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Faculty/Staff Support
The individuals listed below have indicated, via academic materials, a research interest or specialty related to diversity. Because UNI has chosen to define diversity in its broadest terms, the subject areas covered are wide, and include everything from culture to communication to civil rights.
For more information, please contact the specific faculty or staff member listed. If you know someone at UNI who should be added to this list, feel free to contact the Office of Compliance and Equity Management, (319) 273-2846.
Staff Making a Difference
Faculty Making a DifferenceCollege of Business Administration College of Humanities and Fine Arts College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Staff Making a Difference
Celeste Bembry Student Recruitment and Retention Coordinator (CHFA) E-mail: celeste.bembry@uni.edu Interests: Recruitment and retention of under represented Americans to UNI, cultural competency amongst the UNI community, cultural promotion through the Arts
Clifford Coney Senior Counselor, Educational Talent Search E-mail: clifford.coney@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/eop/ets/staff.htm Interests: Cultural diversity in law enforcement, law enforcement issues
Paula GilroyPsychologist, Counseling Center E-mail: paula.gilroy@uni.edu Interests: LGBT issues, women therapists and the interaction between their personal issues and their work
W. Mickye Johnson Director, Classic Upward Bound E-mail: wilfred.johnson@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/eop/cub/staff.htm Interests: Student issues regarding diversity, recruiting and retaining students and faculty, developing communities, general diversity issues; Member: Board of Regents Diversity Task Force Committee, UNI Multicultural Recruitment Team, UNI President Allen Enrollment Council, UNI Leadership Advisory Board; Chair: Wartburg College Diversity Board
Beverly KopperProfessor, Psychology Associate Provost and Vice President, Academic Affairs E-mail: beverly.kopper@uni.edu Interests: Gender and gender-role differences
Drake Martin Assistant Director, Residence/Education Regional Residence Life Diversity Consultant E-mail: drake.martin@uni.edu Interests: Member of ESS Diversity Committee, Multicultural Coordinating Council, DOR Inclusive Communities Team
Faculty Making a Difference
College of Business Administration
Shahina AminAssociate Professor, Economics E-mail: shahina.amin@uni.edu Web site: UNI Business - Faculty & Staff - Shahina Amin Interests: Child labor and gender employment issues in developing countries
Dale CyphertAssociate Professor, Management Acting Department Head E-mail: dale.cyphert@uni.edu Web site: UNI Business - Faculty & Staff - Dale Cyphert Interests: Variations in decision-making norms across socioeconomic levels
Lisa Jepsen Associate Professor, Economics E-mail: lisa.jepsen@uni.edu Web site: UNI Business - Faculty & Staff - Lisa Jepsen Interests: Economic demography, labor economics and same-sex couples and the relationship between wages and sexual orientation
Atul Mitra Associate Professor, Management E-mail: atul.mitra@uni.edu Web site: UNI Business - Faculty & Staff - Atul Mitra Interests: Pay-for-knowledge systems, psychophysical analysis of compensation issues, international compensation analysis, cross-cultural issues and outsourcing
Mohammed Rawwas Professor, Marketing E-mail: mohammed.rawwas@uni.edu Web site: UNI Business - Faculty & Staff - Mohammed Rawwas Interest: Cross-cultural studies
Christine R. Schrage Instructor, Management E-mail: christine.schrage@uni.edu Web site: UNI Business - Faculty & Staff - Christine R. Schrage Interests: International management and marketing, entrepreneurship and micro-credit operations, most involving women, in underdeveloped countries
College of Education
Penny Beed Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction E-mail: penny.beed@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/coe/ci/facstaff/beedp.html Interests: Cultural and economic diversity, using diversity to students' advantage in the classroom
Mingshui Cai Professor, Curriculum and Instruction E-mail: mingshui.cai@uni.edu Interests: Multicultural children's and young adult literature, critical literacy
Lyn Countryman Associate Professor, Malcolm Price Laboratory School E-mail: lyn.countryman@uni.edu Web site: http://www.pls.uni.edu/pls/directory/countryman.html Interest: Gender equity in the science classroom
Susan R. Dobie Assistant Professor, Health, Physical Education and Leisure Services E-mail: susan.dobie@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/coe/hpels/About_ HPELS/faculty/Susan_Dobie.shtml Interests: Health literacy and health disparities
Beth Dykstra Van Meeteren Instructor, Curriculum and Instruction E-mail: beth.vanmeeteren@uni.edu Interest: Needs of diverse learners
Linda M. Fitzgerald Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction E-mail: linda.fitzgerald@uni.edu Interests: Preparing teachers for diversity in their classrooms, with particular attention to inclusion regardless of ability level but also race, class and ethnicity, identifying dispositions for social justice
Barbara Gager Instructor, Office of Student Field Experience E-mail: barbara.gager@uni.edu Interest: Needs of diverse learners
Timothy W. Gilson Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership, Counseling & Post secondary Education E-mail: tim.gilson@uni.edu Interests: Alternative education, at-risk issues for students, recruiting and retaining minority students
Barbara Heitzman Instructor, Office of Student Field Experiences E-mail: barbara.heitzman@uni.edu Interests: Preparing elementary teachers for diversity in their classrooms, multiple intelligences, integration of the arts, multicultural literature
Sue A. Joseph Professor, Health, Physical Education and Leisure Services Interim Dean, Graduate College E-mail: sue.joseph@uni.edu Web site: http://www.grad.uni.edu/information/staff.aspx?staffid=44 Interests: Breast and bladder cancer epidemiology, racial differences in breast cancer treatment, survival, risk factors and molecular markers, economic aspects of cancer treatment
Kimberly Knesting Associate Professor, Educational Psychology and Foundations E-mail: kimberly.knesting@uni.edu Interests: How K-12 educational settings support LGBTQ youth, supporting student persistence/preventing school drop out and pre-referral teams and interventions
Leigh C. Martin Instructor, Office of Student Field Experiences Center Coordinator for Out-of-State and International Student Teaching E-mail: leigh.martin@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/stdteach/centers/int/index.htm Interest: Coordinating out-of-State and International student teaching
Lynn E. Nielsen Professor, Curriculum and Instruction E-mail: lynn.nielsen@uni.edu Interests: Recruiting and retaining male elementary education majors
Jill Nooren Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction E-mail: jill.nooren@uni.edu Interest: Needs of diverse learners
Nicholas J. Pace Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership, Counseling & Postsecondary Education E-mail: nick.pace@uni.edu Interest: How K-12 educational settings support LGBTQ youth
Mary Salazar Guenther Instructor, Price Lab School E-mail: mary.guenther@uni.edu Interests: Preparing teachers for diversity in their classrooms, with particular interest in social justice issues, multicultural literature, and differentiated curriculum
Amy H. Staples Assistant Professor, Special Education E-mail: amy.staples@uni.edu Interest: Inclusion, social justice, cultural competence
Denise Tallakson Instructor, Curriculum and Instruction, Price Lab School E-mail: denise.tallakson@uni.edu Interest: Preparing teachers for diversity in their classrooms, with particular interest in multiple intelligences, integrating the arts, multicultural literature and differentiated curriculum
Deborah Tidwell Associate Professor, Literacy Education E-mail: deborah.tidwell@uni.edu Web site: http://ci.coe.uni.edu/facstaff/tidwelld.html Interests: Diverse learners, bilingual education and multicultural education
Cheryl S. Timion Instructor, Office of Student Field Experiences E-mail: cheryl.timion@uni.edu Interests: Bullying, socioeconomic class, gender, language, exceptionality, race, religion, ageism as relating to educators' work in the classroom
Michele Yehieli Associate Professor, Health, Physical Education and Leisure Services E-mail: michele.yehieli@uni.edu Interests: Refugee, minority and immigrant care, cultural competency and health communication with underserved populations
College of Humanities and Fine Arts
Kenneth Atkinson Associate Professor, Philosophy and Religion E-mail: kenneth.atkinson@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/atkinson Interests: Religion, Middle Eastern religions, inter-religious dialogue
Melissa Beall Professor, Communication Studies E-mail: melissa.beall@uni.edu Web site: http://www.chfa.uni.edu/comstudy/faculty/default.asp?PersonID=5 Interest: Culture
Harry Brod Professor, Philosophy and Religion E-mail: harry.brod@uni.edu Interests: Gender studies, Jewish studies, social and political philosophy, humanities, history of philosophy, applied ethics, feminism, Hegel
Joyce Chen Associate Professor, Communication Studies E-mail: joyce.chen@uni.edu Web site: http://www.chfa.uni.edu/comstudy/faculty/default.asp?PersonID=10 Personal Web site: http://www.uni.edu/~chen/ Interest: Media, culture and society
Scharron A. Clayton Associate Professor, Philosophy and Religion E-mail: scharron.clayton@uni.edu Interests: Ethnic and cultural studies, African American culture, human relations
Betty A. DeBerg Professor, Philosophy and Religion Department Head E-mail: betty.deberg@uni.edu Interests: Religion and culture in the United States, women and religion, history of Christianity
Victoria P. Defrancisco Professor, Communication StudiesInterim Associate Dean, Graduate College E-mail: victoria.defrancisco@uni.edu Interests: Gender, intercultural communication, feminist theory
Erica A. Duffy Assistant Professor, Art E-mail: erica.duffy@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/artdept/duffy.html Interests: Process of communication and how perceptions of a "disability," different experiences and different cultural/social/economic backgrounds affect the way people communicate
Cynthia Goatley Professor, Theatre E-mail: cynthia.goatley@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/goatley Interest: Shows and performances related to diversity
Vince Gotera Professor, English Language and Literature Editor, North American Review E-mail: vince.gotera@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/english/web/GoteraVince.htm Interests: Multicultural literature, especially Asian American, American literature, Vietnam War studies
David M. Grant Assistant Professor, English E-mail: david.grant@uni.edu Interests: Native American literature and rhetoric, teaching of writing to Navajo students, Anglo student interactions with Lakota culture and notions of literacy and rhetorical action, including acknowledging marginalized literacies about natural, urban and virtual environments
Clifford Highnam Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders Department Head E-mail: clifford.highnam@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/comdis/facstaff.html#Clifford Interests: Black English vernacular, higher education recruitment and retention of under-represented minority students in the area of speech-language pathology
Susan Hill Associate Professor, Philosophy and Religion E-mail: susan.hill@uni.edu Interests: Religion and literature, history of Christianity, feminism and gender, queer studies
Randy A. Hogencamp Associate Professor, School of Music E-mail: randy.hogencamp@uni.edu Interest: Non-Western drumming (Africa - Ewe and Malinke; Japan - Taiko)
Margaret G. Holland Associate Professor, Philosophy and Religion E-mail: margaret.holland@uni.edu Interests: Ethics, history of philosophy, philosophy and literature, feminist theory
Julie E. Husband Associate Professor, English Language and LiteratureE-mail: julie.husband@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/english/web/HusbandJulie.htm Interest: Effect of anti-slavery icons
Dean Kruckeberg Professor, Communication Studies E-mail: dean.kruckeberg@uni.edu Web site: http://www.chfa.uni.edu/comstudy/faculty/default.asp?PersonID=39 Personal Web site: http://www.uni.edu/~kruckebe/ Interest: International public relations
Robert R. Krueger Associate Professor, Modern Languages E-mail: robert.krueger@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/modlangs/main/FacultyKrueger.shtml Interests: Slave writings and texts, Latin American studies
Christopher R. Martin Associate Professor, Communication Studies E-mail: christopher.martin@uni.edu Web site: http://www.chfa.uni.edu/comstudy/faculty/default.asp?PersonID=58 Personal Web site: http://mediacrit.com Interests: Mass media representations of labor and the working class, class inequality, history of television representations of race, class and gender
Karen Mitchell Professor, Communication Studies Graduate Program Director Director, SAVE Forum Actors E-mail: karen.mitchell@uni.edu Interests: Gender studies, performance and social change
Pierre D. Mvuyekure Professor, EnglishE-mail: pierre.mvuyekure@uni.edu Interests: Multicultural literature, African American/African Diaspora literatures, post-colonial studies and theory, blues and jazz in literature and film
Anne G. Myles Associate Professor, English E-mail: anne.myles@uni.edu Interests: Slavery, the religious imagination, American women writers, gender studies
Catherine H. Palczewski Professor, Communication Studies E-mail: catherine.palczewski@uni.edu Web site: http://www.chfa.uni.edu/comstudy/faculty/default.asp?PersonID=24 Personal Web site: http://www.uni.edu/palczews Interests: Feminist theory and criticism, gender in communication, Native American rhetoric, social protest
Martha J. Reineke Professor, Philosophy and Religion E-mail: martha.reineke@uni.edu Interests: Feminist theory, religion and society, Existentialism, religion and psychoanalysis
James B. Robinson Associate Professor, Philosophy and Religion E-mail: james.robinson@uni.edu Interests: Tibetan Buddhism, Asian religions, history of religions
Laura Terlip Associate Professor, Communication Studies E-mail: laura.terlip@uni.edu Web site: http://www.chfa.uni.edu/comstudy/faculty/default.asp?PersonID=29 Interest: Building multicultural organizations
Sonia L. Yetter Associate Professor, Modern Languages E-mail: sonia.yetter@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/modlangs/main/FacultyYetter.shtml Interest: Languages
College of Natural Sciences
Mohammed F. Fahmy Professor, Industrial Technology Department Head E-mail: mohammed.fahmy@uni.edu Interests: Islamic history, interfaith relationships, Middle East culture and history
Douglas R. Hotek Associate Professor, Industrial Technology E-mail: doug.hotek@uni.edu Interests: Women teachers of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at the secondary level, identities of individuals and groups who learn and work in the world of technology
Catherine M. Miller Associate Professor, Mathematics CTE Diversity Committee Co-Chair E-mail: catherine.miller@uni.edu Interests: Assessing field experiences for diversity, how Teacher Education programs can better prepare graduates to succeed in diverse classrooms, preparing teacher candidates to embrace and implement the Diversity Principle
Alex Oberle Assistant Professor, Geography E-mail: alex.oberle@uni.edu Web site: http://fp.uni.edu/csbs/faculty/facultydetails.asp?Id=249 Interests: Hispanic urban settlement in the U.S., Latino and Asian immigrant entrepreneurship, Mexican immigrant and Mexican-American ethnic economies, comparative Asian settlement patterns in the U.S. and Canada
Robert D. Seager Professor, Biology E-mail: seager@uni.edu Interest: Relationships between science and religion
V. Eugene Wallingford Associate Professor, Computer Science Department Head E-mail: wallingf@cs.uni.edu Interest: Increasing participation in computer science, and in science and engineering more generally, among underrepresented groups, including women and minorities
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Pita Ogaba Agbese Professor, Political Science E-mail: pita.agbese@uni.edu Interests: Third World politics, African politics, international relations, international law
Phyllis Baker Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and CriminologyDirector, Women's and Gender Studies E-mail: phyllis.baker@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/womenstudies/ Interests: Women's and gender issues
Barbara A. Cutter Associate Professor, History E-mail: barbara.cutter@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/cutter/default.htm Interests: Women's and gender history, cultural history, 19th century United States
Cynthia D. Dunn Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology E-mail: cyndi.dunn@uni.edu Web site: http://fp.uni.edu/csbs/faculty/facultydetails.asp?ID=97 Interests: Language and culture, gender, emotion, Japan
Xavier Escandell Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology E-mail: xavier.escandell@uni.edu Web site: http://fp.uni.edu/csbs/faculty/facultydetails.asp?Id=253 Interests: Immigration and transnationalism, political sociology, Latin America, European Union
William M. Fleming Associate Professor, Design, Textiles, Gerontology & Family Studies E-mail: michael.fleming@uni.edu Web site: http://fp.uni.edu/csbs/faculty/facultydetails.asp?Id=102 Interest: Etiology of male coercive behaviors and attitudes, fathering and non-residential father-child relationships/father adolescent relationships, divorce and predictors of post divorce adjustment
Carissa M. Froyum Roise Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and CriminologyE-mail: carissa.froyum@uni.edu Interests: Social inequality (race, class, gender), sexuality, sociology of families, feminist theory
Michael B. Gasser Professor, Psychology E-mail: michael.gasser@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/~gasser/index.html Interests: Personnel in intercultural environments, differences in pay expectations- what group differences exist and how pay expectations influence important social outcomes
Mark Grey Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology Iowa Center for Immigrant Leadership and Integration E-mail: mark.grey@uni.edu Web site: http://fp.uni.edu/csbs/faculty/facultydetails.asp?Id=110 Interests: Ethnic relations, social change, Southern Africa, U.S. rural communities
Helen C. Harton Professor, Psychology Coordinator, Graduate Studies E-mail: helen.harton@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/harton Interests: Attitudes, social influence, prejudice, relationship satisfaction and jealousy, complex systems theory, computer applications
Robert T. Hitlan Assistant Professor, Psychology E-mail: rob.hitlan@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/hitlan Interests: Social ostracism, harassment including sexual, ethnic and bystander harassment experiences, emerging workplace diversity issues including ethnicity, bilingualism and workplace exclusion
Laura E. Kaplan Assistant Professor, Social Work E-mail: laura.kaplan@uni.edu Interests: Ethics and moral reasoning, sexual, racial and ethnic minority concerns, HIV/AIDS, women, disparities in access and treatment
Alexandra M. Kogl Assistant Professor, Political Science E-mail: ana.kogl@uni.edu Interests: Feminist theory, feminist and political economy (gender and work-life balance)
Jian Li Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology E-mail: lee.jli@uni.edu Web site: http://fp.uni.edu/csbs/faculty/facultydetails.asp?Id=141 Interests: Medical anthropology, development and health, health equity, anthropological theory, peoples and cultures of China
Julie Lowell Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology E-mail: julie.lowell@uni.edu Interests: North American archaeology, American Southwest, household and small community organization, uses of ethnology for archaeological inference, architectural analysis, gender in archaeology
Annette F. Lynch Associate Professor, Design, Textiles, Gerontology & Family Studies E-mail: annette.lynch@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/lynch/ Interests: Role of dress in negotiating cultural change, role of dress in the transmission and reconstruction of gender, design and marketing of African textiles, role of dress in ritual expressions of identity, impact of mass media on constructor of trans gender identity, anthropological fieldwork in Nigeria focused upon impact of cultural change and urbanization on production and marketing of traditional textile and apparel products
Otto MacLin Associate Professor, Psychology E-mail: otto.maclin@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/~maclino Interest: Cross-racial identifications
Robert F. Martin Professor, History Department Head E-mail: robert.martin@uni.edu Interest: The life and work of 19th century activist and reformer Annie Wittenmyer
J. Henry Owusu Associate Professor, Geography E-mail: j.henry.owusu@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/geography/owusu.html Interests: Role of the human factor in Third World development, globalization
Laura Praglin Associate Professor, Social Work E-mail: laura.praglin@uni.edu Interests: Minority group relations, immigrant and refugee populations
Gayle M. Rhineberger-Dunn Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology E-mail: gayle.rhineberger@uni.edu Interests: Crime and social inequality (primarily race, ethnicity and class), popular culture and crime, communities and crime
Kent Sandstrom Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology Department Head E-mail: kent.sandstrom@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/sandstrk/ Interests: Inequality, sexuality, social psychology, health and illness
Marybeth Stalp Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and CriminologyE-mail: marybeth.stalp@uni.edu Web site: http://www.uni.edu/stalp Interests: Sociology of gender, culture, leisure, qualitative methods
Katherine S. van Wormer Professor, Social Work E-mail: katherine.vanwormer@uni.edu Web site: http://www.katherinevanwormer.com Interests: Women in prison, race, gender and class in the criminal justice system, gay/lesbian issues and oppression
Anne Woodrick Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology E-mail: anne.woodrick@uni.edu Web site: http://fp.uni.edu/csbs/faculty/facultydetails.asp?Id=213 Interests: Religion and community identity, religion and personal identity, rural Latin America, Latino immigration in the U.S.
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