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New Faculty for 2002

August 21, 2002

School of Architecture

Jason R. Chandler, visiting

Assistant Professor, Architecture

Mr. Chandler is a member of the American Institute of Architects and graduated from Cornell University and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He is a registered architect in the State of Florida. Since 1997, he has been in private practice as principal. As an adjunct and visiting professor at FIU, he has taught courses in graphic communications I, design 1, design 5 through design 8, methods and materials 2 and lighting. Mr. Chandler has also taught as a lecturer at the University of Miami School of Architecture and was an architecture instructor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Mr. Chandler has participated in numerous exhibitions, symposiums and panels and has received several awards in national competitions.

College of Arts & Sciences

Economics

Jesse L. Bull

Assistant Professor, Economics

Dr. Jesse Bull graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a PhD in economics. At the University of Wisconsin, he graduated with a major in business administration and another in economics, graduating summa cum laude in both. Dr. Bull has taught Negotiations at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Introductory Microeconomics with Calculus at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Bull’s research interests include law and economics, game theory, contract theory and microeconomics. His research investigates issues of information disclosure, information verifiability and legal institutions, particularly developing structured game-theoretic models examining the impact of varying legal institutions on the incentives to produce and verify costly evidence.

English

Gila Aloni, visiting

Assistant Professor, English

Dr. Aloni graduated summa cum laude from the University of La Sorbonne with a PhD in English Literature. She also has a diploma in journalism from the School of Journalism at Tel Aviv University, where she obtained her BA and MA in English. Dr. Aloni’s teaching competencies include medieval literature; world literature; women’s studies; introduction to literature; expository writing/English composition; Hebrew literature and languages (English, Hebrew and French). Her teaching experience includes Hunter College in New York City, Rutgers University and Tel Aviv.

History

Susan K. Freeman, visiting

Lecturer, History

Dr. Freeman attended Furman University, where she graduated with a BA in French and Political Science. She later obtained an MA in Women’s Studies from the University of Cincinnati and a PhD in History from Ohio State University. In addition to having worked as the Managing Editor of the Journal of Women’s History, Dr. Freeman has taught history courses such as US History since 1877, American Experience from the Colonial Era to the Civil War and Reconstruction, History of Same-Sex Love and Sexuality in the Western World, and Women, Culture and Society, among others. Dr. Freeman’s research and teaching interests include U.S. social and cultural history, women’s history, history of sexuality, history of childhood, American race/ethnicity and social movements.

Mathematics

Laura De Carli

Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Dr. De Carli graduated from the University of Pisa in Italy with a BA in Pure Mathematics. She later graduated from the University of Rome and UCLA with a PhD in Pure Mathematics. Dr. De Carli’s teaching experience includes UCLA, University of Napoli in Italy and the University of Missouri. She is fluent in Italian, English and Spanish. Dr. De Carli has contributed in several talks, workshops and presentations in Italy, Spain and has worked as visiting researcher in Japan, Czech Republic, Germany as well as major stateside universities.

Gueo Grantcharov

Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Dr. Grantcharov graduated with a PhD in Mathematics from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has taught undergraduate classes in calculus with TI-programmable calculators using the Harvard Consortium book, Eucledian and non-Eucledian geometry, numerical methods, calculus, applied linear algebra as well as graduate classes in differential geometry and gauge fields. Dr. Grantcharov’s fields of interest include differential geometry of complex and riemannian manifolds, global analysis, complex algebraic geometry and mathematical physics. He has also written numerous research papers.

Modern Languages

María Antonietta García, visiting

Instructor, French

Ms. García is a candidate for a Doctorate in Modern Languages. She graduated from the University of Miami with a MA in French and obtained her BA in French at FIU. She also has all required courses for the Florida Teacher’s Certificate. Ms. García’s last appointment was Spanish Lecturer at the University of Miami and has taught beginning, intermediate and advanced French; intermediate and advanced French grammar and composition; as well as beginning, intermediate, advanced and business Spanish grammar and composition.

Elena González-Muntaner, visiting

Instructor & Coordinator, Spanish

Dr. González-Muntaner graduated from FIU with a PhD in Spanish, where she also obtained her MA. Her teaching experience includes the University of Luton in the UK, the Colegio Licco Sorolla in Madrid, the Instituto Parque de Lisboa in Madrid. Dr. González-Muntaner also worked as Assistant Program Coordinator at FIU’s center at the Universidad Pontífica de Salamanca in Spain. Her teaching interests include 19th century Latin American literature, Spanish and Latin American women writers, as well as Spanish language and culture. Dr. González-Muntaner is a member of the Modern Language Association, SECOLAS, Letras Femeninas, Fundación Federico García Lorca and the Colegio de Licenciados en Filosofía y Letras de Madrid.

Music

Stewart Robertson

Professor, Artist in Residence

Stewart Robertson has enjoyed an international career being equally at home in the concert hall and opera house. His extensive repertoire and wide ranging interests include a particular involvement with the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Richard Strauss, Benjamin Britten as well as 19th and 20th century Russian repertory. His active interest in contemporary music has resulted in his conducting premiere performances of over fifty orchestral and operatic works. Maestro Robertson has conducted orchestras as diverse as the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, the Buenos Aires Philharmonic, the Swiss Italian Radio Symphony, the San Francisco Chamber and Florida Symphony Orchestras, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Mexico City.

Physics

Rajamani Narayanan

Assistant Professor, Physics

Dr. Narayanan attended the University of California at Davis, where he graduated with a MS and a PhD in Physics. He has taught at SCRI, the University of Washington in Seattle, as well as UC Davis. From 1986 through 1990, Dr. Narayanan received the Regents Fellowship at UC Davis, and the Merit-cum-Means Scholarship from 1978 through 1983 at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India. His research interests include non-perturbative aspects of quantum field theories with particular emphasis on QCD like theories. Dr. Narayanan has refereed numerous publications and has participated in many conference proceedings.

Psychology

Ram N. Aditya

Assistant Professor, Psychology

Dr. Ram Aditya graduated from Temple University with a PhD in social and organizational psychology, where also obtained his MA in psychology. At the University of Madras, Dr. Aditya obtained his B.Sc. in physics and later his MBA. His special interests include interpersonal acumen in executive development and leadership; occupational stress; integration of visually impaired persons in the workforce; organizational culture; negotiation; cross-cultural issues in organizational research as well as research artifacts and methodology. Dr. Aditya has taught at Louisiana Tech University, Temple University and Philadelphia University. He has numerous publications and is a member of the American Psychological Society, International Association for Applied Psychology, Academy of Management, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Leslie A. DeChurch, visiting

Assistant Professor, Psychology

Ms. DeChurch graduated from the University of Miami with a BS in Environmental Science. She later graduated from FIU with a MS in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and is expected to obtain her PhD from FIU in 2002. Her dissertation examines the role of leadership in multi-team systems. Ms. DeChurch’s research interests include group dynamics, conflict management and negotiation, multi-team systems and leadership. She has referred several articles and well as presented in numerous conferences. Ms. DeChurch has taught introduction to psychology, small group behavior, research methods and organizational behavior. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Academy of Management.

Theatre & Dance

Sherone Price, visiting

Instructor

Mr. Sherone Price graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BFA in dance. He has taught modern dance, African dance, jazz and repertory at the University of North Carolina, Wake Forest University, North Carolina A&T University, and the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Price was also an instructor with the American Dance Festival and taught at St. Mary’s Boarding School, Southwest Guilford High School, Winston-Salem School System and High Point School System, all in North Carolina. Mr. Price received additional professional training in intensive African Dance Instruction in Guinea, West Africa and Jamaican National Dance Theatre. Furthermore, Mr. Price additional skills and abilities include singing, performing musician (drums and shekere), instrument making, costume design and sewing.

Craig Young

Assistant Professor

Mr. Young has extensive experience having worked as visiting artist, guest artist, resident designer, artistic associate and adjunct faculty in lighting design at various institutions, including University at Buffalo, Juniata College, Baltimore Theatre Project and Longwood College. He graduated from Lock Haven University with BA in Theatre Arts and an MFA in Lighting Design and Scenography. Mr. Young has taught scenic design, lighting design, resume and portfolio as well as properties/painting. His professional design experience includes The People’s Light and Theatre Company – Baltimore Theatre Project, The Independent Eye and Touchstone Theater, and New York Theatre Workshop, among others.

College of Business Administration

Decision Sciences & Information Systems

Duane Truex

Assistant Professor, Decision Sciences & Information Systems

Dr. Truex comes to FIU from the Department of Computer Information Systems at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business – Georgia State University. He graduated from The Thomas Watson School of Advanced Technology at the State University of New York with a PhD in systems science. His primary research interests include IS development, standards development in electronic commerce, qualitative research methods and social impacts of IT. Dr. Truex has a very diverse teaching experience including IT infrastructures, systems analysis, systems design, decision support systems, international business and IT strategy at both the undergraduate and graduate/doctoral level. Furthermore, Dr. Truex has published more than thirty-five articles in refereed journals, scholarly transactions and proceedings in US and European publications.

Ann Xing Xia, visiting

Instructor, Decision Sciences & Information Systems

Ms. Xia attended Florida International University, where she graduated with a double major in accounting and management information systems and where she later graduated with a master in accounting information systems. Her experience includes working as a business system analyst and tax accountant. She has also taught Chinese to business professionals. Ms. Xia’s computer skills include Lotus Notes, Lotus 1-2-3, Siebel systems CRM, iDesign, Checkpoint, Tax Alerts, GoSytem Tax, COBOL, Visual Basic 5, HTML, Microsoft Office and SAP R3.

Graduate Business School

José de la Torre

Dean, Alvah H. Chapman, Jr. Graduate School of Business

Dr. José de la Torre is one of the leading experts on international business. He received his D.B.A from Harvard University in 1971, an M.B.A and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. In addition to holding the position of Dean of the Alvah H. Chapman Graduate School of Business, he also holds the James Batten Eminent Scholar Chair in Management. He was Professor of International Business Strategy at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management from 1986 to 2002, and Founding Director of UCLA's Center for International Business Education and Research from 1989 until 2000. Formerly, he was Professor of International Business and Chairman of the Strategy and Environment Area at INSEAD (the European Institute of Business Administration) in Fontainebleau, France, a member of the faculty at the Institute of International Business at Georgia State University, and a Research Associate at the Harvard Business School. He has held short-term appointments at a number of graduate business schools in Latin America, including the Central American Institute of Business Administration (INCAE), the Universidad del Valle, Colombia, and the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile. He served as Visiting Professor at the Institute of International Business of the Stockholm School of Economics in 1992, and at the Theseus Institute in Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1997-2001.

Logistics & Information Systems

Ronald M. Lee

Eminent Scholar Chair, Logistics & Information Systems

Dr. Ronald Lee graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a PhD in Decision Sciences. His research interests include use of artificial intelligence and logic modeling to aid in inter-firm communications and negotiations; use of forma logic as a modeling formalism for management decision support and organizational structures; and use of AI natural language techniques for multi-lingual access to information systems. He has over 40 publications in refereed journals and book chapters and over 60 publications in refereed conferences. In order of competence, Dr. Lee is fluent in English, Dutch, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Management & International Business

Michel Ghertman, visiting

Professor, Management & International Business

Dr. Ghertman graduated with an MBA from the University of California in Berkeley and with a PhD in management from the Université de Rennes in France. He is fluent in English, French, German and Spanish. Dr. Ghertman’s special research interests include strategy of multinational companies, strategic analysis, strategic groups, decision-making processes, transaction cost theory, resource-based and ecology of populations, as well as interactions between institutional environment and economic institutions. Since 1968 with Groupe HEC in France, he has taught corporate strategy, business policy, international strategy, business games as well as global strategic alliances and networks.

David A. Wernick, visiting

Instructor, Management & International Business

Mr. Wernick has a BA in Political Science from Tulane University and an MA in International Studies from FIU. In recent years, Mr. Wernick has worked as managing editor of the Latin America Advisor, a New York-based business intelligence report, and communications director for the Council of the Americas, a New York-headquartered business association of US multinationals with operations throughout the Americas. He has also worked as senior analyst for Latin America at the Ackerman Group, a Miami-based international security and risk advisory consultancy, and foreign affairs specialist with the Florida Department of State. Mr. Wernick has published numerous articles on Latin American business and politics for America Economia, Latin CEO and Latin Finance. His research interests include the implications of new homeland security initiatives on hemispheric business, and entrepreneurship in Latin America.

Marketing

Nancy A. Rauseo, visiting

Instructor, Marketing

Dr. Rauseo graduated from Nova Southeastern University with a PhD in Business Administration. Her teaching experience includes operations management, information resource management, quality management and productivity at the University of Phoenix in Plantation, Florida. Dr. Rauseo also worked as an instructor at the American Bankers Insurance Group (formerly the American Bankers Management Institute). She also taught English as a second language in Venezuela. Dr. Rauseo has also provided consulting and organizational development services in the areas of strategy development and implementation, e-business, business process redesign, business analysis and technology implementation. She is completely fluent in English and Spanish with working knowledge of Portuguese. Dr. Rauseo is a member of the Academy of Management, the Society for Advancement in Management, the Southern Management Association and the Institute of Industrial Engineers.

College of Education

Center for Urban Education & Innovation

Lisa D. Delpit

Eminent Scholar/Executive Director, Center for Urban Education & Innovation

Dr. Delpit received her doctorate in Education from Harvard University with concentrations in sociolinguistics, literacy of instruction, ethnographic research, multicultural issues in education, teacher training and evaluation of education-related programs. Her Ed.M, also from Harvard, is in reading and language development. As a Benjamin E. Mays Chairholder of Urban Educational Leadership at Georgia State University, she was responsible for teaching, service, scholarship, and program development related to fostering leadership in urban education. Dr. Delpit founded and directed the Center for Urban Educational Excellence at Georgia State University. She has held teaching positions at Morgan State University, Michigan State University, University of Alaska, University of Massachusetts, and Cleveland State University. Dr. Delpit has successfully developed, funded and administered a wide range of programs and has created collaborative lines with local schools districts and the communities.

Joan T. Wynne

Associate Director, Center for Urban Education & Innovation

Dr. Wynne graduated from Georgia State University with a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction and a M.Ed. in English Education. She served as the Associate Director for the Alonzo A. Crim Center for Urban Educational Excellence and a graduate professor in the MSIT Department, College of Education, Georgia State University. Dr. Wynne has taught courses at Morehouse College, DeVry Institute of Technology, Fulton County Public Schools, and Atlanta Public Schools. In addition to receiving grant awards from numerous foundations, she developed the Urban Teacher Leadership Master of Science Degree Program at Georgia State University and designed a collaborative teacher education program for Morehouse College. She conducted a variety of research studies, published a number of articles, presented at local, state and national conferences, and served as a consultant with a wide range of organizations.

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Hilary Landorf

Assistant Professor, Social Studies Education

Dr. Landorf received her PhD in Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions from New York University and her M.A. in English Literature from the University of Virginia. She has held teaching positions at New York University and the University of Central Florida. She has served as an English and ESL instructor, here and abroad. She has extensive grant experience and has received funding for multiple projects focusing on international and educational issues. She is fluent in French, has advanced knowledge of German, Moroccan Arabic and a working knowledge of Spanish. She has presented at state conferences and has published in the areas of education change and policy through an international perspective.

Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Anthony H. Normore

Assistant Professor, Education Administration

Dr. Normore received his PhD in Educational Administration from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His M.A. in Education is from Maitrise en Administration et Politiques Scolaires, Universite Laval, Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada. He has been both a teacher and an administrator at schools in Canada and England and has provided extensive service to the communities in which he resided. Dr. Normore has served as project director/coordinator/facilitator for national and international projects.

Department of Educational and Psychological Studies

Elizabeth D. Cramer

Assistant Professor, Special Education

Dr. Cramer received her PhD in Special Education and Reading and her M.S.Ed in Early Childhood Special Education and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from the University of Miami. She has been a Miami-Dade County teacher and holds State of Florida teaching certificates and CRISS Strategy Instruction certification. She has participated in funded research projects and participates in both state and national organizations. Her research and publications are in the areas of special education and reading.

College of Engineering

Electrical

Malathi Palaniappa, visiting

Instructor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ms. Palaniappa graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a MS in Electrical Engineering. She has a bachelor of engineering in electronics and telecommunications from Madras Institute of Technology in India. Ms. Palaniappa has extensive experience in data communications, power system design, project management and business development. In addition, she is fully bilingual in English and Spanish. Her areas of expertise include complex data networks and services, WAN and LAN technologies and their applications, satellite communication principles as well as link design, modulation and multiplexing. Ms. Palaniappa has worked with major US companies such as Nortel, Americatel and with engineering firms in Venezuela.

Jian Wang

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Wang graduated from University of California, Davis with a PhD in Engineering Applied Science. His major at UC Davis was Optical Networking. He received a M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Shandong Medical University, P.R. China, and another M.S. degree in Engineering Applied Science from UC Davis. He received his B.S. degree in Physics from Shandong University, P.R. China. Dr. Wang has strong research background in both optical networking and digital signal processing. His current research interests are in optical (WDM based) telecommunication network design and optimization, MPLS protocol development, traffic engineering, traffic modeling and analysis, optical switching system architecture.

Chi Zhou

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Zhou graduated from Northwestern University with a PhD in electrical and computer engineering. She attended Tsinghua University in Beijing where she graduated with a BS in automation and a BS in business administration. Dr. Zhou’s research interests include wireless communication, mobile networks, communication networks, pricing, game theory, QoS management and resource allocation. Her teaching interests include random process, wireless communications, digital communications, and communication networks. Dr. Zhou’s computer language skills include C/C++, Pascal, Fortran, Cobol, SQL and Assembly Language.

Mechanical

Arvind Agarwal

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Arvind Agarwal obtained his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1999. His professional accomplishment in industry includes the development of net shaped nano-ceramic composite structures and coatings. As an employee with Plasma Processes Inc. of Huntsville, Alabama, Dr. Agarwal performed research in the fabrication of spray formed light-weight optical mirrors for the next generation x-ray telescope for NASA’s Contellation X mission; developed ultra high temperature ceramics composite based low erosion throat liners for the office of Naval Research; as well as developed laser assisted joining and coating techniques.

Ching-Hua Fan

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Fan graduated from the State University of New York at Stony Brook with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. His professional interests include analytical and experimental thermal science with applications in mechanical, optical, biomedical and materials science engineering. Specific interests include ultra short-pulse, high-intensity laser interaction with matters and biological tissues/cells; novel laser-based processing and measurement; thermal phenomena and fluid visualization in microstructures; laser scanning microscopy, and diagnosis technologies in biomedical science. As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Dr. Fan performed research in confocal and multiphoton laser scanning microscopy; conducted lifetime and spectral image techniques for living cells and tissues; applied lifetime and spectral information to human cancer diagnosis; as well as developed an imaging system for biological specimens.

College of Health & Urban Affairs

Communication Disorders

Alfredo Ardila

Associate Professor, Communication Disorders

Dr. Ardila graduated with a PhD in neuropsychology from Moscow State University in Russia. He is a diplomat in professional neuropsychology – American Board of Professional Neuropsychology. Dr. Ardila’s professional experience includes teaching at the National University of Colombia, Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, Universidad de San Marcos in Lima, Peru, Universidad Catolica de Colombia, as well as the Centro Caribeño de Estudios Postgraduados in Puerto Rico. He has numerous publications, books and monographs. Dr. Ardila’s research interests include aphasia, alexia, agraphia, bilingualism, cultural and educational variables in cognitive test performance, neuropsychological rehabilitation, aging and dementia, acalculia and stuttering.

Public Administration

Roberto J. Cavazos

Assistant Professor, Public Administration

Dr. Cavazos graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas with a PhD specializing in economic development studies, applied economics, public policy, econometrics and statistics. He has an MPA in public policy analysis and development studies. Dr. Cavazos has taught courses in principles of microeconomics, microeconomic theory, economics of public issues, economic history, history of economic thought and theory, statistics and quantitative methods as well as program evaluation and urban planning methods. He is a member of the American Economic Association and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.

Social Work

Amy L. Beaulieu, visiting

Instructor

Ms. Beaulieu graduated with BS in Social Work from Boston University and she later attended Barry University where she obtained her MSW. Her experience includes Program Director at the Kristi House, Contract Therapist at CHARLEE Homes for Children, MSW Intern Therapist at Gladstone Center and Social Services Counselor at West Jefferson Children’s Services in Marrero, LA. Ms. Beaulieu also has volunteer experience and is conversant in Spanish.

College of Law

Thomas E. Baker

Professor, College of Law

Professor Thomas Baker obtained his JD at the University of Florida College of Law. With over 22 years of law teaching experience, Professor Baker is a nationally prominent Constitutional Law scholar who has received numerous awards for his classroom teaching. Before joining the FIU College of Law faculty, he held the James Madison Chair in constitutional law that Congress endowed at Drake University Law School to commemorate the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. From 1985 to 1987, he worked at the Supreme Court, first as a Judicial Fellow and then as Acting Administrative Assistant to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. From 1979-98, Professor Baker was a member of the faculty at Texas Tech University School of Law, where he held the Alvin R. Allison Distinguished Professorship and received every teaching award the law school and the University awarded. He was the Distinguished Fulbright Professor of American Constitutional Law at the University of Athens in 1992. He was a member of the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States, by appointment of the Chief Justice, from 1990-1995. In 1995, he received a formal Commendation for Distinguished Service from the Judicial Conference of the United States. He is also the recipient of the Bicentennial of the Constitution Award in Legal Education. Professor Baker is frequently quoted as an expert in constitutional law and the courts, and has appeared on NPR; ; CNN's Burden of Proof; C-SPAN; and numerous legal education programs for lawyers and judges. He is the author of six books, including the "Nutshell" on Constitutional Law (forthcoming 2002), and more than 90 articles, including articles published in the Harvard, Michigan, UCLA, Iowa, Washington & Lee, and William & Mary law reviews. After graduation from law school, he clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. His law school recognitions include High Honors and Order of the Coif.

Sharon R. Barnett

Assistant Professor, Legal Skills and Values

Professor Barnett comes to the FIU College of Law from the position of Associate Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union. She brings to FIU a wealth of experience in law school teaching in legal skills as well as other subjects. From 1989 to 1994, she was an assistant professor of law at the City University of New York Law School, teaching lawyering skills, including legal writing, legal analysis, and oral advocacy. From 1994 to 1998 she was director of legal clinics and concentrations, lecturer of law, and then acting dean at the Moi University Faculty of Law in Eldoret, Kenya. Since 1997, Professor Barnett has also served as consultant for various United

Nations agencies and international non-governmental organizations on clinical legal education. Before entering law teaching, she was in private practice with the Law Office of Kunstler and Mason in New York. Professor Barnett graduated from the New York Law School.

Jorge L. Esquirol

Professor, Director of International & Comparative Law Programs

Dr. Esquirol graduated summa cum laude with a BSBA from Georgetown University and from Harvard Law School, first with a JD and then a SJD. Before joining the FIU College of Law, Professor Esquirol was Director of Academic Affairs at the Harvard Law School Graduate Program from 1992-1997, and a professor of law at the Northeastern University School of Law from 1997-2002. He has been a resident scholar at the Université de Paris X (Nanterre), France, a visiting professor at the University of Miami School of Law, and a visiting researcher at the Constitutional Court of Colombia. As Director of Academic Affairs, he had administrative responsibility for the Harvard Law Graduate Programs; taught LL.M. students; administered the International Legal Studies Program and related conferences, lectures and workshops; and planned several international law conferences. Professor Esquirol earned his B.A. summa cum laude from Georgetown University. After earning his J.D. degree at Harvard, he clerked on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and was an associate attorney at the Wall Street firm of Shearman and Sterling. A proven classroom teacher, Professor Esquirol will teach in the areas of International and Comparative Law at FIU.

Aya Gruber

Assistant Professor, College of Law

Professor Gruber graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. She obtained her BA in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley. Before coming to FIU, Professor Gruber was an attorney with the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C., and most recently, with the Federal Public Defender in Miami. In these positions, she has served as defense counsel in a number of criminal trials ranging from first-degree murder to drug distribution, securing an 80 percent acquittal rate. Professor Gruber completed her undergraduate studies in Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, where she received departmental honors for her thesis, graduated summa cum laude, and was named to Phi Beta Kappa. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor on the Harvard Women's Law Journal and the Harvard International Law Journal, as well as a research assistant for Professor Alan Dershowitz during the O.J. Simpson trial. She was also a member of the Harvard Trial Advocacy team and the founder of the Interracial Law Student Association. After graduation from law school, Professor Gruber clerked on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and then spent a year traveling through China, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and India, doing free-lance travel journalism. Professor Gruber will teach in the areas in which she has practiced - Criminal Law, Evidence and related subjects.

Leanne B. Hillery

Librarian, College of Law

Ms. Hillery’s experience includes working at the University of Miami School of Law Library, Ball State University Library and the University of Michigan libraries. She obtained a BA in English from West Virginia University where she graduated summa cum laude. Ms. Hillery graduated from the University of Michigan with an MLS specializing in academic and research libraries. She is currently a member of the American Association of Law Libraries, the Southeastern Association of Law Libraries, the South Florida Association of Law Libraries, the Dade County Library Association, the North American Serials Interest Group, and the American Libraries Association, among others.

Mon Yin Lung

Law Librarian

Ms. Lung graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a BA in History. She then attended the University of Mississippi and obtained an MSS in History and later an MLS from Louisiana State University. While working at the University of Kansas she also obtained a J.D. degree. Ms. Lung worked at the University of Kansas School of Law Library since 1983, holding various positions such as cataloging librarian, technical services and documents librarian, interim library director and public services librarian. She has numerous publications and her research interests include elder law, immigration, law and cyberspace, legal research and bibliography. Ms. Lung is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries, the Southwestern Association of Law libraries and the Asian-American Law Librarian Caucus, which she founded in 1998.

Andrew J. McClurg

Professor, College of Law

Professor McClurg graduated from the University of Florida College of Law with honors. A nationally recognized tort law and gun rights expert, Professor McClurg is a highly respected scholar, teacher and prominent legal humorist. He comes to the FIU College of Law from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he was the Nadine H. Baum Distinguished Professor of Law. He has also taught as a visiting law professor at Wake Forest University, the University of Colorado and Golden Gate University. Professor McClurg has received multiple awards both for his teaching and academic publications. He is the author of numerous articles in the areas of tort law, criminal procedure and firearms policy, which have been cited by numerous courts and in more than 100 different law reviews. He has been quoted as a tort law expert by the New York Times, National Public Radio, Time, National Law Journal, U.S. News & World Report, and many other sources. A prolific humorist, Professor McClurg is author of The Law School Trip, a critically acclaimed parody of legal education. From 1997-2001 he wrote the monthly humor column for the American Bar Association Journal. Before entering academia, he served as a judicial law clerk on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, and worked four years as a trial lawyer in Jacksonville, Florida. In law school he was named to the Order of the Coif and was a member of the Florida Law Review.

Matthew C. Mirow

Associate Professor, College of Law

Dr. Mirow has a PhD in law from Cambridge University and a J.D. from Cornell University. Professor Mirow has taught at Cornell Law School, Magdalene College (Cambridge, England), the University of Miami, Saint Louis University, the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), and most recently, South Texas College of Law. A highly regarded teacher, he teaches in the areas of Property Law, Trusts and Estates, Latin American Law, Comparative Law, International Law, and Legal History. Professor Mirow has served as a General Reporter to the Société Jean Bodin and was a Golieb Fellow in legal history at New York University School of Law. He has also served as a Fellow of the Newberry Library N.E.H. Summer Institute on Spanish and Hispanic-American Archival Sciences. His scholarly publications include a book on Latin American private law to be published by the University of Texas Press and over a dozen book chapters and law review articles. Before his graduate work in England, he practiced law in Florida.

Angelique Ortega Fridman

Assistant Professor, Legal Skills & Values

Professor Ortega Fridman graduated first in her class from the University of Florida, where she was co-valedictorian, named to Phi Beta Kappa, and recognized as the Peat Marwick Outstanding Scholar. She graduated cum laude from the Harvard Law School, and served as a member of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. After law school, Professor Ortega Fridman clerked for the Honorable Stanley Marcus on the United States Court of Appears for the Eleventh Circuit, and served for four and a half years as an Assistant County Attorney in the Miami-Dade County Attorney’s Office. Here she handled general commercial contract and construction litigation, and drafted and reviewed commercial contracts, county commission resolutions and ordinances. From 2001 – 2002, Professor Ortega Fridman was an adjunct legal writing instructor at the St. Thomas University School of Law, teaching first year law students the fundamentals of legal research and writing and appellate advocacy.

Elizabeth Price Foley

Professor, College of Law

Professor Foley’s education includes an LLM degree from the Harvard Law School and a Juris Doctor from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where she graduated summa cum laude and first in a class of 145. Professor Foley comes to the FIU College of Law from Michigan State University, Detroit College of Law, where she was a member of the law faculty and adjunct professor in the MSU College of Human Medicine, Center for Ethics and Humanities from 1996-2002. Prior to law teaching, she served as a judicial clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. After graduating first in her class at the University of Tennessee College of Law, where she was Articles Editor of the Tennessee Law Review, she spent several years on Capitol Hill as a health policy advisor and lobbyist, serving as Senior Legislative Aide to U.S. Congressman Ron Wyden (D-OR), Legislative Aide for the D.C. office of the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, and a Legislative Aide for U.S. Congressman Michael Andrews (D-TX). Professor Foley is a frequent media commentator and expert on health law and bioethics issues; she has appeared on or been quoted by CNN, Fox Cable News, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, USA Today, the Detroit Free Press, and the BBC. Professor Foley's major areas of scholarly interest and expertise are health care law and bioethics. A talented and innovative classroom teacher, she has taught courses in Civil Procedure, Health Care Law, Law & Medicine, Food & Drug Law, and Evidence.

Ediberto Román

Professor, College of Law

Professor Román graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he was the recipient of the Ruth B. Doyle Award for Contribution to the Law School one year and of the National Hispanic Scholarship for two years. He has a BA in business management and economics from Lehman College, where he also later served as adjunct professor. Professor Roman is a prolific scholar who has won three teaching awards in his six years as a law teacher. Before entering academia, he specialized in securities and antitrust litigation at several Wall Street law firms. From 1995 to 2002, he was an associate professor and then professor of law at the St. Thomas University School of Law. His teaching awards include two Professor of the Year honors. In addition, he was the first law professor to be awarded one of the Barry University-St. Thomas University "Excellence in Scholarship" grants. He has taught contracts, torts, corporations, comparative corporate law, products liability, agency and partnership, antitrust, law and accounting, race and the law, and street law. His scholarly works cover a wide range of areas, including international law, securities regulation, evidence, constitutional law, critical race theory, post-colonial discourse, and law and literature. His articles have appeared in the San Diego, UC-Davis, Miami, Villanova, Florida State, and Harvard Latino law reviews, and he is the author of a chapter in a book on colonialism published by the NYU press.

Sailaja Tumrukota

Serials/Acquisitions Law Librarian

Ms. Tumrukota graduated from the University of South Florida in Tampa with a MA in Library and Information Science. She also has a MA in English Literature from Andhra University in India. Most recently, Ms. Tumrukota worked as the Access Services Coordinator at the St. Thomas University Law Library. She is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries, the Southeastern Association of Law Libraries, the South Florida Association of Law Libraries, the Florida Library Association, and the Dade County Library Association.

David D. Walter

Associate Professor, Legal Skills and Values

Professor David Walter’s educational background includes graduating cum laude from the University of Iowa in Iowa City with a JD, where he also obtained his MA in Political Science. Professor Walter is an experienced and highly regarded law teacher, who previously taught legal writing and oral advocacy in two nationally recognized legal writing programs. He comes to FIU from Mercer University School of Law, where he taught legal writing, legal analysis, legal research, appellate practice and procedure, as well as alternative dispute resolution for seven years. He also served as faculty advisor to the Moot Court Board and as a moot court team coach, leading numerous moot court teams to national competition honors. Before joining the Mercer Law School faculty, Professor Walter taught for three years at Seattle University School of Law and practiced as a commercial litigator at a Seattle law firm. He has published several articles, and he is active in the Legal Writing Institute, currently serving on the Board of Editors of its journal. Professor Walter’s scholarship presently focuses on persuasive written and oral advocacy and draws from empirical research findings in the fields of psychology, communications, argumentation, and artificial intelligence. This work serves as the foundation for four chapters in the textbook he is writing, “Oral Argument and Advocacy – Procedure, Substance and Persuasion”. Professor Walter served on the Iowa Law Review.

Jean G. Zorn

Professor, Director of Legal Skills & Values Program

Professor Zorn graduated summa cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School. Professor Zorn comes to the FIU College of Law from the City University of New York Law School where she was a member of the law faculty from 1985-2002 and directed the first-year lawyering skills program. An innovative and talented classroom teacher, she has also brought her experience at skills development into her property law and corporations classes. Professor Zorn has consulted widely with foreign legal institutions regarding law school skills instruction, as well as the role of customary law in the formal legal system, court administration, and commercial and consumer protection laws. She is a prolific scholar, with numerous articles and books to her credit. Her research interests lie primarily in the areas of the customary and comparative law of the South Pacific, a part of the world that she visits regularly. Professor Zorn also has substantial experience in the practice of law, in both large and small firms, in matters ranging from family law to mergers and acquisitions. She is Director of the College of Law's Legal Skills and Values Program.

Library

Charles Anthony (Tony) Schwartz

Associate Director for Collection Management, Library

Dr. Schwartz graduated with a PhD in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and later obtained an MLS at Indiana University. For over six years, he worked at the University of Boston’s Healy Library, where he was assistant director for collection management and technical services. Dr. Schwartz also worked as Social Sciences – Humanities Bibliographer and Reference Librarian at Rice University. He has also been the editor and contributing author of many technical publications. In addition, Dr. Schwartz is a member of the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Reference and User Services Association.

(Vivian) Wei Wang

Library Coordinator, CEAS

Ms. Wang is a Master of Arts candidate in School Library and Information Systems at USF. She graduated with a BA in Library Science from Shanghai University, Department of Library Science. Ms. Wang also holds a certificate in Web Design from the Nashville State Technical Institute. Other training includes integrated academic skills in English at the University of Michigan, intensive training in German at Tongji University as well as a training program in teaching students the course of literature retrieval to university students from the Department of Education in China. Ms. Wang’s prior experience includes work as librarian for Access Health Systems in Tennessee, library assistant at the Bellevue Public Library of Nashville, Library Staff at the Saskatchewan Research Council, Library/Research Assistant at the SIAST Central Office in Canada, Library Assistant at the University of Michigan Libraries in Ann Arbor and Head of the Department of Reference and Research – The Libraries of Tongji University in Shanghai.

New Assignments

College of Arts & Sciences

Computer Science

Yi Deng

Director of the School of Computer Science, Associate Professor

Dr. Yi Deng received a PhD degree in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh. He then joined FIU as an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science. During the past two years, Dr. Deng was on a leave of absence working at the University of Texas in Dallas. He has now returned as Director of the School of Computer Science and Associate Professor. His main research interests include software engineering, distributed systems, object-oriented systems, Petri nets, distributed multimedia systems, information modeling and retrieval, and knowledge-based software engineering. Dr. Deng has been the Principal Investigator (PI), Co-PI or Senior PI of four research grants or contracts at FIU from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Air Force and NASA total over $5 million. He has published a number of research papers on IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, International Journal of Computer Simulation, International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, and several refereed conference proceedings. Dr. Deng has been a referee for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE COMPUTER, IEEE Transactions on Computers and several other journals and conferences.

Economics

José López Calleja, visiting

Instructor, Economics

Mr. López-Calleja has been with FIU since 1987 as an Adjunct Professor and just recently became a Visiting Instructor. He graduated from the University of Miami with a BS in Engineering and later obtained a Master of Arts in Economics at FIU. Mr. López-Calleja has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in economics. In addition, he has developed and taught corporate courses such as Fundamentals of Continuous Improvement, and Continuous Improvement Methods I for Baptist Health Systems of South Florida as well as Techniques I – TQM for Managers for FPL.

Russell P. Chuderewicz

Lecturer, Economics

Dr. Chuderewicz has been with FIU since 2000 as a visiting professor and is now a lecturer. He graduated from Penn State University with a PhD in Economics and from UCF with a MA in Applied Economics. His areas of concentration include monetary theory and policy, macroeconomics, international economics, environmental economics and microeconomics. Dr. Chuderewicz has taught at Texas Tech University, Seton Hill College, Penn State, and UCF. His experience includes Advanced Monetary Theory, Applied Macroeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics, Price and Income Theory, International Business, Money and Banking, Environmental Economics, and Developmental Economics, among others.

Modern Languages

Azuka Haraguchi

Instructor, Modern Languages

Ms. Haraguchi first obtained a Master in Special Education from Millersville University of Pennsylvania and later obtained a second master in international/intercultural development education from Florida State University. Her native language is Japanese and she speaks English and some Spanish. She has taught Japanese and Japanese culture and society as well as Japanese calligraphy. Ms. Haraguchi is also third degree black belt (Goju-Ryu) and first-degree black belt (Shotokan) in karate.

Sociology & Anthropology

Michael Barnett, visiting

Assistant Professor

Dr. Michael Barnett has been at FIU since 1995 as an adjunct professor. He attended Bedford College, University of London where he graduated with a BS in physics, later obtained at Certificate in Education at Thames Polytechnic. At FIU, he graduated first with an MS in physics, later an MA in sociology and most recently with a PhD in sociology. Dr. Barnett is a member of the American Anthropological Association and the Caribbean Studies Association. He is highly interested in “Rastafarianism” and is the coordinator of the Rastafari study group at FIU.

Ronald Stubbs, visiting

Assistant Professor

Dr. Ronald Stubbs recently completed all the requirements for his PhD in Sociology at FIU, where he also graduated with an MA in Comparative Sociology. He also attended the University of Kansas, where he graduated with a BA in geography and an MA in Latin American Studies. Dr. Stubbs has worked at FIU as an adjunct in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. He also worked at the University of Miami School of Medicine, where he was a program assistant and a research associate. Dr. Stubbs is fluent in Spanish, proficient in Portuguese, can read and understand French, and has conversational knowledge of Greek and Haitian Creole.

Women’s Studies

Aurora Morcillo

Associate Professor, Women’s Studies & History

A visiting assistant professor at FIU in 2001, Dr. Morcillo graduated from the University of New Mexico with a PhD in history, with emphasis on modern Spain and gender history. Her book, “True Catholic Womanhood: Gender Ideology in Franco Spain”, was published in 2000. Her teaching interests include history of modern Spain, gender and right-wing politics, nationalism and gender under totalitarian regimes, women's historiography and the study of education, women in contemporary society, introduction to women's studies, history and feminist theory, women and religion, educational thought and feminist theory, popular culture, gender and education, and history of the body.

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