Faculty Bios by College

College of Arts and Sciences

Dr. Robert Barylski is an Associate Professor for the International Studies Department in the College of Arts and Sciences.  He is an expert on civil-military relations in Russia, political and economic reconstruction in the former Soviet Union, and Russian policy towards states and peoples of Islamic heritage. His research has been published in  Europe-Asia Studies, The Middle East Journal, The Central Asia Monitor,  The Armed Forces & Society, and The Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.. He is the author of The Soldier in Russian Politics: Duty, Dictatorship, and Democracy under Gorbachev and Yeltsin, a major work on the subject, and of chapters in seven edited books on post-Soviet domestic and foreign policy.  Dr. Barylski joined USF in February 1979 and served as USF's Sarasota Campus Dean for ten years, a decade during which the new campus library, Sudakoff center, and other facilities were built. Since 1980 he has been Associate Professor in USF's Department of Government and International Affairs. He regularly presents scholarly papers at home and abroad. He has lectured in Baku, Madrid, Moscow, Paris, Ufa, Israel, and the Persian Gulf on military aspects of political change and competition for wealth and power in new, oil producing states. He made occasional expert contributions to the Voice of America for broadcast to the greater Caspian region and participated in US policy symposia at the US Central Command.  Dr. Barylski earned his undergraduate degree form Brown University in political science in 1965 and his doctoral degree in Political Science at Harvard University in 1972. He is married and the father two. His wife, Irene, teaches foreign languages at the Pine View School  for the gifted in the Sarasota school system.-

Dr. June Melby Benowitz is an Instructor in History. Before coming to USF she was an adjunct instructor at Manatee Community College, Keiser College, Portland State University, and Portland Community College. She is the author of Days of Discontent: American Women and Right-Wing Politics, 1933-1945, Northern Illinois University Press (2002) and Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion, ABC-CLIO (1998). She has also contributed articles to Women in World History, Yorkin Publications (1999) and the New Handbook of Texas, Texas State Historical Society (1996). Most recently, she contributed an article to Women and War: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO (forthcoming). Her major areas of interest are the Age of FDR, women’s history, modern England, and U. S. social and cultural history. Current research is on John T. Flynn and Anti-Semitism. She received her B.A. and M.A. at Portland State University and her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. She moved with her husband from Oregon to Sarasota in 1995.

Dr. Kathy Black is an Assistant Professor and 2004 Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar in the School of Social Work at USF’s Sarasota/Manatee campus.  Dr. Black obtained her Ph.D. from the University at Albany in New York in 2000.  She also holds a B.S.W. from the University at Albany (1986), along with Master’s Degrees in both Social Work and Gerontology from the University of Southern California (1988) and a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the University of California at Los Angeles (1990).  Dr. Black’s research interests are broadly in the area of health and aging.  Her research agenda is focused on advance directive communication and advance care planning for health in gerontological practice. Her past experience includes 25 years of working with older people and their families as a geriatric nurse, social worker, and case manager. Kathy relocated to Sarasota from New York with her husband Bill and two beautiful daughters, Alyssa and Alanna. 

Silvia J. Blanco holds a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of South Florida (USF) and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from St. Leo College, San Antonio, Florida. Ms. Blanco is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Registered Nurse.  Currently, Ms. Blanco is an instructor and student advisor at the University of South Florida in Sarasota. Her background includes 17 years as a psychiatric nurse; and, for the past four years she has been an adjunct professor for the School of Social Work at the University of South Florida.  Ms. Blanco was born in Cuba. Her academic interests include cultural diversity, social welfare policy and woman’s studies.

Dr. Brooke Butler received her Ph.D. in legal psychology from Florida International University. Her research is highly applied, policy-oriented, and concerns the social psychological factors that jeopardize defendants' right to due process. Dr. Butler has published articles in the American Journal of Forensic Psychology, Behavioral Sciences and the Law, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Law and Human Behavior, and Psychology, Crime, and Law. Her research has been cited by CNN, Court TV, The Economist, Inter Press Service News Agency, The New York Times, and U.S. News & World Report, as well as various state and local media outlets. Dr. Butler has conducted psycholegal research for numerous high-profile criminal and civil cases, but currently devotes her litigation consulting practice to capital defense work. Most notably, she has provided expert testimony regarding the biasing effects of death qualification in FL v. Davis, FL v. Hampton, FL v. Henderson, FL v. Lugo, FL v. Ross, and FL v. Smith.

Robin Danzak is an instructor in the department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and coordinates the post-baccalaureate, online course sequence in Language, Speech, & Hearing Sciences at USF-Sarasota/Manatee. Prior to her work at USF, Robin was employed by Pinellas County Schools where she taught Spanish, trained teachers, and supported the implementation of magnet programs in elementary schools. Robin is currently a doctoral candidate in Communication Sciences and Disorders, and is pursuing dissertation research regarding the use of written life histories of adolescent English language learners as a tool to assess academic language proficiency. She holds an MA in Linguistics from the University of Concepción, Chile, and a BA in Art History/Hispanic Language and Culture from New College of Florida. Robin is English-Spanish bilingual and has proficiency in various other languages. Her current research interests include the study of academic second language acquisition and literacy development, bilingualism and literacy for children with language or learning impairments, and how these challenges impact on the social identity and social competence of these children. 

Dr. Martin Lynch received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Rochester, where he was a member of the Human Motivation Research Group led by Professors Edward Deci and Richard Ryan. While at Rochester, he completed an internship in Clinical Psychology at Rochester’s APA-accredited University Counseling Center. Dr. Lynch also holds graduate degrees in professional counseling and divinity. Dr. Lynch lived in Moscow, Russia, from 1993 – 1995, and, more recently, has presented at conferences at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University, the Russian State University for the Humanities, and Novgorod State University. His research investigates issues in human motivation and well-being.

Jonathan Scott Perry earned degrees at Ohio University (double B.A.s in History and Latin) and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M.A. and Ph.D in History), and he has taught at a number of American and Canadian colleges, including Chapel Hill, Brevard College (N. Carolina), the University of Central Florida (Orlando), York University (Toronto), and USF-SM.  He has published a series of articles on, among other topics, classical scholarship in Fascist Italy, Latin epigraphy (the study of inscriptions), sport terminology in the ancient world, and women and Greek athletics.  His first book, The Roman Collegia: The Modern Evolution of an Ancient Concept (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006), traces the development of a Roman concept from 1843 through the 20^th century and to the present, and it has been nominated for two national book prizes this year.  Perry believes that teaching and scholarship complement each other—some of his most promising ideas have originated while teaching in a classroom—and he looks forward to collaborating with USF students and colleagues to generate more of these.

Dr. Richard Reich currently holds the position of Visiting Instructor in psychology at the University of South Florida’s Sarasota-Manatee campus.  Dr. Reich is also affiliated with USF’s Alcohol and Substance Use Research Institute (ASURI) located on the Tampa campus where he was a graduate student in clinical psychology from 1997-2002 and conducted post-doctoral research from 2002-2005.  Dr. Reich received a B.S. in psychology from the College of Charleston in 1994. Dr. Reich’s teaching philosophy is to train students to be synthesizers of information, not simply memorizers—students should be thinkers. 
Dr. Reich’s research has been studying the cognitions that contribute to problematic drinking.  Specifically, Dr. Reich has studied how what people expect will happen from drinking alcohol contributes to how much they drink, and how they behave under the influence of alcohol.
Dr. Reich lives in Temple Terrace Florida with his wife Julie,  and sons Zack, Nate and Eli.  When not working and not playing with his family, he loves playing just about any sport and reading literature. 

Dr. Michael A. Richard is an Assistant Professor in the Rehabilitation and Mental Counseling program at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. He received his BS from Athens Collage, his M.Ed. from Auburn University and his Ph.D. from The Florida State University. He is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor and has worked extensively in the field as Rehabilitation and Mental Health Professional. His research interests include consumer satisfaction assessment of counseling services and diversity training for counselors. He has several publications his latest being Contemporary Issues Facing Ageing Americans: Implications for Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling. He also has edited two published books I’m a People Person: A Guide to Human Service Professions” and  “Employee Assistance Programs: Wellness Enhancement Programming” and has five published chapters. Dr. Richard has served as the Coordinator of Graduate Studies for the Department of Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling since April 2003.

Dr. Jane Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at USF’s Sarasota-Manatee campus. Dr. Roberts obtained her Ph.D. in gerontology (the study of aging) at Virginia Tech, where her research interests and doctoral work emphasized age- biased attitudes and prejudicial views toward older people. She has collaborated in publications pertaining to elder abuse and neglect, and is currently involved in a local project that promotes social and functional improvement with developmentally disabled adults. Her clinical and administrative career has included psychotherapy with couples and individuals, hospice and hospital administration, and children’s and elders’ protective services. She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and is accredited through the Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACSW).
Following a twenty-five year career in direct social work practice and administration, Dr. Roberts taught at a southwestern Virginia university, then served as a research scientist on a multi-state U.S. Veterans Affairs project studying behavioral interventions for dementia patients. Returning to southwest Florida to teach at USF, her research and practice interests emphasize the client-practitioner health care relationship, gerontological education for practitioners, and attitudes toward aging.

Thorold (Tod) Roberts has taught as an adjunct faculty member at the University of South Florida since Fall 2003 and now serves on a half-time appointment as Visiting Instructor. He has also been an adjunct faculty member at Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota since 1998. Before that he taught at Manatee Community College in Bradenton, Florida, and several institutions in Ohio -- Lakeland Community College, Cleveland State University, Case Western Reserve University, and Kent State University. He was a full-time instructor at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, and a teaching fellow at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. He holds a B.A. in English and German and an M.A. in English from the University of Kansas. He completed all requirements for the Ph.D. in English except dissertation at Kent State University, and studied German linguistics and literature as a DAAD Fellow at the University of Kiel in Germany.
During much of Mr. Roberts’s career he has worked as a professional and technical writer/editor for businesses such as Dalton-Dalton-Newport (engineering and architecture firm), Ernst & Young (accounting firm), and Cleveland Consulting Associates (specialists in corporate logistics and transportation). He has served business clients as an independent writer and consultant since 1987, providing professional and technical communications to Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) and other firms. He edited the book RAF Wings Over Florida, published by Purdue University Press in 2000, and has written numerous articles, speeches, presentations, and other communications. He has also written and designed websites. (For additional information, please see www.todoberts.com.)

Christine L. Ruva is an assistant professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida’ Sarasota-Manatee.  As both graduate student and a visiting assistant professor, she taught a variety of psychology courses on the Tampa campus of USF earning three awards for teaching excellence.  In December 2001, Dr. Ruva obtained her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of South Florida in the area of Cognitive and Neural Sciences.  Dr. Ruva obtained her B.A. from the University of Tampa.  After receiving her B.A. degree she worked as a probation and parole officer for the state of Florida where she held the position of sex offender specialist. Broadly construed, Dr. Ruva’s research interests fall in the area of Psychology and Law.  More specifically, her research focuses on applying principles of memory, perception, and group decision making to the areas of jury/juror decision making and eyewitness testimony.  When not working Dr. Ruva and her husband enjoy biking the Pinellas Trail, taking their dogs to dog beach, and camping in their RV.

Dr. Suzanne Stein is an Instructor in the English Department.  She brings to the University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee campus a decade of experience writing and teaching literature and the classics to undergraduate and graduate students in New York City.  At Hunter College, City University of New York, she taught a wide variety of upper-level classes to undergraduate students majoring in the liberal arts.  At Columbia University, she created and directed an interdisciplinary seminar for graduate students writing their Master's Theses.  In the evolution of this seminar, which included students from all departments at Columbia, she learned much about mentoring and helping students with widely differing academic interests focus their scholarly projects.
In September 2000, Dr. Stein published a book with Garland/Routledge Press about Herman Melville and fanaticism: The Pusher and the Sufferer: An Unsentimental Look at Moby-Dick.  She has published fiction in Grand Street magazine and Feminist Studies, and won First Place in the fiction category of the Open Voice Contest at the West Side Y.M.C.A. in Manhattan.  Since coming to U.S.F., she participates actively in the cultural life of the University and Sarasota.
Dr. Stein received her Bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College and graduate degrees from Rutgers University.  Her current intellectual pursuits are several-fold.  She is writing about terrorism and Israel for periodical publications.  She is studying eighteenth-century political theory.  She is preparing a manuscript of a literate, intelligible physics textbook.  She is also planning an essay on four paintings of Piero della Francesca in Sansepolcro, Tuscany.

College of Business

Ross P. Alander has an extensive and comprehensive background in Human Resources and Organizational Development in health care, in the auto industry, professional employer organizations, with service companies, with professional groups, the public sector and not for profits.  Ross has held a number of management/leadership positions at the Oldsmobile Division of General Motors, including being a Final Assembly Line Supervisor.  Moving into the area of health care, he served as Personnel Administrative Manager of E.W. Sparrow Hospital in Lansing and as Vice President of Human Resources at Lansing General Hospital (Michigan), then for 10 years as the Vice President of Human Resources and Organizational Development for Tampa General Hospital, where he led a team of 200 members.

Ross’ areas of responsibility included general Human Resources, Affirmative Action, Compensation, Benefits, Labor Relations, Team Development, Parking, Safety and Security, Dietary, Customer/Physician Relations, Volunteer Services, Library, Pastoral Care, Child Care, Organizational Development, Minority Business Enterprise and International Relations.  Ross also directed and led the implementation of a comprehensive customer service culture for Tampa General.  As a member of the Executive Team, Ross served on various hospital and board committees and task forces.

Recently, Ross assisted in the coordination of the consolidation (from the Human Resources aspect) of four separate Tampa hospital merger/consolidations: St. Joseph’s/Humana Women’s, University Community Hospital/Centurion, Charter Tampa/Pasco, and St. Joseph’s/South Florida’s Baptist/Bay Care.  In addition Ross has worked with employee leasing companies, including a start-up leasing company He also has worked with two start up e-commerce companies and recently consulted on a child welfare privatization project for Hillsborough County, Florida.

Ross has held numerous community leadership/chair roles including the Tampa Urban League Board, the Suncoast Ronald McDonald House Board, United Way, Hillsborough County Human Rights Commission, National Conference of Christian & Jews, and the Tampa Coalition.  Ross serves as a Human Resource Consultant to the Tampa United Methodist Center, the Divine Providence Food Bank, Helping Hand Nursery and United Cerebral Palsy as well as other nonprofits. Ross has been the recipient of the National Conference of Christian & Jews Mayor’s Brotherhood and Sisterhood Award and an Outstanding Leadership Award from the Urban League.  The former Governor of Michigan recognized him for his efforts on behalf of physically challenged citizens. Ross is former Chair of the Hillsborough County (Fl.) Human Rights Board and a member of the City of Tampa Human Rights Board. See alanderconsulting.com for additional information, including a client list.

Mary Burns is an instructor for Database, Data Warehousing, Data Communications and Systems Analysis and Design (IS/DS) courses at the Sarasota campus.  She has taught these topics at the undergraduate and graduate levels at USF and at Texas Tech for ten years.  At Texas Tech, she helped to develop a Master's program in Data Communications Technology.

Prior to her academic experience, Ms. Burns worked for over ten years in a variety of management positions in Information Systems and Control at Progressive Insurance and Rohm and Haas.  Her last position at Progressive Insurance was as Director of Financial Systems Architecture.

She received her MBA from Harvard Business School, and her MS in Information Systems is from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.  Her undergraduate degree in Mathematics/Computer Science is from the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

She is originally from Rhode Island.  Her outside interests include sailing and bicycling. 

María T. Cabán-García, is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. She completed her Ph.D. in Accounting at the University of Missouri-Columbia (2004).  While completing her doctoral degree she was an AICPA Minority Doctoral Fellow (1999-2003), a KPMG Scholar (1999-2003) and an AAA Doctoral Consortium Fellow (2001).  She was also a member of the Ph.D. Project Accounting Doctoral Students Association (1999-2004).  Prof. Cabán-García earned an M.S. in Accounting at the State University of New York at Albany (1979) and a B.S.B.A in Accounting (1978) and a B.A. in Economics (1977) at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.  She has taught at the School of Accountancy at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, University of Missouri-Columbia and at the College of Business and the College of Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez.  Her teaching areas have been in Accounting Principles, Intermediate and Advanced Financial Accounting and Managerial and Cost Accounting.  Her research interests include financial accounting with an emphasis in international accounting.  Dr. Cabán-García is a licensed C.P.A. in Puerto Rico and a member of the Puerto Rico State Society of CPA’s, the Institute of Management Accountants and the American Accounting Association.  Her accounting experience includes work in a consulting practice in tax and bookkeeping for small businesses and in the audit division of Deloitte Haskins and Sells in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Dr. Robert Cockrum received his undergraduate degree in Business, Masters in Business and Doctorate of Jurisprudence from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. (This in large part explains why he had a substantial collection of IU basketball stuff in his possession.)  He was in the first class of combined MBA/JD degree recipients – essentially taking 5 years of study in both fields and compressing it into 4 years.  During this period, he worked as a senior research assistant for the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, specializing in the effective delivery of law enforcement services.

Upon graduation in 1974, Dr. Cockrum moved to Milwaukee, WI and began work with Arthur Young & Company (subsequently renamed Ernst and Young) in the tax department.  After three years with A & Y, he accepted a position with Indiana Purdue University at Fort Wayne (IN).  The campus had approximately 10,000 students pursuing undergraduate and masters degrees.  During the 12 years at IPFW, Dr. Cockrum taught accounting, business law and taxation.  For 6 of those years, he was head of the Accounting, Financial and Law Department.  Dr. Cockrum was granted tenure during this time.  While at IPFW, Dr. Cockrum received outstanding teaching recognition, including Outstanding Teacher for the campus.

For various reasons, Dr. Cockrum left IPFW and formed his own Certified Public Accounting firm, specializing in taxation of closely held business and highly compensated individuals.  This area continues to be of high interest to Dr. Cockrum in his readings and research.

In 2000, Dr. Cockrum sold his CPA practice and continued working for the buyer for a year thereafter.

Dr. Cockrum is the “rookie” coming on board at USF- Sarasota-Manatee in August 2002.

The family consists of Michele, his wife and investment banker at a local financial institution,  Alice, his daughter and a Miller Brewing employee at the home office in Milwaukee, WI, and Robert Jr. (JR), his son and a Matrix employee in Sacramento, CA.  They are not only really nice people, but also assets to society.

Dr. Neset Hikmet is an Associate Professor Information Systems in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences. 

Dr. Hikmet teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Information Resource Management, Management Information Systems, and Information Systems in Organizations.

His research primarily involves issues related to:

• Effects of Information Technology on Quality, Cost and Performance in Organizations.
• Adoption and Utilization of Information Technology by Organizations

Professor Hikmet has done extensive research on IT use in Health Care Organization. He has served as a consultant to numerous companies, healthcare organizations and government agencies, including the Eleanor Slater Hospital, Mental Health and Retardation Hospitals of Rhode Island, and the Turkish Postal, Telephone and Telegraph Services.

He holds BS in Civil Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He earned his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Rhode Island.

Dr. Hikmet is a member of Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), Information Resources Management Association (IRMA), Northeast Decision Sciences Institute (NEDSI), American Academy of Medical Administrators (AAMA), and the World Future Society.

Dr. Amy Yueh-Fang Ho is an Assistant Professor in Finance. She joined the faculty of USF Sarasota-Manatee in Fall 2003. She comes from Taiwan. Her teaching responsibility includes Principles of Finance and Money and Banking.

Dr. Ho earned her Ph.D. in Finance from Drexel University in Fall 2003. She earned two Master’s degrees in Finance from Drexel University and in Economics from Fu-Jen Catholic University. She received her Bachelor's degree in International Trade from Tamkang University. She taught Introduction to Finance and Financial Management at Drexel University. She received Excellent Teaching Assistant Award at Drexel University in 2003. She has presented research papers in Financial Management Association and Eastern Finance Association conferences. Her research interests are in the areas of Corporate Finance and International Finance.

Dr. Barry Karafin was a Visiting Professor at Rutgers University Business School from 1996 to 2002.  Prior to joining Rutgers, Dr. Karafin was Vice President, Marketing and Strategic Planning, Lucent Technologies.  In that role, he was involved in the management of major change, including turnarounds, at several Lucent business units.  Dr. Karafin had been at Lucent, and AT&T before it, for 34 years, having had assignments in R&D (Bell Labs) and Operations, as well as in Marketing and Strategic Planning.

Dr. Karafin holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and undergraduate and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Penn and NYU respectively.

At Rutgers he has taught in both the Engineering and Business Schools at all levels including International Executive MBA programs in China and Singapore.  Dr. Karafin also does general business consulting in the areas of business and market planning, operations, organizational design and management, and technology strategy and management.  His clients have included Adobe Systems, AT&T, Honeywell, Kodak, Korea Telecom, Lucent Technologies, Thomson-CSF and a variety of Technology start-ups.


Dr. Noel Mark Noël has served with full faculty status of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, The University of Kentucky - Lexington, Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Loyola University of Chicago, Indiana University - Northwest, and now finds his home at the University of South Florida on the Sarasota-Manatee campus. All schools are AASCB accredited.

After graduating from Northern Illinois University with a M.S. in Marketing and International Business, he was employed as an economist/lobbyist for the Corporate Bureau of External Economic Relations, Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken N.V., in Einhoven, The Netherlands. There he conducted seminars and public relations with various government agencies and organizations representing Philip's position as the 17^th largest multinational corporation. After several years with Philip's, he returned to the USA to teach and advance his formal education.

As a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, he also worked for a variety of clients as a Small Business Consultant through the UW extension program. He founded and managed the Badger Truck Exchange - a Wisconsin trade journal that reached a monthly circulation of over 20,000 truck users and owners of an over 26,000 GVW truck, while employing six part-time salespeople and three layout designers.

He received his Doctorate of Business (D.B.A.) from the University of Kentucky - Lexington, where he taught on the business faculty. Having taught at several other major universities, Noël left teaching to start BrandMetrics, Inc.  - a sales/marketing consulting and research based company in Chicago, Illinois. His client successes included DDBO, Needham Advertising, Hershey, Leaf Confectionery, NutraSweet, Sanford Writing Instruments, LaSalle Bank, and AMOCO. Noël's contacts with AMOCO brought him to Indiana University where he actively participated in marketing the university and promoting higher education in the state. While there he conducted a demographic study for the Indiana University and decided to move to a high student growth university - USF.

His research interests are primarily directed to the measurement quality design, total quality and consumer price perceptions, which he and has published numerous articles, proceedings, and presented papers at professional conferences.

He currently teaches the capstone interdisciplinary Strategic Management and Business Policy course. He also teaches a variety of marketing courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. Noel is recent graduate of the Chamber of Commerce's Sarasota County Leadership 2001 program. He served on the USF/New College strategic blueprint committee, garnered support for the new community Saturday MBA program, and served on The University As Citizen national conference 2001 on the USF Tampa campus.

Dr. Will Quilliam is the Coordinator of the College of Business and is on the accounting faculty.  He was previously an auditor with Ernst & Whinney.  He taught at the University of Florida and the University of Central Florida before coming to our campus ten years ago.  Dr. Quilliam is a resident of Manatee County and is originally from Indiana.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida.

College of Education

Dr. Rebecca Burns-Hoffman is a Visiting Instructor of ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) in the College of Education.  Her primary research interest is the role of Knowledge About Language (linguistics and its applications) in pre-service and in-service teacher education and its role in successful classroom teaching in general.  This research is conducted in the form of action research, involving effective curriculum development for teacher education and for classroom teaching, and ethnographic research involving members of a community in the investigation of their own language practices in school, at home, and in business.

Dr. Burns-Hoffman received her Ph.D. from Colorado University in Linguistics with an emphasis on child language development.  She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Education and Linguistics at several universities in southern Florida:  Florida International University, University of Miami, Florida Gulf Coast University, and USF Tampa Campus.  Her field experiences include teaching middle school language arts in Los Angeles and Colorado, administering child care programs in a rural farm-worker community in Florida, and teaching sixth grade in a charter school in rural Collier County (Florida).  She also serves as the President of the Board for the Alliance for Families with Deaf Children.

Dr. Judy Carr is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.  She received her doctorate in Administration and Leadership from the University of Vermont.  She is known nationally for her work in standards-based education; curriculum, instruction, and assessment; and middle level education.  Dr. Carr has taught at Trinity College of Vermont, St. Michael's College, and the University of Vermont. She has been a school district administrator and a project director for several statewide initiatives in Vermont, funded by over a million dollars in grant funds she helped co-wrote.  She is co-author of How to Use Standards in the Classroom (ASCD), Succeeding With Standards (ASCD), Integrated Studies in the Middle Grades: Dancing Through Walls (Teachers College Press), Shared Journey: Mentoring, Colleague Support, and Collaborative School Renewal (ASCD, in press), and Supervision in a Standards-Based World (Scarecrow Education, in press).

Dr. Janice Fauske is a Professor in Educational Leadership.  Upon earning her B.A. in English with a secondary teaching endorsement, Janice Fauske began her career as a seventh grade English teacher in a rural, economically deprived school district in Virginia.  After earning an M.S. Ed. in Reading Psychology, she taught special education in an inner city school district and later moved to college teaching at a small Virginia college.  She earned an Educational Specialist degree in Higher Education at the College of William and Mary, and later completed her Ph.D. in Educational Administration at the University of Utah.  Before joining the USF faculty as Associate Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Dr. Fauske worked as the Assistant Commissioner for Academic Affairs at the Utah State Board of Regents, as a faculty member and administrator at Weber State University, as founding Dean of the School of Education at Westminster College, and Associate Professor and Doctoral Advisor in Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Utah.

Janice’s teaching expertise includes teaching and learning for school leaders, leadership, organizational change, and qualitative research methods.  Her research interests include organizational learning and change, effects of collaborative governance on teaching and learning in schools, and teaching in educational administration programs.

Dr. Stephen Graves is a Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee.  His professional experiences include teaching undergraduate and graduate students at the University of South Florida, the University of Memphis, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of South Carolina, Coastal Carolina University, and at Manchester College in Oxford, England.  He has taught 3-year olds, 5-year olds in public school kindergarten, and child development students at two two-year colleges in South Carolina. 

Dr. Graves was the Senior Editor of the International Journal of Early Childhood from 2000-2003.  He is the coauthor of Young Children: An Introduction to Early Childhood Education (1996), and Empowering At-Risk Families During the Early Childhood Years (1993).  He has also published articles, book chapters, book reviews, position statements, and technical reports in a variety of journals including Childhood Education, Dimensions of Early Childhood, the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, the Journal of Instructional Psychology, the International Journal of Early Childhood, Reading Improvement, and others.  He has presented papers throughout the U.S., and in Bermuda, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, England, Hungary, Jamaica, Poland, and Russia.

Dr. Graves was the recipient of the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee Outstanding Professor Award at the May 4, 2004 Commencement.

Dr. Phyllis Jones upon earning her bachelor's degree in the education of children with severe learning difficulties, Phyllis began her career in special education in the North of England. She set up a provision for students with social communication difficulties in a residential setting and then went on to set up a community school provision for young people with profound disabilities who had spent their life in a hospital setting. Following this she entered school management, which culminated in her becoming Vice Principal of a primary school for children with learning disabilities. Whilst doing this she earned her Masters in Special Education from Durham University. 

In 1998 she joined the School of Education at Northumbria University. Here she taught on undergraduate and postgraduate programs developing and teaching courses related to disability issues. These included a Postgraduate Certificate in the inclusion of pupils with profound and multiple learning disabilities, and a Masters degree in Autism. She represented the University engaging in consultancy work in regional settings that offer provision for pupils with learning disabilities; this was mainly in the areas of social communication, self-esteem, and promoting positive behavior, developing the special school curriculum and developing inclusive practice. During this time she was chair of PDN, a professional support network for University departments working in the field of severe and profound learning disabilities. In this capacity she sat on government advisory boards.

She is an active researcher with research publications and interests related to parents, inclusion, the voices of children and families and teacher learning. Her Ph.D. research relates to teacher thinking about pupils with profound, multiple learning disabilities, and the areas of specialist knowledge and teacher identity emerged as main themes of this work. Phyllis was a UCET/ACCTE scholar, which allowed her to spend time researching in the USA in the fall of 2001, when she spent time at the University of Washington and University of Maryland. Phyllis is currently involved in a project funded by ESRC that focuses upon engaging disabled people in the discourse of inclusion. Phyllis is currently writing a book on inclusive pedagogy for David Fulton Publishers (to be published 2004).

Phyllis joined the University of South Florida as an Assistant Professor to work at the Sarasota-Manatee Campus. Here she is working on the undergraduate special education program and supporting the resurgence of the master’s route at this campus.

Dr. Elizabeth Larkin is an Associate Professor in the Childhood Education Department at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee.  Dr. Larkin holds an Ed.D. and a M.Ed. from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, a M.S. from Bank Street College of Education, and a B.A. from Bard College.  She teaches courses in the early childhood and elementary teacher certification programs.  She has also taught in the primary grades and been the Director of a preschool and day care.  Prior to coming to USF in August of 1998, Dr. Larkin taught at Wheelock College in Boston for 12 years where she was a tenured faculty member of the Graduate School and worked as a liaison in a Professional Development School collaboration.  Her research interests include looking at the professional development of educators as well as studying intergenerational initiatives that bring older adults and younger populations together for their mutual benefit.  In 2001 and 2004 she received awards for her intergenerational research from the National Intergenerational Caucus of Early Childhood Professionals and Big Brothers Big Sisters respectively.  She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Intergenerational Relationships. 

Dr. Lynn McBrien is a new Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological and Social Foundations at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee College of Education.  She received her doctorate in Educational Studies from Emory University in May, 2005, where she was the 2004 recipient of the university’s Humanitarian Award, given to students who demonstrate exemplary service in social justice. Dr. McBrien’s service and much of her research focuses on resettled refugee students and their families in the United States. She has explored the connection between discrimination and academic motivation in adolescent refugee girls. Currently she is working on a grant proposal to provide academic support to new refugee elementary students in the Tampa Bay area.

Another area in which Dr. McBrien conducts research is that of media literacy. She is the former Senior Education Editor of CNN’s education website, and she was the Project Manager and Senior Editor of a high-school curriculum entitled Media Matters: Critical Thinking in the Information Age. Her particular interest in media education focuses on ways in which media can enhance or deter social justice.

Dr. McBrien received her B.S. in Secondary Education and English from Clarion University and her M.A. in English from Purdue University. She was a Rotary International Fellow, during which time she received a post-graduate diploma in Anglo-Irish Literature at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. For 12 years, she taught GED courses in the Berwick, Maine school district while teaching as an adjunct English instructor at the University of Southern Maine.

Dr. Weimin Mo is an Associate Professor in the College of Education.  He was born in Shanghai, China. He received his B.A. from Shanghai Institute of Foreign Languages and taught in China for fifteen years. He was a public school teacher for eight years before he became a lecturer at Anhui University. In 1981 he came to this country as a visiting scholar on an exchange program with Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. In 1986 he began to further his study in education. He holds both his Ed.D. and M.Ed. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Mo also taught three years at the lab school of IUP and did his internship in another public school. Before he joined the USF faculty in Fall 2002, he taught in a few universities including Albany State University and Georgia Southern University where he was tenured.

Dr. Stephen Rushton is an Associate Professor in the Childhood Education Department and has been teaching for USF for the last six years.  He supervises student teachers and teaches courses in research, elementary education methods, and the writing process.  Dr. Rushton previously taught elementary education for twelve years in Ontario, Canada, and Oakridge, Tennessee.  He is conducting research on teacher effectiveness, brain-research, and personality types using the Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory.  He received his B.Sc. and B.Ed. from Queen's University in Canada and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee and is presently the Liaison for the Early Childhood and Elementary Education programs as well as the Coordinator for the Masters of Arts in Teaching program.

Dr. Lenford C. Sutton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.  Upon earning his B.S. in Economics, Lenford began his career as a middle grades math teacher and social studies teacher in his hometown of Sanford, FL.  After earning a Master of Science in Exceptional Student Leadership at Stetson University in DeLand, FL, Dr. Sutton began his 14-year stewardship as a public school administrator in the Seminole and Orange County Public Schools.  While serving as a graduate assistant at the P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School in Gainesville, FL he earned the Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Florida in 1998.  Prior to joining the USF faculty as an Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Dr. Sutton worked as an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Masters of Educational Leadership Program at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, FL.

Lenford’s teaching expertise includes public school finance, education law, and the economics of education. His research interests include the legal aspects of education, school choice issues, and the financing of public education. Lenford Sutton Jr. (son) is currently a pre-med (biology) major in the Honors College at the University of South Florida’s main campus.

Julia M. White is an Instructor in the Department of Special Education at the University of South Florida-Sarasota/Manatee. She holds a BA in English from the Catholic University of America and an MA in Special Education for Adolescents with Emotional Disturbance from the George Washington University. She is completing her Ph.D. in Special Education, with an emphasis on inclusive education and Disability Studies, at Syracuse University. Prior to her doctoral studies, she was a special and general educator in Washington, DC, South Carolina, and the Slovak Republic.

Julia’s dissertation focuses on the policies, practices, and resistance in the schooling of Romani children in the Slovak Republic. Her research interests, influenced by critical race theory, include inclusive education and human rights, multiculturalism, educational policy, and cultural representations of disability. She has presented papers at conferences for the Society for Disability Studies, TASH, CEC, and in the Czech Republic and Italy. She is author of book chapters on representations of disability in South Park and education and human rights in Slovakia as it entered the European Union.  She also worked on the team that produced daily negotiation summaries for the Third Ad Hoc Committee sessions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.

Dr. G. Pat Wilson is an Assistant Professor in the College of Education.  She teaches courses relative to reading and writing instruction (research, reading and writing processes, cognition and learning, assessment, materials).  Her research includes analysis of the reading of children who have been taught how to read through different programs, the study of children’s use of arts based mediums as tools of thinking, and the use of an on-line discussion board in teacher education. 

Dr. Wilson earned her Doctorate of Philosophy through the University of New Hampshire in Reading and Writing Instruction.  Recently, she was an Assistant Professor at Towson University in Maryland.  Prior to her doctorate, she held various roles in education including special education teacher, reading specialist, elementary grade teacher, and administrator.  She has authored and coauthored articles published in several journals including, The Kappan (September 2004), Language Arts, English Education, Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, and coauthored chapters for forthcoming books.

College of Undergraduate Studies

Dr. Katerina Annaraud arrived at USF January 2005 from University of South Carolina where she was a junior faculty member.  Dr. Annaraud was born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia and has earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in accounting and audit from St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance.  She also holds a Ph.D. from Texas Tech University with Major study in hospitality management.

Dr. Annaraud has worked for international audit company in St. Petersburg, Russia and for Price, Waterhouse Coopers LLP in Detroit, Michigan.  Her hospitality industry experience was gained through work in a Russian-Greek travel agency in St. Petersburg, Russia and Athens, Greece and she has also had several internships in hotels and restaurants in the United States of America and her native Russia.  Her primary research interests are international hospitality education and Hospitality Accounting and Finance. 

Dr. David Yaojen Chang is an Associate Professor in the School of Hotel and Restaurant Management.  Dr. Chang holds a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech, M.S.'s in both hospitality management and computer science from Florida International University, and a B.B.A. from the business school in Feng Chia University, Taiwan.  Before joining USF, Dr. Chang taught at East Carolina University.  Prior to his academic career, Dr. Chang held technical and managerial positions in both hospitality and technology organizations.  His research interests focus on the integration and implementation of strategic management, information systems, and financial management.  His knowledge and expertise in strategic management particularly lays out a sold foundation for integrating various issues in business development, technology implementation, and financial analysis.  Dr. Chang has published in several journals and made his appearances in several international conferences and also provided consulting services for private and public organizations on the subjects of strategic planning, database design and management, and information system implementation.  He has taught courses in lodging management, strategic management, database management, web technology, electronic commerce and distributed network, managerial accounting and financial management. 

Dr. Greg Dunn has more than 20 years experience in the hospitality industry and has held management, sales, and marketing positions with Sea island Company, The Boca Raton Hotel and Resort, The Greenbrier, Radisson, Sea Palms Resort, Walt Disney Company, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Denver Public Schools, and Ocean King Incorporated.

Greg has earned a bachelors Degree in Management from Webster University; an M.B.A. with a concentration in Hospitality Management from the University of Denver; a Ph.D. in Hospitality Administration with major in Marketing and a minor in Information Technology from the University of Nevada Las Vegas; and a Diploma in Hotel Management from Ecole Hoteliere Lausanne, Switzerland. 

His teaching and research interests are in the areas of consumer behavior, strategy, gaming, and tourism.  Greg has previously been a faculty member at Oklahoma State University, and has taught marketing and hospitality management courses at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Florida Atlantic University, and the University of Denver.  He has provided consulting services for private and public organizations in the areas of marketing research and strategic planning.

He has taught courses in marketing management, marketing strategy, hospitality marketing, lodging management, strategic management, hospitality information technology, franchising, business ethics, food and beverage management, and resort management. 

He is a member of CHRIE, The American Marketing Association, and the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International.

Dr. Sunita Lodwig has been in the corporate arena for the last twenty years (13 with AT&T Bell Labs – prior to its becoming Lucent – and 7 with Motorola most recently) in the field of Telecommunications. Her technical background covers a wide range – from defining strategy, technical marketing, project/product management, and globalization issues, to cutting edge software architecture, requirements, design, development and delivery.

Prior to this, Dr. Lodwig was an Assistant Professor at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in the Computer Science department for two and half years. Her teaching experience, albeit short, was memorable and enjoyable. The interactions and rapport with students were especially important, and Dr. Lodwig was considered a good teacher presenting complex concepts in a simple easy-to-understand manner. Needless to say, even as she left NIU and joined Bell Labs, Dr. Lodwig looked forward to the day she would return to academia.

 Very briefly, Dr. Lodwig's experience includes: 

• Teaching Computer Science curriculum at the graduate and undergraduate levels
• Extensive software testing and networks -