Addictive behaviors, especially alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking; health psychology, especially health effects of alcohol consumption; clinical psychology; psychotherapy.
AGARWAL, Shashank
Research Assistant, Medical Informatics
Geomicrobiology and microbial biogeochemistry; interactions between minerals and microorganisms in freshwater and hydrothermal vent systems; stable isotopes in marine and freshwater environments; ecophysiological dynamics of phytoplankton in marine and freshwater environments; cology of invasive species (Quagga and zebra mussels)
Degrees:
Ph.D. Biological Sciences, Center for Great Lakes Studies, Biology Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
M. Sc. Biology, UNAM (Facultad de Ciencias, National Autonomous University of México).
B. S. Biology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Ciencias and Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares (UNAM).
AITA, Carolyn
Wisconsin Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Materials Engineering
Reactive Sputter Deposition of Thin Films. In Situ Discharge Diagnostics for Process Monitoring and Control. Growth of Wide Band Gap Semiconductors, Insulators, and Ceramic Multileyer Nanolaminates. Phase Maps: Process Parameter-Growth Environment-Film Property Relationships for Sputter Deposited Ceramics and Compound Semiconductors
Degrees:
Ph.D., Materials Science, Northwestern University; M.S., Physics, Queens College-CUNY; B.S., Physics, Utica College of Syracuse University; B.A., Fine Arts and Art History, Brooklyn College-CUNY
AJIROTUTU, Cheryl S.
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Influences of culture in schools and work settings. Research areas include public school settings, focusing on how educational institutions structure the content and context of schooling; informal learning situations; the culture of work traditions, particularly in the use of indigenous technology; language in society issues.
Degrees:
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1989
AKDERE, Mesut
Assistant Professor, Administrative Leadership
Active movement and meditative approaches to wellness, self-observation skills to recognize and alter emotional and cognitive patterns in order to gain interpersonal and academic confidence.
Degrees:
M.A., Expressive Arts Therapies, Lesley University
Uses and application of meta-analysis to social and behavioral research, process of social influence in personal relationships, social institutions, and the mass media. Publications include examinations of pornography, distance education, critical thinking, process of communication during conflict, racial self-image.
ALWAN, Layth
Associate Professor, Information Studies
Supply chain management, quality management, process improvement, forecasting.
Degrees:
B.A., B.Sc., Mathematics/Statistics, University of Chicago; M.Sc., Computer Science, DePaul University; M.B.A., Statistics/Operations Management, University of Chicago; Ph.D., Statistics/Operations Management, University of Chicago
International information services, multicultural librarianship and information services, library administration, database construction and management, Islam.
History, Middle East/North Africa, Islam; intellectual history of the Middle East; healing, medicine and science; women's history and traditional midwifery; French colonialism in the Islamic world.
The history of statistical accounting systems, including censuses and surveys, and the agencies of the federal statistical system which produce data; American social and urban history; historical quantitative analysis; women and family history; the history of federal survey research on families and households. Member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Census Requirements for the Year 2000 and Beyond (1992-94); editor, Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census (CQ Press, 2000).
Analytical method development, new methods to analyze samples for various chemical components, flow injection analysis, HPLC, ion chromatography, gas chromatography.
Degrees:
B.A., Chemistry, UW?La Crosse, 1973
ANEESH, Aneesh
Assistant Professor, Sociology/Global Studies
Communication and conflict education. Mediation and facilitation: dispute resolution systems, negotiation, arbitration, litigation, consensus-building processes. Large group disputes, peace education, diversity issues,
training in restorative practices. Communities, work groups, neighborhoods,
schools in crisis. "We can't keep doing the same thing and expect different results."
(paraphrase)
Degrees:
B.B.A., M.B.A., UWM; J.D., Certificate in Dispute Resolution, Marquette University
ANTROP-GONZALEZ, Rene
Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
bilingual/bicultural education, the education of Latino/Puerto Rican youth, Latina/o urban sociology of education with an emphasis on urban Latina/o high achievers, critical pedagogy/literacy, critical theory, curriculum theory/policy, sociopolitics of language in urban education
Degrees:
B.A., Spanish, University of Central Florida, M.Ed., Teaching of English as a Second Language, Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico; Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Bilingual Education, The Pennsylvania State University
APPLBAUM, Kalman
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Culture of professional marketing practices at large transnational corporations based mainly in the U.S., globalization as a world historical process, urban social organization in Japan.
APPLEYARD, Jo Ann
Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Nursing
Prehistoric Europe with an emphasis on the early Iron Age (1000-200 B.C.); the role of alcohol and its consumption in establishing and maintaining social relationships in prehistoric societies; the archaeology of gender, especially in the context of mortuary analysis; the history of archaeology with particular attention to the uses and abuses of archaeological research in Nazi Germany.
Degrees:
Ph.D., Anthropology, Harvard University, 1991
ARNOLD, James E.
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Algebraic topology, algebraic K-Theory, differential topology; applications of differential topology and algebra to robotics. Specific interests: fibrations, group actions, Steenrod?s Problem, K-Theory of group rings, generic maps theory applied to robotic manipulators.
ARORA, Swarnjit S.
Director, Institute for Survey and Policy Research;
Economic and political conditions in South Asia, with special reference to conflicts within India and between Pakistan and India; regional economic growth and forecasting models; regional impact studies; Southeast Wisconsin growth policies; sample survey research; applied econometrics.
Degrees:
Ph.D., Economics, State University of New York at Buffalo
organization diversity management and cultural competence, multicultural counseling competencies and guidelines for education and training, research, practice, and organizational change for management, immigration transitions and change and development, counseling with Latinas/os, leadership development in organizations, and women's perspectives in counseling and organizations.
Degrees:
B.S., Spanish and Journalism; M.Ed., Counseling; Ed.D., Counseling Psychology
History of English philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries; John Locke and George Berkeley, with a particular focus on Berkeley's theory of vision; the work of women philosophers of the early modern period, especially English-language philosophers; the work of Margaret Cavendish on the utility of the microscope; Anne Conway's theory of substance; the later works of Mary Astell; Mary Shepherd's work of perception.
Degrees:
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AXTMAN, Kim
Waste Management Specialist, Sr., Universtiy Safety and Assurances
Quantitative methods, applied statistics and data analysis: Methods used for analyzing and interpreting quantitative information, particularly in the social sciences, such as multiple regression, analysis of variance and multivariate methods.
Degrees:
B.Sc. (Honours Bachelor of Science in Psychology with a minor in Biology), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1993; M.S., University of Illinois, 1996; A.M., University of Illinois, 1997; Ph.D., University of Illinois, 2000
AZENABOR, Anthony
Associate Professor, Health Sciences
