Speakers - Education, Higher Ed

David Franklin Ayers
Assistant Professor, Teacher Education & Higher Education
EdD North Carolina State University
(336) 334-3437, dfayers@uncg.edu

  • Higher education and Society
  • The U.S. Community College
  • College and University Governance
  • Curriculum and Program Planning

Mary Ashley Barret
Associate Professor, Music Performance
DMA Florida State University
(336) 334-5879, mabarret@uncg.edu

  • "Preparing for a Music Career"
  • "How to be a music major"

James M. Benshoff
Professor, Counseling & Educational Development
PhD American University
(336) 334-3424, benshoff@uncg.edu

  • Groups & Group Work
  • College Student Development
  • Nontraditional (Adult) College Students
  • Adolescent & Adult Development
  • Career Counseling, Planning, & Management
  • Counseling Adolescents, Adults, & Couples

Sarah Berenson
Distinguished Professor, Teacher Education & Higher Education
PhD Florida State University
(336) , sbberens@uncg.edu

  • Research Methods to Unvestigate Undergraduates' Understanding of Mathematics
  • Conducting Teaching Experiments in Mathematics to Advanced Faculty Scholarship
  • High Achieving Young Women and the Role Their Identities Play in Choosing a STEM Career

Silvia Bettez
Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership & Cultural Foundations
PhD The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(336) 334-3492, scbettez@uncg.edu

  • Social Justice Education
  • Community Building in Academia
  • Anti-oppression

Nora J. Bird
Assistant Professor, Library & Information Studies
PhD Rutgers University
(336) 256-0162, njbird@uncg.edu

  • Workplace Information Literacy
  • Communicating Science on the Web
  • Informal Learning and Adults
  • Community College Libraries
  • Digital archiving

Anna Brady
Lecturer, Educational Leadership & Cultural Foundations
Executive Director, Piedmont Triad Leadership Academy
MS North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
(336) 399-5995, acbrady@uncg.edu

  • The Piedmont Triad Leadership Academy - Developing Aspiring School Leadership
  • Topics Related to the Civic Group or Organization's Needs

Robert Brown
Dean, Division of Continual Learning
PhD University of Maryland
(336) 334-4241, robert_brown@uncg.edu

  • Distance Learning
  • Business Writing
  • UNCG's Division of Continual Learning

Stoel Burrowes
Assistant Professor, Interior Architecture
Coleman Fellow, North Carolina Entrepreneurship Center
MA North Carolina State University
(336) 256-0305, s_burrow@uncg.edu

  • Design Education and Theory
  • Furniture Design
  • Chair Construction
  • Drafting and Drawing

Cherry Callahan
Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs
PhD The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
(336) 334-5099, cherry_callahan@uncg.edu

  • Today's College Students - The New Generation, Students in Stress/Emotional Crisis, Family Participation, Etc.

Roberto E. Campo
Professor, International & Global Studies
Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD University of Pennsylvania
(336) 334-5557 or 334-3657, recampo@uncg.edu

  • The French "spirit" as represented in early modern, modern, and contemporary accounts and media
  • Internationalizing the campus and our 21st century students
  • Cultural diversity in the global context
  • Bringing Asian Studies to our students and the greater-Greensboro community

Micheline Chalhoub-Deville
Professor, Educational Research Methodology
PhD The Ohio State University
(336) 334-3471, chalhoub-deville@uncg.edu

  • Foreign Language Testing & Assessment
  • NCLB and ELL testing, Title III
  • Articulation Between Schools & Universities
  • University admission tests

Clara M. Chu
Professor & Department Chair, Library & Information Studies
PhD University of Western Ontario
(336) 334-3481, cmchu@uncg.edu

  • Multicultural Library and Information Services and Issues
  • Information Equity
  • Information Seeking and Use
  • Community Informatics

Mary Jane Conger
Head of the Cataloging Department, University Libraries
MS The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(336) 256-1377, mjconger@uncg.edu

  • Congregational Libraries
  • The Role of the Cataloging Department in a University Library

Peter F. Delaney
Associate Professor, Psychology
PhD Florida State University
(336) 256-0010, p_delane@uncg.edu

  • Experts and Excellence
  • Psychology of Learning

Jessica Delk McCall
Basic Course Director and Lecturer, Communication Studies
PhD The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
(336) 587-4788, jedelk@uncg.edu

  • Presentation Skills for the Business World
  • Experiential Education in the Classroom
  • Relationship Development & Maintenance
  • Group Communication & Team Building
  • Expectations & Preparation for College
  • Communication Education (Pedagogy)

Laura Fero
Assistant Professor, Nursing
PhD University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing
(724) 664-9076, ljfero@uncg.edu

  • The Use of High-Fidelity Human Simulation in Nursing
  • Organizational Leadership in Healthcare
  • Critical Thinking in New Graduate Nurses

Melissa Floyd
Associate Professor, Social work
PhD Virginia Commonwealth University
(336) 334-4073, mftaylo2@uncg.edu

  • Mental Illness
  • Social Work and Psychiatric Medications
  • Social Work Education
  • Values and Ethics

Charles P. Gause
Associate Professor, Teacher Education & Higher Education
PhD Miami University
(336) 334-3675, drcpgause@gmail.com

  • Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
  • Creating Engaging, Dynamic and Affirming Learning Communities
  • Cross-cultural and Inter-cultural Communications
  • Youth and Popular Culture

Bert Goldman
Professor Emeritus, Teacher Education & Higher Education
EdD University of Virginia
(336) 334-3464, goldman@uncg.edu

  • College Student Retention
  • Academic Flexibility
  • Researchers' Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures
  • Standardized Tests: What they measure and their weaknesses
  • Significant findings in research: How do researchers determine this

Tara T. Green
Associate Professor and Program Director, African American Studies
PhD Louisiana State University
(336) 334-3889, ttgreen@uncg.edu

  • Diversity Issues Regarding Women & Ethnic Minorities
  • African and African American Literature
  • The Bridge Between the Academic Community & Local Community
  • Professional Success for Black Women
  • Strategies for Mentoring Ethnic Students
  • The African American Studies Curriculum & Programs
  • Impact of fatherlessness on African American boys & men
  • History of confinement of African Americans

Gregory Grieve
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Director, MERGE: a network for interdisciplinary ad collaborative scholarship
PhD University of Chicago
(336) 402-6443, gpgrieve@uncg.edu

  • Religion and digital media (new media)
  • Hinduism and Buddhism
  • interdisciplinary scholarship

Spoma Jovanovic
Associate Professor, Communication Studies
PhD University of Denver
(336) 601-3282, spomajovanovic@uncg.edu

  • University and Community Partnerships for Civic Impact
  • How Our Talk Can Shape a Vision of Hope in the Community
  • Social Capital in Greensboro
  • Community Reconciliation - Possibilities and Obstacles
  • Participatory Budgeting in the U.S.
  • Preemptive Democracy--Citizen Coalitions for Community Change

Janet H. Kanode
Academic Professional Assistant Professor, Social Work
Co-Director, Joint Master of Social Work Program Field Instruction
MSW State University of New York at Stony Brook
(336) 334-4756, jhkanode@uncg.edu

  • Ethics and Social Work
  • Internships at the Master's Level
  • Intergenerational Topics Between Elders and Young People
  • How Policy Affects Programs

Todd Lewis
Assistant Professor, Counseling & Educational Development
PhD Kent State University
(336) 334-3422, tflewis@uncg.edu

  • Substance Use Issues Among College Students
  • Theoretical Models of Behavior
  • Adlerian Theory
  • Research Design & Methodology
  • Motivational Counseling Approaches

Fatih Oguz
Assistant Professor, Library & Information Studies
PhD University of North Texas
(336) 334-3676, f_oguz@uncg.edu

  • Digital Libraries
  • Institutional Repositories
  • Communities of Practice
  • Social Media

Ginger Parnell
Director, Office of Recruitment, Retention, and Professional Development, School of Education
MEd The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
(336) 334-3923, ggparnel@uncg.edu

  • Recruiting UNCG Teacher Education Students and N.C.'s Future Teachers: Help Us Spread the Word

Amanda Pelon
Lecturer, Business Administration
Academic Advisor Bryan School Undergraduate Student Services
MA Michigan State University
(336) 256-0143, arpelon@uncg.edu

  • Career Planning & Decision Making
  • Academic Planning & Decision Making
  • Student Leadership Development

Jeanie Marklin Reynolds
Lecturer, English
PhD The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
(336) 334-3981, jmreyno3@uncg.edu

  • Teacher Education
  • The Teaching of Writing
  • Young Adult Literature

Kelly Ritter
Associate Professor and Director of First-Year Composition, English
PhD University of Illinois at Chicago
(336) 334-4689, karitter@uncg.edu

  • First-Year Writing/Composition
  • The Teaching of Writing
  • Archival Research

Mark Schumacher
Reference Librarian, University Libraries
MLS State University of New York at Buffalo
(336) 334-3215, m_schuma@uncg.edu

  • Librarianship
  • Frisbee (history, ethos, technique)
  • French literature

John Sopper
Lecturer, Religious Studies
Director of Special Projects, Undergraduate Education
MA Princeton University
(336) 334-5898, jrsopper@uncg.edu

  • Religion and Social Issues
  • Issues in Higher Education

Deborah J. Taub
Professor, Teacher Education & Higher Education
PhD University of Maryland, College Park
(336) 662-5827, djtaub@uncg.edu

  • College Student Development
  • College Student Transitions
  • College Suicide Prevention
  • College Student Mental Health

Joe Williams
Head of Access Services, University Libraries
MS The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(336) 334-5452, joe_williams@uncg.edu

  • Student Spaces in Libraries
  • Library Learning Space Design

Bob Wineburg
Professor, Social work
Director of Community Engaged Scholarship, School of Health and Human Sciences
PhD University of Pittsburgh
(336) 708-3435, bobwineburg@gmail.com

  • Faith Based Social Services
  • Town Grown Partnerships
  • Social Entrepeneurism
  • Social Service Program and Organizational Development

David Wyrick
Associate Professor, Public Health Education
PhD The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
(336) 334-4501, dlwyrick@uncg.edu

  • Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention with High School and College Students and Student-Athletes
  • Prevention of High-Risk Drinking with College Students
  • Protecting and Promoting Health through Entrepreneurship