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STEP Program Director

Matthew Chedister  Profile of Matthew Chedister

Associate Professor
1003 Cowley Hall
mchedister@uwlax.edu
608.785.6609

Specialty areas:

Mathematics Education and Geometry

English Education

Merideth Garcia  Profile of Merideth Garcia

Associate Professor
425K Wimberly Hall
mgarcia@uwlax.edu
608.785.6927

Specialty areas:

Digital Literacies, Fan Studies, English Teaching Methods, Young Adult Literature, Qualitative Research, Rhetoric & Composition

Thomas Jesse  Profile of Thomas Jesse

Associate Professor
425M Wimberly Hall
tjesse@uwlax.edu
608.785.6934

Specialty areas:

20 & 21c American Literature, Secondary English Education, Poetry and Poetics, Rhetorical Approaches to Literature

History Education

Kenneth Shonk  Profile of Kenneth Shonk

Professor
401A Wimberly Hall
kshonk@uwlax.edu
608.785.6560

Specialty areas:

Modern Ireland, Modern Europe, Fascism, History of Rock 'n' Roll, Social Studies Education, World History

Mathematics

Matthew Chedister  Profile of Matthew Chedister

Associate Professor
1003 Cowley Hall
mchedister@uwlax.edu
608.785.6609

Specialty areas:

Mathematics Education and Geometry

Joshua Hertel  Profile of Joshua Hertel

Professor
1001 Cowley Hall
jhertel@uwlax.edu
608.785.8668

Specialty areas:

Teaching mathematics with technology, alternative forms of assessment in mathematics, mathematics education history, teaching and learning of trigonometry, and the development of probabilistic reasoning.

Jennifer Kosiak  Profile of Jennifer Kosiak

Professor
1015 Cowley Hall
jkosiak@uwlax.edu
608.785.8385

Specialty areas:

Mathematics Education

Jenni McCool  Profile of Jenni McCool

Professor
1005 Cowley Hall
jmccool@uwlax.edu
608.785.8667

Specialty areas:

Mathematics Education

Science Education

Megan Litster  Profile of Megan Litster

Associate Professor
4060 Health Science Center
mlitster@uwlax.edu
608.785.8476

Specialty areas:

Anatomy Education