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Department/program directory

A page within Academic Affairs

Departments

Total: 36

Department Chair

Muruvvet Mehtap Aldogan Eklund  Muruvvet Mehtap Aldogan Eklund saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Accounting, Auditing, Corporate Governance, CEO Compensation, and Entrepreneurship

Academic Department Associate

Archaeology & Anthropology

Department Chair

David Anderson  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Egyptian archaeology, Late Prehistoric period Native America, origins of complex society, technology in archaeology, 3D documentation of archaeological remains.

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Terry Lilley  Office hours

Specialty areas:

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

Academic Department Associate

Katie Olan

Department Chair

Anton Sanderfoot  Office hours

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

Bradley Seebach  Office hours

Specialty areas:

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

Academic Department Associate

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Department Chair

Todd Weaver  Todd Weaver saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Biochemistry

Molecular Biology

Structural Biology

Enzymology

 

Associate Department Chair

Aric Opdahl

Specialty areas:

Surface and Analytical Chemistry

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Kate Lavelle  Office hours

Associate Department Chair

Ashley Edwards  Office hours

Academic Department Associate

Computer Science & Computer Engineering

Department Chair

Academic Department Associate

Sallie Coron  Office hours

Department Chair

Sheida Babakhani Teimouri  Sheida Babakhani Teimouri saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

International Macroeconomics and Finance, Applied Econometrics, International Labor. 

Academic Department Associate

Educational Studies

Department Chair

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  Office hours

Department Chair

Darci Thoune  Darci Thoune saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Writing Program Administration, First-Year Writing, Composition Pedagogy, Feedback, Assessment, and Fat Studies.

Associate Department Chair

Bryan Kopp  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Rhetoric & writing studies; professional & technical communication/writing; writing pedagogy; science of learning; teaching & learning with artificial intelligence (AI)

Academic Department Associate

Exercise & Sport Science

Department Chair

Naoko Giblin  Naoko Giblin saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

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

Associate Department Chair

Eileen Narcotta-Welp  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Cultural Study of Sport

Media Representation

United States Women's National Soccer Team

Sport Administration

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Adam Stivers  Adam Stivers saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

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

Academic Department Associate

Andrew Sherman  Office hours

Geography & Environmental Science

Department Chair

Colin Belby  Office hours

Specialty areas:

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

Academic Department Associate

Global Cultures & Languages

Department Chair

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

Specialty areas:

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

 

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Víctor Macías-González  Office hours

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

Tammy Klein  Office hours

Information Systems

Department Chair

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  Office hours

Institute for Professional Studies in Education

Department Chair

Jeannette Armstrong  Jeannette Armstrong saysMeet with me  Office hours

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

Beth Crosby  Beth 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

Theresa Holford  Office hours

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.  

 

 

 

 

Department Chair

Anup Menon Nandialath  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Strategic Management, International Business, Research Methods

Academic Department Associate

Karen Brandt  Office hours

Department Chair

Ken Graham  Ken Graham saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Marketing Strategy, Integrated Marketing Communications, Digital Marketing

Program Director: Digital Marketing Graduate Certificate Program

Academic Department Associate

Mathematics & Statistics

Department Chair

Jennifer Kosiak

Specialty areas:

Mathematics Education

Associate Department Chair

Douglas Baumann  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Statistics Education

Data Visualization

Statistical Genomics and Epigenomics

Statistical Computing

Data Science

Categorical Data Analysis

Multivariate Statistics

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Peter Wilker

Specialty areas:

Immunology, influenza viruses

Academic Department Associate

Military Science (ROTC)

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Jonathan Borja  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Flute, Music History 

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Sheryl Ross

Specialty areas:

Philosophy of Art, Philosophy and Film, Philosophy of Food, and Ethics

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Academic Department Associate

Political Science & Public Administration

Department Chair

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

Ale Quartiroli  Ale Quartiroli saysMeet with me  Office hours

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

Grace Deason

Specialty areas:

Social Psychology (political psychology, gender)

Academic Department Associate

Jane Fredrick  Office hours

Public Health & Community Health Education

Department Chair

Sarah Pember  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Social & Structural Drivers of Health, Qualitative Research in Health, Child and Adolescent Health, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Academic Department Associate

Midge Rigsby  Office hours

Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Department Chair

Terry Lilley  Office hours

Specialty areas:

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

Academic Department Associate

Alec Lass  Office hours

Recreation Management & Recreational Therapy

Department Chair

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 & Criminology

Department Chair

Lisa Kruse

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

Student Affairs Administration

Department Chair

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.

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Laurie Kincman  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Stage Management, Arts Administration, Dramaturgy

Academic Department Associate

Grad programs

Total: 33

Applied Statistics

Program Director

Melissa Bingham  Office hours

Specialty areas:

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

Athletic Training

Program Director

Cordial Gillette  Cordial Gillette saysMeet with me

Specialty areas:

Athletic Training, Cryotherapy

Biology

Program Director

David Schumann  Office hours

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

Clinical Exercise Physiology

Program Director

Hsu-Hang Huang

Specialty areas:

Cardiovascular Diseases Prevention and Rehabilitation

Clinical Exercise Physiology

 

Cybersecurity

Program Director

Jennifer Butler Modaff  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Organizational and Professional Communication

Data Science

Program Director

Jeff Baggett

Specialty areas:

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

Educational Leadership & Director of Instruction

Program Director

Jeannette Armstrong  Jeannette Armstrong saysMeet with me  Office hours

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

Fundamentals of Geographic Information Science

Program Director

Colin Belby  Office hours

Specialty areas:

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

Program assistant

Healthcare Administration

Information Technology Management

Program Director

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  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Medical Dosimetry, Radiation Oncology, Distance Learning, Educational Technology

Program assistant

Microbiology

Program Director

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!

Nurse Anesthesia

Program Director

David Schumann  Office hours

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

Occupational Therapy

Program Director

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

Program assistant

Physical Education Teaching

Program Director

Jenna Starck

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

Patrick Grabowski

Specialty areas:

Motor behavior, Orthopedics

Program assistant

Physician Assistant Studies

Program Director

Maggie Laufenberg  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Physician Assistant 

Program assistant

Professional Teaching

Program Director

Jeannette Armstrong  Jeannette Armstrong saysMeet with me  Office hours

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

Public Health Online

Program Director

Anders Cedergren

Specialty areas:

Health Program Planning & Evaluation

Health Education Research Methods 

Global Health 

Reading Teacher & Reading Specialist

Program Director

Kimberly Edwards

Specialty areas:

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

Recreation Management

Program Director

Kate Evans  Office hours

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

Kate Evans  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Outdoor adventure recreation, women’s physically active leisure, non-profit leadership, youth development, and leisure education & student engagement

Recreational Therapy

Program Director

Kate Evans  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Outdoor adventure recreation, women’s physically active leisure, non-profit leadership, youth development, and leisure education & student engagement

School Psychology

Program Director

Adrienne Loh

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

Taylor Wirkus  Office hours

School Psychology Online

Program Director

Jocelyn Newton  Jocelyn Newton saysMeet with me

Specialty areas:

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

Software Engineering

Program Director

Mao Zheng

Specialty areas:

Software Engineering

Special Education Teaching

Program Director

Jeannette Armstrong  Jeannette Armstrong saysMeet with me  Office hours

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

Student Affairs Administration

Program Director

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. 

Program assistant

Student Affairs Administration & Leadership

Program Director

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

Program assistant

Student Affairs Administration: Higher Education Leadership

Program Director

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

Program assistant

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Program Director

Jeannette Armstrong  Jeannette Armstrong saysMeet with me  Office hours

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