Contributors to February AE-Extra
[Issue 2/2010]

Susan Jones, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU), College of Education.  She was Co-Principal Investigator of a Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) grant.  She has worked with a major multimedia software development company.  Her primary research interest is effective technology integration in the teaching and learning process.  Currently, Dr. Jones is writing her first technology text.

Dan Lukiv, M.Ed., teaches English and creative writing at McNaughton Education Centre, Quesnel, BC. He is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and an independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His writing has been published in 19 countries. His formal apprenticeship as a writer includes intensive personal direction from masters such as Canada's Professor Robert Harlow and England's D. M. Thomas. He also studied under USA's novelist Paul Bagdon. Since 1978, he has edited the literary journal CHALLENGER international, which focuses attention on young, up-and-coming Canadian poets, and since 2001, he has edited The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education. He is married and has four daughters, and serves as an elder in a congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Quesnel. 

Keith T. Hardeman (M.A., California State University, Long Beach) is a full professor in speech communication at Westminster College in Fulton, MO. He teaches various classes in interpersonal communication, public address, business communication, and public relations. He is also chair of the Communication and Fine Arts Department. A winner of more than 20 institutional and national teaching awards, Professor Hardeman has authored more than 40 professional articles and conference presentations in state, regional, and national journals and conferences. He has also served as a state officer of the American Association of University Professors since 1999. Currently, he is president of AAUP, Missouri Conference.

Nicholas Daniel Hartlep, M.S.Ed., is a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he is pursuing a degree in Urban Education and Social Foundations of Education. His research focuses on Critical Race Theory (CRT) as it relates to race, equity, and the improvement of education, especially at the PK-12 level. Hartlep is an active member of AERA, currently serving as an AERA campus liaison and Division K Junior Representative. He is a member of Division J, Postsecondary Education, Division K, Teaching and Teacher Education, a member of the Urban Learning, Teaching and Research SIG, and a member of the Hispanic Research Issues SIG.  Hartlep is a teacher in the Milwaukee Public Schools and holds a B.S. in teaching and an M.S.Ed. in K-12 education. Webpage: www.uwm.edu/~nhartlep.

Ernest Williamson, III, is a Ph.D. candidate at Seton Hall University in the field of Higher Education.  Mr. Williamson is an Adjunct Professor at New Jersey City University and an English Professor at Essex County College.  He holds a BA and a MA in English/Creative Writing/Literature from the University of Memphis. He has published poetry and visual art in over 180 online and print journals and has been nominated twice for the Best of the Net Anthology.  Mr. Williamson is also a self-taught pianist and painter.

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