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Fenda Akiwumi - Dr. Fenda Akiwumi earned an M.Sc. in Hydrogeology from the University of London and Ph.D. in environmental Geography from Texas State University San Marcos. Her research interests include resource policy and management in developing countries with a focus on West African water resources; the political ecology of resource exploitation; and gender and water use. She worked as a hydrogeologist for 14 years on the UNDP/FAO Land Resources Survey Project (subsequently Land and Water Development Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry) in Sierra Leone and as an environmental consultant in the mining industry. Dr. Akiwumi is starting in the Department of Geography as an Assistant Professor.

Andrew Berish - Dr. Andrew Berish will be joining the Department of Humanities and American Studies as an Assistant Professor. He received his Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California at Los Angeles. He received a UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship in order to complete his dissertation, Swinging Transcontinental: Modernity, Race, and Place in American Dance Band Music, 1930-1946. He is particularly interested the history of jazz and the study of jazz in its cultural context, including its role in the civil rights movement. He has taught music and culture courses focusing on everything from the symphony to popular music. Dr. Berish will be teaching courses treating twentieth century American Culture, jazz, the 1930s, and the civil rights movement.

Jennifer Bosson - Jennifer K. Bosson earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin in 2000. She taught in the psychology departments at Vassar College (2000-2001) and The University of Oklahoma (2001-2006) before joining the faculty at The University of South Florida. Dr. Bosson's research interests include self-esteem, social roles, stereotypes, gender, coping, and interpersonal relationships.

Maureen Butler - Dr. Butler received her Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas in 2006. Her primary teaching responsibility will be in the area of cost and managerial accounting. Dr. Butler’s research interests are in managerial accounting and capital markets, focusing specifically on human resource outsourcing. She is also interested in accounting issues related to defense contracting.

Yi-Hsin Chen - Yi-hsin Chen joins USF as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Measurement and Research. Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2006. His primary research interests are in the theories and applications of new cognitive-psychometric models that combine cognitive psychology with modern psychometrics. Such models include Logistic Latent Trait Linear Model (LLTM) and Tatsuoka's Rule-Space Methodology (RSM). In addition, Dr. Chen is interested in the applications of advanced linear models in secondary data analysis.

Annette Cozzi - Dr. Annette Cozzi will be joining the Department of Humanities and American Studies as an Assistant Professor of Humanities. She received her Ph.D. in British Literature from Tulane University. Her dissertation, Eating English: Food and the Construction and Consumption of Imperial National Identity, dealt with the relationship between food, literature, and the construction of British National Identity in the Nineteenth Century. She is particularly interested in British Literature, Cultural Studies (including Food Studies), and Literary and Feminist theory, as well as theories of Nationalism. Dr. Cozzi will be teaching courses focusing on Nineteenth Century culture, as well as introductory historical surveys treating the Renaissance through the Twentieth Century.

Debra Dobbs - Dr. Debra Dobbs completed a PhD in Sociology at the University of Kansas, and extensive postdoctoral work at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is a specialist in aging and health services research, including research on long-term care and palliative and end-of-life care. Dr. Dobbs comes to the School of Aging Studies with a well-established track record of publication and involvement in federally funded research in these areas.

Gary Dudell - Gary DuDell, Ph.D. has 30 years experience as a mental health professional in the Tampa Bay area. Along with his private practice, Dr. DuDell has been an adjunct professor in the Department of Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling since 1987. He has conducted workshops nationally, authored one book, Teenagers, Drugs, and Growing Up, and co-authored several professional journal articles and training curriculum. Over the last several years, his professional interests have been in the areas of mind/body approaches and behavioral health counseling. Dr. DuDell is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Certified Addictions Professional, Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, and Certified Clinical Supervisor.

Delcie Durham - Delcie Durham joins USF as a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and will serve as associate provost and dean of the Graduate School.

Jerri Edwards - Dr. Jerri Edwards completed a PhD in Developmental Psychology, and extensive postdoctoral training, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is a specialist in translational behavioral research on aging, applying findings from basic research on cognition and perception in older adults into interventions that improve “real world” daily functioning in tasks such as driving. Dr. Edwards comes to the School of Aging Studies with a well-established track record of publication and involvement in federally funded research in these areas.

David Estores - David S. Estores, Jr., M.D., graduated from the College of Medicine at the University of the Philippines. He completed his subspecialty training in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 1992. He joined the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Miami – Leonard Miller School of Medicine from 2000 to 2006 where he developed an interest in esophageal and swallowing disorders. He joined us at the Joy McCann Culverhouse Center for Swallowing Disorders in July, 2006. His research interests include; evaluation and therapy of non-cardiac chest pain, the impact of functional esophageal disorders on health-related quality of life measures, and evolution of esophageal motor disorders.

R.Cass Fisher - Cass Fisher’s academic interests are in the areas of Jewish studies and philosophy of religion. His current research project is a philosophical analysis of Jewish theological language that utilizes texts from the ancient and modern periods. This study explores the multiple forms of Jewish theological language with the purpose of uncovering the spiritual, intellectual, and cultural practices that contribute to Jewish theological reflection. Emphasizing the relationship between religious practices and religious beliefs provides a framework in which to reconsider the philosophical foundations of Jewish theological language in the wake of modern and postmodern philosophy. Cass’ research on theological language is intended to serve as a prolegomenon to future studies of basic questions in the philosophy of religion as refracted through classic Jewish sources.

Lisa Gaynor - Dr. Gaynor earned her Ph.D. from the University of Texas – Austin. Her primary teaching responsibility will be in financial accounting and reporting. Her general research interests are in the broad areas of financial statement auditing and corporate governance. More specifically, her research examines how individuals’ (e.g., investors’, auditors’, or audit committee members’) judgments and behavior may be affected by rules and regulations related to independence, fraud, and disclosures. Dr. Gaynor comes to USF from Georgetown University.

Scott Ickes - Scott A. Ickes specializes in Latin American history, and he has taught at Wellesley College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. His dissertation focuses on Afro-Bahian culture and politics in twentieth-century Brazil.

Russell Johnson - Russell E. Johnson received his Ph.D. from The University of Akron. His primary research interests involve justice, motivation, and leadership in the workplace. With respect to organizational justice, he examines the explicit and implicit psychological ramifications of experiencing (un)fairness. With respect to motivation, he examines behavioral self-regulation and the roles played by performance-goal discrepancies, progress rate, affect, and regulatory focus. His work has appeared in Psychological Bulletin, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Andrea Kelton - Dr. Kelton received her Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in 2006. Her teaching responsibility will be in accounting information systems. Dr. Kelton’s primary research interest is in the area of accounting information systems, and, specifically, the effects of technology on human decision processes.

Deoksoon Kim - Dr. Deoksoon Kim will be joining the Department of Secondary Education this Fall as Assistant Professor of Foreign Language Education/ESOL. She comes to us from the University of New Mexico where she received her Ph.D. and taught several classes in Literacy. Her primary areas of interest and research are Reading and Literacy Education, Multicultural Pedagogy, TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and ESL (English as a Second Language/Bilingual Education). She began her teaching career in Seoul, Republic of Korea as an English teacher.

Erin Kimmerle - Ph.D. in Physical Anthropology from the University of Tennessee, 2004 Areas of Interest – Human Rights and Forensic Anthropology; Bioarchaeology; Skeletal Biology and Variation; Human Evolution; Geometric Morphometrics.

Jack LeSar - Dennis E. Kyle is a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He majored in Biology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (BA, 1979) and completed a PhD in Zoology in 1984 at Clemson University. Following a postdoctoral position at the University of Georgia, he began a 21 year association with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR). During this time he led key efforts with the US Army’s Drug and Vaccine Development Programs, eventually serving as Deputy Director of the Division of Experimental Therapeutics for five years. During this period he also served as the Chief, Department of Immunology and Parasitology at the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS) in Bangkok, Thailand (1991-94) and was a key member of the malaria drug program in Australia at the Australian Army Malaria Institute (AMI) from January 2002 through June 2004. His research interests include the discovery and development of new antiparasitic drugs and elucidation of mechanisms of antimalarial drug resistance. Dr. Kyle has 121 publications in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, serves on peer review panels for the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO), chairs the Compound Evaluation Network for WHO, and has research funding from NIAID and Medicines for Malaria Venture. Dr. Kyle has received numerous honors and awards, to include three US Army Research & Development Achievement Awards, the WRAIR Association Outstanding Young Research Investigator Award, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Clemson University College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Life Sciences. He was recently named the inaugural Scientist of the Year by the Malaria Foundation International. Professor Kyle joined the Department of Global Health in the College of Public Health and the Center for Biological Defense in April 2006. He is married to Donna and has two daughters, Kelli (16) and Katlin (14).

Barbara Lewis - Barbara Lewis, recently appointed Outreach Librarian in the Tampa campus Library, received her B.S. in Industrial Engineering from General Motors Institute and her M.A. in Library and Information Science from the University of South Florida. After working 25 years as an Industrial Engineer and Information Systems Analyst for companies such as General Motors, Corning, and Nortel Networks, she began her graduate studies in academic librarianship. Barbara also worked as a graduate assistant at the USF Tampa Library, gaining practical experience in her new career field and contributing to the library services and collections available to the USF academic community. Her research interests include library services to non-traditional clients, information seeking behavior, and collection assessment.

Jarred Ligatti - Jarred “Jay” Ligatti received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University in June 2006 and his B.S. in Computer Science and B.M. in Music Composition from the University of South Carolina in May 2001. Dr. Ligatti’s research interests are Software Security and Programming Languages, including language-based security and reliability, software monitoring, formal policy analysis, security automata, type systems, program transformations, and aspect-oriented and policy-specification languages.

Jiangua Ma - Dr. Jianguo Ma completed his Ph.D. in Biological and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University in 2005. Before coming to USF, he held a temporary researcher position at Cornell. His teaching interests include geographic information systems, cartography, natural resource management, and remote sensing. Dr. Ma joins the Department of Geography as an Instructor. He will be teaching graduate and undergrad courses in Geographic Information Science and he will be involved with the Department’s successful Graduate Certificate Program in Geographic Information Science.

Nicholas Mastracchio - Dr. Mastracchio received his Ph.D. from Union College Graduate Management Institute. His primary teaching responsibility will be in the areas of financial and managerial accounting. Dr. Mastracchio’s research interest is in the valuation of closely held businesses. He also writes on accounting practices and ethics. Dr. Mastracchio comes to USF from State University of New York at Albany where he is Associate Professor Emeritus.

Thomas Miller - Thomas E. Miller has served as an adjunct instructor in the College Student Affairs graduate program since 1999. He joins the faculty on a full-time basis after having been employed most recently as Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students at USF. He previously held positions as vice president for student affairs at both Eckerd College and at Canisius College. His latest publications have presented his research on student expectations of college and on the prediction of student attrition from college and intervention strategies.

Raymond Miltenberger - Raymond Miltenberger, Ph.D. Dr. Miltenberger is a Clinical Psychologist who has specialized in Applied Behavior Analysis, and will be directing the USF graduate program in Applied Behavior Analysis. Dr. Miltenberger comes from North Dakota State University where he was a Professor and graduate program director.

Gregory Milton - Gregory B. Milton specializes in medieval European history, and he has taught at Marquette University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His dissertation is a study of commerce and community in a Spanish town during the fourteenth century.

Rafael Pastrana - Rafael J. Pastrana, M.D., graduated from the College of Medicine at the University of Puerto Rico. He completed his subspecialty training in Gastroenterology at the University of Puerto Rico, and his Advanced Hepatology training at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York in June 2006. He joined us at the USF Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition in July, 2006. His research interests include: iron deficiency anemia as a presentation of active pouchitis; PEG-Intron and Rebetol for treatment of chronic hepatitis C; histologic changes in the liver after treatment with a interferon and Ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C; and surveillance for dysplasia from pouches in patients with ulcerative colitis with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis.

Thomas Pluckhahn - Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Georgia, 2002 Coming from the University of Oklahoma. Areas of Interest- Eastern United States Prehistory; Mesoamerican Prehistory; Cultural Resource Management; Settlement Pattern Studies; Archaeology of Households; Environmental Archaeology; Ceramic Analysis and GIS Application for Anthropology

Geoffrey Potts - Dr. Potts received his BA in psychology in 1989 and his PhD in cognitive psychology in 1994 both from the University of Oregon. He then joined the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School as a post-doctoral fellow and later became an instructor. Before coming to the University of South Florida he was an assistant professor of psychology at Rice University. Dr. Potts’s research uses event-related potentials to study how neural systems of motivation, particularly the reward system, use economic principles, e.g. expected value, to optimize information processing in attention and behavior monitoring. His research also examines how biases in these motivation systems may be related to aspects of personality like impulsivity and how system dysfunction may be associated with mental disorders like schizophrenia and substance abuse.

Ruiliang Pu - Dr. Ruiliang Pu received an M.Sc (1985) from Nanjing Forestry University (NFU), China, studying remote sensing in forestry and earned a Ph.D. (Cartography & Geographic Information System, 2000) from a PhD joint program between Chinese Academy of Sciences and UC Berkeley. He was an instructor at NFU from 1985-1990. He was a visiting scholar between 1990-1991 in the Earth Observations Laboratory, Institute for Space and Terrestrial Sciences in Ontario, Canada. Then he was an Associate Professor with Department of Forestry, NFU. He was a visiting scholar in the Department of Geomatics Engineering, The University of Calgary, Canada, in 1994. He moved to the United States in 1995. He was a Research Associate later on an Assistant Researcher with the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley between 1995-2005. He has worked one year as a Visiting Research Scientist with Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Maryland at College Park before moving to USF in 2006. He has published more than 50 journal papers and books in English or Chinese. was awarded science and technology prizes three times by the Chinese government between 1986 and 1991 because of his excellent research achievements. His research experience and interests are in remote sensing, GIS and spatial statistics with direct applications to natural hazard monitoring, land use/cover change detection, biophysical and biochemical parameters extraction, and terrestrial ecosystem and environmental modeling. His current research interests are in wildfire detection and monitoring using polar orbiting environmental satellite data (e.g., NOAA/AVHRR and EOS/MODIS data), urban environmental studies using thermal and optical remote sensing data, and invasive species detection and evaluation in a terrestrial ecosystem using hyperspectral data. Dr. Pu is starting in the Department of Geography as an Assistant Professor.

Gregory Robbins - Dr. Greg Robbins will be an Assistant Professor of Management at the Lakeland campus. Greg graduated summa cum laude in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and received his Ph.D. in Management of Organizations from Columbia University. His research interests are organization theory; occupational and organizational structure; governance,; and business and society. He previously taught at Georgia Tech and Emory University.

Aliaksei Savachkin - Alex Savachkin received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Belarussian State University, Minsk, Belarus in 1996, a M.S. in Management of Technology from the University of Colorado in 1998, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2005. He worked for about 8 years in various industrial environments as an industrial engineer, a process engineer, and a technology feasibility analyst. Dr. Savachkin’s research domain is applied probability and stochastic processes with a special interest given to enterprise risk management decisions. The focus is on analytical and computational support of strategic design of enterprise network. Currently, I am working on development of modeling paradigms suitable for capturing dynamics of capacity disruptions in flow-matching feed-forward networks.

Aarti Sharma - Dr. Aarti Sharma will be an Instructor of Management and Organization on the Tampa campus. She is scheduled to receive her Ph.D. this fall from Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. She holds an MBA from Indira Gandhi National Open University and a Master of Science in Organic Chemistry from the University of Delhi. Her research interests include corporate social responsibility and sustainable organizational performance. She is a native of Nepal.

Kersuze Simeon - Dr. Simeon-Jones received a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies in History and Literature, focusing on Africana Studies, from the University of Miami, Coral Gables Florida. She received an M.A. in French and Francophone Literature from Rutgers University, where she also graduated with a B.A. in French Literature and Spanish Language and Literature. Dr. Simeon-Jones' primary teaching and research interests include French Language, Francophone Studies, Comparative Literary and Historical Studies of the Black Diaspora, Women's History within the Black Diaspora, and Comparative Caribbean Studies.

Elaine Smith - Dr. Elaine Smith will be joining the Department of Humanities and American Studies as an Assistant Professor. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and wrote her dissertation on Ideals and Imagination in the Novels of Willa Cather. She has taught courses in contemporary literature, American Literature, Women in Literature, and Landscape in American Fiction. She has also been manager of the Thomas Deans Fine Art gallery in Tallahassee and has a particular interest in British watercolors from the 18th through the early 20th centuries. Dr. Smith will be teaching various courses focusing on literature and visual art in American Culture, as well as introductory historical surveys treating the Renaissance through the Twentieth Century.

Timothy Smith - Dr. Smith received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany. He is coming to the Department of Humanities & American Studies from the USF Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean, where he was Associate Director. His research interests include the revival and revalorization of Maya artistic traditions (architecture, literature, and visual performance) in Mesoamerica and their application within political and spiritual movements. Although he is trained as a four-field anthropologist, his research and teaching cross the fields of history, linguistics, art history, cultural studies, comparative literature, and critical theory. He has also taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and held visiting fellowships at both Harvard and Columbia.

Bruce Stegner - Dr. Bruce Stegner recently joined the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy as the newly appointed Director of the Policy and Services Research Data Center (PSRDC), following a national search. Dr. Stegner received his B.A. degree from Reed College and his Ph.D. from the University of California San Francisco. He brings a considerable wealth of skills and expertise to FMHI/USF and a wide range of skills and experiences. He held a faculty position for 9 years with the Washington Institute for Mental Illness Research and Training at Washington State University, in which he was instrumental in developing research infrastructure and statewide services utilization databases, and using these databases to conduct a range of policy research and evaluation projects. Dr. Stegner also served for several years as a staff and faculty member at the University of California – San Francisco, where he conducted research on utilization of acute care services, effectiveness of Continuous Treatment Teams, and effectiveness of culturally-sensitive treatment programs in residential settings. He also provided leadership as Director of the UCSF’s Computing and Informatics unit, and as Director of Academic Computing Services. Research interests include use of bioequivalence methodology in mental health services evaluation and research, and mental health services research with the severely and persistently mentally ill.

Chris Stewart - From the University of Pittsburgh. Currently affiliated with the Center for Education and Drug Abuse Research (CEDAR). Current research interests include: substance abuse etiology, effects of substance abuse upon family functioning, effective substance abuse treatment. Also currently investigating the role of environment on development of substance dependence and the role of spirituality in substance abuse treatment.

Kenneth Williamson - Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005 Areas of Interest- Diaspora Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, Community-based Research, Participatory Action Research, Applied Anthropology, Anthropology of Education, Afro-Brazilian Identity and Mobilization. Coming from the Institute for Community Research, Hartford, CT.

Rebecca Zarger - Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Georgia, 2002 Coming from Florida International University Areas of Interest- Sociocultural Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology, Ethnoecology, Ethnographies of Childhood, Public Engagement in Environmental Policy, Conservation, Migration and Environmental Change, Environmental Education, Central America and the Caribbean.

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