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The online directory contains contact information for members of the campus community who can share insight for news articles, features and guest-speaking opportunities on a wide range of topics related to areas of their expertise. The list is maintained and updated regularly by the News and Public Relations team.
If you want to interview one of UNC's experts, if the expert you’re seeking is not listed here or if you encounter a problem using the online database, please contact Deanna Herbert at Deanna.Herbert@unco.edu.
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Name | Area of Expertise |
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Rick AdamsProfessor |
Ecology and evolution of bats |
Steve AndersonProfessor |
Volcanoes, geology, planets |
Michelle AthanasiouProfessor |
Behavior management, early childhood intervention, psychology |
Megan Babkes StellinoProfessor |
Youth sport experiences, physical activity, childhood obesity, motivation in sport, exercise |
Graham BairdProfessor |
Geology, mountain building, mineral resources, Precambrian Colorado geology |
Achilles BardosProfessor |
Comprehensive psychoeducational evaluations, intelligence and achievement assessment, behavior assessment, RTL programming, schools |
Rebecca BealsAssociate Professor |
Race; social class; first generation college students; higher education; evaluation research |
Lauryn BenedictProfessor, Associate Director |
Birds, animal behavior, animal communication |
Sandy BowenProfessor |
Deaf education, multicultural deaf education, intervention, literacy |
Mary Kathryn BrewerAssistant Professor |
Voice, singing, diction, vocal pedagogy, Giuseppe Verdi |
Robin BrewerProfessor Emerita |
Autism/Asperger syndrome, special education, flipped learning, students with severe/profound disabilities |
Hal BrownDirector |
Food, catering, residential dining/food services |
Robert BrunswigProfessor Emeritus and Research Fellow |
Anthropology, prehistoric archaeology, ancient environments and climate, prehistoric economics and religion |
David CaldwellProfessor |
German, Germany, Berlin, film, foreign language pedagogy |
Michael CohenAssistant Professor |
Education reform, educator professionalism |
Laura ConnollyProfessor Emerita and Dean |
Economics of nonprofit organizations, social policy |
Paula ConroyProfessor |
Blind and visually impaired children |
Shannon CourtneySenior Lecturer |
Sport medicine, rehabilitation of injuries |
Cris de la TorreProfessor |
Personal injury damages, wrongful termination damages, wrongful death damages |
James DoernerProfessor and Chair |
Climate change, paleoenvironmental reconstructions, dendrochronology |
Elizabeth DomangueAssistant Professor |
School leadership, motivation theories, critical theory, self-determination theory |
Aichun DongProfessor |
Infrared protein structural analysis, protein drug stability/formulation evaluation, DNA condensation/formulation evaluation |
Scott DouglasAssociate Professor |
Adapted/parasport, Paralympic games, sport coaching, development, disability |
Thom DunnProfessor |
Orthorexia nervosa, malingering, emergency medical services |
Thomas EndresProfessor |
Communication, spirituality, popular culture |
Matt FarberAssistant Professor |
Game-based learning, gamification, educational technology |
Abbie FerrisAssistant Professor |
Biomechanics, gait, prosthetics, amputees |
Fritz FischerProfessor, Chair and Director of Teacher Education |
Peace Corps, international relations, history education, World War I and World War II, modern history |
Ginger FisherAssociate Professor |
Course-based undergrad research experience (CUREs), pre-health advising, physiological ecology |
Colleen FitzpatrickProfessor |
Applied justice research and stats, problem-oriented policing, ethics and victim studies |
Joseph FrenchProfessor |
International finance, general finance, statistics, econometrics, developmental economics |
Rosanne FultonDirector and Elementary Education Coordinator |
Urban education, responsive teaching |
Shelly GazaInterim School Director, School of Theatre Arts and Dance; Interim Producing Artistic Director, Little Theatre of the Rockies |
Theatre careers, dialects for stage, women in theatre, gender parity, pay equity in theatre, performing Shakespeare |
David GreeneAssociate Professor |
Diabetes, emotional adjustment to diabetes, humor, psychology of diabetes |
Rose GroseAssistant Professor |
Sexual health, violence against women, LGBTQ health, public health, sexual health education |
Russell GuyverProfessor of String Music, Director of Orchestras |
Orchestral music, string instruments, musical composition, conducting |
Yuyan HanAssistant Professor |
Liver physiology, circadian rhythm, epigenetic regulation |
Julie HanksProfessor and Department Chair |
Speech production of children who are deaf/hard, speech pathology |
Abe HarrafProfessor |
Organizational agility, complacency and design, international business and management, higher education administration |
Reid HaywardProfessor |
Cancer research and treatment, effects of exercise on ischemia-reperfusion injury |
Gary HeiseProfessor and Director of School |
Biomechanics, bioengineering |
Angie HendersonProfessor |
Women in management, perceptions of athletes, modern motherhood, intensive parenting |
Wendy HighbyProfessor and Librarian |
Copyright |
Mary HoustonAssistant Professor |
Theater design, props for theatre, film and T.V., entertainment production |
Charles IngoldProfessor Emeritus |
Audience research, mass media |
Lewis JacksonProfessor Emeritus |
Behavior problems in schools, disabilities, teaching children, special-needs children |
Molly JamesonAssociate Professor |
Math anxiety, confidence and learning, improving student learning, teacher training |
Brian JohnsonProfessor |
Child/adolescent psychology, parent training, health psychology, psychological assessment |
George JunneProfessor |
African American history and culture, Blacks in American West, film, Civil War, World War I, Muslim-African slaves, imperial Black eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire |
Nancy KarlinProfessor |
Cross-national aging, caregiving, Alzheimer's Disease, aging, rural aging, resiliency and recovery after natural disaster |
James KeatenProfessor and Department Chair |
Communication reticence, intercultural communication, organizational communication, leadership |
Susan KeenanProfessor |
Drug design, West Nile virus, malaria and fevers |
Michael KimballProfessor |
Anthropology, archaeology, heritage place building research |
Phil KleinProfessor |
Geography education |
Lynn Klyde-AllamanAssociate Professor |
Women and the media, sports, journalism and diversity, sports journalism, women in sports |
Keiko KrahnkeProfessor |
Ethics, workplace communication, organizational development, leadership, empathy, mindfulness |
Charles KuehnAssociate Professor |
Astronomy |
Britney KyleAssociate Professor |
Bioarchaeology, paleopathology, forensic anthropology, biological anthropology, culture contact |
Dana LandryProfessor and Director of Jazz Studies |
Jazz |
Steven LethProfessor Emeritus |
Mathematics education, logic |
Oscar LevinAssociate Professor |
Mathematical logic, discrete mathematics, open educational resources |
Jay LightfootProfessor |
Database design, computer programming |
Marie LivingstonProfessor Emerita |
Water resource economics, international economics |
Michelle LowAssistant Professor |
Chinese, medieval Chinese literature, study abroad in China |
John LucknerProfessor |
Deaf education, experiential education |
Brian LuedloffProfessor and Director of Opera Theatre |
Opera, Bel Canto Opera, Donizetti, singing actor, auditions for actors and singers |
Robert LynchAdjunct Faculty |
Statistics, risk management |
Steve MackessyProfessor |
Snake venom, drug discovery, herpetology, histology and ultrastructure of glands, snakes |
Christine MarstonAssociate Dean |
Labor economics, immigration |
Nancy MatchettInterim Associate Provost of Undergraduate Studies |
Philosophy, philosophical counseling, professional ethics |
Steve MazuranaProfessor Emeritus |
Colorado politics and government, Russian/Eastern European politics, Western European politics |
Lyda Fontes McCartinInterim Director |
Information literacy, academic libraries, student-learning assessment |
Denny McCorkleDepartment Chair and Professor |
eMarketing, creative thinking, international business, direct marketing, marketing management, self-marketing, social media |
Deanna MeinkeProfessor, Dangerous Decibels |
Hearing loss, prevention of noise-induced loss, distortion product otoacoustic emissions |
Madeline MilianProfessor |
Bilingual education, second language learning |
Mel MooreProfessor |
Family issues, parenting, bullying, peer pressure, prejudice/stereotyping, self and identity development, gender socialization, opinion polling |
Alan MorseProfessor |
Revenue generation in collegiate and professional sports |
Michael MosherProfessor and Manager of Brewing Lab Science Program |
Brewing science, type 1 diabetes, DNA interactions, heterocyclic organic synthesis |
Francie MurryProfessor |
Emotional/behavior disorders, teacher preparation, legal issues in special education |
Samantha NaibauerLab Coordinator, Field Botanist |
Plant conservation, conservation biology, rare plants, rare plant monitoring, population genetics |
Tim NellettDirector |
Veterans, student-veterans, veterans services |
Harmony NewmanAssociate Professor |
Gender inequality, STEM education, mothering, health and illness, social activism |
Sarah OffAssistant Professor |
Violin, music business, arts in rural areas |
Christiane OlivoProfessor Emerita |
Communism, east-central Europe, history of dissent, uprisings against communism, women and politics |
Josh PackardAssociate Professor |
Religion, minorities in higher education, neighborhoods and health |
Bailie PetersonAssistant Professor |
Metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of religion, children |
Corey PierceAssociate Dean |
Response to intervention, early intervention, assessment |
Robert PowersProfessor |
Mathematics education, curriculum and instruction |
Kevin PughProfessor |
Transformative learning, motivation and cognition |
Nick PullenAssociate Professor |
Immunology, immune system, glioma, vaccines, cancer, allergy and autoimmunity |
James ReardonProfessor |
Direct marketing, home shopping, media buying |
Chelsie RomuloAssistant Professor |
Biology, natural resource management, ecosystem services, STEM education, sustainability |
Suzanne RoseProfessor |
Virology, microbiology, infectious disease, host-viral interactions |
Rosann RossSenior Lecturer |
Marriage and family therapy, death and dying, spirituality, counseling |
Harvey RudeProfessor Emeritus |
Special education leadership, multicultural education, education policy, rural education |
Lorie Sauble-OttoAssociate Professor |
French culture and language |
Philipp SchaberlAssistant Professor |
Financial accounting, capital markets, empirical accounting, international accounting, personal finance, financial literacy |
Mary SchuttlerHead and Professor of Theatre Education |
Script analysis, dramaturgy, theatre history, directing, acting, theatre education |
Tracey SedingerProfessor |
Shakespeare, feminism, English Renaissance |
Cindy ShellitoProfessor |
Climate change, past climates, geoscience education, meteorology |
Jeremy SmithAssociate Professor |
Prosthetics, biomechanics, exercise science, kinesiology, exercise and cancer |
Thomas SmithProfessor |
Religion, history of early Christian though, St. Augustine, heresy |
Basilia (Lia) Softas-NallProfessor |
Couples, marriage and family therapy, counseling psychology, women's issues, multicultural issues |
Charles SoukupProfessor |
Internet and culture, mobile communication technologies, interfaith dialogue, film, T.V. and technology |
Andrew SvedlowProfessor |
Arts administration and education, Japanese and Chinese art history, aesthetics |
Chris TalbotAssociate Professor and Program Coordinator |
U.S. women's and gender history, Mormonism, LDS Church, Church of Latter-Day Saints |
Victoria TerranovaAssistant Professor |
Pretrial services, bond and risk assessment |
Anna UrsynProfessor and Digital Media Area Head |
Computer art and graphics, art and science, knowledge visualization, art creation, visual thinking and information and storytelling |
Timothy VowlesAdjunct Faculty |
Air transportation, intermodal transportation, interurban geography |
Kyle WardAssociate Professor |
Jail and prison reentry, rural crime, evidence-based crime prevention programs and polices |
Marilyn WelshProfessor |
ADD, attention deficit disorder, child neuropsychology, learning disabilities, frontal lobe function, executive function |
Cindy WesleyAssociate Dean |
Christianity in North America, ethnicity/environment, national park service history |
Tara WoodAssociate Professor and Writing Program Administrator |
Writing, writing pedagogy, disability studies |
Ather ZiaAssociate Professor |
Kashmir, South Asia, militarization, gender, Muslim women, activism, human rights |
Joan ClinefelterProfessor |
Modern Europe, Germany, Nazi Germany, Cold War Europe |
Rhonda CormanAssistant Professor |
Economic theory and application, regional data analysis, agricultural economic analysis, community economics |
Sarah CornishAssociate Professor |
Modern women writers (American and British), women's literary and cultural production of interwar and World War II period, city and fashion in modern literature, feminism |
Mark EiswerthProfessor |
Economics of water quality, water resource economics, costs and management of invasive species |
Dallas EverhartExecutive Professor |
Local government, teamwork and innovation, marketing and management, leadership |
Sharon Bywater-ReyesAssistant Professor |
Environmental geoscience, hydrologic-geomorphic systems, ecology, environment, floods, vegetation, river science, river restoration, water quality |
Jessica SaloProfessor |
Geography, ecology, GIS, landscape ecology, riparian ecosystems, land-use change, physical geography, western North America |
Karen BartonProfessor |
Geography, social ecology, community resilience and adaptation in marine and agricultural communities, global environmental change, experiential learning, Joola shipwreck |
David LerachAssociate Professor |
Meteorology, atmospheric science, aerosols, pollutants, particles, weather, aerosol-cloud microphysical impacts, tornadic storms, storms, extreme weather, tornadoes, weather forecast, climate change |
Scott FranklinProfessor |
Plant ecology, biology, forestry, forest ecology, conservation management, wildfires, disturbances, floods, plant biology, dynamics of vegetation in relation to disturbance, restoration, fire |
Lin AllenProfessor |
Science communication, communication, journalism, rhetorical theory and criticism, Supreme Court argument analysis |
James HaughianAssistant Professor |
Biology, animal science, cell and developmental biology, endocrinology, reproductive physiology, reproduction, biomedical, cancer, CRISPR genome editing, tumor biology, rehabilitation, flipped classroom |
Pat BurnsProfessor |
Prostaglandin metabolism in reproductive tissues of mammals, long-chain omega 3-fatty acids, fish oil, reproduction, pregnancy, hormones, animal science |
James TurkSenior Lecturer |
Sport and exercise science, athletic training, athletics, sports |
Kim MurzaAssociate Dean and Professor |
Speech-Language Pathology, language, literacy, school-based service delivery, early intervention, coaching, high-quality professional learning |
Jill BezyakProfessor |
Rehabilitation psychology, psychology, rehabilitation counseling and sciences, health promotion of individuals with chronic illness and disabilities, psychiatric rehabilitation, ADA implementation |
Jieun LeeAssistant Professor |
GIS, urban and economic geography, geographical education, geography, urban sustainability, spatial analysis, social and health disparities |
Anne ToeweProfessor |
Costume design, theatre design and technology, theatre arts |
Lisa ZimmermanProfessor |
English, creative writing, writing, poetry, books, fiction, reading |
Doug WoodyProfessor |
Psychology of law, history, prejudice, religion, social psychology, teaching of psychology, confessions, criminal justice, interrogation, Cold War, Guantanamo Bay |
Danielle BrittainAssociate Professor |
Human nutrition, kinesiology, occupational safety and health, physical activity, LGBTQ, arthritis, interventions targeting social and behavior change, self-management |
Gregory DeKreyAssociate Professor |
Molecular toxicology, immunology, cell biology, toxicology, biology, human physiology, pathobiology, pharmacology, disease, biomedical, man-made chemicals, pesticides, ethanol, botanical dietary supplements, halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons, gene expression, hormones, human and animal health |
Daniel BrannonAssistant Professor |
Marketing, business administration, computer science, advertising, consumer services, retail |
Stan LugerProfessor and Chair |
Politics, economics, political science, international affairs, environmental politics, political economy, business-government relations, public policy |
Will MerchantAssociate Professor |
Program evaluation theory, stakeholder configuration, Structural Equation Modeling, statistical error, disability studies, measurement validation |
Wendi FlynnAssociate Professor |
Mesoscale meteorology and land surface=atmosphere interaction, education research, precipitation patterns, soil moisture heterogeneity, weather research and forecast |
Jay TraskAssociate Professor |
History, artifacts, UNC, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, public history, library and information science |
Kristin Bovaird-AbboAssociate Professor |
English, medieval language and literature, Middle English, Arthurian studies, Old English, history of the English language, linguistics, Arthurian Legend, J.R.R. Tolkien, romances, Victorian poetry, mythology, medievalism |
Deb RojasAssistant Professor |
Nursing, cultural sensitivity, high fidelity simulation rehabilitation nursing, medical-surgical nursing, gerontological nursing |
Andrea JamesAssistant Professor |
Biology, vision, eyes, cell adhesion components contribute to choroid fissure closure, cytoskeletal stability, zebrafish, eye development, tissue fusion |
Janel GreimanAssociate Professor |
Accounting, business, taxes, federal and state income tax |
Laura StewartProfessor |
Exercise physiology, nutrition, health promotion, exercise, biology, diet, physical activity, reducing inflammation, improving cancer survivor quality of life, inflammation and chronic marijuana use |
Stephanie WiegandAssociate Professor |
Affordable course materials, Creative Commons (CC), Open Educational Resources (OER), Commercial textbook alternatives, inclusive access to learning materials |