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New Tenure-Track Faculty

College of Agriculture

Bradley Dodson, Agriculture. Ph.D., 1994, Texas A&M University. Leadership simulation activities; development of leadership skills.

College of Behavioral and Social Sciences

Scott Brady, Geography and Planning. Ph.D., 1996, Louisiana State University. Geographical issues in Central America.

Matthew Bumpus, Child Development. Ph.D. candidate, Pennsylvania State University. Impact of work stress on family functioning and child and adolescent development.

Jacquelyn Rhea Chase, Geography and Planning. Ph.D., 1993, University of California, Los Angeles. Urbanization on the grain belt of central Brazil.

Peter Cruise, Health and Community Service. Ph.D., 1995, Florida Atlantic University. Human service delivery systems.

Alberta Coy Dooley, Sociology and Social Work. Ph.D., 1996, University of Denver. Gender/diversity issues, aging, and domestic violence.

Liahna Gordon, Sociology and Social Work. Ph.D., 1999, Indiana University. Negotiating conflicting gender expectations.

Melissa Groves, Child Development. Ph.D., 1987, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Technology's impact on learning and development; professional development of early childhood educators.

Alexander King, Anthropology. Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia. Former Soviet Union and the North Pacific Rim.

Steven Shive, Health and Community Service. Ph.D. candidate, Temple University. Social and commercial sources of tobacco products to adolescents.

Cynthia Siemsen, Sociology and Social Work. Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz. Negotiating ideals: ideology, emotions, and the woman defender.

Kui-Hee Song, Sociology and Social Work. D.S.W., 1999, Loyola University. Korean immigrant families and child abuse problems.

Jeanne L. Thomas, Dean of the College of BSS. Ph.D., 1982, West Virginia University. Psychology and administration.

Charles Turner, Political Science. Ph.D. candidate, Claremont Graduate University American liberalism/civil liberties; gender/ethnic rights.

Lori Beth Way, Political Science. Ph.D. candidate, Syracuse University. Impact of gender, racial, and class stereotypes on criminal justice.

Daniel Worthen, Psychology. Ph.D. candidate, Colorado State University. Behavior analysis of animals.

College of Business

Gregory Rose, Accounting and Management Information Systems. Ph.D. candidate, Georgia State University. Electronic commerce, implementation strategy, and distributed systems. (Spring 2001)

Matthew L. Meuter, Finance and Marketing.Ph.D., 1999, Arizona State University. Consumer adoption of self-service tchnologies.

College of Communication and Education

Jeff Erfu Jiang, Recreation. Ph.D., 1995. University of Oregon. International tourism.

Mark Keegan, Education. Ed.D., 1992, Columbia University Teachers College. Computer software design and video production.

Carolyn Lepre, Journalism. Ph.D. candidate, University of Florida. College student attitudes toward seeking career counseling.

Barbara Sudick, Communication Design. M.F.A., 1981, Yale University. Artistic collaboration, interdisciplinary approaches to graphic design.

College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology

Henry Ma, Electrical and Computer Engineering. Ph.D., 1990, State University of New York at Binghamton. Efficient fault isolation schemes for the Grey digital systems.

College of Humanities and Fine Arts

Sarah Blackstone, Theatre Arts. Ph.D., 1983, Northwestern University. American history and American theatre history; Buffalo Bill Cody and the American West.

Jeanne E. Clark, English. Ph.D. candidate, Arizona State University. The prison poetics of Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop.

Sara Cooper, Foreign Language. Ph.D., 1999, University of Texas, Austin. Contemporary narrative by women: redefining family discourse.

Peggy Dufon, English. Ph.D., 1999, University of Hawaii. Second language acquisition and ESL pedagogy.

Paul Eggers, English. Ph.D., 1996, University of Nebraska. Literature.

Andrew Flescher, Religious Studies. Ph.D. candidate, Brown University. The nature of heroes, saints, and supererogation.

Lisa Gannett, Philosophy. Ph.D., 1999, University of Western Ontario. Philosophy of science; feminism and science.

David Martins, English. Ph.D. candidate, Michigan Technological University. Writing across the curriculum.

Donald Miller, Foreign Language. Ph.D., 1998, University of Virginia. Engendering La Monja AlfŽrez through history.

Deborah Reinhardt, Music. Ph.D., 1990, Case Western Reserve University. Repeated composition experience on tonal structure.

Joel Rogers, Theatre Arts. M.F.A., 1998, The University of Memphis. Directing theory and criticism; theatre history.

Royce Tevis, Music. Doctor of Musical Arts, 1992, Michigan State University. Conducting; performance; bands.

College of Natural Sciences

Jonathan Day. Biology, Ph.D., 1983, University of Delaware. Neurobiology of the aging brain.

Karin A. Hoover, Geosciences. Ph.D. 1998, The Johns Hopkins University. Watershed and experimental hydrology.

Michael Marchetti, Biology. Ph.D., 1999, University of California, Davis. Native and exotic fishes in California/conservation ecology.

Thomas Mattman, Mathematics. Ph.D. candidate, McGill University. Development of new courses in geometry.

Brian McBurnett, Chemistry. Ph.D., 1998, University of Texas, Austin. Inorganic chemistry.

William Murphy, Geoscience, Ph.D., 1985, University of California, Berkeley. Geochemistry, hydrochemistry, and the geologic disposal of nuclear waste.

Michelle Neyman, Biology. Ph.D., 1997, University of California, Davis. Nutritional status of the elderly.

Gordon V. Wolfe, Biology. Ph.D., 1992, University of Washington. Biogeochemical cycles and global change.

Xueli Zou, Physics. Ph.D. candidate, The Ohio State University. Conceptual understanding of physics concepts.}