LEARN Center

LEARN Center Collaborative Research Network at UW-Whitewater

Sorted by Name or Sorted by Departments

*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**
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
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
Ron Berger	Sociology	bergerr@uww.edu	1133	Disabled athletes, Holocaust survivors, law-violating adolescent peer groups, memoir as qualitative inquiry	Qualitative	Editing, publishing experience
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)
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
Scott Bradley	Communicative Disorders	bradleys@uww.edu	5202	Hearing, acoustics, occupational hearing conservation	Open to a number of paradigms	Technical skills in topics of interest.
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
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
William Chandler	Curriculum & Instruction	chandleb@uww.edu	5438	Art education; alternative education; emancipatory pedagogy; learning environment; architecture of Antoni Gaudi	Qualitative	Good collaborator; Can walk for 500 miles
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
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!
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).
Ruiying Ding	Communicative Disorders	dingr@uww.edu	5201	Swallow physiology changes in various patient groups, surface EMG of muscle groups during swallowing, electrical stimulation of muscles during swallowing	Quantitative	Use of EMG technique
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
Sheila Feay-Shaw	Curriculum & Instruction	feayshas@uww.edu	1341	Music Teaching and Pedagogy, World Music and Cultural Studies, White privilidge as it relates to teacher candidates.	Qualitative Research including Ethnography	Editing, Writing, Proofreading
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
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.
Chris Henige	Art History	henigec@uww.edu	5565	Medieval Art and Architecture, Monasticism, Art of the Ancient Southwest	No preference	Computer/ web/ database/ editing.
Jeff Heriot	Music Department	herriotj@uww.edu	1424	Music composition. Interested in collaborating with artists, dancers, musicians, filmmakers or multimedia artists.	NA	Electronic equipments, Recording, Sound manipulation
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
Richard Jazdzewski	UHCS	jazdzewr@uww.edu	1305	College student mental health, psychology, human development.	Quantitative
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
Joseph Hogan	Languages and Literatures	hoganj@uww.edu	5048	Cross-cultural autobiography and autobiographies of mental illness, focusing on issues of identity, agency, and the rhetoric of self-representation.	Critical and Qualitative	Editing, Critical Analysis
Linda Holmes	Accounting	holmesl@uww.edu	5451	Critical thinking and learning, environmental reporting, laws/economy/ quality of life, historically black colleges and universities.	Empirical studies	I have taken about 24 hours of statistics including time series and econometrics.
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
Maxwell Hsu	Marketing	hsum@uww.edu	5471	Business related or business education related	Quantitative	Statistical analysis using SPSS or SAS (particularly, structural equation modeling)
Teresa Huerta	Curriculum & Instruction	huertat@uww.edu	5798		Qualitative	Ethnographic Research
James Jaffe	History	jaffej@uww.edu	1103	Industrial relations, ADR	Open	Historical analysis; critical reading; legal/historical background.
Richard Jazdzewski	UHCS	jazdzewr@uww.edu	1305	College student mental health, psychology, human development	Quantitative
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
Therese Kennedy	Recreation Sports and Facilities	kennedyt@uww.edu	1145	Student issues/ retention/ behaviors/ athletics/ socialization	Qualitative	Not statistical. Common sense approach?
Susan Kidd	Curriculum & Instruction	kidds@uww.edu	5814	Interested in Math Education	Qualitative or Quantitative Methodologies
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?
Jim Larson	Psychology	larsonj@uww.edu	5412	School violence/youth violence, anger/aggression interventions, school discipline	Quantitative	Know APA style well and reasonably good editor
Robert Leitheiser	Management/MCS	leitheir@uww.edu	1468	Information System Analysis & Design	Quantitative and Qualitative	IT analysis and design methodologies; programming; statistical analysis
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
Dr. Guoli Liang	HPERC	liangg@uww.edu	1369	Education, Pedagogy, Technology	Quantitative, Qualitative, Critical	Statistical Analysis
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
Paula Mohan	Political Science	mohanp@uww.edu	5772	Tribal-state relations, ethnicity and its impact on politics, media and political communication, democratic theory and participation, philosophy of technology,	Qualitative and Quantitative	I am proficient in statistical analysis and well-read in contemporary critical theory.
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;
Barbara S. Monfils	Communication	monfilsb@uww.edu	1055	International & Intercultural Communication, Communication Technology, African Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean folklore	Qualitative and Quantitative	Computer consultant on SPSS(mainframe version), Reading knowledge in Spanish and French
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
Hien Nguyen	Mathematical and Computer Sciences	nguyenh@uww.edu	5170	User Modeling, Information Retrieval, Collaborative Filtering, Human Factors	Quantitative, Qualitative	Programming Languages (Java, C)
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	???
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
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
Barb Penington	Communication	peningtb@uww.edu	1983	Listening, family communication, cross cultural communication	Qualitative, but can do quantitative as well
P.B. Poormantd>	Psychology	poormanp@uww.edu	5418	Women's mental health; abuse trauma, aftermath, perceptions; resilience; lesbian issues; pedagogy of empathy	Quantitative, Qualitative; mixed design	SPSS; Qualitative analysis; focus group interviewing
Penny Portman	HPERC	portmanp@uww.edu	5643	Gender equity	Any	Editing
Asif Rasheed	Chemistry	rasheeda@uww.edu	5267	Polymer blends, polymer nanocomposites, characterization, carbon nanotubes	No Preference	Blends and nanocomposites processing and characterization
Linda Reid	Finance/Business Law	reidl@uww.edu	5458	Law, especially commercial, both US and International, Bankruptcy and debtor,creditor relations, Irish history and law	Qualitative, Critical	Writing, Editing, Online legal research, Harvard Blue Book
David Remmele	Accounting	remmeled@uww.edu	5464	Finance, accounting	Open	Excel expert.
Ann Riall	Special Education	rialla@uww.edu	5809	Home visits for infants and toddlers with disabilities; comparing recommended practice with realities of the field	Qualitative	Editing, writing, quantitative research design, knowledge of literature in this area.
Diana Rogers-Adkinson	Special Education	rogersad@uww.edu	4847	Language ability and children with behavior problems, cultural interactions with disability, juvenile corrections	Quantitative	Editing, design
Liz Roth	Art	liz@lizroth.com	1043	History of art materials, art, art history, the computer and art	Actually, I'd love to talk with a geologist, and/or a physical chemist and design a science/art course regarding the manufacture and history of art materials.	Visual formal analysis, esthetic skills, painting, preinmaking (etching, relief, lithography) and graphic design.
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
Wallace Sherlock	Curriculum & Instruction	sherlocw@uww.edu	1831	Foreign Language, ESL, Bilingual Pedagogy, Russian Language and Literature, Comparative Education
Mark Skidmore	Economics	skidmorm@uww.edu	1354	Public sector economics, Economic development, Economics of natural disasters	Quantitative	Econometrics/statistics, skills in working with time series/cross section data
Peter Smudde	Communication	smuddep@uww.edu	5049	Applying theories of rhetoric and of organizations to the practice and management of public relations; industry analysis relations and communication of corporate performance (financial, product/service development, etc.); performance measurements for public relations.	Critical analysis; Combining criticism with quantitative/ qualitative methods)	Editing, document design, discourse conventions, 15 years professional experience in industry and consulting.
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
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
Shannon Stuart	Special Education	stuarts@uww.edu	4877	Adolescent females, special education, career development and methods	Editing
Louise Tourigny	Management Department	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
Tony Truog	Ed Foundations	truogt@uww.edu	5421	Measurement/ assessment/ research/ teaching/ chairperson	Quantitative but will do qualitative or a combination	Statistics/research
John Valadez	Political Science	valadezj@uww.edu	1676	Ethnic Politics, Movies and Politics and Urban Government	Qualitative and Critical	Critical analysis of movies and relating them to politics
David Van Doren	Counselor Education	vandored@uww.edu	1035	Trauma, Alcohol and other drugs, Counseling effectiveness		Good listener.
Rebecca Wagner Oettinger	Music/ World of the Arts	oettingr@uww.edu	2874	Music as propaganda, Reformation history, sixteenth-century Germany, music as an educational tool, religious history	Qualitative, critical, historical	Music editing, textual editing
Hongxia Wang	Occupational & Environmental Safety & Health	wangh@uww.edu	1208	Indoor air quality, bioaerosol assessment in occupational settings	Quantitative	Industrial hygiene instrumentation
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
Lynn Wellman	Communication	wellmanl@uww.edu	5066	Communication and aging, gender and family and nonverbal communication	Both qualitative and quantitative	Writing/editing.
Olivia Yang	Curriculum & Instruction	yang0@uww.edu	5823	Implementing inquiry strategies into sciences classes and understanding cultural differences on motivation in learning science	Quantitative method or mixed method	Statistical analysis
L. Roger Yin	Business Education/ Computer End-User Technology	yinl@uww.edu	5476	Active learning and performance strategies (ALPS), technology-enhanced formative assessment, curricular design/redesign in professional training, technology education, and medical education.	Hybrid of quantitative and qualitative methods to form triangulation.	Computer-based and Web-enhanced teaching and training. Multimedia production.
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