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New Faculty for 2005

August 2005

School of Architecture

Roberto Rovira, Assistant Professor

Professor Rovira graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and later with a Masters in Landscape Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design.  Since 2000, he has been the principal of Azimuth Studio, Inc., a design and fine art studio, focusing on interdisciplinary projects ranging from landscape architecture to sculpture and printmaking.  In addition, he has been the principal of Fine Art Maps since 2004, a studio dedicated to the production and marketing of his ongoing work on cartography.  Professor Rovira is a founding member of The Team of 5, an award-winning multidisciplinary art and design team based in Oakland, CA, that includes architecture, furniture design, graphic design, and landscape architecture.  He has been involved in projects that include the design of public spaces and public art in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Seattle, Washington. He is fluent in Spanish, English and French and is originally from Puerto Rico.

Jörg Rügemer, Assistant Professor

Professor Rügemer graduated with a master’s degree of architecture from Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. Additional studies include architectural engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, Germany as well as meteorology at the University of Cologne. Mr. Rügemer is a licensed architect in Germany and Europe. He has taught at the Institute for Industrial Building Production at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, as well as the Brandenburg University of Technology and the University of Applied Sciences—also in Germany. He has received numerous awards and scholarships, including a 2001 teaching prize at Brandenburg University, and a book scholarship at Southern California Institute of Architecture. Exhibitions include recent displays at the Art Museum of Western Virginia, at the Bauhaus University Weimar, the 2001 Forum of Current Architecture, the Interdisciplinary Design Project with the Universities of Cottbus, Kaiserslautern, Karlsruhe and Weimar.

College of Arts and Sciences

History

Christopher Klemek, Assistant Professor

Professor Klemek teaches courses on modern America in the context of the Atlantic world. He earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Pennsylvania, having previously attended the Ohio State University, the University of Hamburg, and the Free University of Berlin. For the 2004-2005 academic year, he is a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His research traces the political and intellectual shifts affecting urban policy over the second half of the twentieth century by comparing the fate of older industrial cities in the west, including Berlin, London, Toronto, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. His forthcoming book, Urbanism as Reform: Modernist Planning and the Crisis of Urban Liberalism in Europe and North America, 1945-1975, will be published by the University of Chicago Press (Historical Studies of Urban America; Kathleen N. Conzen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle and James R. Grossman, series editors). Currently working on a biography of urban activist and critic Jane Jacobs, he is also the author of numerous book reviews, encyclopedia entries, and papers; his article, "Jane Jacobs and Urban Renewal's Lost Middle Way," will appear in a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Urban History devoted to U.S. urban politics since 1945.

Chantalle Verna, Assistant Professor

Professor Verna, assistant professor of U.S. foreign relations with Latin America and the Caribbean in the departments of History and International Relations. She holds degrees from Michigan State University (Ph.D. in History, 2005; M.A. in History-Urban Studies, 2000), Newcomb College at Tulane University (B.A. in Political Economy and Certificate in African Diaspora Studies, 1996), and North Miami Senior High (1992). Dr. Verna's courses include Modern American Civilization and Inter-American Relations. Her current research focuses on the culture of Haiti-U.S. relations during the twentieth-century. She wrote about this topic in her doctoral dissertation, "Haiti's 'Second Independence' and the Promise of Pan-American Cooperation, 1934-56" and in her Master's thesis, "Beyond the Immigration Centers: A History of Haitian Communities in Three Michigan Cities, 1966-1998." Several institutions, including the Social Science Research Council and the Rockefeller Archives Center, have sponsored Dr. Verna's research.

International Relations

Dr. Harry Gould, Assistant Professor

Professor Gould completed his Ph. D. in Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University in 2004, specializing in international law, international relations theory, and the constitution of international society. Professor Gould has already published several papers on language and obligation in international society and on Kantian international law. Although he will become a full-time faculty member in the Fall, he is already a familiar face on campus, having taught a wide variety of international relations courses as a visiting professor for the past three years.

Music

Carlos Riazuelo, Associate Professor

Professor Riazuelo, Conductor and Director of Orchestral Studies in the School of Music at FIU was born in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, and studied violin and music theory in Caracas. His first engagement as a Music Director is at 23, after his first ever concert as a conductor with the Chamber Orchestra of the Universidad de Carabobo. After attending conducting seminars with Franco Ferrara in Sienna and Venice, Italy, and George Hurst in Canford, Great Britain, he completed the Advanced Conducting Course of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama of London, Great Britain, receiving also the Ricordi prize for his opera conducting. As an opera conductor, he has performed many works by Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Donizetti, Purcell and Mozart, among others. As a guest conductor, he has conducted in the USA, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Spain, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Bulgaria, and Poland. He has recorded four CD’s. Three with the Sinfónica Municipal de Caracas -two with music of Venezuelan composers and one pairing Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances from West Side Story” and selections from Prokofieff’s ballet “Romeo and Juliet”- and one with Spanish tenor Alfredo Kraus and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria. After this recording he was invited directly by the great singer for concerts in Las Palmas (Canary Islands) and Rosario, Argentina. Both concerts were televised nationwide.

Physics

Jeffrey Saul, Assistant Professor

Professor Saul began his academic career at the United State Coast Guard Academy before transferring to the University of California, Irvine where he completed a B.S. in Applied Physics. He did graduate work at the University of Maryland, College Park where he became a founding member of the Maryland Physics Education Research Group with Edward F. "Joe" Redish. In 1998, Dr. Saul completed a Ph.D. in Physics at University of Maryland with a dissertation in Physics Education Research. Upon finishing his Ph.D. Dr. Saul completed post-doctoral training with Robert Beichner and the Physics Education R & D group at North Carolina State University working on the Student Centered Activities for Large Enrollment Undergraduate Programs (SCALE-UP) project developing activity-based introductory physics classes of up to 100 students. For the past five years Dr. Saul has been working on a SCALE-UP program at the University of Central Florida including the development of a 72-student studio classroom. His main research interests are implementing and assessing the effectiveness of activity-based instruction in high school and undergraduate physics classes. As part of FIU’s CHEPREO project, his current research emphasizes SCALE-UP and Arizona State University’s Modeling Physics curriculum in both high school and undergraduate classes including professional development for high school teachers.

Political Science

H. Whitt Kilburn, Assistant Professor

Professor Kilburn is a doctoral candidate (expected 2005) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His major field is American politics, and minor field is research methodology. He graduated with a Master of Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas—Austin. His teaching interests, at both undergraduate and graduate levels, include introductory courses in American Political science, and upper-level courses on topics such as parties and elections, and mass political behavior, among others. Mr. Kilburn’s research interests include voting behavior, candidate evaluation, public opinion, urban governance, and mass survey measurement.

Psychology

Nadja Schreiber, Assistant Professor

Professor Schreiber received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Muenster, Germany. She was awarded a national postdoctoral fellowship by the German Academic Exchange Service to conduct research with Ron Fisher and Janat Parker from FIU's legal psychology graduate program from 2000-2002. After another year as a Visiting Assistant Professor, she joined the University of Miami's School of Medicine as an Assistant Scientist in 2003, joining their faculty as a Research Assistant Professor in 2004. This fall she is joining FIU's legal psychology graduate program as an Assistant Professor, conducting research on (child) witness testimony and police training.

Religious Studies

Ana María Bidegain, Associate Professor

Professor Bidegain, a native of Uruguay, studied History in Uruguay and Belgium, where she earned her Ph.D., with great distinction, at the Catholic University of Louvain. She developed her academic carrier in Colombia where she lived and taught for more than 20 years. Dr. Bidegain founded the history Department in the University of Los Andes and opened the field in Religious Studies in the National University of Colombia. Through 2003 she directed the Social Sciences Research Center of the National University of Colombia. Prior to joining us here at FIU, she was a Visiting Professor in Harvard’s Women’s Studies in Religion Program. Dr. Bidegain’s main research revolves around Religion, Society and Politics in Latin American History, publishing extensively and participating in several academic and international research teams in South America, Europe and US. Currently, she is a member of the editorial board of the Cambridge Christian Dictionary and an editorial member of the History of the World Christian Movement, which will be published by Orbis Books, N. Y shortly. In 2005, she edited and published two books that resulted from her teaching and researching experiences in Colombia: Historia del Cristianismo en Colombia. Corrientes y diversidad (Editorial Taurus) and Globalización y diversidad religiosa en Colombia, (National University of Colombia Press). The focus of Dr. Bidegain’s current research is the presence of women in Latin American Christian history.

Sociology and Anthropology

María Aysa-Lastra, Assistant Professor

Professor Aysa-Lastra is a social demographer and a specialist on international migration. Her current research investigates the consequences of economic crisis and political violence on internal and international migration flows and resettlement, return and integration practices. She has focused particularly on the contemporary Colombian case. After receiving her Bachelors in economics at ITAM and Masters in Public Policy at Georgetown University she went to University of Pennsylvania to pursue her Ph.D. in demography. At the Population Studies Center she had the opportunity to collaborate in large migration and aging projects. She has done research on comparative international migration from Latin American and the Caribbean to the United States and collaborated with the International Organization for Migration in collecting data to further understand the effects of international migration in the areas of origin, particularly the actual and potential use of migrant remittances and the raise of transnational communities. She has published articles in Colombia, Mexico and the United States. As a social demographer Maria will teach research methods for the social sciences, international migration, population theory and demographic methods.

Theatre & Dance

Rob Eastman-Mullins, Assistant Professor

Professor Eastman-Mullins received his MFA in Scenic Design from the North Carolina

School of the Arts and a BLS in Theatre and Theatre Management from Mary Washington College. Prior to joining the faculty at FIU, he worked as a freelance scenic and lighting designer for such venues as the Fletcher Opera Institute, the Turner House Festival, Fredericksburg

Theatre Company, and served as art director for the PBS feature film China. Professor Eastman-Mullins also worked as the resident designer for the Boars Head Professional Theater where he designed the set and lights for the North American Premiere of Jeff Baron’s Mother’s Day and received the almost-coveted LSJ Thespian Award for his lighting of Three Days of Rain. His

work has been seen on a national tour of Turkey and exhibited in Toronto, Prague, and Winston-Salem.

College of Business

Accounting

Cherie Hennig, Professor

Professor Hennig is Faculty Director EMST program and Professor. She is also a member of the American Taxation Association and the American Institute of CPAs. She began her career as an IRS Revenue Agent in Denver, CO. She has taught undergraduate and graduate tax courses at Colorado State University, the University of South Florida, and Virginia Tech. Dr. Hennig has published numerous tax articles, and is an author or co-author on numerous tax texts.

Stephen Lin, Associate Professor

Dr. Stephen Lin received his PhD from the University of Manchester, England, his MA from the Lancaster University, England, and his BAA from the Soochow University, Taiwan. Dr. Lin’s areas of expertise include reporting financial performance, analyst forecasting, share valuation and accounting in an international context. He is an ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and British Accounting Review. Dr. Lin’s research has been published in the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Accounting and Business Research, British Accounting Review and Journal of Corporate Finance. Before joining Florida International University, Dr. Lin was a senior lecturer of Accountancy at the Manchester Business School in England.

Decision Sciences & Information Systems

Susan Clemmons, Assistant Professor

Visiting – 1st year

Professor Clemmons received her BS in Business Management from Florida State University in 1986 and her Ph.D. from FIU in 2005. She has extensive work experience in the areas of human resource management and enterprise information systems. Her research interests include the study of technology’s impact on organizational performance and the implementation of software systems in large corporations.

Iris Mack, Instructor

Professor Mack earned her dual BS in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics from Vassar College, and MS in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley, an MBA from the London Business School, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. She has published a series of math books focused on showing children how to use math in the financial world. Her teaching at FIU focuses in the areas of statistics and operations management. Dr. Mack is also an investment banking consultant with Reiter Brown, LLC, New York, as well as founder of Phat Math, Inc. With Phat Math she has developed a math edutainment book series, and is a consultant, lecturer, and public speaker. PhatMath, Inc. has just been approved to provide FCAT math tutoring services to Miami Dade schools under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Debra Vander Meer, Assistant Professor

Visiting – 1st year

Professor Vander Meer received her BS in languages from Georgetown University in 1991, her MS in Management Information Systems from Arizona State University in 1996 and her Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003. Her research interests include Electronic Commerce, Data mobility, Database Systems and Data Management. Dr. Vander Meer has published numerous refereed journal articles in journals such as ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Management Science, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering among others.

Finance

Ken Johnson, Assistant Professor

Professor Ken H. Johnson is a faculty member of the Department of Finance and Jerome Bain Real Estate Institute and serves as the Faculty Advisor for the Master of Science in International Real Estate in the Chapman Graduate School of Business. Dr. Johnson’s research centers on real estate related issues with recent publications in The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, The Journal of Housing Economics, The Journal of Real Estate Research, The Appraisal Journal, The Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education, The Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management and The Journal of Real Estate Law. He is, also, a Co-editor at The Journal of Real Estate Literature and servers as an active member on the National Association of Realtors Research Committee. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Alabama in August 2001. In addition to his academic qualifications, Dr. Johnson has over a decade of applied experience in residential real estate specializing in the sale of corporate and lender owned properties.

Edward Lawrence, Assistant Professor

Professor Lawrence received his Bachelor’s degree in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in May 1995. He then worked in Tata Engineering Ltd., India from July 1995 to July 2001 before joining the University of Nebraska, Lincoln for his MBA in August 2001. Dr. Lawrence received his MBA in December 2002 and completed his PhD from University of Nebraska, Lincoln in August 2005. Dr Lawrence’s research interests are in Investments, Banking & Financial Institutions and Behavioral Finance and his teaching interests are Corporate Finance, Bank Management and Investments. While working on his PhD, Dr. Lawrence has taught both graduate and undergraduate level finance courses at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Marketing

Cecilia Alvarez, Assistant Professor

Visiting – 1st year

Dr. Cecilia Alvarez completed a doctorate degree in Business Administration at Florida International University. Dr. Alvarez was born and raised in Mexico where she concluded her Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Sciences and an MBA at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) graduating with the highest honors. She began her academic life at the marketing department of the school of Business at ITAM. While working at ITAM, she taught at an undergraduate and graduate level several marketing courses. Cecilia completed her dissertation on the acculturation process of middle income Hispanics under the supervision of Dr. Peter Dickson. With an academic background, Dr. Alvarez has participated as consultant in marketing research projects across Latin America. Currently, her research interests are related to Hispanic consumer behavior. Along with Dr. Peter Dickson, she has created the Hispanic Market Research Archive (HMRA.cba.fiu.edu), a webpage containing abstracts of most of the academic research conducted on Hispanics.

School of Hospitality & Tourism Management

Yvette Reisinger, Associate Professor

Dr. Yvette Reisinger received her doctorate in tourism marketing from Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. She also holds two Masters: a Master of Business in Tourism Development from Australia, and Master of Economics and Social Sciences with specialization in International Tourism from Europe. Prior to joining FIU she worked in Australia in the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management at Griffith University, Gold Coast; Department of Tourism Management at Victoria University, Melbourne; and Department of Marketing and Management, Monash University, Melbourne. While at Monash University she held the positions of Tourism and Hospitality Program Coordinator and Director of the Executive Certificate in Hospitality Management in the Faculty of Business and Economics. Her research activities and publication mainly focus on cross-cultural differences in tourist behavior, socio-cultural impacts of tourism, and cross-cultural communication, interaction and competency. She has conducted extensive cross-cultural studies of China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and Australia. She is also interested in travel risk perception, health and wellness tourism, and spiritual tourism. She has been the recipient of numerous research grants. Dr. Reisinger is a winner of the 2003 Charles Goeldner Article of Excellence Award from Travel and Tourism Research Association (USA) and the Highly Commended Award from the European Journal of Marketing (1999) for her work on cultural differences between Asian tourist markets. Her work on the Japanese tourist market earned her an invitation as the keynote speaker for the inaugural First National Tourism Research Conference of the Japan Foundation for International Tourism (JAFIT) in Tokyo, Japan, 2001. She has published a book “Cross-Cultural Behavior in Tourism: Concepts and Analysis” (Elsevier, 2003), which was translated into the Mandarin language. Currently, she is writing a textbook “International Tourism: Cultures and Behavior”. Dr. Reisinger has been an active consultant, working for private companies and national or regional tourism organizations in Europe.

College of Education

Educational & Psychological Studies

Nicholas Benson, Assistant Professor

Visiting – 1st year

Professor Benson is expected to receive his Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of Florida. His terminal degree is in the area of School Psychology.

Murlita Witarsa Assistant Professor

Visiting – 1st year

Professor Witarsa received her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada in 2003. She received her MA from the University of Victoria and her MD from the University of Andalas, Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia. She comes to FIU from Indonesian’s Open University, Indonesia where she was a faculty member of the Department of Educational Science and Teacher IN-Service Training Program. Professor Witarsa’s objective is to assist the university with achieving its goals through effective evaluation and measurement of programs and through effective assessment of Student Learning and Achievement.

Health, Physical Education & Recreation

Jennifer Doherty, Instructor

Ms. Jennifer L. Doherty attended Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA where she graduated with a B.S. in Athletic Training. She later attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL where she graduated with a M.S. in Exercise and Sport Sciences. After graduation Ms. Doherty joined the faculty at North Park University in Chicago, IL. Courses instructed at North Park University included Therapeutic Modalities, Therapeutic Exercise, Clinical Practicum III, and Clinical Practicum IV. Ms. Doherty also served as an Assistant Athletic Trainer in the Athletic Department at North Park University. In 2001, Jennifer began working toward her Ph.D. degree in Educational Research/Exercise Physiology at the University of Miami in Miami, FL. While working at the University of Miami, she taught the following courses: Clinical Athletic Training Lab I, Clinical Athletic Training Lab III, Clinical Athletic Training Lab IV, and Pharmacology in Athletic Training. In addition, she served as the Academic Advisor for all students majoring in athletic training and played a pivotal role in obtaining national accreditation of the Athletic Training Education Program at the University of Miami. Currently, Ms. Doherty is completing her doctoral dissertation in the area of athletic training education. Jennifer Doherty also serves her national professional organization as a manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Athletic Training, a Clinical Instructor Educator, and an Examiner for the Board of Certification.

College of Engineering

Biomedical Engineering

Rebecca Anderson, Instructor

Dr. Anderson graduated with an M.S./Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Florida. She previously attended the University of South Florida where she earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a B.S. in Biology. Dr. Anderson completed her post-doctoral training at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Medicine Section for Digestive Diseases and Nutrition. Her research interests include simulated microgravity, nanotechnology, and tissue engineering. She was the recipient of a Graduate Student Research Fellowship from the Florida Space Grant Consortium to complete her doctorate work using simulated microgravity culture technology.

Michael Brown, Assistant Professor

Dr. Brown is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where he received a BS in Biology (with High Honors). He subsequently attended the University of Miami where he received a PhD in Biochemistry in 1987 and a MD in 1989. Dr. Brown is experienced in academic research, having worked at The University of Miami and the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute for approximately nine years. He worked in such diverse areas as the Retrovirology Laboratory, where he studied drug resistance in the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, where he studied retinitis pigmentosa, and the School of Medicine where he studied endocrine abnormalities. His clinical research experience includes working one year at Baptist Hospital coordinating clinical trials in diabetes. Dr. Brown has consulted with various South Florida companies such as World Medical Manufacturing and Bioheart, Inc. where he monitored clinical trial progress as well as developed and initiated clinical protocols in both the United States and Europe. He served as both Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President of Clinical and Regulatory affairs for Bioheart, Inc. and still consults with Bioheart, Inc.

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mohammed Hadi, Assistant Professor

Dr. Mohammed Hadi obtained his Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the University of Florida (UF) in 1990. Between 1990 and 1995, he worked as a research faculty at the UF Civil Engineering Department, managing several national and FDOT research projects, including the development of four releases of the TRANSYT-7F program, one of the most widely used signal optimization programs in the world. Since leaving UF in 1995, Dr. Hadi has been responsible for the management of a large number of practical, research, and development projects in the area of ITS and other transportation engineering fields, totaling over six million dollars. Dr. Hadi's experience covers all aspects of ITS including research, teaching, training, architecture, planning, standards, hardware and software requirement development, design, implementation, and evaluation. Dr. Hadi also has extensive experience in simulation modeling and optimization of transportation networks and has served on several national committees on the subject. He currently serves on the NGSIM stakeholder group that advice the FHWA on the Next Generation Simulation (NGSIM) development effort.

Fernando Miralles, Associate Professor

Prior to joining FIU, Dr. Miralles spent 5 years at the University of Miami and 4 years at Northeastern University. A graduate of the Universidad Simon Bolivar in Venezuela, Dr. Miralles received his master’s degree from the University of California, Irvine, and his PhD degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr Miralles's research expertise is in hydrologic modeling, with particular emphasis on simulation of physical, chemical and biological processes in aquatic environments. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation's Biocomplexity Program, the National Park Service, the US Geological Survey, the US Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. Dr. Miralles's professional experience of over 10 years in the water resources field spans technical and management roles in projects involving remediation of environmental systems, wetland, stream, lake, soil, and aquifer cleanup. He has conducted and/or directed water resources projects in the US (states of Florida, California and New York), Puerto Rico, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Nicaragua, Spain, Panama, El Salvador, the United Kingdom and Taiwan. Last year, because of his recent involvement in the restoration of wetlands in the Middle East, Dr. Miralles offered a testimony before the US House of Representatives on The Southern Iraqi Marshlands: An Environmental Response to the United States House of Representatives, International Relations Committee.

College of Health & Urban Affairs

School of Health Sciences

Communication Sciences & Disorders

Eliane Ramos, Assistant Professor

Visiting – 1st year

Dr. Ramos is a certified and licensed speech and language pathologist who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of monolingual and bilingual children with language disorders.

She graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with a Ph.D. in Speech-Language Pathology. Prior to joining FIU, she provided clinical services to monolingual and bilingual children in various settings in New York City and western Massachusetts. Courses taught include Phonological Disorders, Language Development and Disorders, Introduction to the Development of Speech and Language, Language Learning in the Preschool Child, and Language Learning in the School-age Child. Dr. Ramos’ research interests include the development of syntax in children with specific language impairment, phonological and morpho-syntactical assessment procedures with bilingual children, and narrative development in bilingual children with and without language disorders.

Physical Therapy

Lisa Roberts, Assistant Professor

Ms. Roberts’ background includes providing direct patient care as a physical therapist, with emphasis on the geriatric client. She graduated from the University of Florida with a BHS in Physical Therapy and later attended Nova Southeastern University, where she graduated with MS in Elder Care Administration. Ms. Roberts received certification from the American Physical Therapy Association as a geriatric clinical specialist. Her research interests lie in geriatric issues and she has taught Clinical Procedures, Long Term Rehabilitation (aging issues, health promotion), and Rehabilitation I (spinal cord, orthotics, prosthetics).

School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Advertising & Public Relations

Brian Parker, Assistant Professor

Professor Brian Parker holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, a Master of Arts in Mass Communications, and is a doctoral Candidate in Mass Communications (expected completion October, 2005). All were earned at the University of Florida (UF). Since 2000, he has taught Elements of Advertising, Advertising Research, and Advertising Strategy for UF. His professional experience includes positions as a research analyst for AdSAM Research, media relations coordinator and production coordinator, both for GAMA Productions. His honors include membership in Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society and Kappa Tau Alpha National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communications. He also earned a Lowenstein Fellowship. He has both published and presented conference papers in various academic venues.

Journalism & Broadcasting

Lyn Millner, Instructor

Visiting – 1st year

Lyn Millner is a radio producer, journalist, and essayist specializing in narrative nonfiction. Her work has been broadcast on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and Weekend Edition and Public Radio International’s Marketplace. She regularly reviews business books for USA Today’s Money Bookshelf. Her print work has appeared in The New York Times, Health, The Hollywood Reporter, Continental magazine, Boca Raton magazine, South Florida’s Sun-Sentinel, Street Weekly, Miami Magazine, and many others. In 2003, she won first place in Florida for magazine writing, awarded by the Society of Professional Journalists. Ms. Milner has been a full-time freelance writer for five years, doing journalism, marketing and publications work. She was the publications project manager for both the Miami Book Fair International (2004) and the Miami International Film Festival (2004 and 2005), producing all of the Film Festival’s publications and the Book Fair’s Fairgoers’ Guide. She was a writer in residence at Fundación Valparaiso in Mojácar, Spain (2004), and at the Ucross Foundation in Ucross, Wyoming (2005). She has an MFA in creative writing from Florida International University, and a BBA in accounting from Georgia State University.

Neil Reisner, Assistant Professor

Visiting – 1st year

Neil Reisner is a veteran journalist and educator with close to 25 years of experience. Reisner was a reporter and/or editor at the Miami Daily Business Review and the Miami Herald in Florida and at the Bergen Record and the Home News in New Jersey. Before coming to FIU, he taught journalism at Columbia and Rutgers universities, and served as training director for Investigative Reporters & Editors, where he led seminars throughout the U.S. and abroad. He is a frequent presenter at regional and national journalism conferences, and is a member of the Forum on Media Diversity at Louisiana State University. Reisner is a frequent contributor to a variety of publications. His last article -appeared in the American Journalism Review.

College of Law

Jeremy Levitt, Associate Professor

Professor Jeremy Levitt comes to FIU from DePaul University College of Law, where he was an Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Center on International Law, Policy and Africa. He earned his B.A. at Arizona State University, his J.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his Ph.D. in International Studies at the University of Cambridge, St. John’s College, where he served as Managing Editor of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. During the summer of 2005, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Center on International Law at Cambridge University. Dr. Levitt is a public international lawyer, political scientist, and Africanist with expertise and publications in the law of the use of force, human rights law, international organizations, democratization, African politics, state dynamics and regional collective security. In the past four years since entering the academy, Professor Levitt has authored two books, and co-authored a law review volume, in addition to several law review and other articles. While earning his Ph.D., Dr. Levitt served as an International Affairs Fellow, Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland-College Park, and then as a Research Associate at the Center for Defense Studies, Africa Security Unit at the University of London, Kings College.

Marci Rosenthal, Lecturer

Marci Rosenthal brings to FIU a wealth of diverse practice and experience.  She earned her B.A. in Russian and Post-Soviet Studies from Cornell University, and she graduated from both Cornell University and the University of Miami School of Law with honors. She began her legal career in 1996, clerking for two years with the Honorable Jose A. Gonzalez, Jr., of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, before moving into private practice as a litigation associate with a Washington, D.C. law firm. Professor Rosenthal joined the United States Department of Education, Office of the General Counsel, specializing in issues related to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. While practicing in Washington, D.C., she also worked with Project Citizenship, a pro bono program to assist elderly immigrants in obtaining citizenship, and taught Legal Research and Writing as an adjunct at George Washington University Law School.   In 2002, Professor Rosenthal returned to Florida to work as an attorney for the School Board of Miami-Dade County.  As a law student at the University of Miami, Professor Rosenthal served on the University of Miami’s Inter-American Law Review and as the Vice-President and Director of the Tutorial Program of the Moot Court Board. 

Jan Stone, Associate Librarian

Jan Stone earned her J.D. from the University of Minnesota.  Her library background includes an M.S. in Information Media, an M.L.S. in Library and Information Science, and several years teaching legal research and Internet Legal Research as a Reference Librarian at William Mitchell College of Law. She served as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Minnesota Court of Appeals, and spent several years gaining editorial experience in almost every aspect of primary law publishing at the company now known as Thomson West Group.   She has taught legal research for continuing legal education classes, legal bibliographic institutes, and a Gates Foundation program.  She has presented for the American Association of Law Libraries and Computer Assisted Legal Instruction national conferences.  In addition, as a professional indexer for several years, Jan has indexed books in several fields of law.

Hannibal Travis, Assistant Professor

Hannibal Travis teaches and researches in the fields of cyberlaw, intellectual property, antitrust, telecommunications, jurisprudence, and international human rights law.  He graduated summa cum laude in philosophy from Washington University, where he was named to Phi Beta Kappa.  He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as a member of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology and the Harvard Human Rights Journal.  He studied intellectual property and jurisprudence at Boalt Hall during his third year of law school on the Harvard-Berkeley Exchange Program, and served on the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.  After law school, Professor Travis clerked for the Honorable William Matthew Byrne, Jr., of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and practiced intellectual property and Internet law at O'Melveny & Myers in San Francisco, California.  Thereafter, he was an associate attorney at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York, New York, specializing in intellectual property and antitrust cases.  Before coming to FIU, he advised human rights organizations with presences in Iraq and Afghanistan, including the Assyrian Democratic Movement and Women for Afghan Women.  His published works include law review articles in the areas of intellectual property and human rights.

Aurore Victor, Assistant Professor

Aurore Victor, Assistant Professor of Legal Skills and Values comes to FIU from the University of Miami School of Law, where she was a Visiting Clinical Fellow with the Children and Youth Law Clinic.  She earned her B.A. in Political Science with honors from Yale University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.  Before entering law teaching, Professor Victor served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Alan S. Gold, United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of Florida.  Subsequently, Professor Victor worked as a litigation associate with two large law firms in Miami, Hunton & Williams and White & Case LLP, representing corporate clients on both the trial and appellate level in a variety of matters, including commercial class actions and securities cases.  As a litigator, Professor Victor also represented children and families on a pro bono basis in family law matters.  Professor Victor developed her passion for teaching as a law student at Harvard, where she served as an advocate for indigent clients with the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, and was appointed Co-Chair of the Aids Practice Group, where she provided training to law students regarding advocacy on behalf of individuals with HIV/AIDS in estate planning and family law cases.

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