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The online directory contains contact information for members of the campus community who can share insight for news articles, features and guest-speaking opportunities on a wide range of topics related to areas of their expertise. The list is maintained and updated regularly by the News and Public Relations team.
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Name | Area of Expertise |
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Rick AdamsProfessor |
Ecology and evolution of bats |
Steve AndersonProfessor |
Volcanoes, geology, planets |
Michelle AthanasiouProfessor |
Behavior management, early childhood intervention, psychology |
Megan Babkes StellinoProfessor |
Youth sport experiences, physical activity, childhood obesity, motivation in sport, exercise |
Graham BairdProfessor |
Geology, mountain building, mineral resources, Precambrian Colorado geology |
Achilles BardosProfessor |
Comprehensive psychoeducational evaluations, intelligence and achievement assessment, behavior assessment, RTL programming, schools |
Lauryn BenedictProfessor, Associate Director |
Birds, animal behavior, animal communication |
Sandy BowenProfessor |
Deaf education, multicultural deaf education, intervention, literacy |
Mary Kathryn BrewerAssistant Professor |
Voice, singing, diction, vocal pedagogy, Giuseppe Verdi |
Robin BrewerProfessor Emerita |
Autism/Asperger syndrome, special education, flipped learning, students with severe/profound disabilities |
Hal BrownDirector |
Food, catering, residential dining/food services |
Robert BrunswigProfessor Emeritus and Research Fellow |
Anthropology, prehistoric archaeology, ancient environments and climate, prehistoric economics and religion |
David CaldwellProfessor |
German, Germany, Berlin, film, foreign language pedagogy |
Michael CohenAssistant Professor |
Education reform, educator professionalism |
Laura ConnollyProfessor Emerita and Dean |
Economics of nonprofit organizations, social policy |
Paula ConroyProfessor |
Blind and visually impaired children |
Shannon CourtneySenior Lecturer |
Sport medicine, rehabilitation of injuries |
Cris de la TorreProfessor |
Personal injury damages, wrongful termination damages, wrongful death damages |
James DoernerProfessor and Chair |
Climate change, paleoenvironmental reconstructions, dendrochronology |
Elizabeth DomangueAssistant Professor |
School leadership, motivation theories, critical theory, self-determination theory |
Aichun DongProfessor |
Infrared protein structural analysis, protein drug stability/formulation evaluation, DNA condensation/formulation evaluation |
Scott DouglasAssociate Professor |
Adapted/parasport, Paralympic games, sport coaching, development, disability |
Thom DunnProfessor |
Orthorexia nervosa, malingering, emergency medical services |
Thomas EndresProfessor |
Communication, spirituality, popular culture |
Matt FarberAssistant Professor |
Game-based learning, gamification, educational technology |
Abbie FerrisAssistant Professor |
Biomechanics, gait, prosthetics, amputees |
Fritz FischerProfessor, Chair and Director of Teacher Education |
Peace Corps, international relations, history education, World War I and World War II, modern history |
Ginger FisherAssociate Professor |
Course-based undergrad research experience (CUREs), pre-health advising, physiological ecology |
Colleen FitzpatrickProfessor |
Applied justice research and stats, problem-oriented policing, ethics and victim studies |
Joseph FrenchProfessor |
International finance, general finance, statistics, econometrics, developmental economics |
Shelly GazaInterim School Director, School of Theatre Arts and Dance; Interim Producing Artistic Director, Little Theatre of the Rockies |
Theatre careers, dialects for stage, women in theatre, gender parity, pay equity in theatre, performing Shakespeare |
David GreeneAssociate Professor |
Diabetes, emotional adjustment to diabetes, humor, psychology of diabetes |
Rose GroseAssociate Professor |
Sexual health, violence against women, LGBTQ health, public health, sexual health education |
Russell GuyverProfessor of String Music, Director of Orchestras |
Orchestral music, string instruments, musical composition, conducting |
Yuyan HanAssistant Professor |
Liver physiology, circadian rhythm, epigenetic regulation |
Julie HanksProfessor and Department Chair |
Speech production of children who are deaf/hard, speech pathology |
Abe HarrafProfessor |
Organizational agility, complacency and design, international business and management, higher education administration |
Reid HaywardProfessor |
Cancer research and treatment, effects of exercise on ischemia-reperfusion injury |
Gary HeiseProfessor and Director of School |
Biomechanics, bioengineering |
Angie HendersonProfessor |
Women in management, perceptions of athletes, modern motherhood, intensive parenting |
Wendy HighbyProfessor and Librarian |
Copyright |
Mary HoustonAssistant Professor |
Theater design, props for theatre, film and T.V., entertainment production |
Charles IngoldProfessor Emeritus |
Audience research, mass media |
Lewis JacksonProfessor Emeritus |
Behavior problems in schools, disabilities, teaching children, special-needs children |
Molly JamesonAssociate Professor |
Math anxiety, confidence and learning, improving student learning, teacher training |
Brian JohnsonProfessor |
Child/adolescent psychology, parent training, health psychology, psychological assessment |
George JunneProfessor |
African American history and culture, Blacks in American West, film, Civil War, World War I, Muslim-African slaves, imperial Black eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire |
Nancy KarlinProfessor |
Cross-national aging, caregiving, Alzheimer's Disease, aging, rural aging, resiliency and recovery after natural disaster |
James KeatenProfessor and Department Chair |
Communication reticence, intercultural communication, organizational communication, leadership |
Susan KeenanProfessor |
Drug design, West Nile virus, malaria and fevers |
Michael KimballProfessor |
Anthropology, archaeology, heritage place building research |
Phil KleinProfessor |
Geography education |
Eli KlydeProfessor |
Women and the media, sports, journalism and diversity, sports journalism, women in sports |
Keiko KrahnkeProfessor |
Ethics, workplace communication, organizational development, leadership, empathy, mindfulness |
Charles KuehnAssociate Professor |
Astronomy |
Britney KyleAssociate Professor |
Bioarchaeology, paleopathology, forensic anthropology, biological anthropology, culture contact |
Dana LandryProfessor and Director of Jazz Studies |
Jazz |
Steven LethProfessor Emeritus |
Mathematics education, logic |
Oscar LevinAssociate Professor |
Mathematical logic, discrete mathematics, open educational resources |
Jay LightfootProfessor |
Database design, computer programming |
Marie LivingstonProfessor Emerita |
Water resource economics, international economics |
Michelle LowAssistant Professor |
Chinese, medieval Chinese literature, study abroad in China |
John LucknerProfessor |
Deaf education, experiential education |
Brian LuedloffProfessor and Director of Opera Theatre |
Opera, Bel Canto Opera, Donizetti, singing actor, auditions for actors and singers |
Robert LynchAdjunct Faculty |
Statistics, risk management |
Steve MackessyProfessor |
Snake venom, drug discovery, herpetology, histology and ultrastructure of glands, snakes |
Christine MarstonAssociate Dean |
Labor economics, immigration |
Nancy MatchettInterim Associate Provost of Undergraduate Studies |
Philosophy, philosophical counseling, professional ethics |
Steve MazuranaProfessor Emeritus |
Colorado politics and government, Russian/Eastern European politics, Western European politics |
Lyda Fontes McCartinInterim Director |
Information literacy, academic libraries, student-learning assessment |
Denny McCorkleDepartment Chair and Professor |
eMarketing, creative thinking, international business, direct marketing, marketing management, self-marketing, social media |
Deanna MeinkeProfessor, Dangerous Decibels |
Hearing loss, prevention of noise-induced loss, distortion product otoacoustic emissions |
Madeline MilianProfessor |
Bilingual education, second language learning |
Mel MooreProfessor |
Family issues, parenting, bullying, peer pressure, prejudice/stereotyping, self and identity development, gender socialization, opinion polling |
Alan MorseProfessor |
Revenue generation in collegiate and professional sports |
Michael MosherProfessor and Manager of Brewing Lab Science Program |
Brewing science, type 1 diabetes, DNA interactions, heterocyclic organic synthesis |
Samantha NaibauerLab Coordinator, Field Botanist |
Plant conservation, conservation biology, rare plants, rare plant monitoring, population genetics |
Tim NellettDirector |
Veterans, student-veterans, veterans services |
Harmony NewmanAssociate Professor |
Gender inequality, STEM education, mothering, health and illness, social activism |
Sarah OffAssistant Professor |
Violin, music business, arts in rural areas |
Christiane OlivoProfessor Emerita |
Communism, east-central Europe, history of dissent, uprisings against communism, women and politics |
Josh PackardAssociate Professor |
Religion, minorities in higher education, neighborhoods and health |
Bailie PetersonAssistant Professor |
Metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of religion, children |
Corey PierceAssociate Dean |
Response to intervention, early intervention, assessment |
Robert PowersProfessor |
Mathematics education, curriculum and instruction |
Kevin PughProfessor |
Transformative learning, motivation and cognition |
Nick PullenAssociate Professor |
Immunology, immune system, glioma, vaccines, cancer, allergy and autoimmunity |
James ReardonProfessor |
Direct marketing, home shopping, media buying |
Chelsie RomuloAssistant Professor |
Biology, natural resource management, ecosystem services, STEM education, sustainability |
Suzanne RoseProfessor |
Virology, microbiology, infectious disease, host-viral interactions |
Harvey RudeProfessor Emeritus |
Special education leadership, multicultural education, education policy, rural education |
Lorie Sauble-OttoAssociate Professor |
French culture and language |
Philipp SchaberlAssistant Professor |
Financial accounting, capital markets, empirical accounting, international accounting, personal finance, financial literacy |
Mary SchuttlerHead and Professor of Theatre Education |
Script analysis, dramaturgy, theatre history, directing, acting, theatre education |
Tracey SedingerProfessor |
Shakespeare, feminism, English Renaissance |
Cindy ShellitoProfessor |
Climate change, past climates, geoscience education, meteorology |
Jeremy SmithAssociate Professor |
Prosthetics, biomechanics, exercise science, kinesiology, exercise and cancer |
Thomas SmithProfessor |
Religion, history of early Christian though, St. Augustine, heresy |
Basilia (Lia) Softas-NallProfessor |
Couples, marriage and family therapy, counseling psychology, women's issues, multicultural issues |
Charles SoukupProfessor |
Internet and culture, mobile communication technologies, interfaith dialogue, film, T.V. and technology |
Andrew SvedlowProfessor |
Arts administration and education, Japanese and Chinese art history, aesthetics |
Chris TalbotAssociate Professor and Program Coordinator |
U.S. women's and gender history, Mormonism, LDS Church, Church of Latter-Day Saints |
Victoria TerranovaAssistant Professor |
Pretrial services, bond and risk assessment |
Anna UrsynProfessor and Digital Media Area Head |
Computer art and graphics, art and science, knowledge visualization, art creation, visual thinking and information and storytelling |
Timothy VowlesAdjunct Faculty |
Air transportation, intermodal transportation, interurban geography |
Kyle WardAssociate Professor |
Jail and prison reentry, rural crime, evidence-based crime prevention programs and polices |
Cindy WesleyAssociate Dean |
Christianity in North America, ethnicity/environment, national park service history |
Tara WoodAssociate Professor and Writing Program Administrator |
Writing, writing pedagogy, disability studies |
Ather ZiaAssociate Professor |
Kashmir, South Asia, militarization, gender, Muslim women, activism, human rights |
Joan ClinefelterProfessor |
Modern Europe, Germany, Nazi Germany, Cold War Europe |
Rhonda CormanAssistant Professor |
Economic theory and application, regional data analysis, agricultural economic analysis, community economics |
Sarah CornishAssociate Professor |
Modern women writers (American and British), women's literary and cultural production of interwar and World War II period, city and fashion in modern literature, feminism |
Mark EiswerthProfessor |
Economics of water quality, water resource economics, costs and management of invasive species |
Dallas EverhartExecutive Professor |
Local government, teamwork and innovation, marketing and management, leadership |
Sharon Bywater-ReyesAssistant Professor |
Environmental geoscience, hydrologic-geomorphic systems, ecology, environment, floods, vegetation, river science, river restoration, water quality |
Jessica SaloProfessor |
Geography, ecology, GIS, landscape ecology, riparian ecosystems, land-use change, physical geography, western North America |
Karen BartonProfessor |
Geography, social ecology, community resilience and adaptation in marine and agricultural communities, global environmental change, experiential learning, Joola shipwreck |
David LerachAssociate Professor |
Meteorology, atmospheric science, aerosols, pollutants, particles, weather, aerosol-cloud microphysical impacts, tornadic storms, storms, extreme weather, tornadoes, weather forecast, climate change |
Scott FranklinProfessor |
Plant ecology, biology, forestry, forest ecology, conservation management, wildfires, disturbances, floods, plant biology, dynamics of vegetation in relation to disturbance, restoration, fire |
Lin AllenProfessor |
Science communication, communication, journalism, rhetorical theory and criticism, Supreme Court argument analysis |
James HaughianAssistant Professor |
Biology, animal science, cell and developmental biology, endocrinology, reproductive physiology, reproduction, biomedical, cancer, CRISPR genome editing, tumor biology, rehabilitation, flipped classroom |
Pat BurnsProfessor |
Prostaglandin metabolism in reproductive tissues of mammals, long-chain omega 3-fatty acids, fish oil, reproduction, pregnancy, hormones, animal science |
James TurkSenior Lecturer |
Sport and exercise science, athletic training, athletics, sports |
Kim MurzaAssociate Dean and Professor |
Speech-Language Pathology, language, literacy, school-based service delivery, early intervention, coaching, high-quality professional learning |
Jill BezyakProfessor |
Rehabilitation psychology, psychology, rehabilitation counseling and sciences, health promotion of individuals with chronic illness and disabilities, psychiatric rehabilitation, ADA implementation |
Jieun LeeAssistant Professor |
GIS, urban and economic geography, geographical education, geography, urban sustainability, spatial analysis, social and health disparities |
Anne ToeweProfessor |
Costume design, theatre design and technology, theatre arts |
Lisa ZimmermanProfessor |
English, creative writing, writing, poetry, books, fiction, reading |
Doug WoodyProfessor |
Psychology of law, history, prejudice, religion, social psychology, teaching of psychology, confessions, criminal justice, interrogation, Cold War, Guantanamo Bay |
Gregory DeKreyAssociate Professor |
Molecular toxicology, immunology, cell biology, toxicology, biology, human physiology, pathobiology, pharmacology, disease, biomedical, man-made chemicals, pesticides, ethanol, botanical dietary supplements, halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons, gene expression, hormones, human and animal health |
Daniel BrannonAssistant Professor |
Marketing, business administration, computer science, advertising, consumer services, retail |
Stan LugerProfessor and Chair |
Politics, economics, political science, international affairs, environmental politics, political economy, business-government relations, public policy |
Will MerchantAssociate Professor |
Program evaluation theory, stakeholder configuration, Structural Equation Modeling, statistical error, disability studies, measurement validation |
Wendi FlynnAssociate Professor |
Mesoscale meteorology and land surface=atmosphere interaction, education research, precipitation patterns, soil moisture heterogeneity, weather research and forecast |
Jay TraskAssociate Professor |
History, artifacts, UNC, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, public history, library and information science |
Kristin Bovaird-AbboAssociate Professor |
English, medieval language and literature, Middle English, Arthurian studies, Old English, history of the English language, linguistics, Arthurian Legend, J.R.R. Tolkien, romances, Victorian poetry, mythology, medievalism |
Deb RojasAssistant Professor |
Nursing, cultural sensitivity, high fidelity simulation rehabilitation nursing, medical-surgical nursing, gerontological nursing |
Andrea JamesAssistant Professor |
Biology, vision, eyes, cell adhesion components contribute to choroid fissure closure, cytoskeletal stability, zebrafish, eye development, tissue fusion |
Janel GreimanAssociate Professor |
Accounting, business, taxes, federal and state income tax |
Laura StewartProfessor |
Exercise physiology, nutrition, health promotion, exercise, biology, diet, physical activity, reducing inflammation, improving cancer survivor quality of life, inflammation and chronic marijuana use |
Stephanie WiegandAssociate Professor |
Affordable course materials, Creative Commons (CC), Open Educational Resources (OER), Commercial textbook alternatives, inclusive access to learning materials |