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A page within Academic Affairs

Total: 34

Archaeology & Anthropology

Department Chair

Timothy McAndrews  Profile of Timothy McAndrews  Office hours

Specialty areas:

South American/Andean Archaeology, Rise of Complex Society, Origins of Urbanism, Sedentary Village-Based Adaptations

Department Chair

Kathleen Hawkes  Profile of Kathleen Hawkes  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Photography

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Anton Sanderfoot  Profile of Anton Sanderfoot  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Plant cell biology, protein secretion, genetic screens, molecular biology, microscopy

Please contact me if you have any interest in undergraduate or graduate (MS) research!

Also contact me with any questions about use of the Microscopes in the Howard Imaging Center on campus.

Associate Department Chair

Bradley Seebach  Profile of Bradley Seebach  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Neurophysiology, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Medical Physiology; advising Biomedical Science Concentrators and Neuroscience students

Academic Department Associate

Lynne Smith  Profile of Lynne Smith  Office hours

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Department Chair

Todd Weaver  Profile of Todd Weaver  Todd Weaver saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Biochemistry

Molecular Biology

Structural Biology

Enzymology

 

Associate Department Chair

Aric Opdahl  Profile of Aric Opdahl

Specialty areas:

Surface and Analytical Chemistry

Department Chair

Linda Dickmeyer  Profile of Linda Dickmeyer  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Interpersonal Communication, Instructional Communication, Undergraduate Research

Associate Department Chair

Beth Boser  Profile of Beth Boser  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Public Communication and Advocacy, Media Studies, Gender and Feminism

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Sheida Babakhani Teimouri  Profile of Sheida Babakhani Teimouri  Sheida Babakhani Teimouri saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

International Macroeconomics and Finance, Applied Econometrics, International Labor. 

Educational Studies

Department Chair

Heather Linville  Profile of Heather Linville  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Dr. Linville's main research areas are digital storytelling as translanguaging, advocacy for English learners (ELs), language teacher education, and language ideologies.

Academic Department Associate

Tracie Banning  Profile of Tracie Banning  Office hours

Department Chair

Kate Parker  Profile of Kate Parker  Kate Parker saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Literary and cultural studies with specialization in early modern and eighteenth-century texts

 

Associate Department Chair

Bryan Kopp  Profile of Bryan Kopp  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Rhetoric & writing studies; professional & technical writing; writing pedagogy; science of learning

Exercise & Sport Science

Department Chair

Naoko Giblin  Profile of Naoko Giblin  Naoko Giblin saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Patellofemoral pain, running related injuries and interventions, applied biomechanics, athletic training

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Adam Stivers  Profile of Adam Stivers  Adam Stivers saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Investments, asset pricing, behavioral finance, entrepreneurship, economic institutions

Academic Department Associate

Andrew Sherman  Profile of Andrew Sherman  Office hours

Geography & Environmental Science

Department Chair

Colin Belby  Profile of Colin Belby  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Geomorphology, River Systems, Water Resources, Environmental Contamination, Geospatial Field Mapping and GIS

Global Cultures & Languages

Department Chair

Omar Granados  Profile of Omar Granados  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Contemporary Latin American and Latino literature and cultural studies, Caribbean studies, film studies, migration studies and literary translation.

Academic Department Associate

Health Professions

Department Chair

Thomas Kernozek  Profile of Thomas Kernozek

Specialty areas:

Biomechanics of Human Movement, Clinical Research Methodology, Biomechanics Instrumentation and Statistics

 

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

James Longhurst  Profile of James Longhurst  Office hours

Specialty areas:

interim History Department Chair Spring 2025

Historian of urban and environmental policy, including transportation and bicycle history, and the social and cultural history of modern America

Information Systems

Department Chair

Peter Haried  Profile of Peter Haried  Peter Haried saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Information Systems Project Management, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), Online Fantasy Sports, Live Streaming Acceptance & Motivation

Academic Department Associate

Maureen Spencer  Profile of Maureen Spencer  Office hours

International Business

Department Chair

Elizabeth Crosby  Profile of Elizabeth Crosby  Elizabeth Crosby saysMeet with me

Specialty areas:

Consumer behavior, consumer culture theory, consumer identity, transformative consumer research, consumer welfare, consumer vulnerability, consumer well-being, and qualitative research methods

Department Chair

Teri Holford  Profile of Teri Holford  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Children's Literature

Information Literacy

Integrated Librarianship

Local History & Historical Primary Sources

 

 

Department Chair

Christa Kiersch  Profile of Christa Kiersch  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Leadership, Student Leadership Development, Human Resource Management

Academic Department Associate

Karen Brandt  Profile of Karen Brandt  Office hours

Department Chair

Maggie McDermott  Profile of Maggie McDermott  Maggie McDermott saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Sustainability in Business

Mathematics & Statistics

Department Chair

Jennifer Kosiak  Profile of Jennifer Kosiak

Specialty areas:

Mathematics Education

Associate Department Chair

Douglas Baumann  Profile of Douglas Baumann  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Statistics Education

Data Visualization

Statistical Genomics and Epigenomics

Statistical Computing

Data Science

Categorical Data Analysis

Multivariate Statistics

Department Chair

Michael Hoffman  Profile of Michael Hoffman  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Virology

Chair, Department of Microbiology

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Stephen Mann  Profile of Stephen Mann  Office hours

Specialty areas:

sociolinguistics; linguistic anthropology; American English dialects; language, gender, & sexuality; language attitudes & ideologies; folk dialectology

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Samuel Cocks  Profile of Samuel Cocks

Specialty areas:

Philosophy of Mind, Asian Philosophy, 19th/20th Century Continental Philosophy, & Environmental Philosophy

Academic Department Associate

Political Science & Public Administration

Department Chair

Adam Van Liere  Profile of Adam Van Liere  Adam Van Liere saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Global governance and international organization, foreign policy and global diplomacy, active learning, international education, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Jocelyn Newton  Profile of Jocelyn Newton  Jocelyn Newton saysMeet with me

Specialty areas:

School Psychology; Assessment; Early Childhood Assessment and Intervention; Child & Adolescent Psychopathology

Associate Department Chair

Ellen Rozek  Profile of Ellen Rozek  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Gerontology, Lifespan Development

Cognitive Psychology (Neuropsychology)

Psych Hour (Fridays, 12:05-1:00)

Academic Department Associate

Jane Fredrick  Profile of Jane Fredrick  Office hours

Public Health & Community Health Education

Department Chair

Sarah Pember  Profile of Sarah Pember  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Qualitative Research in Health, Child and Adolescent Health, Eating Behavior, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Department Chair

Terry Lilley  Profile of Terry Lilley  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Poverty, Sex Work, Violence and Violence Prevention, Social movements, Sociological theory

Academic Department Associate

Alec Lass  Profile of Alec Lass  Office hours

Recreation Management & Recreational Therapy

Department Chair

Laurie Harmon  Profile of Laurie Harmon  Office hours

Specialty areas:

My primary areas of research are social-psychological outcomes of nature-based recreation including how we come to know and get connected to places, technology and the outdoors, and the scholarship of teaching & learning.  I particularly enjoy the work I do using underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to get youth and adults connected to aquatic environments.

Academic Department Associate

Sociology & Criminal Justice

Department Chair

Timothy Gongaware  Profile of Timothy Gongaware  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Social Movements, Collective Behavior, Leisure Groups, Identity (individual and collective), Qualitative Research, Popular Culture

Student Affairs Administration

Department Chair

Tori Svoboda  Profile of Tori Svoboda  Tori Svoboda saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

intersections of gender, racial/ethnic, and social class identities; orientation, transition and retention programs; program assessment; budget management; supervision; social justice education

Department Chair

Laurie Kincman  Profile of Laurie Kincman  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Stage Management, Arts Administration, Dramaturgy

Academic Department Associate

Krista Shulka  Profile of Krista Shulka

Specialty areas:

Box Office Manager, Webmaster; Publicity Assistant; Recruitment Co-Coordinator

Total: 34

Applied Statistics

Program Director

Melissa Bingham  Profile of Melissa Bingham  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Statistics for Directional Data; Statistics for Three-Dimensional Rotation Data

Athletic Training

Program Director

Business Administration

Clinical Exercise Physiology

Program Director

Kathryn Johnson  Profile of Kathryn Johnson  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Clinical Exercise Physiology

Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation

Adult Fitness

Cybersecurity

Program Director

Jennifer Butler Modaff  Profile of Jennifer Butler Modaff  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Organizational and Professional Communication

Data Science

Program Director

Jeff Baggett  Profile of Jeff Baggett

Specialty areas:

deep and machine learning, computer vision for radiology, machine learning, optimization, inverse problems and uncertainty analysis for environmental computer models

Digital Marketing

Program Director

Kenneth Graham  Profile of Kenneth Graham  Kenneth Graham saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Marketing Strategy, Integrated Marketing Communications, Digital Marketing

Program Director: Digital Marketing Graduate Certificate Program

Educational Leadership and Director of Instruction

Program Director

Jeannette Armstrong  Profile of Jeannette Armstrong  Jeannette Armstrong saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Learning Sciences
curriculum and instruction
cosmopolitan literacies
critical literacies
community literacies
reading instruction 

 

Program assistant

Cindy George  Profile of Cindy George  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Application Process Questions
Registration Questions
Program Questions
Marketing
Web site maintenance
Budget

Financial Technology

Fundamentals of Geographic Information Science

Program Director

Colin Belby  Profile of Colin Belby  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Geomorphology, River Systems, Water Resources, Environmental Contamination, Geospatial Field Mapping and GIS

Healthcare Administration

Information Technology Management

Program Director

Peter Haried  Profile of Peter Haried  Peter Haried saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Information Systems Project Management, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), Online Fantasy Sports, Live Streaming Acceptance & Motivation

Medical Dosimetry

Program Director

Nishele Lenards  Profile of Nishele Lenards  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Medical Dosimetry, Radiation Oncology, Distance Learning, Educational Technology

Microbiology

Program Director

Paul Schweiger  Profile of Paul Schweiger  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Microbial Metabolism and Physiology
Synthetic and Molecular Biology
Applied Microbiology
Biotechnology
Contact me if you have any interest in undergraduate or graduate (MS) research in these fields!

Occupational Therapy

Program Director

Laura Schaffer  Profile of Laura Schaffer  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Physical Dysfunction

Neurological Conditions and Treatment

Acute care and inpatient rehabilitation

GoBabyGo!

Spinal Cord Injury Support Group Facilitator

LSVT-Big Certified (Parkinson's Treatment)

Strong interest in Interprofessional Education (IPE) and community based practice

Increasing access to OT for underserved populations

Physical Education Teaching

Program Director

Jenna Starck  Profile of Jenna Starck

Specialty areas:

Physical Education Teaching Graduate Program Director

Adventure Education & Outdoor Pursuits Emphasis Director

Adventure Education Program Director

Research Interests: assessment literacy, adventure education, social and emotional learning, and occupational socialization theory

Physical Therapy

Program Director

Patrick Grabowski  Profile of Patrick Grabowski

Specialty areas:

Motor behavior, Orthopedics

Physician Assistant Studies

Program Director

Maggie Laufenberg  Profile of Maggie Laufenberg  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Physician Assistant 

Professional Development-Learning Community

Program Director

Jeannette Armstrong  Profile of Jeannette Armstrong  Jeannette Armstrong saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Learning Sciences
curriculum and instruction
cosmopolitan literacies
critical literacies
community literacies
reading instruction 

 

Program assistant

Cindy George  Profile of Cindy George  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Application Process Questions
Registration Questions
Program Questions
Marketing
Web site maintenance
Budget

Professional Studies in Education

Program Director

Jeannette Armstrong  Profile of Jeannette Armstrong  Jeannette Armstrong saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Learning Sciences
curriculum and instruction
cosmopolitan literacies
critical literacies
community literacies
reading instruction 

 

Program assistant

Cindy George  Profile of Cindy George  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Application Process Questions
Registration Questions
Program Questions
Marketing
Web site maintenance
Budget

Public Health Online

Program Director

Anders Cedergren  Profile of Anders Cedergren

Specialty areas:

Health Program Planning & Evaluation

Health Education Research Methods 

Global Health 

Program assistant

Amber Miller-Adamany  Profile of Amber Miller-Adamany

Specialty areas:

Conference services, professional development, and graduate program support. Primary contact for School Psychology Online, Recreation Management-Professional Development, and Public Health graduate programs. 

Reading Teacher & Reading Specialist

Program Director

Kimberly Edwards  Profile of Kimberly Edwards

Specialty areas:

Reading Teacher, Reading Specialist, Reading Interventions, Elementary and Middle Level Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Professional Development

Program assistant

Cindy George  Profile of Cindy George  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Application Process Questions
Registration Questions
Program Questions
Marketing
Web site maintenance
Budget

Recreation Management

Program Director

Katherine Evans  Profile of Katherine Evans  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Issues of social justice in leisure, outdoor adventure recreation, women’s physically active leisure, non-profit leadership, youth development, and leisure education & student engagement

Recreation Management - Professional Development

Program Director

Katherine Evans  Profile of Katherine Evans  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Issues of social justice in leisure, outdoor adventure recreation, women’s physically active leisure, non-profit leadership, youth development, and leisure education & student engagement

Program assistant

Amber Miller-Adamany  Profile of Amber Miller-Adamany

Specialty areas:

Conference services, professional development, and graduate program support. Primary contact for School Psychology Online, Recreation Management-Professional Development, and Public Health graduate programs. 

Recreational Therapy

Program Director

Katherine Evans  Profile of Katherine Evans  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Issues of social justice in leisure, outdoor adventure recreation, women’s physically active leisure, non-profit leadership, youth development, and leisure education & student engagement

School Psychology

Program Director

Ryan McKelley  Profile of Ryan McKelley  Ryan McKelley saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Clinical/counseling psychology; men and masculinities; health psychology (stress, resilience; biofeedback; sleep); behavior modification; group counseling; psychopharmacology (i.e., drugs and behavior)

Program assistant

Taylor Wirkus  Profile of Taylor Wirkus  Office hours

School Psychology Online

Program Director

Robert Dixon  Profile of Robert Dixon  Robert Dixon saysMeet with me

Specialty areas:

School Psychology, Response to Intervention (RtI), Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), Online Service Delivery

To arrange a meeting, please use the following link

     Psychology Office Hours (349A GMH): LINK

Program assistant

Olga Santoyo-Garcia  Profile of Olga Santoyo-Garcia

Specialty areas:

Non-credit and credit program support; event logistics; graduate program applicant and student assistance. 

Primary contact for student Commencement questions and for Summer/Winter Session. 

Software Engineering

Program Director

Mao Zheng  Profile of Mao Zheng

Specialty areas:

Software Engineering

Special Education Teaching

Program Director

Jeannette Armstrong  Profile of Jeannette Armstrong  Jeannette Armstrong saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Learning Sciences
curriculum and instruction
cosmopolitan literacies
critical literacies
community literacies
reading instruction 

 

Program assistant

Cindy George  Profile of Cindy George  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Application Process Questions
Registration Questions
Program Questions
Marketing
Web site maintenance
Budget

Student Affairs Administration

Program Director

Jörg Vianden  Profile of Jörg Vianden  Office hours

Specialty areas:

I study college student persistence as well as men and masculinities in higher education. I am the author of Got Solidarity? Challenging Straight White College Men to Advocate for Social Justice, published by Routledge in 2020. 

Student Affairs Administration & Leadership

Program Director

Becki Elkins  Profile of Becki Elkins  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Higher education organization and governance; higher education history; student affairs law and policy; assessment of student learning and program efficiency; social class identity; and college students in recovery.

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Program Director

Jeannette Armstrong  Profile of Jeannette Armstrong  Jeannette Armstrong saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Learning Sciences
curriculum and instruction
cosmopolitan literacies
critical literacies
community literacies
reading instruction 

 

Program assistant

Cindy George  Profile of Cindy George  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Application Process Questions
Registration Questions
Program Questions
Marketing
Web site maintenance
Budget

Total: 5

International & Global Studies

Program Director

Gita Pai  Profile of Gita Pai  Office hours

Specialty areas:

South Asia (and its diaspora); British Empire; colonialism & postcolonialism; gender & sexuality; global studies; material & visual culture; political history; religion

Director, International & Global Studies Program

Program Director

Ryan McKelley  Profile of Ryan McKelley  Ryan McKelley saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Clinical/counseling psychology; men and masculinities; health psychology (stress, resilience; biofeedback; sleep); behavior modification; group counseling; psychopharmacology (i.e., drugs and behavior)

Professional Studies in Education

Department Chair

Jeannette Armstrong  Profile of Jeannette Armstrong  Jeannette Armstrong saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Learning Sciences
curriculum and instruction
cosmopolitan literacies
critical literacies
community literacies
reading instruction 

 

Academic Department Associate

Psychology demo page

Sustainability & Environmental Studies

Director

Samuel Cocks  Profile of Samuel Cocks

Specialty areas:

Philosophy of Mind, Asian Philosophy, 19th/20th Century Continental Philosophy, & Environmental Philosophy

Academic Department Associate