Faculty

Jon Anderson

Professor

• Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• M.S., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• B.S., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

• Alumni Association Teaching Award
• Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award

Areas of Expertise

• Biostatistics
• Time-to-Event Data Analysis
• Analysis of Survey Data

Oscar Baldelomar

Assistant Professor

• B.A., California State University, Los Angeles
• M.A., California State University, Los Angeles
• M.A., California State University, Los Angeles
• Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Areas of Expertise

• Cognition and Identity Development
• Intersection of Social Identities in Children and Adolescents
• Culture and Identity Development

Joseph Beaver

Lecturer

• Ph.D., University of Arizona, Tucson
• M.A., University of Tulsa
• B.G.S., University of Kansas

Areas of Expertise

• Geography
• Quantitative methods and computer modeling in archaeology
• Epipaleolithic and Neolithic societies of the Middle East
• Human/prey dynamics

Nick Benesh

Assistant Professor

• B.S., University of Wisconsin, River Falls
• M.S., University of Memphis
• Ph.D., University of Memphis

Areas of Expertise

• Theories of Mind and Cognition
• Perception
• Language
• Coordination of Language and Perception

Mary Elizabeth Bezanson

Professor

• Ph.D., University of Washington
• M.A., University of Washington
• B.S., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
• B.A., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Areas of Expertise

• Rhetorical History and Criticism
• Children's Literature
• Presidential Inaugurals
• Freedom of Speech
• Rhetoric of Picturebooks

Cyrus Bina

Professor
Distinguished Research Professor

• Ph.D. The American University
• M.A. Ball State University
• M.A. Ball State University
• B.S. Institute of Advance Accounting (Tehran, Iran)

• Morris Faculty Distinguished Research Award

Areas of Expertise

• Economic Theory and Methodology
• Energy and Environmental Economics
• Political Economy
• Technological Change & Skill Formation
• History of Economic Thought
• Globalization & Strategy
• Iran's Economy & Polity
• International Relations & US Foreign Policy

Kent Blansett

Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies Discipline Coordinator

• Ph.D., University of New Mexico
• M.A., University of New Mexico
• B.A., University of Missouri, Columbia

Areas of Expertise

• American Indian History
• Urban American History
• History of the West
• Modern American History
• Environmental History

Sheri Breen

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• B.A., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Areas of Expertise

• Political theories of nature
• Sustainable agriculture and stewardship
• Ecological reformulation of property theory

Stephen Burks

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
• M.A. University of Massachusetts
• M.A., Indiana University
• B.A., Reed College

Areas of Expertise

• U.S. trucking industry
• Behavioral economic field experiments
• Behavioral personnel economics

Barbara Burke

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., Purdue University

Areas of Expertise

• Creation and Dissemination Mass Media Stories that Inform our Relationships Between People
• How Marginalized People are Understood by Mainstream Society
• Media Content and Audiences

Donna Chollett

Associate Professor
LAAS Coordinator

• Ph.D., Michigan State University
• M.A., Iowa State University
• B.S., Iowa State University

Areas of Expertise

• Political Economy of Agrarian Systems, Anthropology of Food
• Rural Communities and Sociocultural Change in Latin America
• Social Movements, Social Justice, Human Rights

Rebecca Dean

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., University of Arizona
• M.A., University of Arizona
• B.A., University of Michigan

Areas of Expertise

• Agricultural societies in southern Arizona and the Mediterranean
• Spread and development of farming
• Impact of agricultural societies on the landscape and animals

Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., Northwestern University
• B.A., University of Washington

• Alumni Association Teaching Award
• Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award

Areas of Expertise

• Medieval History
• Early Modern Europe
• Religious and Cultural History
• Gender Studies

Deb Economou

Lecturer

• J.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Areas of Expertise

• Business Law

Bart Finzel

Professor
Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs and Dean

• Ph.D., Cornell University
• M.A., Cornell University
• B.A., Valparaiso University

• Alumni Association Teaching Award
• Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award

Areas of Expertise

• Long-term planning
• Liaison to faculty and administration of the campus
• Create funding mechanisms
• Establish partnerships with other community development organizations throughout the upper Midwest

Clayton Forester

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

Tom Gausman

Lecturer

• M.S. Northern Illinois University
• M.A. Northern Illinois University
• B.A. University of Minnesota, Morris

Tim Grove

Head Coach, Women's Basketball

• M.A., University of North Dakota
• B.S., Mayville State University
• A.A., Fergus Falls Community College

Paul Grove

Head Coach, Men's Basketball

Tom Johnson

Associate Professor

• B.A., St. Olaf College
• Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Areas of Expertise

• Perception
• Attention
• Language Behavior
• Creativity

Seung-Ho Joo

Professor

• Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
• M.A., Eastern Kentucky University
• B.A., Yonsei University Seoul

• Morris Faculty Distinguished Research Award

Areas of Expertise

• International Relations
• East Asian Foreign Relations
• International Conflict

Jeremy Karger-Gatzow

Head Coach, Track & Field and Cross Country

Arne Kildegaard

Professor, Center for Small Towns Director

• Ph.D., University of Texas
• M.A., University of Chicago
• B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College

Areas of Expertise

• Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
• Economics of Renewable Energy Systems
• Economic Development
• General aviation (small planes) pilot

Jong-Min Kim

Professor

• Ph.D., Oklahoma State University
• M.S., Chung-Ang University, South Korea
• B.S., Cheongju University, South Korea

• Morris Faculty Distinguished Research Award

Areas of Expertise

• Statistical genetics
• Sample Survey Methods
• Cluster Analysis

Hiroyuki Imai

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
• M.A., University of Michigan
• B.A., Keio University

Areas of Expertise

• Development Economics
• International Economics
• Financial Economics

Paul Kivi

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., University of Wyoming

Areas of Expertise

Peter Koprince

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., University of North Dakota
• M.A., University of North Dakota
• B.A., Wake Forest University

Areas of Expertise

• Humor Communication, Specifically Humor Used in Education
• Online Communities
• Nonverbal Communication

Nick Leonard

Lecturer

• B.S., St. John's University
• M.A., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Areas of Expertise

• Patterns and predictors of mental health service utilization. Specifically, school-based mental health supports and services.

Leslie Meek

Professor
Chair, Division of the Social Sciences

• Ph.D., University of Michigan
• B.A., University of Minnesota, Morris

• Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award
• John Tate Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising

Areas of Expertise

• Biopsychology
• Sexual Behavior
• Effects of Environment on Offspring Development (daylength and alcohol)
• Maternal Behavior
• Sexual Differentiation

Anthony Ocaña

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., North Dakota State University

Areas of Expertise

• Management of conflict in personal and professional lives
• Communication Research Methods
• Organizational Communication
• Intercultural Communication

Bibhudutta Panda

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., Louisiana State University
• M.S., Louisiana State University
• M.Phil., Delhi School of Economics
• M.A., Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics
• B.A., Utkal University

Areas of Expertise

• Economic Growth and Development
• Applied Macroeconomics
• Regional Economics

Heather Peters

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., University of Arizona
• M.A., University of Arizona
• B.A., University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• B.S., University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Areas of Expertise

• Clinical Psychology
• Sport Psychology
• Multicultural Psychology
• Eating Disorders

Jeff Ratliff-Crain

Professor

• Ph.D., Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda
• B.S., The Ohio State University

• Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award

Areas of Expertise

• Heath Decisions and Behaviors
• Mediators of Coping Style
• Predictors of Use of Common Drugs

Roger Rose

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Areas of Expertise

• American Government
• Congress
• The Presidency
• State and Local Government
• Research Methods
• Policy Making
• Human Rights

Kevin Stefanek

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., Michigan State University
• M.A., Michigan State University
• M.S., Boise State University
• B.A., University of California

Areas of Expertise

• Leadership
• Motivation
• Sport Management
• Martial Arts

Cheryl Stewart

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., Miami University
• M.A., Miami University
• B.S., George Mason University

Areas of Expertise

• Cognition
• Attention
• Learning|Memory (including both individual and group memory)
• Specific factors that influence student learning in educational environments

Dennis Stewart

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., Miami University
• M.A., Miami University
• B.S., University of Illinois

Areas of Expertise

• Group dynamics
• Social Influence
• Gender Stereotypes
• Political Psychology
• Consumer Psychology
• Teaching of Psychology.

Engin Sungur

Professor

• Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University
• M.S., Carnegie-Mellon University
• M.S., Middle East Technical University
• B.A., Middle East Technical University

• Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award

Areas of Expertise

• Statistics Education
• Modern Multivariate Analysis
• Copulas and Directional Dependence Modeling

Sheng Xiao

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
• M.A., Vanderbilt University
• M.Sc., Sichuan University
• B.A., Sichuan University

Areas of Expertise

• Empirical Corporate Finance
• Corporate Governance
• Empirical Asset Pricing
• Behavioral Economics and Finance
• Venture Capital
• Economic Growth

Xia Zhang

Visiting Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh; M.A., Beijing Normal University; B.A., Beijing Normal University

Areas of Expertise

• Globalization, Development, and Urbanization
• Gender (Masculinity) and Migration in Contemporary China
• Youth Culture, Labor Politics, and New Media