NEW FACULTY LIST 2005

NEW FACULTY LIST 2005 - 2006

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Title	Name	Last	Position	Campus	College	Department
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Dr.	Mariaelena	Bartesaghi	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Communication
Dr.	Pratyusha	Basu	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Geography
Mr.	Bob	Batchelor	Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Mass Communications
Mr.	Eric	Beauregard	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Criminology
Dr.	Svitlana	Berezhna	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Physics
Dr.	Shawn	Bingham	Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Sociology
Dr.	Case	Boterbloem	Associate Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	History
Dr.	Kenneth	Caswell	Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Chemistry
Dr.	Allison	Cleveland	Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Biology
Dr.	Jennifer	Collins	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Geography
Ms.	Kiersten	Cox	Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Library & Information Sciences
Dr.	Kelly	Crain	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Communication Sciences & Disorders
Dr.	Sara	Crawley	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Women's Studies
Dr.	Stephen	Deban	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Biology
Dr.	Noel	Dickson	Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Chemistry
Ms.	Rina	Donchin	Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	World Language Education
Ms.	Tasha	Dubriwny	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Communication
Mr.	Eric	Duke	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Africana Studies
Ms.	Darla	Freeman-Levay	Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Communication Sciences & Disorders
Dr.	Lorie	Fridell	Associate Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Criminology
Dr.	Ted	Gauthier	Research Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Chemistry
Dr.	Jamie	Goldenberg	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Psychology
Dr.	Greg	Herbert	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Geology
Dr.	Colin	Heydt	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Philosophy
Ms.	Denise	Howland	Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Communication Sciences & Disorders
Dr.	Antoinette	Jackson	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Anthropology
Dr.	David	Johnson	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	History
Dr.	Shayne	Jones	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Criminology
Ms.	Julie	Langford-Johnson	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	History
Dr.	Patrizia	LaTrecchia	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	World Language Education
Dr.	Alexander	Levine	Associate Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Philosophy
Dr.	Carlos	Lopez	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Religious Studies
Dr.	Kenneth	Malmberg	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Psychology
Dr.	Roman	Manetsch	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Chemistry
Dr.	Eleni	Manolaraki	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	World Language Education
Dr.	Nathan	Maxfield	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Communication Sciences & Disorders
Dr.	Patricia	Muiesner	Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Chemistry
Dr.	Bruce	Neubauer	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Government & International Affairs
Dr.	Bogdan	Onac	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Geology
Dr.	Crystal	Patil	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Anthropology
Dr.	Cynthia	Patterson	Assistant Professor	Lakeland	Arts & Sciences	English
Dr.	Richard	Reich	Visiting Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Psychology
Dr.	Steven	Roach	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Government & International Affairs
Dr.	Kristin	Schmidt	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Biology
Dr.	Leslaw	Skrzypek	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Mathematics
Dr.	Debra	Slone	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Library & Information Sciences
Dr.	Dongyoung	Sohn	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Mass Communications
Dr.	Scott	Solomon	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Government & International Affairs
Dr.	Elizabeth	Strom	Associate Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Geography
Mr.	Christopher	Sullivan	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Criminology
Dr.	William	Tyson	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Sociology
Ms.	Camilla	Vasquez	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	World Language Education
Dr.	Paul	Wetmore	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Geology
Dr.	Thomas	Williams	Associate Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Religious Studies
Dr.	Gerald	Woods	Instructor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	Physics
Dr.	Tamara	Zwick	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Arts & Sciences	History
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Dr.	John	Adams	Visiting Instructor	Tampa	Business Administration	Finance
Ms.	Jennifer	Cainas	Instructor	Lakeland	Business Administration	School of Accountancy
Dr.	James	Curran	Assistant Professor	Sarasota	Business Administration	Marketing
Dr.	Rajiv	Dant	Associate Professor	Tampa	Business Administration	Marketing
Dr.	Yancy	Edwards	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Business Administration	Marketing
Dr.	Bryant	Hudson	Visiting Asst. Professor	Tampa	Business Administration	Management
Mr.	Patrick	Kelly	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Business Administration	Finance
Dr.	Anand	Kumar	Associate Professor	Tampa	Business Administration	Marketing
Dr.	Thomas	Pencek	Instructor	Sarasota	Business Administration	Finance
Dr.	John	Selsky	Associate Professor	Lakeland	Business Administration	Management
Dr.	Nathan	Stuart	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Business Administration	School of Accountancy
Ms.	Tianxia (Tina)	Yang	Visiting Instructor	Tampa	Business Administration	Finance
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Dr.	Rebecca	Burns-Hoffman	Visiting Assistant Professor	Sarasota	Education	Secondary Education
Dr.	Judy	Carr	Instructor	Sarasota	Education	Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
Dr.	Tiffany	Chenneville	Visiting Assistant	Tampa	Education	Psychological & Social Foundations
Dr.	Rosemary	Closson	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Education	Adult, Career, and Higher Education
Dr.	Suzanne	Kirkman	Instructor	Tampa	Education	Adult, Career, and Higher Education
Dr.	Jeannie	Kleinhammer-Tramill	Professor	Tampa	Education	Special Education
Dr.	Sherry	Kragler	Associate Professor	Tampa	Education	Childhood Education
Dr.	Smita	Mathur	Assistant Professor	Lakeland	Education	Psychological & Social Foundations
Dr.	Michael	Matthews	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Education	Special Education
Dr.	J. Lynn	McBrein	Assistant Professor	Sarasota	Education	Psychological & Social Foundations
Dr.	Rita	Meadows	Instructor	Lakeland	Education	Childhood Education
Dr.	Michelle	Mitcham-Smith	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Education	Psychological & Social Foundations
Dr.	Steve	Sanders	Professor & Director	Tampa	Education	School of Physical Education, Wellness, and Sport Studies
Dr.	Glenn	Smith	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Education	Secondary Education
Dr.	Marie	Somers Hill	Interim Chair	Tampa	Education	Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
Dr.	Lenford	Sutton	Assistant Professor	Sarasota	Education	Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
Ms.	LaTosha	Thomas	Instructor	Tampa	Education	Upward Bound
Dr.	Steve	Thornton	Professor & Chair	Tampa	Education	Secondary Education
Dr.	Pradeep	Vanguri	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Education	Physical Education, Wellness and Sport Studies
Ms.	Anete	Vasquez	Instructor	Tampa	Education	Secondary Education
Ms.	Julia	White	Instructor	Sarasota	Education	Special Education
Dr.	Georgann	Wyatt	Instructor	Lakeland	Education	Childhood Education
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Dr.	Hua	Cao	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Dr.	Elaine	Chang	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Engineering	Civil & Environmental Engineering
Dr.	Nathan	Crane	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Engineering	Mechanical
Dr.	Jeffrey	Cunningham	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Engineering	Civil & Environmental Engineering
Dr.	Alexander	Domijan	Professor	Tampa	Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Dr.	Yogi	Goswami	Professor	Tampa	Engineering	Chemical
Mr.	Justin	Harlow	Instructor	Tampa	Engineering	Computer Science & Engineering
Dr.	Adriana	Iamnitchi	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Engineering	Computer Science & Engineering
Mr.	Nan	Kong	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Engineering	Industrial & Management Systems Eng.
Ms.	Susana	Lai-Yuen	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Engineering	Industrial & Management Systems Eng.
Dr.	Craig	Lusk	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Engineering	Mechanical Engineering
Dr.	Paul	Schnitzler	Instructor	Tampa	Engineering	Industrial & Management Systems Engineering
Dr.	Daniel	Simkins	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Engineering	Civil & Environmental Engineering
Dr.	Sylvia	Thomas	Assistant Dean and Instructor	Tampa	Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Dr.	Rahul	Tripathi	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Engineering	Computer Science & Engineering
Dr.	Jing	Wang	Instructor	Tampa	Engineering	Computer Science & Engineering
Dr.	Daniel	Yeh	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Engineering	Civil & Environmental Engineering
LOUIS DE LA PARTE FLORIDA MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE
Dr.	John	Robst	Associate Professor	Tampa	Florida Mental Health Institute	Mental Health Law & Policy
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS CENTER
Dr.	Bernd	Reiter	Visiting Professor	Tampa	International Affairs Center	Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Dr.	Timothy	Smith	Assistant Director	Tampa	International Affairs Center	Latin American & Caribbean Studies
LIBRARY
Ms.	Nancy	Cunningham	Associate Director	Tampa	Library	Reference & Instruction
Ms.	Catherine	Lavallee-Welch	Associate Librarian	Lakeland	Library
Ms.	Audrey	Powers	Associate Librarian	Tampa	Library	Reference & Instruction
COLLEGE OF MARINE SCIENCE
Dr.	Aida	Alvera-Azcarate	Visiting Associate in Research	St. Pete	Marine Science
Dr.	Alexander	Barth	Visiting Associate in Research	St. Pete	Marine Science
Mr.	Gino	Gonzalez	Visiting Assistant in Research	St. Pete	Marine Science
Ms.	Michelle	McIntyre	Research Associate	St. Pete	Marine Science
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
Dr.	Sachin	Apte	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Interdisciplinary Oncology
Dr.	Ernesto	Ayala	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Interdisciplinary Oncology
Dr.	Marisa F.	Baker	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Obstetrics/Gynecology
Dr.	Marilyn	Bui	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Pathology
Dr.	Basil S.	Cherpelis	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Internal Medicine
Dr.	Domenico	Coppola	Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Cancer Center-IOP
Dr.	Carol S.	Cox	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Obstetrics/Gynecology
Dr.	Morna J.	Dorsey	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Pediatrics
Dr.	Charles M.	Edwards	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Internal Medicine
Dr.	Denis K.	English	Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Center for Aging-Neuroscience
Dr.	Roberto J.	Garcia-Ramos	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Internal Medicine
Dr.	Barbara C.	Hansen	Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Internal Medicine
Dr.	Richard D.	Klein	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Surgery
Dr.	John M.	Koomen	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Interdisciplinary Oncology
Dr.	Andreas G.	Seyfang	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Med Micro & Immunology
Dr.	Tawee	Tanvetyanon	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Interdisciplinary Oncology
Dr.	Xenia J.	Tigno	Associate Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Physiology & Biophysics
Dr.	Donald E.	Wheeler	Associate Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Dr.	Zue-Zhong	Yu	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Medicine	Interdisciplinary Oncology
COLLEGE OF NURSING
Mr.	Christopher	Garrison	Instructor	Tampa	Nursing
Mr.	Charles	Griess	Instructional Specialist	Tampa	Nursing
Ms.	Linda	Joustra	Instructor	Tampa	Nursing
Dr.	Steve	Morris	Program Director	Tampa	Nursing
COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Dr.	Julie	Baldwin	Professor	Tampa	Public Health	Community & Family Health
Dr.	Donna J.	Haiduven	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Public Health	Center for Biological Defense
Dr.	Ricardo	Izurieta	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Public Health	Global Health
Dr.	Kathleen	O'Rourke	Associate Professor	Tampa	Public Health	Chiles Center
Dr.	Donna	Petersen	Professor & Dean	Tampa	Public Health	Dean's Office
Dr.	Aurora	Sanchez-Anguiano	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Public Health	Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Dr.	Amy	Stuart	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Public Health	Environmental & Occupational Health
Dr.	Alberto Luis	van Olphen	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Public Health	Center for Biological Defense
Dr.	Tao	Wang	Assistnt Professor	Tampa	Public Health	Eqidemiology-Biostatistic
COLLEGE OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS
Mr.	John	Byrd	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Visual & Performing Arts	School of Art & Art History
Dr.	Chin-sung	Chang	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Visual & Performing Arts	School of Art & Art History
Dr.	Riccardo	Marchi	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Visual & Performing Arts	School of Art & Art History
Dr.	Derek	Murray	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Visual & Performing Arts	School of Art & Art History
Mr.	Anat	Pollack	Assistant Professor	Tampa	Visual & Performing Arts	School of Art & Art History
Mr.	Marc	Powers	Professor	Tampa	Visual & Performing Arts	School of Theatre & Dance
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & COMMUNITY DESIGN
Ms.	Vanessa	Estrada	Visiting Instructor	Tampa	Architecture & Community Design
SCHOOL OF HOTEL & RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT
Dr.	Katerina	Annaraud	Assistant Professor	Sarasota	Hotel & Restaurant Management
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
Dr.	Paul	Bao	Associate Professor	Lakeland	Undergraduate Studies	Information Technology
Dr.	Abdel	Ejnioui	Assistant Professor	Lakeland	Undergraduate Studies	Information Technology
Dr.	Sunita	Lodwig	Instructor	Sarasota	Undergraduate Studies	Information Technology

BIOGRAPHIES FOR NEW FACULTY 2005 - 2006

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Dr. Mariaelena Bartesaghi Assistant Professor Communication	Mariaelena Bartesaghi received her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School in 2004, and has held a Critical Writing Fellowship through the departments of History and Sociology of Science and Health and Societies before coming to USF. Her research focuses on the role of language and discourse as social practice in health institutions, connecting authority in interpersonal relationships to patterns of institutional and social authority. Dr. Bartesaghi has taught at both graduate and undergraduate levels in the U.S. and abroad, and has published in communication, critical inquiry and psychotherapy journals. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Pratyusha Basu Assistant Professor Geography	Dr. Basu’s research interests include rural economies, environmental movements, and gender issues. Her specific focus is rural development and agrarian politics in India, and her dissertation compared two village-level dairy cooperatives. Its aim was to provide a deeper understanding of the success of India's dairy development program. She also works with the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Movement to Save the Narmada River), an anti-dam movement in India, which has questioned the displacement caused by dams and the increasing corporatization of rural resources. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Mr. Eric Beauregard Assistant Professor Criminology	Eric Beauregard is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminology. He completed his Ph.D. in 2005 at the School of Criminology, University of Montreal. While completing his dissertation on the hunting patterns of serial sex offenders, Dr. Beauregard was also working for the Correctional Service of Canada where he was responsible for the assessment of sexual preferences of sex offenders. His research interests focus on sex offenders, offending patterns of criminals and offender profiling. He is the co-editor of a published book on sexual homicide and he is currently working on a book dealing with the comparison between sex murderers and rapists. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Case Boterbloem Associate Professor History	Case Boterbloem was born in Haarlem, the Netherlands. He received a BA and MA from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD from McGill University in 1994. He taught for eleven years at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario, before coming to USF as an Associate Professor. At Nipissing, he was the single recipient of the university's Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000. In 1999 and 2004, Boterbloem published two books, both on the history of Russia/the Soviet Union, with McGill-Queen's University Press. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Jennifer Collins Assistant Professor Geography	Jennifer is from the United Kingdom, just north of London. She participated in a student exchange program in 1995 which allowed her to study in the United States. She has not only been a student in both countries, but has also taught at universities in both countries. Her research concentrates on hurricanes and this is one of the draws to her for living in Tampa. With another forecasted active hurricane season, Jennifer hopes to obtain much up-to-date material for her teaching and research. As well as her love for hurricanes, Jennifer enjoys traveling and new experiences. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Kelly Crain Assistant Professor Communication Science and Disorders	Kelly Lamar Crain comes to USF from Washington, DC where he worked as a Research Associate at Gallaudet University, the world’s only Liberal Arts University for the Deaf. Kelly’s research interests focus on the behavioral manifestations of phonological awareness exhibited by Deaf individuals from a variety of communication backgrounds, and the interaction between traditionally spoken languages and signed languages. At USF, Kelly will lead the 2-yr M.A. program in Deaf Education in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Sara Crawley Assistant Professor Women's Studies	Dr. Sara Crawley's 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 and Journal of Contemporary Ethnography and is currently coauthoring a book entitled Gendering the Body. Dr. Crawley has co-authored with K.L. Broad, University of Florida, and Lara Foley, University of Tulsa an article in The Sociological Quarterly entitled, “Doing Family Values: Social Movement Framing, Discourse, and Interpretive Practice.” ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Stephen Deban Assistant Professor Biology	Dr. Deban's research interests lie in the areas of physiology and biomechanics. The comparative evolutionary approach is central to his work. He uses studies of vertebrates, mainly amphibians and reptiles, to understand the biological mechanisms underlying behavior and physiological performance, and how these organismal attributes are integrated across levels of biological organization. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Ms. Tasha Dubriwny Assistant Professor Communication	Dr. Dubriwny finished her Ph.D. in Speech Communication from the University of Georgia this August and joins the Department of Communication as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Dubriwny has published extensively on the subjects of feminist rhetoric and health communication. Her work has appeared in such journals as Public Understanding of Science, Women’s Studies in Communication, and Community Genetics. Dr. Dubriwny plans on using USF’s extensive resources in the medical and health fields to continue her research on postpartum disorders, including running focus groups with women with postpartum depression and analyzing popular texts such as television news and memoirs. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Mr. Eric Duke Assistant Professor Africana Studies	Eric D. Duke joins us from Michigan State University where he will receive his PhD in Comparative Black History in December 2005. Eric specializes in twentieth-century African American, Caribbean, and Black Diaspora History, with particular focus on the overlapping and interconnected histories of these areas. He is especially interested in issues of “race and nation”, identity construction, Black nation-building, and Black internationalism. His dissertation “Seeing Race, Seeing Nation: Conceptualizing a ‘United West Indies’ in the British Caribbean and Diaspora”, examines how Caribbean peoples living in the West Indies, United States, and United Kingdom, as well as African American and Pan-African activists on both sides of the Atlantic, envisioned and debated federation from the beginning of the 20th century to the onset of British Caribbean independence in the early 1960s. Eric also has a family that crosses national boundaries: the United States and Jamaica. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Lorie Fridell Associate Professor Criminology	Dr. Lorie Fridell has joined the faculty in Criminology at USF. She previously taught at both the University of Nebraska and Florida State University. At those institutions she received five university-level teaching awards. She left academia in 1999 to serve as the Director of Research at the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), a non-profit agency in Washington, D.C. dedicated to improving domestic law enforcement. During the 15 years that Dr. Fridell has been conducting research on law enforcement, she has written books/monographs, chapters and articles on such topics as use of force, complaints against police, violence against police, and community policing. Additionally, she is a national expert on racial profiling. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Colin Heydt Assistant Professor Philosophy	Colin Heydt grew up on the Jersey shore (Neptune, NJ). He attended Swarthmore College, where he took a degree in philosophy (with a literature minor) after having discovered that he preferred reading Aristotle to working in genetics and cell biology labs. This eventually propelled him to graduate school in philosophy (Boston University). He joins USF from Boston College--realizing his desire not to leave the Big East Conference. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. David Johnson Assistant Professor History	David Johnson received his B.A. in history from Georgetown and his Ph.D. in history from Northwestern. His research fields include 20th century U.S., the Cold War, gender and sexuality. Prof. Johnson has held research fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution, the Social Science Research Council, and CUNY's Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies. His book, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government has been awarded both the Herbert Hoover book award in U.S.history and the Randy Shilts award in gay non-fiction. A native of New Hampshire and veteran of 10 Chicago winters, he is thrilled to be in Florida. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Shayne Jones Assistant Professor Criminology	Dr. Shayne Jones completed his graduate training at the University of Kentucky in 2003, and served as a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Pittsburgh the following two years. Much of his research draws from a social psychological framework, specifically exploring how individual differences (e.g., personality) are mediated and moderated by social/contextual factors (e.g., school, neighborhood). He is also interested in the construct of psychopathy, especially as it applies to children and adolescents. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Ms. Julie Langford-Johnson Assistant Professor History	Julie Langford-Johnson joins us from Bloomington, Indiana where she recently completed her Ph.D. in Classical Studies. Her research interests fall under the broad rubric of identity formation in the Roman Empire, especially in regard to gender, ethnicity and religion. Last summer Prof. Langford-Johnson studied archaeology at the American Academy in Rome and dug on the NE slope of the Palatine in Rome and on Monte Polizzo in Sicily. She has also studied Roman coinage at the American Numismatic Society in New York City and medieval paleography at the University of Notre Dame. This semester she will teach an introductory course in Roman history and a seminar on Roman Imperial Ideology. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Alexander Levine Assistant Professor Philosophy	After completing his secondary education in Berlin, Germany, Alex Levine moved to the United States to attend Reed College. He continued his studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of California at San Diego, receiving his Ph.D. in philosophy from the latter in 1994. Before joining the USF faculty, he taught philosophy at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, and at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His published scholarship includes contributions to the philosophy of biology, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of mind. He has also published several scholarly translations. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Nathan Maxfield Assistant Professor Communication Sciences and Disorders	Dr. Nathan Maxfield joins the faculty in Communication Sciences & Disorders after completing his degree in the Department of Speech & Heairng Sciences at the Graduate School of the City Univeristy of New York this past year. Dr. Maxfield received his received both his B.S. and M.S. degrees at the University of South Florida and his return is very exciting. His research interests include psycholinguistic modeling of speech production in typical and speech-impaired adults a and the use of event-related potential to study cognitive process of speech and language. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Mr. Bruce Neubauer Assistant Professor Government & International Affairs	Dr. Bruce Neubauer completed his terminal degree in Public Administration at the University of Georgia. He has taught at Wayne State College and Pittsburg State University. His area of specialization within Public Administration is Information Systems. He has a Master's of Science in Management Information Systems from University of Nebraska at Omaha. His interests include organization design, e-government and e-democracy, complexity theory, information technology, Web services and service oriented architectures. He grew up near Atlanta, Georgia. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Cynthia Patterson Assistant Professor English	Dr. Patterson joins the Division of Arts and Sciences as a tenure-earning Assistant Professor in English. Dr. Patterson has held research fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution, the Winterthur Library and the Pennsylvania State Archives and Museum. She has served a guest editor for special issues of Cultural Matters and English Matters. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Steven Roach Assistant Professor Government & International Affairs	Steven C. Roach received his Ph.D. in International Studies from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Before joining the faculty at the University of South Florida, he was lecturer at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he taught on nationalism, human rights, and international law. His research interests focus on the politics of international law, human rights and international security, and critical international theory. Dr. Roach is the author of The International Criminal Court, Ethics, and Global Justice: The Politics of Criminalizing Violence (forthcoming), Cultural Autonomy, Minority Rights and Globalization, and editor of Critical Theory and World Society: A Reader (forthcoming). His articles have appeared in numerous high-profile, peer-reviewed journals, including Political Studies, International Studies Perspectives, The International Journal of Human Rights, and International Politics. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Debra Slone Assistant Professor Library & Information Sciences	Debra Slone, PhD, joins the School of Library and Information Science this fall as an Assistant Professor. She will be teaching Foundations of Library and Information Science and Information Seeking Behaviors.Dr. Slone comes to us from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she earned her PhD in Information and Library Science in 2001. Dr. Slone also holds a Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS), 1990 from University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts (BA), English, 1984 from Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee. SLIS is pleased to welcome Dr. Slone to our faculty. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Dongyoung Sohn Assistant Professor Mass Communications	Dongyoung Sohn, Ph.D., joins the School of Mass Communications as an assistant professor this fall. He received both his doctorate and master's degree in advertising from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Sohn’s primary research interests are in the social psychology of digital media and consumer behavior. He will be teaching Advertising Research Methods and Internet Advertising. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Scott Solomon Assistant Professor Government & International Affairs	M. Scott Solomon is assistant professor of Government and International Affairs at the University of South Florida (USF) and research fellow at the University of South Florida Globalization Research Center. His research interests include globalization, migration, and international political economy. Before joining USF he taught at the Graduate Program in International Affairs at New School University and the Global Studies Graduate Program at New York University, and served as director of New School University’s International Fieldwork Program in Hong Kong. After receiving his Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University he served as the Lingnan Foundation Teaching Scholar at Lingnan University, Hong Kong's liberal arts university. He is the co-author, with Mark Rupert, of Globalization and International Political Economy: The Politics of Alternative Futures (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) and "Historical Materialism, Ideology, and the Politics of Globalizing Capitalism" in Historical Materialism and Globalization, edited by Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith. He has also authored several articles for the Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Elizabeth Strom Associate Professor Geography	Before joining the USF Department of Geography, Dr. Strom was Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University-Newark. Dr. Strom’s past research has analyzed urban planning decisions in Berlin after Germany’s reunification as well as the economic development challenges facing the industrial cities of the United States. Results of her Berlin research have been published in Building the New Berlin: The Politics of Urban Development in Germany’s Capital, published by Lexington Books in 2001. Her current work examines cities that have developed cultural facilities as part of their downtown revitalization strategies. Her work has been funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Fulbright Program, and the Social Science Research Council, and been published in the Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, German Politics and Society, and European Urban and Regional Research, and Review of Policy Research. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Mr. Christopher Sullivan Assistant Professor Criminology	Christopher J. Sullivan recently completed his doctorate at Rutgers University, School of Criminal Justice. His research interests include the relationship between crime, substance use, and mental illness; juvenile delinquency; and research methodology and analytic methods. His doctoral dissertation dealt with the longitudinal influence of childhood emotional and behavioral problems on adolescent delinquency. Recent and upcoming publications appear in the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, and Behavioral Sciences & the Law. __________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. William Tyson Assistant Professor Sociology	Dr. Tyson’s research examines factors that influence the racial composition of friendship networks among a racially diverse population of students on residential campuses. His areas of interest include social psychology, race and ethnic relations, and the sociology of sport. Currently, he is conducting data analysis for a National Science Foundation Research on Learning and Education project entitled, “Understanding Factors that sustain Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Career Pathways.” __________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Thomas Williams Associate Professor Religious Studies	Professor Williams specializes in medieval philosophy, especially Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, and Duns Scotus, and the philosophy of religion. He has also written on Plato, Jane Austen, and the ethics of lying and deception. In 2005-06 he will be the Alvin Planting a Fellow in the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, where he will be working on a book on the philosophy and theology of Saint Anselm (1033-1109) for the Great Medieval Thinkers Series from Oxford University Press. __________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Tamara Zwick Assistant Professor History	Tamara Zwick received her Ph.D. in European History from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her research interests include 19th century Germany, gender and kinship ties, Holocaust historiography, and feminist theory. Her dissertation on women, kinship and class identity in nineteenth-century Hamburg won the Mary Wollstonecraft Dissertation prize at UCLA. She has held fellowships from the German Academic Exchange, among others, and was most recently Visiting Assistant Professor of Global and Women's History at James Madison University. __________________________________________________________________________________________

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Ms. Jennifer Cainas Instructor Accountancy	Ms. Cainas joins the Division of Business Administration as an Instructor in Accountancy. Ms. Cainas has 9 years experience as an Accounting Supervisor and Assistant Controller. She has been an adjunct instructor at Hillsborough Community College for 3 years. __________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Rajiv Dant Associate Professor Marketing	Rajiv P. Dant is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing at the University of South Florida. He received his Master of Management from the University of Bombay and his Ph.D. in Marketing from Virginia Tech. He has previously taught at schools like Clarkson University, Boston University and MIT (on sabbatical). Professor Dant’s research focuses on channels of distribution, supply chain management and franchising, with special emphasis on conflict management, and managing inter-organizational governance and relationships. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Yancy Edwards Assistant Professor Marketing	Yancy D. Edwards received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Business Administration (Marketing) from The Ohio State University, and his M.S. and A.C.P.M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of South Florida. His research involves building models that are more insightful and predictive of consumer behavior. These insights are used to develop and improve product development, promotion, market segmentation, and target marketing activities. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Anand Kumar Associate Professor Marketing	Anand Kumar is an Associate Professor of Marketing in the College of Business Administration at USF. Prior to joining USF, Anand taught at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, the Owen Graduate School of Business at Vanderbilt University, and Indiana University at Bloomington. He got his MBA from Indiana State University at Terre Haute and his Ph.D. in Business from Indiana University at Bloomington. His research examines consumer reactions to marketing communications, customer satisfaction, customer delight and brand strategies. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. John Selsky Associate Professor Management	Dr. Selsky joins the Division of Business Administration as a tenure-earning Associate Professor in Management. He comes to USF Lakeland from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Selsky has published in the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, the Journal of Management Inquiry and Urban Policy and Research. Dr. Selsky is a member of the editorial board of Systemic Practice and Action Research. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Nathan Stuart Assistant Professor Accountancy	Dr. Nathan V. Stuart researches and teaches in the managerial accounting area. His particular interests are cost-benefit analysis, incentives, performance measurement, and the behavioral consequences of information preparation and presentation. In his spare time he enjoys science fiction, crossword puzzles, and ultimate Frisbee. _____________________________________________________________________________________________

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Dr. Jeannie Kleinhammer- Tramill Professor Special Education	Jeannie Kleinhammer-Tramill joins USF as a Professor in the Department of Special Education. Prior to joining the USF faculty, Dr. Kleinhammer-Tramill was an Associate Research Professor of Special Education at the University of Kansas. Her scholarship focuses on special education policy, including the role of federal and state support for personnel preparation in special education. Kleinhammer-Tramill has published extensively in the areas of state policies impacting personnel preparation for transition and historical analyses of federal policy. She has written and directed more than 30 federal grants including the current research grant, Factors that Influence Schools' AYP Status for Students with Disabilities as a Subgroup. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Sherry Kragler Associate Professor Childhood Education	Dr. Kragler joins the Division of Education as a tenure-earning Associate Professor in Childhood Education. She comes to USF Lakeland from Ball State University. Dr. Kragler has published in Early Childhood Development and Care, Childhood Education, the Reading Teacher and the Journal of Research in Childhood Education. Dr. Kragler is co-editor of Reading Research and Instruction. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Michael Matthews Assistant Professor Special Education	Michael Matthews joins USF as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education. Matthews received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with a concentration in gifted and creative education from the University of Georgia in 2002. Dr. Matthews has recently completed a postdoctoral appointment as Research Fellow with the Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP) where he was involved in the coordination of above-level testing and provided educational programs and materials for highly able students in grades 4-11 across a 16-state region that includes Florida. In addition to currently serving as a reviewer for the Gifted Child Quarterly, the Journal for the Education of the Gifted, the Journal of Chemical Education, and the Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, Dr. Matthews is the incoming program chair for the AERA SIG-Research on Giftedness and Talent. __________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. J. Lynn McBrein Assistant Professor Psychological & Social Found.	(Ph.D., 2005, Emory University), Assistant Professor (Social Foundations, Sarasota campus). Research: acculturation, discrimination, and academic motivation of refugee students; preparing teachers to help internationally diverse students succeed; effects of globalization on international education; and media literacy for social justice and human rights. __________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Michelle Mitcham-Smith Assistant Professor Psychological & Social Found.	She has a master’s degree in English and a post-graduate diploma in Anglo-Irish Literature from Trinity College in Dublin. She previously taught English and was a senior editor and project manager in education for CNN and Turner Learning and Southwestern Educational Publishing. __________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Steve Sanders Professor & Director Physical Education, Wellness, & Sport Studies	Dr. Steve Sanders is a Professor and Director of the School of Physical Education, Wellness, and Sports Studies at the University of South Florida. The School has academic units in Physical Education Teacher Education, Exercise Science, and Athletic Training. Dr. Sanders is closely involved with teacher preparation programs working to prepare teachers to assist children in becoming physically active for a lifetime. He has taught and promoted the concept of being physically active for life throughout his career while working with all age levels from university students to infant/parent and toddler movement classes, to teaching preschool, elementary, and high school physical education. Dr. Sanders is author of the Books “Designing Preschool Movement Programs (1992),” and “Active for Life: Developmentally Appropriate Movement Programs for Young Children (NAEYC, 2002),” along with over one hundred scholarly papers. Steve is the editor of the Preschool Section for PE Central, a nationally acclaimed physical education website, www.pecentral.org, and on the advisory boards of PBS TeacherSource, a website to assist teachers and parents to use PBS resources to enhance learning, and Sesame Workshop Healthy Habits for Life, an initiative to promote healthy nutritional and physical activity habits. __________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Glenn Smith Assistant Professor Secondary Education	Glenn Smith teaches courses in Educational Technology and conducts research 1) on the effects of computer technology on the human spatial visualization and 2) on the differences between distance education and face-to-face education. He has published in refereed journals on both areas. He has been working on a project called Math Thread, which aims to improve web-based college mathematics courses. He has worked in Hollywood developing computer graphics software for such shows as Steven Spielberg's "Amazing Stories". Glenn has also worked At Boeing Computer Services developing a large engineering graphics software package. He comes to us from the Department of Technology & Society within the College of Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Steve Thornton Professor & Chair Secondary Education	Stephen J. Thornton was born in Australia where he received undergraduate and graduate degrees in history. His doctoral dissertation completed at Stanford University, "Curriculum Consonance in United States History Classrooms," received the outstanding American dissertation of the year in curriculum from the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. He has lectured widely in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. His scholarly interests center on how teachers act as curricular-instructional gatekeepers translating the formal curriculum into instructional programs for their particular classrooms. He is currently writing a book on geography in American curricula. He has chaired both the American Educational Research Association's Special Interest Group on research in social studies education and the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies. Professor Thornton comes to us from the Teachers College where he spent the last fifteen years. _________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Pradeep Vanguri Assistant Professor Physical Education, Wellness, & Sport Studies	Pradeep Vanguri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Education, Wellness, and Sport Studies at the University of South Florida (Tampa, FL). He earned his Bachelor of Science Degree from East Carolina University (Greenville, NC) in Exercise Science and his Master of Science Degree from North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC). Upon completing his graduate work he served as Assistant Professor and Assistant Athletic Trainer at Barton College (Wilson, NC) in the Department of Physical Education and Sport Studies. He recently completed his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in the Department of Instructional Leadership at The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL) where he also served as graduate assistant in the undergraduate Athletic Training Education Program. His Doctoral Dissertation was entitled “The Acquisition of Instructional Strategies through a Four-Session Clinical Instructor Workshop Incorporating Online Discussion Boards,” which investigated the workshop development and implementation. His current research interests include faculty development, instructional technology, pedagogy, and clinical instruction. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Ms. Anete Vasquez Instructor Secondary Education	Anete Vasquez is joining the Secondary Education Department on a permanent basis as the coordinator of field experiences and an instructor in English Education. Anete has twelve years of teaching experience. She is National Board Certified and has won numerous teaching awards. She was Pinellas County Teacher of the Year, a Regional Finalist for Florida Teacher of the Year, and the recipient of a Milkin Family Foundation Excellent Educator Award. She is currently a doctoral candidate, and as a graduate assistant she won the Provost’s Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student Assistant. ___________________________________________________________________________________________

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Dr. Hua Cao Assistant Professor Electricial	Hua Cao received the B.S. degree in Materials Science from Fudan University in Shanghai, China in 1997, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2004. The majority of his Ph.D. thesis work was done at NEC research Institute, Princeton, New Jersey. His research interests are in Terahertz ultra fast optoelectronics, nanophotonics, and integrated optical circuits. He enjoys reading, tennis, badminton and soccer. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Alexander Domijan Professor Electrical	Alex Domijan obtained his B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Miami, M.E. degree in electric power engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. He was a member of the electrical engineering faculty at the University of Florida and director of the Florida Power Affiliates and Power Quality Laboratory since 1987. He joined the faculty of the University of South Florida as a Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2005. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Power and Energy Systems, and Chair of many international conferences on energy systems. His research areas are Power Quality, Electricity Metering, Flexible AC Transmission Systems, Demand Response, Power System Reliability, Custom Power, Power Electronics and Motor Drive Systems, and FRIENDS (Flexible, Reliable and Intelligent Electrical eNergy Delivery Systems). __________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Craig Lusk Assistant Professor Civil and Environmental	Dr. Craig Lusk received his Bachelor’s and Masters degree in Engineering Science and Mechancis from Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. from Brigham Young University. His research interests include compliant mechanisms, Microelectromechanical systems, theoretical kinematics and biomechanics. ___________________________________________________________________________________________

USF LIBRARY
Ms. Nancy Cunningham Associate Director Library	Nancy Cunningham is the newly appointed Associate Director for Reference & Instruction at the USF Tampa Library. She calls San Francisco home, with a BA from San Francisco State University, a Library Science graduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from St. Mary's University. She is fluent in Spanish and was awarded an American Library Association Fellowship, teaching and training library school students at the Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico in 1992. Nearly 20 years of progressively responsible positions in academic libraries have given Nancy broad knowledge of research collections, services, and management skills. Her impressive record of publications, presentations, and professional service demonstrates her commitment and contributions to the profession and to higher education. ___________________________________________________________________________________________

COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
Dr. Richard Klein Assistant Professor Surgery	Dr. Richard Klein joined the Department of Surgery in June 2005 as an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Klein completed his medical degree and his masters of public health degree at Tufts University. He completed his Internship at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and his Residencies at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and University of Michigan School of Medicine. Dr. Klein completed a fellowship at Plastic Surgery Associates, P.C. in McLean, Virginia. He is board certified in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. His research interests include wound healing, new approaches to endoscopic surgery, maxillofacial trauma and development of hands on advanced computerized educations models. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Andreas G. Seyfang Assistant Professor Med Micro & Immunology	Dr. Andreas Seyfang graduated from the University of Tübingen, Germany, with a B.Sc. in Biology (1983), a M.Sc. in Zoology/Parasitology (1989) and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry (1993, magna cum laude). Other academic training and positions include Duke University, Durham (exchange, 1984-85), University of Bordeaux, France (postdoc, 1993-95), Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland (postdoc, 1995-99), and Medical College of Georgia, Augusta (assistant professor, 1999-2005). Dr. Seyfang conducts research in molecular parasitology/microbiology and protein biochemistry. His laboratory studies membrane transport in opportunistic microbial pathogens (trypanosomes, Candida, mycobacteria) and the human brain. Dr. Seyfang’s research is funded by NIH and the American Heart Association. His hobbies include classical music, Egyptology and bird watching. __________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Donald Wheeler Associate Professor Pathology & Laboratory Medicine	Dr. Donald E. Wheeler received his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. He is board-certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology with additional fellowship training in Renal and Hepatic Pathology at the Brigham and Women's’ Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a member of several professional societies including the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, the International Liver Transplant Society and the College of American Pathologists. Dr. Wheeler is a recognized educator and the President-Elect of Group for Research in Pathology Education in Pathology, a national organization of pathology course director from several national and international medical schools. ___________________________________________________________________________________________

COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Dr. Kathleen O'Rourke Associate Professor Chiles Center	Dr. Kathleen O’Rourke has joined us as from the Medical University Health of South Carolina. Dr. O’Rourke’s areas of research interests are prenatal epidemiology and health disparities in maternal and newborn outcomes, immigrant issues, and adolescent pregnancy with a focus on program evaluation. She is also the Research Director at the Lawton and Rhea Center for Health Mothers and Babies. Currently, she is focused on factors associated with unintended pregnancy among the U.S. military populations and the health promotion campaign among Hispanic and African-American women. Dr. O’Rourke continues to have a strong interest in community-based projects and the application of epidemiological principles in communities. __________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Amy Stuart Assistant Professor Environmental and Occupational Health	Dr. Amy Stuart joined the faculty of Environmental & Occupational Health as an Assistant Professor in January. Dr. Stuart has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Stanford University. To support her graduate work, she was awarded nationally competitive fellowships from both the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency STAR Program. Dr. Stuart comes to USF with professional experience as an air quality engineering consultant with Environ Corporation and as a postdoctoral fellow hosted jointly by the Institute for International Studies and the Geological and Environmental Sciences program at Stanford. She comes to us most recently from the Atmospheric Sciences Department of Texas A&M University. Dr. Stuart¹s research interests focus on pollutant transformation and transport in the atmosphere and the effects of these processes on human health and the environment. Some areas of study include cloud ice chemistry, air quality in developing countries, air quality and climate change interactions, and emergency releases of toxic materials. At USF she will teach and develop classes focused on air pollution and environmental health topics. During her personal time, Dr. Stuart enjoys playing with her two daughters, reading, being out in nature, and provocative socio-political discussions. __________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Tao Wang Assistant Professor Eqidemiology & Biostatistics	Dr. Tao Wang joins us from the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Wang’s research interests lie in the general fields of statistical genomics, bioinformatics, and statistical computation. He has been involved in the design and analysis of micro array gene expression data, for both cDNA and high-density oligonucleotide micro array. He is currently working on a breast cancer study using micro array technology to identify the signature genes predictive of different risk groups and is developing an R package “Multi-Array” for micro array analysis implementing probe-level modeling and multiplicity-adjusted inferences. __________________________________________________________________________________________

COLLEGE OF VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS
Mr. John Byrd Assistant Professor Art & Art Hisotry	Assistant Professor John Byrd joins the faculty of the School of Art and Art History as a specialist in Ceramic Sculpture. With more than a dozen exhibitions of his artwork since his graduation from the University of Washington, John has already established himself as an emerging artist working with clay. He has had numerous exhibits at Garth Clark Gallery in New York City - the nation's most prestigious ceramic arts gallery. In addition to teaching as a Visiting Professor at USF in 2004, John has taught at Louisiana State University (2002, 2003) and the Kansas City Art Institute (2002). ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Derek Murray Assistant Professor Art & Art History	Assistant Professor Derek Murray, PhD, Cornell, 2005, joins the faculty of the School of Art and Art History (College of Visual and Performing Arts) as a specialist in Art Theory and Criticism. Dr. Murray also holds an MA from California State University in 19th Century Modernist Painting (Art History.) He is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas and an art exhibition catalogue for the Dakar Biennial. His article, "Hip-Hop vs. High Art: Notes on Race as Spectacle" was published in the Summer, 2004 edition of Art Journal. He has also published works in NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art. Dr. Murray will be on a Post Doctoral Fellowship during the 2005-2006 academic year at the University of California, Berkeley. __________________________________________________________________________________________
Ms. Anat Pollack Assistant Professor Art & Art History	Assistant Professor Anat Pollack joins the faculty of the School of Art and Art History as a specialist in Electronic Media. Anat brings a varied background in new technology and art to USF - including work in sound, animation, sculpture, photography and interactive web-related arts. With more than 18 exhibitions of her artworks, Anat has received recognition throughout the US. She has developed projects, theatrical and video sets or public artworks and most recently was an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. __________________________________________________________________________________________
Mr. Marc Powers Professor Theatre & Dance	Marc Powers received his MFA from Pennsylvania State University and his BA from Bucknell University. He began his teaching career with the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts, where he served as a master teacher of acting for twelve years. He has held faculty positions at Winthrop University as Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance for eight years and at the Ohio State University, coordinating the MFA Acting Program while also serving as Director of the Ohio Governor’s School for the Gifted and Talented in the Arts. He comes to USF from the University of Alabama at Birmingham after five years there as the Chair of the Department of Theatre. Marc has been an active member of the Actors’ Equity Association since 1977. He is also actively involved with the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the Southeastern Theatre Conference for which he is Chair of the College and University Division, and the National Association of Schools of Theatre where he serves as an evaluator. __________________________________________________________________________________________
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & COMMUNITY DESIGN
Ms. Vanessa Estrada Visiting Instructor Architecture & Community Design	Ms. Estrada is a registered architect from Colombia where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from “Pontificia Universidad Javeriana”, Santa Fe de Bogotá. She also obtained a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida where she worked as a graduate teaching assistant and became an adjunct professor on spring 2004. She possesses over five years of diverse experience in architecture with responsibilities including site planning, design, construction documentation and construction administration. She has been involved with new construction, as well as historical preservation for a variety of building types including commercial, residential, hospitality and institutional. Ms. Estrada has successfully completed the schematic design documents, construction documents and construction administration of several architectural projects. Her client portfolio includes The Sembler Company, Whole Foods Market, Carter, Unicorp, United American Realty Corporation among others. Her research interests include understanding the historical and cultural background of Latin American countries in order to appreciate their architecture, studying the foreign influences in Latin American architecture as well as its influence abroad and compiling significant information and material on contemporary Latin American architecture that can be accessible for both English and/or Spanish speaking public. _________________________________________________________________________________________