EHE News
Introducing New Faculty With the College of Education and Human Ecology
Autumn 2007
The return to Ohio State of Dr. Gordon Gee, former president of five major U.S. universities, coincides with the arrival of 22 new faculty to our college, increasing our faculty ranks to 190 as of Dec 1, 2007 (169 Columbus, 21 regional). Together, all our faculty and staff work to improve the well-being of learners, individuals, families, and communities, especially those at risk and in urban areas.
We are pleased to introduce six new professors, seven new associate professors, and seven new assistant professors who joined us at the start of autumn quarter. We welcome them and look forward to their contributions to our multi-faceted program.
Professors
As one of the top educational psychologists in the field, Professor Eric Anderman (PhD, University of Michigan) is president of Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association, and a newly named APA Fellow. A recent study also named him one of the 20 most productive researchers in educational psychology. He serves as the associate editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology, and he and his wife, Associate Professor Lynley Anderman, have two books due out in 2008 from major publishers. Currently engaged in projects totaling about $4 million, he focuses on the prevention of risky behaviors during adolescence, adolescent academic motivation, and academic cheating. Anderman joined the School of Educational Policy and Leadership at the start of autumn quarter.
Professor Laura Justice (PhD, Ohio University), a speech-language pathologist, is a nationally prominent scholar in child language and literacy development and disorders, with emphasis on intervention for children at risk due to poverty and/or language impairment. She publishes extensively across the disciplines of early childhood, speech and language disorders, reading, and special education. With impressive funding from the US Department of Education and the National Institutes of Health, she is a frequently invited speaker, sharing her novel approaches and rigorous design of her intervention research, including the development of innovative tools for measuring children's understanding of print knowledge, and interventions for improving children's language and vocabulary. Justice joined the School of Teaching and Learning at the start of autumn quarter.
With a remarkable record of academic achievement and administrative leadership, Professor and Director Bruce A. Kimball (EdD/MDiv, Harvard) joined us in July. Working with the School of Educational Policy and Leadership's distinguished faculty, he has crafted a strategic plan to link cutting-edge research to both policy and professional practice in the field. Kimball has held teaching and administrative appointments at five major universities, including Harvard and Yale. He was dean of the Morse College at Yale by the time he was 35, and later went from assistant to full professor in four years at the University of Rochester. He has been awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship and a Spencer Fellowship and has won the Ness Prize from the Association of American Colleges and Universities for his book on the history of liberal education. His current area of research is the history of professional education.
With an outstanding background in mathematics and mathematics education, Professor Azita Manouchehri (PhD, University of Georgia-Athens) has contributed significantly to mathematics curriculum reform, the role and impact of technology in mathematics instruction, and mathematical classroom discourse, its effect on student learning, and the results when teachers use it for inquiry-based teaching. Her impressive publication record spans the leading journals in mathematics education, mathematics education teaching, and general teacher education. She has gained an unusually broad audience for her work both within and outside the typical community of mathematics educators. Manouchehri joined the School of Teaching and Learning at the beginning of autumn quarter.
Professor Jan K. Nespor (PhD, University of Texas), who joined the School of Educational Policy and Leadership at the start of autumn quarter, is a distinguished scholar who has contributed significantly to the anthropology of education with emphasis on ethnography and qualitative methods. One of his major contributions to the field is his creative approach to treating schools as the intersection of many networks, including cultural, economic, and political systems that shape curriculum, pedagogy, and how children experience school. He is among the minority of qualitative methodologists who maintains an active program of fieldwork. Nespor's work has significant implications for education practice, reform, and policy.
Professor Elaine Richardson's (PhD, Michigan State University) rich and sophisticated body of work pushes the boundaries of theory and practice in linguistics, literary theory, language arts education and composition studies, and popular culture. She is one of the top scholars in the nation focusing on literacy studies among African-American youth and has created a culturally relevant model of composition instruction that brings cultural legacies of students to the forefront of the curriculum and helps them become proficient writers. The frequency of her speaking engagements and the many awards she has received for her books attest to the enthusiasm that the broad academic community has for her research. Richardson joined the School of Teaching and Learning at the start of autumn quarter.
Associate Professors
Lynley Anderman (PhD, University of Michigan) is highly respected for her scholarship and leadership in educational psychology addressing student motivation and sense of school belonging. She is known for her role in developing one of the two most commonly used instruments for assessing students' achievement goals and related motivational attitudes and beliefs. Her peers elected her chair of AERA's Motivation in Education SIG. She sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Educational Psychology, the most prominent peer-reviewed journal in the area internationally, and gained funding totaling nearly $1 million in just a few years from state and foundation sources She joined the School of Educational Policy and Leadership this autumn.
Jerome D'Agostino (PhD, University of Chicago) has gained a national reputation in testing and assessment, program evaluation, research design, and policy analysis. He focuses his research on some of the most challenging and pressing aspects of K-12 education. These include testing within standards-based reform, the use of assessments as educational change levers, and teacher certification testing. He also specializes in studying the effectiveness of interventions for underprivileged children and families. He has served on several key advisory committees, and his research has influenced state and national policy and debate. He is now with the School of Educational Policy and Leadership.
Carla Miller (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University) specializes in the development and evaluation of theory-based interventions that facilitate diabetes management. Her questionnaires identify the need for patient education, particularly among African American, middle-aged and older adults with diabetes. Her research determines the impact of these nutrition interventions on clinical and psychosocial outcomes as well as processes of change. Before joining the Department of Human Nutrition, she was associate director of Pennsylvania State's Diabetes Center. She has received several grants from the National Institutes of Health, as well as from many other private and public funding sources.
Ross Nehm (PhD, University of California Berkeley) is both a scientist and a science
teacher educator. He began his career as a paleobiologist with a PhD in biology. He chose to earn an EdM in science education and taught high school science. Later, he entered college teaching, holding dual faculty appointments in biology and science education. Through his recent National Science Foundation Career Award, he brings together undergraduate students and international scientists in research on evolutionary biology. His ambitious science education research program adds to the School of Teaching and Learning's STEM education initiative and to Metro High School, the university's STEM laboratory school.
Ann A. O'Connell (PhD, Teachers College, Columbia University) is a leading scholar in multivariate analyses of ordinal data. She has collaborated with other faculty in applied research resulting in work that covers the multiple domains of biostatistics, health and kinesiology, education, psychology, and sociology. Her productivity led to her election as president of the Educational Statisticians Special Interest Group (SIG) of AERA and selection as co-editor of their sponsored volume on multilevel analysis of educational data. She provides statistical support to the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education in Washington, DC, for the NCLB growth model pilot program and for the use of school-level proficiency index systems for assessing adequate yearly progress. She is now faculty with the School of Educational Policy and Leadership.
Anastasia "Tasha" Snyder (PhD, Pennsylvania State University) studies the experiences and behavior of rural youth, including those in migrant or seasonal farm worker families, and the demographics of rural family households with a focus on women's cohabitation patterns. Her articles on rural cohabitation patterns are among the first published, appearing in the top journal Rural Sociology. With funding from the USDA, Snyder is increasing the field's limited knowledge about rural youth by gathering data about their educational aspirations and social and geographic mobility. With this start, she has joined the Department of Human Development and Family Science and is filling a void in the literature by addressing rural family change.
Galen Trail, a 1997 PhD alumnus of the College of Education and Human Ecology, has influenced both academe and industry as a scholar in sport management. His research has fundamentally shifted the way the field understands the determinants of sport consumer behavior. In strategic management of sport organizations, he was the first to determine that people's preferences for sport organization goals depend on personal values rather than a stakeholder group. He publishes in the most prestigious journals in the field, such as the Journal of Sport Management, was inducted as a Research Fellow into the North American Society for Sport Management, and has conducted contract research for many sport organizations.
Assistant Professors
With almost 2.5 million in grant funding already to her credit, Cynthia Buettner (Ph.D., Ohio State University) has research interests that center on the nexus between vulnerable children/families and the educational and social systems that serve them. Before joining the faculty in the Department of Human Development and Family Science, she served the college as director of Research and the former College of Human Ecology as director of Special Projects. Buettner also leads the Ohio Collaborative, a research and policy analysis center committed to conducting and disseminating research that can improve schools and the lives of children and families.
Jae-Eun Chung (PhD, Michigan State University) studies why consumers buy clothing and other products, especially those sold in international markets such as India, Japan, and Korea. Now with the Department of Consumer Sciences, she looks at the impacts of cultural factors on consumers' buying habits and distribution channel relationships between retailers and their suppliers. Before coming to Ohio State, she was an assistant professor of retail merchandising at Ohio University for five years. She has two articles in press, and two were published in 2006. She received a Best Paper Award from the Academy of Marketing Science, and her students rank her teaching at a high level on faculty surveys.
With interests in exploring mental health issues in schools and examining bullying, peer victimization, and aggression among children and adolescents, Kisha M. Haye (PhD, University of Nebraska - Lincoln) joined the School of Physical Activity and Educational Services this autumn. Most recently, she completed postdoctoral training at the in Florida, a small private practice specializing in children's learning, development, and behavior. Before that, she completed an APA-approved Psychology Internship at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. There, in addition to clinical rotations, she was a researcher on the Violence Prevention Programming in Urban Schools project. During her doctoral program, Haye was co-director for a longitudinal research project examining bullying and peer victimization among middle school youth.
With the number of cohabiting adults at an all-time high, Claire Kamp Dush (PhD, Pennsylvania State University) is filling a critical void in the research. Her new $500,000 grant from NIH examines the socio-emotional and economic consequences for families of ending a cohabiting relationship compared to divorce. Kamp Dush joined the Department of Human Development and Family Science this autumn after completing a postdoctoral fellowship with the Evolving Family Theme Project of the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell University. She is among a small but growing group of researchers who are trained in human development and use large scale nationally representative data sets for analysis.
With an interest in adolescent identities and youth digital literacies, writing research, urban education, and African American studies, Valerie Kinloch (PhD, Wayne State University) joined the School of Teaching and Learning from Teachers College - Columbia University where she was an assistant professor of English education. Active in the field, Kinloch works with youth and teachers in local high schools to facilitate her research and professional development. For instance, she was a visiting instructor, student/teacher mentor, and researcher at two Harlem high schools (2005-2007). Kinloch has multiple publications, has given many presentations, and has received funding from the Spencer Foundation and the National Council of Teachers of English.
Laura Kresty (PhD, The Ohio State University) joined the Department of Human Nutrition from the OSU College of Medicine, Program of Cancer Chemoprevention and Support. She is a member of the Comprehensive Cancer Center and the OSU Nutrition PhD Program. Her research focus is on the nutrition-cancer link, especially the cancer prevention potential of both synthetic and natural products on aerodigestive tract cancers and premalignancy. Her human clinical trials were the first to examine the effect of freeze-dried black raspberries on patients with Barrett's esophagus, a precancerous esophageal condition. She currently has funding from the National Cancer Institute and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Weidong Li (PhD, Louisiana State University) joined the School of Physical Activity and Educational Services this autumn. His research focuses on (1) physical inactivity - its cognitive, affective, and motivational mechanisms, (2) obesity bias and coping mechanisms, and (3) physical activity, cognition, and academic achievement. He contributes to several major achievement theories, including conceptions of ability where his findings suggest that sports practitioners and teachers avoid references to innate racial and gender superiority and instead reinforce the belief that ability can be increased with effort. Li is published in highly ranked journals such as the Journal of Teaching for Physical Education (JTPE), serves on the JTPE Editorial Board, and is a Research Consortium Fellow of the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
Leslie Moore (PhD, UCLA), who joined the School of Teaching and Learning this autumn, is an applied linguist with a deep interest in variation and change over time in the ways communities organize their communicative interactions, particularly in settings characterized by cultural and linguistic contact. She specializes in language socialization research, an ethnographic and interactional discourse analytic approach to the study of human learning and development, and did postdoctoral study with developmental psychologist Barbara Rogoff. Moore has conducted most of her research in multilingual communities in northern Cameroon, where she has worked since 1992. She examines the cultural patterning of children's apprenticeship into multiple languages and the activities and relationships associated with them.
Newly arrived in the Department of Human Nutrition, Ouliana "Ulla" Ziouzenkova (PhD, University of Graz, Austria) studies how vitamin A can reduce harmful effects of a high-fat diet, preventing the development of obesity and other metabolic complications, including diabetes and metabolic disorders. As an instructor in Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School's teaching affiliate, she discovered the mechanism by which vitamin A metabolite prevents obesity in mice eating a high-fat diet. This anti-obesity response of vitamin A could be facilitated by dietary micronutrients found in basil and grapefruit. Her long-term goal is to identify nutrients for therapeutic, gender-specific treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes. She is PI on studies funded by the American Heart Association and the Boston Obesity and Nutrition Research Center.
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