Notes on Contributors
Joyce Alexander
(PhD, University of Georgia) is an educational psychologist that studies learning, motivation, and interest. She was previously executive dean for the School of Education at Indiana University. Dr. Alexander is now Dean of the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University.
Michael Bernard-Donals
(PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook) is the Chaim Perelman Professor of Rhetoric and Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also an affiliate of the Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies. He previously served as the chair of the English Department and the Director of Jewish Studies, and currently serves as the Vice Provost for Faculty and Staff
Pradeep Bhardwaj
(PhD, University of Toronto) is the Chair of the Department of Marketing and the Carl H. Galloway Professor of Marketing at the University of Central Florida. His research interests include sales force management, channel management, customer relationship management, pharmaceutical marketing, and corporate social responsibility. He has experience teaching in several middle and senior management executive development programs at UCLA, UNC-Chapel Hill, UBC, and UCF. As Provost Faculty Fellow for 2017–2018, he actively participated in Faculty Excellence initiatives relating to Mid-Career advising and mentoring.
Jocelyn Bolin
(PhD, Indiana University Bloomington) is a professor in the Educational Psychology department at Ball State University. Her main areas of expertise include research methodology and statistics, focusing on statistical best practices using classification analysis and the general linear model. She is an active statistical and research methods consultant as well as graduate student mentor. She has also been involved in several research projects studying mid-career faculty productivity and the use of the NSOPF national database.
Kimberly Buch
(PhD, Iowa State University) is Professor of Psychological Science and member of the ADVANCE Leadership Team at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. She has been involved in efforts to promote the success and diversity of faculty and students in STEM through work supported by the National Science Foundation and has numerous publications and presentations on the topic of equity and diversity among mid-career and adjunct faculty.
Javier Cavazos-Vela
(PhD, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi) is the director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is also an Associate Professor in the College of Education and P-16 Integration.
Jay R. Dee
(PhD, University of Iowa) is professor of higher education at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Dr. Dee’s research interests include organizational theory, higher education leadership, faculty development, and the academic workplace. He teaches courses in higher education governance, organizational change, and administrative decision making.
Anne M. DeFelippo
(PhD, University of Massachusetts) is associate professor of nursing at Salem State University. Her research interests include mid-career faculty, faculty vitality, and innovative teaching strategies. In 2014, she won the Massachusetts Colleges of Nursing (MACN) award for innovative teaching simulations in mental health nursing.
Andrea Dulin
(PhD, University College Cardiff) is the Project Director for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte ADVANCE Faculty Affairs and Diversity Office, a position she has held for the past six years. As project manager, she serves an integral role in the development and implementation of programming to support all faculty at the institution, in addition to promotion the hiring, advancement, and retention of women and URM faculty to increase the diversity of faculty body at the university.
Jeremiah Fisk
(BA, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) is a student in the clinical mental health master’s program at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is also president of the Brownsville Counseling Student Association (BCSA). His current research interest includes cross-cultural motivational reading practices of university students.
Carrie Graham
(PhD, University of Connecticut) is an assistant professor in health care education with a focus on leadership development at Catawba College, Salisbury, NC. She also serves as the founding Director of Undergraduate Research and Creativity. Her research interests explores factors that impede and support adult workplace learning of marginalized groups in higher education, with focus on faculty development, institutional culture, and mentoring.
Debbie L. Hahs-Vaughn
(PhD, University of Alabama) is a Professor in the Methodology, Measurement and Analysis Program at the University of Central Florida. She previously served as Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Excellence and led faculty development efforts, including programs for assistant professor, mid-career faculty, and non-tenure earning faculty as well as leadership programs for faculty and department chairs. In addition, she oversaw the Targeted Opportunity Program, a program to recruit and retain academic couples and inclusive excellence faculty.
Florencio Eloy Hernandez
(PhD, Universidad Central de Venezuela and L’Université Franche-Comté) is a professor of chemistry and optics at the University of Central Florida. During his career he has been devoted to mentor graduate and undergraduate students, and to impart peer to peer mentoring in the College of Sciences at UCF. As Provost Faculty Fellow during the 2017–2018 academic year, he co-led Faculty Excellence initiatives such as the Associate Professor Mentoring Community Program and the Mid-Career Advisory Sub-Committees and developed the Deans’ Ever-increasing Empathy & Motivation (DEEM) Program.
Yvette Huet
(PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center) is Professor of Kinesiology and Director of the ADVANCE Faculty Affairs and Diversity Office at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. She has been involved in efforts to promote the success of women and faculty of color in the academy throughout her career. She has had publications and presentations at a variety of campuses and national organizations regarding strategies for success for women and faculty of color in the academy from recruitment to leadership. She is a moderator for COACh presenting their Negotiations and Leadership workshops.
Jennifer (Bruening) McGarry
(PhD, The Ohio State University) has been a faculty member in the Sport Management program at the University of Connecticut since 2002. She currently serves as Department Head in Educational Leadership. Her research has focused on the experiences of minoritized individuals in sport, particularly African American college athletes, women leaders in intercollegiate settings, and youth from low income environments.
Jane McLeod
(PhD, University of Michigan) is a social psychologist who studies health inequalities and social exclusion. Her most recent project focuses on the experiences of college students on the autism spectrum. Previously Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Social & Historical Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University, she is now chair of the Department of Sociology.
Maria L. Morales
(MEd, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, MFA New Mexico State university) is a recent graduate of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program at UTRGV. She currently works for a state mental health inpatient hospital in Texas. She was previously an English Lecturer for the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College.
Eliza Pavalko
(PhD, Florida State University) is a sociologist who studies work, health, gender and the life course. Her long-standing research interest has been to understand women’s changing work careers and implications for health and aging. She is currently Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington.
Laura Plummer
(PhD, Indiana University) directs the Scholarly Writing Program, under the auspices of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs, at Indiana University. For fifteen years, Laura directed Indiana’s Writing Across the Curriculum program, which administered the university-wide writing center.
Daniel Reardon
(DA, SUNY-Albany) is Associate Professor of English at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Dan teaches education course, science fiction, and fantasy literature. Dr. Reardon’s research is in program administration and reading/writing pedagogy. He also researches digital games as narrative mediums, and is currently writing a monograph on technical communication and digital game narratives.
Mandy Rispoli
(PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is an Professor of Special Education at Purdue University, the Co-Director of the Purdue Autism Research Center, and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. Dr. Rispoli’s research explores functional behavior assessment and function-based interventions in education settings for young children with autism and developmental disabilities. Her research also explores innovations in professional development for teachers of young children with challenging behavior.
Amanda J. Rockinson-Szapkiw
(EdD, Regent University; PhD, Liberty University) is an Associate Professor for the Instructional Design and Technology Program at the University of Memphis (UofM). Prior to her appointment at UofM, she served as an Associate Professor and chair of Research and Doctoral programs for a private institution in Central Virginia. Dr. Rockinson-Szapkiw research has focused on persistence and identity development of distance doctoral students and the advancement of women in higher education.
J. Blake Scott
(PhD, Penn State University) is a Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, former Faculty Excellence Fellow, and former Provost Fellow at the University of Central Florida. As Provost Fellow, he contributed to an academic leadership series. As Faculty Excellence Fellow, he co-lead the Associate Professor Mentoring Committees and Summer Conference track, Mid-Career Advisory Subcommittee, Leadership Series workshops, and other programming.
Michael Terwillegar
is currently a doctoral student in the Ball State University Educational Psychology doctoral program working under the advisement of Jocelyn Bolin.
Jenna Thomas
is currently a doctoral student in the Ball State University Educational Psychology doctoral program working under the advisement of Jocelyn Bolin.
Claudia Vela
(EdD, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) is an Instructional Designer for the Center of Online Learning and Teaching Technologies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Her research interests include professional development, teacher effectiveness, administration in higher education, and second language teaching.
Anita G. Welch
(PhD, University of Kansas) is Dean of the College of Education at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. Her research includes mid-career faculty, teaching dispositions, cross-cultural studies of STEM education, and the development of instruments used in distance education. Dr. Welch has over twenty-five years of experience teaching in higher education, including courses in statistics for educational research, research methodology for education, and instructional strategies with emphasis on the use of educational technology in the classroom.