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BACKES, David J., Professor, Journalism and Mass Communication
Email: backes@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6252
Expertise: Wilderness, wilderness preservation and American history, Sigurd F. Olson, the Quetico-Superior Wilderness, Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, nature and the human spirit, nature and culture.
Degrees: B.S., Natural Resources, UW-Madison, 1979; B.S., Agricultural Journalism, UW-Madison, 1982; M.S., Agricultural Journalism, UW-Madison, 1983; Ph.D., Mass Communication, UW-Madison, 1988

BACHHUBER, Thomas, Director, Career Development Center
Email: tombach@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5064
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/Dept/CDC
Expertise: Careers, career transition, job search strategies, human resources
Degrees: Ed.D.

BAISCH, Mary Jo, Clinical Assistant Professor, Nursing; Interim Director, Institute for Urban Health Partnerships
Email: baisch@uwm.edu
Phone: (414)229-5545 (work), (414) 962-9448 (home)
Expertise: Research in funding for community health and maternal and child health, health policy and community nursing services, adolescent pregnancy and pregnancy prevention, access to health care.

BALDASSARO, Lawrence, Professor, French, Italian and Comparative Literature; Director, Honors Program
Email: larryb@uwm.edu
Phone: (414)229-4658 (work), (414) 332-0710 (home)
Expertise: Dante, 20th century Italian culture, Sicilian history and culture, baseball history.
Degrees: Ph.D., Indiana University

BARNDT, Joanne, Clinical Assistant Professor, Social Work
Email: jbarndt@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6010 (work), (414) 962-5634 (home)
Expertise: Child welfare: adoptions, child abuse and neglect (physical, sexual, emotional) prevention and intervention, self-esteem in children, services to children ages 0-5. Medical social work: emergency room social work, end-of-life issues/death with dignity; medical ethics, volunteerism. Quality of life issues: money management/credit counseling, parks and recreation.
Degrees: M.S.S.A., Social Work, Case Western Reserve University, 1970

BASTING, Anne, Director, Center on Age and Community; Associate Professor, Theatre
Email: basting@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-2732
Home Page: aging.uwm.edu
Expertise: Creativity and aging.

BAUER, Jay, Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders
Email: jbauer@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4290
Expertise: Speech physiology; auditory feedback control of the voice; use of online auditory feedback to produce and maintain the intended emotional meaning of speech; general principles of speech science; anatomy and physiology of the speech, hearing and language mechanisms.
Degrees: B.Sc., Human Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, 1996; M.A., Speech & Language Pathology, Northwestern University, 2001; Ph.D., Communication Science & Disorders, Northwestern University, 2004

BECK, Kim C., Director, Arts and Liberal Studies Program
Email: kcb@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 227-3321 (work), (414) 358-1834 (home)
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/People/kcb
Expertise: Continuing adult education in the arts and humanities.
Degrees: B.A., Philosophy, Saint John’s University, 1978; M.A., Humanities, UW-Oshkosh, 1985; M.A., Theatre and Drama, UW-Madison, 1990

BECK, Robert J., Adjunct Associate Professor, Political Science; Director of Academic Technology, Center for International Education
Email: rjbeck@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5974
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/~rjbeck/
Expertise: U.S. foreign policy, international affairs/global politics, terrorism, forcible responses to terrorism, international law, the United Nations, international organizations, the use of force under international law.
Degrees: Honors B.A., Marquette University, 1983; M.A., International Politics, Georgetown University, 1985; Ph.D., International Politics, Georgetown University, 1989

BEDER, Jay, Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Email: beder@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5280
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/People/beder/
Expertise: Statistics and probability.

BEGUN, Audrey L., Professor/Center Scientist, Social Work
Email: begun@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6096 (work), (414) 332-6393 (home)
Expertise: Prevention of intimate-partner violence; evaluation of intimate-partner violence prevention interventions; development of stages-of-change instrument for batterers’ treatment; prevention of adolescent substance abuse - family factors; development of sibling relationships over the life span; sibling relationships in families of individuals with developmental disabilities; risk, resilience and prevention in social work education.
Degrees: B.A., Psychology, University of Michigan, 1976; M.S.W., Psychiatric Social Work with Families, Children and Youth, University of Michigan, 1978; Ph.D., Social Work and Social Science (Developmental Psychology), University of Michigan, 1987

BEIMBORN, Edward A., Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics; Director, Center for Urban Transportation Studies
Email: beimborn@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5787 (work), (262) 377-5467 (home)
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/Dept/cuts
Expertise: Transportation planning and engineering, public transit, environmental aspects of transportation.
Degrees: B.S., Civil Engineering, UW-Madison, 1964; M.S., Civil Engineering, Northwestern University, 1966; Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Northwestern University, 1968

BELL, Allen D., Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Email: adbell@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4233
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/People/adbell/
Expertise: Non-commutative rings, usually noetherian rings; localization; Hopf algebras and Galois extensions; non-commutative algebraic geometry; Lie superalgebras and Lie color algebras and their enveloping algebras.
Degrees: B.A., Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1977; Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Washington, 1984

BELL-CALVIN, Jean C., Clinical Assistant Professor, Nursing; Associate Director, Institute for Urban Health Partnerships
Email: jbellcal@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5694 (work), (414) 462-7621 (home)
Expertise: Community health nursing, particularly in community-based nursing centers and advanced practice nursing; clinical documentation; client outcomes and reimbursement for nursing practice; interdisciplinary health care practice models; community health nursing education; cultural competence and parish nursing.
Degrees: B.S., Nursing, Alverno College, 1979; M.S., Nursing, UW-Milwaukee, 1985

BELLEGARDE-SMITH, Patrick D., Associate Professor, Africology
Email: pbs@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4155
Expertise: Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latin religions; West African religions; cultural identity and national development; social thought and philosophy; history, diplomatic history and international relations of small states; women and sexual minorities in the Caribbean, Latin America and West Africa.
Degrees: Ph.D., International Studies, The American University

BENDER, Bruce, Professor, Business Administration
Email: bender@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4160
Expertise: Microeconomics, the economic analysis of political markets.

BENDER, Keith, Associate Professor, Economics, Masters in Human Resources and Labor Relations
Email: kabender@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4761
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/Dept/Economics/faculty/bender.html
Expertise: Labor economics, economics of retirement, public sector labor markets, economics of job satisfaction, international comparisons of employment relations, trade unions.
Degrees: B.A., Economics, Furman University; M.A., Ph.D., Economics, Duke University

BENDINER, Kenneth P., Professor, Art History
Email: bendiner@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4330
Expertise: British painting, 19th- and 20th-century painting and sculpture in Europe and America, three books and numerous articles on Victorian art. More specific research areas: Ford Madox Brown, Pre-Raphaelitism, Giorgio de Chirico, Henri Matisse, Robert Rauschenberg, Edwin Landseer, Edouard Manet, John Frederick Lewis, Albert Moore.
Degrees: Ph.D., Art History, Columbia University, 1979

BENESH, Sara, Assistant Professor, Political Science
Email: sbenesh@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6720
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/People/sbenesh
Expertise: The Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, and general issues related to civil rights and civil liberties and to judicial behavior.
Degrees: B.A., Political Science and English, Saint Norbert College, 1995; M.A., Political Science, Michigan State University, 1997; Ph.D., Political Science, Michigan State University, 1999

BENTER, Michael, Financial Specialist III, Center for Urban Initiatives and Research
Email: benter@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5859
Expertise: Mississippi Delta blues history, Green Bay Packers history and trivia, pre-Prohibition small breweries of southeastern Wisconsin.
Degrees: B.S., Sociology, Edgewood College, Madison, WI

BERG, Craig, Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
Email: caberg@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4047
Expertise: Science teacher education, preparing science teachers, science teaching strategies, using technology to teach, analyzing teaching and implementing powerful teacher-student interactions that facilitate thinking and magnify standards-based instruction, using the Internet to teach.
Degrees: M.S., Science Education; Ph.D., Science Education

BERGES, John, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Email: berges@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-3258
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/Dept/Biology/Docs/Faculty/berges.html
Expertise: Marine and freshwater biology and ecology; biological oceanography; algal biology, physiology and biochemistry; zoöplankton biology; physiology and biochemistry.
Degrees: B.Sc., University of Guelph, 1987; M.Sc., University of Guelph, 1989; Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 1994; postdoctoral fellow, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1994-96; lecturer, Queen’s University of Belfast, 1996-2002

BHATNAGAR, Amit, Associate Professor, Business Administration
Email: amit@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-2520 (work), (414) 355-2739 (home)
Expertise: Competitive strategies for marketing products on the Internet.
Degrees: Ph.D., Marketing; M.S., Aerospace Engineering

BLAU, Richard M., Professor, Film
Email: dickblau@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6015 (work), (414) 332-0232 (home)
Expertise: Photography, anthropology, ethno-musicology, Polish-American music and culture, Romani (Gypsy) music and culture, Mediterranean studies, Greek studies, photographic studies of the family, portraiture, documentary photography, art photography, American studies, multicultural curriculum development in higher education.

BLEWETT, Peter, Senior Lecturer, English
Email: pblewett@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 442-2807
Home Page: www2.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/governance/board/bio06.html
Expertise: Local and national education policy, including equity, desegregation, and education reform; writing program administration; the teaching of writing.
Other Expertise: English Renaissance drama, including Shakespeare
Degrees: B.A., Philosophy, Holy Redeemer College; M.A., English, Marquette University; Ph.D., English, UW-Milwaukee

BLUMBERG, Sherry, Associate Lecturer, Hebrew Studies
Email: shb@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 352-5321
Expertise: Women of the Bible, teaching the Bible and Commentaries, Jewish theology with a specialty in religious experience.
Degrees: M.A., Library Science; M.A., Ph.D., Jewish Education

Bodart, Triena, Assistant Director, Financial Aid
Email: tbodart@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-2404
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/Dept/FINAID
Expertise: General student financial aid information, processing, advising, and outreach. Conducts high school financial aid information nights, basic information sessions, credit, budgeting, and preparing for college.
Degrees: B.S., Speech Communication; M.A., Counselor Education and Student Development

Bohte, John, Assistant Professor, Political Science
Email: jbohte@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4328
Expertise: Education policy, school choice, education reform.

BOOTSMA, Harvey, Assistant Scientist, Graduate School, Great Lakes WATER Institute
Email: hbootsma@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 382-1717
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/People/hbootsma/
Expertise: Limnology (the study of lakes and rivers). Areas of specialization include the cycling of nutrients (carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, silicon) in lakes, the ecology of algae, food web structure, and the interaction of physical (e.g. meteorological, chemical and biological) processes in lakes.

BOULANGER, Mary E., Electronic Resources Coordinator, Reference Librarian, UWM Libraries
Email: mb2@gml.lib.uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5045
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/People/maryb
Expertise: Information retrieval, mediated database searching, health sciences, Internet resources.
Degrees: B.S., General Sciences, Michigan State University, 1977; M.A., Library Science, University of Michigan, 1979

BOWERS, Jane M., Professor Emerita, Music
Email: jmbowers@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 332-9420 (home)
Expertise: Baroque music, early music performance and performance practice, history of the flute and flute music, women and music (all facets), women and blues, women’s music-making cross-culturally, women and the lament, women composers in the 16th and 17th centuries, African-American music.

BRADFORD, Lisa, Lecturer, Communication
Email: lbrad@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4261
Expertise: Intercultural communication and interpersonal communication; issues related to competence; strategic embarrassment, values and issues of identity; strategic embarrassment with adolescents and young adults; Latinos and European Americans’ perceptions of competence. Current research study examines how European Americans evaluate competent communication behavior in four contexts: intracultural-social, intracultural-task, intercultural-social, and intercultural-task.
Degrees: B.S., Speech Communication, Utah State University, 1982; M.A., Communication, Brigham Young University, 1986; Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Communication Program, Arizona State University, 1993

BRAMAN, Sandra, Professor, Communication
Email: braman@uwm.edu
Phone: 414-229-3238
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/~braman
Expertise: social implications of and legal environment for new information and communication technologies; uses of available systems and development of policies for their use; Human-computer interaction (the posthuman, and the cyborg); globalization & international communication; biotechnology and digital technology; the internet, mobile telephones, robots, & ubiquitous computing (the sensor web); media law, telecommunications regulation, constitutional law, policy, & civil liberties; international law; the impact of the PATRIOT Act, 9/11, & national security; the information economy & the economics of information; information work & computer-supported cooperative work; alternative media; innovation processes & effects; piracy, digital music, intellectual property rights, copyright, & patent; privacy, encryption, & surveillance

BRAUNER, Mitchell, Associate Professor, Music
Email: brauner@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4625 (work), (414) 963-9458 (home)
Expertise: Music, Western music history, popular music, music appreciation.
Degrees: B.A., History and Music, UW-Madison; M.F.A., Ph.D., Brandeis University

BRAVO, Hector R., Associate Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Email: hrbravo@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6756 (work), (414) 962-0377 (home)
Expertise: Computational hydraulics, experimental hydraulics, dispersion processes, surface hydrology.
Degrees: B.S., Civil Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina, 1976; M.S., Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, 1982; Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Iowa, 1989

BRIGHAM, Richard, Instructor, Educational Psychology
Email: brighamr@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 425-4447
Expertise: Psychological needs of children and adolescents with severe behavioral deficits and developmental disabilities, special education complaint and dispute resolution process, mediation requested by parents, special education students.
Other Expertise: Psychotherapy and psychological evaluations and consultations for children, adolescents, and adults; currently teaches Cognitive and Behavioral Intervention Strategies for Students.
Degrees: M.S., Educational Psychology; Psy.D., Clinical Psychology

BRODWIN, Paul E., Associate Professor, Anthropology
Email: brodwin@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4734
Expertise: Cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, community mental health, health care disparities, cultural issues in bioethics and mental health care.
Degrees: Ph.D.

BROOKS, Arthur S., Professor, Biological Sciences, Center for Great Lakes Studies
Email: abrooks@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 382-1704 or 229-4552 (work), (414) 962-6381 (home)
Expertise: Great Lakes limnology; the interaction of the physical-chemical environment of lakes with the lower portion of the aquatic food web (the phytoplankton and zooplankton). Research involves the collection of nutrient and plankton data from Lake Michigan, along with weather phenomena that influence the aquatic environment and the influence of climate change on the lake ecosystem.
Other Expertise: President, National Association of Marine Laboratories (1998-1999); professional consulting on environmental issues.
Degrees: B.A., Biology, Washington and Jefferson College, 1965; M.S., Zoology, University of Vermont, 1967; Ph.D., Geography and Environmental Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 1972; Postdoctoral Fellow, Great Lakes Limnology, UW-Milwaukee, 1972

BROWN, Jim, Associate Professor, Center for Consumer Affairs
Email: jbrown@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 227-3255
Expertise: Consumer law and economics; consumer financial services; payment networks; electronic payments; consumer warranties, dispute resolution; auto insurance; consumer law, unfair and deceptive practices.
Degrees: B.A., Physics, Princeton University; J.D., UW-Madison

BRUCKS, Karen M., Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Email: kmbrucks@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5113
Expertise: Low-dimensional dynamical systems, topological dynamics, symbolic dynamics, coding theory, ergodic theory.

BRUKBACHER, Steve, Information Security Coordinator, Information & Media Technologies
Email: sab2@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-2224
Home Page: http://security.uwm.edu
Expertise: Information security including malware, virus, and spyware issues; computer security; information processes and procedures.

BUCHANAN, Elizabeth, Assistant Professor, Information Studies
Email: buchanan@sois.uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-3973
Expertise: Information and technology ethics, research ethics, virtual research.
Degrees: B.A., English (Highest Honors) and Philosophy (Honors), Rutgers University, 1992; MLIS, UW-Milwaukee, 1996; Ph.D., Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee, 2000

BUCK, David D., Professor Emeritus, History
Email: davebuck@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6767 (work), (414) 964-8681 (home)
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/Dept/History/~davebuck
Expertise: Modern Chinese history (1800-1950), with special emphasis on urban and social aspects; East Asian history.
Other Expertise: Editing of professional journals in Asian studies and the field of history; public affairs programming in the field of international studies for general, business and school audiences; radio and television interviewing; management of academic units operating within universities or in a stand-alone site overseas.
Degrees: B.A., History, Stanford University, 1958; M.A., East Asian Regional Studies, Harvard University, 1960; Ph.D., History, Stanford University, 1972

BUFF, Rachel, Associate Professor, History; Director, Ethnic Studies
Email: rbuff@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6483
Expertise: Immigration and naturalization policy, illegal immigration, immigrant and ethnic history.
Degrees: Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1995

BUFFINGTON, Christina, Coordinator, Conservation and Environmental Science Program
Email: cbuffing@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6170
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/Dept/CES/buffington.html
Expertise: Advising interdisciplinary internships and service learning projects, teaching interdisciplinary conservation and environmental science courses.
Degrees: B.S., Soils & Environmental Science; M.S., Environmental Science

BULEY-MEISSNER, Mary Louise, Associate Professor, English, Cultures and Communities Program
Email: meissner@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4511
Expertise: Cross-cultural education, focusing on Asian American literature and life stories, particularly narratives by women addressing their roles and responsibilities during times of social and cultural change; building educational partnerships between the Hmong American community and UW-Milwaukee that will advance understanding of Hmong American history, culture and the social changes influencing community progress.
Degrees: Ph.D., English, University of Washington, 1985

BULLOCK, Marcus P., Professor, Comparative Literature
Email: bullock@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6993 (work), (414) 351-3936 (home)
Expertise: European literature and philosophy, 18th century to contemporary; Walter Benjamin; Franz Kafka; Ernst Juenger; film; South Asian literature and culture; Indian films.

BUNTIN, John D., Professor, Biological Sciences
Email: buntin@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5012 (work), (414) 332-0885 (home)
Expertise: Behavioral recording and analysis, site-specific targeting of hormone and drug delivery in the central nervous system, radioimmunoassay and radioreceptor assay of hormones, competitive binding assays for hormone receptors, quantitative receptor autoradiography and using computer assisted densitometry, immunocytochemistry, histology, small-animal surgery. Research interests: sites and mechanisms of peptide hormone action on brain function and behavior, with emphasis on prolactin effects on neuroendocrine and behavioral changes associated with reproduction.

BURLAGE, Robert, Associate Professor, Health Sciences
Email: burlage@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-3124 (work), (262) 797-0049 (home)
Expertise: Gene expression in microorganisms, detection of biological and chemical weapons, release of genetically engineered microorganisms.
Degrees: Ph.D., Microbiology, University of Tennessee, 1990

BURNS, Patrice, Program Director, School of Continuing Education
Email: pburns@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 227-3118
Expertise: Peninsular Spanish
Degrees: B.A., Communication Arts and Spanish, UW-Madison, 1991; M.A., Spanish, Marquette University, 2001

BUSEH, Aaron, Assistant Professor, Nursing
Email: aaronbg@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5462
Expertise: Local and global public health issues: HIV/AIDS, sexual risk behaviors among adolescents, women, and men; social stigma associated with HIV/AIDS; socioeconomic and cultural factors associated with HIH/AIDS transmission and prevention in Africa and the African American community; health systems research in developing countries of Africa; health and social problems associated with African immigrants and vulnerable populations; ethical issues related to international/global health research.
Degrees: M.S.N., M.P.H., Ph.D.

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