30  DIRECTORIES

30.1 The Faculty

30.1.1 Full-Time Faculty

MARIO AFFATIGATO
Professor of Physics.
B.A., Coe College; M.S., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University.

UGUR AKGUN
Professor of Physics.
B.S., Middle East Technical University, Turkey; Ph.D., University of Iowa.

BRIE SWENSON ARNOLD
Associate Professor of History.
B.A., Concordia College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota.

KATE ASPENGREN
Assistant Professor of English.
B.A., M.F.A., University of Iowa.

LARRY D. ATWATER
Assistant Professor of Kinesiology.
B.A., Coe College; M.A., Northeast Missouri State University.

MARIE BAEHR
Special Assistant to the President; Professor of Physics.
B.A., Denison University; M.S., University of New Hampshire; Ph.D., The Ohio State University.

MICHAEL BAKER
Professor of Psychology.
B.A., Coe College; M.S., Ph.D., Iowa State University.

RYAN BARANOWSKI
Associate Professor of Stead Department of Business Administration and Economics.
B.A., Coe College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine.

DENNIS BARNETT
Professor of Theatre Arts.
B.A., Indiana University; M.F.A., Florida State University; Ph.D., University of Washington.

LISA A. BARNETT
Associate Professor of Sociology.
B.S.J., Northwestern University; M.A., Ph.D., Washington State University.

LYNDA BARROW
Professor of Political Science.
B.A., Albion College; M.A., The Johns Hopkins University; M.T.S., Wesley Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Syracuse University.

ALISSA BOGUSLAW
Assistant Professor of Sociology
B.A., 2007, University of Minnesota; M. A., M.Phil., The New School for Social Research.

CAIO BARCA BRAGATTO
Assistant Professor of Physics.
B.A., Universidade de Sao Paulo; M.A., Ph.D., Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos.

ABBIE BREWER
Assistant Professor of Music
B.M., Wartburg College; M.M., Azusa Pacific University; D.M., University of Iowa

SAMANTHA BROWN
Assistant Professor of Psychology.
B.A., Creighton University; Ph.D., University of Iowa.

DEREK N. BUCKALOO
Professor of History.
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., Emory University.

HEIDE BURSCH
Associate Professor of Nursing.
B.S.N., M.S.N., Ph.D., University of Iowa.

ALLISON CARR
Associate Professor of Rhetoric.
B.A., Coe College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Cincinnati.

WILLIAM S. CARSON
Professor of Music.
B.A., Macalester College; M.M., Southern Illinois University; D.M.A., Arizona State University.

PAMELA J. CARSTENS
Professor of Business Administration and World Affairs.
B.A., Coe College; M.B.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa.

VANESSA CASTILLO
Assistant Professor of Psychology.
B.A., Concordia College; B.S., PhD. Iowa State University.

JOHN BRADLEY CHAIMOV
Associate Professor, Director of Off-Campus Study.
B.A., University of California, San Diego; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago.

JOHN M. CHANDLER
Assistant Professor of Kinesiology
B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.A., University of Northern Iowa.

JIA-YUH CHEN
Professor of Stead Department of Business Administration and Economics.
B.S., National Taiwan University; M.B.A., University of California, Irvine; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz.

BENJAMIN CHIHAK
Assistant Professor of Psychology.
B.A., Macalester College; Ph.D., University of Minnesota.

JOSHUA CHRISTENSEN
Associate Professor of Stead Department of Business Administration and Economics.
B.A., Wartburg College; J.D., University of Iowa College of Law.

RANDOLPH N. CHRISTENSEN
Professor of Biology.
B.S., Brigham Young University; Ph.D., The Ohio State University.

ZEN COHEN
Assistant Professor of Art and Film Studies
B.F.A., California College of the Arts; M.F.A., University of California at Davis

CASSY COZINE
Associate Professor of Biology.
B.S., University of Southern Mississippi; Ph.D., University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.

GAVIN MORRISON CROSS
Professor of Statistics.
B.A., B.S., Miami University; M.S., University of Missouri-Rolla; M.S., Ph.D., University of Iowa.

HANNAH DEHNER
Assistant Professor of Nursing.
BSN, MSN, University of Iowa.

THERESA A. DONOFRIO
Associate Professor of Communication Studies.
B.A., Miami University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Maryland.

FIRDEVS DURU
Associate Professor of Physics.
B.S., Bosphorus University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Iowa.

RICHARD G. EICHHORN
Professor of Stead Department of Business Administration and Economics.
B.S., University of Tulsa; M.A., Ph.D., Colorado State University.

JESSE ELLIS
Associate Professor of Biology.
B.A., Lewis & Clark College; Ph.D., Cornell University.

JULIE FAIRBANKS
Associate Professor of Anthropology.
B.S., Georgetown University; M.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., Indiana University.

MARC FALK
Professor of Music, Associate Dean for Faculty Development
B.A., Macalester College; M.M., University of Minnesota; D.M.A., University of Iowa.

SARA K. FARRELL
Professor of Psychology.
B.A., University of Iowa; M.A., Minnesota State University, Mankato; Ph.D., Northern Illinois University.

STEVEN FELLER
Professor of Physics.
B.S., Clarkson College of Technology; Sc.M., Ph.D., Brown University.

JENNY FERGUSON
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing.
B.A., York University; M.A., University of Windsor; Ph.D., University of South Dakota.

LUCILLE GOODSON
Associate Professor of Art.
B.A., Black Hills State College; M.F.A., Indiana University.

SHARON GUTHRIE
Associate Professor of Nursing.
A.A., A.S., Kirkwood Community College; BSN, MSN, Ph.D., University of Iowa.

SHAWN P. HARMSEN
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies.
B.A., Wartburg College; M.A., University of Northern Iowa; Ph.D., University of Iowa.

CHRISTOPHER HATCHELL
Associate Professor of Religion.
B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia.

GINA HAUSKNECHT
Professor of Literature and Creative Writing.
B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan.

DAVID HAYES
President, Professor of Business Administration.
B.A., Coe College; J.D., University of Iowa; L.L.M., University of Iowa Law School.

NANCY HAYES
Associate Professor of Education.
B.A., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; M.A., Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., University of Iowa.

STACY HAYNES-MOORE
Assistant Professor of Education.
B.A., Truman State University; M.A.T, Ph.D., University of Iowa.

WILLIAM KENT HERRON
Professor of Mathematics.
B.A., University of Dubuque; M.S., Ph.D., University of Iowa.

JEFFREY L. HOOVER
Professor of Philosophy.
B.A., Eastern Mennonite College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame.

TERRY R. HOSTETLER
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science.
A.B., Augustana College; M.S., University of Illinois; Ph.D., University of Iowa.

DANIEL F. HUGHES
Assistant Professor of Biology.
B.S., Humboldt State University; M.S., Shippensburg University; Ph.D., University of Texas at El Paso.

STEPHEN B. HUGHES
Associate Professor of Computer Science.
B.S., Dickinson College; M.S., Indiana University; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh.

JOYCE M. JANCA-AJI
Associate Professor of French.
B.A., Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University at Bloomington.

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON
Assistant Professor of Education and African-American Studies.
B.S., Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University; M.E., Ph.D., The University of Georgia.

BETHANY A. KEENAN
Associate Professor of History.
B.A., Douglass College, Rutgers; M.A., The State University of New Jersey; M.A., Ph.D. University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.

SCOUT KELLY
Assistant Professor of Psychology.
B.A., University of Puget Sound; M.A., Ph.D., Kent State University.

MEIRA Z. KENSKY
Professor of Religion.
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago Divinity School.

ALEESA KITTRELL
Assistant Professor of Nursing
B.S.N. Mount Mercy University; M.S.N., Clarke University; D.N.P., Capella University.

SARAH KRESS
Assistant Professor of Education.
B.A., Coe College; M.S., Drake University.

ROBERT D. KUENNEN
Assistant Professor of Stead Department of Business Administration and Economics.
B.A., University of Notre Dame; M.B.A., University of Iowa.

KIMBERLY RAE LANEGRAN
Professor of Political Science.
B.A., Grinnell College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Florida.

KAYTI LAUSCH
Visiting Assistant Professor of Film Studies.
B.A., Cornell University; M.A., University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., University of Michigan.

ELLEN LEE
Assistant Professor of Psychology.
B.S., Loyola University, Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Northern Illinois University.

MARGARET LEMAY-LEWIS
Assistant Professor of English.
B.A., Barnard College; M.F.A., University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

JOHN PAUL LEMOS
Professor of Philosophy.
B.A., University of the South; Ph.D., Duke University.

CHELSEA LENSING
Assistant Professor of Stead Department of Business Administration and Economics.
B.A., Coe College; Ph.D., University of Iowa.

MICHAEL R. LEONARDO
Professor of Biology.
B.A., Knox College; M.A., Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

CHAD LIBBY
Assistant Professor of Kinesiology; Director of Athletic Training Education.
B.S., Morningside College; M.S., Louisiana State University.

LUKE LOVEGOOD
Assistant Professor of Music - Choral Music Education
B.M., Coe College; M.M.E., VanderCook College of Music

RANELLE KNIGHT LUETH
Assistant Professor of Art History.
B.A., South Dakota State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa.

NEAL McNABB
Assistant Professor of Social and Criminal Justice.
B.A.; M.A., University of Central Oklahoma; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma.

LaTANYA McQUEEN
Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing.
B.F.A; M.F.A., Emerson College; Ph.D., University of Missouri.

CARRIE MELCHER
Associate Professor of Stead Department of Business Administration and Economics.
B.S., Ohio State University; M.P.H., Drake University.

BRITTNEY MILLER
Associate Professor of Mathematics.
B.S., University of Southern California; Ph.D., Purdue University.

BRETT MOMMER
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S., Iowa State University; M.S., Ph.D. University of Illinois, Champaign.

LAISSA RODRIGUEZ MORENO
Assistant Professor of Spanish.
B.A., Universidad Nacional de Colombia; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin – Madison.

BRUCE F. NESMITH
Professor of Political Science and Director of Washington Term.
B.A., North Central College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois.

JANE NESMITH
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Director of Writing Center.
B.A., The College of Wooster; M.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., University of Iowa.

VINH Q. NGUYEN
Associate Professor of Stead Department of Business Administration and Economics.
B.A., National Economics University, Vietnam; M.B.A., Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand; Ph.D., Mississippi State University.

DAVID A. NORDMANN
Associate Professor of History.
B.A., Coe College; M.A., University of Kansas; Ph.D., Indiana University.

OLUWADAMILOLA OPAYEMI
Assistant Professor of Communications Studies.
M.S., Central Connecticut State University; Ph.D., University of Alabama.

NIALL PEACH
Assistant Professor of Spanish.
B.A., Durham University, St. Aidan’s College; M.A., Ph.D., Purdue University.

AMY PERRY
Assistant Professor of Stead Department of Business Administration and Economics.
B.B.A., M.A., University of Iowa.

KARA RECKER
Assistant Professor of Psychology.
B.S., Arizona State University; Ph.D., University of Iowa.

LAURA RISKEDAHL
Interim Director of Library Services.
B.A., University of Northern Iowa; M.A., University of Iowa.

KATIE RODGERS
Associate Professor of Sociology.
B.A., Coe College; M.A., Rutgers University; Ph.D., University of Oregon.

JENNIFER ROGERS
Associate Professor of Art.
B.A., Coe College; M.F.A., University of Minnesota.

AMY RUSSELL
Assistant Professor of Education.
B.S., Mount Mercy College; M.A., University of Iowa.

ELAINE CARR RYDZE
Assistant Professor of Kinesiology.
B.S., Michigan State University; M.A., University of Iowa.

MARTIN ALAN ST. CLAIR
Professor of Chemistry.
B.S., Butler University; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology.

PAULA J. SANCHINI
Professor of Biology.
B.A., Hartwick College; Ph.D., University of Colorado – Boulder.

BENJAMIN SCHMIDT
Instructor in Theatre Arts.
B.A., University of Iowa.

STEVEN SHANLEY
Associate Professor of Music.
B.M., University of Northern Iowa; M.E., University of Minnesota; M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa.

AMBER SHAW
Associate Professor of English.
B.A., Rhodes College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Georgia.

KELLY SIEMS
Assistant Professor of Nursing.
B.S.N., Mount Mercy College; M.S.N.-Ed, Regis University; D.N.P., Clarke University.

STEVEN SINGLETON
Professor of Chemistry.
B.S., Fort Lewis College; Ph.D., University of Denver.

MELISSA SODEMAN
Professor of English.
B.A., University of Washington – Seattle; M.A., Ph.D., University of California – Los Angeles.

ANTONIO SPIKES
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric.
B.S., Georgia Southern University; M.A., Ph.D., Southern Illinois University.

CHRISTOPHER STEAD
Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
M.S., University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology; Ph.D., Medical College of Georgia.

MICHAEL STOBB
Assistant Professor of Mathematical Science.
B.A., Humboldt State University; M.S., Humboldt State University; Ph.D., University of California.

PAUL STORER
Associate Professor of Biology.
B.S., Allegheny College; M.S., Duquesne University; Ph.D., Loyola University, Chicago.

SCOTT J. STOUDT
Associate Professor of Chemistry.
B.A., Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., Michigan State University.

PETER JOHN THOMPSON
Professor of Art.
B.A., M.A., M.F.A., University of Iowa.

MICHELLE UMBARGER-MACKEY
Associate Professor of Nursing.
B.S.N., M.S.N., Ph.D., University of Iowa.

PATRICIA VALDERRAMA
Assistant Professor of English.
B.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., Stanford University.

DREW WESTBERG
Associate Professor of Economics.
B.A., Coe College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Missouri - Kansas City.

JONATHAN J. WHITE
Professor of Mathematics.
B.A., Coe College; M.S., University of Iowa; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma.

SUSAN WOLVERTON
Professor of Theatre Arts, Interim Associate Dean for Student Academics
B.A., Carleton College; M.F.A., University of Iowa.

HONGBO XIE
Instructor and Head of Library Technical Services.
B.S., Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Nanjing, China; M.A., University of Iowa.

ANGELA ZISKOWSKI
Interim Provost and Dean of the Faculty; Associate Professor of History.
B.A., University of Cincinnati; M.A., Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College.

30.1.2 Faculty Emeriti

(Dates in parentheses indicate years of active faculty service.)

CHARLES WILLIAM AUKEMA, M.F.A.
Professor of English, Emeritus (1971–2016).

JOHN A. BECKELMAN, M.F.A.
Robert O. Daniel Professor of Art, Emeritus (1978–2015).

JOHN E. BROWN
President, Emeritus (1982-2001)

EDMUND BURKE, Ph.D.
Professor of Humanities, Emeritus (1974–2012).

ROSEMARY F. CARROLL, Ph.D.
Henry and Margaret Haegg Distinguished Professor of History, Emerita (1971–2001).

JAMES P. COTTINGHAM, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics, Emeritus (1989–2011).

ROBERT DANIEL DREXLER, Ph.D.
William P. and Gayle S. Whipple Professor of English, Emeritus (1974–2016).

RICHARD D. DOYLE, M.A.
Professor, Emeritus; Director of Library Services and Director of Technology (1972–2010).

MARIA A. DEAN
Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus (1984–2020).

WENDY DUNN
Professor of Psychology , Emeritus (1980–2020).

ALLEN P. FISHER, Ph.D.
Stead Family Professor of Sociology, Emeritus (1978–2011).

HARLO HADOW, Ph.D.
Heins-Johnson Professor of Biology and Director of the Coe Wilderness Field Station, Emeritus (1977–2019).

JEANNINE HAMMOND, Ph.D.
Joanne M. Pochobradsky Professor of French, Emerita (1973–2006).

DWIGHT W. HANSEN, M.A.
Associate Professor of Stead Department of Business Administration and Economics, Emeritus (1978–2016).

TERRY L. HELLER, Ph.D.
Howard Hall Professor of English, Emeritus (1975–2013).

GLENN ALFRED JANUS, Ph.D.
Henrietta Arnold Professor of History, Emeritus (1971–2011).

ROGER P. JOHANSON, Ph.D.
Professor of Education, Emeritus (1986–2015).

DEAN MEREDITH KARNS, M.A.
Professor of Mathematics and Music, Emeritus (1960–1999).

BARBARA LAREW, Ph.D.
Elnora H. and William B. Quarton Professor of Business Administration and Economics, Emerita (1981–2017).

JAMES BRIAN LARKIN, Ph.D.
Professor of Spanish, Emeritus (1961–1990).

DONALD JOHN LISIO, Ph.D.
Henrietta Arnold Professor of History, Emeritus (1964–2001).

MARGIE VATHAUER MARRS, M.A.
Pearl M. Taylor Professor of Music, Emerita (1978–2014).

ROBERT L. MARRS, Ph.D.
The Esther and Robert Armstrong Professor of Rhetoric, Emeritus (1986–2014).

PETER N. McCORMICK, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus (1974–2018)

MICHAEL McDONALD, M.A.
Professor of Business Administration and Economics, Emeritus (1981–2005).

DAVID W. McINALLY
President, Emeritus (2013-2021)

TERRY FUELLING McNABB, Ph.D.
Professor of Education, Emerita (1995-2016); Associate Dean of the Faculty, (2010–2015).

EVELYN J. MOORE, Ph.D.
Professor of Nursing, Emerita (1983–2014).

THOMAS B. MOYE, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus (1989–2017).

JERRY MICHAEL OWEN, Ph.D.
Alma A. Turechek Professor of Music, Emeritus (1969–2006).

JAMES R. PHIFER, Ph.D.
President of the College, Emeritus, and Professor of History, Emeritus (1985–2013).

MICHAEL E. PUFALL, Ph.D.
Professor of Theatre Arts, Emeritus (1976–2000).

JAMES H. RANDALL, M.A.
Stead Professor of English, Emeritus (1969–70; 1971–2010).

KURT E. REDBORG, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology, Emeritus (1988–2017).

MICHAEL L. SANDBERG, Ph.D.
Louie J. And Ella Pochobradsky Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus (1976–2007).

FLOYD SANDFORD, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology, Emeritus (1971–2005).

CALVIN VAN NIEWAAL, M.S.
Professor of Computer Science and John F. Yothers Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus (1981–2018).

STANLEY READ WATKINS, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus (1958–1993).

PETER PETTINER WICKHAM, Ph.D.
Henry and Margaret Haegg Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus (1969–2000).

MICKEY TAI CHUIEN WU
George R. Baker Professor of Business Administration and Economics (1979-2019).

NŰKHET D. YARBROUGH, Ph.D.
Stead Family Professor of Psychology, Emerita (1985–2019).

30.1.3 Adjunct Faculty

GEOFF CHAPLIN
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religion.
B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., University of Chicago.

EMILY GANFIELD
Instructor in Theatre Arts; Costume Shop Manager/Supervisor.
B.A., Coe College; M.F.A., Purdue University.

JOE HALL
Instructor of Stead Department of Business Administration and Economics.
B.A., M.A., M.F.A., University of Iowa.

SHERIF IBRAHIM
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
B.S., University of Maryland; Ph.D., University of Iowa.

KARLA KEYES
Instructor of Biology.
B.A., Coe College; M.S., Washington University School of Medicine.

JOSHUA LANGSETH
Instructor in Humanities.
B.A., Concordia College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa.

AMY LUTTINGER
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology.
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Princeton University.

MEGUMI POTTER
Adjunct Instructor of Japanese.
B.A., University of Iowa; M.A., Baylor University.

KELLI MARIE RICE
Adjunct Instructor of Kinesiology.
B.A., Central College; M.A., University of Iowa.

KARLA STEFFENS
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Gender and Sexuality Studies; Coordinator of Crimson Fellows Program.
B.A., Southern Illinois University; M.A., Johns Hopkins University; M.F.A., University of Iowa.

CHERISH STEPHENSON
Adjunct Instructor of Psychology.
B.A., Coe College; M.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

JAMES WETZEL
Adjunct Instructor of Astronomy.
B.SC., University of Iowa.

BRETT A. WOLGAST
Assistant Professor of Piano; College Organist.
B.M., Kansas State University; M.A., M.F.A., D.M.A., University of Iowa.

30.1.4 Special Program Faculty

ANNA DREXLER
Instructor and Director of English as a Second Language.
B.A., Coe College; M.F.A., University of Oregon.

KATHY WELSH
Instructor in English as a Second Language.
B.A., M.A., University of Iowa.