Faculty Information

Child and Family Studies · Health and Safety Sciences · Consumer and Industry Services Management
· Nutrition · Human Resource Development

Jan Allen, Ph.D., Associate Professor.: Child care, policy and research, children and stress, moral development, political socialization, mentoring and preparing future faculty.
Priscilla White Blanton, Ed.D., Professor.: Families and stress, balancing work and family demands, gender roles and families, Adlerian Psychology and family process.
Cheryl Buehler, Ph.D., Professor.: Divorce, marital conflict, adolescence, youth problem behaviors.
Ernest Brewer, Ed.D., Department Head.: Disadvantaged youth and adults including dropouts, veterans, and displaced workers.
Carol Catron, Ed.D., Assistant Professor.: Child care programs, curriculum development, storytelling.
JoLynn Cunningham, Ph.D., Professor.: Developmental theory, conflict resolution, systems interaction, advocacy.
Greer Fox, Ph.D., Professor.: Father involvement in families at risk, economic uncertainty and family outcomes.
Melissa Groves, Ph.D., Assistant Professor.: Children's play environment preferences, early childhood educators' beliefs and dispositions, technology applications.
Julia Malia, Ph.D., Associate Professor.: Family stress, mother-/daughter-in-law relationships, conflict resolution/mediation, brief counseling.
Jim Moran, Ph.D., Dean, College of Human Ecology, Professor.: Creativity, children's play, child care issues, children's use of space, systems theory.
Michael Lane Morris, Ph.D., Assistant Professor.: Family life education, work/family, human sexuality, clergy families, transition to marriage.
Vey M. Nordquist, Ph.D., Professor.: Functional language, services for special needs, environmental organization.
Delores Smith, Ph.D., Associate Professor.: Cultural diversity, cultural context of human development, psychosocial development in childhood and adolescence.
Connie Steele, Ed.D., Professor Emeritus.: Leadership, critical thinking, cognitive styles, gifted & talented, suggestability of memory.
Deborah Tegano, Ph.D., Associate Professor.: Creativity, play, Reggio Approach, community building, sacred spaces for children, phenomenological research.
Sandra Twardosz, Ph.D., Professor.: Emergent literacy, environmental organization, behavior analysis, socio-emotional.

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Jack Ellison, Ed.D., Assistant Professor.: Certified Health Education Specialist. Alcohol and other drug use and abuse, mental health, suicide and crisis intervention.
Eugene C. Fitzhugh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor.: Certified Health Education Specialist. Adolescent tobacco control, worksite health promotion, school health education.
June Gorski, Dr.P.H., Professor.: Certified Health Education Specialist. Health education/health promotion for preventive services and interventions affecting individuals and communities.
Charles Hamilton, Dr.P.H., Professor and Department Head.: Primary health care access, health policy, environmental health issues, interdisciplinary health teams.
Robert H. Kirk, H.S.D., Professor.: Health and safety.
Robert Pursley, Ph.D., Associate Professor.: Adolescent health; health risk appraisal of children, adolescents, mid-life adults, and elder Americans; microcomputer applications related to public health departments and health care facilities.Alias Jack
Susan M. Smith, Ed.D., Assistant Professor.: Safety management and pollution prevention, safety aspects of comprehensive community planning, health risk appraisals, safety challenges associated with outdoor recreation and tourism.
Bill Wallace, Ed.D., Professor.: Certified Health Education Specialist. Gerontology and health education.
Paula C. Zemel, Ph.D., Associate Professor.: Public health nutrition, maternal-child health, technology-based and continuing nutrition education.

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James Bailey, Ph.D., Associate Professor.: New experimental lipids for parenteral and enteral nutrition; fatty acid and ketone metabolism.
Roy E. Beauchene, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus.: Nutritional parameters and aging in humans and experimental animals.
Betty Ruth Carruth, Ph.D., Professor.: Adolescent nutrition and bone health; infant feeding practices.
Betsy Haughton, Ed.D., Associate Professor and Director, Public Health Nutrition Program.: Public health nutrition practice for maternal and child health; continuing education interventions; food and nutrition policy.
Michael Karlstad, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor.: Metabolic and physiological responses to surgery, sepsis, and trauma.
Naima Moustaid Moussa, Ph.D., Assistant Professor.: Hormonal and nutritional regulation of lipid metabolism regulation of gene expression in adipose tissue in diabetes and obesity.
Thomas Namey, M.D., Professor.: Physiology of pain; exercise and the pain response; exercise, catecholamine metabolism, and hypertension.
Dileep Sachan, D.V.M., Ph.D., Professor.: Human and small animal research focused on lipid metabolism and carnitine nutriture in alcoholism, cancer, and environmental toxicosis; nutrient-drug and nutrient-nutrient interactions.
Jean Skinner, Ph.D., Professor.: Nutition education; socio-cultural aspects of food-related behavior; adolescent nutrition; teen pregnancy.
John T. Smith, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus.: Dietary sulfur and polyamine metabolism; drug metabolism and methyl group disposal: energy wasteful systems and metabolic obesity.
Jay Whelan, Ph.D., Associate Professor.: Regulation of lipid metabolism by n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids; biological effects of dietary arachidonic acid; effects of polyunsaturated fats on inflammation and cancer.
Michael B. Zemel, Ph.D., Professor and Department Head and Director, Nutrition Institute.: Alterations in intracellular calcium ([Ca²⁺]i) transport and metabolism, which increase the susceptibility to obesity, diabetes, and hypertension.
Paula C. Zemel, Ph.D., Associate Professor.: Nutrition intervention programs in high-risk populations, especially mothers, children, and families.

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Human and Resource Development

Clifton Campbell, Ed.D., Professor.: Performance-based education, international workforce development policy, apprenticeships.
Gerald Cheek, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus.: Corporate workforce trainings school-to-work, total quality management, international.
Carroll Coakley, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus.: Marketing education, manpower training and development, computer software.
David Craig, Ed.D., Professor Emeritus.: Technology education, computer-based training, supervision.
Jacky DeJonge, Ph.D., College of Human Ecology, Professor.
Robert Hanson, Ph.D., Associate Professor.: Technology education, hands-on learning.
Roger Haskell, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus.: Industry and education partnerships, school-to-work transition.
Virginia Kupritz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor.: Privacy management in work organizations, design needs of elderly populations within the U.S. and abroad.
Billy Ledford, Ed.D., Associate Professor (Retired).: Instructional technology, social and cultural bias, teacher training.
Jackie H. Mcinnis, Ph.D., Associate Professor.: Family and Consumer Sciences teacher education, curriculum development, evaluation.
Cheryl Mimbs, Ph.D., Assistant Professor.: Family and Consumer Sciences teacher education, curriculum development, evaluation.
Greg Petty, Ph.D., Professor, Head.: Occupational work ethic, motivation, program evaluation, adults with disabilities.
Randal Pierce, Ph.D., Assistant Professor.: Vocational-technical education, industrial training.
Vickie J. Stout, Ed.D. Associate Professor: Business and Marketing teacher education, curriculum development, evaluation.

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Consumer and Industry Services Management

·Hotel and Resturant Administration

·Recreation and Tourism Management

·Retailing

·Textiles

Carol Costello, Ph.D. Associate Professor.: Food service management and casino gaming; impact of Native American casinos in the gaming industry.
Li-Chun Lin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor.: Yield management analysis in hotel properties, impact of gaming development on communities, tourism impact on travel behaviors.
Carl Pfaffenberg, Ph.D., Assistant Professor.: Gaming with focus on marketing, economic impact, and social cost, technology in hospitality education, and impact of alcohol on our industry from guest and employee perspective.
Katherine Young, J.D., Assistant Professor.: Legal liability issues for hospitality industry members in the areas of alcohol service, toxic substance exposure, security, and employment matters.

Dean Aaser, M.S., Internship Coordinator.: Professional and career developement, hotel operations and marketing.

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Recreation and Tourism Management

Rachel Chen, Ph.D.,, Assistant Professor..: Economic impact assessment in the areas of tourism, recreation & parks, forecsting, GIS applications, commercial recreation, travel and visitor surveys, tourism marketing strategy development, community and hospitality analysis.
Mary Dale Blanton, Re.D., Associate Professor.: Sport management, homelessness, violence prevention.
Gene A. Hayes, Ph.D., Professor.: Inclusion of disabled children in community programs and public school activities, attitudes toward disabled individuals, therapeutic recreation, self-esteem, wellness.
Ken Krick Re.D., Associate Professor.: Management of leisure services/industries.

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Retailing

Ann Fairhurst, Ph.D., Professor.: Consumer purchasing, international retailing, career exploration and training in retail.
Laura Jolly, Ph.D., Professor.: Rural retailing and economic survival and growth of rural communities, retail buyers and strategic partnerships.
Rosalind Paige, Ph.D., Assistant Professor: Competitive strategies employed by retailers that lead to firm success, including marketing strategies and elements of organization culture; tourism retailing and consumer behavior.
Lucy Simpson, M.S., RCS Internship Coordinator: Service management, retail industry with relation to training students in basic retailing and merchandising principals.
Allison Young, Ph.D., Assistant Professor.: Consumer attitudes towards various retailing formats, attitude formation of consumers toward direct marketing approaches.

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Gajanan Bhat, Ph.D., Professor.: Acrylic and carbon fibers, recycled plastics.
Randall R. Bresee, Ph.D., Professor.: Web structure, image analysis, fiber quality, physical aging.
Molly Dever, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor.: Carbon cotton composites, sensory evaluation of non-wovens, recycled polymers.
Kermit Duckett, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus.: Optical properties of cotton, biocomponent bonded fabrics, high volume instrumentation.
Nancy Fair, Ph.D., Department Head.: Structural/property relationships of polymeric materials.
Billie J. Collier,Ph.D., Associate Dean.: Textile product development, fabric mechanical properties, natural fiber geotextiles, cellulosic microfibers.
Larry Wadsworth, Professor and Senior Executive, Technology and Marketing, TANDEC.: Melt blowing, spunbond processing of polyoletins, polymer liquid crystals, flourocarbon polymers, biodegradable polymers, and recycled plastics and thermoplastics.

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Faculty Information

Child & Family Studies

Health & Safety Sciences

Nutrition

Human and Resource Development

Consumer and Industry Services Management