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.)
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Wallace Sherlock |
Curriculum & Instruction |
sherlocw@uww.edu |
1831 |
Foreign Language, ESL, Bilingual Pedagogy, Russian Language and Literature, Comparative Education |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |