Collaborative Research Network at UW-Whitewater

Sorted by Departments or Sorted by Name

*Preferred Methodologies (e.g. quantitive, qualitative, critical, etc.)

**Special Skills (e.g. statistical analysis, editing, etc.)

Accounting	Art	Art History	Biology
Business Education/ Computer End-User Technology/ Net. Admin.	Chemistry	Communication	Communicative Disorders
Counselor Education	Curriculum & Instruction	Economics	Education Foundations
Finance/ Business Law	Geology & Geography	HPERC	History
Languages & Literatures	Management	Management/MCS	Marketing
Mathematical & Computer Science	Music/ World of the Arts	Occupation & Environmental Safety & Health	Physics
Political Science	Psychology	Recreation Sports and Facilities	Sociology
Special Education	UHCS	Women's Studies

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Richard G. Cummings	Accounting	cummingr@uww.edu	3936	Tax Accounting and Public Policy Implications, financial accounting, accounting education	Open to any	Great sense of humor!
David Remmele	Accounting	remmeled@uww.edu	5464	Finance, accounting	Open	Excel expert.

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Chris Henige	Art History	henigec@uww.edu	5565	Medieval Art and Architecture, Monasticism, Art of the Ancient Southwest	No preference	Computer/web/database/editing.

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Catherine Chan	Biology	chanc@uww.edu	5133	Calcium signaling in plants (structure function analysis, mutagenesis, protein, purification, plant physiology in response to changes in external stimuli)	Qualitative	Plant physiology, molecular biology, protein expression

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Jo Ann Oravec	Business Education/Computer & Network Administration	oravecj@uww.edu	5578	Knowledge management, computer supported cooperative work, philosophy of science, creativity, women's studies, privacy and surveillance, interactive toys and games, anything pertaining to science, technology and society		Online survey development, Collaborative filtering/recommended system design, Critical theory/ethno methodologies, Web log analysis, Historical analysis

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Paul House	Chemistry	housep@uww.edu	1551	Biomolecule structure, enzyme structure/function, green/environmental chemistry	No Preference	Variety of spectroscopies, vacuum systems, protein expression and purification

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Ray Baus	Communication	bausr@uww.edu	1062	Health (e.g., care giving; public health; social support; safer sex) Cross-cultural Communication (e.g., language learning acquisition; intercultural willingness to communicate) Conflict Resolution (e.g., couples’ conflict management; dialectic tension management strategies)	I am familiar with both qualitative and quantitative research	I am proficient in quantitative methods; including SPSS package
Thomas Kim Hixson	Communication	HixsonT@uww.edu	1906	Advertising, Promotion, Advertising and Media effects, Sport and Entertainment Promotion and Marketing	Quantitative	Editing, Lit Reviews, Survey Construction, Statistical Analysis
Ann Knabe	Communication	thinkPR@wi.rr.com	5068	Distance learning, collaborative learning, public relations, learning theory applied to college classroom.	I am open	Maybe editing?

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Don Norman	Counselor Education	normand@uww.edu	5424	Attitude toward difficult client populations, enhancing student learning via use of actors/clients in the classroom, personal/professional growth issues, teacher mentoring	Quantitative	???
David Van Doren	Counselor Education	vandored@uww.edu	1035	Trauma, Alcohol and other drugs, Counseling effectiveness		Good listener.

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Susan Kidd	Curriculum & Instruction	kidds@uww.edu	5814	Interested in Math Education	Qualitative or Quantitative Methodologies
Wallace Sherlock	Curriculum & Instruction	sherlocw@uww.edu	1831	Foreign Language, ESL, Bilingual Pedagogy, Russian Language and Literature, Comparative Education
Anne D'Antonio Stinson	Curriculum & Instruction	stinsona@uww.edu	1973	Literacy, especially adolescent & adult Literacy; alternative education programs; plurlaism in education; curriculum	Qualitative	Excellent writer; Works and plays well with others
John Zbikowski	Curriculum & Instruction	zbikowsj@uww.edu	4860	Writing Instruction, Reading Instruction, Use of Information and Communication Technology in Teachin, Staff Development for Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education	Survey Research, Ethnographic Interviewing and Participant Observation

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
David Welsch	Economics	welschd@uww.edu	4715	Education Policy Research (Mostly K-12), Public Finance, Public Policy, Public Sector Economics, Econometrics, Applied Statistics (willing to work on many interesting applied statistics projects)	Quantitative	Statistical analysis, econometrics, large database management

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Prajukti Bhattacharyya	Geography and Geology	bhattacj@uww.edu	5257	Deformation mechanisms of solid materials, including, but not limited to rocks, experimental and/or field based studies of deformation, 3D strain analyses, microstructures, geological mapping, petrology, pedagogical research, effective science teaching techniques, class demonstrations and/or innovative lab assignments in geological sciences	Quantitative, experimental, analytical	Polarized optical microscopy, Computer graphics

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Ann Garvin	HPERC	garvina@uww.edu	5644	Hybrid of exercise physiology and psychology, Primarily the effects of exercise on anxiety, mood, depression, stress, and disordered eating. Also anaerobic and aerobic excessive, acute and chronic .Physiological measurements of oxygen consumption during exercise and at rest(metabolism), muscle biopsy, blood analysis (insulin and carbohydrate utilization, blood pressure, and lactate analysis)	Quantitative	Research design and analysis, Registered Nurse, more invasive research that may involve blood work
Cristy Jefson	HPERC	jefsonc@uww.edu	1966	Comprehensive School Health Education: Sexuality/Parenting Education and the adolescent; Consumer Health (marketing and health information); Substance Use & Abuse (Tobacco prevention education programs)	Qualitative	Working within public school systems (specifically, urban districts) with teachers, students, parents and administrators to implement comprehensive school health education programs, Editing
Dr. Guoli Liang	HPERC	liangg@uww.edu	1369	Education, Pedagogy, Technology	Quantitative, Qualitative, Critical	Statistical Analysis
Penny Portman	HPERC	portmanp@uww.edu	5643	Gender equity	Any	Editing

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Mark Lencho	Languages and Literatures	lenchom@uww.edu	5062	Linguistics (syntax, Slovak) and SoTL (grading, assessment, student-teacher interaction, student evaluations), Literature (Vonnegut and Pirsig), and US Foreign Policy (Noam Chomsky)	No Preference	Some proficiency in Slovak, comprehensive familiarity with works of Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Pirsig, and Noam Chomsky.
Elena Levy-Navarro	Languages and Literatures	levye@uww.edu	5047	Fat studies (the construction of the fat and thin bodies respectively both in early and late modernity), Early Modern Cultural and Literary Studies, History of Sexuality, including especially considerations of alternatives to our modern heterosexual regime, Queer theory, Shakespeare	Beside being humanistic, broadly conceived, is constructionist in nature	Beside being humanistic, broadly conceived, is constructionist in nature
Beth L. Lueck	Languages and Literatures	lueckb@uww.edu	5054	19th-Century American women writers, especially Harriet Beecher Stowe & E.D.E.N. Southworth	Critical and Historical	No particular special skills

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
K. Praveen Parboteeah	Management	parbotek@uww.edu	3971	Interface between social institutions and individual behavior; ethics; technology and innovation management; international management	Quantitative	SPSS, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Louise Tourigny	Management	tourignl@uww.edu	5735	Leadership and ethnics (fundamental research in American Presidency), Occupational Mental Health (stress, burnout, depression) among nurses and other occupational groups, Occupation mental health of women, Coping, absence,turnover, and withdrawal behavior, Workplace deviance and workplace romance, Mentoring, Emotion and cognition, Populations studied: nurses in China, Japan, Canada, and other countries, employees in airline in Japan and China (now U.S.)	Quanitative (SPSS, test of mediating, moderating, and direct versus indirect effects), Critical, Grounded theory	Conceptual development, Writing, Data analysis

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Robert Leitheiser	Management/MCS	leitheir@uww.edu	1468	Information System Analysis & Design	Quantitative and Qualitative	IT analysis and design methodologies; programming; statistical analysis

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Maxwell Hsu	Marketing	hsum@uww.edu	5471	Business related or business education related	Quantitative	Statistical analysis using SPSS or SAS (particularly, structural equation modeling)

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Leon Arriola	Mathematical and Computer Sciences	arriolal@uww.edu	5163	Applied mathematics: modeling/simulation of the spread of epidemics, sensitivity analysis, graph theory, dynamical systems: discrete & continuous		Mathematica, MATLAB, LaTeX
Thomas Drucker	Mathematical and Computer Sciences	druckert@uww.edu	5173	History and philosophy of mathematics, statistics and logic religion and science	Writing in a non-quantitative way about quantitative disciplines	Statistics
William T. Mickelson	Mathematics and Computer Science	mickelsw@uww.edu	5169	Robustness/performance of statistical tests and procedures; statistics education; measurement; program evaluation	Mixed Methods	I’m an applied statistician with over 20 years of academic and industry consulting experience. Special skills include: Experimental/Research design; multivariate statistical methods; robust/non-parametric statistical methods; making difficult statistical concepts/methods accessible & understandable;
Hien Nguyen	Mathematical and Computer Sciences	nguyenh@uww.edu	5170	User Modeling, Information Retrieval, Collaborative Filtering, Human Factors	Quantitative, Qualitative	Programming Languages (Java, C)

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Sang D. Choi	Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health	chois@uww.edu	1641	Occupational Safety and Health; Industrial Ergonomics; Work and Measurement and Design; Product Design/Evaluation	Quantitative	Statistical analysis, research/experimental design

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Bob Benjamin	Deparment of Physics	benjamir@uww.edu	5114	Physics, Fluid dynamics, Computational physics and numerical modelling.	Numerical simulation, Video analysis, Experimental physics	Unix/Linux experience, Numerical methods, Grant writing (NASA/NSF)

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Anne Hamilton	Political Science	hamiltoa@uww.edu	1214	The relationship between culture and politics; regional areas of interest include Europe (Russia in particular) and Latin America (Argentina in particular).	Qualitative, but I'm open to various methodological approaches.

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Dan Stalder	Psychology	stalderd@uww.edu	5419	Social psychology and personality; more specifically, cognitive dissonance theory, social comparison theory, attribution theory, and the traits attributional complexity and need for closure; interest in applying the above topics/theories to interpersonal relationships, education, and politics; working on some theoretical papers within some of the above topics/theoreies and the topic of helping behavior (specifically the "bystander effect"); also has done research on the effectiveness of certain teaching strategies	Quantitative	M.S. in Mathematics, statistical training through introductory multivariate analysis, training in scale construction

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Leda Nath	Sociology	nathl@uww.edu	1125	Work and occupations, social psychology, and teaching (SoTL) topics	Quantitative, esp experimental and survey design	Statistical analysis, esp SPSS

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Simone DeVore	Special Education	devores@uww.edu	5808	Early childhood programming and childcare issues	All are needed depending on project focus	Interviewing and dimensional analysis (grounded theory).
Shannon Stuart	Special Education	stuarts@uww.edu	4877	Adolescent females, special education, career development and methods	Editing

Name	Department	E-mail Address	Campus Phone	Research Topics/Areas of Interest	Preferred Methodologies*	Special Skills**
Richard Jazdzewski	UHCS	jazdzewr@uww.edu	1305	College student mental health, psychology, human development	Quantitative

Ellie Schemenauer	Women's Studies	schemene@uww.edu	2872	Gender and international relations, operating logics of the security state, human rights, feminist pedagogy, the local/global nexus, identity, postcoloniality	Qualitative methods, discourse analysis, interpretation	Editing, theory
Jo Ellen Burkholder	Women’s Studies/Anthropology	burkholj@uww.edu	5776	Cultural heritage and heritage preservation, social archaeology, iconography, ceramic and textile production	Qualitative and quantitative methods, interested in geospatial analysis	Interview and participant observation studies, stratigraphic excavation, pedestrian survey, writing for popular audience (e.g. reference work), speak Spanish