NEW FACULTY LIST 2004

NEW FACULTY LIST 2004 - 2005

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Title	Name	Last	Position	Campus	College	Department
Dr.	Jin	Baek	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Architecture	Architecture
Dr.	James	Andrews	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Library and Information Sciences
Dr.	Roger	Ariew	Chair and Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Philosophy
Ms.	Susan	Ariew	Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Library and Information Sciences
Dr.	Tamara	Baker	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Aging Studies
Dr.	Pratyusha	Basu	Visiting Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Geography
Ms.	Silvia	Blanco	Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Social Work
Dr.	Ronald	Blazek	Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Library and Information Sciences
Dr.	Constanza	Bonadonna	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Geology
Dr.	Mindy	Bradley	Visiting Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Criminology
Dr.	Maria	Cizmic	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Humanities and American Studies
Dr.	Katherine	Cole	Faculty Administrator & Director of Undergraduate Studies	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Graduate & Undergraduate Studies
Dr.	Sara	Crawley	Visiting Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Women's Studies
Dr.	Karla	Davis-Salazar	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Anthropology
Dr.	Michael	Decker	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	History
Dr.	Gail	Donaldson	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Communication Sciences & Disorders
Dr.	Kennan	Ferguson	Faculty Administrator & Director of Learning Communities	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Graduate & Undergraduate Studies
Dr.	Dawn Rae	Flood	Visiting Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	History
Dr.	Gaspare	Genna	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Government & International Affairs
Dr.	Greg	Herbert	Visiting Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Geology
Dr.	Lu Ann	Jones	Associate Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	History
Dr.	H. Roy	Kaplan	Visiting Associate Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Africana Studies
Dr.	Alina	Kipchumba	Visiting Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Biology
Dr.	Patrizia	La Trecchia	Visiting Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	World Language Education
Dr.	Martin	Lynch	Assistant Professor	Sarasota	Arts & Sciences	Psychology
Dr.	Michael	Miller	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Government & International Affairs
Dr.	Jessica	Moore	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Biology
Dr.	Paul	Morgan, Jr.	Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	History
Dr.	Martin	Muschol	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Physics
Dr.	John	Napora	Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Anthropology
Ms.	Kai	Rains	Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Environmental Science & Policy
Dr.	Edwin	Rivera	Research Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Chemistry
Dr.	Christine	Ruva	Assistant Professor	Sartasota	Arts & Sciences	Psychology
Dr.	Lilli	Sahakyan	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Psychology
Dr.	Richard	Schreck	Faculty Administrator & Director of English Language Institute	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	World Language Education
Dr.	Shirley	Toland-Dix	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	English
Dr.	George	Yanev	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Mathematics
Dr.	Robert	Zelski	Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Communication Sciences & Disorders
Mr.	Ross	Alander	Assistant Professor	Sarasota	Business Administration	Management
Dr.	Susan	Albring	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Business Administration	Accountancy
Dr.	Maria T.	Caban-Garcia		Sarasota	Business Administration	Accountancy
Dr.	Sally	Fuller	Associate Professor	Tampa	Business Administration	Management and Organization
Ms.	Barbara	Warner	Instructor	Tampa	Business Administration	Information Systems & Decision Sciences
Dr.	Elisa	Abes	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Education	Psychological & Social Foundations
Dr.	Bonnie	Bie	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Education	Physical Education Wellness & Sport Studies
Dr.	Linda	Evans	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Education	Secondary Education
Dr.	Rodney	Evans	Associate Professor	Lakeland	Education	Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
Dr.	Helen	Gerretson	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Education	Secondary Education
Dr.	Victor	Hernandez-Gantes	Associate Professor	Tampa	Education	Adult, Career & Higher Education
Ms.	Margarida	Karahalios	Visiting Instructor	Tampa	Education	Secondary Education
Dr.	Marcus	Kilpatrick	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Education	Physical Education, Wellness & Sport Studies
Dr.	Lisa	Lopez	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Education	Psychological and Social Foundations
Dr.	Richard	Marshall	Associate Professor	Lakeland	Education	Psychological and Social Foundations
Dr.	Patricia	McHatton	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Education	Special Education
Dr.	Sharon Miller	Keller	Assistant Professor	Sarasota	Education	Childhood Education
Dr.	Marion	Rilling	Visiting Instructor	Sarasota	Education	Childhood Education
Dr.	Shannon	Suldo	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Education	Psychological and Social Foundations
Dr.	Tony Xing	Tan	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Education	Psychological and Social Foundations
Dr.	Marcela	van Olphen	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Education	Secondary Education
Dr.	Anete	Vasquez	Visiting Instructor	Tampa	Education	Secondary Education
Dr.	G. Pat	Wilson	Assistant Professor	Sarasota	Education	Childhood Education
Dr.	Vinay	Gupta	Associate Professor	Tampa	Engineering	Chemical Engineering
Dr.	Henry	Jeanty	Instructor	Tampa	Engineering	Computer Science and Engineering
Dr.	Soontae	Kim	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Engineering	Computer Science and Engineering
Mr.	Frank	Pyrtle III	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Engineering	Mechanical Engineering
Dr.	Peter	Stroot		Tampa	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr.	Maya	Trotz	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr.	Rollins	Turner	Instructor	Tampa	Engineering	Computer Science and Engineering
Dr.	Hao	Zheng	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Engineering	Computer Science and Engineering
Dr.	Amber	Gum	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Florida Mental Health Institute	Aging and Mental Health
Mr.	John	Abresch	Visiting Librarian	Tampa	Library	Library
Ms.	Tomaro	Taylor	Assistant Librarian	Tampa	Library	Library
Dr.	Eloisa	Abislaiman	Assistant In	Tampa	Medicine	Suncoast Gerontology
Dr.	Claudio	Anasetti	Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Interdisciplinary Oncology
Dr.	Sadaf	Bazargan	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Interdisciplinary Oncology
Dr.	Christine	Callahan	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Ophthalmology
Dr.	Maria	Cannarrozi		Tampa	Medicine	Internal Medicine
Dr.	John	Cannon	Post Doc	Tampa	Medicine	Pediatrics
Dr.	Charles	Edwards	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Internal Medicine
Dr.	Mark	Glaum	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Internal Medicine
Dr.	Richard	Gross	Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Interdisciplinary Oncology
Dr.	Chris	Katnik	Res Assoc	Tampa	Medicine	Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Dr.	Reynaldo	Mulingtapang	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Internal Medicine
Dr.	Cynthia Rebecca	Olsen	Res Assoc	Tampa	Medicine	Pediatrics
Dr.	Raul	Ordorica	Associate Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Interdisciplinary Oncology
Dr.	William	Quillen		Tampa	Medicine	Physical Therapy
Dr.	Gary	Reuther	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Interdisciplinary Oncology
Dr.	Rachel	Richesson	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Interdisciplinary Oncology
Dr.	Dana Elise	Rollison	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Interdisciplinary Oncology
Dr.	Vasyl	Sava	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Neurology
Dr.	S. Clifford	Schold	Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Interdisciplinary Oncology
Dr.	Vernon	Sondak	Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Interdisciplinary Oncology
Dr.	Josefa	Troya-Schiottmann	Associate In	Tampa	Medicine	Pediatrics
Dr.	Eric	Tucker	Assistant In	Tampa	Medicine	Pediatrics
Dr.	Janie	Canty-Mitchell	Associate Professor	Tampa	Nursing	Nursing
Ms.	Tomika	Harris	Instructor	Tampa	Nursing	Nursing
Ms.	Natalie	Preston	Coordinator	Tampa	Public Health	Dean's Office
Ms.	Sandra	Ruzycki	Associate in Research	Tampa	Public Health	Environmental & Occupational Health
Mrs.	Kristen	Wallace	Associate in Research	Tampa	Public Health	Lawton & Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers & Children
Mr.	Neil	Bender	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Visual & Performing Arts	Art and Art History
Dr.	C. Victor	Fung	Professor	Tampa	Visual & Performing Arts	Music
Dr.	M. Lynne	Gackle	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Visual & Performing Arts	Music
Mr.	David	Mann	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Visual & Performing Arts	Theatre and Dance
Dr.	Riccardo	Marchi	Professor	Tampa	Visual & Performing Arts	Art and Art History
Dr.	Naomi	Niskala	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Visual & Performing Arts	Music
Dr.	Dale	Rose	Director & Professor	Tampa	Visual & Performing Arts	Theatre and Dance
Mr.	Thomas	Taylor	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Visual & Performing Arts	Theatre and Dance
Ms.	Julie	Weitz	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Visual & Performing Arts	Art and Art History

BIOGRAPHIES FOR NEW FACULTY 2004 - 2005

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Dr. James Andrews Assistant Professor Library and Information Sciences	James Andrews, Assistant Professor, holds a doctoral degree in Information Science and an MA in Library Science from the University of Missouri. His Bachelor of Science is from the University of the State of New York. Dr. Andrews comes to us from the University of Kentucky where he was an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science. His expertise in health science information will strengthen our already strong program. His research interest is Medical Informatics. Within this field his particular interests are in biomedical information storage and retrieval, especially related to language-based issues; cancer genetics related information-seeking needs, and use; and health communication including tailored messaging, physician-patient communication, and interactive health communication.
Dr. Roger Ariew Chair Philosophy	Roger Ariew (pronounced air-ee.ev), the new Chair of the Department of Philosophy, has a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He was a William Rainey Harper fellow at the University of Chicago, and since 1980 was at Virginia Tech, where he has been Professor and Head. Born in Egypt, he spent part of his childhood in France. He has published extensively in the history of philosophy and in the area of the relation between early modern philosophy and science. He is the editor and translator of a large number of standard texts, the author of many articles and chapters as well as an important book on Descartes and his sources. We expect him to raise the stature of the department of Philosophy Ph.D. program in its chosen concertration on history of Philosophy.
Ms. Susan Ariew Instructor Library and Information Sciences	Susan Ariew, Instructor comes to the SLIS faculty from Virginia Tech where she worked as the College Librarian for Education & Human Development. She has earned a BA in the Teaching of English, an M Ed in education, and an MSLS, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has spent much of her professional life as an academic librarian, first at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, at the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago, and then at Virginia Tech. She has also spent several years teaching English, writing, and composition at both the high school and collegiate levels. As the College Librarian for Education and Human Development at Virginia Tech, she has been part of a library program emphasizing instruction and outreach to the university community. Collegiate librarians are housed in their respective colleges in order to collaborate with graduate students and faculty, so as to support their teaching and research activities. Ms. Ariew’s research and publication interests include academic librarians’ status, collaborative relationships between librarians and academic faculty, diversity resources for teachers, and assessment tools for evaluating library instruction and student learning.
Dr. Tamara A. Baker Assistant Professor Geology	Tamara A. Baker's research interests focus on the relationship of chronic illness (e.g., arthritis), culture, and chronic pain in older adults from racial and ethnically diverse populations. More specifically, she focuses on the behavioral and psychosocial predictors and outcomes of non-malignant and benign chronic pain among older adults in general, and community-based Black Americans across the age continuum, in particular.
Ms. Silvia J. Blanco Instructor Social Work	Silvia J. Blanco holds a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of South Florida (USF) and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from St. Leo College, San Antonio, Florida. Ms. Blanco is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Registered Nurse. Currently, Ms. Blanco is a USF field instructor at for social work students pursuing their Masters degrees. Her background includes 17 years as a psychiatric nurse; and, for the past two years she has been an adjunct professor for the School of Social Work at the University of South Florida. Ms. Blanco was born in Cuba. Her academic interests include cultural diversity, social welfare/policy and woman’s studies.
Dr. Costanza Bonadonna Assistant Professor Geology	Professor Costanza Bonadonna received her B.S. in Geology from the University of Pisa, Italy, and Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Bristol, UK. She comes to USF from the University of Hawaii, where she was awarded the prestigious SOEST Fellowship. In 2004, Professor Bonadonna received the Geological Society of America's Young Woman Scientist of the Year Award, and the Outstanding Recent Graduate Award from the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior. She is currently funded by the National Science Foundation for her investigations into the fluid dynamics of volcanic ash dispersal in the environment and the mechanics of volcanic eruptions. She joins the Department of Geology and the multi-disciplinary USF Volcano Group http://www.cas.usf.edu/~cconnor/vg@usf/vg.html, to continue her work studying the worlds active volcanoes.
Dr. Mindy S. Bradley Visiting Assistant Professor Criminology	Mindy S. Bradley is a 2004 Ph.D. graduate of the Crime, Law, & Justice program in the Department of Sociology at Pennsylvania State University. She holds an M.A. from Penn State and a B.S. in Criminal Justice from the State University of West Georgia. Her areas of interest are quantitative and qualitative methods, deviance, and victimization. She is currently working on a book about the social structure of the adult entertainment industry. She will be teaching the graduate-level statistics course for Criminology graduate students in the Fall, as well as a course dealing with issues regarding victims of crime. She has published in Justice Quarterly, Symbolic Interaction, and Contemporary Sociology.
Dr. Maria Cizmic Assistant Professor Humanities and American Studies	Maria Cizmic received her Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her dissertation, Performing Pain: Music and Trauma in 1970s and 1980s Eastern Europe, integrates trauma theory and musicology, placing the question of how music expresses suffering in the context of the recent history of the former Soviet Union. She is extremely interdisciplinary; as an undergraduate at Santa Clara University she double majored in Music and English. She has also incorporated film studies into her work and has performed both as a pianist and as a vocalist.
Dr. Sara L. Crawley Visiting Assistant Professor Women's Studies	Sara L. Crawley is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at USF. Trained in Sociology and Women's Studies, she completed her PhD at the University of Florida in 2002. Her research and teaching specialties are in gender and sexualities, in particular topics related to the production and social organization of gendered and sexual identities, feminist gender theory, social inequalities, qualitative methods and social psychology. She has published in Gender & Society, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and The Sociological Quarterly among others, and is currently co-authoring a book entitled Gendering the Body.
Dr. Michael Decker Assistant Professor History	Michael Decker is the Nicholas J. Maroulis Assistant Professor of Byzantine History and Orthodoxy at USF. He comes to USF from Rice University where he held a Mellon post-doc for two years after completing his PhD at Oxford University in Byzantine history and archaeology. His research centers on the economy of Byzantium from the fourth to thirteenth centuries. Decker also has strong research interests in the development of the Byzantine intellectual tradition and the communities of the Crusader-era eastern Mediterranean. In support of his research Decker conducts archaeological fieldwork, and is involved currently in a field survey project at Andarin, Syria.
Dr. Gaspare M. Genna Assistant Professor Government and Int'l Affairs	Gaspare M. Genna (Ph. D. in Political Science, Claremont Graduate University) comes to the Government and International Affairs department from Winona State University (MN). His research interest is in the development and impact of regional integration, with a special focus on the European Union. His published work can be found in International Interactions, Review of International Political Economy, European Union Politics, and numerous working paper series. He is currently working on two book projects: one on public opinion toward European integration and the other on comparative regional integration. He is also working on a project that explores Brazil’s role in developing MERCOSUR under the Cardoso government.
Dr. Lu Ann Jones Associate Professor History	Lu Ann Jones comes to USF as an Associate Professor of US History from East Carolina University where she has been a member of the faculty since 1996. Her research and teaching focus on the history of the modern South, the rural United States, and oral history methods. She is the author of Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South (UNC Press, 2002) and coauthor of the award-winning Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (UNC Press, 1987; 2000). She is currently working on a book titled "DuPont Comes to Tobacco Road: Rural Industrialization in the Postwar South." Jones, a North Carolina Humanities Council scholar, has worked for years on a variety of community-based oral history projects--outreach work which she hopes to continue in Florida.
Dr. H. Roy Kaplan Visiting Associate Professor Africana Studies	H. Roy Kaplan was Executive Director of The National Conference for Community and Justice (formerly The National Conference of Christian and Jews), Tampa Bay Chapter, for 15 years. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1971. Dr. Kaplan served as an advisor on the President’s Commission on Race Relations, “One America,” and was given the Education Heroes Award by the U.S. Department of Education for his exceptional contribution to Florida’s future through its students.
Dr. Michael Miller Assistant Professor Government and Int'l Affairs	Dr. Miller comes to USF from Atlanta, Georgia, where he raised funds for environmental nonprofits as Campaign Coordinator at Earth Share of Georgia and where he taught political science at Georgia Perimeter College. His seven months of doctoral field research in Costa Rica in 2002 examined environmental policymaking in that country. Previously, he worked for three years as a Graduate Research Scholar at the University of Miami Dante B. Fascell North-South Center exploring the feasibility of environmentally sound trade. Latin American environmental politics and sustainable development continue to be his primary scholarly interests.
Dr. Lili Sahakyan Assistant Professor Psychology	Dr. Lili Sahakyan, who is joining us an Assistant Professor of Psychology. Has already established herself as an active, and significant contributor to the study of memory. Since 2002, when she received her Ph.D. in Cognitive and Behavioral Science from Florida State University, Prof. Sahakyan has published five papers in highly refereed journals. Her work is focused on "Directed Forgeting" and on the effects of context on memory. The National Insitute on Aging has just approved a 2 year RO3 grant to Dr. Sahakyan for a project entitled "Context in Memory Performance of Older Adults". For the past two years Dr Sahakyan was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Dr. George Yanev Assistant Professor Mathematics	Prior to coming to USA, Dr. George Yanev was a Research Fellow at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for six years. His research interests include statistical modeling, branching stochastic processes and Bayesian inference. Recently, Dr. Yanev has been working on statistical analysis of Florida Keys coral reef data. For the past four years he was an Assistant Professor with the Environmental Science, Policy and Geography program at USF St. Petersburg campus.
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Dr. Susan Albring Assistant Professor Accountancy	Susan Albring's dissertation examines the effect of the cost of internal funds on capital structure decisions of multinational firms. She also studies the effect of earnings management and audit quality on underpricing of initial public offerings. She brings her tax and audit experience as a senior at Price Waterhouse LLP in New York City to her research and teaching activities. This past year at Syracuse University she was the recipient of the College of Business Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year and the Department of Accounting Beta Alpha Psi Outstanding Teaching awards.
Sally Riggs Fuller Associate Professor Management and Organization	Sally Riggs Fuller will join the Department of Management and Organization as a tenured Associate Professor. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Wisconsin. She was previously tenured at the University of Washington and held a tenured, named professorship at the University of New Mexico. Of local interest, her undergraduate degree is from USF, where she majored in management and was the University's Outstanding Senior in the Class of 1984. Her research interests involve questions in the domain of symbolism, culture, and social issues.
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Dr. Elisa Abes Assistant Professor Psychological and Social Foundations	Elisa S. Abes (Ph.D., 2003, Ohio State University; J.D., 1995, Harvard University), Assistant Professor (College Student Affairs). Research: college student identity development, with a focus on lesbian identity and multiple identities (race, religion, social class, and gender); integration of identity development and cognitive development; service-learning, with a focus on faculty involvement, college student development, and student understanding of HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Linda Evans Assistant Professor Secondary Education	Dr. Linda Evans is coming to the Tampa Campus of USF from the Lakeland Campus where she was Assistant Professor, Childhood/Elementary Education. Because of Dr. Evans’ extensive background in literacy, biliteracy and second language acquisition, she was a perfect fit for the ESOL program housed in the Department of Secondary Education. Prior to coming to Florida, Dr.Evans served as an educational consultant in the area of ESL and bilingual education. She was also an ESL Teaching Fellow for Harvard University. Her research includes a study incorporating oral histories of teachers who have been working with English language learners for 20 or more years. She is also beginning a study entitles Para Los Ninos: Portraits of Costa Rican Women Who Influence the Education of Monteverde’s Children.
Dr. Rodney Evans Associate Professor Edu. Leadership & Policy Studies Lakeland Campus	Dr. Evans received his Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 1989. His major professor was Dr. Max van Manen, an international scholar and expert on phenomenological research. Dr. Evans’ dissertation, Ministrative Insight: Educational Administration as Pedagogic Practice, received the 1990 Dissertation of the Year Award from the Canadian Association for the Study of Educational Administration, and the 1991 Division A Educational Administration Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association. Dr. Evans was an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and an Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. Dr. Evans is the author of The Pedagogic Principal (1999), published by the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, Alberta, Canada.
Dr. Helen Gerretson Assistant Professor Secondary Education	Dr. Helen Garretson is coming to the Tampa Campus of USF from the University of Northern Colorado where she was Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education. In her capacity there in the Department of Mathematical Sciences she taught classes in mathematics, mathematics education and research methods. Her research interests include the development of mathematics teachers; teacher professional development models; cognitive technology and constructivist epistemologies. She and her husband have relocated to the Plant City area.
Dr. Victor Hernandez Assosiate Professor Adult, Career & Higher Education	Dr. Victor Hernandez is joining the Department of Adult, Career and Higher Education as an Associate Professor. He was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to gain his Masters degree at Virginia Tech and later earned his PhD in Educational Research & Evaluation with a concentration in Vocational Education at that institution. Most recently Dr. Hernandez served as a Senior Educational Researcher at Wheeling Jesuit University and before that served as an associate professor at Florida State University. He has served as an associate researcheer at the Center on Education and Work at the Univiversity of Wisconsin-Madison where he directed several major research projects supported by the National Center for Research in Vocational Education.
Dr. Sharon Miller Keller Assistant Professor Childhood Education	Sharon Miller Keller is a new Assistant Professor in Elementary Education in the Childhood Education Department at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee College of Education. Dr. Miller Keller teaches courses in qualitative and arts Based research, literacy education, and curriculum studies at both the graduate and undergraduate level. Dr. Miller Keller's research focuses on the professional development of teachers, literacy education, socio-cultural identity and gender studies, and feminist critique. This research agenda is evident in her current work on critical research in language arts methods classrooms, and in trans-national literacy and language arts curriculum research in Ireland. Dr. Miller Keller received her doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in early childhood, women and gender studies from the University of Toledo. During her doctoral program she was co-coordinator of the Curriculum and Teaching Master's Program at Bowling Green State University, where she also taught curriculum studies, action research, and curriculum design courses. Dr. Miller Keller began as an elementary teacher for seven years in a small school chosen as a Classroom of the Future reform site in rural Ohio.
Dr. Lisa Lopez Assistant Professor Psychological and Social Foundations	Lisa Lopez (Ph.D., 2001, University of Miami; NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001-2004, Harvard University) Assistant Professor (Educational Psychology). Research: development of bilingual language and literacy skills in English language learners; phonological awareness and the cross language transfer of oral language and pre-literacy skills; parent involvement in young children's education; home, family, and cultural factors influencing Latino children's academic achievement; the role of home and classroom experiences on academic achievement in Head Start.
Dr. Richard Marshall Associate Professor Psychological and Social Foundations Lakeland Campus	Richard Marshall (Ed.D., 1982, West Virginia University, reading; Ph.D.1992, University of Georgia, educational psychology – child neuropsychology), Associate Professor (Educational Psychology, Lakeland Campus). Research: ADHD; the neurobiological bases of learning problems and behavior disorders; reading disabilities, bipolar disorder in children; psychopharmacology; chronic illnesses in children.
Dr. Shannon Suldo Assistant Professor Psychological and Social Foundations	Shannon Suldo (Ph.D., 2004, University of South Carolina; predoctoral internship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine/Kennedy Krieger Institute), Assistant Professor (School Psychology). Research: developmental course of life satisfaction during youth; positive indicators of children’s psychological well-being and strength-based assessment and treatment; effects of parenting behaviors on adolescent mental health; provision of school-based mental health services, including evidence-based ecological interventions for students with emotional and behavior disorders.
Dr. Tony Tan Assistant Professor Psychological and Social Foundations	Tony X. Tan (Ed.D., 2004, Harvard University), Assistant Professor (Educational Psychology). Research: adoption, specifically Chinese children's post-adoption social/emotional adjustment and language development, school-aged Chinese adoptees' social competence, the relationship between adopted Chinese children's pre-adoption experiences and later adjustment; Chinese adoptees' ethnic identity development; adoptive mothers concerns about their adopted daughters; the relationship between adopted children's initial rejecting behaviors (first two weeks of adoption) towards the adoptive mothers and their long-term adjustment; childhood trauma, risk and resilience among both adopted and non-adopted children.
Dr. Marcela van Olphen Assistant Professor Secondary Education	Dr. Marcela van Olphen is coming to the Tampa Campus of USF from the University of Wyoming where she was Assistant Professor of Modern Language Education. Prior to assuming her responsibilities in Wyoming she earned her Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education from Purdue University. Her primary interest is in the integration of technology in Foreign Language Teacher Education. She is also interested in the development of cross cultural awareness and cross cultural experiences for teachers. Dr. van Olphen was born in Argentina and brings to her work lived experience in second language acquisition. She and her husband have relocated to the Tampa Palms area.
Dr. G. Pat Wilson Assistant Professor Childhood Education	Dr. G. Pat Wilson is a new Assistant Professor in Reading Education at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee College of Education. She teaches courses relative to reading and writing instruction (research, reading and writing processes, cognition and learning, assessment, materials). Her research includes analysis of the reading of children who have been taught how to read through different programs, the study of children’s use of arts based mediums as tools of thinking, and the use of an on-line discussion board in teacher education. Dr. Wilson earned her Doctorate of Philosophy through the University of New Hampshire in Reading and Writing Instruction. Recently, she was an Assistant Professor at Towson University in Maryland. Prior to her doctorate, she held various roles in education including special education teacher, reading specialist, elementary grade teacher, and administrator. She has authored and coauthored articles published in several journals including: The Kappan (September 2004), Language Arts, English Education, Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, and coauthored chapters for forthcoming books.
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Dr. Vinay Gupta Associate Professor Chemical Engineering	Dr. Gupta joins the Chemical Engineering Department as Associate Professor in August 2004. He got his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from California Institute of Technology in 1996. After two years of Post-doctoral research at UC-Davis, he joined University of Illinois, Urbana in 1997. He is a recipient of an NSF Career Award. His research interests are in the areas of Polymeric materials, Interfacial Phenomena, Polymer Adsorption and Nanoscale/Smart materials.
Dr. Henrick Jeanty Instructor Computer Science and Engineering	Dr. Henrick Jeanty received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The City College of New York in 1990. Dr. Jeanty led the research and software architecture team at ForexTrend, Inc., designing and implementing technical analysis algorithms. At Nielsen Media Research, Dr. Jeanty was responsible for the architecture and software implementation of a multi camera passive people meter. At United Parcel Service's Research Laboratory in Danbury, Connecticut, Dr. Jeanty was a software architect responsible for the architecture and design of an Optical Character Recognition system to recognize addresses on labels attached to UPS packages. As a post-doc at IBM's T.J. Watson Research laboratory, Dr. Jeanty worked in the Image Processing Group and the Handwriting Recognition group and holds two patents related to the areas of online character segmentation and online handwritten character recognition.
Dr. Soontae Kim Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering	Dr. Kim received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Penn State University in December 2003. He joins USF as an assistant professor. His research interests are in high performance computer architectures, embedded systems, power-aware computing, and Java technology. His work has been published in premier journals and conferences in his area. He received an Outstanding Research Assistant Award from Penn State University in 2002. His research was supported in part by a CAREER grant to his advisor, Dr. Vijay Narayanan who is an USF alumni.
Dr. Rollins Turner Instructor Computer Science and Engineering	Dr. Rollins Turner received his PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts in 1982. Between 1970 and 1983, Dr. Turner worked for Digital Equipment Corporation in Massachusetts, where he held positions in engineering, research, and education. He joined USF's Computer Science and Engineering Department from 1983 to 1986 when he taught graduate courses in Computer Networks, Computer Architecture, and Queueing Theory and supervised and conducted research in performance analysis of local area networks. Since then he has worked as a computer professional for Paradyne Networks in Largo, for Raytheon, in St Petersburg, and for Loral Data Systems in Sarasota.
LOUIS DE LA PARTE FLORIDA MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE
Dr. Amber Gum Assistant Professor Aging and Mental Health	Amber Gum, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aging and Mental Health of the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Kansas (2002) and completed internship training at the Palo Alto VA Health Care System (2002). She was an NIMH postdoctoral fellow in the Clinical Services Research Training Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Francisco until 2004. In her research, Dr. Gum focuses on evaluating psychosocial interventions to treat depression in underserved older adults, including low-income and older adults with cognitive impairment. She has a secondary focus on the informed consent process for research and mental health treatment preferences, in order to more fully engage older adults in research and treatment-related decisions and plans.
Dr. Hao Zheng Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering	Dr. Hao Zheng received his PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Utah in 2001. His research interests are in asynchronous architectures for low-power and high-performance computing and formal methods for hardware system verification. During 2001-04 he was with IBM Microelectronics Division as advisory engineer/scientist. His work at IBM focussed on incorporating formal verification methods in integrated circuit design flow to improve productivity and design quality. His work has been published in prestigious conferences and journals.
COLLEGE OF VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS
Dr. Dale Rose Director and Professor Theatre and Dance	Dale Rose, tenured Full Professor, will be joining USF as the new Director for the School of Theatre and Dance. Professor Rose has most recently been the Head of the M.F.A. Professional Acting Training Program with the Missouri Repertory Theatre/University of Missouri – Kansas City and has been with the program since 1988. His professional career has led him to work with Creede Summer Repertory Theatre, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Hope Summer Repertory, the Kennedy Center, and five seasons as Artistic Director for the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas. An interesting fact to Professor Rose’s career is that he was an Assistant Professor at USF from 1973-77 and was the Artistic Director and Founder of The Alice People Theatre Company which was active in Tampa from 1974-1982.
Mr. David Mann Assistant Professor Theatre and Dance	David Mann, tenure earning Assistant Professor, will be joining USF as a new performance faculty in the School of Theatre and Dance, Theatre Program. Mr. Mann received his BFA from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts and his MFA from the University of San Diego/Old Globe Theatre. Mr. Mann’s most recent appointment was in the Graduate Acting Program at Florida Atlantic University.
Mr. Thomas Taylor Assistant Professor Theatre and Dance	Thomas Taylor, visiting Assistant Professor, will be joining USF as the Visiting Faculty Technical Director in the School of Theatre and Dance, Theatre Program. Mr. Taylor received his MFA in Theatre Technology from the Univeristy of Missouri, Kansas City. He has worked professionally with the Lexington Children’s Theatre, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Seaside Music Theatre, Asolo Theatre Company, Georgia Shakespeare Festival. Mr. Taylor was most recently with the Downtown Arts Center, LACC, in Lexington, KY as Technical Director.