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The College of Education and Human Development
104 Burton Hall - 178 Pillsbury Dr. SE - Minneapolis MN 55455
Tel: 612-625-6806 - Fax: 612-626-7496

Faculty and instructional staff

Departments

College

Curriculum and Instruction, Dept. of

www.cehd.umn.edu/CI

  • Avery, Patricia, professor
    Ph.D., Emory University
    Social studies education, history of American education, political education
  • Beach, Richard W., professor
    Ph.D., University of Illinois
    English education
  • Bequette, James, assistant professor
    Stanford University
    Art education
  • Bigelow, Martha, associate professor
    Ph.D., Georgetown University
    Second languages and cultures
  • Byrn, Katherine, teaching specialist
    M.A., University of Minnesota
    Urban education, especially related to reading
  • Clevette, Cathleen, coordinator and lecturer
  • Clover, Faith, lecturer
    Ph.D., University of Arizona
    Aesthetic response, reflective teacher practice, curriculum development, and multicultural curriculum and instruction
  • Cooke, Betty, lecturer
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Family, youth, and community
  • Covington Clarkson, Lesa, assistant professor
    Ph.D. University of Minnesota
    Mathematics education
  • Cramer, Kathleen, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Mathematics education
  • DeLapp, Peggy, coordinator/teaching specialist
    M.A., The Ohio State University
    Elementary education
  • Dillon, Deborah, professor
    Ph.D., University of Georgia
    Literacy research and methods
  • Doering, Aaron, assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Use of technology to improve teaching and learning; students' use of constructivist tools to design learning environments; examination of pedagogy using geographic information systems
  • Englund, Lynn, lecturer
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Family, youth, and community
  • Finley, Fred, associate professor
    Ph.D., Michigan State University
    Science education, environmental education
  • Flynn, Leslie, teaching specialist
    Science education
  • Galda, Lee, professor
    Ph.D., New York University
    Children's literature, response to literature
  • Greenhow, Christine, postdoctoral associate
    Ed.D., Harvard University
    Learning technologies research and methods
  • Helman, Lori, assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Nevada-Reno
    Literacy, teacher education, reading/reading difficulties/reading development
  • Jacobs, Benjamin, assistant professor
    Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University
    Social studies education
  • Johnson, Roger T., professor
    Ed.D., University of California-Berkeley
    Elementary and science education, cooperative learning
  • Johnson, Terry, lecturer
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Social studies education, elementary education
  • Kimball, Lisa, lecturer
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches to youth development

  • Lensmire, Timothy, associate professor
    Ph.D., Michigan State University
    Literacy education, elementary school writing instruction
  • Lewis, Cynthia, professor
    Ph.D., University of Iowa
    Social, cultural, and critical dimensions of literacy; literacy, identity, and discourse; digital and new-media literacies; and teacher study groups
  • Lundell, Amy Jo, teaching specialist
    University of Minnesota
  • Mayo, J.B., assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of South Florida
    Multicultural education, global education, and the teaching of history
  • Miller, Charles D., postdoctoral associate
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Effects of emotional design on the learner experience
  • Mogush, Patsy, lecturer
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Hhow young children understand what they read
  • Moore, Laurel Swanson, coordinator
  • Moore, Tamara, assistant professor
    Ph.D., Purdue University
    Mathematics education, model-eliciting activities
  • Ngo, Bic, assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Social and cultural contexts of education, refugee/immigrant education, urban and multicultural education
  • O'Brien, David, professor
    Ph.D., University of Georgia
    Literacy education, use of information technologies
  • Plihal, Jane E., associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Chicago
    Research methodology, integration of vocational and academic education, international education
  • Post, Thomas R., professor
    Ph.D., Indiana University
    Elementary education, mathematics education
  • Ranney, Susan, lecturer
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Second languages and cultures, contextualized grammar instruction
  • Roehrig, Gillian, associate professor
    Supporting beginning teachers, science education
  • Sato, Mistilina, assistant professor
    Ph.D., Stanford University
    Teacher development
  • Swiss, Thomas, professor
    M.F.A., University of Iowa
    Interdisciplinary subjects, including popular culture as pedagogy, both in and out of the classroom
  • Taylor, Barbara M., professor
    Ed.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Literacy education, reading difficulties
  • Tedick, Diane J., associate professor
    Ph.D., The Ohio State University
    Second languages and cultures education
  • Thomas, Ruth G., professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Thinking, learning, and teaching in context of everyday life
  • Tisdel Rapport, Rebecca, lecturer
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Children’s and adolescent literature
  • Upadhyay, Bhaskar, assistant professor
    Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
    Science teaching and learning; issues of access, ethnicity, and race that surround science education in urban schools
  • Walker, Constance L., associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Second languages and cultures, serving bilingual populations
  • Walker, Joyce A., professor and youth development educator
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Community youth organizations, youth policy, youth development leadership
  • Walker, Susan K., associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Parent education, parenting and early education, use of technology in teaching and learning
  • Wyberg, Terrence, lecturer
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Mathematics education

Educational Policy and Administration, Dept. of

www.cehd.umn.edu/EdPA

  • Alexander, Nicola, associate professor
    Ph.D., State University of New York-Albany
    Educational administration: school finance
  • Anderson, Melissa S., associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Graduate education, research ethics and misconduct, academic-industry relations, administration, and higher education policy
  • Brunner, C. Cryss, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Kansas
    Educational management and leadership
  • Chapman, David W., professor
    Ph.D., Syracuse University
    Education development, program evaluation, education policy
  • DeJaeghere, Joan, assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Comparative and international development education
  • Demerath, Peter, associate professor
    Ed.D., University of Massachusetts
    Educational anthropology, comparative study of class culture and education, urban education, school-university partnerships, research methodology
  • Fry, Gerald W., professor
    Ph.D., Stanford University
    Southeast Asia, comparative education, international educational reform, human resource development, education and development, politics of education
  • Harkins, Arthur M., associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Kansas
    Educational and workplace futures, knowledge-based education, anticipatory leadership
  • Hendel, Darwin D., associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Undergraduate education, evaluation of teaching and learning, strategic planning, institutional research, student affairs
  • Johnson, David R., professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Special education administration, evaluation studies, disability policy analysis
  • King, Jean A., professor
    Ph.D., Cornell University
    School change, program evaluation, action research
  • Kumagai, Gloria L., assistant coordinator for licensing and leadership development
    Ph. D., University of Minnesota
  • Magnusson, Deanne, lecturer
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Leadership development in U.S. and international schools, performance-based accountability systems for K-12 schools, adult learning and professional development
  • Paige, R. Michael, professor Ph.D., Stanford University
    International development education, intercultural education and training, multicultural education
  • Ropers-Huilman, Becky, professor
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Race and gender in higher education, curriculum and college teaching, college students in the United States, qualitative research methods, feminist theory
  • Schneider, Byron J., associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Chicago
    Youth development leadership, youth policy
  • Seashore, Karen, professor
    Ph.D., Columbia University
    Organizational theory, planned change, schools as workplaces, leadership
  • Wahlstrom, Kyla, research associate
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Organizational leadership and communication, educational politics, graduation standards and performance assessment
  • Werner, Ann, program director of licensing for educational administrators
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
  • Yeh, Stuart, assistant professor
    Ph.D., Stanford University
    Education program evaluation
  • York-Barr, Jennifer, professor
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
    Interprofessional collaboration, staff development, school restructuring, developmental disabilities

Educational Psychology, Dept. of

www.cehd.umn.edu/EdPsych/

  • Bart, William M., professor
    Ph.D., University of Chicago
    Cognitive process in reasoning, cognitive diagnostic testing and associated psychometric models, educational reform and improvement
  • Bruininks, Robert H., professor
    Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
    Developmental disabilities
  • Burke, Caroline, lecturer
    Ph.D., Auburn University
    Counseling and student personnel psychology
  • Burns, Matthew Kevin, associate professor
    Ph.D., Andrews University
    School psychology
  • Christ, Theodore J., assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
    Developing and evaluating alternative academic assessments, such as curriculum-based measurement
  • Christenson, Sandra L., professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Home-school-community collaboration, ecological assessment
  • Craig-Unkefer, Lesley, assistant professor
    Special education
  • Davenport, Ernest C., associate professor
    Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
    Computers in social science research, exploratory data analysis
  • Davison, Mark L., professor
    Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Educational and psychological measurement, psychological scaling, statistics
  • Robert C. delMas, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Activity-based instructional approach on students’ understanding of probability
  • Deno, Stanley L., professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Mild disabilities
  • Egbert, Denise, assistant education specialist
    American Sign Language
  • Egbert, Shirley, assistant education specialist
    American Sign Language
  • Estrem, Theresa, lecturer
  • Everson, Michelle, lecturer
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Learning and cognition
  • Espin, Christine A., professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Learning disabilities
  • Fautsch-Patridge, Terri, teaching specialist
    Special education
  • Fechter, Bonnie, assistant education specialist
    American Sign Language
  • Garfield, Joan, professor Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Applied statistics, survey design, evaluation methods
  • Goh, Michael, associate professor
    Ph. D., University of Minnesota
    Counseling and student personnel psychology
  • Harwell, Michael, professor
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Educational statistics
  • Holte, Diane, associate education specialist
    American Sign Language
  • Hummel, Thomas J., professor
    Ph.D., Ohio University
    Computer applications, experimental design as applied to counseling research
  • Hupp, Susan C., professor and department chair
    Ph.D., University of Illinois
    Moderate/severe disabilities
  • Johnson, David W., professor
    Ed.D., Columbia University
    Cooperation and competition; conflict resolution; social psychology of groups
  • Johnson, Rania, assistant education specialist
    American Sign Language
  • Kelley, Mary Beth, teaching specialist
  • Kovacs, Susan, assistant education specialist
    American Sign Language
  • Landi, Nicole (beginning January 2008)
  • Lau, Matthew, lecturer
    School psychology
  • Lawrenz, Frances P., professor
    associate vice president for research, University of Minnesota
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Science education, program and evaluation studies
  • Long, Jeffrey, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Southern California
    Educational statistics
  • Maruyama, Geoffrey M., professor and interim associate vice president of the Office for Multicultural and Academic Affairs
    Ph.D., University of Southern California
    Diversity in education, educational applications of social psychology
  • McComas, Jennifer, associate professor
    Ph.D., The University of Iowa
    Emotional and behavioral disorders
  • McConnell, Scott R., professor
    Ph.D., University of Oregon
    Early childhood, prenatal exposure to drugs and alcohol
  • McMaster, Kristen, assistant professor
    Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
    Special education
  • Paulson, Anna, teaching specialist
    Special education
  • Pellegrini, Anthony, professor
    Ph.D., The Ohio State University
    Children's play, observational research methods
  • Rodriguez, Michael, associate professor
    Ph.D., Michigan State University
    Measurement and evaluation
  • Romano, John L., professor
    Ph.D., Arizona State University
    Stress, coping, and well-being; psychology and prevention science and practice; international education
  • Rose, Susan, associate professor
    Ph.D., The Ohio State University
    Deaf/hard of hearing
  • Roseth, Cary, teaching specialist
    Psychological foundations of education
  • Samuels, S. Jay, professor
    Ed.D., University of California
    Learning and cognition, psychology of values, character education
  • Seifert, Kathleen, teaching specialist
  • Siebert, Renee, assistant education specialist
    American Sign Language
  • Skovholt, Thomas M., professor
    Ph.D., University of Missouri
    Professional psychology, counselor training, sex roles
  • Symons, Frank, associate professor
    Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
    Special education/social, emotional, and behavioral difficulties
  • Tennyson, Robert D., professor
    Ph.D., Brigham Young University
    Adult learning, instructional psychology and technology, educational technology
  • Turner, Sherri, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia
    Counseling and student personnel psychology
  • van den Broek, Paulus, professor
    Doctoraals, University of Leiden-The Netherlands, Ph.D., University of Chicago
    Performance of complex cognitive tasks (learning, reading, remembering, reasoning)
  • Veach, Patricia McCarthy, professor
    Ph.D., The Ohio State University
    Counseling process and self-disclosure research; practicum, supervision, and counseling
  • Wahl, Kay Herting, associate professor
    Ed.D., University of South Dakota-Vermillion
    School psychology
  • Ysseldyke, James E., professor
    Ph.D., University of Illinois
    Educational outcomes, assessment, education of students with mild disabilities
  • Zieffler, Andrew, lecturer
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Psychological foundations of education

Family Social Science

www.cehd.umn.edu/FSoS

  • Axtell, Sara, community-campus health outreach liaison
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    community engagement, cross-cultural engagement, community health, systems change, faculty development
  • Bauer, Jean, professor, director of graduate studies, extension specialist
    Ph.D., University of Illinois
    Economic well-being of the family, family policy, welfare reform, family and community well-being, policies and interface of the family system with other systems
  • Craft, Shonda, assistant professor
    Ph.D., The Ohio State University
    sexuality and public health (HIV, sexual identity, women's health), intimate partner violence, marriage and family therapy, cultural identity
  • Danes, Sharon, professor, extension specialist
    Ph.D., Iowa State University
    Intersection of social and economic decision making; family businesses; families and work; family financial issues within relationships; change and resiliency; farm women, families, and businesses; children and money
  • Doherty, William, professor
    Ph.D., University of Connecticut
    Fatherhood, marriage and family therapy, families dealing with chronic illness, ethics, community and family
  • Dworkin, Jodi, assistant professor, extension specialist
    Ph.D., University of Illinois
    Promoting positive family development, strengthening families and communities, normative adolescent development, and parenting adolescents
  • Gewirtz, Abi, assistant professor
    Ph.D., Columbia University
    Trauma, resilience, parenting, children's healthy development
  • Goodman, William, senior lecturer and associate professor
    Ph.D., Purdue University
    Undergraduate education; gay, lesbian, and bisexual families; marriage and family therapy; family of origin; diversity issues
  • Grotevant, Harold, professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Adoptive families, adolescent development in the family, identity development, family assessment and methodology
  • McCulloch, Jan, professor and department head
    Ph.D., University of North Carolina
    Mental and physical well-being of older rural Adults, rural aging, methodological examinations of aging and family constructs, and family influences on older rural women's medical decision-making, cultural awareness and competence, development across the lifespan, and economic and social well-being
  • Meyer, Cynthia, lecturer
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Sexuality and families; gay, lesbian, and bisexual families; marriage and family therapy
  • Olson, Patricia, area program leader - personal and family financial education
    Ph.D., The Ohio State University
    entrepreneurship and self-sufficiency, rural family businesses, program evaluation
  • Rettig, Kathryn, professor
    Ph.D., Michigan State University
    Family life quality; relationship-ending transitions; problem-solving, decision-making and human resource development in families; value conflicts resulting from legal-economic and ethical challenges; and the economic consequences of divorce
  • Rosenblatt, Paul, professor
    Ph.D., Northwestern University
    Family systems, qualitative family research, loss and families, farm and business families, anthropology of families, family theory, multicultural/multiracial families, scholarly and "folk" epistemology
  • Rueter, Martha, associate professor
    Ph.D., Iowa State University
    Rural families, parent-adolescent problem solving, alcohol use in adolescence, suicidal behavior among rural adolescents, sibling interaction and behavior
  • Solheim, Catherine, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Work and family issues, division of labor in families, family diversity, families and social policy, family resource management
  • Stum, Marlene, professor, extension specialist
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
    Aging families and long-term care, economic well-being, decision-making issues and processes in later life families, intergenerational resource transfers
  • Turner, William, professor
    Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Marriage and family therapy, resiliency and the strengths of African American families, end of life care in African Americans, school and family-based substance abuse prevention, psychosocial dimensions of health, illness and disability
  • Wieling, Liz, associate professor
    Ph.D., Iowa State University
    Cross-cultural couple and family therapy, multiculturalism and diversity in clinical work and research, disparities in mental health, Latino/a mental health, evidence based treatments for parenting, prevention in child and adolescent mental health, evidence based treatments for mass trauma, international research: Mexico and Germany
  • Xiong, Blong, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Parent-adolescent relationships in immigrant families, adolescent adjustment, and parent education
  • Zuiker, Virginia, associate professor
    Ph.D., The Ohio State University
    Family resource management, family economics, home-based employment, Hispanic family life

Institute of Child Development

www.cehd.umn.edu/ICD

  • Carlson, Stephanie, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Oregon
    Cognitive development, executive function, theory of mind, symbolism/pretend play, culture
  • Cicchetti, Dante, professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Developmental psychopathology, developmental neuroscience, molecular genetics, child maltreatment, mood disorders, personality disorders
  • Collins, W. Andrew, professor
    Ph.D., Stanford University
    Socialization, social cognition, family relations
  • Crick, Nicki R., professor
    Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
    Social-cognitive aspects of development
  • Egeland, Byron, professor
    Ph.D., State University of Iowa
    Developmental psychopathology, abuse, and maltreatment
  • Ge, Xiaojia, professor
    Ph.D., Iowa State University
    Emotional and behavioral development in adolescence, developmental psychopathology, and biological and social environmental interaction
  • Georgieff, Michael, professor
    M.D., Washington University
    Effect of fetal and neonatal iron deficiency on brain development and neurocognitive outcome; the effect of prenatal stress and intrauterine growth retardation on the developing memory system
  • Gunnar, Megan R., professor
    Ph.D., Stanford University
    Social and biological aspects of development
  • Karatekin, Canan, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
    Cognitive neuroscience, child clinical psychology
  • Koenig, Melissa, assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
    Language acquisition, cognitive development, pragmatics and social cognition, word learning
  • Maratsos, Michael P., professor
    Ph.D., Harvard University
    Language development, psycholinguistics
  • Masten, Ann S., professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Developmental psychopathology, stress and coping, humor
  • Pick, Jr., Herbert L., professor
    Ph.D., Cornell University
    Perceptual development, learning
  • Reynolds, Arthur J., professor
    Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
    Early educational interventions, early childhood development, evaluation research, prevention science, and school and family influences on development
  • Sera, Maria D., professor
    Ph.D., Indiana University
    Cognitive and linguistic development
  • Sroufe, L. Alan, professor
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
    Socioemotional development, developmental psychopathology
  • Thomas, Kathleen M., associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Cognitive development, implicit learning, pediatric neuroimaging, fMRI
  • Weinberg, Richard A., professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Behavior genetics, assessment, preschool education
  • Yonas, Albert, professor
    Ph.D., Cornell University
    Perceptual development
  • Yussen, Steven R., professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Children's learning and cognitive development
  • Zelazo, Philip David, professor
    Ph.D., Yale University
    Cognitive development and developmental cognitive neuroscience

Kinesiology, School of

www.cehd.umn.edu/Kin

  • Allison, Rayla, lecturer
    J.D., William Mitchell College of Law
    Sport law, sport marketing, sport finance, strategic sport marketing
  • Bhalla, Jennifer, teaching specialist
    Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
    Sport and exercise psychology, youth sport participation
  • Biltz, George, lecturer
    M.D., University of Minnesota
    Kinesiology, human physiology, exercise physiology
  • Brownlee, Eric, teaching specialist
    Ph.D. candidate, University of Louisville
    Sport marketing, college athletics, and research methods
  • Buysse, Jo Ann, education specialist
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Media constructions of gender and race in sport; women in coaching; administration of athletics
  • Dengel, Donald, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Georgia
    Exercise biochemistry, exercise physiology, hypertension, glucose metabolism, obesity, aging
  • Feldman, Harvey, teaching specialist
    M.Ed., University of Minnesota
    Recreation and park administration
  • Ingraham, Stacy, teaching specialist
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Exercise physiology with an emphasis in public health epidemiology
  • Kane, Mary Jo, professor
    Ph.D., University of Illinois
    Social-psychological parameters of sport/physical activity, media representations of women in sports
  • Kihl, Lisa, assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of British Columbia
    Organizational theory, sport policy, sport management ethics, governance, civic participation, and intercollegiate athletics
  • Konczak, Jürgen, professor
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
    Neuromotor control, biomechanics of coordination, pathokinesiology, developmental kinesiology
  • LaVoi, Nicole, research associate and lecturer
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Sport psychology, sport sociology, girls and women in sports
  • Leitschuh, Carol, research associate
    Ph.D., Oregon State University
    Movement assessment of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers using general outcome measures; successful developmental outcomes for children with disabilities; prenatal cocaine-polydrug exposure and developmental outcome
  • Leon, Arthur S., professor
    M.D., University of Wisconsin
    Exercise physiology, physical activity's role in chronic disease
  • Lewis, Beth A., assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of North Dakota
    Sport and exercise psychology, motivational strategies for physical activity adoption and maintenance
  • Magnuson, Connie, teaching specialist
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Community based therapeutic recreation, recreation administration and program planning, outdoor and environmental education, youth studies
  • Petit, Moira A., assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of British Columbia
    Community-based physical activity interventions to optimize bone health during childhood and adolescence; childhood and youth obesity prevention; inter-relationships of physical activity, nutrition and endocrine status on bone health and fracture prevention; bone-muscle adaptation to mechanical loading
  • Rodgerson, Richard, teaching specialist
    Motor development, behavioral biology
  • Ross, Stephen, assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Sport management studies
  • Russell, Keith, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Idaho
    Adventure and wilderness therapy and education, human and nature relationships, program evaluation, research methods, recreation and park administration and management, and outdoor and environmental education.
  • Serfass, Robert C., associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Exercise physiology, sport training, fitness, sports nutrition
  • Spletzer, Elizabeth, education specialist
    M.S., Eastern Michigan University
    Pedagogy and biomechanics
  • Stoffregen, Thomas, professor
    Ph.D., Cornell University
    Movement-based knowledge, perception and action, human factors
  • Wade, Michael G., professor
    Ph.D., University of Illinois
    Motor skill development, human factors, developmental disabilities, aging
  • Weiss, Maureen R., professor
    Ph.D., Michigan State University
    Psychological and social development of children and adolescents through participation in sport and physical activity
  • Wiese-Bjornstal, Diane M., associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Oregon
    Sport psychology, youth sport, psychology of sport injury

Postsecondary Teaching and Learning

www.cehd.umn.edu/PsTL

  • Arendale, David, assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City
    Academic access and developmental education, strategies that increase the success of underrepresented student populations in college
  • Barajas, Heidi, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Diversity and equity in public school instruction, civic engagement, and service-learning in the classroom
  • Brothen, Thomas F., professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Computer-assisted instructional methods and student self-regulation of learning
  • Buturian, Linda, senior teaching specialist
    M.A., University of Cincinnati
    Humanities
  • Chapman, Jeffrey, teaching specialist
    B.F.A., Minneapolis College of Art and Design
    art
  • Collette, Lawrence, teaching specialist
    M.B.A., Metropolitan State University
    business
  • Collins, Molly, senior teaching specialist
    M.A., University of Minnesota
    Commanding English
  • Delehanty Kelly, Margaret, senior teaching specialist
    M.A., University of Minnesota
    Commanding English
  • Detzner, Daniel F., professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Intersection of social gerontology, family science, and ethnic studies
  • Dorsey, Heather, teaching specialist
    M.L.S., University of Minnesota
    communication
  • Duranczyk, Irene Mary, assistant professor
    Ed.D., Grambling State University
    Qualitative studies of the outcomes of developmental mathematics; math autobiographies; affective factors effecting mathematics outcomes
  • Fayon, Annia, assistant professor
    Ph.D., Arizona State University
    Geology
  • Fitzpatrick, Renata, senior teaching specialist
    M.A., University of Minnesota
    Commanding English
  • Frederickson, Christina, teaching specialist
    M.A., University of Northern Iowa
    communication and theater
  • Gardner, Jr., LeRoy, senior teaching specialist
    M.A., University of Minnesota
    social sciences
  • Ghere, David L., associate professor
    Ph.D.., University of Maine
    American Indians during the colonial period
  • Goette, Susan, teaching specialist
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Social sciences
  • Grier, Tabitha, assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Educational psychology, career development
  • Hatch, Jay T., associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Universal Instructional Design, diversity, and the environment
  • Higbee, Jeanne L., professor
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin—Madison
    Serving students with disabilities, multicultural education, barriers to learning mathematics, and affective variables that are related to learning
  • Hodne, Barbara, senior teaching specialist
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Commanding English and literature
  • Hsu, Leon, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
    Understanding the thought processes underlying learning in domains such as science and math and trying to design instruction based on that understanding
  • Hyland, Ezra, teaching specialist
    M.A., Michigan State University
    Humanities
  • Jacobs, Walt, associate professor
    Ph.D., Indiana University
    Popular culture and creative nonfiction as sites of pedagogy
  • James, Patricia, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Understanding ways to teach and learn artistic creativity
  • Jehangir, Rashné, assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Educational policy and administration, international literature
  • Jensen, Murray, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Technology in science education, cooperative learning, and students’ understanding of evolution
  • Koch, Laura C., associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Mathematics
  • Lee, Amy, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    Composition studies, critical pedagogy, teacher and student development
  • Loch, Suzanne, senior teaching specialist
    M.A., University of Minnesota
    Statistics
  • Madyun, Na'im, assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Psychology
  • Miksch, Karen, assistant professor
    J.D., University of California
    Law of higher education, transitions to college, access to higher education policy, and affirmative action
  • Murie, Robin, program director and teaching specialist
    M.A., University of Minnesota
    Commanding English
  • Peter, Gary, senior teaching specialist
    M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College
    Social sciences and humanities
  • Peterson, Richard, teaching specialist
    M.S., Mankato State University
    business
  • Robertson, Douglas, professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Mathematics and computing
  • Staats, Susan, assistant professor
    Ph.D., Indiana University
    Mathematics, anthropology
  • Stottlemyer, Janet, senior teaching specialist
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Mathematics
  • Trites, Jill, senior teaching specialist
    M.A., University of Minnesota
    Commanding English
  • Wambach, Cathrine A., associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Curriculum evaluation and developmental education
  • Yahnke, Robert E., professor
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Contributions of film and literature to gerontological education

School of Social Work

www.cehd.umn.edu/SSW

  • Albrecht, Lisa D., associate professor
    Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo
    Feminist, multicultural and social justice education; feminist alliance politics; antiracist and cross-class organizing
  • Baizerman, Michael, professor
    Ph.D., University of Pittsburg
    Adolescent and youth studies, youth public policy, cultural models of youth development
  • Burton, Velmer S., professor
    Ph.D. Sociology, University of Cincinnati, Ed.D., University of Pennsylvania
    Community corrections, delinquency, and strain theory
  • Davila-Williams, Sonia, field coordinator
    M.S.W., University of Pittsburgh
    Child welfare, elder mistreatment, services for Chicano/Latino clients, field instruction
  • Dimock, Peter, teaching specialist, professional education director
    Sexual victimization, sexual assault, molestation, abuse, child abuse, child maltreatment, exploitation, sexual Abuse and male socialization, male sexuality, homosexuality, long term effects, post-traumatic stress disorder, chemical abuse/sexual abuse, addiction, sexual addiction, sexual compulsivity, offending, offenders, perpetrators, battered women, restorative justice
  • Edleson, Jeffrey, professor
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Social work research methods, family violence, electronic provision of information
  • Fisher, Colleen, assistant professor
    Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
    Adolescent health and risk factors, HIV prevention, identity development, LGBT issues
  • Gibson, Priscilla, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Denver
    Culturally sensitive services to African American families; African American grandmothers as kinship care providers, families with children who have developmental delays, qualitative research methods
  • Gilbert, MJ, field coordinator
    M.S.W., University of Minnesota
    Severe and persistent mental health and dialectical behavioral theory
  • Gilgun, Jane, professor
    Ph.D., Syracuse University
    Child welfare, child sexual abuse, development of violent behavior, resilience
  • Hendrickson, Trude, teaching specialist, Moorhead site coordinator
    M.S.W. University of Iowa
    Child welfare, family therapy, rural social work, social work supervision and social work ethics
  • Hollister, C. David, professor
    Ph.D., University of Michigan
    Program evaluation, neighborhood revitalization, substance abuse and child welfare, international social welfare
  • Jager, Marcia, field coordinator, University of Minnesota, Rochester
    M.S.W., University of Minnesota
    Substance abuse, family therapy, adult mental health, social work education
  • Jones, Linda, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Lesbian and gay families and their children, ethics, program evaluation, woman and social policy issues
  • Kimball, Lisa, lecturer
    (Ph.D., University of Minnesota)
    Spirituality, religiosity and young people; interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches to youth development; experiential learning in formal and informal education; youth work and organizational development
  • Kivnick, Helen, professor
    Ph.D., University of Michigan
    Life strengths, CitySongs project, vital involvement practice, elder role models, life-cycle therapy
  • LaLiberte, Traci, director, Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Child welfare, foster care, children and parents with disabilities
  • Lightfoot, Elizabeth, associate professor
    Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington
    Public policy, public management, comparative politics, disability policy
  • Lee, Hee Yun, assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
    Elder mistreatment, family violence, aging and mental health, subjective well-being and immigration, alcohol use among AAPIs, development of culturally competent measurement and intervention programs, and mixed method approach in social work research
  • Lum, Yat-sang Terry, associate professor
    Ph.D., Washington University
    Socialgerontology, long term care, social policy, quantitative research methods, evaluation
  • Maxwell, Steve, director, field instruction
    M.S.W., University of Minnesota
    Field instruction, cross-cultural supervision, refugee and immigrant issues, community mental health, spirituality, and the integration of music and the arts into social work practice
  • Menanteau-Horta, Dario, professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Social organization, community change, rural development, inequality and social well-being, Latin America
  • Morrissey, Megan, lecturer
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Social welfare history, social welfare policy, social history of American women, community organization
  • Quam, Jean K., professor
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Aging, older women, chronically mentally ill, history of social work, gay and lesbian aging
  • Reinardy, James, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Long-term care issues, assessment of older adults, decision-making and care planning, social welfare policy, community organization
  • Roholt, Ross VeLure, assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Youth work in contested spaces, youth civic engagement, participatory models of youth development
  • Rooney, Ronald, professor
    Ph.D., University of Chicago
    Work with involuntary clients, time-limited practice, public social services, teaching/faculty roles in social work and other university settings
  • Stein, Jerome, senior fellow
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Education in the community; community youth development and community resource development
  • Taylor, Edward, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Southern California
    Childhood mental illness, social cognitive and socialization deficits, and violent behaviors from a biopsychosocial perspective and the education of social workers and other mental health professionals in methods for treating individuals and families who experience mental illness
  • Thomas, Tamiko, field coordinator
    M.S.W., University of Minnesota
    Child welfare, social work practice in K-12 educational settings, field instruction
  • Umbreit, Mark, professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Restorative justice, indigenous justice & healing, human rights, victim services, criminal/juvenile justice, peacemaking, spirituality, forgiveness, reconciliation, mediation, conflict resolution, and social change
  • Van Slyke, Victoria, lecturer
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Forensic practice, changing models of supervision, impact of trauma over the lifespan, forces shaping the social work profession
  • Vande Berg, Anne, M.S.W. site coordinator, University of Minnesota, Rochester
    M.S.W., University of Minnesota
    Social work in school settings, child welfare, homelessness, housing policy, nonprofit management, innovations in distance learning
  • Walthour, Kate, director of admissions, School of Social Work
    M.S.W, University of Minnesota
    Child welfare practice and policy; policy strategies of early intervention and prevention with children and families; the professionalization of social work
  • Wattenberg, Esther, professor
    M.A., University of Toronto, M.A., University of Chicago
    Child welfare, welfare reform particularly children in long-term foster care, concurrent planning, kinship foster care placement, chronically neglecting families, income issues, teen parenting, and family policy
  • Wells, Susan J., professor
    Ph.D., University of Southern California
    Child welfare policy and practice with special interests in risk assessment and screening, decision-making, and service coordination and promoting research-based practice
  • Williams, Oliver, professor
    Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
    Creating effective service delivery strategies that will reduce violence among African Americans; ethnically sensitive practice; fatherhood

Work and Human Resource Education, Dept. of

www.cehd.umn.edu/WHRE

  • Ardichvili, Alexandre, associate professor
    Ph.D., Moscow State University; M.B.A. and Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    International human resource development, organizational learning and knowledge management, innovation and entrepreneurship, ethical business cultures
  • Bartlett, Kenneth R., associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Human resource development, adult education
  • Brown, James M., professor
    Ph.D., Bowling Green State University
    Special learning needs, diversity in education and work settings
  • Greiman, Bradley, assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Missouri
    Agricultural education
  • Krueger, Richard A., professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Program evaluation, focus group interviews
  • Lambrecht, Judith, professor
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
    Business teacher education, instructional use of business software
  • Lewis, Theodore, professor
    Ph.D., The Ohio State University
    Technology education curriculum, technology and work, workplace literacy
  • Park, Rosemarie J., associate professor
    Ed.D., Harvard University
    Adult literacy education, workplace literacy, women's issues
  • Peterson, Shari L., assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Adult education, human resource development, career decision-making

December 2007

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