Anthropology Department
William R. Arbogast, Research Instructor
Specializes in the prehistory of the Pikes Peak region.
Gerald Broce, Associate Professor Emeritus
Glenda Carne, Instructor
Specializes in Expressive Culture; Santero art and the religiosity of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado emphasizing the Nuestra Senora del Rosario church and Truchas, NM; and Jean Charlot's tenure in the Southwest.
Minette Church, Assistant Professor
Specializes in Post-European contact in the Southwest and Plains regions, as well as research into 19th
century Maya villages in Belize, Central America.
Seyhan Dwellis, Instructor
Roche Lindsey, Instructor
Kimbra Smith, Assistant ProfessorInstructor
Specializes in sociocultural and applied anthropology, anthropology of archaeology in the Andes, construction of racialized categories, and indigenous education initiatives.
Forrest Tierson, Associate Professor / Chair of the Department
Linda Watts, Associate Professor
Specializes in social and cultural anthropology, linguistics, and Native American studies.
Thomas Wynn, Professor
Specializes in prehistoric archaeology.
Biology Department return to top
Jackie Berning, Associate Professor / Chair of the Department
Specializes in general nutrition, sports nutrition, teen nutrition, pediatric nutrition, and obesity.
Sandra Berry-Lowe, Associate Professor
Specializes in plant molecular biology.
Jeff Broker, Assistant Professor
Specializes in sport biomechanics, orthopedic biomechanics (injury mechanisms, tissue adaptations),
and skill acquisition.
Susan Epperson, Instructor
Wendy Haggren, Instructor
Lisa Hines, Assistant Professor
Kathleen Maleug, Senior Instructor
Specializes in botany, conservation biology, and economic botany.
James Mattoon, Emeritus Professor
Robert J. Melamede, Associate Professor
Specializes in free radicals, DNA repair, mutagenesis, antibodies, aging, medical marijuana, open
system thermodynamics, chaos.
Karen Newell, Associate Professor / Endowed Chair of Biology
Specializes in effects on cellular metabolism on intercellular communication, free radicals,
immunology, and heart disease.
Jon Pigage, Assistant Professor
Andrew Subudhi, Assistant Professor
Specializes in human physiology. Researching the effects of altitude on physical performance and cerebral oxygenation.
Tom Wolkow, Assistant Professor
Chemistry Department
David Anderson, Associate Professor
Sonja Braun-Sand, Assistant Professor
Cindy Applegate, Instructor
Larry Augenstein, Instructor
John Balyeat, Instructor
Chet Dymek, Senior Instructor
James Eberhart, Professor
Specializes in the explosive boiling of superheated liquids.
Shelly Haskell, Instructor
Gordon Kresheck, Professor adjunct
Brett Mayer, Instructor
Mary Bethe Neely, Instructor
Radha Pyati, Associate Professor
Specializes in electrochemistry and analytical chemistry.
Ronald Ruminski, Professor / Chair of the Department
Al Schoffstall, Professor
David Weiss, Assistant Professor
Communication Department
Connie Blackmann, Senior Instructor
Stephanie Blake, Assistant Professor
Marguerite Cantu, Senior Instructor
Laura Eurich, Senior Instructor
Adelina Gomez, Associate Professor
Michael Hackman, Professor
Specializes in organizational communication, leadership and creativity.
William Huddy, Director, Center for Excellence in Oral Communication
Donald Morley, Professor
Specializes in research methods and the interpretation of statistical data.
Sherwyn Morreale, Assistant Professor / Director of Graduate Studies in Communition
Dr. Morreale's main research and teaching interests include instructional communication, public speaking, organizational communication, and the assessment of communication competence. She is the lead author of two communication textbooks and has authored numerous articles and chapters for academic journals, collected volumes and special monographs in the communication discipline. From 1997-2005, Dr. Morreale served as the Associate Director for the National Communication Association.
David R. Nelson, Associate Professor/Chair of Department
Specializes in film and television.
Pamela Shockley-Zalabak, Professor and Chancellor
Constance Staley, Professor
Specializes in college freshmen, engaging students in the classroom, faculty development, and
preparing faculty to work effectively with college freshmen. Staley is also the Director of the
Freshmen Seminar Program.
Janae Stansbery, Instructor
Carmen Stavrositu, Assistant Professor
Janice Thorpe , Instructor
Kim Walker, Professor
Economics Department
Paul Ballantyne, Professor
Specializes in transition economics, economic development, monetary theory and policy,
and economic education.
John Brock, Senior Instructor
Dale DeBoer, Associate Professor / Chair of Department
Specializes in International Economics, Macroeconomics, Development Economics, and
Economics of Information Technologies.
Larry Eubanks, Associate Professor
Daphne Greenwood, Professor
Specializes in public policy, including local economic development, quality of life and sustainability, tax issues, wealth and poverty, as well as forensic economics.
Patricia Shaffer, Instructor
English Department
Cheryl Birkelo, Instructor
Cariann Coleman, Instructor
Debra Dew, Associate Professor / Director of Writing Program
Specializes in writing, rhetoric, literacy theory, writing instruction, and writing assessment.
Jamie Filpi, Instructor
Tony Friedhoff, Instructor
Juliana Frost, Instructor
Lesley Ginsberg, Associate Professor
Specializes in 19th century American literature and early American literature.
Stephanie Gordon, Instructor
Carey Harrington, Senior Instructor
Keri Hemenway, Instructor
Christine Hubbell, Instructor
Alex Ilyasova, Assistant Professor / Director of Techinical Writing
Kathleen Johnson, Senior Instructor
Rebecca Laroche, Associate Professor
June Loterbauery, Instructor
Ceil Malek, Senior Instructor
Quentin Martin, Senior Instructor
Diane Martinez, Instructor
Julie Hoffman Mullebrouck , Instructor
Tom Napierkowski, Professor
Specializes in medieval literature, minority American literature, Slavic literature, the English
language, and Eastern and Central European culture and politics.
Mary Margaret Nussbaum, Instructor
Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega, Assistant Professor
Soham Patel, Instructor
Ken Pellow, Professor
Sharleen Pisciotta, Instructor
Joan Ray, Professor
Specializes in 17th-c. British metaphysical poetry and 18th-c. British literature, with an emphasis on Jane Austen. In addition to publishing numerous scholarly articles, Professor Ray is the author of the popular trade book, Jane Austen for Dummies (Wiley, 2006). In spring and summer 2007, she has been working with Miramax Films on the forthcoming film (Aug. 3 release in the US) "Becoming Jane," a fictional bio-pic about Jane Austen's experiences in life and love at age twenty, starring Anne Hathaway as Jane Austen. Professor Ray assisted with the Austen-aspects of the film's press kit, as well as the other publicity projects for the film. Dr. Ray was the President of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) from 2000-06. She is currently (2007) editing the Dictionary of Literary Biography volume on Austen. In January 2007, she became President of the North American Friends of the Chawton House Library in Hampshire, UK; this is the N. American fund-raising branch [a 501 (c)(3) organization in the US] of the Chawton House Library for the Study of Early Women Writers, located on the estate that once belonged to Jane Austen's brother, Edward, in Chawton, Hampshire, England.
Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky, Professor (Retired)
David Shults, Instructor
Rashna Singh, Instructor
Susan B. Taylor, Associate Professor / Chair of Department
Specializes in British Romanticism, women writers, and critical theory.
Meghan Tifft, Instructor
Sarah Treschl, Instructor
Julie Wheeler, Instructor
Geography and Environmental Studies Department
George Bolling, Senior Instructor (Geology)
Paul Grogger, Associate Professor (Geology)
Eve Gruntfest, Professor
Specializes in disaster and flash flood mitigation.
John Harner, Associate Professor
Specializes in cultural and economic integration between the U.S. and Mexico, applied
uses of GIS, and urban landscapes.
David Havlick, Assistant Professor
Paddington Hodza , Assistant Professor
Curt Holder, Associate Professor
Specializes in climatology, hydrology, watershed management, biogeography, Latin America,
and Guatemala.
Carole Huber, Senior Instructor
Tom Huber, Professor
Steven Jennings, Associate Professor
Specializes in biogeography, quaternary environmental change, and forest changes on Pikes
Peak.
Michael Larkin, Instructor
Robert Larkin, Professor
Emily Skop, Assistant Professor
History Department
Peter Brumlik, Instructor
Brian Duvick, Assistant Professor
Bernice Forrest, Associate Professor
Paul Harvey, Associate Professor
Specializes in American history, with an emphasis on the South, as well as popular
culture, music, African-American history, and American religious history.
Barbara Headle, Instructor
Christopher Hill, Professor
Specializes in the history of the Indian subcontinent, the environmental history of the
American West, and global environmental history.
Christina Jimenez, Associate Professor
Specializes in modern Mexico, urban history of Latin America, US immigration, Latino
history, and Chicano history.
Janet Myers, Senior Instructor
Judy Price, Senior Instructor
Robert Sackett, Professor / Chair of Department
Specializes in modern European history, with an emphasis on German history and culture.
Harlow Sheidley, Associate Professor
Specializes in Massachusetts elite (founders of the early textile mills and their political and intellectual allies), 1815-1850; Transformation of American economy from traditional market economy to market (capitalist) economy in the Post War of 1812 period. Prof. Sheidley is currently working on research for a book about John Quincy Adams and is immediate family (wife and children).
Carole Woodall, Instructor
Richard Wunderli, Professor
Interdepartmental Studies Department
Alexander Soifer, Professor
Alexander Soifer studies beauty, in particular as it is created in Mathematics (Combinatorial
and Discrete Geometry); Russian, Polish, Italian, European, Japanese Cinema: European
Avant-Garde Art; and Traditional Art of Western Equatorial Africa. Consequently, he also
researches history of the above endeavors, and tries to present results of those studies to students
through a variety of courses.
Humanities Department
Teresa Meadows, Associate Professor / Director of Humanities
Languages and Cultures Department
Suzanne Cook, Instructor
Areas if interest include contemporary French and francophone cultures, the French political system, the French military, French-American relations, as well as second languages and cultures acquisition and teaching.
Edgar Cota-Torres, Assistant Professor
Specializes in US-Mexico Border literature and culture, and in Latino and Chicano literature.
Carmen Frank, Instructor
Blanca Glisson, Senior Instructor
Maria Goni, Senior Instructor
Teresa Meadows, Associate Professor / Chair of the Department
John C. Miller, Professor Emeritus
Specializes in US Latino Literatures and Cultures, Colombia and Gay Latino US writing.
Margaret Mistry, Senior Instructor
Fernando Feliu-Moggi, Assistant Professor
Specializes in 20th century Latin American literature and cinema, literature and journalism,
and contemporary Latin American art.
Maura Rainey, Instructor
Maria Sergia Steen, Assistant Professor
Specializes in the democracy and culture of Spain, Spanish women writers, 20th century
Spanish literature, and terrorism in Spain.
Ilse Stratton, Senior Instructor
Specializes in Latin language and culture, as well as German language and culture.
Robert von Dassanowsky, Associate Professor
Specializes in German, Austrian and
Central European literature and culture, as well as in international film history.
Mathematics Department
Gene Abrams, Professor / Director of MathOnline Program / Faculty associate for the PIPES academy
Research specialization in noncommutative rings and their categories of modules.
Robert Carlson, Professor
Works mainly on connections between differential equations and graph theory.
Radu Cascaval, Assistant Professor
Sarbarish Chakravarty, Professor
James Daly, Professor
Jeremy Haefner, Professor, Dean of Engineering
Jim Henderson, Professor
Shannon Michaux, Instructor
Greg Morrow, Professor
Rinaldo Schinazi, Professor / Chair of Department
Seung Son, Assistant Professor
Yu Zhang, Professor
Military Science Department
LTC James DesJardin
Specializes in leadership development and army values.
Philosophy Department
Lorraine Arangno, Senior Instructor
Frederic Bender, Professor
Terry Clark, Instructor
Mary Ann Cutter, Professor
Specializes in biomedical ethics, professional ethics, ethics of death and dying, genetics, and
the philosophy of medicine.
Mark Flory, Instructor
Christal Frakes, Instructor
Dorothea Olkowksi, Professor / Chair of Department
Specializes in Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty, Feminist Theory and Aesthetics.
Raphael Sassower, Professor
Jeffrey Scholes, Lecturer
Mary Jane Sullivan, Instructor
Sonja Tanner, Assistant Professor
Specializes in Ancient Greek Philosophy and History of Philosophy.
Rex Welshon, Associate Professor
Specializes in philosophy of the mind, analytic metaphysics, epistemology, logic, and Nietzsche.
Patrick Yarnell, Senior Instructor
Physics & Energy Science Department
James F. Burkhart, Professor / Chair of Department
Specializes in radon: testing, measurement, and the health effects of inhalation.
Robert Camley, Professor
Specializes in magnetism, magnetic materials, theoretical physics, solid state physics, and high
frequency communication.
Zbigniew Celinski, Professor
Specializes in magnetism and magnetic nanostructures.
Thomas M. Christensen, Professor / Dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Specializes in astronomy, optics, teaching, thin film physics, and solid state physics.
Robert Gist, Instructor
Anatoliy Glushchenko, Assistant Professor
Marek Grabowski, Associate Professor
Sam Milazzo, Senior Instructor
Ramon Tirado, Instructor
Political Science Department
James Colvin, Instructor
Specializes in Public Law
Joshua Dunn, Assistant Professor
Patricia M. Keilbach, Assistant Professor
Specializes in international relations, comparative politics, international environmental politics, international political economy and European politics.
C. David Moon, Professor, Associate VCAA
James Null, Professor / Chair of Department and Director of the Center for the Study of Government and the Individual. Specializes in American Politics and Processes, Political Theory, State and local Political Systems, and Public Administration.
Leonard Riley, Lecturer
Specializes in American Politics
Jon Shields, Assistant Professor
Specializes in American Politics and Processes and political behavior.
Paul Sondrol, Associate Professor
Psychology Department
Z. Benek Altayli, Visiting Assistant Professor
Charles Benight, Professor
Specializes in the study of the biopsychosocial adaptation from trauma.
Frederick L. Coolidge, Professor
Specializes in behavioral genetics, evolution of modern thinking, personality disorders,
gender identity, and bullying.
Robin Cornwell, Assistant Research Professor
John Crumlin, Assistant Research Professor
Hasker P. Davis, Professor
Specializes in cognitive changes across the lifespan.
Robert Durham, Associate Professor
Specializes in program evaluation and attitudes and etiology of sexual abuse.
Leilani Feliciano, Assistant Professor
Livia L. Gilstrap, Assistant Professor
Specializes in forensic interviews with children
Edie Greene, Professor
Specializes in psychology and the law.
Abeer Ibrahim, Instructor
Lori James, Assistant Professor
Specializes in cognition and cognitive aging.
Michael Kisley, Assistant Professor
Specializes in neuroscience and studies of the brain.
Kelli Klebe, Associate Professor / Chair of Department
Specializes in applied quantitative psychology and program evaluation.
Tom Pyszczynski, Professor
Specializes in psychological effects of terrorism, the effects of culture on coping mechanisms,
and the psychological implications of modern, global politics.
Sara Qualls, Professor / Kraemer Family Professor of Aging Studies
Specializes in aging and mental health, aging families, and translating aging research to community settings.
Daniel L. Segal, Professor
Specializes in clinical geropsychology, the assessment of psychopathology among older adults, suicide prevention and aging, and the expression and impact of personality disorders across the lifespan.
Sandy K. Wurtele, Professor
Specializes in child abuse prevention, abuse across the lifespan, lifespan development, and
human subjects protection issues.
Brian Yochim, Assistant Professor
Specializes in clinical neuropsychology, the assessment of dementia, and the impact of depression on cognitive functioning in older adults.
Sociology Department
Heather Albanesi, Assistant Professor
Jay Coakley, Professor Emeritus
Michele Companion, Assistant Professor
Lynda Dickson, Associate Professor / Chair of Department
Richard Dukes, Professor
Abby Ferber, Professor
Specializes in race, gender and diversity, the white supremacist movement and hate crimes.
Robert Hughes, Professor Emeritus
Sterling Jenkins, Instructor
Vicki Kugler, Instructor
Kate Lane, Lecturer
Aditi Mitra, Assistant Professor
Edwardo Portillos, Assistant Professor
Pat Walker, Instructor
Kee Warner, Professor
Visual & Performing Arts Department
Suzanne MacAulay / Chair of Department
Art History
Elissa Auther, Assistant Professor / Director
Specializes in Modern and Contemporary Art History.
Suzanne MacAulay, Associate Professor / Chair of Department
Specializes in Art History
Film Studies
Teresa Meadows, Associate Professor/ Acting Director
Robert von Dassanowsky, Professor/ Director of Film Studies
Gallery of Contemporary Art
Christopher Lynn, Instructor / Director
Specializes in Gallery and Museum Practice
Karin Larkin, Instructor
Specializes in Gallery and Museum Practice
Music
Glen Whitehead, Assistant Professor / Director
Curtis Smith, Senior Instructor
Theatre
Drew Martorella, Producing Director of Theatreworks
Murray Ross, Artistic Director of Theatreworks
Michael Stansbery, Instructor
Laura Tesman, Assistant Professor / Director
Visual Arts
Matt Barton, Assistant Professor
Valerie Brodar, Associate Professor / Director
Specializes in digital media, installation art, video, and audio.
Louis Cicotello, Professor Emeritus
Carol Dass, Instructor
Corey Drieth, Assistant Professor
Lin Fife, Professor Emeritus
Pauline Foss , Senior Instructor
Women's and Ethnic Studies Program
Abby Ferber, Associate Professor
Specializes in race, gender and diversity, the white supremacist movement and hate crimes.
Andrea Herrera, Professor
Specializes in ethnic studies, women's studies, Cuban studies, multicultural and postcolonial
literature.
Abeer Ibrahim, Instructor
Aditi Mitra, Assistant Professor
Dena Samuels, Senior Instructor
Specializes in race, gender, oppression and privilege and curriculum development.
Becky Thompson PhD., Director of Women's and Ethnic Studies (WEST)
Carole Woodall, Instructor
