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Máire Ford, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development
Máire (pronounced ‘Mora’) Ford, Ph.D., serves as Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development. In this role she supports the professional growth and success of faculty members at LMU through the Center for Faculty Development. This center focuses on three areas: teaching and learning, professional and leadership development, and scholarly and creative practice.
As Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development, her responsibilities include providing strategic direction for the CFD in a manner that supports LMU’s mission and strategic goals, creating and implementing faculty development programs in the three areas mentioned above, and facilitating events that encourage knowledge-sharing and community building for faculty across disciplines. Máire is invested in promoting a sense of community and belonging amongst faculty while also providing them with opportunities to develop new skills in a supportive and inclusive environment.
Máire joined the faculty at LMU in 2006 as a psychology professor. She teaches a variety of courses that fall under the broader umbrellas of social psychology and health psychology, and she also teaches a course on statistical methods. As a professor she works to cultivate knowledge and intellectual curiosity in her students and to provide them with the tools and motivation that they need to be lifelong learners. Máire is a recipient of the Fritz B. Burns Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Máire’s primary research sits at the intersection of social psychology and health psychology. In her research lab she investigates the role of the self in shaping perceptions of events that occur in close interpersonal relationships and subsequent responses. Her primary focus is on how the self shapes health-related responses to events such as rejection, exclusion, and other threats to belonging. Additionally, she studies various ways of imparting resilience for those experiencing threats to belonging. Máire also conducts research that contributes to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). She has an active research lab staffed by several excellent LMU undergraduate students. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
Máire has served as the Associate Chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences, a member of Faculty Senate, and a member of several advisory boards for various programs and centers at LMU.
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Margarita R. Ochoa, Ph.D., Director for Scholarly and Creative Practice
Margarita R. Ochoa is an award-winning author and historian whose research foregrounds Indigenous voices and examines the intersections of race, gender, class, and the law in colonial and nineteenth century Latin America. As Director for Scholarly and Creative Practice in the Center for Faculty Development, she supports the development of all faculty as innovative researchers, creative practitioners, and interdisciplinary scholars. Her work includes one-on-one consultations, small-group writing and accountability sssions, interdisciplinary faculty learning communities, and stage-specific support for tenure-track, tenured, and non-tenure-track faculty alike. She is deeply committed to inclusive faculty mentorship and to cultivating spaces where all scholarly and creative practices are valued—whether traditional, interdisciplinary, or community-engaged. Her initiatives emphasize collaborative workshops, writing retreats, and opportunities for faculty to engage in reflective and productive scholarly practices that embody the cura personalis.
Alongside her faculty development work, Margarita is Associate Professor of History, specializing in ethnohistory and legal history. Drawing from archival sources in Spanish, Portuguese, and Indigenous languages, her teaching and research highlight the lived experiences of Latin Americans from the pre-Hispanic era to the present day. Since joining LMU in 2011, she has built a robust Latin American curriculum spanning colonial and modern topics, including Indigenous civilizations, comparative conquest and rule, law and justice, gender and race relations, state formation, revolutions and civil war, organized crime, migration, and population displacement. She is co-editor of Cacicas: The Female Indigenous Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2021) and City Indians in Spain’s American Empire (Sussex Academic Press, 2012) and author of multiple book chapters and articles on gender, law, and the history of emotions in Latin America.
Her research agenda focuses on recovering Indigenous voices in urban, legal, and cultural histories of Latin America. Her current monograph, Indigenous Mexico City, 1700–1825, examines how Indigenous residents navigated law, community, and identity in the late colonial capital. Future projects include an article on the Lenten bread pudding capirotada, which explores how colonial foodways functioned as a form of “soft conquest” and continue to serve as sites of cultural memory, as well as a textbook, Women in Colonial Latin America, which will integrate themes of gender, law, and Indigenous persistence for the classroom.
Margarita has a record of consequential service at the department, college, and university levels, as well as in her profession. At LMU, she has served as Associate Chair of the History Department and on committees such as the Academic Planning and Review Committee and the Committee on the Status of Women. She has also provided university-wide leadership by co-chairing the Becoming a Hispanic Serving Institution Task Force and helping shape the Inclusive History and Images Project. Beyond LMU, she contributes to the field as an advisory board member for the Atlantic Crossings book series (Alabama University Press) and has served as editorial board member for Ethnohistory.
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Myla Bui, Ph.D., Director of Leadership and Professional Development
Myla Bui, Ph.D. serves as the Director of Leadership and Professional Development. In this role, she empowers faculty to grow as impactful leaders who advance both their own careers and LMU’s mission. She collaborates with the CFD team, and in partnership with professional development thought leaders, to deliver high-impact leadership workshops through targeted training on topics ranging from administrative career advancement to navigating difficult conversations. She also facilitates a Community of Practice for Department Chairs. In facilitating the community of practice, she fosters a collaborative space for department chairs to share strategies, address challenges, and strengthen their leadership skills.
Through individualized mentoring and campus-wide partnerships, she supports faculty in cultivating the confidence, knowledge, and practical skills needed to thrive in their leadership roles. Through her work, Dr. Bui advances a culture of purposeful leadership at LMU—one that values innovation, inclusivity, and collaboration.
Dr. Bui earned her Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas and her MBA from Loyola University New Orleans. Since joining LMU in 2009 as a marketing professor, she has served in leadership capacities including Chair of the Department of Marketing & Business Law, Cabinet Associate to the Executive Vice President and Provost Office, Faculty Senator representing the College of Business Administration, Chair of Governance & Bylaws on Faculty Senate, Chair of Constitution Review, Academic Chair of the Doctor of Business Administration Committee, and Associate Editor at the Journal of Business Research. She has served on C-suite level and senior leadership recruitment committees for LMU’s Executive Vice President and Provost and the Loyola Law School Dean. In 2024, she was selected by Mission and Ministry to represent LMU as a fellow at the Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture.
She also brings industry experience in advertising and promotions marketing through Nola.com, business development and market research experience with Intralox LLC, USA, and active engagement across industry sectors ranging from healthcare to financial technology through her business consultancy contributions. An award-winning scholar with more than 35 research publications, Dr. Bui has published at the top-ranked marketing and business journals in the world, including the Journal of Marketing and Journal of Marketing Research. She has co-chaired internationally recognized academic conferences such as the American Marketing Association Conference and the Marketing and Public Policy Conference. Her research, teaching, and consultancy interests span consumer judgment and decision making, health and public policy, neuroplasticity, artificial intelligence (AI), and emerging technologies—integrating rigorous scholarship with real-world impact.
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Edward Mosteig, Ph.D., Director for Teaching and Learning
Edward Mosteig earned his doctorate in applied mathematics and a master's in computer science from Cornell University in 2000. After spending two years at Tulane University, he has devoted his career to Loyola Marymount University. Over the past few decades, he has focused on research at the intersection of mathematics and computer science, particularly valuing opportunities to involve students in his work. Recently, Edward has become increasingly engaged in research surrounding the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), education, and practices that impact faculty engagement.
Edward's dedication to teaching and learning is profoundly student-centered, aimed at ensuring undergraduates from all backgrounds have the opportunity to thrive. He has served as a teaching assistant for the Summer Institute for Mathematics for Undergraduates (SIMU) in Puerto Rico and later as a faculty member for the Applied Mathematical Sciences Summer Institute (AMSSI), co-hosted by LMU. He also founded and directed A Community Committed to Excellence in Scientific Scholarship (ACCESS) at LMU, a program designed to promote underserved populations within the university, as well as the LMU McNair Scholars Program, which prepares students for success in graduate studies. His contributions to teaching and advising were recognized with the Rudinica Prize for Teaching and Advising.
Edward has served on numerous committees and engaged in many efforts to promote a healthy environment conducive to collaboration and student excellence. For example, he has served as co-chair of the LMU Intercultural Faculty Committee, as chair of the Seaver College DEI Committee, and as co-leader of the Alternative Grading Faculty Learning Community.
Throughout his tenure as a teacher-scholar at LMU, Edward continues to explore and advocate for evidence-based teaching practices, aiming to broaden the conversation to include a wider community of educators.