA v. BOARD OF REGENTS 2.0: POTENTIAL ANTITRUST LAW CLAIMS ARISING FROM THE NCAA’S REGULATION OF COLLEGE ATHLETES’ NIL

Alicia Jessop

Communication

Panel Data Analysis of Ethnic Fractionalization, Ethnic Tension, Religious Tension, and the Gini Coefficient

Brandon Parsons

Optimal decisions under price dynamics for Roth conversions

James DiLellio

CEO Current and Prospective Wealth Option Compensation and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Behavioral Agency Model

Maretno Agus Harjoto

Planting Letters and Weaving Lines: Calligraphy, The Song of Songs, and the Saint John's Bible by Jonathan Homrighausen

David Simonowitz

International Studies and Languages

Texts, Manuscripts, Versions, Canon

Timothy M. Willis

Religion and Philosophy

Law’s Joy: Celebrating the Study and Practice of Law

Michael A. Helfand

Economic policy uncertainty and cost rigidity: the moderating effects of government contracts and political connections

 Maretno Agus Harjoto

La sémantique au pluriel éd. par Amir Biglari, et Dominique Ducard (review)

Kelle L. Marshall

International Studies and Languages

Strategic investments in entrepreneurial brand ventures by large incumbents

Deryck J. Van Rensburg

Measurement properties of Brief-BESTest scores from children, adolescents, and youth with visual impairments

Adam Pennell

Natural Science

Investigation Related to Performance of KNN, Logistic Regression and XGBoost on Diabetes Prediction

Jiaguo Lin (Student)

Foil-Net: Deep Wave Classification for Hydrofoil Surfing

Fabien Scalzo, Eun Sang Cha, Zachary Mossing, Sean Wu, and Kevin Hong (students)

Natural Science

3D Reconstruction from 2D Cerebral Angiograms as a Volumetric Denoising Problem

Fabien Scalzo, Steve Mendoza, and Sean Wu (Student)

Natural Science

How megadrought causes extensive mortality in a deep-rooted shrub species normally resistant to drought-induced dieback: The role of a biotic mortality agent.

Helen Holmlund and Seaver alums

Natural Science

The Global Politics of Jesus: A Christian Case for Church-State Separation. By Nilay Saiya

J Christopher Soper

Social Science

Walking in Nature Improves Affect but not Cognition

Janet Trammell, Jennifer Harriger, and Elizabeth Krumrei-Mancuso

Social Science

A Grounded Theory Study of the Styles, Strategies, and A Grounded Theory Study of the Styles, Strategies, and Perceptions of Performing Arts Leaders Perceptions of Performing Arts Leaders

Liane Weintraub, Jessica Arriaza, and Stephanie Viggiano (Students)

Correlation between the solar wind speed and the passage of poleward-moving auroral forms into the polar cap

Gerard Fasel, John Mann, Emma Lake, and Dora Csonge

Natural Science

Determinants of swing voting in Africa: evidence from Ghana’s elections

John Taden

International Studies and Languages

In situ carbon uptake of marine macrophytes is highly variable among species, taxa, and morphology

Lucian Himes (student) and Florybeth La Valle

Natural Science

The Role of Social and Technological Predispositions in Participation in the Sharing Economy

Doreen Shanahan, Cristel Russell, and Nelson Granados

Examining the influence of specific IC elements on alliance formation of new ventures

Mark Tribbitt

Beyond a single story: The heterogeneity of human flourishing in 22 countries

Cristina Gibson

Vicarious Empowerment as a Novel Mechanism for Empowering High Power Distance Employees

Dana Sumpter and Cristina Gibson

Conceptualizing Theoretical Frameworks for Post-colonial Education for Kisii K–12, Kenya

Ruth Vitsemmo Akumbu (Student)

STEM Enrichment and Career Development: Analysis of NSF’s Young Scholars Program

Seung B. Lee, Kristina Lux, Joelle Molloy, Racquel Charles, and Eric Hamilton

Anti-Corruption Attitudes in Post-Communist Slovakia: “Hellfire and Deviance” or Political Socialization?

Joel Fetzer

Social Science

Religion and the State in Germany and Slovakia: Convergence and Divergence of a Western Versus Central European Case

Joel Fetzer and J. Christopher Soper

Social Science

Behavioral Agency Model and Corporate Social Irresponsibility Uncovering the Implication of Fairness in CEO Compensation

Augus Maretno Harjoto

Prediction of visual field progression with serial optic disc photographs using deep learning

Fabien Scalzo and Sean Wu (Student)

Natural Science

Leadership education and development through the sustainable development goals – embedding equity and justice

Bernice Ledbetter

Intercultural Interactions in a Virtual Global Learning Environment

Ruth Akumbu, Kristina Lux, Dante Schulz, Danielle Espino, and Eric Hamilton

Teacher-Immersion in Research and Evaluation of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning

Eric Hamilton

Educator Secondary Traumatic Stress in the Pandemic’s Wake: Buoying Teacher Holistic Health

Carrie Wall

Humanities and Teacher Education

Southern California Marine Protected Areas Promote Bolder Fish Populations

Lucian Himes (Student) and Florybeth La Valle

Natural Science

Virtually possible: strategies for using telehealth in eating disorder treatment learned from the COVID-19 pandemic

Jennifer Harriger

Social Science

WHAT IS CHRISTIAN FASCISM? / ŠTA JE TO KRŠĆANSKI FAŠIZAM?

Jason Blakely

Social Science

Investigating Factors Affecting International Students’ Academic Performance in Higher Education in the United States 

Hadi Rajabbeigi,  James Dellaneve,  June Schmieder-Ramirez 

Cole Short

Gary Bucciarelli, Sierra Smith,  Justin Choe, Phoebe Shin, Robert Fisher, and Lee Kats 

Natural Science

Kiron Skinner

Paul Sparks and Valerie Schmitz

Joshua A. Evans, Elizabeth J. Krumrei-Mancuso, and Steven V. Rouse

Social Science

Terrelle Sales

Erlanger Turner and Abdul Haseeb 

Tomas Bogardus and Will Perrin (Former Student)

Joe Mannion (Student)

Kevin Wong

Kevin Groves

Kendra Killpatrick

Dyron Daughrity

Deryck J. Van Rensburg

Felicity Vabulas

Jennifer Medina Vaughn

Steven V. Rouse

Social Science

Yihua Zhang (Student)

Cindy Miller-Perrin (Faculty) and  Raymond Rider (Student)

Howard Jean-Denis

Sean, Wu, Michael Koo and Fabien Scalzo

HeJoo Roh (Student), Elizabeth Krumrei-Mancuso and Miller-Perrin

Anna Penner

Cristina Gibson

Javier Monzón

Kevin Wong

Luisa R. Blanco

Alyssa Ong

Terrelle Sales

Regan Schaffer and Ruth Bernstein

Rachel Tan, Adam Pennell, and Katherine Price, Sean Karl, Noelle Seekamp-Hicks, Keonabelle Paniagua, Grant Weiderman,  Joanna Powell, Luka Sharabidze, Isabella Lincoln , Justin Kim, Madeleine Espinoza, Maya Hammer (Studentss)
 

Racehl Tan, Adam Pennell, and  Katherine Price, Lauren Wideen, Isabella Lincoln, Sean Karl,  Jacob Seals, Keonabelle Paniagua, Dylan Hagen, Isaac Tchaprazian (Students)

Luisa Raynal Blanco

Janet Trammell and Jennifer Harriger

Fabien Scalzo

Doreen Shanahan,  Cristel Russell, and  Jillian Alderman

Nicholas Cumming

Elizabeth Smith

Maretno Harjoto

Fabien Scalzo

Melissa Wasserman

Brandon Parsons

Jennifer Franczak

Melissa Wasserman

Fiona Stewart

George Carlson

Weina Chen and Kevin Wong 

Maretno Harjoto

Florybeth La Valle

Abraham Song

Jacob D. Charles

Luisa Blanco

Rachel Tan,  Hunter Paris, and  Sean Karl (Student)

Rachel Tan,  Adam Pennell, Cooker Perkins Storm (Faculty), Sean Karl, Jordan Cass, Katherine Go, and Tom Clifford (Students)

2023

GSEP professor Shelly Harrell publishes research in APA article

Graziadio professor Maretno Agus Harjoto and research colleague explore "Market reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from emerging markets" 

Seaver associate professor Hunter Paris and research collaborators publish research in the International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

Graziadio professor Charles Kerns authors book chapter entitled "Bad Leaders: Some Realities, Reasons and Remedies" in Debating Bad Leadership

SPP professor Luisa Blanco and student scholars examine "Financial Stress Among Latino Adults in California During
COVID-19"

GSEP PhD student Lisa Shaw publishes her research on "From sensemaking to sensegiving: A discourse analysis of the scholarly communications community's public response to the global pandemic"

Seaver associate professor Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank publishes her research in The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy

Graziadio professor Cristina Gibson and research colleagues explore "Understanding orientations to participation: overcoming status differences to foster engagement in global teams"

Assistant professor Ruth Bernstein's research published in the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Seaver College assistant professor Elizabeth Smith and her research colleagues publish their work in the Journalism & Mass Communication Educator

Seaver College associate professor of french studies Kelle Marshall and her research colleague Wendy Bokhorst-Heng, associate professor of education at Crandall University in New Brunswick, publish their work on ""Learning French Is Like Trying to Skate": Constructing Identity through Metaphor"

Graziadio professor Kenneth Ko's research is published in the International Journal of Business and Economics

Seaver College associate professor of Italian studies Fiona Stewart's book chapter examines critically the claim made by several military historians that conscription "made" Italians, both in terms of fostering a sense of national identity, and also in educating or developing the conscripts.

Graziadio professor Cristina Gibson and her colleagues publish article on their research "Increasing Career Advancement Opportunities Through Sponsorship: An Identity-Based Model With Illustrative Application to Cross-Race Mentorship of African Americans"

Luisa Blanco, School of Public Policy, and her research colleague have published an article on the interactive impact of financial development and political institutions on a specific development outcome: gross domestic investment in the Oxford Development Studies journal

Tashawna Wright, GSEP Professor, and research colleagues publish article on "Entering the Workforce or Going to Graduate School: Themes in Psychology Alumni Decision Making"

Graziadio professors Jillian Alderman and Maretno Harjoto article in Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy

Summer Undergraduate Research Program participant, Amber Otto, and her Seaver faculty mentor, Brian Newman, publish article in Presidential Studies Quarterly

Seaver distinguished professor of economics Robert Sexton and his colleague publish article in the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

Caruso School of Law associate professor David Han presented his paper "Constitutional Rights and Technological Change" at the UC Hastings Faculty Colloquium, the University of Illinois Constitutional Law Colloquium, the Loyola Constitutional Law Colloquium, and the ACS Constitutional Law Scholars Forum

Seaver assistant professor Elizabeth Yomantas examines "UNPACKING CONCEPTIONS OF CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE SERVICE LEARNING IN AN EE PROGRAM" at the 2020 Symposium on Experimental Education Research

GSEP professor Shelly Harrell and her collaborators publish their research in the Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development journal

Seaver associate professor Hunter Paris and his collaborators explore "The influence of carbohydrate ingestion on peripheral and central fatigue during exercise in hypoxia: a narrative review"

Professor Harriger, Seaver College, and her collaborators publish their work in the International Journal of Eating Disorders

Seaver professors Jon Burke, Levon Goukasian, and Robert Shearer examine Teaching the Complexity of Dependence with the Triplet Game

Graziadio professors Kevin Groves and Ann Feyerherm present at the Future of Leadership in Healthcare symposium

Seaver professor James Thomas publishes article in the journal Studies in the American Short Story

Caruso School of Law professor Rob Anderson and collaborator examine "Contract Design, Default Rules, and Delaware Corporate Law"

Professor Timothy Lucas, Seaver College, explores Using Slopes to Enhance Learning in Ordinary Differential Equations

Graziadio professors, Mark Chun and Charla Griffy-Brown, and MBA alum, Katherine Dao, examine "Unprecedented Times: Prompting Companies to Revisit Strategy with the New Norm of Balancing Two Environments"

Seaver professor Dyron Daughrity publishes article in the International Bulletin of Mission Research

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal Volume 20, Issue 3 (2020) released

Assistant professor of marketing Alice Labban, Seaver College, article published in the Journal of Behaviour & Information Technology

Seaver associate professor Hunter Paris and his collaborators examine "Heat Versus Altitude Training for Endurance Performance at Sea-Level"

Graziadio researchers Julie Chelsey, Terri Egan, and Hannah Jones work published in the Journal of Leadership Education

Seaver College assistant professor and collaborators explore "The initial psychometric properties for the Total Body Development Sequences for youth with visual impairments"

Seaver College professor Dyron Daughrity examines "BJP and Donyi-Polo: New Challenges to Christianity in Arunachal Pradesh and Northeast India"

Graziadio Business School professors collaborate to explore Practical Methods to Measure and Respond to Narcissism in Leaders

Seaver College assistant professor Rachel Tan, again with Spanish and UK collaborators, publish their research in Nutrients journal

Seaver College assistant professor Courtney Davis and collaborators publish article entitled "Leveraging Computational Modeling to Understand Infectious Diseases"

GSEP professor Erlanger A. Turner and collaborators explore "Therapy Fears and Help-Seeking Behaviors among Mothers: Examining Racial Differences in Mental Health Services"

Professor Luisa Blanco examines "THE RACIAL/ETHNIC GAP IN FINANCIAL LITERACY IN THE POPULATION AND BY INCOME"

Seaver College professor Steven Rouse examines "The Sensitivity of the Bible Verse Selection Task to the Relationship between Christian Fundamentalism and Religious Outgroup Prejudice"

Graziadio Business School professor Cristel Russell co-authors manuscript accepted in the Journal on Consumer Research

GSEP adjunct professor Jeremiah Gonzalez publishes new book High-Achieving Latino Students: Successful Pathways Toward
College and Beyond (Information Age Publishing, 2020)

Professor Jason Blakely's article critically analyzes the normative theory of Alasdair MacIntyre

Seaver College assistant professor Sarah Fischbach published in the Journal of Advertising Education on developing brand stories

GSEP assistant professor Kfir Mordechay publication explores "Does Neighborhood Gentrification Create School Desegregation?"

Graziadio Business School professors, William Bleuel and Richard Herko, collaborate to examine "Intra-organizational Mentorship Revisited"

Professor Kelle Marshall publishes in The Modern Language Journal

Seaver College associate lab manager Kelsey Brereton and collaborators published in Chemical Society Reviews

Assistant professor of sociology Julia Norgaard publication explores "Overcoming Anonymity: How Darknet Markets Provide Private Governance to Enable Encrypted and Anonymous Exchange"

Seaver College assistant professor Diana Bowen publishes new book, "Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric: Communicating Self-Determination"

Dr. John Mooney, Graziadio Business School, and colleagues collaborate to examine "AI Value: For collaborative research between OCIS, MC and MED"

Dr. Bryant Crubaugh, Seaver College, explores "Neighborhood Development Organizations and Neighborhood Disadvantage: Race, Resources, and Inequality in Chicago"

Dr. Rachel Tan of Seaver College collaborates with colleagues in Spain and England to study the "Effects of Dietary Nitrate Supplementation on Weightlifting Exercise Performance in Healthy Adults"

Seaver College assistant professor of teaching, Elizabeth Yomantas, authors book chapter on "Empowerment of Pre-Service Teachers through Critical Praxis"

Dr. Thema Bryant (GSEP) published in Women & Therapy

Caruso School of Law professor Robert Cochran, Jr. writes Jesus and the Mosaic Law: Agapic Love as the Foundation and Objective of Law

Pepperdine Policy Review journal volume 12 is released

Tomas Bogardus, Seaver professor, publishes in Episteme

GSEP professor Kevin Wong examines The Impact of Social Uncertainty, Protests, and COVID-19 on Hong Kong Teachers

Drs. Elizabeth Krumrei Mancuso and Bennett E. Postlethwaite's new book Women Who Sell Sex 

GSEP professors, Kerri Heath and Margaret Weber, author article on Women in Leadership and Work-Family Integration

Seaver professor, Candice Ortbals, explores The Effect of the #MeToo Movement on Political Engagement and Ambition in 2018

Dr. Loan Kim publishes article in the American Journal of Health Promotion

Seaver professor, Elizabeth Yomantas, contributes book chapter "Social Justice Experiential Education in Rural Fiji"

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religion co-authors book on the Stone-Campbell Movement

Sarah Stone Watt, Seaver Communication professor, publishes in Women's Studies in Communication

Pepperdine Graziadio Business School professor, Bobbi Thomason, Publishes Article on Work-Life Balance During the Pandemic in Harvard Business Review

Maretno A. Harjoto, Graziadio professor, explores Female leadership in corporate social responsibility reporting: Effects on writing, readability and future social performance

School of Public Policy professor, Luisa Blanco, examines The effect of violent crime on sector-specific FDI in Latin America.

Graziadio professor, Cristina Gibson, publishes in the Australian Journal of Management

Pepperdine University Chaplain, Sara Barton, publishes in Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry

Prof. Kfir Mordechay, Graduate School of Education and Psychology, explores Race, space, and America's subprime housing boom

Graziadio professors, William Bleuel and Bob McQuaid Jr., publish a quantitative study of customer satisfaction in six South American countries

The Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research publishes Volume 8 (2020)

Seaver College professor, Klive (Soo-Kwang) Oh, publishes in Media and Communication journal

Dongshin Kim, Graziadio professor, explores Urbanity, Financial Crisis and the Timing of Homebuying Decisions by Young Households

Seaver College professor, Javier Monzon, and undergraduate students, AJ Adducci and Jeremy Jasperse, co-author research article in the Journal of Urban Ecology.

Seaver College professor, Nataria Joseph, publishes article in Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Samantha Fiallo, Seaver College Senior, Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship

Pepperdine Law Review publishes Volume 47, Issue 2 (2020)

Associate Director of Pepperdine's Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Prof. Sukhsimranjit Singh, publishes in the Education Sciences journal

Graziadio professor, Jozefina Kalaj, explores Bureaucrat Time-Use and Productivity: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Dr. Felicity Vabulas, Seaver professor, published in the International Studies Review

Terri Egan and Julie Chesley's Research on Vertical Leadership Development Referenced in Forbes

School of Pubic Policy economist and professor of public policy, Dr. James Prieger, authors report for The Act Association

Dr. Joel Fetzer, Seaver College professor, explores The Roots of the Immigration Policies of United States President Chester Arthur and Canadian Prime Minister John Macdonald

GSEP professors, Kerri Cissna and Eric Schockman, publish on Finding the Key to Positive Leadership: Applying Virtue Ethics and Inclusivity.

Dr. Karen Martin publishes research in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Pepperdine Librarian, Marc Vineyard, examines best practices for libraries serving transfer students.

Dean of the Graziadio Business School, Deryck van Rensburg, explores Learning strategies of high-tech entrepreneurs about business opportunities

Adam Pennell, Seaver College professor, and research colleagues examine The Effects of Ecologically Valid Intervention Strategies on the Locomotor Skills of Children with Visual Impairments.

Seaver researchers, Gary Bucciarelli, Morgan Clark, Rodney Honeycutt, and Lee Kats, explore Amphibian responses in the aftermath of extreme climate events.

Dongshin Kim, Graziadio Business School professor, publishes in the Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods. 

Seaver College professors, Roshawnda A. Derrick, Kindy DeLong, and Cari Myers, present their work on Raising Institutional Awareness and Pedagogical Sensitivity: An Analysis of Pepperdine's Seaver College Faculty Participation in SEED at the 19th Annual Conversation on the Liberal Arts

Gary Bucciarelli presents research on Fluctuating toxins and the evolution of chemical defenses in a poisonous amphibian at the 9th World Congress of Herpetology meeting in New Zealand.

Seaver College professor, Elizabeth Krumrei-Mancuso, explores intellectual humility in the sociopolitical domain

Jooho Lee, Seaver College professor, publishes a review of The Mueller Report in the Journal of Business Ethics

Charles Kerns, Associate Professor at Pepperdine's Graziadio Business School, publishes in the International Leadership Journal

Seaver College professor, Sarah Fischbach, and collaborators examine negotiation simulation in latest publication in the Journal of Education for Business

Soo Jeong (Chris) Hong, lecturer at Pepperdine's Graziadio Business School, explores the "Effects of Flexibility, Security, and Information Features on Supplier Participation in the Sharing Economy"

Graziadio Business School professor, Charles Kerns, publishes in the Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics

Seaver College professor, Sarah Stone Watt, authors book chapter, Enacting a Feminist Ecological Ethos of Leadership at a Christian Liberal Arts College

Graziadio Business School professor, Owen P. Hall Jr., explores "The growing impact of Shadow IT on higher education."

Seaver fine arts professor Cynthia Colburn's, "A proposal for interpreting the role of colour symbolism in Prepalatial Cretan body adornment" is published in "Fashioned Selves Dress and Identity in Antiquity."

Steven Bauer and Fang Tian, Seaver College Business Administration professors, research "Home Ownership, Age and the Community."

Seaver Communication professor, David Madden, publishes, "Introduction to Ageing with EDMC."

Dr. Juanie Walker and student Heet Ghodasara of the Seaver Communication division study transformational development and social capital.

Dr. Karen Martin of the Natural Science Division "coordinates a citizen science project which monitors the grunion runs to gather information on the population status and inform conservation efforts."

Dr. Robert Shearer of the Seaver Business Administration division studies "The Impact of Social Media Activity on Nonprofit Donations in China."

Jaclyn Margolis of the Graziadio Business School reviews Multiple Team Membership.

Dr. Jason Blakely publishes his paper, "How Economics Becomes Ideology: The Uses and Abuses of Rational Choice Theory."

Graduate School of Education and Psychology professor, Cameron M. Sublett, researches, "Preparing the Workforce in today's Community Colleges."

Fang Tian, Seaver Business Administration Professor, studies the transaction credit problem in the crowd transaction network.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, David Skelton, "examines the euhemeristic interpretation of Genesis 6:1–4 as it appears in Ephrem of Nisibis' Commentary on Genesis and its influence on Syriac and Ethiopic commentary traditions," in his study, "Angels among us? The Watchers myth and angelology in Ephrem's Commentary on Genesis and the Ethiopic tradition."

Cristel Russell of the Graziadio Business School publishes her study, "The evolution of mental health outcomes across a combat deployment cycle: A longitudinal study of a Guam-based National Guard unit."

Graduate School of Education and Psychology doctorate student, Brandon Oliva "addresses the issues Japanese women face in joining the corporate workforce, as well as the ways leadership strategies and media can be useful recruitment tools for Japanese women in the corporate workforce," in his paper, "Painting the Invisible Bridge: A Working Concept for Global Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for Women in Japan."

Graziadio Business School professor, Dr. Cristiano Manfre, publishes his article, "Markets Efficiency and Behavioral Biases during the U.S. Financial Crisis of 2008."

Dr. Eric Hamilton's research is published in chapter 3 and chapter 4  in the book, "Inspiring Students with Digital Ink."

Dr. Elizabeth Krumrei-Mancuso publishes, "Reflections on the science of joy: Current challenges and future directions."

Graduate School of Education and Psychology Professors, Dr. Edward Shafranske and Dr. Carol Falender co-author their book, "Consultation in Psychology: A Competency-Based Approach."

Larry Bumgardner, JD, Professor of business law at the Graziadio Business School publishes his article, "AT&T and Time Warner's Vertical Merger: The Court Battle and Political Undercurrent" in the Journal of Law, Business, and Ethics.

Dr. Eric Hamilton and Danielle Espino publish their paper, "Distributed Collaboration in STEM-Rich Project-Based Learning."

Dr. Rodney Honeycutt studies "Taxonomy and Phylogenetics of the Peromyscus Maniculatus Species Group."

School of Law Professor Jack J. Coe, Jr. reviews, "Procedural Issues in International Investment Arbitration."

Maretno Agus Harjoto of the Graziadio Business School, "examines the relationship between corporate non-financial disclosure ratings, the Italian Legislative Decrees 231/2001 and 254/2016, and three outcomes of Italian listed firms: performance, risk and agency cost."

Dr. Joel Fetzer presents his paper, "Church and State in Dutch Formosa" at The American Association for Chinese Studies (AACS) 61st annual conference.

Dr. Kendra Killpatrick publishes, "A Recursion for the FiboNarayana and the Generalized Narayana Numbers."

Hunter Paris, Professor of Sports Medicine a Seaver College, studies "Increasing Energy Flux to Maintain Diet-Induced Weight Loss."

Danielle P. Espino, Seung B. Lee, Lauren Van Tress, and Eric Hamilton examine "the Dynamic of Participation Level on Group Contribution in a Global, STEM-Focused Digital Markerspace Community."

Seung B. Lee, Xiaofan Gui, Megan Manquen, and Eric Hamilton of the Graduate School of Education and Psychology study, "The Use of Training, Validation, and Test Sets for Developing Automated Classifiers in Quantitative Ethnography."

Graziadio Business School Faculty members Doreen Shanahan, Lynda Palmer, and Jim Salas address the challenges of scaling capacity to support, effectively replicate, and grow use of CBPs in our business school marketing courses and subsequently other department curriculum.

Dr. Eric Hamilton, Danielle P. Espinoza, Seung B. Lee, and Lauren Van Tress of the Graduate School of Education and Psychology publish their article, "Examining the Dynamic of Participation Level on Group Contribution in a Global, STEM-Focused Digital Makerspace Community."

Dr. Jennifer A. T. Smith reviews, "Trustworthy Men: How Inequality and Faith Made the Medieval Church."

Pepperdine GSEP Scholarship without Borders publishes their Booklet of Scholarly Work with you, featuring the scholarship and research collaboration of our distinguished faculties, students, alumni, and esteemed partners.

Dr. P. Matthew Joyner and Alum, Rachel White, publish, "A guided‐inquiry investigation of bacterial membrane potential using flow cytometry for an undergraduate biochemistry laboratory course."

Pepperdine Alum, Marjorie Jones contributes to studying, "The relationship between ventricular volume and whole‐brain irradiation dose in central nervous system germ cell tumors."

Khanh Bui of the Seaver College Social Science Department researches "Cross-Lagged Relationships Between Academic Achievement and Perceived Parental Educational Expectations."

Roshawnda A. Derrick analyzes Junot Díaz's most recent works by using Muysken's typology of code-switching to illustrate the types of language mixing devices present in the two texts.

Cristel Russell examines whether posing questions that create a stress state in respondents biases subsequent reporting of mental health (MH) symptomology.

Steven Rouse of the Social Science Department evaluates "Reliability of MTurk Data From Masters and Workers."

Dr. Kevin Iga publishes, "THE SIGNED MONODROMY GROUP OF AN ADINKRA"

Cristina Gibson explores "Building team effectiveness through adaptation: Team knowledge and implicit and explicit coordination"

Dr. Rodney Honeycutt analyzes Mitochondrial DNA variation of the ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus).

Dr. Charles Kerns of the Graziadio Business School presents "Leadership Presence at Work: A Practice – Oriented Framework."

Dr. Tuan Hoang publishes, "The Resettlement of Vietnamese Refugee Religious, Priests, and Seminarians in the United States, 1975–1977"

Brian Newman of the Seaver College Social Science Division researches Bias Against High‐Income Congressional Candidates.

Sarah Fischbach, Professor of Marketing, explores the impact of ethics and ad trust.

Graziadio Professor Cristel Russell tests a model anchored in social-exchange theory and drawing on uses and gratifications theory, using data from a survey of Facebook users in France.

Alicia Jessop evaluates the effectiveness of current legal and NCAA procedures regulating sport agents.

Dr. Eric Hamilton, Danielle Espino, and Seung Bok Lee of the Graduate School of Education and Psychology are published in the Conference Proceedings Volume 2 of "A Wide Lens: Combining Embodied, Enactive, Extended, and Embedded Learning in Collaborative Settings 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning."

Dr. Cristel Russell researches body composition and physical fitness tests among US Army soldiers.

Jane Kelley Rodeheffer, "'And Lo, As Luke Sets Down for Us': Dante's Re-Imagining of the Emmaus Story in Purgatorio XXIX–XXXIII," Religions 10.5 (2019).

Elizabeth Yomantas, "Professional Development in the Digital Age," Christian Educators Journal 58:3 (2019).

Prodigal Sons and Matriarchs: Gendered Homecomings in A River Runs Through It

Seaver College student, Audrey Fontes, was awarded a grant from the Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society (SMBAS) to aid her continual research on the behavioral ecology of the invasive crayfish and its minuscule companion the ostracod.

Student Researchers Find Critical Changes in Landscape after Woolsey Fire.

Dr. Stephen Davis uses mixed methods including high resolution micro‐computed tomography, light microscopy, and fluorescence microscopy to understand and characterize the dynamics of tissue desiccation and rehydration in petioles of intact desiccation-tolerant ferns.

Dr. Thema Bryant explores the cultural context of trauma recovery in traditionally underserved populations.

The Pepperdine Graduate School of Education and Psychology (GSEP) publishes their Scholarship without Borders Booklet of Scholarly Work featuring the scholarship and research collaboration of our distinguished faculties, students, alumni, and esteemed partners.

Dr. Jennifer Harriger highlights the importance of continued efforts to encourage exposure to and acceptance of diverse body shapes and sizes in young children.

Jane Ganske analyzes the Role of Gas-Phase Halogen Bonding in Ambient Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry Utilizing Iodine.

Cynthia Clegg reviews John Willinksy's work, "The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke."

Dr. Rebecca Kim provides a global history of American evangelicals in her essay, "Global American Evangelicals? The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals."

Dr. Karen Martin monitors California grunion population.

Dr. David Holmes examines the ethos of Black women in the Film, "Selma" (dir. Ava DuVernay, 2014).

GSEP professor, Dr. David Levy analyzes the "Self-Esteem" enigma.

Seaver College professor, Dr. Jane Kelley Rodeheffer, suggests that Dante's journey through the earthly paradise in the Purgatorio is a figural representation of the journey of Cleopas and the unnamed disciple on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24.

Drs. Charla Griffy-Brown and Mark Chun of the Graziadio Business School pose the question, "How do we secure the Internet of Things (IoT) environment?"

Levon Goukasian of Seaver College's Business Administration division examines the price efficiency of acquirer stocks involved in mergers and acquisitions.

The April 2019 Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research featuring Seaver Communication Student scholarship is available.

Dr. Tuan Hoang historicizes the Vietnamese American Catholic experience.

Seaver Fine Arts professor Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank does digital art history in a Pre-Columbian art survey class.

Dr. Charles Kerns offers an approach to help enhance a managerial leader's effectiveness when managing team dynamics and teamwork in workplace settings.

Graziadio faculty member Dr. Owen Hall Jr. highlights the growing opportunities for using AI in detecting students at risk and outlining effective intervention strategies.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $100,000 grant to Pepperdine's Graduate School of Education and Psychology, for a critical research workshop on next-generation science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning environments.More information here.