Department/program directory
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Departments
Total: 36
Accountancy
Department Chair
- L3 Wittich Hall
- meklund@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8116
Specialty areas:
Accounting, Auditing, Corporate Governance, CEO Compensation, and Entrepreneurship
Academic Department Associate
- 3229 Wittich Hall
- eteegan@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8093
Archaeology & Anthropology
Department Chair
- 432D Wimberly Hall
- danderson4@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6778
Specialty areas:
Egyptian archaeology, Late Prehistoric period Native America, origins of complex society, technology in archaeology, 3D documentation of archaeological remains.
Academic Department Associate
- 435B Wimberly Hall
- svonruden@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8457
Art
Department Chair
- 4302 Centennial Hall
- tlilley@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8346
Specialty areas:
Poverty, Sex Work, Violence and Violence Prevention, Social movements, Sociological theory
Academic Department Associate
- 105 Lowe Center For The Arts
- kolan@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8230
Biology
Department Chair
- 213 Cartwright Center
- asanderfoot@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8240
Specialty areas:
Note: My office is moved to 213 Cartwright starting Spring 2026
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
- 215 Cartwright Center
- bseebach@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6964
Specialty areas:
Neurophysiology, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Medical Physiology; advising Biomedical Science Concentrators and Neuroscience students
Academic Department Associate
- 212 Cartwright Center
- scleveland@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8238
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Department Chair
- 044 Cartwright Center
- tweaver@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8269
Specialty areas:
Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Structural Biology
Enzymology
Associate Department Chair
- 044B Cartwright Center
- aopdahl@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8274
Specialty areas:
Surface and Analytical Chemistry
Academic Department Associate
Communication Studies
Department Chair
Associate Department Chair
Academic Department Associate
- 4206 Centennial Hall
- jpengra@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8519
Computer Science & Computer Engineering
Department Chair
- 225 Wing Technology Center
- khunt@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6822
Academic Department Associate
Economics
Department Chair
- 2102 Wittich Hall
- steimouri@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5296
Specialty areas:
International Macroeconomics and Finance, Applied Econometrics, International Labor.
Academic Department Associate
- 2103 Wittich Hall
- mbeckerjeck@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8099
Educational Studies
Department Chair
- 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
English
Department Chair
- Wimberly Hall
- dthoune@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6921
Specialty areas:
Writing Program Administration, First-Year Writing, Composition Pedagogy, Feedback, Assessment, and Fat Studies.
Associate Department Chair
- 426G Wimberly Hall
- bkopp@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6936
Specialty areas:
Rhetoric & writing studies; professional & technical communication/writing; writing pedagogy; science of learning; teaching & learning with artificial intelligence (AI)
Academic Department Associate
- Wimberly Hall
- lxiong3@uwlax.edu
Exercise & Sport Science
Department Chair
- 124 Mitchell Hall
- ngiblin@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8785
Specialty areas:
Patellofemoral pain, running related injuries and interventions, applied biomechanics, athletic training
Associate Department Chair
- 201 Mitchell Hall
- enarcotta-welp@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8689
Specialty areas:
Cultural Study of Sport
Media Representation
United States Women's National Soccer Team
Sport Administration
Academic Department Associate
- Mitchell Hall
- wmolling@uwlax.edu
Finance
Department Chair
- 3146 Wittich Hall
- astivers@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6677
Specialty areas:
Investments, asset pricing, behavioral finance, entrepreneurship, economic institutions
Academic Department Associate
Geography & Environmental Science
Department Chair
- 329 Cartwright Center
- cbelby@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8339
Specialty areas:
Geomorphology, River Systems, Water Resources, Environmental Contamination, Geospatial Field Mapping and GIS
Academic Department Associate
- 327 Cartwright Center
- awillis-frels@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8333
Global Cultures & Languages
Department Chair
- 311B Graff Main Hall
- ogranados@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5243
Specialty areas:
Contemporary Latin American and Latino literature and cultural studies, Caribbean studies, film studies, migration studies and literary translation.
Academic Department Associate
- 315A Graff Main Hall
- jking@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8324
Health Professions
Department Chair
- Health Science Center
- tkernozek@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8468
Specialty areas:
Biomechanics of Human Movement, Clinical Research Methodology, Biomechanics Instrumentation and Statistics
Academic Department Associate
- Health Science Center
- ssalow@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8474
History
Department Chair
- 401A Wimberly Hall
- vmacias-gonzalez@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8349
Specialty areas:
Latin American, Mexican, and Latinx histories, through the prisms of gender and sexuality. Latin Americanists study the pasts of nineteen different countries in the Americas, plus the Philippines, Spain, and the U.S.A. I trained on nineteenth-century Mexico, especially the Porfiriato (1876-1911) and the U.S. Southwest. My scholarly interests include diplomacy, transnational migration, Mexican diaspora, consumption and material culture, masculinity, transgender history, Latin@s in the Midwest, the homophile movement, and LGBTQ+ history of the Midwest. Service interests include increasing Latino access to higher education, graduate, and professional programs, as well as LGBTQ+ public history programs. I serve on various professional groups in my field. I chair the U.S.-Canada Organizing Committee of the International Historians of Mexico Conference, and serve on the organizing committee of REDMUGEN, the network for historians of women, gender, and sexuality in Mexico. I have served on the American Historical Association's Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession, and on the board of the American Historical Association's Committee on LGBTQ History, which has recently morphed into the LGBTQ+ History Association. For information, see: http://clgbthistory.org/
Academic Department Associate
Information Systems
Department Chair
- 241 Wing Technology Center
- pharied@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8103
Specialty areas:
Information Systems Project Management, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), Online Fantasy Sports, Live Streaming Acceptance & Motivation
Academic Department Associate
Institute for Professional Studies in Education
Department Chair
- 269 Morris Hall
- jarmstrong@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5087
Specialty areas:
Specializing in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education with a focus on integrating cosmopolitan and community literacies to foster critical consciousness.
Voting Member of the River Studies Center
International Business
Department Chair
- 3114 Wittich Hall
- ecrosby@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6754
Specialty areas:
Consumer behavior, consumer culture theory, consumer identity, transformative consumer research, consumer welfare, consumer vulnerability, consumer well-being, and qualitative research methods
Library
Department Chair
- L2 Murphy Library
- tholford@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8944
Specialty areas:
Education Liaison Librarian (Children's Literature, PK-12 Teacher Training & Information Literacy)
Serve as the primary liaison to the School of Education (SOE) and the main channel of communication between Murphy Library and PK–12 stakeholders. Provide leadership and oversight for the Alice Hagar Curriculum Center (AHCC), including its collections, space, educational services, and programming.
Management
Department Chair
- 2202 Wittich Hall
- anandialath@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6671
Specialty areas:
Strategic Management, International Business, Research Methods
Academic Department Associate
Marketing
Department Chair
- 3116 Wittich Hall
- kgraham2@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8097
Specialty areas:
Marketing Strategy, Integrated Marketing Communications, Digital Marketing
Program Director: Digital Marketing Graduate Certificate Program
Academic Department Associate
- 3101 Wittich Hall
- mosley@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8118
Mathematics & Statistics
Department Chair
- 222A Cartwright Center
- jkosiak@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8385
Specialty areas:
Mathematics Education
Associate Department Chair
- 223B Cartwright Center
- dbaumann@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6617
Specialty areas:
Statistics Education
Data Visualization
Statistical Genomics and Epigenomics
Statistical Computing
Data Science
Categorical Data Analysis
Multivariate Statistics
Academic Department Associate
- 223A Cartwright Center
- jahearn@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6603
Microbiology
Department Chair
- 404B Wimberly Hall
- pwilker@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8248
Specialty areas:
Immunology, influenza viruses
Academic Department Associate
- 405 Wimberly Hall
- shall@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6960
Military Science (ROTC)
Department Chair
Academic Department Associate
- 421 Wimberly Hall
- hdull@uwlax.edu
Music
Department Chair
- 234 Lowe Center For The Arts
- jborja@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8410
Specialty areas:
Flute, Music History
Academic Department Associate
- 234 Lowe Center For The Arts
- dbashaw@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8409
Philosophy
Department Chair
- Graff Main Hall
- stuttleross@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8427
Specialty areas:
Philosophy of Art, Philosophy and Film, Philosophy of Food, and Ethics
Academic Department Associate
- 4102 Centennial Hall
- cboldon@uwlax.edu
Physics
Department Chair
- 339L Wimberly Hall
- jdocktor@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8485
Specialty areas:
Physics Education
Academic Department Associate
- 339G Wimberly Hall
- kanderson@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8429
Political Science & Public Administration
Department Chair
- UW La Crosse
- avanliere@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6956
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
- 421 Wimberly Hall
- hdull@uwlax.edu
Psychology
Department Chair
- 341N Graff Main Hall
- aquartiroli@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6897
Specialty areas:
Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology & Counseling Psychology
- professional training, development, and practice in sport psychologists,
- self-care and wellbeing in sport psychologists and other professionals,
- cultural competence, humility, and safety in psychology practitioners,
- identity in psychology practitioners,
- performance psychology in esports,
- organizational culture and wellbeing in sport and health organizations.
Associate Department Chair
- 335B Graff Main Hall
- gdeason@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8442
Specialty areas:
Social Psychology (political psychology, gender)
Academic Department Associate
Public Health & Community Health Education
Department Chair
- 418N Wimberly Hall
- spember@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6788
Specialty areas:
Social & Structural Drivers of Health, Qualitative Research in Health, Child and Adolescent Health, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Academic Department Associate
Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Department Chair
- 4302 Centennial Hall
- tlilley@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8346
Specialty areas:
Poverty, Sex Work, Violence and Violence Prevention, Social movements, Sociological theory
Academic Department Associate
Recreation Management & Recreational Therapy
Department Chair
- Health Science Center
- lharmon@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8213
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
- Health Science Center
- jcraig@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8207
Sociology & Criminology
Department Chair
- 437D Wimberly Hall
- lkruse@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6767
Specialty areas:
Criminology and Criminal Justice: evidence-based practices, pre-trial, racial and socioeconomic inequities in the system, school resource officers, diversion programs, drug-treatment courts and substance use/mental health issues.
Surveillance: sex offender registry, pretrial/post-adjudication surveillance, social media and other means of personal surveillance
Methods: qualitative and quantitative methods, evaluation/applied research
Academic Department Associate
- 435B Wimberly Hall
- svonruden@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8457
Student Affairs Administration
Department Chair
- 345C Morris Hall
- belkins@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6489
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.
Academic Department Associate
- 345 Morris Hall
- stellier@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6869
Theatre & Dance
Department Chair
- 153 Lowe Center For The Arts
- lkincman@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6690
Specialty areas:
Stage Management, Arts Administration, Dramaturgy
Academic Department Associate
- 154 Lowe Center For The Arts
- kshulka@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6701
Grad programs
Total: 33
Applied Statistics
Program Director
- 259I Cartwright Center
- mbingham@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6682
Specialty areas:
Statistics for Directional Data; Statistics for Three-Dimensional Rotation Data
Athletic Training
Program Director
- 214 Mitchell Hall
- cgillette@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8196
Specialty areas:
Athletic Training, Cryotherapy
Biology
Program Director
- 235B Cartwright Center
- dschumann@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8242
Specialty areas:
Fisheries ecology and management, interactions among species, conservation biology, and movement ecology.
Contact me if you have any interest in undergraduate or graduate (MS) research in these fields!
Business Administration
Program Director
- L1 Wittich Hall
- tdale@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8095
Clinical Exercise Physiology
Program Director
- Mitchell Hall
- hhuang2@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Cardiovascular Diseases Prevention and Rehabilitation
Clinical Exercise Physiology
Cybersecurity
Program Director
- Lowe Center For The Arts
- jbutlermodaff@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6717
Specialty areas:
Organizational and Professional Communication
Program assistant
- 220 Morris Hall
- osantoyo-garcia@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6513
Data Science
Program Director
- 259E Cartwright Center
- jbaggett@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8393
Specialty areas:
deep and machine learning, computer vision for radiology, machine learning, optimization, inverse problems and uncertainty analysis for environmental computer models
Program assistant
- 220 Morris Hall
- osantoyo-garcia@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6513
Educational Leadership & Director of Instruction
Program Director
- 269 Morris Hall
- jarmstrong@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5087
Specialty areas:
Specializing in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education with a focus on integrating cosmopolitan and community literacies to foster critical consciousness.
Voting Member of the River Studies Center
Program assistant
Fundamentals of Geographic Information Science
Program Director
- 329 Cartwright Center
- cbelby@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8339
Specialty areas:
Geomorphology, River Systems, Water Resources, Environmental Contamination, Geospatial Field Mapping and GIS
Program assistant
- 327 Cartwright Center
- awillis-frels@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8333
Healthcare Administration
Program Director
- Mitchell Hall
- ewhitney@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6794
Program assistant
- 220 Morris Hall
- osantoyo-garcia@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6513
Information Technology Management
Program Director
- 241 Wing Technology Center
- pharied@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8103
Specialty areas:
Information Systems Project Management, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), Online Fantasy Sports, Live Streaming Acceptance & Motivation
Program assistant
- 220 Morris Hall
- osantoyo-garcia@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6513
Medical Dosimetry
Program Director
- Health Science Center
- nlenards@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5460
Specialty areas:
Medical Dosimetry, Radiation Oncology, Distance Learning, Educational Technology
Program assistant
- Health Science Center
- pamann@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6622
Microbiology
Program Director
- 406A Wimberly Hall
- pschweiger@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8254
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!
Nurse Anesthesia
Program Director
- 235B Cartwright Center
- dschumann@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8242
Specialty areas:
Fisheries ecology and management, interactions among species, conservation biology, and movement ecology.
Contact me if you have any interest in undergraduate or graduate (MS) research in these fields!
Nursing Home Administration
Program Director
- Mitchell Hall
- ewhitney@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6794
Program assistant
- 220 Morris Hall
- osantoyo-garcia@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6513
Occupational Therapy
Program Director
- Health Science Center
- lschaffer@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8462
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
Program assistant
- Health Science Center
- pamann@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6622
Physical Education Teaching
Program Director
- 133 Mitchell Hall
- jstarck@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6535
Specialty areas:
Physical Education Teaching Graduate Program Director
Adventure Education & Outdoor Pursuits Emphasis Director
Research Interests: assessment literacy, adventure education, social and emotional learning, and occupational socialization theory
Physical Therapy
Program Director
- Health Science Center
- pgrabowski@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6623
Specialty areas:
Motor behavior, Orthopedics
Program assistant
- Health Science Center
- pamann@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6622
Physician Assistant Studies
Program Director
- Health Science Center
- mlaufenberg@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8479
Specialty areas:
Physician Assistant
Program assistant
- Health Science Center
- pamann@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6622
Professional Teaching
Program Director
- 269 Morris Hall
- jarmstrong@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5087
Specialty areas:
Specializing in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education with a focus on integrating cosmopolitan and community literacies to foster critical consciousness.
Voting Member of the River Studies Center
Program assistant
Public Health Online
Program Director
- Mitchell Hall
- acedergren@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6790
Specialty areas:
Health Program Planning & Evaluation
Health Education Research Methods
Global Health
Program assistant
- 205F Morris Hall
- amiller-adamany@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6528
Reading Teacher & Reading Specialist
Program Director
- Morris Hall
- kedwards@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Reading Teacher, Reading Specialist, Reading Interventions, Elementary and Middle Level Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Professional Development
Program assistant
Recreation Management
Program Director
- Health Science Center
- kevans@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8210
Specialty areas:
Outdoor adventure recreation, women’s physically active leisure, non-profit leadership, youth development, and leisure education & student engagement
Recreation Management - Professional Development
Program Director
- Health Science Center
- kevans@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8210
Specialty areas:
Outdoor adventure recreation, women’s physically active leisure, non-profit leadership, youth development, and leisure education & student engagement
Program assistant
- 205F Morris Hall
- amiller-adamany@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6528
Recreational Therapy
Program Director
- Health Science Center
- kevans@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8210
Specialty areas:
Outdoor adventure recreation, women’s physically active leisure, non-profit leadership, youth development, and leisure education & student engagement
School Psychology
Program Director
- 040P Cartwright Center
- aloh@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8275
Specialty areas:
Program Director, McNair Scholars Program (2101 Centennial Hall)
Program Director, School Psychology Program (349A Graff Main Hall)
Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry: Physical & Biophysical Chemistry, NMR, Peptide and Protein structure (4034 Cowley Hall)
Program assistant
School Psychology Online
Program Director
- 335A Graff Main Hall
- jnewton@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6889
Specialty areas:
School Psychology; Assessment; Early Childhood Assessment and Intervention; Child & Adolescent Psychopathology
Program assistant
- 205F Morris Hall
- amiller-adamany@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6528
Software Engineering
Program Director
- 217 Wing Technology Center
- mzheng@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6808
Specialty areas:
Software Engineering
Special Education Teaching
Program Director
- 269 Morris Hall
- jarmstrong@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5087
Specialty areas:
Specializing in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education with a focus on integrating cosmopolitan and community literacies to foster critical consciousness.
Voting Member of the River Studies Center
Program assistant
Student Affairs Administration
Program Director
- 345 Morris Hall
- jvianden@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6870
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.
Program assistant
- 345 Morris Hall
- stellier@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6869
Student Affairs Administration & Leadership
Program Director
- 345F Morris Hall
- tsvoboda@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6759
Specialty areas:
intersections of gender, racial/ethnic, and social class identities; orientation, transition and retention programs; program assessment; budget management; supervision; social justice education
Program assistant
- 345 Morris Hall
- stellier@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6869
Student Affairs Administration: Higher Education Leadership
Program Director
- 345F Morris Hall
- tsvoboda@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6759
Specialty areas:
intersections of gender, racial/ethnic, and social class identities; orientation, transition and retention programs; program assessment; budget management; supervision; social justice education
Program assistant
- 345 Morris Hall
- stellier@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6869
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Program Director
- 269 Morris Hall
- jarmstrong@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5087
Specialty areas:
Specializing in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education with a focus on integrating cosmopolitan and community literacies to foster critical consciousness.
Voting Member of the River Studies Center