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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

College

Departments

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
  • Gentzler, Yvonne, associate professor
    Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
  • 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
  • Jacobson, Mary, lecturer
    Ed.D., Hamline University
    Literacy, reading teacher preparation, the practicum experience
  • 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

  • King, Kendall, associate professor
    Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
    Second language learning and bilingualism, transmigratory experiences of children and immigrant education, language ideology and language policy

  • 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., assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Learning technologies, effects of emotional design on the learner experience
  • Mogush, Patsy, lecturer
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Hhow young children understand what they read
  • 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
  • Scharber, Cassie, teaching specialist
    Ph.D. candidate, University of Minnesota
  • 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
  • Vavrus, Frances, assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Gender and international development, education and population change, international education and development policy, secondary/youth and teacher education in Sub-Saharan Africa, comparative and international development education theory
  • Wahlstrom, Kyla, research associate
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    Organizational leadership and communication, educational politics, graduation standards and performance assessment
  • Weerts, David, assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Higher education policy, finance, institutional advancement, community engagement, organizational theory
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jitendra, Asha, Rodney Wallace Professor for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
    Ph.D., University of Oregon
  • 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, assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
    Psychological foundations: learning and cognition
  • 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
  • Varma, Keisha, assistant professor
    Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
    Learning and cognition

    Varma, Sashank, assistant professor
    Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
    Learning and cognition

  • 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
  • Barr-Anderson, Daheia, assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Maryland
    Childhood and adolescent obesity, physical activity epidemiology
  • 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
  • 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., associate 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
  • 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
  • Collette, Lawrence, teaching specialist
    M.B.A., Metropolitan State University
    business
  • Collins, Molly, senior teaching specialist
    M.A., University of Minnesota
    Commanding English
  • Cory, Kristin, senior teaching specialist
    M.F.A., Columbia University
    Literature, narrative, writing process, individual identity and development

  • 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
  • Ghere, David L., associate professor
    Ph.D.., University of Maine
    American Indians during the colonial period
  • 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
  • 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
  • Stebleton, Michael J., assistant professor
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    College student development, career development, student retention and persistence, & student mental health issues

  • 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

August 2008

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