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Dr. Keith Akins

Director of Criminal Justice-Graduate Studies
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

B.A., Florida State University; M.A., Ph. D., University of Florida

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Phone: 281-275-8823

Sugar Land: Brazos Hall #324

Dr. J. Keith Akins is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Houston-Victoria. He came to UHV in 2008 from New Mexico State University where he was on the teaching faculty in Criminal Justice. Dr. Akins has also worked for the Anti-Defamation League and the University of North Florida and is a partially disabled veteran of the US Army.

Dr. Akins attained his MA and PhD in anthropology and religion from the University of Florida, and his BA in history from Florida State University.

Dr. Akins has presented papers at several academic conferences and written or co-authored several journal articles. His primary expertise is in religious and group violence, particularly hate crimes and terrorism.

Selected Publications:

Fourth Generation of Modern Warfare
KKK Americas Forgotten Terrorists
Suicide Bombers in Gaza

Dr. Andrew Baerg

Director of Communication

B.A. University of British Columbia M. A. University of British Columbia Ph.D, University of Iowa

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Phone: (361) 570-4217

Victoria: 237UW

Areas of Interest/Expertise

• Media and Social Theory
• Digital Game Studies
• Media and Sport
• Neoliberalism

Select Presentations

• Baerg, A. (2010). Genetic Metaphors, the Body and Digital Basketball: Dynamic DNA in NBA Live '09, Summit on Communication and Sport. Cleveland, OH.
• Baerg, A. (2010). From Foucault to 'Be a Pro': NHL '10 and Technologies of the Self, Joint Conference of the National Popular and American Culture Associations. St. Louis, MO
• Baerg, A. (2008). Exploring Quantitative Discourses in the Digital Sports Game: Taylorism, Total Quality Management, Neoliberalism and Football Manager 2008. Keynote Address for the Pre-Congress Workshop of the World Congress of the International Sociology of Sport Association. Kyoto, Japan.

Courses Taught

• Undergraduate—Communication and Public Culture, Visual Communication, Mass Media Communication, Digital Games and Popular Culture, Advanced Professional Speaking, Intercultural Communication
• Graduate—Critical Theory, Media, Movements and Publics, Visual Rhetoric

Professional Memberships

• National Communication Association
• Popular and American Culture Association
• North American Society for the Sociology of Sport

Selected Publications:

Baerg, A. (2009). Just a fantasy? Exploring fantasy sports. Electronic Journal of Communication, 19(3-4), (http://www.cios.org/getfile/019343_EJC).

Baerg, A. (2007). Fight Night Round 2, Mediating the Body and Digital Boxing. Sociology of Sport Journal 24(5): 325-345.

 Justin Bell

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

 Esperanza Camargo

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

M.A. (Economics) Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, M.S. (Urban Studies), Ph.D. (Criminal Justice) University of Nebraska at Omaha.

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Phone: 361-570-4219

Victoria: UHV, West, Room 258

Since the beginning of her career in the 1990s Dr. Camargo has been committed to humanitarian issues that are universal in scope: human rights, urban violence, family violence, juvenile gangs, and poverty. She was involved in public policy in Bogotá-Colombia regarding homicide prevention and the analysis and recommendation of beneficiaries of municipal subsidies. From 1998 to 2001 she worked in the Department of Welfare and Social Services in Bogotá. Her principal responsibility in that position was the identification and development of responses to the poorest socio-economic areas in the city.

Research Interests:

Family violence; race/ethnicity, class, gender and crime; crime and urban neighborhoods; gender and crime; masculinity; drugs and the international law, and human rights and the international law.

Selected Publications:

• Gouveia, L. Powell and E. Camargo. (2005). Educational Achievement and the successful integration of Latinos in Nebraska: A statistical profile to inform policies and programs. OLLAS Special Report No. 1. Report prepared for the Mexican American Comisión. Omaha: NE: Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
• Camacho, Alvaro and Esperanza Camargo. (1998). Citizens’ safety: An approximation to Bogotá’s situation (“La seguridad ciudadana: una aproximación a la situación de Bogotá), In Campos Y., & Ortiz, I. La Ciudad Observada, Violencia, Cultura y Política, Santa Fe de Bogota: Tercer Mundo Editores.
• Camacho, Alvaro and Esperanza Camargo. (1997). Public Safety in Bogotá, Colombia (“La seguridad ciudadana en Bogotá”). Revista Coyuntura Social, Vol. 8.
• Camargo, Esperanza. Violence in numbers (“La violencia en cifras”). (1996). Revista Foro económico, Regional y Urbano, Contraloría de Santa Fe de Bogotá, Vol. 5.

Selected Presentations:

• Camargo, Esperanza. Family violence in Colombia. Paper presented at the ASC Annual meeting. November 2009.
• Camargo, Esperanza. Perceptions of family violence. Paper presented at the ASC Annual Meeting. November 2008.
• Camargo, Esperanza. (February, 2008). Participation in the colloquium “Characteristics of the family violence in Veracruz, Boca del Rio.” Universidad Veracruzana, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Veracruz, Mexico.
• Camargo, Esperanza (February, 2008). “Gender and the social construction of family violence under a multicultural perspective: the United States, Mexico, and Colombia.” Presentation in the Universidad Veracruzana, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Veracruz, Mexico.
• Camargo, Esperanza. (March 2006). Homicide rates in Colombia. Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Dissertation project:
“Family violence under a multicultural perspective in Colombia.”
This study enhances the extent to which the U.S.’ conceptions of family violence extend to an international setting. It analyzes factors at individual, family, micro, and macro levels to assess competing theoretically driven hypotheses with regard to family violence among several Colombian sub-populations: poor, rich, urban, rural, white, and black.

 Brian Carr

Lecturer in English

BA, Journalism: University of Texas-Pan American

MFA, Creative Writing: University of Texas-Pan American

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Victoria: UHV 274

Brian Allen Carr’s debut collection, Short Bus, was released by Texas Review Press in 2011 and his selection, Vampire Conditions, is forthcoming from Holler Presents in early 2012. His writing has appeared in American Book Review, Annalemma, Boulevard, Fiction International, Hobart, Gigantic, Keyhole, NANO Fiction, Texas Review and several other publications. He was the inaugural winner of the Texas Observer Short Story Prize, as judged by Larry McMurtry. In addition to writing, he serves as editor of Dark Sky Books and assistant editor of Boulevard. Before coming to UHV, Carr taught at South Texas College.

 Sandra Carter

Lecturer in Communication

Dr. Li Chao

Chair, Science, Technology and Mathematics Division
Professor of Computer Science & Mathematics

MS and Ph. D., University of Wyoming

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Phone: 281-275-8828

Sugar Land: George Building #312

Dr. Li Chao is the Chair of the Science, Technology and Mathematics Division at the University of Houston-Victoria. He joined the UHV faculty in 1995.

He serves as a full professor in math and computer science at University of Houston - Victoria. His current research interest is in networking, database, data analysis, and technology based teaching.

Dr. Chao is a certified Oracle Database Administrator and Microsoft Solution Developer.

 Maria Salome Chavarria

Spanish Instructor

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Phone: 361-570-4294

Salomé Chavarría, a professor from the University of Houston-Victoria’s partner university in Cuernavaca, Mexico, is working at UHV this semester to teach Spanish to area community members and students.

Chavarría is a professor of methods for teaching languages, Spanish as a foreign language and English as a second language. She also organized and elaborated the plans and programs for the master´s in teaching Spanish as a foreign language which opened up 4 years ago at Universidad Internacional. She is working with UHV students in Oral and Written Communication I, II, Advanced Oral and Written Communication and Professional applications of Spanish classes offered in Victoria and Sugar Land. The classes, which are new at UHV this semester, are geared toward those with some Spanish-language experience. Students in the classes receive either academic or continuing education credit.

Chavarría’s semester in Victoria is part of UHV’s partnership with Rector Javier Espinosa, president of the Universidad Internacional, to develop programs that will increase the international skills of students, faculty and staff at both universities. The program includes sending students, faculty, staff and community members to the Mexico institution to study at various times throughout the year.

Chavarría received her bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1992 from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos in Cuernavaca and then came to the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Miss., as a Spanish professor. She decided to stay and received her master’s degree in teaching languages in 1997 from the University of Southern Mississippi. She has worked in numerous jobs teaching English and Spanish and editing and translating publications.

 Armando Chavez-Rivera

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Ph.D. The University of Arizona, 2011

M.A. New Mexico State University, 2006

M.A. University of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2004

B.A. in Journalism, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba, 1993

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Phone: (361) 570-4383

Victoria: University West 259

Research Interests:

• Spanish American Literature

• Colonial Spanish American Literature

• Contemporary Spanish Literature

• History and Cultural Studies

• Creative Writing in Spanish

• Literature and Journalism

• Audiovisual Arts: Cinema, Theater and Photography of Latin America.

• Exile in Spanish American Literature and Cuban Literature

• Cuba per se. Cartas de la diáspora. Miami: Universal, 2009.

• César López: el poeta en la ciudad. Santa Clara, Cuba: Sed de Belleza, 2005.

• Memorias de papel. La Habana: José Martí, 2001.

• Rescate del tiempo. La Habana: Letras Cubanas, 2000.

• Short Term Fellowship for scholars, New York Public Library, 2011.

• Tinker Grant for Dissertation Research in Argentina. Granted by Tinker Foundation and the Center for Latin American Studies, The University of Arizona, May-July 2010.

• Fellowship MUTIS of the Organization of Ibero-American States and the Secretary of Education of Argentina, Buenos Aires, October 2001 - October 2003.

• Internship at United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Secretary of Press and Diffusion of the Argentine Government, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 1996.

• Short Story Contest “Mago Merlín,” Center of Literary Studies and Art of Castilla y León, Spain, April 2004.

• Publication Award “Pinos Nuevos,” for the book manuscript Rescate del tiempo. Havana: Instituto Cubano del Libro, 1999.

• National Award of Cultural Journalism, Ministerio de Cultura, Cuba, 1999.

• International Journalism Award “José Martí,” Havana, 1996.

• “El cuerpo cristianizado de Juan Francisco Manzano.” IV Congreso Internacional “Escritura, Individuo y Sociedad en España, las Américas y Puerto Rico,” Universidad de Puerto Rico, Arecibo, November 2010.

• “Sexuality and Marginalization in the Construction of the Argentine Nation.” Tinker Grant Symposium, Center for Latin American Studies, The University of Arizona, Tucson, November 2010.

• “Imaginarios e identidades híbridas. Cuba per se.” Guest lecturer, Departamento de Letras, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, June 15, 2010.

• “Una cabalgata en el siglo de las luces. Espíritu neoclásico y tipos americanos en El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes. ” Twentieth Annual Symposium in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Culture, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The University of Arizona, Tucson, February 2010.

• “José Kozer. Una habitación propia dentro del idioma.” Eighteenth Annual Symposium in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Culture, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The University of Arizona, Tucson, February 2008.

• “La prosa de Dulce María Loynaz y su mirada oblicua de la historia.” Eleventh Annual Symposium “Voces convergentes: Literatura, lingüística y cultura,” Department of Spanish, Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2006.

• “Identidad y transculturación. Narradores cubanos contemporáneos.” Sixteenth Annual Symposium in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Culture, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The University of Arizona, Tucson, February 2006.

• “Emigraciones y exilios literarios en Hispanoamérica en el siglo XX. La diáspora cubana.” Workshop “Palabras sin fronteras,” The Center for Latin American and Border Studies at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, April 28, 2006.

• Contributing author to the Latin America Data Base (LADB), Latin American and Iberian Institute of the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque. http://ladb.unm.edu/

• Contributing author to COAL / LaPress, a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Lima, Peru, specializing in the production of information and analysis about events across Latin America and the Caribbean with a focus on human rights. English: http://lapress.org Spanish: http://www.noticiasaliadas.org/

• Modern Languages Association

• Latin American Studies Association

• Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana

Dr. Meledath Damodaran

Director of Computer Science & Information Systems Program Development

B.Sc., Kerala University, N.S.S. College; M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology; M.S., Ph.D., Purdue University.

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Phone: 361-570-4203

Victoria: 287 UW

Sugar Land: Room 110

Dr. Meledath Damodaran is the Director of Computer Science & Information Systems Program Development at the University of Houston-Victoria. Prior to joining UHV in Fall 1991, he had taught computer science at various universities in Missouri, Oklahoma and Connecticut.

A Ph.D. from Purdue University, Damodaran has done research and published in several areas, including in Computer and Information Security, Software Quality Management, Parallel Processing, and Neural Networks. He also has strong interest in Software Engineering, Software Project Management, and Computer Science and Computer Information Systems Education.

Damodaran has taught a wide variety of courses including Operating Systems, IT Project Management, Software Engineering, Programming Language Theory, Computer and Information Security, Database, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Architecture, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems, Programming and Data Structures.

Damodaran was a Fulbright Scholar in 1992 and a Mellon Visiting Faculty Fellow in the Computer Science Department at Yale University in New Haven in 1989-90. Damodaran served as the President of Applied Computer Consultants, Inc. in Edmond, Oklahoma from 1984 to 1986. Besides Yale, he has held visiting faculty appointments at Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore, Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India. Damodaran has also worked as a consultant to industries and governmental agencies including . Federal Aviation Administration; U.S. Air Force (Phillips Lab, at Kirtland Air Force Base;) Infosys Corporation, Bangalore, India; Perkin Elmer Corp.; Amoco Research Center; South Texas Project Nuclear Operations; and Dow Chemicals.

Dr. Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Dean of Arts & Sciences

B.A., Rutgers University; M.A. (Philosophy), M.A. (Comparative Literature); Ph.D., Indiana University.

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Phone: 361-570-4200

Victoria: 208C UC

Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, and Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria. He is also Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and past president of the Southern Comparative Literature Association.

He is editor and publisher of the American Book Review, founder of the journal Symploke, which was awarded the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement (2000) by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), and editor of two book series, symploke Studies in Contemporary Theory and Class in America , both published by the University of Nebraska Press.

Selected Publications:

Neoliberalism, Education, Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues (Paradigm, 2011; with Henry Giroux, Sophia McClennan, and Ken Saltman)

Terror, Theory, and the Humanities (Open Humanities Press, 2011; with Uppinder Mehan)

Academe Degree Zero: Reconsidering the Politics of Higher Education (Paradigm, 2010)

Federman's Fictions: Innovation, Theory, and the Holocaust (State University of New York Press, 2010)

“The Cult of the Book—and Why It Must End.” The Chronicle Review. Chronicle of Higher Education, section B (1 October 2010): B8-B9.

“Against Rank.” Inside Higher Ed. June 25, 2010. www.insidehighered.com.

“In Praise of Tough Criticism.” The Chronicle Review. Chronicle of Higher Education, section B (18 June 2010): B4-B5.

“Against Anonymity.” Inside Higher Ed. July 7, 2009. www.insidehighered.com.

Fiction's Present: Situating Contemporary Narrative Innovation (State University of New York Press, 2007; with R. M. Berry)

From Socrates to Cinema: An Introduction to Philosophy (McGraw Hill, 2005)

On Anthologies: Politics and Pedagogy (University of Nebraska Press, 2004)

If Classrooms Matter: Progressive Visions of Educational Environments (Routledge, 2004; with Walter Jacobs)

Affiliations: Identity in Academic Culture (University of Nebraska Press, 2003)

Morality Matters: Race, Class, and Gender in Applied Ethics (McGraw-Hill, 2002)

 Hashimul Ehsan

Ph.D in Biology, University of Antwerp, Belgium M.Sc in Molecular Biology, Free University of Brussels, Belgium

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Phone: 361-570-4289

Victoria: 264 University West

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

- Biology Faculty, (2008-2010) State University of New York, Oswego, NY-13126. Courses taught: Molecular Biology (Bio 439), Molecular & Cellular Foundations (Bio 120), Biotechnology (Bio 316) and Genetics ( Bio 301).

As cell division is one of the most fundamental processes in the growth and development from plants to animals but also cell death is a natural part of life. Every day in the human body, 50-70 billion cells die, making room for the equivalent number of new cells produced daily through cell division. I have a broadly trained experience in cell cycle and cell death from my PhD to postdoc period. My research interest would be the molecular and biochemical control of the cell cycle and related processes towards the cell death in different cells. Dr. Ehsan is broadly trained biologist and teaches a diversity of existing courses and new courses to compliment to the biology curriculum.

Peer-reviewed Publications:

1) Zhang, M., Ehsan, H., Gilbert, J., and Ren, D (2011) Elimination of Escherichia Coli persister cells by weak electric currents and synergistic effects with antibiotics. (In preparation).

2) Ehsan, H., Ramachandiran, S., Lau, SS and Monks TJ (2011) Paradigms of checkpoint kinase (Chk1) leading to oncotic cell death after exposure to Reactive Oxygen Species (in preparation.).

3) Ehsan, H., Balajadia, J., Ramachandiran, S., Lau, SS and Monks TJ (2011) Vulnerability of HL-60 cells towards TGHQ-mediated apoptosis during various cell cycle stages. (In preparation).

4) Ehsan, H., Ray, WK., Phinney B., Wang, X., Huber, SC., and Clouse, SD. (2005) Interaction of Arabidopsis BRASSINOSTEROID-INSENSITIVE 1 receptor kinase with a homolog of mammalian TGF-beta receptor interacting protein. Plant Journal, 2005 Jul;43(2):251-61.

5) Ehsan, H., Reichheld JP, Durfee T, Roe JL (2004) TOUSLED kinase activity oscillates during the cell cycle and interacts with chromatin regulators. Plant Physiology. 134(4): 1488-99.

6) Ehsan, H., and Van Onckelen, H., (2004) Cyclic AMP in auxin signal transduction pathway? Plant tissue culture 14(1): 69-74.

7) Ehsan, H., Luc, R., Witters, E., Reichheld, J-P., Inze, D., & Van Onckelen, H. (1999) Indomethacin induced G1/S phase arrest of the plant cell cycle. FEBS letters 458:349-353.

8) Ehsan, H., Reichheld, J-P., Luc, R., Witters, E., Lardon, F., Van Bockstaele, D., Van Montagu, M., Inze, D., & Van Onckelen, H. (1998) Effect of indomethacin on cell cycle dependent cyclic AMP fluxes in tobacco BY-2 cells. FEBS Letters 422 :165-169.

9) Ehsan, H., Rashid, K.A., Van Dongen, W., Van Onckelen, H., (1997) Cyclic adenosine 3’,5’-monophosphate in gastrothylax crumenifer and Explanatum explanatum. Journal of Helminthology 71: 147-149.

Dr. Horace Fairlamb

Director of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (MAIS) Program
Professor of Humanities

B.A., Princeton University; M.A., The Breadloaf School; Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.

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Phone: Victoria 361-570-4211

Victoria: N/A

Dr. Horace Fairlamb is the Director of the Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (MAIS) program at the University of Houston-Victoria. He teaches humanities and interdisciplinary courses.

He earned his doctorate in Intellectual History from Johns Hopkins University. He holds an M.A. in English from the Breadloaf School of English and a B.A. in English from Princeton University. His major fields include Interdisciplinary Studies, Ethics, Literature, and Social Philosophy.

 Dagoberto Gilb

Writer in Residence and Executive Director of Centro Victoria

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Dagoberto Gilb is the author of the novel The Flowers, Gritos, an essay collection which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Woodcuts of Women, The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña, and The Magic of Blood, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a PEN Faulkner finalist. He also edited Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature, which won the 2007 PEN Southwest Book Award for nonfiction.

He has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and Whiting Writers’ Award, as well as regional honors such as the Dobie Paisano Fellowship. Anthologized widely, his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in a wide array of magazines, including Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Threepenny Review, The Nation, New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, Ploughshares, Slate, Aztlan, Callaloo, and many others.

Gilb has a B.A and M.A. in Philosophy and Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Wyoming, the University of Arizona, Vassar, California State University, Fresno, and Texas State University, where he was a full professor of English on its creative writing faculty. At the University of Houston-Victoria, Gilb is the executive director of Centro Victoria: Center for Mexican American Literature and Culture. He is also writer-in-residence at UHV.

Dr. Trina Gordon

Director of Counseling Psychology Program

Email: GordonT@uhv.edu

Dr. Trina Gordon joined the Arts & Science faculty at UHV in the Fall of 2008. She holds a BA degree in Sociology Law/Society from the University of California-Riverside. Dr. Gordon graduated from California State University-Los Angeles with an MS degree in Psychology (Forensic concentration), where she was a Biomedical Research Fellow. She obtained her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (Psychology and Law track) from University of Alabama.

Dr. Gordon completed her pre-doctoral internship with the Federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, CA where she received advanced training in forensic assessment and working with mentally ill offenders. Prior to taking the position at UHV, she was employed with the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a Staff Psychologist and Suicide Prevention Coordinator. Her research interests include Forensic Assessment/Evaluation issues, Mentally Ill and Female criminal offenders, Dual diagnosis in offender populations, and cognitive factors associated with juror decision making in legal cases.

 Christine Granados

Instructor of English

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Christine Granados was born and raised in El Paso. Her collection of short stories, Brides and Sinners in El Chuco, was published in 2006 by the University of Arizona Press. She has been a Spur Award finalist and winner of the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation Award from the Macondo Foundation. Christine's fiction and nonfiction has appeared in the Evergreen Review, Callaloo, NPR?s Latino USA, Texas Observer, El Andar, and others. It has been anthologized in several college textbooks and anthologies, including Texas: A Case Study, Literary El Paso, and Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing.

Granados received a BA in communication from UT El Paso and an MFA in creative writing from Texas State University. Before joining the faculty at the University of Houston-Victoria, Granados taught at Texas A&M University. Editor at Moderna and Hispanic magazines for several years, she worked as journalist for the El Paso Times, Austin American-Statesman, Rockdale Reporter, and People Magazine. To learn more about Christine Granados visit her website at www.christinegranados.com.

Dr. Richard Gunasekera

Director of Graduate Studies - Biological Sciences
Professor of Biology

B.S., Baylor University; M.S. (Chemistry), University of Houston-Clear Lake; M.S. (Biomedical Studies), Ph.D., Baylor University.

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Phone: 281-275-8826

Sugar Land: Brazos Hall #327 or Lab #353

Dr. Richard Gunasekera is the Director of Graduate Biology Studies at the University of Houston- Victoria, which includes both coordinating the Graduate Biology program and directing the biological science laboratories at Victoria and Sugar Land. His main interests in teaching lie in effective communication of information to his students, stewardship and service.

Gunasekera earned his BS in Biochemistry at Baylor University, where he researched the synthesis of biodegradable polymers. He earned an MS degree in bio-organic chemistry from the University of Houston-Clear Lake and went on to an MS and Ph.D. in biomedical sciences while at the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. He held a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Before joining UHV, Richard Gunasekera led the Program in Bioactive Phytochemicals (Medicinal Plants) at the Center for Cancer Biology and Nutrition, of Texas A&M University's Institute of Biosciences and Technology at the Texas Medical Center in Houston. He continues to remain a major collaborator of this program, and is graduate faculty with the Texas A&M University System.

Dr. Gunasekera started his teaching career in the University of Houston system at UH Clear Lake in 1987 and has taught for the Texas A&M University System and Trinity International University. He considers classroom and lab instruction as his premier calling.

Gunasekera has presented a number of scientific publications and public lectures, and has received several awards, including a first place in oral presentation at the American Chemical Society: DFW.

Research Interests:

Our main research interests lie in the study of Phytochemical BioActive Molecules (PBAMS) for the prevention and treatment of cancer and related disease. By studying these nutritive products in cells at the molecular level, we learn about their disease fighting, cancer chemopreventive and therapeutic role within the human body. A wide variety of Biochemical Genetics and Cellular Biological methods are used for this research. Independent research students are able to do research at the undergraduate level and participate.

As greater understanding of the biochemical mechanistic details are reached, these studies will further provide a rationale basis and guide for the optimum and safe uses of preventative food and exotic products; whose unguided use currently represents a growing multi-billion dollar industry.

Selected Publications:

(2005-2009)

R. S. Gunasekera and K. Hyland, In vivo Regulation of Phenylalanine Hydoxylase in the Genetic Mutant hph-1 Mouse Model, Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, 98: 264 - 272, 2009

R. S. Gunasekera, Cokenour, J., Sen P., Heath, D., and Han, M. "A Study of Kashin-Beck Disease in the homogeneous population of Tibet in China", European Journal of Human Genetics, 17:2, 247, 2009

R. S. Gunasekera, Cokenour, J., Arrambide, D. and Somasundaram, S. G. "Bioactive molecules from fruits and vegetables significantly potentiate traditional chemotherapy", Acta Horticulturae, 841: 55- 60, 2009

R. S. Gunasekera, Sewgobind, K., Desai, S., Dunn, L., Black, H. McKeehan, W. L. and Patil, B. "Lycopene and Lutein Inhibit Proliferation in Rat Prostate Carcinoma Cells", International Journal of Nutrition and Cancer, 58:2, 171 – 177, 2007

R. S. Gunasekera, K. Sewgobind, S. Desai, M. Moore, B. A. Rowley, D. Ochoa, W. L. McKeehan, L. Dunn, M.S., L. Geitz, J. Perkinson, and S. Somasundaram, "Differential Anti-Proliferative Activity of Carotenoids on Prostate Cancer Cells and Studies of PSA Expression in Prostate Biopsies", Journal of Nutrition, 134 (12): 3521S, 2005

R. S. Gunasekera, D. Arrambide, and S. Somasundaram, "Bioflavone 'A' Increases Chemotherapeutic Activity of Anti-tumor drug Camptothecin", Journal of Nutrition, 134 (12): 3521S, 2005

R. S. Gunasekera, Damodaran, H, Rajakarunanayake, Y., Hyland, K. The Significance of Linearity of Quantities in Electrophoresed and Blotted Materials Demonstrated by BandScan© - an Analytical Program, Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference,
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 Hongyu Guo

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

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 Paul Hamilton

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology

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Dr. Rick Harrington

Chair, Social and Behavioral Sciences Division
Professor of Psychology

B.A., University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington.

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Phone: 361-570-4205

Victoria: 250 UW

Dr. Rick Harrington has been a UHV faculty member since 1987. His specialty areas include health psychology/behavioral medicine and social psychology. He obtained his doctorate in social psychology and psychophysiology from the University of Texas at Arlington and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in behavioral medicine/social psychology at the University of Houston.

Dr. Harrington is a licensed psychologist who received his licensing supervision at Houston's Methodist Hospital's Institute for Preventive Medicine. He practiced psychology in Houston at the Methodist Hospital, in private practice, and also worked as a Research Associate for the Baylor College of Medicine.

Dr. Harrington has been teaching at the college level for over 25 years and is a past recipient of UHV's Teaching Excellence Award. He has also been honored by "Who's Who Among America's Teachers"(1996,2007) as one of the "best teachers in America selected by the best students."

Dr. Harrington initiated the UHV Psi Chi chapter and is a former president of the Victoria Area Psychological Association.

Dr. Harrington’s research endeavors include publications in the areas of biofeedback, personality, and well-being. He is the author of a Wadsworth/Cengage (2012) textbook that covers the integrated topics of stress, health, and well-being. The instructor’s edition describes the textbook as follows: “Author Rick Harrington, licensed psychologist and professor, presents a thorough investigation of the mind-body connection as it relates to managing stress in this first edition of Stress, Health, & Well-Being: Thriving in the 21st Century. With an empirically grounded approach, the text integrates classical study of stress and health with findings from the burgeoning field of positive psychology. The result is a balanced coverage of the current scientific understanding of stress, enriched by data analysis and practical applications for productive management of this pervasive force in our modern times.”

Stress, Health, and Well-Being: Thriving in the 21st Century

Dr. Rob Hawkins

Director of Criminal Justice-Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

B.A., M.S., University of Louisville; Ph.D., Sam Houston State University.

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Phone: 361-570-4206

Victoria: 254 UW

Dr. Robert D. Hawkins is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Houston-Victoria. He came to UHV in 1995 from Southeastern Oklahoma State University where he was an instructor of Sociology and Criminal Justice. Dr. Hawkins has also worked at the George J. Beto Criminal Justice Center located at Sam Houston State University as a research and teaching assistant.

Dr. Hawkins attained his doctorate from Sam Houston State University, in Huntsville, Texas, and his MS and BS from the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.

Dr. Hawkins has attended a variety of conferences, presented programs, written or co-authored three books, and has sat on several committees. His primary area of interest is the profiling of violent criminals.

 Macarena Hernandez

Victoria Advocate Endowed Professor in Humanities

University of California at Berkeley, Master of Journalism; Baylor University, Waco, Bachelor of Arts, Double Major in English Professional Writing and Journalism

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Phone: 361- 570-4210

Victoria: Publishing Center, Office # 301H

Before joining the faculty at the University of Houston-Victoria, Hernandez was a full-time journalist writing about Latino issues , such as immigration and education.

Last fall, she completed an International Reporting Project/Frontline World Fellowship where she traveled and reported along the Mexico-Guatemala border. Before then, Hernandez was a staff writer/columnist for The Dallas Morning News. In June, she completed a year-long reporting project for The Dallas Morning News documenting the educational experiences of teen Latino immigrants at one of the oldest high schools in Dallas.

Before joining the staff of The News in 2005, she covered South Texas and Northern Mexico for the San Antonio Express-News where she ran the Rio Grande Valley Bureau. While at the Express-News she wrote "One-Family, Two Homelands," a personal five-part series exploring Mexican migration through her family's story.

A veteran speaker, Hernandez is a regular at national journalism and education conferences and is a frequent guest at high schools and college campuses. She is also a member of Macondo, a writers' collective founded by author Sandra Cisneros.

Selected Publications:

Newspaper series: “One Family, Two Homelands,” San Antonio Express-News, 2004; “A Year in the Life of New Immigrants,” The Dallas Morning News, June 2008.

Other Newspapers: The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times.

Television and Magazines: "The Ballad of Juan Quezada," PBS/Frontline World, Latina Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Texas Highways.

Anthologies: Texas Literature: A Case Study; Hecho En Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature; The Newspaper Reader: Reading: Writing & Thinking About Today’s Events; Bridging the Gap: College Reading.

 Kim Herzinger

Instructor of English

Ph.D., University of Rochester

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Kim Herzinger is a Pushcart Prize-winning critic and writer on minimalism and other contemporary literary phenomena. He is the literary executor and official biographer of Donald Barthelme, one of the great postmodern writers of the 20th century. He is the editor of Barthelme’s Flying to America: 45 More Stories, The Teachings of Don B., and Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews, and author of D.H. Lawrence in His Time.

Selected Publications:

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Flying to America: 45 More Stories (2007)
Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews (1997)
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
D.H. Lawrence in His Time (1982)

Dr. Junda Hu

Instructor of Mathematics

Email: HuJ@uhv.edu

Phone: 281-275-8825

Sugar Land: Brazos Hall #326

Dr. Hu received his PhD in mathematics and MS in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to joining UHV, he had taught mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Hu's research interests include: algebraic geometry, arithmetic geometry, number theory, bioinformatics.

Dr. Dan Jaeckle

Professor of English

B.A., Concordia Senior College; M.A., State University College of New York at New Paltz; Ph.D., Purdue University.

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Phone: Victoria 361-570-4225

Victoria: 263 UW

Dr. Daniel Jaeckle is the Director of Professional Writing and Professor of English. He began teaching at the University of Houston-Victoria in 1982 after completing a doctorate in English literature at Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Dr. Jaeckle was born in Buffalo, New York, and he graduated from Valhalla High School in Valhalla, New York. He has since worked on and completed his bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees and is author of many publications. In addition, he has served on numerous committees and boards for UHV and the community.

Education

• Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Ph.D. English 1981
• State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, New York, M.A. English 1973
• Concordia Sr. College, Fort Wayne, Indiana, B.A. Pre-Theology 1971
• Concordia Jr. College, Bronxville, New York, A.A. Pre-Theology 1969

Service

• Faculty Council Chair 1984-86, 1995-96, 1999-2000
• Search Committees, including UHV Provost (3 times), UH-System Vice Chancellor, UHV President (twice)
• DeLeon Symposium, chair (1987-97, 2000-present)
• Board of Directors, Tech Prep (1991-93)
• Board of Directors, Quality Work Force Planning (1991-94)
• Board of Directors, Victoria Adult Literacy Council (1994-2000, 2003-present); President (1997-98)

Dr. Donald Loffredo

Professor of Psychology

B.A., University of Rhode Island; M.A., Rhode Island College; Ed.D., University of Houston.

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Phone: 361-570-4209

Victoria: 281 UW

Dr. Donald Loffredo, Professor of Psychology, joined the UHV faculty in 1995 after teaching as an adjunct professor for the University of Houston-Downtown, Houston Community College, and North Harris County Community College. He received his doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Houston.

His specialty areas include systems therapy, chemical dependency counseling, and statistics/research methods. He completed a post-doctoral internship in adolescent and adult psychology at the Deer Park Psychiatric Hospital. Dr. Loffredo is a licensed psychologist and certified Health Service Provider in Psychology who received his licensing supervision at Houston's Child Guidance Clinic and the Deer Park Psychiatric Hospital.

He practiced Psychology at the Deer Park Psychiatric Hospital, Dornon Psychiatric Clinic in Pasadena, the Rice University Counseling Center, and in private practice. He has designed inpatient psychiatric and substance abuse programs for both adults and adolescents and has held several administrative positions at the Dornon Clinic. Dr. Loffredo has over 20 publications in scientific psychology journals and his current research endeavors include work in the areas of multicultural psychology, personality, HIV/AIDS and communication.

 Diana Lopez

Instructor of English

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Diana López is a native of Corpus Christi. She is the author of the novel Sofia’s Saints published by Bilingual Review Press in 2002 and of Confetti Girl, a novel for young adults, published by Little Brown in 2009. Confetti Girl was selected as a featured title for Scholastic Book Fairs and as a Commended Title for the Américas Book Award, which is sponsored by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs. López is also the recipient of writing fellowships from the Texas Commission for the Arts and Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. Her short fiction has appeared in Sycamore Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, New Texas, The San Antonio Current, and Texas Monthly. López received her BA in English from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio and an MFA in creative writing from Texas State University. An avid educator, she has taught for the San Antonio Independent School District, St. Philip’s College, and for non-profit organizations such as Gemini Ink and the Writers’ League of Texas. To learn more about Diana López, visit her website at www.dianalopezbooks.com.

Dr. Jesica McCue

Instructor of Biology

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Dr. McCue has a doctorate in physiology from Colorado State University. She has been an instructor at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and has been awarded numerous fellowships including an National Institute of Health National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Dr. Uppinder Mehan

Interim Chair of Humanities

Ph.D., University of Toronto, English

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Selected Publications:

“Teaching Postcolonial Science Fiction.” Teaching Science Fiction Ed. Peter Wright. Forthcoming.

“Terror.edu: Terror and Education in the U.S.A,” American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 27, 1 (Winter 2010): 159-62.

“Devotion in Frames,” India’s Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, and Other Heroes, by Karline McLain, American Book Review, 30, 4 (May/June 2009), 22.

“Colonizing the Futurist Representation,” Follies of Science: 20th Century Visions of our Fantastic Future. Eric Dregni and Jonathan Dregni, eds. American Book Review, January-February 2008. http://americanbookreview.org/LineOnLine/29_2_LineOnLine_TOC.pdf

So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy. Uppinder Mehan and Nalo Hopkinson, eds. Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004.

“Laurence Yep,” Asian-American Playwrights: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Liu, Miles X. (ed. And preface). Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. 377-83.

“G. V. Desani,” Asian-American Playwrights: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Liu, Miles X. (ed. And preface). Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. 41-44.

“‘Nation’ and the Gaze of the Other in Eighth Century Northumbria,” Comparative Literature: The Journal of the American Comparative Literature Association, David Townsend. 53, 3 (Winter 2001). 1-26.

Transgressing Bodies in Postcolonial Fiction," Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics. 24, 1-2 (2001): 1-13.

“Balachandra Rajan,” Asian-American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Nelson, Emmanuel S. (ed. And preface). Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. 303-07.

The Domestication of Technology in Indian Science Fiction Short Stories." Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 74 (1998). 54-66.

The City in Postcolonial Fiction." Genre 18 (1997): 49-68.

Van de Graaff Days, by Ven Begamudre, Paragraph, 16, 3 (Summer 1994), 28-29.

Thresholds of Difference, by Julia V. Emberly, Paragraph, 15, 3 and 4 (Winter 1993, Spring 1994), 44-46.

The Bonus Deal, by Archie Crail, Paragraph, 15, 1 (Spring 1993).

Voices: Canadian Writers of African Descent, ed. Ayanna Black, Paragraph, 15, 1 (Spring 1993).

CONFERENCES:

“Idealized Dialogues and the Dream of Disembodiment,” Southern Comparative Literature Association 36th Annual Conference, October 21-23, 2010, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Symploke: Journal Salon. Roundtable: The New Book Culture,” Cultural Studies Association 8th Annual Meeting, March 18-20, 2010, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

“Outer Space and Cyberspace Migrations,” Migration, Border, and the Nation-State, April 8-11, 2009, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.

“The Utopian Company Town of Eureka,” 30th Annual Meeting of the Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association, February 25-28, 2009, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

“From ‘Do We Not Bleed’ to ‘How You Like Me Now’: Responding to Fear and Loathing.” 13th Annual Multicultural Conference, Fear and Loathing: The Springboards of Modern Culture, April 24-26, 2007, San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX.

Panel presentation at the Texas Speech Communication Association convention, Oct. 4-7, 2006, Amarillo, TX.

“Through Alien Eyes.” Arisia 2005, January 21-23, 2005, Boston, USA.

“The Calcutta Chromosome and Postcolonial Science.” A Commonwealth of Science Fiction, August 5-8, 2004, Liverpool, England.

“Possessions Spiritual and Technological in Nalo Hopkinson’s Novels.” 28th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, May 26-31, 2003, Belize.

“Possession as metaphor for intersubjectivity in the fiction of Erna Brodber” at “From Kumblas to Blackspace: A Symposium on Erna Brodber.” Department of Literatures in English, University of West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, April 26-27, 2002.

“Translating Orishas into Hi-Tech Intelligences.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, April 20-22, 2001, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado.

“Dark Matter.” Otelia Cromwell Day, November 2, 2000, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Invited guest lecture on the intersection of multiculturalism and Science Fiction and Fantasy written by black writers.

“Off Color.” Readercon 12, July 21-23, 2000, Burlington, Massachusetts. Panelist with Suzy Mckee Charnas, Samuel R. Delany, Nalo Hopkinson, Andrea Hairston, Betsy Mitchell, Sheree R. Thomas.

“Marginalizing Hamlet: Absurd and Postcolonial Re-Tellings of the Tale.” Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference, October 30-November 1, 1998, Morgantown, West Virginia.

“The Passage of India: The Formation and Dissolution of India in Indian Fiction in English," Paper delivered at Competing Realities: Fifty Years of South Asian Literature, September 19-21, 1997, Toronto.

“The Domestication of Technology in Indian Science Fiction Short Stories," Paper delivered at the Fourth International Conference on the Short Story in English at the University of Northern Iowa, June 7-11, 1996.

Chair, Modern African Literature at Northeast MLA conference in Pittsburgh, April 8-10, 1994.

“Ngugi and the Boundaries of the Self," Paper delivered at Northeast MLA conference in Philadelphia, March 26-28, 1993.

“G.V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr and the Two Posts," Paper delivered at the Learned Societies Conference, University of Victoria, May 20-June 8, 1990.

“Measuring the Distance from the Centre," Paper delivered at the ACLALS Silver Jubilee Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, August 24-31, 1989.

“The individuating Mr. Clarke," Paper delivered at the Eighth Annual Conference on West Indian Literature, Biography/Autobiography, University of West Indies, May 18-21, 1988.

 Amjad Nusayr

Lecturer in Computer Science

Dr. Catherine Perz

Director of Undergraduate Psychology Programs- Victoria
Associate Professor of Psychology

B.A., California State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Houston.

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Phone: 361-570-4223

Victoria: 249 UW

Dr. Catherine A. Perz, Director of Undergraduate Psychology Programs - Victoria, joined the UHV faculty in 1995. She completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Houston, where she began her research on the transtheoretical model (stages of change model) with one of the model's originators, Carlo DiClemente, Ph.D.

Her predoctoral internship was completed at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center, in Palo Alto, California, where she received advanced training in cancer prevention and control. Dr. Perz was recently awarded a 3-year grant from the American Cancer Society to study treatment adherence behavior in bone marrow transplant recipients. Her other areas of interest include smoking cessation and substance abuse. Dr. Perz is a licensed psychologist who has been teaching since 1989.

 Elizabeth Rhoades

Associate Professor of School Psychology

BA (with honors), PhD - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MS, SSP - Winthrop University

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Elizabeth Kelley Rhoades “Libby”

Libby Rhoades has been a school psychologist for over 20 years, practicing in public schools in North and South Carolina, West Virginia and Texas. She worked as a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and directed the School Psychology graduate program at Marshall University for four years. Dr. Rhoades designed and led the School Psychology graduate program at West Texas A&M University for five years. She serves as a Program Reviewer for the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) and is on the Executive Board of the Texas Association of School Psychologists (TASP).

Research Interests:

School Psychology Program Development
Efficacy of Online Instruction
Culturally Competent Assessment
Addictions & Recovery
Support of Gay & Lesbian Youth

Selected Publications:

Vick, D. & Rhoades, E. K. (2009). Drugs and Alcohol in the 21st Century: Theory, Behavior, and Policy. (Book is currently under contract with Jones and Bartlett Publishers with the first 5 chapters submitted)

Rhoades, E. K. (2006). Review of the Basic Achievement Skills Inventory (BASI). The Seventeenth Mental Measurements Yearbook. Lincoln, NE: The Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.

Rhoades, E. K. (2006). Review of the Paced Auditory Serial Attention Task (PASAT). The Seventeenth Mental Measurements Yearbook. Lincoln, NE: The Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.

Meyer, C. F. & Rhoades, E. K. (2006). Multiculturalism: Beyond food, festival, folklore, and fashion. Kappa Delta Pi Record, 42 (2), 82-87.

Rhoades, E. K. (2005). Review of the Jesness Inventory Revised. In R. A. Spies, B. S. Plake, & L. L. Murphy (Eds.), The Sixteenth Mental Measurements Yearbook (pp. 494-496). Lincoln, NE: The Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.

Rhoades, E. K. (2005). Review of the Review of the Neale Analysis of Reading Ability: Second Revised British Edition. In R. A. Spies, B. S. Plake, & L. L. Murphy (Eds.), The Sixteenth Mental Measurements Yearbook (pp. 676-677). Lincoln, NE: The Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.

Rhoades, E. K. & Verhaalen, S.E. (2005). HIV-AIDS. In Lee, S. W. (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of School Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Meyer, C. F. & Boyles, E.K.. (2005). Developing middle level teaching skills online. National Middle School Journal, 36 (3), 11-16.

Boyles, E. K. (2003). Review of the Brief Test of Attention. In B. S. Plake, J. C. Impara, & R. A. Spies (Eds.), The Fifteenth Mental Measurements Yearbook (pp. 141-143). Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Boyles, E. K. (2003). Review of the Reading-Level Indicator. In B. S. Plake, J. C. Impara, & R. A. Spies (Eds.), The Fifteenth Mental Measurements Yearbook (pp. 722-725). Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Boyles, E. K. (1999). Prediction of parent/child discussions about AIDS (Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1999). Dissertation Abstracts International.

Hollins, M., & Kelley, E. K. (1988). Spatial updating in blind and sighted people. Perception & Psychophysics, 43, 380-388.

Simeonsson, R. J. & Boyles, E. K. (2001). Ecobehavioral approaches in clinical assessment. In R. J. Simeonsson & S. Rosenthal (Eds.), Psychological and developmental assessment of children with disabilities (2nd ed). New York, NY: Guilford.


Selected Presentations:

Understanding Individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome and High Functioning Autism: Diagnostic Issues and Interventions, Invited Training for Lorman Education Services in Lubbock, TX, 2009

The Facts on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth Issues, Invited Presentation at the High Plains Counseling Association Winter Workshop, Amarillo, TX, 2007

Psychoeducational Report Writing, Invited Presentation for the Region 17 Educational Service Center, Lubbock, TX, 2006

Response to Intervention: Where Do We Go From Here? Invited Presentation for the Region 17 Educational Service Center, Lubbock, TX, 2006

Successful Online Instruction for Developmental Psychology, Presentation at the Mountain States Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, Albuquerque, NM, 2006

Behavioral Management after Brain Injury, Invited Presentation at the Brain Injury Association of Texas Seminar, Amarillo, TX, 2006

Rights of Children and Families in the Public Schools after Brain Injury, Invited Presentation at the Brain Injury Association of Texas Seminar, Amarillo, TX, 2006

Understanding Youth Risk Factors: Foundations of Successful Prevention & Intervention, Paper presented at the National Association of School Psychologists Convention, Atlanta, 2006

Successful Online Instruction, Roundtable Presentation at the Mountain States Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, Albuquerque, NM, 2006

At Home or At School: Factors Influencing Students’ Choices of Live vs. Online Courses, Paper Presentation at the Mountain States Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, Albuquerque, NM, 2005

 Matthew Rhoades

Assistant Professor of History

BA, MA (History) - West Virginia University

PhD (Early American History) - Syracuse University

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Selected Publications:

Long Knives and the Longhouse, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

 Kyle Schlesinger

Assistant Professor of Communication

B.A., Goddard College; M.A. University at Buffalo (English); Ph.D. University at Buffalo (English).

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Phone: 361-570-4103

Website: www.kyleschlesinger.com

Victoria: 301B University Center

Kyle Schlesinger has published and lectured extensively on topics related to poetics, visual communication and artists’ books. His scholarly books include The Perishable Press Limited (2003), ¬Schablone Berlin (w/Caroline Koebel, 2005) and Poems & Pictures (2010). His articles have appeared in journals such as Parenthesis, The Chicago Review, Jacket, Artists’ Book Yearbook, and The Journal of Artists’ Books.

In addition to his scholarly writing, Dr Schlesinger is a poet and book artist. He is the author of A Book of Closings (2004), Mantle (w/Thom Donovan, 2005), Hello Helicopter (2006), The Pink (2008), Commonplace (2011), and Seeing Things is forthcoming in 2012.

More at: www.kyleschlesinger.com