Teaching Recognition

2024-5 College of Social Sciences Teaching Award: Excellence in teaching award at the College level (CSU Fresno)

2021 Outstanding Advisor Award nominee: Student-nominated faculty advisor award at the University level (CSU Fresno)

2018 Teaching Excellence Award from the Department of Child and Family Science: Inaugural Department-level teaching award (CSU Fresno)

2017 Outstanding Advisor Award nominee: Student-nominated faculty advisor award at the University level (CSU Fresno)

2007 Outstanding Teacher Award from Sarasas Witaed Rangsit School: Highest teaching honor as a primary school teacher in Central Thailand

Honors Mentees & Thesis Titles

With 2018-2019 Honors student and H&C lab member Emma Willis (now a faculty member at Indiana University)

  • 2025-2026: Bailey Pereira, “Culturally Informed Literacy Instruction in California Public Schools”

  • 2024-2025: Briana Petrille, “Exploring Experiences of Intragroup Marginalization Among Mexican Americans”

  • 2020-2021: Macy Davis, “The Role of Religion in the Ethnic Identity Development of Bicultural Emerging Adults”

  • 2019-2020: Kajai (Cassie) Xiong, “How Moral Judgments of Transnational Marriage are Shaped by Exposure to Globalization”

  • 2018-2019: Emma Willis, “Finding Their Voice: Support for Pregnant Teens Encourages Self-Reliance, While Judgement Silences”

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Courses Taught at CSU Fresno

  • Adolescent Development

  • Advanced Observation of Children

  • Child Development Theories (formerly Advanced Child Development Theories)

  • Cultural Perspectives of Children and Families (formerly Culture & Diversity)

  • Media and Youth Development

  • Observing the Development of Children

  • Research in Human Development and Culture

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Courses Taught at Clark University

  • Human Development and Culture

  • Human Development and Learning

  • Research in Culture and Development