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Faculty
Scholarly Interests and Activities
This section is a brief
description of scholarly interests and activities of the
faculty and staff in the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences.
Department of
Anthropology/Sociology
William Donner, Ph.D., Department of
Anthropology/Sociology
Scholarly interests and activities include Pennsylvania
German language, culture, history, and cultural
exchange. He is the editor for Der Reggeboge (Journal
of the Pennsylvania German Society) and the manager of
the Seminar Stage at the Kutztown Folk Festival. Other
research interests include Polynesian culture and change
based on research on Sikaiana, Solomon Islands.
Diane Johnson, Ph.D., Department of
Anthropology/Sociology
Scholarly interests and activities include political
sociology and formal organizations. Current research
involves a study of the Upward Bound and Academic
Alliance programs at KU with a focus on the achievement
gap and Jerome Bruner’s theory of instruction.
David Webb, Ph.D., Department of
Anthropology/Sociology
Scholarly interests and activities include the evolution
and biomechanics of walking in humans and other
primates, skeletal anatomy and growth of ape and human
feet. Other research interests include primatology and
forensic anthropology.
Department of Biology
Marilyn Baguinon, Ph.D., Department of
Biology
Scholarly interests and activities include recombinant
DNA techniques to study the nitrogenase enzyme of
Klebsiella pneumoniae, the mammalian enzyme
acyloxyacyl hydrolase that detoxifies bacterial
endotoxins, and the mechanism of blood clot formation.
Nancy Butler, Ph.D., Department of
Biology
Scholarly interests and activities include freshwater
and marine ecology particularly plankton feeding
strategies, mating behaviors, and community structure.
Joan Davis, MS, Department of Biology
Scholarly interests and activities include molecular
biology and the presence of a second chromosome in
Rhodococcus erythropolis.
Carol Mapes, Ph.D., Department of Biology
Scholarly interests and activities include plant galls
caused by insects and mites, the effects of plant
hormones, and plant physiology.
Cristen Rosch, Ph.D., Department of
Biology
Scholarly interests and activities include plant
molecular and cell biology, developmental biology
including gene expression and regulation, and the use of
fluorescent microscopy to study the cellular
cytoskeleton.
Kristina Rothley, Ph.D., Department of
Biology
Scholarly interests and activities include conservation
biology including the effect of anthropogenic
disturbance on predator/prey interactions and the design
of protected areas.
Wendy Ryan, Ph.D., Department of Biology
Scholarly interests and activities include marine
biology and animal physiology. Projects within marine
biology include marine mammals, high pressure
treatments, and physiology; other interests involve the
development of innovative teaching labs.
Christopher Sacchi, Ph.D., Department of
Biology
Scholarly interests and activities include
plant-herbivore and plant-pollinator interactions,
reproductive biology of native and introduced plant
species, and the abiotic and biotic factors influencing
plant growth and reproduction.
William Towne, Ph.D., Department of
Biology
Scholarly interests and activities include honey bee
orientation and navigation, animal behavior, and
evolutionary biology.
Todd Underwood, Ph.D., Department of
Biology
Scholarly interests and activities include ornithology,
vertebrate biology, ecology, and conservation. Special
interest in avian behaviors, particularly the
interactions between the brood parasitic brown-headed
cowbird and its hosts.
Anne Zayaitz, Ph.D., Department of
Biology
Scholarly interests and activities include food and
applied microbiology, with particular interest in food
pathogens, food spoilage organisms, water quality, and
biofilms.
Department of Computer Science
Linda Day, MS, Department of Computer
Science
Scholarly interests and activities include object
oriented paradigms in software development and design
patterns.
Lisa Frye, MS, Department of Computer
Science
Scholarly interests and activities include wireless
sensor networks, networks, and network security.
Mark Jones, Ph.D., Department of Computer
Science
Scholarly interests and activities include computer
science education, intelligent robotics, and knowledge
representation.
Oskars Rieksts, Ph.D., Department of
Computer Science
Scholarly interests and activities include cryptography
and intelligent robotics.
Yong-Sang Shim, Ph.D., Department of
Computer Science
Scholarly interests and activities include network
security and false alarm detection.
Dan Spiegel, Ph.D., Department of
Computer Science
Mark Jones, Ph.D., Department of Computer
Science
Scholarly interests and activities include evolutionary
techniques, computational biology, and computer science
curriculum development.
Joo Tan, Ph.D., Department of Computer
Science
Scholarly interests and activities include web
development technologies and software engineering.
Department of Criminal Justice
Gary Cordner, Ph.D., Department of
Criminal Justice
Scholarly interests and activities include police
studies and homeland security.
Mahfuzul Khondaker, Ph.D., Department of
Criminal Justice
Scholarly interests and activities include juvenile
delinquency, juvenile justice, immigrants, and crime and
the criminal justice system.
Jonathan Kremser, MS, Department of
Criminal Justice
Scholarly interests and activities include schools and
crime and also urban crime prevention.
Keith Logan, Ph.D., Department of
Criminal Justice
Scholarly interests and activities include fiction as a
didactic tool in teaching criminal justice,
whistleblower retaliation, and the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act
Al Pisciotta, Ph.D., Department of
Criminal Justice
Scholarly interests and activities include the history
of crime and criminal justice, and also race, crime, and
social control.
Marc Renzema, Ph.D., Department of
Criminal Justice
Scholarly interests and activities include community
corrections, electronic monitoring of offenders, program
evaluation, meta-analysis, and also privacy and social
control.
Pietro Toggia, Ph.D., Department of
Criminal Justice
Scholarly interests and activities include comparative
criminal justice systems and criminology,
Department of Electronic Media
Leonard Barish, M.S., Department of
Electronic Media
Scholarly interests and activities include the
convergence of cinema and video technology, new
developments in audiosignal processing software and
digital graphic production.
Helen Bieber, M.S., Department of
Electronic Media
Scholarly interests and activities include legal case
studies with impact on electronic media, copyright
issues as they involve electronic media, and single
camera video production techniques using the 16:9
format.
Joseph Chuk, PhD., Department of
Electronic Media
Scholarly interests and activities include ethical
issues faced by electronic media industry professionals,
developments in FCC regulation regarding media content
and new technologies, English language short-wave
international radio broadcasting, and also domestic and
trans-border English-language radio programming
available in Israel.
Elizabeth Emmert, M.S., Department of
Electronic Media
Scholarly interests and activities include integration
of new media into a traditional electronic media degree
program, web distribution of mass media content,
integration of personal musical performance with
advanced production techniques, and ongoing media
production projects with her own professional production
company.
David Kintsfather, Jr., PhD. Department
of Electronic Media
Scholarly interests and activities include adapting
audience research techniques to measure very small and
specialized audiences such as those for cable public
access programming and also examining factors that
affect purchasing decisions for viewers of video home
shopping programs.
Andrew Skitko, Department of Electronic
Media
Scholarly interests and activities include video
engineering, facilities design and construction video
post production (linear and non-linear), audio
production and audio post production (linear and
non-linear) projects. Special interests involve
consulting for choral and theater performances at The
Hill School and other clients.
Department of English
Anthony Bleach, PhD., Department of
English
Scholarly interests and activities include mass
communications, American and international film history,
and also feminist film theory and history.
Jennifer Bottinelli, PhD., Department of
English
Scholarly interests and activities include literary and
cultural theory, psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical
theory, film studies, and video production.
Janice Chernekoff, PhD., Department of
English
Scholarly interests and activities include composition
studies, critical and alternative pedagogies, and
creative nonfiction.
Edwin Christian, PhD., Department of
English
Scholarly interests and activities include twentieth
century British literature, detective fiction, and
biblical literature.
Charles Cullum, PhD., Department of
English
Scholarly interests and activities include postmodern
fiction, American literature, and literary criticism.
Linda Cullum, PhD., Department of English
Scholarly interests and activities include composition,
writing center theory, gender studies, and native
American literature.
Michael Downing, PhD., Department of
English
Scholarly interests and activities include technical
writing, writing for the web, technical journalism, and
desktop publishing.
Jennifer Forsyth, PhD., Department of
English
Scholarly interests and activities include Shakespeare,
gender and sexuality, narrative theories, and also
scholarly editing and related theory.
Curtis Herr, M.S., Department of English
Scholarly interests and activities include confessional
poetry, gothic literature, drama, and feminism.
Keith Kelly, PhD., Department of English
Scholarly interests and activities include old and
middle English literature, old Norse literature and
mythology, and also medievalism.
David Laubach, PhD., Department of
English
Scholarly interests and activities include folklore,
linguistics, and also children's and young adults'
literature.
Amy Lynch-Biniek, M.S., Department of
English
Scholarly interests and activities include composition
theory, comparative rhetoric, critical pedagogy, writing
and technology, and also writing center theory.
Kevin Mahoney, PhD., Department of
English
Scholarly interests and activities include radical
pedagogy, literacy and globalization, and also
autonomous education and social movements.
Matthew Nesvisky, PhD., Department of
English
Scholarly interests and activities include journalism
history and sub-genres of journalism.
Melissa Nurczynski, M.S., Department of
English
Scholarly interests and activities include magazine
writing, travel writing, digital publication writing,
and information design.
Amy O’Brien, PhD., Department of English
Scholarly interests and activities include
autobiography, women's writing, public relations, and
desktop publishing.
Dubem Okafor, PhD., Department of English
Scholarly interests and activities include African
diasporic literature and modern African poetry.
Elaine Reed, PhD., Department of English
Scholarly interests and activities include theories of
representation, media history, film censorship, and
public relations.
Louis Schwartz, PhD., Department of
English
Scholarly interests and activities include film history,
theory and criticism, nineteenth century visuality and
modernism, and also American literature.
Carl Seiple, M.S., Department of English
Scholarly interests and activities include modern drama,
world literature, theater, and science fiction.
Heather Thomas, PhD., Department of
English
Scholarly interests and activities include modern and
postmodern poetry and poetics, esthetics of witness and
dissent, and also creative writing.
Raymond Tumbleson, PhD., Department of
English
Scholarly interests and activities include seventeenth
and eighteenth century British literature and religious
ideologies in early modern literature.
Jeffrey Voccola, M.S. , Department of
English
Scholarly interests and activities include classic and
contemporary fiction and poetry, and also creative
writing.
Andrew Vogel,PhD., Department of English
Scholarly interests and activities include modern and
postmodern literature, cultural studies, American road
literature, and also geography and landscape.
Department of Geography
Richard S. Courtney, PhD., Department of
Geography
Scholarly interests and activities include analysis and
mapping patterns of population redistribution in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the analysis of
residential segregation, and cartography in the ArcGIS
environment.
Richard A. Crooker, PhD., Department of
Geography
Scholarly interests and activities include general
problem of ecological marginalization of minority
peoples in the entire mountainous region of mainland
Southeast Asia, climate change and oceanography, and
also hill-tribe drug production in the Golden Triangle
(an area overlapping the borders of Thailand, Burma, and
Laos).
Mathias Le Bosse’, PhD., Department of
Geography
Scholarly interests and activities include the interface
between cultural geography and political geography with
a regional focus on Europe, especially Northern Europe,
Scandinavia, and the Atlantic world, and also issues of
identity and memory as they play out at different scales
in the geopolitics of nationalism, transnationalism,
and regionalism.
Robert N. Martin, PhD., Department of
Geography
Scholarly interests and activities include research and
applications of GIS in higher education.
Steven M. Schnell, PhD., Department of
Geography
Scholarly interests and activities include sustainable
agriculture (particularly community supported
agriculture) as well as attempts to re-create locally
based economies and food systems, and also ethnic
geography (the relationships between ethnic identity and
place).
Lindsay J. Spigel, PhD., Department of
Geography
Scholarly interests and activities include geomorphology
particularly the study of rivers and floodplains,
including human impacts on floodplain sedimentation,
floodplain features, and also the impact of
environmental change on rivers during the Holocene.
Department of History
John J. Delaney, PhD., Department of
History
Scholarly interests and activities include modern
European history, modern German history, western
historiography, and the history of the Holocaust.
Patricia Derr, PhD., Department of
History
Scholarly interests and activities include the study of
prostitution and community values in 20th-century
Texas, focusing on examining the ways in which the
communities of all sizes justify the presence of
prostitution, how business interests work to insure
maximum profit from the enterprise, and how the
prostitutes themselves create their own power structures
outside of and in addition to those of the outside
world.
Michael P. Gabriel, PhD., Department of
History
Scholarly interests and activities include American
history from c.1750-1865, focusing on the American
Revolution. Additionally Dr. Gabriel is doing research
for his third book, a study of the Battle of Bennington,
August 16, 1777, focusing on the experiences of average
American, German, and loyalist troops.
Eric Johnson, PhD., Department of History
Scholarly interests and activities include religious
culture in Mediterranean Europe, a study of political
ritual in Avignon during the French Revolution, and the
role of local religious traditions in the transition
from the Old Regime to the New.
Patricia Kelleher, PhD., Department of
History
Scholarly interests and activities include tracing the
ways in which ambitious young men forged styles of
middle-class Catholic masculinity during the 1850s with
research drawing on young men’s diaries, letters,
account books and speeches, tentatively entitled
Our Irish: Gender and Ethnicity in
Nineteenth-Century Chicago
Maria Sanelli, PhD., Department of
History
Scholarly interests and activities include multicultural
studies, social studies education, and social activism.
James Sowerwine, PhD., Department of
History
Scholarly interests and activities include Turkish
politics, Turkish foreign policy, the Cyprus Conflict,
and modern Lebanese politics.
John Stanley, PhD., Department of History
Scholarly interests and activities include Protestant
missionary educational and medical enterprises in China
during the late-19th and early-20th centuries and their
influence in the Chinese modernization during this
period.
Department of Mathematics
Paul Ache, PhD., Department of
Mathematics
Scholarly interests and activities include assessment
and curriculum issues related to alignment.
Deborah Frantz, PhD., Department of
Mathematics
Scholarly interests and activities include summability
methods, probability distributions, and associated
positive linear operators.
Patrick Gorman, M.S., Department of
Mathematics
Scholarly interests and activities include applied
mathematics with a focus in astrophysics.
Amadou Guisse, PhD., Department of
Mathematics
Scholarly interests and activities include differential
geometry, dynamical systems, and theoretical physics.
Keith Kull, PhD., Department of
Mathematics
Scholarly interests and activities include the
development and use of mathematical pedagogy appropriate
for children.
Kanchan Kumar, M.S., Department of
Mathematics
Scholarly interests and
activities include statistics.
Perry Lee, PhD., Department of
Mathematics
Scholarly interests and activities include thermal
radiation heat transfer (participating media),
mathematical modeling in the thermal-fluid sciences (CFD,
FEM, FVM), nuclear safety analysis (ModeratorSystem),
probabilistic risk assessment, and environmental science
(atmospheric dispersion).
Yun Amy Lu, PhD., Department of
Mathematics
Scholarly interests and activities include mathematical
logic, graph theory, combinatorics, bioinformatics,
optimizations and algorithms.
M. Padraig Mcloughlin, PhD., Department
of Mathematics
Scholarly interests and activities include statistics,
edumetrics, probability theory, item response theory
(approximate dimensionality of item response), raju
curves, relative operating characteristics curve theory,
statistical measure theory, set theory, point-set
topology, continua theory, and topological measure
theory.
Kunio Mitsuma, PhD., Department of
Mathematics
Scholarly interests and activities include
technology-assisted undergraduate mathematics
instruction, web delivery of mathematics courses, and
topological semigroups.
Larry Mugridge, PhD., Department of
Mathematics
Scholarly interests and activities include developing
curriculum and textbooks for college algebra.
Winnie J. Peterson, PhD., Department of
Mathematics
Scholarly interests and activities include strategies
for engaging students in the learning of mathematics and
implementing literacy strategies in the mathematics
classroom.
Lyn Phy, PhD., Department of Mathematics
Scholarly interests and activities include functional
analysis, women in mathematics, cooperative learning in
mathematics and utilizing technology in teaching.
Thomas Pirnot, PhD., Department of
Mathematics
Scholarly interests and
activities include semigroups.
Celine Przydzial, M.S., Department of
Mathematics
Scholarly interests and activities include mathematics
education, using manipulative to enhance teaching and
promote student understanding, and also communication
skills and connections.
Randy Schaeffer, M.S., Department of
Mathematics
Scholarly interests and activities include computers in
the classroom, educational technology and software
development, mathematics, mathematics education, and
Coca-Cola memorabilia.
Brad Slonaker, PhD., Department of
Mathematics
Scholarly interests and activities include mathematical
knowledge and belief, epistemology, and also pedagogy
and mathematics.
Francis J. Vasko, PhD., Department of
Mathematics
Scholarly interests and activities include real-world
applications in operation research, combinatorial
optimization techniques to more accurately model and
solve important real-world applications in production
planning, strategic planning, and resource allocation.
Anke Walz, PhD., Department of
Mathematics
Scholarly interests and activities include geometry,
rigidity theory, and philosophy of science.
Department of Modern Language Studies
Carolyn V. Bell, PhD., Department of
Modern Language Studies
Scholarly interests and activities include language and
cultural aspects of
Central American, Spanish, and Latin
American drama.
S. Pascale Dewey, PhD., Department of
Modern Language Studies
Scholarly interests and activities include
language and
cultural aspects of France.
Christine A. Nu’nez, PhD., Depart. of
Modern Language Studies
Scholarly interests and
activities include linguistics
and bilinguilism.
Karen L. Rauch, PhD., Department of
Modern Language Studies
Scholarly interests and activities include language and
cultural aspects of the
Caribbean,
particularly Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
Jesus Rodriquez, PhD., Department of
Modern Language Studies
Scholarly interests and activities include language
and cultural aspects of Spain.
Nina M. Shecktor, PhD., Department of
Modern Language Studies
Scholarly interests and activities include language and
cultural aspects of the
Spanish Golden
Age.
Dawn Slack, PhD., Department of Modern
Language Studies
Scholarly interests and activities include language and
cultural aspects of
Mexico.
Mary E. Theis, PhD., Department of Modern
Language Studies
Scholarly interests and activities include language and
cultural aspects of
Russia.
Maximiliano E. Z’uniga PhD., Depart of
Modern Language Studies
Scholarly interests and activities include language and
cultural aspects of the
Latin American
narrative.
Department of Nursing
Mary Ann Dailey, PhD., Department of
Nursing
Scholarly interests and activities include chronic
illness, community health care needs, family history
(genealogy)/historiography), and health care policy.
Rosemary Fliszar, PhD., Department of
Nursing
Scholarly interests and activities include gerontology
and nursing education.
James Matejik, M.S., Department of
Nursing
Scholarly interests and activities include gerontology,
rehabilitation nursing, and nursing education.
Marilyn Meder, PhD., Department of
Nursing
Scholarly interests and activities include mental health
and illness, parish nursing/faith, community
nursing/health ministry, spirituality and health, and
the role of humor in healing.
Ilene Prokup, M.S., Department of Nursing
Scholarly interests and activities include epidemiology,
public health, public health nursing, communicable
disease control, and cancer.
Department of Philosophy
Allan Back, PhD., Department of
Philosophy
Scholarly interests and activities include the history
and philosophy of logic, Islamic philosophy, ancient
philosophy, medieval philosophy, comparative philosophy
and also the philosophy of martial arts and sport.
Philip Ferreira, PhD., Department of
Philosophy
Scholarly interests and activities include the history
of idealist philosophy from 1750 to the present,
focusing on the British idealist movement and also
German, Italian, and American idealist thinkers.
James Hall, PhD., Department of
Philosophy
Scholarly interests and activities include the
philosophy of religion, philosophy and history of
science, and also the logic and philosophy of the mind.
Yong Huang, PhD., Department of
Philosophy
Scholarly interests and activities include moral
philosophy (ethics and social/political philosophy),
religious pluralism, and also Chinese and comparative
philosophy.
John Lizza, PhD., Department of
Philosophy
Scholarly interests and activities include bioethics,
metaphysics, and the philosophy of the mind, focusing on
persons and personal identity.
Department of Physical
Sciences-Chemistry
Tom Betts, PhD., Department of Physical
Sciences-Chemistry
Scholarly interests and activities include the
exploration of chemical processes using fluorescence
spectroscopy, and applications of high performance
liquid chromatography in food science. Projects have
involved the investigation of protein-DNA binding using
fluorescence anisotropy measurements, the construction
of a fluorescent sugar sensor based on gold
nanoparticles, and analysis of hops and hot peppers with
high performance liquid chromatography.
Dan Blanchard, PhD., Department of
Physical Sciences-Chemistry
Scholarly interests and activities include in the use of
organic synthesis to build molecular models to study the
forces that attract one molecule to another, such as
hydrogen bonding and van der Waals interaction and also
studying the way these forces play a role in processes
such as protein folding, gel formation, and
chromatography.
Matt Junker, PhD., Department of Physical
Sciences-Chemistry
Scholarly interests and activities include studying the
structure and function of proteins that regulate
apoptosis (programmed cell death), gene expression, and
bacteria pathogenesis and also DNA computing (using DNA
to solve mathematical problems).
Rolf Mayrhofer, PhD., Department of
Physical Sciences-Chemistry
Scholarly interests and activities include investigating
the “flow” of energy amongst the various degrees of
freedom for gas phase molecular systems from a
computational perspective and also developing efficient
computational methods for calculating the vibrational
energies of molecules using quantum mechanics.
Ed Vitz, PhD., Department of Physical
Sciences-Chemistry
Scholarly interests and activities include inorganic
chemistry and testing demonstrations for the chemistry
classroom.
Department of Physical
Sciences-Physics & Astronomy
Sudarshan Fernando, PhD., Department of
Physical Sciences-Physics & Astronomy
Scholarly interests and activities include superstring
theory (an attempt to obtain a unified description of
fundamental physics, especially by constructing a
quantum theory of gravity), low-energy limit of
superstring theory (supergravity), and also the various
underlying symmetry algebras of these theories.
Jordan Marche’, PhD., Department of
Physical Sciences-Physics & Astronomy
Scholarly interests and activities include the history
of astronomy and the history of geology, focusing on the
life of geologist Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864).
Judith Parker , PhD., Department of
Physical Sciences-Physics & Astronomy
Scholarly interests and activities include astronomy
education.
Madan Varma, PhD., Department of Physical
Sciences-Physics & Astronomy
Scholarly interests and activities include geophysics
and earthquake seismology.
Department of Physical
Sciences-Geology
Kurt Friehauf, PhD., Department of
Physical Sciences-Geology
Scholarly interests and activities include the chemical
reactions between water and rock, focusing on water-rock
interactions that form ore deposits (copper, gold,
etc.), and in tracing groundwater flow through
limestones. Recent field areas include China,
Indonesia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania.
Ann Isley, PhD., Department of Physical
Sciences-Geology
Scholarly interests and activities include volcanism in
Earth history and the reasons for such events and
monitoring the cycling and distribution of
anthropogenic pollutants including lead and
polychlorinated biphenyls, in a variety of aqueous
environments.
Ed Simpson, PhD., Department of Physical
Sciences-Geology
Scholarly interests and activities include the
development of the early Earth’ systems, focusing on
Mississippian and Triassic footprints and also
reconstructing ancient clastic depositional systems.
Sarah Tindall, PhD., Department of
Physical Sciences-Geology
Scholarly interests and activities include earthquake
processes, hydrocarbon reservoirs, mountain-building
movements of the Earth’s crust. Summer field work with
KU students in the desert of Southern Utah is sponsored
by ongoing grants from the Petroleum Research Fund.
Paul Washington, PhD., Department of
Physical Sciences-Geology
Scholarly interests and activities include in thrust
belt structure, stratigraphy of the Cambro-Ordovician
carbonate shelf in the Appalachians, Appalachian
tectonics neotectonics, controls on fault formation and
location physics of groundwater flow, surface water -
groundwater exchange as a geomorphic agent, and also the
physics of sediment motion.
Department of Political Science
Glenn Richardson, Jr., PhD, Department of
Political Science
Scholarly interests and activities include American
government/political theory, political communication,
campaigns and elections, political advertising, media &
politics, presidential rhetoric, presidents and the
media, U.S. Senate elections, and campaign finance.
John H. Riley, Jr., PhD, Department of
Political Science
Scholarly interests and activities include U.S. Foreign
policy, African development particularly in Kenya, and
democratization.
Jack M. Treadway, PhD, Department of
Political Science
Scholarly interests and activities include elections,
state government, and also Pennsylvania government and
politics.
Department of Psychology
Emmanuel Akillas, PhD, Department of
Psychology
Scholarly interests and activities include
psychotherapy, existentialism, supervision process,
antipsychiatry, and training of new therapists.
Tiffany Andrews, MS, Department of
Psychology
Scholarly interests and activities include data
collection for The Media's Portrayal of Madam
President study.
Matthew Heinly, PhD, Department of
Psychology
Scholarly interests and activities include in
neuropsychological assessment, malingering and effort
testing, and neurological disorders.
Derek Mace, PhD, Department of Psychology
Scholarly interests and activities include spatial
information processing, cognitive psychology, learning
and memory, evolutionary psychology, and cognitive
neuroscience.
Anita Meehan, PhD, Department of
Psychology
Scholarly interests and activities include assessment
and data analysis.
G. Dennis Rains, PhD, Department of
Psychology
Scholarly interests and activities include psychology of
obedience; prefrontal lobe functioning and the guidance
of behavior by representational knowledge.
Gregory Shelley, PhD, Department of
Psychology
Scholarly interests and activities include in the
assessment of personality and individual differences in
approaches to situations of social interdependence,
nonverbal behavior, and health psychology.
David Wimer, MS, Department of Psychology
Scholarly interests and activities include humor,
masculinity, existential psychology, and the theories of
William James.
Department of Social Work
John Conahan, PhD, Department of Social
Work
Scholarly interests and activities include management of
organizations offering substance abuse treatment,
curriculum development for training professionals in the
field of addictions, motivational interviewing
techniques, and gender specific treatment methods in
substance abuse.
Janice Gasker, PhD, Department of Social
Work
Scholarly interests and activities include methods of
teaching effectiveness, the use of narrative therapy
with sexually abuse survivors, and methods of
recruitment and retention of personnel for
gerontological services.
Sharon Lyter, PhD, Department of Social
Work
Scholarly interests and activities include social worker
safety, social work methodology for substance abuse
prevention, factors affecting successful field training
of social worker students, and assessment techniques for
mental health treatment.
Varsha Pandya, PhD, Department of Social
Work
Scholarly interests and activities include family
violence, family group decision methods in child
welfare, and gerontological social work practice.
Sara Plummer, PHD, Department of Social
Work
Scholarly interests and activities include domestic
violence victim response to protection from abuse orders
and also habilitation and rehabilitation of people with
disabilities.
John Vafeas, PhD, Department of Social
Work
Scholarly interests and activities include program
evaluation methods for social service organizations,
evaluating social service agencies for national
accreditation, and assessing factors affecting child
abuse and neglect.
Barth Yeboah, PhD, Department of Social
Work
Scholarly interests and activities include African
families and immigration, runaway and homeless youth,
international social work practice with a particular
focus on Africa and social work education in Africa.
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