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Department Chair

Heather Linville  Profile of Heather Linville  Office hours

Heather Linville's office hours

Monday
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
or by appointment
Tuesday
By appointment only
Wednesday
By appointment only
Thursday
10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
or by appointment
Friday
By appointment only

Remote office hours offered: If you would like to meet virtually either during my office hours or another time, please email me (hlinville@uwlax.edu).

335 Morris Hall
hlinville@uwlax.edu
608.785.8142

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

Tracie Banning's office hours

Monday
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Thursday
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Friday
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Saturday
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

335 Morris Hall
tbanning@uwlax.edu
608.785.8151

Diane Block  Profile of Diane Block  Office hours

Diane Block's office hours

Tuesday
9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
or by appointment
Thursday
9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
or by appointment

Lecturer
340E Morris Hall
dblock@uwlax.edu
608.785.6894

Specialty areas:

Special Education
Intellectual Disabilities/Cross-Categorical

ASD - Autism Spectrum Disorder
Treasurer, La Crosse Autism Foundation

Mental Health and Resiliency in Education

James Carlson  Profile of James Carlson

Associate Professor
185B Morris Hall
jcarlson@uwlax.edu
608.785.8140

Specialty areas:

Social Foundations of Education; Multicultural Education; Culturally Relevant Pedagogy; Literacy Studies

Wen-Chiang Chen  Profile of Wen-Chiang Chen  Office hours

Wen-Chiang Chen's office hours

Tuesday
By appointment only
Wednesday
By appointment only
Friday
By appointment only

Associate Professor
365B Morris Hall
wchen@uwlax.edu
608.785.8144

Specialty areas:

K-8 Literacy, Teacher Education, Critical Literacy, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy, & Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.

Rosalie DeFino  Profile of Rosalie DeFino  Rosalie DeFino saysMeet with me  Office hours

Rosalie DeFino's office hours

Monday
By appointment only
Tuesday
11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
or by appointment
Wednesday
noon to 2:15 p.m.
or by appointment
Thursday
By appointment only

Assistant Professor
300C Morris Hall
rdefino@uwlax.edu
608.785.5403

Specialty areas:

Math Education

Teacher Education

Elementary Teaching

Ann Epstein  Profile of Ann Epstein  Office hours

Ann Epstein's office hours

Monday
2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Tuesday
2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Wednesday
2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Thursday
By appointment only
Friday
By appointment only

Professor
340C Morris Hall
aepstein@uwlax.edu
608.785.8145

Specialty areas:

Early Childhood Education, Montessori

Mandi Hundt  Profile of Mandi Hundt

Lecturer
335 Morris Hall
mhundt@uwlax.edu

Yuko Iwai  Profile of Yuko Iwai

Professor
365A Morris Hall
yiwai@uwlax.edu
608.785.5407

Specialty areas:

literacy, culturally responsive teaching, multicultural children's literature, self-efficacy, multicultural education, teacher education, self-regulated learning

Lema Kabashi  Profile of Lema Kabashi  Office hours

Lema Kabashi's office hours

Monday
By appointment only
Wednesday
By appointment only

Associate Professor
300B Morris Hall
lkabashi@uwlax.edu
608.785.8143

Specialty areas:

 

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
  • Video-Based Instruction

  • Single Subject Research Design

    • Multiple Baseline Design

      • Across Behaviors, Across Participants, Across Settings​

    • A-B- and A-B-A-B Design 

    • Parallel Design

  • Computer Skills  

    • Microsoft Word/Excel/Powerpoint​

  • Learning Management Systems

    • D2L, BlackBoard

  • Technology 

    • Animoto​, VoiceThread, EdPuzzle, Google Drive/Site, Populr, TodaysMeet, Padlet, Wix, Skype, Camtasia, Jing, Screencast, YouTube Channel, PowToon, Pear Deck, Glogster, iMovie

Janet Koll  Profile of Janet Koll  Office hours

Janet Koll's office hours

Tuesday
By appointment only

Lecturer
240B Morris Hall
jkoll@uwlax.edu
608.785.8135

Valerie Krage  Profile of Valerie Krage  Valerie Krage saysMeet with me  Office hours

Valerie Krage's office hours

Thursday
9 a.m. to 11:59 a.m.

Assistant Professor
340A Morris Hall
vkrage@uwlax.edu
608.785.8136

Specialty areas:

Early childhood education, family engagement in education, impact of poverty on development and learning.

Amy Lein  Profile of Amy Lein

Associate Professor
Morris Hall
alein@uwlax.edu

Specialty areas:

Special Education, universal design for learning, socio-emotional learning

Heather Linville  Profile of Heather Linville  Office hours

Heather Linville's office hours

Monday
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
or by appointment
Tuesday
By appointment only
Wednesday
By appointment only
Thursday
10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
or by appointment
Friday
By appointment only

Remote office hours offered: If you would like to meet virtually either during my office hours or another time, please email me (hlinville@uwlax.edu).

Professor
335 Morris Hall
hlinville@uwlax.edu
608.785.8142

Specialty areas:

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

Matt McParker  Profile of Matt McParker  Matt McParker saysMeet with me  Office hours

Matt McParker's office hours

Monday
2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Wednesday
2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Associate Professor
325B Morris Hall
mmcparker@uwlax.edu
608.785.8152

Specialty areas:

Social Studies Education

Multicultural Education

Mid-Level Education

Mariah Pfundheller  Profile of Mariah Pfundheller

Assistant Professor
Morris Hall
mpfundheller@uwlax.edu

Specialty areas:

- Special Education

- Early Childhood Special Education

- Deaf and Hard of Hearing

- Educational Sustainability

- Equity and Inclusion in Education

Caryn Peterson  Profile of Caryn Peterson

Lecturer
340D Morris Hall
cpeterson@uwlax.edu
608.785.8149

Jennifer Pierce  Profile of Jennifer Pierce  Office hours

Jennifer Pierce's office hours

Monday
1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Tuesday
By appointment only
Wednesday
1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Teaching Assistant Professor
240C Morris Hall
jpierce@uwlax.edu
608.785.6566

Specialty areas:

Global education; multilingual and multicultural education; TESOL; English as a world language; grammar and pronunciation; cultural identities and language.

Lisa Pitot  Profile of Lisa Pitot  Lisa Pitot saysMeet with me  Office hours

Lisa Pitot's office hours

Monday
2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Tuesday
By appointment only
Wednesday
2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
or by appointment

Assistant Professor
300A Morris Hall
lpitot@uwlax.edu
608.785.8139

Specialty areas:

Science Methods, Assessment, Science Literacy, and Science Communication. Place-based / Project-based learning, and using Socio-scientific Issues to teach Science. 

Charlotte Roberts  Profile of Charlotte Roberts

Assistant Professor
160C Morris Hall
croberts@uwlax.edu
608.785.8146

Denise Rueter  Profile of Denise Rueter

Assistant Professor
160D Morris Hall
drueter@uwlax.edu
608.785.5408

Specialty areas:

Early childhood and Elementary Literacy

J.C. Wagner-Romero  Profile of J.C. Wagner-Romero  Office hours

J.C. Wagner-Romero's office hours

Monday
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Tuesday
By appointment only
Wednesday
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Thursday
By appointment only
Friday
By appointment only

Assistant Professor
160B Morris Hall
jwagner-romero@uwlax.edu
608.785.8735

Specialty areas:

Race and ethnic relations
Student-Family identities and Pierson's power of connection
Latinx & undocumented student and family expectations & experiences 
Language access and equity
Culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogy
International and global education
Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)

Daniel Walsh  Profile of Daniel Walsh  Office hours

Daniel Walsh's office hours

Monday
noon to 2 p.m.
Tuesday
By appointment only
Wednesday
10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Thursday
By appointment only

Assistant Professor
Morris Hall
dwalsh@uwlax.edu

Specialty areas:

Immigrant English learners in secondary schools, culturally sustaining pedagogy, youth participatory action research/critical ethnographic methods

Julie Welch  Profile of Julie Welch  Office hours

Julie Welch's office hours

Monday
2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m.
or by appointment
Wednesday
2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m.
or by appointment

Lecturer
Morris Hall
jwelch@uwlax.edu

Joshua Wolcott  Profile of Joshua Wolcott  Office hours

Joshua Wolcott's office hours

Tuesday
5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
or by appointment
Wednesday
By appointment only
Thursday
5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
or by appointment

Remote office hours offered: 5:30

Lecturer
Morris Hall
jwolcott@uwlax.edu

Emeritus Members

  • Burt Altman, Professor, member 1965-1993
  • Barbara Chaney, Assistant Professor, member 1988-2009
  • Ralph Cozad, member 1975-1999
  • Barb Gander, Senior Lecturer, member 2003-2019
  • Kent Koppelman, Professor, member 1979-2007
  • Robert Krajewski, Professor, member 1989-2013
  • Robert Richardson, Associate Professor, member 1990-2009
  • Stuart Robertshaw, member 1974-1998
  • Joyce Shanks, Associate Professor, member 1990-2018
  • Greg Walsko, Associate Professor, member 1988-2013
  • Gary Willhite, Associate Professor, member 2008-2020