Meet the Teacher-Scholar Mentors

Center for Medical Education

Dr. Bartholomew (Bart) Pederson

Dr. Bartholomew (Bart) Pederson

Department: Center for Medical Education
Research Area: Glycogen metabolism in genetically modified mouse models.


College of Architecture and Planning

Dr. Sarah Angne Alfaro

Dr. Sarah Angne Alfaro

Department: Construction Management and Interior Design
Research Area: Local Community. Exploring human and environmental dimensions of wellbeing in built environments through design, sociology, and religious studies.

Dr. Sherif Attallah

Dr. Sherif Attallah

Department: Construction Management and Interior Design
Research Area: Solar Panel Projects - Net Metering - Utility Companies.

Dr. Kristin Barry

Dr. Kristin Barry

Department: Architecture
Research Area: Heritage Interpretation

Dr. Dorna Eshrati

Dr. Dorna Eshrati

Department: Landscape Architecture
Research Area: History and Theory of Built Environment, Urban Conservation, Inclusive Excellence, and the Built Environment, Design Pedagogy

Dr. Mohsen Goodarzi

Dr. Mohsen Goodarzi

Department: Construction Management and Interior Design
Research Area: Green building and community, Post Occupancy Evaluation, Energy efficiency

Walter Grondzik

Walter Grondzik

Department: Architecture
Research Area: Building performance--comfort, energy, green, sustainability, decarbonization

Ms. Ann Hildner

Ms. Ann Hildner

Department: Landscape Architecture
Research Area: Re-engagement with our wooded natural heritage.

Dr. Shireen Kanakri

Dr. Shireen Kanakri

Department: Construction Management and Interior Design
Research Area: Autism, behaviors and environmental factors

Dr. Juntae Jake Son

Dr. Juntae Jake Son

Department: Construction Management and Interior Design
Research Area: Biomimicry ideas to save building energy consumption


College of Communication, Information and Media

Dr. Robin Blom

Dr. Robin Blom

Department: School of Journalism and Strategic Communication
Research Area: Eyewitness misidentification and avoiding misinformation and wrongful convictions.

Dr. Sungwon Chung

Dr. Sungwon Chung

Department: School of Journalism and Strategic Communication
Research Area: Motivated cognitive and psychological processing of strategic communication messages (e.g., for advertising, public relations, computer-based learning, public health and environmental campaigns) in traditional and emerging media.

Dr. Katherine (Kathy) Denker

Dr. Katherine (Kathy) Denker

Department: Communication Studies
Research Area: College Students and Work-Life Balance issues

Dr. Edward (Ed) Lazaros

Dr. Edward (Ed) Lazaros

Department: Center for Communication and Information Sciences
Research Area: Career and Technical Education (CTE)

Dr. Michael Lee

Dr. Michael Lee

Department: Media
Research Area: Video game research, - Video game effect and E sports

Dr. Maria Williams-Hawkins

Dr. Maria Williams-Hawkins

Department: Media
Research Area: Media and telecommunication-based issues examining marginalized ethnic, gender and age groups' uses, challenges and portrayals.

Dr. YoungAh Lee

Dr. YoungAh Lee

Department: School of Journalism and Strategic Communication
Research Area: Testing psychophysiological and self-reported responses to emotional content and narrative strategies in ‘Child Hunger’ prosocial communication

Dr. Tong Li

Dr. Tong Li

Department: School of Journalism and Strategic Communication
Research Area: Teaching with Magic, Creativity, Learning Game/Simulation Design and Development


College of Fine Arts

Dr. Jessica Calderwood

Dr. Jessica Calderwood

Department: School of Art
Research Area: My research involves the creation of contemporary objects for exhibition in galleries and museums that utilize metalsmithing, enameling and community engagement.

Dr. Stephen Campbell

Dr. Stephen Campbell

Department: Music
Research Area: Unpublished Music

Mr. Brent Cole

Mr. Brent Cole

Department: School of Art
Research Area: Methods of navigation

Ms. Susan Koper

Ms. Susan Koper

Department: Theatre and Dance
Research Area: LPre-production research for the BSU dance concert Contemporary Collaborations with a focus on underrepresented female artists/figures in history.

Dr. Noelle Giuffrida

Dr. Noelle Giuffrida

Department: School of Art and David Owsley Museum of Art
Research Area: Arts of Asia

Dr. Sally Kang

Dr. Sally Kang

Department: School of Music
Research Area: Teacher Concerns, Teacher Development and Growth, Equity in Education, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Cultural Competence

Dr. Natalie Phillips

Dr. Natalie Phillips

Department: School of Art
Research Area:The art of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Dr. Andrew Crow

Dr. Andrew Crow

Department: Music
Research Area: I am exploring the ways that musicians, reporters, and other writers use terminology when describing music.

Dr. Andrew Waldron

Dr. Andrew Waldron

Department: Theatre and Dance
Research Area: LGBTQ+ Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Queer Representation and Pedagogy.

Dr. YoungKyoung Lee

Dr. YoungKyoung Lee

Department: School of Music
Research Area: New music/research, percussion works in the 21st century, percussion pedagoy

Dr. Rebekah Weaver

Dr. Rebekah Weaver

Department: Music Education
Research Area: I am looking at ways in which music educators teach percussion within a large ensemble setting (or otherwise). I am also interested in document analysis in qualitative research and the ways in which researchers use documents as artifacts.


College of Health

Dr. Tya Arthur

Dr. Tya Arthur

Department: Nutrition and Health Science
Research Area: Culturally sensitive health promotion and health care with the goal of preventing and reducing chronic disease among racial/ethnic minority and low-income communities.

Dr. Jamie Johnson

Dr. Jamie Johnson

Department: Sport Administration
Research Area: I focus on amateur sport, specifically research on interscholastic and intercollegiate sport.

Dr. Lynn Bielski

Dr. Lynn Bielski

Department: Speech Pathology and Audiology
Research Area: Auditory-visual communication, executive function/working memory, hearing across the life-span

Dr. Christina Jones

Dr. Christina Jones

Department: Nutrition and Health Science
Research Area: Nutrition and Health Education for under-served audiences, specifically those who rely on food pantries to meet their everyday food needs.

Dr. Lawrence Judge

Dr. Lawrence Judge

Department: Biology
Research Area: Athlete health, well-being, and performance

Dr. Jayanthi Kandiah

Dr. Jayanthi Kandiah

Department: Nutrition and Health Science
Research Area: Research focuses on various aspects of nutrition and health.

Dr. Bryant Keirns

Dr. Bryant Keirns

Department: Nutrition and Health Science
Research Area: Cardiovascular disease prevention and "real-world" nutrition

Dr. Jerome Kotecki

Dr. Jerome Kotecki

Department: Nutrition and Health Science
Research Area: Diet quality screening in the community and clinical settings

Dr. Natalie Keirns

Dr. Natalie Keirns

Department: Nutrition and Health Science
Research Area: Preventing chronic disease and promoting health for all by understanding relationships between physical health, healthy behaviors, and psychological and social factors.

Dr. Jean-Charles Lebeau

Dr. Jean-Charles Lebeau

Department: School of Kinesiology
Research Area: Effects of exercise on cognition, exercise motivation

Dr. Rudi Marciniak

Dr. Rudi Marciniak

Department: School of Kinesiology
Research Area: Dr. Marciniak's research seeks to inform training and recovery practices of firefighters through the utilization of cardiovascular and musculoskeletal performance measures.

Dr. Jean Marie Place

Dr. Jean Marie Place

Department: Nutrition and Health Science
Research Area: Maternal and Child Health, Substance Use Disorder

Dr. Shannon Powers

Dr. Shannon Powers

Department: School of Kinesiology
Research Area: Physical Fitness and Wellness

Dr. Jerry Reynolds

Dr. Jerry Reynolds

Department: Social Work
Research Area: Family dynamics in youth sports, mainly examining the programmatic dimensions and parent behaviors in youth sports.

Karrie Osborne

Karrie Osborne

Director of the School of Nursing and Assistant Professor of Nursing
HB 490

765-285-8718

Dr. Yihsin Tai

Dr. Yihsin Tai

Department: Speech Pathology & Audiology
Research Area: Pediatric tinnitus and hearing loss and their relation to noise exposure

Dr. Barry Wagner

Dr. Barry Wagner

Department: Speech Pathology & Audiology
Research Area: Augmentative and Alternative Communication Artificial Intelligence and Speech Pathology


College of Sciences and Humanities

Dr. Brittany Acquaviva

Dr. Brittany Acquaviva

Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Research Area: Victimization; Victimology; Sexual Violence; Intimate Partner Violence (DV)

Dr. Jay Bagga

Dr. Jay Bagga

Department: Computer Science
Research Area: Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Election Administration, Technology of Voting Systems

Dr. Ben Bascom

Dr. Ben Bascom

Department: English
Research Area: Masculinity and queerness in early and nineteenth-century American literature and culture

Dr. Douglas Bernstein

Dr. Douglas Bernstein

Department: Biology
Research Area: Micro and Molecular Biology

Dr. David Bwambok

Dr. David Bwambok

Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Applications of task-specific ionic liquids and development of paper-based microfluidic devices

Dr. Nicole Christofield

Dr. Nicole Christofield

Department: Chemistry
Research Area: First semester chemistry students can be nervous about identifying and handling lab equipment. I’m interested in developing learning activities to help these students better prepare for their lab experience.

Dr. Sara Collas

Dr. Sara Collas

Department: Sociology
Research Area: Lesbian studies, qualitative research methods, gender studies, LGBTQ community, feminist research

Dr. Jennifer Erickson

Dr. Jennifer Erickson

Department: Anthropology
Research Area: Urban anthropology, feminist anthropology, immigrants and refugees

Dr. Bryan Essien

Dr. Bryan Essien

Department: Biology
Research Area: Studying and mitigating the progression of Colitis in mouse models

Dr. Travis Faas

Dr. Travis Faas

Department: Computer Science
Research Area: Video game preservation and sustainable game development.

Dr. Molly Ferguson

Dr. Molly Ferguson

Department: English
Research Area: Contemporary Irish literature

Dr. Kathleen Foster

Dr. Kathleen Foster

Department: Biology
Research Area: Biomechanical and physiological mechanisms underlying animal locomotion, with the goal of understanding what processes govern the interaction between animals and their environment.

Dr. Jordan Froese

Dr. Jordan Froese

Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Engineering enzymes as green chemical catalysts. We apply the technologies of synthetic biology and directed evolution to make targeted changes to existing natural enzymes to develop catalysts with new or improved reactivity.

Dr. Mark Groover

Dr. Mark Groover

Department: Anthropology
Research Area: Historical archeology of the eastern US, Midwest and Southeast from 1700s to early 1900s.

Dr. Jackie Grutsch McKinney

Dr. Jackie Grutsch McKinney

Department: English, Immersive Learning & High Impact Practices
Research Area: Qualitative research on teaching and learning in higher education

Dr. Bangshuai Han

Dr. Bangshuai Han

Department: Environment, Geology and Natural Resources
Research Area: Hydrology, water resources, natural resources, water quality, geography, GIS, climate change

Dr. Sean Hildebrand

Dr. Sean Hildebrand

Department: Political Science
Research Area: Research on emergency management and homeland security policy implementation in the United States.

Dr. Thomas Holtgraves

Dr. Thomas Holtgraves

Department: Psychological Science
Research Area: My research investigates some of the social, cognitive, and neural processes involved in (mis)communication in digital contexts.

Dr. Jonathan Intravia

Dr. Jonathan Intravia

Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Research Area: The effects of media consumption on attitudes related to crime and justice; Criminological theories; Substance use.

Dr. Courtney Jarrett

Dr. Courtney Jarrett

Department: Disability Services/Women's & Gender Studies
Research Area: 1) All things related to student disability accommodations in higher education, but specifcally transitioning from high school to college; 2) The intersections of feminism and disability; 3) Feminism/WGS in the real world or what do you do with a WGS degree after graduation? 4) Feminism & women's history in Muncie & at BSU

Dr. Emil Khisamutdinov

Dr. Emil Khisamutdinov

Department: Chemistry
Research Area: My research is broadly focused on BioNanotechnology, which involves design, assembly, synthesis, and application nanometer scale Nucleic Acid-based (made of DNA, RNA, or both) materials.

Dr. Mary Konkle

Dr. Mary Konkle

Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Structure and function of the protein mitoNEET, a protein implicated in type-2 diabetes, Parkinson's, and breast cancer.

Dr. Indigo Koslicki

Dr. Indigo Koslicki

Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Research Area: Police/community interactions, police militarization, and police accountability technology like body-worn cameras

Mr. Dave Largent

Mr. Dave Largent

Department: Computer Science
Research Area: Computer science education: exploring ways to create learning environments that permit learners to reach (and perhaps exceed) their potential.

Dr. Katie Lawson

Dr. Katie Lawson

Department: Psychological Science
Research Area: Interconnections between work, family, and gender across the life span

Dr. Ava Li

Dr. Ava Li

Department: GEOM
Research Area: Remote sensing, GIS, data analytics, statistical modeling, programming, enviromental science

Dr. Zhihai Li

Dr. Zhihai Li

Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Synthesis of semiconductor materials and their applications in energy conversion (photovoltaic or solar cells) and environmental remediation, as well as electrochemical scanning probe microscopy studies of surface, molecules, and materials.

Ms. Lauren Mathieu-Frasier

Ms. Lauren Mathieu-Frasier

Department: Psychological Sciences
Research Area: Scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education

Dr. Kazumi Matsumoto

Dr. Kazumi Matsumoto

Department: Modern Languages and Classics
Research Area: Kanji recognition, teaching language, culture and perspectives, Japanese linguistics, developing speaking fluency, and translation

Dr. John McCreary

Dr. John McCreary

Department: Psychological Science
Research Area: Empathy, Reading, Gender, Educational Equity, neurosciences

Dr. Tom McConnell

Dr. Tom McConnell

Department: Biology
Research Area: Science Education

Dr. John McKillip

Dr. John McKillip

Department: Biology
Research Area: Antibiotic discovery from dairy farm-associated bacteria.

Dr. Ronald Morris

Dr. Ronald Morris

Department: History
Research Area: Indiana Artist biographies, Pioneer iron industry, Pioneer taverns, and Indiana pioneers

Dr. Cailín Murray

Dr. Cailín Murray

Department: Anthropology
Research Area: Cultural Anthropology and Ethnohistory, Native American and Settler ethnohistory, environmental ethnohistory, Food ethnohistory
BB 317

765-285-3568

Dr. Daniele (Dan) Nardi

Dr. Daniele (Dan) Nardi

Department: Psychological Science
Research Area: Human perception, memory, and behavior in spatial tasks

Dr. Suman Neupane

Dr. Suman Neupane

Department: Biology
Research Area: Plant Systematics, Modelling trait evolution, Phylogeny, Bioinformatics

Dr. Robert Phillips

Dr. Robert Phillips

Department: Anthropology
Research Area: Investigating Relationships between marginalized communities and the ways in which they use entheogenic plants and fungi in the healing of trauma

Dr. Caitlyn Placek

Dr. Caitlyn Placek

Department: Anthropology
Research Area: Medical anthropology and women's health

Dr. Mark Pyron

Dr. Mark Pyron

Department: Biology
Research Area: Fish collections in the field, and macroinvertebrate collection and identification.

Dr. Sundeep Rayat

Dr. Sundeep Rayat

Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Organic Chemistry/Physical organic chemistry/Bioorganic Chemistry

Dr. Jason Ribblett

Dr. Jason Ribblett

Department: Chemistry
Research Area: First semester chemistry students can lack experience with laboratory techniques and proper use of equipment. I am interested in developing videos to help these students better prepare for their lab experience.

Dr. Rona Robinson-Hill

Dr. Rona Robinson-Hill

Department: Biology
Research Area: Science Education

Dr. Greg Rocheleau

Dr. Greg Rocheleau

Department: Criminal Justice & Criminology
Research Area: Criminological theory; juvenile delinquency; bullying.

Dr. Douglas Roossien

Dr. Douglas Roossien

Department: Biology
Research Area: Our lab studies the cellular mechanisms underlying the development of neurons in the brain. We use the powerful genetic tools available in the fruit fly model organism to manipulate the serotonin system and ask how that changes intracellular processes, anatomical structures, and behavioral outcomes in the animal.

Dr. Sergiy Rosokha

Dr. Sergiy Rosokha

Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Intermolecular Interactions

Dr. Eric Rubenstein

Dr. Eric Rubenstein

Department: Biology
Research Area: Our research lab studies how cells recognize and destroy dysfunctional protein molecules before these proteins cause harm.

Ms. Hannah Ryker

Ms. Hannah Ryker

Department: Applied Anthropology Laboratories
Research Area: Archaeology, Collections Management, Artifacts

Dr. Robert Sammelson

Dr. Robert Sammelson

Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Organic Chemistry for reaction methods development (organic synthesis) and molecules with potential biological activity (medicinal chemistry).  Specific projects have focused on the formation of carbon-carbon bonds and the synthesis of heterocycles.

Dr. Jorn Seemann

Dr. Jorn Seemann

Department: Geography
Research Area: Relations between history and geography of Peace Corps volunteers in Latin America

Dr. Bikram Sharma

Dr. Bikram Sharma

Department: Biology
Research Area: Understanding the cellular and molecular underpinnings of cardiovascular development and regeneration.

Dr. Wei Shi

Dr. Wei Shi

Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Utilize medicinal and organic chemistry to understand biological systems

Dr. Philip Smaldino

Dr. Philip Smaldino

Department: Biology
Research Area: G-quadruplex nucleic acid structures and the cellular enzymes that unwind them with relevance to ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), dementia, and cancer.

Dr. Faezeh Soleimani

Dr. Faezeh Soleimani

Department: Mathematical Sciences
Research Area: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Statistics

Dr. Wendy Soltz

Dr. Wendy Soltz

Department: History
Research Area: The Indiana Synagogue Mapping Project (ISMP) is a survey of all the built-to-be synagogues across the State of Indiana. Archival documents need to be found to supplement the survey data

Dr. Mahamud Subir

Dr. Mahamud Subir

Department: Chemistry
Research Area: Environmental Physical Chemistry and Surface Science

Dr. Fu-Shing Sun

Dr. Fu-Shing Sun

Department: Computer Science
Research Area: Data Analytics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning

Dr. Xin Sun

Dr. Xin Sun

Department: Computer Science
Research Area: Internet security & privacy issues, networked applications, and emerging technologies

Dr. Michael Tagler

Dr. Michael Tagler

Department: Psychological Science
Research Area: Understanding and predicting sleep habits using methods from Health Psychology and Applied Social Psychology. Recent work has focused on how attitudes, social pressure, and control beliefs predict college student sleep habits (e.g., Tagler, Stanko, & Forbey, 2017, available upon request).

Mr. Vinayak Tanksale

Mr. Vinayak Tanksale

Department: Computer Science
Research Area: Cybersecurity

Dr. Rodney Taylor

Dr. Rodney Taylor

Department: English
Research Area: African American Literature, African American Studies, Archival Research, Periodical Studies

Dr. Todd Vaccaro

Dr. Todd Vaccaro

Department: Physics and Astronomy
Research Area: Light variability of eclipsing binary stars.

Dr. Mary Lou Vercellotti

Dr. Mary Lou Vercellotti

Department: English
Research Area: Language learning, Coding data, Linguistics

Dr. Anthony Vito

Dr. Anthony Vito

Department: Criminal Justice & Criminology
Research Area: Policing, Death Penalty, Drug Use, and Criminological Theory

Dr. Xinting Wang

Dr. Xinting Wang

Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
Research Area: Policing, police training, police-citizen relations, public attitudes toward the police, crime prevention, correctional rehabilitation of juvenile offenders, and comparative studies.

Dr. Jess Ward

Dr. Jess Ward

Department: Biology
Research Area: Animal behavior, embryonic learning, social communication, and effects of anthropogenic environmental change on behavior

Dr. Kevin Wyatt

Dr. Kevin Wyatt

Department: Biology
Research Area: Microbial Ecology

Dr. Bowen Zhang

Dr. Bowen Zhang

Department: Environment, Geology, and Natural Resources
Research Area: Understanding of the biogeochemical and hydrological cycle with in the terrestrial ecosystem, and the exchange of greenhouse gases across the land-atmosphere interface and riverine fluxes across land-ocean interface

Dr. Tykhon Zubkov

Dr. Tykhon Zubkov

Department: Chemistry
Research Area: How metal and semiconductor nanomaterials can be prepared, how they interact with various molecules, and how they initiate chemical reactions when irradiated with light.


Governmental Relations


Miller College of Business

Dr. Ben Angelo

Dr. Ben Angelo

Department: Accounting
Research Area: Qualitative Disclosures, Textual Analysis, Informational Efficiency

Dr. Jihyun Kang

Dr. Jihyun Kang

Department: Department of Information Systems and Operations Management
Research Area: Dr. Kang's research explores the impact of communication on the success of new ventures, focusing on entrepreneurship and startups.

Dr. Kwang-Ho Lee

Dr. Kwang-Ho Lee

Department: Applied Business Studies
Research Area: 1) Marketing and consumer behaviors in the realms of hospitality and tourism and (2) applications of psychological measurement techniques in business areas.

Dr. Diana Saiki

Dr. Diana Saiki

Department: Applied Business Studies
Research Area: Social and historical aspects of dress and appearance.
Areas of interest: fashion theory, fashion history, and appearance management.

Dr. Craig Webster

Dr. Craig Webster

Department: Applied Business Studies
Research Area: Robots and AI in service industries and the policies for the regulation of robots/AI in industry.

Dr. Emily Wornell

Dr. Emily Wornell

Department: Center for Local and State Policy
Research Area: My research examines how low-income households make ends meet (livelihood strategies), and the impact of community-level attributes to facilitate or inhibit those strategies.

Dr. Alan Yen

Dr. Alan Yen

Department: Applied Business Studies
Research Area: Human resource management issues in the hospitality industry


Teachers College

Dr. Ligia Gomez Franco

Dr. Ligia Gomez Franco

Department: Educational Psychology
Research Area: Vocabulary learning, Reading comprehension, Spanish-speaking children and parents, Monolingual and Bilingual environments.

Dr. Jerrell Cassady

Dr. Jerrell Cassady

Department: Educational Psychology
Research Area: Promoting learning outcomes through the application of psychological principles in traditional and non-traditional learning contexts

Dr. Penny Craig

Dr. Penny Craig

Department: Special Education
Research Area: Updated resources, new technologies, documenting lived, personal experiences of those with disabilities

Dr. Kathryn Fletcher

Dr. Kathryn Fletcher

Department: Educational Psychology
Research Area: How do parents help children navigate challenging online learning tasks?

Rachel Geesa

Rachel Geesa

Department: Educational Leadership
Research Area: Exploring academic, professional, and personal development and support systems for educational leaders in national and international settings.

Dr. Ophelie Desmet

Dr. Ophelie Desmet

Department: Educational Psychology
Research Area: Interventions for academic underachievement; social-emotional aspects of talent development; gifted education

Dr. Seongmi Lim

Dr. Seongmi Lim

Department: Early Childhood, Youth, and Family Studies
Research Area: Early childhood teacher professional development, documentation, Reggio Emilia approach, technology integration, play

Dr. Scott Dueker

Dr. Scott Dueker

Department: Special Education
Research Area: Early numeracy mathematics acquisition, culturally relevant content, virtual manipulatives usage

Dr. Andrew (Andy) Markelz

Dr. Andrew (Andy) Markelz

Department: Special Education
Research Area: Expediting the novice-to-expert teaching curve in proactive classroom management strategies and issues related to special education law.

Dr. Gerardo Ramirez

Dr. Gerardo Ramirez

Department: Teachers College
Research Area: Socio-emotional interventions for helping students to deal with anxiety, failure and enhance academic achievement.

Dr. Serena Salloum

Dr. Serena Salloum

Department: Educational Leadership
Research Area: Studying restorative practices in school settings

Dr. Cathy Siebert

Dr. Cathy Siebert

Department: Educational Studies
Research Area: To identify better ways to support preservice teacher development

Dr. Evette Simmons-Reed

Dr. Evette Simmons-Reed

Department: Special Education
Research Area: Developing flexible programming supports that higher education institutions can implement to improve access, participation, and graduation of autistic college students

Dr. Scott Hall

Dr. Scott Hall

Department: Early Childhood, Youth, and Family Studies
Research Area: Dating, mate selection, courtship, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, parenting adult children, family stress (and about anything else having to do with relationships and family).

Janet Jenkins

Janet Jenkins

Department: Elementary Education
Research Area: Reading Comprehension in digital versus paper platforms, including motivation.

Dr. Matthew Stuve

Dr. Matthew Stuve

Department: Educational Psychology; Research Design Studio (RDS)
Research Area: Classroom Assessment; Instructional Design; Learning Technologies; Design Thinking; Teacher Development; UX/UI/QA

Dr. Shu Su

Dr. Shu Su

Department: Early Childhood, Youth, and Family Studies
Research Area: Parenting, Cross-Culture Perspective, Social development, Children, Adolescents

Dr. Jackie Sydnor

Dr. Jackie Sydnor

Department: Elementary Education
Research Area: Novice teacher induction and mentoring

Dr. Susan Wilczynski

Dr. Susan Wilczynski

Department: Special Education
Research Area: My research focuses on how practitioners can be culturally responsive when providing services to their Autistic clients.

Dr. Henry Yu

Dr. Henry Yu

Department: Elementary Education
Research Area: Technology use in elementary ducation

Dr. Sehyun Yun

Dr. Sehyun Yun

Department: Elementary Education
Research Area: Bilingual and biliteracy development of children, Elementary teacher professional development, culturally responsive pedagogy


Honors College

Dr. Obed Frausto Gatica

Dr. Obed Frausto Gatica

Department: Honors College
Research Area: Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Neoliberalism, and Decoloniality