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New Faculty for 2004
August 2004
School of Architecture
Adam Drisin, Associate Professor
Adam Drisin graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design with an MDesS. He attended Cornell University where he obtained a Bachelor in Architecture. His creative scholarship is significant and has been applauded as an example of how to mediate the dichotomy between academic scholarship and practice. Mr. Drisin’s work centers on urbanism; in particular he studies the city and its architecture as a material and cultural artifact. A review of Drisin’s work shows five scholarly publications, twenty built projects, four placements in significant national and international competitions, plus significant invited exhibitions, conference presentations, publications and lectures. Professor Drisin’s greatest contribution to the field lies in his extensively published and deservedly prominent winning designs for the urban design competitions in Beirut and Bucharest.
Monica Tiulescu, Assistant Professor
Monica Tiulescu attended the Southern California Institute of Architecture, with which she spent a summer in Switzerland. She later graduated with a B.A. in architecture from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, School of Architecture in New York and then a M.S. in advanced architectural design from Columbia University. She has taught architectural representation, design studio, advanced media studio, media and communications skills, interior design, and design fundamentals. Her research interests included systems theory, contemporary theory, interactive design models, and new media.
College of Arts and Sciences
Art and Art History
Kathy Dambach, Professor
Kathy Dambach attended Ohio State University where she graduated with a B.F.A and later an M.F.A in Ceramic and Sculpture. She later attended Wayne State University where she graduated with an M.F.A in Sculpture and Painting. She was a faculty member of the Fine Arts Division at Henry Ford Community College in Michigan, and head of the ceramics, sculpture and 3-D design programs. Courses taught include beginning, intermediate and advanced ceramics, ceramic sculpture, ceramic materials technology, and history of ceramics. Since 2003, she has been a member of the Gallery Committee—Historic Pewabic Pottery in Detroit. Professor Dambach studied with Paul Bogaty, Edgar Littlefield, Hoyt Sherman, Duayne Hatchett, David Black, Sidney Kaplan, John Edgner and Robert Wilbert. .
Biological Sciences
Manuel Barbieri, Assistant Professor
Manuel Barbieri did his undergraduate and graduate studies at the Universidad Nacional de San Luis in Argentina, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry. Before joining FIU, he was a faculty member of the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Barbieri has been the recipient of numerous research awards, most recently from the Jose Carreras International Leukemia Foundation, and from the Diabetes Research and Treatment Center. He has over 40 publications in the field.
Todd C. Lajeunesse, Assistant Professor
Todd Lajeunesse graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of California in Santa Barbara. His work experience includes marine resource and environmental consultant in Maine, research associate at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, and laboratory manager at Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire. During the summer of 2002, he worked as a faculty member of the Edwin Pauley Summer Program at the University of Hawaii and later a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Plant Biology and the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia. Dr. Lajeunesse is a member of the International Symbiosis Society, the International Society for Reef Studies, and Phycological Society of America. He has published numerous articles in professional publications as well as participated/presented in conferences such as the 7th International Conference on Coelenterate Biology in Kansas and the 4th International Symbiosis Society in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Fernando Noriega, Assistant Professor
Fernando Noriega attended the Universidad de La Plata in Argentina where he graduated with a Ph.D. in Zoology. Prior to joining FIU, he was a research associate professor at the University of Arizona. Dr. Noriega also worked as a visiting scientist at the Institute of Parasitology in the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. He has received several research grants, most recently an RO1 NIH grant award, where as principal investigator, he worked on the regulation of hormonal levels in mosquitoes. Dr. Noriega has been an invited speaker at numerous institutions, including the Czech Academy of Sciences, the University of Stockholm, the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, the Campomar Institute of Biochemical Research in Buenos Aires, the National Institute of Health in Cuernavaca, Mexico, as well as the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, among others. In addition, Dr. Noriega has taught at the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina; the Northwestern Research Center in La Paz, Mexico, and the Ceske Budejovice in the Czech Republic. Dr. Noriega has published extensively.
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Bruce McCord, Associate Professor
Bruce McCord graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry. After graduation, he worked with CIBA-Geiby as a senior chemist, later as a group leader with Syntex Pharmaceuticals. His research includes forensic and toxicological applications of capillary electrophoresis, and fluid chromatography. Dr. McCord joined the FBI Academy, Forensic Science Research and Training Center in Quantico, VA. After nine years with the FBI, Dr. McCord joined the faculty at Ohio University, where he has been involved in teaching and advising in the forensic chemistry program. Classes taught included forensic chemistry, DNA typing, instrumental analysis, chromatography, as well as graduate and undergraduate research. Dr. McCord has been the recipient of several research grants, most recently from the National Institute of Justice—Novel STR Multiplexes with reduced size to analyze DNA; and The Detection of Date Rape Drugs by Capillary Electrochromatography Using Monolithic Columns.
Xiaotang Wang, Associate Professor
Xiaotang Wang attended the University of Iowa where he graduated with a Ph.D. in Bioorganic Chemistry. Prior to that he graduated with a M.S. in Agroenvironmental Chemistry from the Nanjing Institute of Soil Sciences. He worked as a postdoctoral associate at Louisiana State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Wang later joined the Department of Chemistry at Jackson State University. His research interests include structural and functional characterization of transition metal complexes in neurodegenerative diseases, development of novel therapeutics for human neurodegenerative disorders, biomimetic approach to the understanding of active site structure of metalloproteins, and nuclear magnetic resonance sprectroscopy of metalloproteins, peptides and nucleic acids. Dr. Wang has taught general chemistry, inorganic chemistry, graduate and undergraduate biochemistry, and advanced inorganic chemistry. His numerous publications have appeared in journals such as the Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and the Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, among others. Dr. Wang has been the recipient of several research grants including the prestigious NSF Career Award.
Computer Sciences
Vagelis Hristidis, Assistant Professor
Vagelis Hristidis recently graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California in San Diego. His research interests include information discovery, keyword search in relational and semi-structured databases, performance and semantics of ranked queries, and query caching and containment. Computer skills include languages such as C, C++, Visual C++, java, XML, HTML, Lisp, ML, and Pascal; software such as Oracle server and Oracle developer, as well as Windows and Unix. His native language is Greek and is fluent in German and English. Dr. Hristidis’ long term interests include creating a framework to support imprecise queries, as well as novel query capabilities.
Tao Li, Assistant Professor
Tao Li attended Oklahoma State University, where he graduated with an M.S. in Mathematics and later a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Prior to that he attended the Chinese Academy of Science in the People’s Republic of China, where he graduated with an M.S. in Computer Science. His research explores two related topics on learning from data—how to efficiently discover useful patterns and how to effectively retrieve music information. He currently focuses on combining labeled and unlabeled data, music information retrieval, multi-modal learning, temporal data mining and multi-class classification approaches with applications in text categorization and bio-informatics. Dr. Li has taught courses such as design and analysis of efficient algorithms, parallel and distributed algorithm, logical foundations of artificial intelligence, elementary calculus, abstract algebra, algebra and trigonometry as well as applications of modern mathematics.
Raju Rangaswami, Assistant Professor
Raju Rangaswami’s current research interests include storage systems, operating systems, quality of service, streaming multimedia, computer architecture, computational science and networking. He graduated from the University of California in Santa Barbara with an M.S. in Computer Science and later a Ph.D. He has designed and taught several courses in programming. Dr. Rangaswami refereed for international journals and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Software Practice and Experience, IEEE Conference on Multimedia and Expo, and International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications 2004.
Masoud Sadjadi, Assistant Professor
Masoud Sadjadi graduated in 2004 from Michigan State University with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He received his B.S. degree in Hardware Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran in 1995, and the M.S. degree in Software Engineering from Azad University at Tehran in 1999. Previously, Professor Sadjadi was affiliated with the Software Engineering and Network Systems Laboratory at Michigan State University, where he conducted research on the RAPIDware project. He is currently an assistant professor at the School of Computer Science at FIU. His current research interests include adaptive software, middleware, sensor networks, dependable systems, and mobile computing. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM.
Economics
Peter Thompson, Associate Professor
Peter Thompson received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1993. He was an Assistant Professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies until 1996 when he moved to the University of Houston. In 2001 he was promoted to Associate Professor. In 2002, he joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. His current research focuses on the relationship between technological change and economic growth. He approaches this relationship along two distinct lines. Both by constructing theoretical macroeconomic models that relate firm-level research and development to aggregate economic growth, and by detailed microeconometric investigations of technological change. He has taught a variety of courses including graduate macroeconomics development and economic growth, as well as undergraduate macroeconomics. His numerous publications have included papers in top economics journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of International Economics.
English
Jennifer Desiderio, Assistant Professor
Ms. Desiderio graduated in July 2004 from the Ohio State University with a Ph.D. in English. While at Ohio State University she designed and taught Introduction to American Literature, Introduction to Film, First Year Composition, as well as Advanced Composition: Introduction to Colonial and U.S. Literature, and Advanced Composition: The American Experience. Professor Desiderio was the Assistant Editor of the Journal for Prose Studies and a Peer Mentor for the First Year Writing Program at Ohio State University. She is a member of the Society for Early Americanists, the American Literature Association, the Society of the Study of American Women Writers, the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, the Modern Languages Association, and the Midwestern Modern Languages Association.
Ana Luszcynska, Assistant Professor
Ana Luszcynska attended the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she obtained her M.A. and her Ph.D., both in Comparative Literature. Her areas of specialization include 20th century African American and U.S. Latino literature, cultural criticism, and literary theory with particular emphasis on contemporary French thought. At the University of Maine, Dr. Luszcynska taught Foundations of Literary Analysis, American Women’s Literature, and College Composition. She has presented lectures at SUNY in Buffalo on topics such as 20th century African American cultural theology and U.S. Latino cultural theory and criticism.
Environmental Studies
Brian Bovard, Lecturer
Brian Bovard has taught at FIU as an adjunct professor since August 2003. He attended Duke University where he graduated with a Ph.D. in Botany. His research interests included ecosystem integration of physiological and community ecology; ecosystem responses to global climate change and restoration ecology. He focuses on developing a better understanding of how the environment controls biosphere-atmosphere interactions. He has worked in tundra, boreal forest, temperate forest, and wetland ecosystems in Alaska, Sweden, Saskatchewan, Michigan, and Indiana. Dr. Bovard has taught ecology of South Florida, environmental science, ecology and society, instrumentation and field methods in atmospheric science as well as a biosphere/atmosphere research training program. His articles have been published in professional journals such as Tree Physiology, Soil Science Society of America Journal, and the Journal of Geophysical Research.
Assefa Melesse, Assistant Professor
Assefa Melesse attended the University of Florida where he graduated with a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering. He also has a Master of Engineering from UF and a Master of Engineering Science from the National University of Ireland. He is a registered Professional Engineering in Florida and North Dakota. Dr. Melesse’s areas of interest include spatially distributed hydrologic modeling; ecohydrology, surface and groundwater interactions modeling; water-energy-carbon fluxes coupling and modeling; NPS modeling for TMDL development and evaluation of BMPs; remote sensing hydrology employing data from various sensors, platforms and spectra, and land cover change detection and scaling. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE), and the Gamma Beta Chapter of Alpha Epsilon. Since 2000, he has over 13 publications in professional journals, and over 18 conference proceedings, presentations and posters.
History
Gwyn Davies, Assistant Professor
Gwyn Davies attended the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, where she obtained her BA in Archaeology, an M.A. in Research Methods and later a Ph.D. in Roman Offensive Siege Works. Dr. Davies has numerous professional publications which have appeared journals such as the Readers’ Guide to Military History, Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, and Papers from the Institute of Archaeology. She has several works in progress, including Roman Siege Works, Tempus, (forthcoming); The Late Roman Fort at Yotvata, Journal of Roman Archaeology (in press); Excavations at the Late Roman Fort at Yotvata, Arava, Israel Exploration Journal, (in press), and ‘Hellenistic Infantry Reform in the 160s BC’, American Journal of Archaeology (In press). Courses taught include Western Civilization, Greek History, Roman Provinces, Roman Britain, the Age of Alexander, the Ancient Mediterranean, and Comparative Approaches to Warfare. Since June 2003, she has been co-director of excavations at Yotvata, Southern Arava, Israel, a Roman fort site, in association with Prof. Jodi Magness (UNC) and Uzi Avner (former inspector of the IAA). The site offers considerable potential as a training dig run as a summer course for credit. Dr. Davies future research interests include siege-related field work, Roman frontiers, and “superpower” interactions in the classical world.
Karen Garner, Assistant Professor (History and Women's Studies)
Karen Garner received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Texas at Austin. She has taught U.S. and Asian history courses at Texas A & M University and Alma College. Dr. Garner received a Fulbright Fellowship to Vilnius University, Lithuania, in 2003 where she was a Visiting Faculty with the Gender Studies Center. She also had appointments as the Director of the Women's Center at FIU, and as an Assistant Professor at Alma College. Dr. Garner has taught courses on U.S. Women's History and History of Women in Asia. Her book, Precious Fire Maud Russell and the Chinese Revolution, was published in 2003 by the University of Massachusetts Press. The book chronicles the political odyssey of an American activist from Christian liberal to Marxist feminist. She is currently working on a book project entitled, Women and Global Leadership: Theory and Practice in the World YWCA, 1925-2000. Her future research focuses on women’s involvement in international relations and the process of “democracy building”.
Veronique Helenon, Assistant Professor
Vernonique Helenon graduated from the EHESS (School of Higher Education in Social Sciences) in Paris, France with a Ph.D. in History. In 1996, she was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship in Africana Studies at NYU. Prior to joining FIU, she taught at UMass—Dartmouth, Columbia University, New York University, Manhattan Community College and Brooklyn College. Courses taught and developed include French Social History, Colonization, Immigration, and National Identity in France, French Colonial Expansion under the Third Republic, the Industrial Revolution, World History, Pre-colonial African History, African Responses to Colonialism, Introduction to African History, Introduction to Panafricanism, the Haitian Revolution and its Impact, and Haitian History.
Laura Nenzi, Assistant Professor
Laura Nenzi graduated in Spring 2004 from the University of California in Santa Barbara with a Ph.D. in History. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Venice in Italy with a M.A. in Asian Studies. Professor Nenzi’s areas of specialization include early modern Japanese history, east Asia, medieval Europe and Japanese religions. As a teaching assistant, she has led discussion sections, prepared and graded exams and written assignments for classes such as Western Civilizations: 1700 to present; Western Civilization: origins through late antiquity; China and the West; World History through ca. 1000 A.D.; Japanese History through Art and Literature; East Asian Civilizations, and Western Civilization from middle ages to the scientific revolution. Professor Nenzi is a member of the American Historical Association, the Association for Asian Studies, the Early Modern Japan Network, the Italian Association for Japanese Studies, and the Association of Italian Researchers in Japan.
International Relations
Shlomi Dinar, Assistant Professor
Shlomi Dinar recently defended his dissertation in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. His Ph.D. dissertation is entitled Treaty Principles and Patterns: Negotiations over International Rivers. Prior to enrolling in the Ph.D. program, Mr. Dinar received an M.A. in International Affairs at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. His main research interests include international environmental and freshwater agreements, environment and security, conflict resolution and negotiation, Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. Mr. Dinar worked as Associate Director of the Columbia University Water Initiative and was a consultant for the Global Green USA/Green Cross International—International Fresh Water Conflict Prevention Program.
Wei Liang, Assistant Professor
Wei Liang joins FIU after holding the position of Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a Ph.D. in International Relations. Dr. Liang did her undergraduate studies at Beijing University. Her research interests include international political economy (with emphasis on international institution, international cooperation, US trade and monetary policy, conflict resolution, negotiation theory and practice, and international political economy) and comparative politics (with emphasis on regime type and domestic politics comparison, economic integration of transitional economies, telecom network technology, as well as regulation and standardization.)
Mathematics
Chongsheng Cao, Assistant Professor
Chongsheng Cao comes to FIU from the Department of Mathematics and the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. He graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics from Xian Jiaotong University in the Peoples Republic of China later attended Beijing University for his M.S. and graduated from the University of California—Irvine with a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics. Dr. Cao’s areas of interest include nonlinear partial differential equations, nonlinear dynamical systems, control theory, fluid dynamics, geophysics and computational mathematics. He has taught at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of California—Irvine, and Xian Jiaoton University.
Laura Ghezzi, Assistant Professor
Laura Ghezzi graduated from Michigan State University with a Ph.D. in Mathematics and did her undergraduate studies at the Università degli Studi di Genova in Italy, where she graduated summa cum laude. Her research interests are commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, computational algebra, and homological algebra. She has published several articles in professional journals such as Contemporary Mathematics, the Journal of Algebra, as well as Communications in Algebra. Her teaching experience includes courses such as Finite Mathematics, Calculus III, Discrete Mathematics, College Algebra and Differential Equations, among others. She recently presented at the 14th International Conference on the Jangjeon Mathematical Society in India. The topic of her talk was Valuations in Algebraic Geometry.
Mirroslav Yotov, Assistant Professor
Mirroslav Yotov graduated summa cum laude with a Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics at Sofia University. His research interests include algebra and algebraic geometry as well as algebraic homology methods in low dimensional symplectic topology. Dr. Yotov has been teaching at the University of California—Irvine, where he has taught courses such as algebraic geometry, advanced modern algebra, precalculus, calculus, linear algebra, discrete mathematics, differential equations, analytic geometry and synthetic geometry. He was the instructor for the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Sciences, coach of the UCI team for the Putnam Mathematics Competition in 2003, instructor in the California State program “Mathematics Academy for High School Teachers,” and participated in the preparation of the Bulgarian Mathematical team for the International Mathematical Olympiads.
Modern Languages
Monica Prieto, Assistant Professor
Monica Prieto holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also obtained her M.A. She studied English Philosophy at the Universidad del Deusto in Spain. She joins FIU from the University of Mississippi, where she held the position of assistant professor and director of Basic Language Instruction. Since 2002, Dr. Prieto has been vice president for Programs of the Mississippi Foreign Language Association. Her expertise includes the use of computer programs for language teaching as well as in material creation, evaluation and codification. Dr. Prieto is a member of the Linguistic Society of America, the Modern Languages Association, and the Mississippi Foreign Language Association.
Augusta Vono, Instructor
Augusta Vono’s undergraduate studies were done at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, where she studied Portuguese and English and later graduated with a M.A. in North American Literature. She has done Ph.D. course work in English and Portuguese at the University of Sao Paulo, but has not yet presented her dissertation. In Brazil she has taught English language, North American Literature, and Portuguese. She is currently the owner of Success Language Center, targeting companies for language instruction, cross-cultural seminars, and translations and interpreting services. Ms. Vono speaks Portuguese, English, Spanish and German, with advanced knowledge of French and Italian. She has written several articles, essays, and publications for literary supplements and magazines.
Music
Javier Arias, Assistant Professor
Javier Arias, cellist, was born in Mexico City, where he started his musical training with his father, Emmanuel Arias y Luna. Mr. Arias received his Bachelor of Music Degree from the Juilliard School, where he was awarded the Lincoln Center Scholarship, the Loeb Memorial Scholarship and the Cohen Memorial Scholarship. He also holds an Artist Diploma from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His teachers include Zara Nelsova, Salomon van den Berg, Carlos Prieto, Dennis Parker, and Anna Elizabeth Berlin. Javier Arias won the First Prize in the National Young Artists Competition. He has appeared as soloist with the Mexico State Symphony Orchestra and other orchestras in Mexico and Germany. He has participated in music festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein, Aspen, Ravinia, Interlochen, Tanglewood, and the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall. As a founding member of the Amernet String Quartet, he was the winner of the First Prize in the Fifth Banff International String Quartet Competition, First Prize in the Tokyo International Music Competition, with the Special Asahi Award, Grand Prize winner of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and First Prize winner of the Yellow Springs National Chamber Music Competition. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Arias taught chamber music at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. From 2000-2004 he was Artist-in-Residence at Northern Kentucky University, where he taught cello and chamber music..
Deborah Burton, Assistant Professor
Deborah Burton graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and a M.M. from Yale School of Music. She was coeditor and contributor of Tosca's Prism: Three Moments of Western Cultural History, Northeastern University Press, 2004; co-author of an annotated translation of Francesco Galeazzi's Elementi Teorico-Practici di Musica (1796) for University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming. Her articles have been published in Theoria, Studi Musicali, Quaderni pucciniani, Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana, and Opera Quarterly. In addition, Dr. Burton served as Secretary for the New England Conference of Music Theorists; was the originator and co-organizer of Tosca 2000, an international, interdisciplinary conference in Rome, Italy; and presenter at conferences worldwide. She has taught at Harvard University, University of Massachusetts, Fordham University, and Yale School of Music.
David Dolata, Assistant Professor
David Dolata earned his Ph.D. in Musicology with a concentration in Performance Practice from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He received his undergraduate and masters degrees from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. His dissertation, "The Sonatas and Dance Music in the Capricci a due stromenti (1622) of Bellerofonte Castaldi (1580-1649)," is included in the collections of such distinguished European music libraries as the Biblioteca Estense in Modena, Italy, and the Royal Academy of Music in London, and is being published as a volume in A-R Editions’ Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era. Dr. Dolata’s work on Castaldi is also included in the New Grove dictionary of Music and Musicians. In addition, he is the author of several articles on historical tunings and temperaments as well as a book chapter on that topic to appear in the forthcoming revised edition of A Performer’s Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music published by Schirmer and Early Music America. As a lutenist, David Dolata has performed with internationally recognized baroque opera stars at venues such as the Glimmerglass Opera in New York and the Florida Grand Opera in Miami. He has recorded for NPR, BBC, CBS Sunday Morning, Nannerl Records, and most recently for Naxos on a CD devoted to Kapsberger’s 1623 Book of Arias to be released in December of 2004. Dr. Dolata has taught previously at the University of Louisville and Eastern Washington University where he was also the Director of Graduate Studies in Music.
Joel Galand, Assistant Professor
Joel Galand graduated from Yale University with a Ph.D. in Music Theory and comes to FIU from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. He also taught at Yale and Notre Dame. Dr. Galand’s research interests include Schenkerian theory, 18th-century music theory and aesthetics, and American musical theater. He served as Editor and Reviews Editor of The Journal of Music Theory. His articles have appeared in Music Theory Spectrum, Notes, The Journal of Music Theory, Intégral, The Kurt Weill Newsletter, and Current Musicology. His "Form, Genre, and Style in the Eighteenth-Century Rondo" [Music Theory Spectrum 17/1 (1995)] won the Society for Music Theory’s Young Scholar Award. His critical edition of Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin’s unpublished operetta The Firebrand of Florence recently appeared as part of the new Weill Edition. A recording of the edition by the BBC Symphony and soloists under the direction of Sir Andrew Davis (Capriccio 60-091), for which Galand served as musicological advisor, has also been released. Dr. Galand has taught graduate courses such as Survey of Analytical Techniques; Topics in Tonal Literature and Analysis; Modal Counterpoint; Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint; Introduction to Music Theory Research; and a Ph.D. Seminar on Analytical and Critical Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Music.
Michael Klotz, Assistant Professor
Michael Klotz made his solo debut with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of seventeen. He has also appeared with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Penfield Symphony Orchestra, Mannes Bach Festival Orchestra, and the World Youth Music Festival Orchestra in London, England. An avid performer of the chamber music repertoire, recent appearances on violin and viola include concerts in New York at venues such as Alice Tully Hall, Weill Hall, Merkin Hall, Steinway Hall, Museum of Modern Art and the Kosciuzsko Foundation, which included a live broadcast on WQXR-FM. He has enjoyed numerous collaborations in concerts with artist faculties of the Juilliard and Eastman Schools of Music as well as members of the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Baltimore and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras. Mr. Klotz has performed at leading festivals such as the Sarasota Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, and Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, where he was an assistant faculty member for three summers. He received a Bachelor of Music degree and Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music as a student of Zvi Zeitlin. In 2002, Michael Klotz became one of the few individuals to complete the Master of Music degree in both Violin and Viola Performance from The Juilliard School, where he was a recipient of the Maxwell Gluck Fellowship and the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship.
Marcia Littley, Assistant Professor
Marcia Littley de Arias, violinist, received her Bachelor of Music Degree from the Juilliard School. As a member of the Amernet String Quartet, she was the winner of the First Prize in the Fifth Banff International String Quartet Competition, First Prize in the 1992 Tokyo International Music Competition, with the Special Asahi Award, Grand Prize winner of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and First Prize winner of the Yellow Springs National Chamber Music Competition. She holds an Artist Diploma from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She has appeared as soloist with orchestras in the United States and in Mexico, and has participated in music festivals such as Aspen, Ravinia, Interlochen, Tanglewood and the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall. From 1996 to 2000, Ms. Littley de Arias taught chamber music at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. From 2000-2004 she was Artist–in-Residence at Northern Kentucky University, where she taught violin and chamber music.
Michael Vitenson, Assistant Professor
Michael Vitenson, violinist, began his violin studies with his father, Yuri Vitenson, in his native city of Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In 1990, he immigrated to Israel. Professor Vitenson’s prizes and awards in Israel include annual America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships and the prestigious Braun Zingel Award, which he won in a competition held at the Rubin Music Academy in Jerusalem. In 1996, Mr. Vitenson began studying at the Harid Conservatory. Subsequently, he was awarded top prizes in international violin competitions, including “Premio Paganini” (Italy, 1998) and Pablo de Sarasate (Spain, 1997) and First Prize in the 1998 Citta d’Andria International Violin Competition (Italy). Professor Vitenson is the winner of the 1999 Aspen Music Festival Concerto Competition and First Prizewinner at the 2000 National Society of Arts and Letters Violin Competition. He is also both a two-time winner of the Harid Conservatory Concerto Competition and a two-time recipient of the Harid Conservatory’s Joseph Gingold Award for Excellence (1998 & 2000). After receiving his Bachelor degree from Harid Conservatory School of Music at Lynn University, Vitenson was a student at the Juilliard School, where he received a Master of Music Degree. There he appeared as a soloist with the Juilliard Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall under the baton of Hugh Wolff. In the fall of 2002 Professor Vitenson joined the Amernet String Quartet and the faculty at Northern Kentucky University as an Artist-in-Residence, teaching violin and chamber music. Currently, he is Artist-in Residence at Florida International University.
Philosophy
Kiriake Xerohemona, Lecturer
Kiriake Xerohemona attended the University of Miami, where she graduated with a Ph.D. in Philosophy. In 2003, while an adjunct faculty at FIU, she was awarded the Adjunct Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award. She has taught at Barry University, the University of Miami, Miami-Dade College and FIU. Courses taught include Critical Thinking and Ethics, Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Logic, Humanities, Philosophical Analysis, and Symbolic Logic. She is a member of the American Philosophical Association. He research interests include philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, as well as logic, metaphysics and ethics.
Political Science
Clement Fatovic, Assistant Professor
Clement Fatovic earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University in 2002. He has taught various courses in political theory at the University of Florida and at Vassar College, including Ancient and Medieval Political Thought, Problems in Democracy, Introduction to Political Thought, and Liberalism and Its Critics. Dr. Fatovic’s primary research interests focus on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Anglo-American political thought, particularly the intellectual origins of the American Founding and the development of modern constitutionalism. He has published articles on these topics in the American Journal of Political Science and History of Political Thought and is currently preparing a book manuscript on the emergency powers of the executive in early liberal political thought. Dr. Fatovic is a member of the American Political Science Association and the Midwest Political Science Association.
Tatiana Kostadinova, Assistant Professor
Tatiana Kostadinova graduated from FSU with a Ph.D. in Political Sciences. Dr. Kostadinova’s research interests include institutional reform in Eastern Europe, mechanical and psychological effects of electoral systems, comparative environmental policies, public support for foreign policies, and democratization. She is a native Bulgarian speaker, with fluency in English and Russian, and reading comprehension of Serbian, Macedonian, and Ukrainian. She has been the recipient of several grants, the most recent of which came from the German Marshall Fund of the United States for a research fellowship program to evaluate the effectiveness of European environmental agreements. Courses taught include Russian and East European Politics, Introduction to Comparative Government, Introduction to Political Economy, Research Methods in Political Science, Issues in Democratization, Presidents and Assemblies of the World, Russian and Soviet Government and Politics, Policy Transition in Southeastern and Central Europe, as well as Comparative Institutional Choice. She is a member of the American Political Science Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and the Midwest Political Science Association.
Sarah Poggione, Assistant Professor
Sarah Poggione graduated from Pennsylvania State University with an M.A., and later Ph.D., in Political Science. Her fields of study included American politics, research methods, and international relations. Her teaching interests include American politics, legislative politics, women and politics, state politics and policy, and elections and political behavior. Dr. Poggione was a Franklin Fellow and a temporary Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia, where she developed and taught upper-level undergraduate courses including Public Opinion in American Democracy, the Legislative Process, and State Politics. She participated in a Franklin College of Arts and Science program of teaching and professional development. She is a member of the American Political Science Association, the Midwest Political Science Association, and the Southern Political Science Association.
Psychology
Lindsay Ham, Assistant Professor
Lindsay Ham received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. During 2003-2004 she participated in a Clinical Psychology Internship at the FVA/Medical University of South Carolina. In 2002, she was the recipient of a National Research Service Award – F31 pre-doctoral Fellowship to conduct a study on A Model of Social Anxiety and College Student Drinking, funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. She has published on topics related to anxiety disorders and problem drinking. Her teaching experience includes instructor of abnormal psychology as well as research methods and data analysis. In addition, she was a guest lecturer at the College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina and the Department of Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Professor Ham is a member of the Research Society of Alcoholism (RSA), the American Psychological Association, the Anxiety Disorders Association of America and the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.
Nathan Hiller, Assistant Professor
Nathan Hiller is a Ph.D. candidate at the Pennsylvania State University, where he recently finished the academic year as a Crawford Dissertation Fellow. He received an M.S. from Penn State and a B.A. from the University of Calgary, Canada. His current research interests are in understanding how individuals come to perceive themselves as leaders (or not) and how personality traits of top executives influence the way they make decisions and run an organization. In 2002, he received an international research award from the Center for Creative Leadership (Greensboro, North Carolina) for a study on shared leadership in work teams. Professor Hiller has been involved in applied research projects with numerous organizations, including a recruitment evaluation project for the U.S. Marine Corps and a leadership sustainability project for a Fortune 500 company. Shortly after the first free elections, Professor Hiller spent four months in Cape Town, South Africa, studying perceptions of fairness in workplace performance appraisals.
James Jaccard, Professor
James Jaccard received his doctorate in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana. He comes from the State University of New York where he held the position of Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology. Over the years, he has served on a large number of state and federal government panels for purposes of providing expert advice on the formulation of national policy and research agenda. During his academic career, Dr. Jaccard participated on such committees as the Institutional Review Board, the University Auxiliary Service, and The College Council. He is a Fellow, of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the American Association of Applied Preventive Psychology. He has generated numerous publications.
Christian Resick, Assistant Professor
Christian Resick is a doctoral student in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Wayne State University. He graduated from West Chester University in Pennsylvania with an M.A. in Industrial/ Organizational Psychology. His research addresses the dynamics of organizational interaction, with special interest in culture/climate/person-environment fit/ASA theory, leadership, and teams. His publications have appeared in professional journals such as the Leadership Quarterly, the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and in Psychology: A Journal of Human Behavior. At Wayne State, Mr. Resick taught courses such as Psychology and the Workplace, Psychology of Social Behavior, and a Seminar in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. In addition, he has worked as an independent consultant providing data management and analysis, survey research, training, and program design services for human resource-related programs. Professor Resick is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, International Leadership Association, and the Michigan Association for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Religious Studies
Aisha Musa, Assistant Professor
Aisha Musa received her Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Harvard University. She graduated from Portland State University with a B.A. in International Studies and later a Master of Arts in Teaching. Courses taught include Elementary Modern Standard Arabic and Intermediate Classical Arabic at Harvard, Writing Seminar in the Heritage of the Near East at Boston University, and Introduction to Islam at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. Professor Musa is fluent in English and Arabic, and has working knowledge of Persian, French and German. Since 1993, she has been the Islam Section Leader at CompuServe Information System Religion Forum, where she leads, and moderates discussions on Islam.
Sociology/Anthropology
L. Shane Greene, Assistant Professor
Shane Greene graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in Anthropology, where he also obtained his M.A. in Social Sciences. Dr. Greene is interested in the fields of historical, social, environmental and activist anthropology. He focuses on the political economy of Latin America. His work addresses the issues of indigenous and other social movements, multicultural identity politics in postcolonial societies, sustainable development and pharmaceutical bio-prospecting, and indigenous claims to cultural property and customary law. His current investigation is based on ethnographic and historical research carried out in Peru where he works with an indigenous people known as the Awajún (or Aguaruna). His recent publications appear in American Ethnologist, Current Anthropology, Cultural Survival Quarterly and Quehacer (Peru). Currently, he is working on a book titled Paths, Rivers, Roads, and Borders: How Indigenous Movements Customize History.
Liliana Goldin, Professor
Liliana Goldin received her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany. She also pursued graduate studies work at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Dr. Goldin holds the position of Director of the Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, SUNY, Albany. Her works in progress include: “Labor Ideology in International Factories of Rural Guatemala” a paper submitted to Latin American Perspectives, and Guatemalans in New York State. She is a member of the American Anthropological Association, Society for Latin American Anthropology and Latin American Studies Association. Dr. Goldin is a Fellow in the Society for Applied Anthropology.
Andrew S. Mathews, Assistant Professor
Andrew Mathews attended Yale University, where he graduated with a Ph.D. in Environmental Anthropology. His fields of study included environmental anthropology, Latin American anthropology, culture and politics in modern Latin America, political theory and state, and forest ecology. While at Yale, he taught a junior seminar—Environmental Anthropology: Ecological Knowledge, Political Ecology and the Development Encounter, and a Society and Environment class. As an intern with the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, he carried out field inventory and data preparation for Green Certification, as well as database design, data analysis and assistance with timber sale planning and supervision. Dr. Mathews is a member of the American Anthropological Association, the Association of American Geographers, the Latin American Studies Association and the Graduate Employees and Students’ Organization at Yale University.
Statistics
YanYan Zhou, Assistant Professor
YanYan Zhou attended the University of Maryland where she graduated with a M.S. in Applied Mathematics and later a Ph.D. in Statistics. She graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from Xiamen University in China. Prior to joining FIU, she worked as a biometrician with Merck & Co., Inc., where she held the position of lead study statistician in PDE 4 inhibitor and Rofecoxib. There, she provided statistical input on protocol design, statistical analysis and interpretation of results, wrote statistical analysis plans and clinical study reports. Dr. Zhou also worked as a research assistant and statistical intern at the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Zhou has published several papers in professional journals such as Statistics and Decision, Urban Finance, Journal of JiangHan, the Biometrical Journal, as well as Theory Journal Monthly. She is a member of the American Statistical Association and the American Mathematical Society.
Theatre and Dance
Tracey Moore, Assistant Professor
Tracey Moore studied operatic performance/voice at Indiana State University and later graduated from Southern Illinois University with an M.A. in English literature. Most recently, she graduated with an M.F.A. in Acting, with specialization in voice and speech, from the Brooklyn College at the City University of New York. She has worked as an acting instructor and adjunct faculty in English composition at Brooklyn College. Professor Moore has also worked as a voice and speech consultant for Laskin Media and provided private voice lessons in vocal technique and musical theatre audition preparation for actors and singers. She is a member of the Voice and Speech Teacher’s Association, the Actors Equity Association, the American Guild of Musical Artists, Raw Impressions Music Theatre, and the New York Yoga Teachers Association. She enjoys playing the piano, ukulele, and the electric bass.
Augusto Soledade, Assistant Professor
Augusto Soledade, is a performer, choreographer, and founding artistic director of Brazz Dance Theater. He served as graduate advisor in the M.F.A. in Dance program at Smith College, Massachusetts. He graduated from the State University of New York College at Brockport with an M.F.A. in Dance. His undergraduate studies were done in the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil, where he majored in journalism. Professor Soledade has taught dance courses at the Federal University of Bahia, the State University of New York College at Morrisville, the Rochester City School District, the University of Rochester, Wells College as well as the University of Michigan. His dance training started at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil in a program with strong modern dance emphasis. At the Federal University of Bahia, he worked as an African-Brazilian dance teaching assistant and has won awards performing modern dance. He was invited to perform as a contestant for the First International Ballet and Modern Dance Competition in Japan, in 1992. Professor Soledade has performed extensively in Brazil, in Trinidad/Tobago and throughout New York State.
Jeffrey Tangeman, Assistant Professor
Jeffrey Tangeman holds his M.F.A. in Directing from Illinois State University and two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Marketing and Theatre from Hillsdale College. He is an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and has extensive experience in artistic consultation, marketing, public relations, new play development and season selection in the Off and Off-off Broadway, regional, as well as university and conservatory arenas. He is the former Producing Artistic Director of Black Box Productions in New York City as well as a freelance casting director. New York and regional theatre credits include: Henry V, The Beau Defeated, the premiere productions of Nog!, Strained Relationships, Escape From Bondage (An Historical Chronology of the Early Life and Work of Frederick Douglass) and “Untitled,” winner of the Source Theatre’s (Washington, D.C.) Best Production Award (1990). Additionally, Professor Tangeman has directed The Mikado, Never the Sinner: The Leopold and Loeb Story (under the Jean Scharfenberg Memorial Directing Fellowship), Tartuffe, Lydie Breeze, Sweet Charity, The Taming of the Shrew, Lend Me a Tenor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rapid Fire (by Joe Pintauro), The Triumph of the West, Boys in the Backroom, CUT, An Ordinary Morning, Objectively Yours, Survival of the Stubbornest, The Sweet Bye ‘n Bye, Blue Collar Blues, and The Turn Down. He teaches acting, directing, theatre history, and play analysis. Professor Tangeman is currently writing a Theatre History textbook for Allyn, Bacon and Longman.
Women’s Studies
Dana Van Tilborg, Postdoctoral Fellow
Dana Van Tilborg completed her Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico in the Department of Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies in 2004. Dr. Van Tilborg is an interdisciplinary scholar who works at the intersection of cultural studies, education, and women’s studies. Her field of study includes women’s life histories, auto/biographies, feminist theory, and feminist and qualitative research methods. She has taught Introduction to Women’s Studies, Gender and Education, Girls, Writing Women’s Lives, and Third Wave Feminism. She is a member of the American Educational Researcher Association, National Women’s Studies Association, and Scholars and Advocates for Gender Equity.
Latin America and Caribbean Center
Michael W. Collier, Faculty Administrator
Michael Collier received his Ph.D. in International Relations from Florida International University. His fields of concentration are in the areas foreign policy and security studies, comparative politics, Latin American and Caribbean area studies, and research methodology. Dr. Collier is presently Academic Programs Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center at FIU. As an adjunct professor and instructor he has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in his discipline. He has been involved, in the capacity of principal investigator, author and co-author, with numerous grants and major research projects. He has also published extensively, and made numerous professional presentations.
College of Business
Decision Sciences & Information Systems
Karlene Cousins, Assistant Professor
Karlene Cousins is a doctoral candidate at Georgia State University. She attended the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, where she graduated with a M.Sc. in Computer-based Management Information Systems. Her research interests include ubiquitous computing environments, virtual teams, organizational impacts of information systems, and electronic commerce. Courses taught include Data Management, Telecommunications, Systems Analysis and Design, and Information Systems Management. Professor Cousins’ articles have appeared in the Journal of AIS and Communications of AIA. In 2004, she was the recipient of the GSU GTA Teaching Excellence Award and the GSU Dissertation Grant Award.
Finance
Randy Anderson, Eminent Scholar
Randy Anderson’s teaching interest areas include real estate, corporate finance, and financial institutions. His research interests include real estate brokerage, REIT performance, and mutual fund performance. He attended North Central College and graduated outstanding finance student with a B.A. in finance. He later graduated from the University of Alabama, where he earned his Ph.D. in finance. He held the titles of the William Newman Chair of Real Estate Finance and Academic Director of the William Newman Real Estate Programs at the City University of New York—Baruch College. Concurrently, he held the titles of Chief Economist and Director of Research at the Marcus and Millichap Company in Palo Alto, California. At Baruch he taught real estate finance and graduate real estate finance. He was responsible for developing real estate programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as conducting research projects in the real estate area. At the Marcus and Millichap Company, he provided strategic guidance to all its subsidiaries and provided economic forecasts for the national economy and the twelve Western US MSAs, including employment and household forecasts. Dr. Anderson has published extensively in both practitioner and academic journals.
Management
Paul Reynolds, Professor
Paul Reynolds received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University. He also received an M.B.A. and an M.A .in Psychology at Stanford. Dr. Reynolds was the Research Professor of Entrepreneurship at the London Business School before coming to Florida International University. He has published and edited numerous collections in the area of entrepreneurship research. Dr. Reynolds served for five years as the coordinating principal investigator of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research program, a collaboration of national teams from over three dozen countries providing harmonized cross national comparisons. He will serve as co-principal investigator of the second panel study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics sponsored by the Kauffman foundation and implemented jointly with the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
Marketing
Gary K. Hunter, Assistant Professor
Gary Hunter graduated from the University of Tennessee with an M.B.A. in Marketing and Finance and later attended the University of North Carolina, where he graduated with a Ph.D. in Marketing, supported by Econometrics and Structural Equation Modeling. Dr. Hunter’s teaching experience includes courses such as Marketing Management, Sports Business Practicum, Fundamentals of Marketing Management and Sales Management. Other teaching interests include relationship management, channels management, sales force management, business-to-business management, structural equation modeling, and marketing research methods. While at Arizona State University’s Department of Marketing, he was a member of the MKT 502 e-learning and e-marketing team, the MKT 502 redesign team, the curriculum fundamentals team, the personnel committee, the performance review committee, the student services and curricula committee, as well as the information technology management team. Since 2001, Dr. Hunter has been ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management.
College of Education
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
Mary Alfred, Associate Professor
Mary Alfred comes to FIU from the University of Wisconsin, where she taught graduate courses in the Adult and Continuing Education Department. She holds a Ph.D. in educational administration from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Alfred’s research interests include research on minority women’s learning and development, welfare reform, learning and development among immigrant people of color, and immigrants in adult and higher education. She has authored numerous papers in professional journals. Her appointments in editorial review boards include book review co-editor of Adult Education Quarterly, member of the editorial board of Adult Learning, reviewer for the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, as well as reviewer for the ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education.
College of Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Anuradha Godavarty, Assistant Professor
Anuradha Godavarty graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University. She previously attended the University of Tennessee where she obtained her M.S. in chemical engineering. Dr. Godavarty did graduate work in chemical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India. Her undergraduate education was obtained at the University of Madras, where she graduated with a B.Tech in chemical engineering. Prior to joining FIU, she worked as a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Computer Science in the University of Vermont. She has been a reviewer for proceedings of National Academy of Science, the Journal of Biomedical Optics, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment, Optics Express, and the International Journal of Computational Engineering Science. Dr. Godavarty has also submitted, been accepted and reviewed in these publications.
Wei-Chiang Lin, Assistant Professor
Wei-Chiang Lin graduated from the Chung-Yuan Christian University in Taiwan with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering. He later attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he obtained his M.S. in Engineering and then a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. Prior to joining FIU, Dr. Lin was research assistant professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Vanderbilt University. His research projects have included brain tumor demarcation using optical spectroscopy, skin cancer detection using optical spectroscopy and imaging, guided liver tumor treatment using optical spectroscopy, guided skin disorder treatment using optical spectroscopy, detection of tissue radiation injury using optical spectroscopy, and tissue differentiation using dynamics of tissue mechanical properties. His articles have been published in Applied Optics, the Journal of Biomedical Optics, and Photochemistry and Photobiology, among others.
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Forrest James Masters, Assistant Professor
Forrest Masters received his Ph.D. from the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida in August 2004. He graduated from UF with an M.E. in Civil Engineering. His research interests include full-scale measurement of surface-level hurricane winds, wind effects on structures, stochastic simulation of natural hazard events and probabilistic vibration analysis. Professor Masters has been working as a research assistant at the University of Florida and during the last four hurricane seasons participated in the Florida Coastal Monitoring Program, a unique joint venture focusing on full-scale experimental methods to quantify hurricane wind behavior and the resultant loads on residential structures. During the summer of 2001, he worked as a visiting research scientist at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University in Japan, where he assembled and tested models of traditional Japanese homes linked together with energy dissipation devices on a shake table to test effectiveness of mass retrofits, and applied state-of-the-art photogrammetry system for the first time in a structural engineering experiment to measure displacements.
Amir Mirmiran, Professor
Amir Mirmiran graduated from the University of Maryland with a M.S. and later a Ph.D. in structural engineering. He did graduate studies in earthquake engineering at Nihon University in Tokyo and structural engineering studies at the Johns Hopkins University. His teaching experience includes work at North Carolina State University, University of Cincinnati, and University of Central Florida. Dr. Mirmiran also worked as a Project Manager with Hurst-Rosche Engineering and JMT Engineers. His research interests include application of fiber composites in infrastructure, bridge engineering, field instrumentation and laboratory tests, prestressed concrete and masonry structures, nonlinear behavior of concrete, non-destructive testing and damage assessment by acoustic emission and ultrasonic methods, and nonlinear finite element modeling. He holds two U.S. patents on hybrid structural members made of concrete and fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) materials.
Construction Management
Boong-Yeol Ryoo, Assistant Professor
Boong-Yeol Ryoo comes to FIU from Purdue University, School of Civil Engineering, where he worked as a research scholar for almost two years. In Korea, he taught at Choongang University, Sejong University, Hanyang University, and Yonsei University. Courses taught include Introduction to Construction Management, Construction Materials and Methods, E-business in Construction, Information Technology in Construction, System Integration and Construction Enterprise Management, Human Resource Management and Engineering Economy. His current research interests include standard construction management services and practice: integration of standard CM procedure, method and tools, performance measurement of construction project financing, and construction policy and international monetary funds bailout.
Yimin Zhu, Assistant Professor
Yimin Zhu attended the University of Florida, where he graduated with a M.Sc. in Computer and Information Science and Engineering and later with a Ph.D. in Building Construction. He obtained his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, People’s Republic of China. Dr. Zhu has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in Construction Cost Analysis and Control, Construction Information Systems, and Project Management, among others. He has published monographs and articles in major publications such as Automation in Construction, and the Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. His professional skills of software design and engineering include case analysis, data and process modeling, documentation and development. His programming skills include Visual C++, Visual Basic, Java, DHTML, XML and script languages.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hao Zhu, Assistant Professor
Hao Zhu is expected to receive his Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University, July 2004. His dissertation is titled Power-Aware and Qos-Aware Resource Management for Wireless Networks. Professor Zhu received his M.S. in Computer Science from the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. His research interests lie in the areas of resource management for wireless networks, (algorithms and protocols for improving poser efficiency, quality of service, and channel utilization); heterogeneous networks, sensor/ad hoc networks, mobile peer-to-peer networks, and network security. Professor Zhu has refereed numerous publications. At this time he has three papers in the submission process.
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Ju Sun, Instructor
Ju Sun received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her dissertation title is: Novel Materials and Beam Delivery Technique for Ultrafast Laser Processing. She also received her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from SUNY. Dr. Sun has work experience in some of the following areas - developing fiber-based optical instrumentation for multi-photon fluorescence microscopy and optical coherence tomography for applications in biomedical engineering; developed Ti:sapphire femtosecond laser system based on CPA technique. She has strong research capability on advanced laser-based measurement, sensing, processing, and imaging techniques; and hands-on experience in design and construction of laser-optical and laser-mechanical components and systems.
Sukky Yun, Assistant Professor
Sukky Yun graduated from Northwestern University with a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, with his major field being computational mechanics. His research interests include atomistic simulations of nanoscale mehanics and physics of materials; multiscale modeling and simulation; multiphysics modeling and analysis of nanodevices, meshfree method, and finite element methods. Prior to joining FIU, he worked as a research associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, Korea. He conducted a broad range of research on computational nanotechnology with emphasis on multiscale and/or multiphysics modeling and simulation for the design and manufacturing of nanomaterials and devices. At KAIST, he taught courses such as computational nanomechanics, applied mathematics, statics and dynamics, and introduction to electronics. Dr. Yun is a member of the United States Association of Computational Mechanics, associate editor of the KSME International Journal, and a proposal review for the Korea Research Foundation.
College of Health & Urban Affairs
Nursing
Janyce Dyer, Research Professor
Janyce Dyer attended Rutgers University where she graduated with an M.S. in psychiatric nursing. She later attended The Catholic University of America and graduated with a DNSc in nursing. Dr. Dyer also has a post-doctoral certificate as a family nurse practitioner. Prior to joining FIU, she was working at Barry University, where she held the positions of Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Professor at the School of Nursing. She worked at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing as a core investigator, a project director and assistant professor in both the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing. While at Barry, she developed and taught Structure of Nursing Knowledge, developed an elective doctoral course on psychosocial and physiological instrumentation, as well as chaired and served on doctoral dissertation committees. Dr. Dyer also directed the development and approval of the masters and doctoral curricula at Barry.
Cynthia Fletcher, Assistant Professor
Cynthia Fletcher received her Ph.D. in Clinical Nursing from the University of Miami, and her MSN in Clinical Nursing from Hunter College. Dr. Fletcher has taught Theoretical Constructs in Nursing at the graduate level, as well as Advanced Adult Health Nursing Practice. Dr. Fletcher has been an NIH Fellow for the National Institute of Nursing Research, and is the recipient of numerous honors and fellowship awards. She has been invited to present papers at various educational and research venues.
Patricia Livingstone, Assistant Professor
Patricia Livingstone attended McGill University, School of Nursing in Montreal Canada, where she graduated with a B.S.N. and later a M.N. in Nursing. She has vast experience in the field, having worked as psychiatric staff nurse at Allen Memorial Institute and the Royal Victoria Hospital, both in Montreal, Canada. She has also lectured at McGill University and the University of Miami School of Nursing, and was chairman and instructor at South Miami Hospital’s Education Department. She is a registered nurse in the State of Florida. From 1985 through 1990, she was co-editor of Stork News, Monthly Newsletter for Maternity Nurses, at Baptist Hospital.
Victoria Menzies, Assistant Professor
Victoria Menzies received her Ph.D. in Psychiatric Mental Health Complementary and Alternative Therapies from the University of Virginia, where she also received her M.S.N. in Psychiatric Mental Health. Dr. Menzies has dealt with mind/body modalities, including mental imagery techniques complementary & alternative therapies in pain management. Her presentations are numerous in the areas of research – clinical and CAM-focused – regionally and locally.
Occupational Therapy
Amy Paul-Ward, Assistant Professor
Amy Paul-Ward received her Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of California. She recently received a M.S. in Occupational Therapy from the University of Illinois. Dr. Paul-Ward’s research foci are in the fields of women’s health/sexual health, health disparities, injection drug use/correctional issues, international health, disability studies, occupational therapy as well as medical anthropology. Dr. Paul Ward has made numerous presentations in her field of research.
Physical Therapy
Mark Rossi, Assistant Professor
Mark Rossi received his Ph.D. in Physical Therapy from the Texas Woman’s University. He received his M.A. in Physical Therapy, and his B.S. in Health Sciences from Touro College in New York.
His research interests have focused on measuring outcomes in individuals with total joint replacement, knee rehabilitation and assessing neuromuscular function in individuals following knee joint replacement. Dr. Rossi has published numerous articles in his field of study.
Policy and Management
Esteban Dalehite, Assistant Professor
Esteban Dalehite is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at the University of Indiana in Bloomington. He attended the Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City, where he graduated with the U.S. equivalent of a J.D. He later attended the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Administration at the University of Texas-Austin, where he graduated with an M.P.A. Courses taught include Public Budgeting and Finance, Seminar in Revenue Policy and Administration, Public Program Evaluation, Public Budgeting and Finance, Fiscal Administrative Procedures, Federal Taxation, Economics, Economic Analysis of Law, and Administrative Law. Professor Dalehite is a member of the American Society for Public Administration and the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management.
Sukumar Ganapati, Assistant Professor
Sukumar Ganapati graduated from the University of Southern California with a Ph.D. in planning. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur and a Master in Planning from the University of Southern California. His teaching and research interests include international development, housing and community development, planning theory with emphasis on institutional analysis and design, community based organizations, and web-based geographic information systems and computer aided design. Dr. Ganapati has taught courses such as comparative international development, politics and ethics in planning and development, urban planning and development, growth and development of cities in North America, and cities of the Third World. He has been the recipient of numerous grants, most recently one funded by Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access Program, U.S. Department of Education. This grant, Access Indonesia, aims to foster fuller interdisciplinary understanding of Indonesia by using recent advances in internet technology.
Robert Guerette, Assistant Professor
Robert Guerette joins FIU after working at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, where he is also a doctoral candidate. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with an M.S. in Criminal Justice. Courses taught include Introduction to Social Research Methods, Corrections, Police and the Community, and Delinquency and Juvenile Justice. Mr. Guerette also worked as a licensed private investigator in North and South Carolina, where he supervised and conducted a variety of criminal and civil investigations on the local, state, and federal level. His most recent grant, 2003-2005, comes from the U.S. Border Patrol, Department of Homeland Security, where he is the co-principal investigator in a comprehensive impact evaluation study of the Border Safety Initiative through quantitative analysis of U.S. Border Patrol held database of migrant deaths and rescues. Mr. Guerette is also a member of the American Society of Criminology.
Shannon Santana, Assistant Professor
Shannon Santana is a doctoral candidate in the Criminal Justice Program at the University of Cincinnati. She graduated from the University of Central Florida with a M.S. in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include corrections, criminological theory, effectiveness of correctional interventions, juvenile justice, public attitudes towards crime and criminal justice, victimization, and women and crime. Professor Santana’s teaching experience includes courses such as Prisons and Jails; Probation, Parole and Community Treatment; and Introduction to Criminal Justice. She is a member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the American Society of Criminology, and the Southern Criminal Justice Association. Her publications have appeared in professional journals such as Security Journal, and The Justice System Journal, among others.
Gordon Schockley, Assistant Professor
Gordon Schockley is currently a doctoral candidate at George Mason University, where he has also worked as a graduate research associate since August 2000. He graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in ancient Greek and English. He went on to attend Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management where he graduated with an M.B.A. in Public and Nonprofit Management, and Accounting. Professor Schockley has taught Public Administration, Information Management, Government Technology, Decision Making in Government, Government Budgeting, Electronic Government, Government Human Resource Management, and Organizational Behavior. His research specializations include public administration, policy analysis, entrepreneurship, American culture and politics, cultural policy, sociology of culture, cultural economics, nonprofit arts, and philosophy of social science. He has been the recipient of several research grants, and has written numerous articles and book chapters. Professor Schockley is a member of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the American Society for Public Administration, and the International Political Science Association Research Committee on Structure and Organization of Government.
Kay Kei-Ho Pih, Assistant Professor
Kay Kei-Ho Pih is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of California, in Riverside where he received an M.A. in Sociology. He graduated from New York University with a B.A. in Sociology. Professor Pih’s specialty areas include criminology, Asian Americans and crime, race and crime, deviance, criminological theory, transnational organized crime, gang violence and organized crime, macro sociological theories, and classical sociology theories. Professor Pih’s publications have appeared in journals such as Critical Criminologist and the International Encyclopedia of Public Policy: Governance in a Global Age. He is a member of the American Society of Criminology, the American Sociological Association, and the Sociological Graduate Association.
Public Health
Nasar U. Ahmed, Associate Professor
Nasar Ahmed received his Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Statistical Analysis from the Tufts University School of Nutrition Science and Policy. He received a Master of Professional Studies (with distinction) concentration in Health and Nutrition Programs, from the University of the Philippines. He also received an M.S. in Applied Statistics with honors from Jahangirnagar University. Dr. Ahmed’s most recent teaching experience include Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Research Design, Statistical and Epidemiologic Analysis, Program Evaluation, and Developing Web-based Biostatistics. He introduced computer-based hands on Epidemiology course, and coordinated research skills building seminar series for faculty, residents and students. He has been Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator for numerous grant awards. His recent interest is in chronic disease epidemiology including cancer, cardiovascular disease, HIV/AIDS, obesity, smoking. Dr. Ahmed received numerous national awards; most recent research award was from the American Association for Cancer Research as NCI’s 2004 MSI Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research. Dr. Ahmed has numerous publications which include articles in progress.
Sunny Kim, Assistant Professor
Sunny Kim received her Ph.D. in Biostatistics/Epidemiology from the Ohio State University. She received her M.S. in Nursing from the University of Wyoming. Dr. Kim has expertise in the area of survival analysis, logistic regression, Poisson regression, and survey sampling, also a strong interest in developing the methods of epidemiological studies. She has collaborated with investigators in writing grant proposals. Besides providing statistical expertise, she has been involved in various instructional activities including serving on dissertation committees, mentoring students, and teaching short courses. Dr. Kim also has numerous abstracts and publications under her name.
Theophile Niyonsenga, Associate Professor
Theophile Niyonsenga received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Statistics from the University of Montreal, Quebec. He has consultant and teaching experience in the field of biostatistics. Dr. Niyonsenga research themes include, applications of statistical analysis methods in epidemiology, longitudinal repeated measures, spatio-temporal clustering and familial aggregation; multivariate analyses; survey sampling strategies and nonresponse problems. He has several publications in scientific journals.
Vulasava Pekovic, Assistant Professor
Vulasava Pekovic received his Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Case Western Reserve University. He holds an M.D. from the School of Medicine at the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Dr. Pekovic has generated several collaborated publications dealing with issues of health. His focus has been directed towards teaching and research in the areas of public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, and research methods.
Deodutta Roy, Professor
Deodutta Roy graduated with a Ph.D. in Life Sciences with specialization in neurobiology from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. He also holds a Master of Philosophy in Life Sciences, a M.A. in Zoology and a B.S. in Zoology. He is a member of the Endocrinology Army Review Panel, ad hoc member of NIH Metabolic Pathology Study Section, and Junior Faculty Development Award from American Cancer Society. Dr. Roy’s research interest include the role of defects in DNA repair and genetic polymorphism in environmentally responsive genes in the susceptibility to environmental, and occupation estrogens causing reproductive diseases, including cancer in humans. He is particularly interested in causation of breast cancer and environmental toxicology.
Jesus Sánchez, Assistant Professor
Jesus Sánchez received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Miami. His special research interest lie in HIV-related risk behaviors and the development of interventions aimed at decreasing and preventing such behaviors, particularly among disadvantaged populations. Dr. Sánchez’s research involvement has provided extensive experience in grant writing, study design, field work, and statistical analysis. In the past years much of his teaching has been in the areas of methodology and statistics both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Advertising/Public Relations
Lynne Farber, Assistant Professor
Lynne Farber attended the University of Florida where she graduated with a B.S in Journalism and later an M.A. in Communication with a Minor in Education. For the past four years she has worked as coordinator of student publications at Broward Community College, where she was advisor to The Observer. She also taught courses such as Basic Reporting, Mass Communications, Newspaper Layout and editing, as well as all journalism practicum. Professor Farber also taught at Miami-Dade College and worked freelance writing, editing web sites, and writing grants. Other positions held include regional director of marketing for Salick Health Care, Inc., community educator for Staff Builders Home Health Company, director of consumer relations at Heritage Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, and director of public relations at University Hospital in Tamarac.
Kent Lancaster, Professor
Kent Lancaster received his Ph.D. in Mass Media and M.A. in Advertising from Michigan State University, while his B.S. in Business Administration (Advertising) is from Ferris State. He joins FIU after teaching at the University of Miami. He was previously a Professor of Advertising in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida where he had also served as the Gannett Distinguished Visiting Professor of Advertising. Dr. Lancaster’s research focuses on advertising media and on the economics of advertising. He has written more than 50 research reports, which have appeared in a variety of advertising, marketing and business journals and proceedings. He has written several texts and microcomputer software packages, some of which are distributed worldwide by Telmar Information Services Corp.
Jody Rafkind, Assistant Professor
An FIU alumna, Jody Rafkind graduated with an M.S. in Integrated Communications. She graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.A. in Telecommunication Arts. Prior to joining FIU, Professor Rafkind worked at WPBT Channel 2 as the advertising and promotions manager. She created and executed all advertising, public relations and promotional programs; she managed production of over 500 original on-air learning spots; created KidVision website and produced comprehensive promotion to educate children on the election process. Before Channel 2, Professor Rafkind was regional marketing director for Arby’s. She has also been a volunteer counselor with Camp Fiesta since 1996, a board member of Volunteer Broward, and a volunteer for the United Way, and Big Brothers Big Sisters.
College of Law
Mathew P. Downs, Professor
Mathew Downs received his B.A. cum laude from Houghton College; his J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law; his M.S.L.S. (Library Science) with highest honors from California State University at Fullerton; and an LL.M. magna cum laude from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He has over 25 years of experience as a law librarian, professor and academic administrator. He comes to FIU from the William Mitchell College of Law, where he was Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, overseeing the law library and all other academic and student services programs. While at William Mitchell, he also served as Director of the Law Library and as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Professor Downs is co-author of one of the most widely adopted first-year law student texts, The Process of Legal Research 6th ed. (Aspen Publishing 2004). He has lectured widely on international, human rights and trade law topics, including programs in Croatia, Hungary, Thailand, China and the United Kingdom. In addition to directing the FIU College of Law Library, Professor Downs will be teaching Property Law.
Troy Elder, Assistant Professor
Troy Elder graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, where he was named to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his J.D. degree from the Yale Law School. While in law school he was, as a member of the Jerome Frank Legal Services Organization, representing homeless, HIV-positive, and other clients in individual benefits and housing matters. After law school Professor Elder worked for five years as a litigation attorney with two of the country’s leading law firms. While practicing in Europe, Professor Elder became one of the first US-trained litigators to be admitted as an Avocat à la Cour in Paris, where he specialized in treaty-based disputes involving foreign sovereigns. Since 2000, he has been an attorney with Legal Services of Greater Miami, in the Employment and Economic Security Unit; and Catholic Charities Legal Services, practicing poverty immigration law with an emphasis on political asylum, refugee and detainee rights, and immigrant benefits issues. Immediately before coming to FIU, Professor Elder was a clinical fellow at the University of Miami School of Law, where he directed an interdisciplinary, community-based poverty health and immigration clinic. He is fluent in Spanish and French, and conversational in Creole. He will oversee and teach in the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic.
José Gabilondo, Assistant Professor
José Gabilondo received his B.A. in Sociology from Harvard University, and his J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Since graduating from law school in 1991, Professor Gabilondo has served in a variety of government finance and academic positions, both domestically and abroad. In academia, he has served as a Visiting Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Department of Public Law and Juridical Science, where he taught comparative law (in Spanish) subjects to both undergraduate and graduate students. He comes to FIU from his position as an Assistant Professor at Albany Law School, where he developed the School’s academic exchange programs with Chilean law schools. At FIU, Professor Gabilondo’s teaching responsibilities will include federal income tax, corporate and partnership tax, and corporate finance. His research interests include the Cuban Central Bank and Latin American sovereign debt management.
Heather Hughes, Assistant Professor
Heather Hughes received her B.A. in History with general and departmental honors from the University of Chicago, and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she served as Executive Articles Editor and General Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Since graduating from law school in 1998, Professor Hughes has been in private practice with leading firms in Denver and San Francisco, practicing in the areas of commercial and corporate law. She has published two articles on theories of law and gender: Contradictions, Open Secrets, and Feminist Faith in Enlightenment, 13 Hastings Women’s L. J. 187 (2002); and Note, Same-Sex Marriage and Simulacra: Exploring Conceptions of Equality, 33 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 237 (1998). Her current research interests include non-consenting creditors and revised U.C.C. Article 9, international project finance, and critical theory. She will teach, commercial law subjects, primarily.
Phyllis Kotey, Associate Professor
Phyllis Kotey earned her B.A., J.D. and M.A. in Public Administration degrees at the University of Florida. She comes to the FIU College of Law with a distinguished record of service to the bench and bar in Florida. From 1996 to 2004, she served as Judge, Alachua County, in the Eighth Judicial Circuit of Florida. While on the bench, Judge Kotey served for four years as Associate Dean of the Florida Judicial College and lectured widely at numerous judicial conferences and legal education programs, including the National Judicial College. From 1985 to 1996, she was an attorney in the State Attorney’s Office, Eighth Judicial Circuit, where she attained the position of Chief of the County Court Division. She has been a member of the Florida Supreme Court’s Judicial Ethics Advisory Commission, including terms as vice chair and chair; the Code and Rules of Evidence Committee of the Florida Bar; the Executive Council of the Criminal Law Committee of the Florida Bar; the Advisory Committee for the Family Violence Department of the National Council of Juvenile and State Court Judges; and the National Consortium of Task Forces on Bias and Fairness in the Courts. Judge Kotey served for 14 years as an adjunct professor at the University of Florida College of Law, teaching trial practice and coaching trial competition teams. She will oversee and teach in the Criminal Law Clinic.
Andre L. Smith, Assistant Professor
Andre Smith obtained his B.S. (Economics) from the University of Maryland; his J.D. with Honors from Howard University, where served on the Howard Law Review; and his LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Smith comes to the Florida International University College of Law from the Pennsylvania State University Dickinson College of Law, where he was a visiting assistant professor of law. While earning his LL.M., Professor Smith served as an Attorney-Advisor to the Honorable Maurice B. Foley on the United States Tax Court. He has also served as the Deputy Chief Operating Officer of the NAACP National Voter Fund, and Research Director (African American Outreach) for the Democratic National Committee. Professor Smith will teach in the areas of tax and administrative law.
Carlton Mark Waterhouse, Assistant Professor
Carlton Waterhouse received his B.A. from Pennsylvania State University, his J.D. from Howard University School of Law, an M.T.S. in Ethics from Emory University; and is a candidate for a Ph.D. in Social Ethics from Emory University (expected in 2004). His professional experience includes both private practice and 10 years as an attorney at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, as an Assistant Regional Counsel, Office of Regional Counsel, and as an Assistant Legal Counsel, Office of General Counsel. While at the EPA, Professor Waterhouse served as lead counsel in cases under the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, RCRA, FIFRA and Superfund; and as an investigator in environmental racism complaints. He also has significant teaching experience, as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law; as an Adjunct Professor of Ethics at the Atlanta University Center; and as a Teaching Associate in Ethics at Emory University. Professor Waterhouse has given many presentations related to social justice, ethics and environmental law.
University Libraries
Mary Gay Anderson, International Documents Librarian
Mary Gay Anderson graduated cum laude with a B.A. in French from Hartwick College. She later attended the State University of New York at Albany and graduated with an MLS. Prior to joining FIU, she worked as affiliate faculty to the European Union Studies Center at the University of Florida. She provided library data for a Title VI grant, provided specialized reference introduction to European Union documentation, and developed a credit course on European Union research. Other positions held at the University of Florida included international and foreign documents librarian, technical service coordinator for Documents Department and Map Library, dual assignments in the Education Library and Cataloging Department, and reference services coordinator for the Documents Department. Ms. Anderson has extensive knowledge of major document electronic tools, such as Lexis Nexis databases, GPO Access, AccessUN, PolicyFile, FAOStat, StatUSA, and Census’ American Factfinder. She also has extensive knowledge of government related websites. Ms. Anderson is a member of the American Libraries Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the International Federation of Library Associations.
Gail Clement, Everglades Information Center Librarian
Gail Clement’s educational background includes a B.A. in geology from Carleton College, an M.S. in geology from the University of Oregon and an M.A. in library and information science from the University of South Florida. Her areas of specialization include electronic information services; digital library development; web site design and development; Internet and electronic publishing; indexing and metadata enhancement; digital reference services; library instruction; sci-tech librarianship. She comes to FIU from the University of Miami, Rostenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, where she held the positions of librarian and assistant professor. At UM, she developed a user-centered information services at the marine science library, was responsible for reference and instruction, as well as interlibrary loan and collection management. Ms. Clement is a member of the Library and Information Technology Association, the Florida Biotic Information Consortium, the American Society of Indexers, and the American Library Association. Her publications have appeared in professional journals and her most recent publication, “Florida's Libraries Help to Save the Everglades,” appeared in Florida Libraries, Spring 2004.
Emily Ray, Instructor & Librarian
Emily Ray received her B.A. with distinction in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University. She is expected to receive an M.L.S. from the School of Library and Information Science, and an M.A. from the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University. At Indiana University she was instrumental in leading classes on using the electronic resources, as well as the Virtual Reference Librarian to facilitate and answer student questions. She has designed and conducted evaluations of Czech and Hungarian holdings. Ms. Ray was a student recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in the Czech Republic, 1999-2000.
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