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Cesar Cornejo - Dr. Cesar Cornejo joins the USF faculty at the rank of Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Art History at the College of Visual and Performing Arts. He will coordinate the Studio Foundations program, teach in the graduate program and continue his successful research career. Dr. Cornejo, a native of Lima, Peru, received his MA and PhD in Fine Arts from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 2003. He has exhibited his artworks in New York, Lima, Caracas, London and Tokyo. His awards and recognition include a Finalist's Award at the First London International Creative Competition, a British Arts Council grant, and inclusion in such prestigious permanent art collections as the Museo del Barrio (NY), Tokyo National University Fine Arts Museum and Museo Lia Bermudez (Caracas). Cornejo works in a variety of artistic materials both for interior and exterior sculptural objects and spaces. He has taught and lectured at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, UK; New York University and Syracuse University. He has been cited in major journals in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Joni Downs - Joni Downs joins the Geography as an Assistant Professor in Geographic Information Science. She received her PhD in Geography from the Florida State University during 2008. Her research interests include GIS-based spatial analysis and modelling with an emphasis on applications in wildlife ecology and management. In particular, she studies animal space-use and movement patterns at different spatial scales.

Mary Fournier - Professor Mary Fournier received her PhD in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005. Her research interests include Renaissance Art, especially Venetian, and contacts between Eastern and Western artistic traditions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Professor Fournier investigates how artworks were traded, and their aesthetic values translated, between Italian and Ottoman visual cultures. Professor Fournier will teach the History of the Visual Arts courses in the School of Visual and Performing Arts.

Richard Gitlin - Dr. Richard D. Gitlin is a State of Florida 21st Century World Class Scholar and the Agere-Cerrent Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida. He has more than 38 years of leadership in the communications and networking industry. Most recently, he was Chief Technology Officer of Hammerhead Systems; a venture funded networking company in Silicon Valley. Dr. Gitlin is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the IEEE, and an AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellow. After receiving his doctorate from Columbia University, he was with Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs) for more than 32 years, where he held several research and executive positions, including Senior Vice President, Communications Systems Research, Bell Labs and Chief Technical Officer and VP R&D for Data Networking. Throughout his career Dr. Gitlin has both personally conducted and led pioneering research and development in digital communications and networking, digital signal processing, wireless systems, and broadband networking that has resulted in many high impact technologies and products, including: fractionally spaced adaptive equalization, co-invention of DSL, the first adaptive equalizer to compensate for polarization mode dispersion in optical communications, advanced space-time smart antenna technology that is today known as MIMO, the industry leading ATLANTA ATM chipset, the world’s first 20 gigabit/sec ATM switch, wire-speed and quality of service [QoS]-aware IP switches, and high-speed multicode CDMA (IS-95B). His research has led to substantial technology transfer, job creation, and creation of several new companies. All of these advances are based on innovative applications of the technologies that are at the core of pattern recognition.

Liisa Hyvarinnen - Liisa Hyvarinen Temple joins USF as a Visiting Instructor in the School of Mass Communications, teaching print, broadcast and multimedia journalism as well as television production. Hyvarinen Temple received her M.S. from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. She has worked in local television and her work has also appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN. Her print work has been published in the St Petersburg Times, The Tampa Tribune, the Denver Post, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Marie Claire magazine. She served as journalism fellow with former First Lady Rosalynn Carter and won an Emmy award and a Walter Cronkite Award for excellence in television political reporting.

Daniel Ingram - Daniel Ingram is a Visiting Assistant Professor in American History. He received his Ph.D. at the College of William and Mary, where he specialized in Early American history and ethnohistory. While in Williamsburg, Dan taught Historical Archaeology field methods for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's field school. He has also taught history classes at William and Mary, Oakland Community College in Southeastern Michigan, and Claires Court School in England. The focus of his work thus far has been the study of British-Native American interactions at British military forts in eighteenth-century North America. He is currently working on two articles for journal publication. One is a study of tiny Fort Allen in eastern Pennsylvania, which was host to more Indians than soldiers during its brief life in the late 1750s. The other is a general article about the promises and pitfalls of studying Native American interactions with European forts and their personnel. In addition, Dan is preparing a chapter on British-Seneca relations in the Niagara region for an upcoming collection on Great Lakes Native American history, and has begun working his dissertation into a manuscript. This Fall, Dan will be teaching the first half of the American History survey and a class on the American Revolutionary era.

Hyun Kim - Hyun Kim joins the Geography as an Instructor in Geographic Information Science. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Geography from Seoul National University, Korea, and his Ph.D. in Geography from the Ohio State University. His primary research interests are spatial modeling using GIS, location analysis using spatial optimization, and design of critical infrastructure of transportation and telecommunications. His current research includes reliable hub location and network design, spatial modeling using GIS for urban crime analysis, and network survivability of urban transportation systems using GIS. His teaching interests include Geographic Information Systems, transportation geography, location analysis/modeling, cartography and spatial quantitative methods.

Eva Kimonis - Dr. Eva Kimonis will be joining the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute’s Mental Health Law and Policy as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Kimonis received her Masters and Doctorate degrees in Applied Developmental Psychology from the University of New Orleans, where she was mentored by Dr. Paul Frick, an internationally recognized leader in the field of childhood externalizing disorders and psychopathy. She received a National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Institutional Research Service Award to complete her postdoctoral fellowship training at the University of California, Irvine. She is currently a Research Affiliate with University of California, Irvine’s nationally recognized Center for Psychology and Law. Before joining the Mental Health Law and Policy she completed her doctoral residency at the Institute for Behavioral Sciences and the Law where she practiced in the area of forensic psychology. Dr. Kimonis has been involved in a large number of forensic cases at both the Federal and State Court level as part of an evaluation and consultation team. She has experience with forensic evaluations and forensic consultation related to substance abuse, risk assessment, malingering, competency, sanity, domestic violence, child witnesses, and penalty phase evaluations. Dr. Kimonis has published in the area of juvenile psychopathy in several of the top psycholegal journals, including Law and Human Behavior, Behavioral Sciences and the Law, Development and Psychopathology, and the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Her research interests include risk factors for externalizing disorders and delinquency, psychopathy, and sexual offending.

Heather Meakin - Heather Meakin specializes in Renaissance literature. She received her Ph.D. from Oxford University. She has published a book on John Donne with Oxford University Press and has another forthcoming with Ashgate on The Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury.

Marc Santos - Marc Santos specializes in Rhetoric and Composition with a special interest in digital technology. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University. He has four articles published or forthcoming in such journals as Computers and Composition.

Ira Sukrungruang - Ira Sukrungruang specializes in Creative Non-Fiction Writing. He received his M.F.A. from Ohio State University. In addition to numerous journal publications, he has edited the anthologies What Are You Looking At? and Scoot Over, Skinny, both with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Richard Van Dorn - Dr. Richard Van Dorn will be joining the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute’s Mental Health Law and Policy as an Assistant Professor, and previously held a faculty appointment at Florida International University. Dr. Van Dorn received his doctorate in Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his master’s degree in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis. He received a National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Mental Health Services and Systems Research from the National Institute of Mental Health, and completed his fellowship training at the Duke University Medical Center, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Van Dorn’s research and teaching focuses on issues of adult health and mental health with specific interests in violence and victimization, mandated mental health treatment, barriers to service utilization, and risk and protective factors among ‘at risk’ youth. His research on psychiatric medication and violence reduction is currently featured on the home page of the National Institute of Mental Health web site (“Science News”).

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