2012-2013 Catalog
University & Its Organization
2012-2013 Faculty Roster
| Vera A. Adamchik | Associate Professor of Economics/Quantitative Methods B.S., Gomel State University, Belarus; M.S., Ph.D., Lehigh University. |
| John Keith Akins | Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice B.A., Florida State University; M.A., University of Florida; Ph.D., University of Florida. |
| Roselia Alaniz | Visiting Assistant Professor of Administration and Supervision B.S., Texas A&I University-Kingsville; M.Ed., Prairie View A&M University; Ph.D., Prairie View A&M University. |
| Omar Al-Nasser | Assistant Clinical Professor of Finance B.B.A., Yarmouk University; M.B.A., University of Houston-Victoria; Ph.D., University of Texas-Pan American. |
| Linda L. Autry | Assistant Professor of Counseling Education B.S., Howard Payne University; M.Ed., Tarleton State University; Ph.D., Texas A&M – Corpus Christi. |
| Andrew Baerg | Assistant Professor of Communication B.A., M.A., University of British Columbia; Ph.D., University of Iowa. |
| Amy Barnhill | Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction B.A., University of Iowa; M.A., University of Missouri; Ph.D., University of Missouri. |
| Lisette Barton | Assistant Clinical Professor of Nursing B.S.N., Baylor University; M.S.N., Houston Baptist University; Ph.D., Texas Women's University |
| Jason Bell | Assistant Professor of Philosophy B.A., Texas State University San Marcos; M.A., Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale. |
| Joseph Ben-Ur | Professor of Marketing B.A., M.B.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. |
| Esperanza Camargo Bernal | Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice B.A., Universidad INCCA de Colombia; M.A., Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; M.S., Ph.D., University of Nebraska at Omaha. |
| Jeffrey Blodgett | Associate Professor of Management B.S., University of Illinois; M.B.A., Illinois State University, Ph.D., Indiana University. |
| Ginger Blomstrom | Assistant Clinical Professor of Nursing B.S.N., University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; M.S.N., University of Texas at Houston; Ph.D., University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. |
| Paul Carlson | Professor of Education B. A., Bethel College; M.Ed., Ed.D., University of Massachusetts; Ph.D., Ohio State University. |
| Sandra Carter | Lecturer of Communications B.A., B. S., M.F.A., Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. |
| Li Chao | Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science M.S., University of Wyoming. |
| Olga Chapa |
Assistant Professor of Management B.B.A., M.B.A., Ph.D., University of Texas-Pan American. |
| Maria Chavarria | Lecturer of Spanish B.B.A., Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morales; M.A., University of Southern Mississippi. |
| Armando Chavez-Rivera | Assistant Professor of Spanish B.A., University of Havana, Cuba; M.A., National University of La Plata, Argentina; Ph.D., University of Arizona. |
| Chien-Ping Chen |
Associate Professor of Economics B.A., National Taiwan University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Houston. |
| Wei-Chih Chiang | Assistant Professor of Accounting B.S., National TsingHua University; M.B.A., Wayland Baptist University; M.S., University of Texas at Dallas; Ph.D., Louisiana Tech University |
| Adeline Chu | Assistant Professor of Nursing B.A., University of Sydney; M.A., University of Western Australia; Ph.D., Texas Woman’s University. |
| Peggy A. Cloninger | Associate Professor of Management B.E.E., M.S.E.E., Georgia Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Georgia State University. |
| Meledath Damodaran | Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics B.Sc., Kerala University, N.S.S. College; M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology; M.S., Ph.D., Purdue University. |
| Estella De Los Santos | Professor of Education B.S., M.Ed., University of Houston-Victoria; Ed.D., University of Houston. |
| Jeffrey R. Di Leo | Professor of Humanities/English and Philosophy B.A., Rutgers University; M.A. (Philosophy), M.A. (Comparative Literature); Ph.D., Indiana University. |
| Xiaobo Dong | Assistant Professor of Accounting B.B.A., Peking University; M.S., State University of New York at Albany; Ph.D., Arizona State University. |
| Jianjun Du | Associate Professor of International Business/Accounting B.E., Zhongnan University of Finance, Economics, and Laws, China; M.B.A., Renmin University of China; M.A., Washington University at St. Louis; Ph.D., St. Louis University. |
| Linda S. Dune | Assistant Professor of Nursing B.S.N., University of the State of New York; MS(N), Ph.D., Texas Woman’s University. |
| Nazif Durmaz | Assistant Professor of Economics B.S., Celal Bayar University, Turkey; M.S., St. Joseph's University; M.S., Auburn University; Ph.D., Auburn University. |
| Hashmi Ehsan | Lecturer of Biology B.Sc., Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh; M.Sc., University of Brussels, Belgium; Ph.D., University of Antwerp, Belgium. |
| Horace L. Fairlamb | Professor of Humanities/Interdisciplinary Studies B.A., Princeton University; M.A., The Breadloaf School; Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University. |
| Roy Lee Foley |
Professor of Education B.S., Illinois State University; M.A., Southern Illinois University; M.B.A., Fordham University; Ph.D., Michigan State University. |
| Jill E. Fox | Professor of Early Childhood Education B.S., Western Kentucky University; M.Ed., Texas Women’s University; Ph.D., University of North Texas. |
| Jane Devick Fry | Associate Professor of Reading B.A., Florida Atlantic University; M.Ed., Nova Southeastern University; Ed.D., Florida International University. |
| Xavier Garza-Gomez | Associate Professor of Finance M.S., Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey; M.B.A., Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Laguna; Ph.D., Nagoya City University, Japan. |
| Dagoberto Gilb | Professor of Latino Studies B.A., M.A., University of California. |
| Yong U. Glasure | Professor of Economics B.A., M.A., University of California-Santa Barbara; Ph.D., Florida State University. |
| Craig Goodman | Assistant Professor of Political Science B.A.; Indiana University; M.A., Marquette University; Ph.D., University of Houston. |
| Richard S. Gunasekera | Professor of Biology B.S., Baylor University; M.S. (Chemistry), University of Houston-Clear Lake; M.S. (Biomedical Studies), Ph.D., Baylor University. |
| Hongya Guo | Assistant Professor of Computer Science B.S., Nankai University, China; M.S., Nankai University, China; M.S., Texas Christian University; M.S., University of Florida; Ph.D., University of Florida |
| Massomeh Hajilee | Assistant Professor of Economics B.A., Tehran University; M.I.A., Columbia University. |
| Trina Hall | Assistant Professor of Psychology B.A., University of California - Riverside; M.S., California State University – Los Angeles; Ph.D., The University of Alabama. |
| Paul Hamilton |
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology B.S., Texas A&I University-Kingsville; M.A. University of Houston; Ph.D., Fielding Institute. |
| Jere A. Hammer | Assistant Professor of Nursing B.S.N., University of Texas at Austin; M.S.H.R., East Central University; M.S.N., University of Texas-Tyler; Ph.D., University of Texas |
| Rick Harrington | Professor of Psychology B.A., University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington. |
| Robert (Robby) D. Hawkins | Associate Professor of Criminal Justice B.A., M.S., University of Louisville; Ph.D., Sam Houston State University. |
| Linda A. Hayes | Associate Professor of Business Administration/Marketing B.S., Clarkson University; M.B.A., University of Houston; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley. |
| Holly Heinsohn | Lecturer of Curriculum & Instruction B.A., University of Houston-Victoria; M.A.I.S., University of Houston-Victoria; M.Ed., University of Houston-Victoria. |
| Macarena Hernandez | Lecturer of Communications B.A., Baylor University; M.J., University of California at Berkley. |
| Kim Herzinger | Lecturer of English B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Rochester |
| Jerry Hu | Lecturer of Mathematics B.S., Fudan University, China; M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois. |
| Shengsheng Haung | Assistant Professor of Management B.Ec., M. Phil., Nanjing University, China |
| Daniel P. Jaeckle | Professor of Humanities/English B.A., Concordia Senior College; M.A., State University College of New York at New Paltz; Ph.D., Purdue University. |
| John Kagochi | Assistant Professor of Economic Development B.A., Egerton University; M.S., Tuskegee University; M.S., Auburn University; Ph.D., Auburn University. |
| Rachana Kalelkar | Assistant Professor of Accounting B.S., M.S., University of Mumbai; Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio. |
| Carol L. Klages |
Associate Professor of Education B.A., Texas Lutheran College; M.Ed., University of Houston-Victoria; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. |
| Kathryn Kohlhaas | Assistant Professor of Science Education B.A., University of Texas at Austin; M.A., Ph.D., Texas A&M University. |
| Yingxu Kuang | Assistant Professor of Accounting B.E., Central South University-China; M.A., Hunan University; M.B.A., D.B.A., Louisiana Tech University. |
| Mary Lasater | Visiting Assistant Professor of Curriculum & Instruction B.F.A., University of Texas Austin; M.Ed., University of Houston-Victoria; Ph.D., University of Houston. |
| Teresa A. Le Sage | Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction B.S., California State University – Long Beach; M.S., Ed.D., Texas A&M University – Commerce. |
| Yong G. Lee | Associate Professor of Accounting B.A., Chonnam National University, Korea; M.B.A., Texas Tech University; Ph.D., Georgia State University. |
| Elsa S. Leggett | Assistant Professor of Counseling B.S., Texas Southern University; M.S., Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi; Ph.D., Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. |
| Hsin-Hui Lin | Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction B.A., Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan; M.S., Utah State University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Freddie Litton | Professor B.S., Northwestern State University; M.Ed., Northwestern State University; Ed.D., University of Northern Colorado. |
| Donald A. Loffredo | Professor of Psychology B.A., University of Rhode Island; M.A., Rhode Island College; Ed.D., University of Houston. |
| Diana Lopez | Lecturer of English A.A.S., Del Mar College; B.A., St. Mary's University; M.F.A., Southwest Texas State University |
| Beverly Lowry | Writer-in-Residence B.A., Memphis State University. |
| June Lu | Professor of Management B.A., Zhejiang University, China; M.E., Ed.D., University of Georgia. |
| Robert Marshall | Part-time Visiting Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership B.S., East Texas State University; M.S., East Texas State University; Ed.D., Texas A&M University. |
| Rachel Martinez | Assistant Professor of Special Education B.A. Ed., University of Texas at San Antonio; M.Ed., Texas Tech University; Ed.D., Texas Tech University. |
| Jessica McCue | Lecturer of Biology B.S., Texas A&M; Ph.D., Colorado State University |
| Sandra Scott McNeely | Assistant Clinical Professor of Nursing B.S.N., Baylor University; M.S.N., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. |
| Uppinder Mehan | Assistant Professor of English B.A., University of Windsor; B.Ed., University of Toronto; M.A., York University; Ph.D., University of Toronto |
| Massoud Metghalchi | Professor of Finance B.S., Institute National Des Sciences Appliquees; M.B.A., Oklahoma City University; Ph.D., Oklahoma State University. |
| Jeffry Moe | Assistant Professor of Counseling B.S., Ohio State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Toledo. |
| Mary K. Natividad | Professor of Education/Counseling B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.S., Ed.D., Northern Illinois University. |
| C. Denise Neill | Assistant Clinical Professor of Nursing ADN, Southern Arkansas University; BSN, MSN, University of Central Arkansas, Ph.D., Texas Women’s University. |
| Yixi Ning | Associate Professor of Finance B.E., M.S., Tsinghua University, China; Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale. |
| Farhang Niroomand | Professor of Economics B.A., National University of Iran; M.A., Ph.D., Michigan State University. |
| Vivian H. Nowazek | Assistant Clinical Professor of Nursing B.S.N., University of Manitoba; M.S.N., M.P.H., Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. |
| Amjad Nusayr | Lecturer of Computer Sciences B.Sc., Jordan University of Science & Technology; M.Sc., New York Institute of Technology, Jordan. |
| Uche Nwabueze | Assistant Professor of Management B.S., University of Sokoto, Nigeria; M.B.A., University of Wolverhampton, England; Ph.D., Sheffield Hallam University, England; M.A., University of Luton, England. |
| Joann S. Olson | Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership B.S., Michigan State University; M.A., Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL; Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania. |
| Jennifer Ortiz-Garza | Lecturer B.A., Texas A&M University-Kingsville; M.A., University of Houston-Victoria. |
| Jang-Woo Park | Lecturer of Math B.S., Korea University, Korea; M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ph.D., Clemson University. |
| Barba L. Patton | Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction B.S.Ed., M.Ed., University of Houston-Victoria; Ed.D., University of Houston. |
| Margaret Patton | Visiting Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership B.S., University of Southwestern Louisiana; M.A., University of Southwestern Louisiana; Ph.D., Prairie View A&M University. |
| Sherry Pelkey | Lecturer/Director of Field Experiences B.S.I.S., University of Houston-Victoria; M.Ed., Lamar University. |
| Rene Perez | Lecturer B.A., University of Texas, Austin; M.F.A., Texas State University, San Marcos. |
| Catherine A. Perz | Associate Professor of Psychology B.A., California State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Houston. |
| Marie Stern Plemons | Professor of Education/Early Childhood B.A., Texas Lutheran University; M.Ed., University of Houston-Victoria; Ed.D., University of Houston. |
| Diane E. Prince | Professor of Education B.S., M.A., Stephen F. Austin State University; Ed.D., University of Houston. |
| Yan Qin | Assistant Professor of Management B.S., Fudan University; Shanghai, China; |
| Jeffrey P. Radighieri | Assistant Professor of Marketing B.B.A., Texas A&M University; M.B.A., The University of Montana. |
| Nagarajan Ramamoorthy | Professor of Management B.A., M.A., University of Madras, India; M.B.A., Xavier Labor Relations Institute, India; Ph.D., University of Maryland. |
| Rupak Rauniar | Assistant Professor of Management B.E., Birla Institute of Technology; M.B.A., Ph.d., University of Toledo. |
| Kathleen Reeve | Clinical Associate Professor of Nursing B.S.N., M.S.N., A.N.P., Dr.p.h., The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; F.N.P., Prairie View A&M University. |
| Luh-Yu Ren | Associate Professor of Business Administration/Management B.S., M.S., National Central University at Taiwan; M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo; Ph.D., Texas Tech University. |
| Lawrence Rossow | Professor of Education B.A., M.A., West Virginia University; Ph.D., Syracuse University. |
| Elina Saeki | Assistant Professor B.A., California State University; M.Ed., University of California, Santa Barbara. |
| Ronald J. Salazar |
Assistant Professor of Management M.B.A., Southwest Texas State University; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. |
| Jeffrey Sartain | Lecturer of English B.A., University of Illinois; M.A., Illinois State University; Ph.D., Indiana University. |
| Kyle Schlesinger | Assistant Professor of Communication B.A., Goddard College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Buffalo. |
| Cynthia D. Schnebly | Associate Professor of Humanities/English B.A., Hendrix College; M.A., University of Tennessee; Ph.D., Texas A&M University. |
| Patricia Schrader | Assistant Clinical Professor B.S.N., Baylor University; M.S.N., University of Texas. |
| Mai Abo Shakra | Half-Time Lecturer of Computer Science M.S., New Mexico State University; B.S., Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan |
| Barjinder Singh | Assistant Professor of History B.B.A., Appejay College, India; M.B.A., Guru Nanek Dev University, India; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. |
| Harold L. Smith | Professor of Humanities/History B.A., University of Northern Iowa; M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa. |
| Dmitri Sobolev | Assistant Professor of Biology B.S., Yaroslavl State University; Ph.D., University of Alabama. |
| Stephanie Thomas Solansky | Assistant Professor of Management B.A., Texas Lutheran University; Ph.D. University of Texas at San Antonio. |
| Siva G. Somasundaram |
Associate Professor of Biology B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Madurai Kamaraj University. |
| John C. Stansell | Professor of Education B.S., Texas College of Arts and Industries; M.Ed., University of Houston; Ed.D., Indiana University. |
| Donna Stringer | Assistant Professor of Business/Management B.B.A., M.A., University of Houston-Clear Lake; M.A. University of Alabama; Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington. |
| David F. Summers |
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior Management B.S.E.E., Texas Tech University; M.B.A., West Texas A&M University; Ph.D., University of North Texas. |
| Ziad Swaidan | Associate Professor of Marketing B.Sc., M.E. Technical University; M.P.A., West Texas A&M University; Ph.D., University of Mississippi. |
| Kathryn Tart | Professor of Nursing B.A. Nursing, Luther College; M.S.N., University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; Ed.D., University of Houston. |
| Alireza Tavakkoli | Assistant Professor of Computer Science B.S., M.S., Sharif University of Technology; M.S., Ph.D., University of Nevada. |
| Susan Taylor | Lecturer B.A., University of Kansas; M.A., University of Kansas; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara. |
| Ricardo V. Teixeira | Lecturer of Math B.S., M.S., Universidade Federal do Ceara |
| Beverly Tomek | Assistant Professor of History B.A., University of Houston-Victoria; M.S., Southwest Texas State University; Ph.D., University of Houston. |
| Gino Tozzi, Jr. | Lecturer of Political Sciences B.A., Hillsdale College, M.A., Wayne State University. |
| Selvarajan (Rajan) Thirumalai Thattai | Associate Professor of Management B.T., Institute of Technology, Varanasi, India; M.A., Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay, India: Ph.D., Arizona State University. |
| Steve Trowbridge | Associate Professor of Education/Reading B.S., M.Ed., University of Houston-Victoria; Ed.D., Texas A&M University. |
| Shainy Varghese |
Assistant Professor of Nursing B.S.N., Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Tamil Nadu; M.S.N., University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Ph.D., University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. |
| Sandy S. Venneman | Associate Professor of Psychology and Biology B.A., University of Missouri at Saint Louis; M.S. (Research), Ph.D., Saint Louis University. |
| Yun Wan | Associate Professor of Computer Science/Information Systems B.E., B.S., University of Science and Technology of China; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago. |
| Mark Ward | Assistant Professor of Communications B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., Spring Arbor University; Ph.D., Clemson University. |
| Angela Willis | Lecturer of Nursing B.S.N., University of Alabama in Huntsville; M.S., Texas Woman’s University. |
| Jie Yang | Associate Professor of Statistics and Quantitative Management B.S., M.S., Kunming University of Science and Technology; Ph.D., The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
| Jun Yang | Assistant Professor of Marketing B.S., Fudan University; M.A., Hong Kong University; Ph.D., Syracuse University. |
| Ziyun (Calvin) Yang | Assistant Professor of Accounting B.A., Nanjing University, China; M.Phil., Lingnan University, Hong Kong. |
| Andria Young | Associate Professor of Education B.A., University of South Florida; M.A., University of Texas at El Paso; PhD., University of Houston. |
| Chun-Sheng Yu | Associate Professor of Management B.A., Zhejiang University; M.B.A., Fudan University, China; D. B.A., Mississippi State University. |
| Qi Zhu | Associate Professor of Computer Science B.E., Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China; M.E., National University of Singapore, Singapore; M.S., Ph.D., University of Central Florida. |
