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SAEMANN, Georgia R., Associate Professor, Business Administration
Email: gsaemann@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6292
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/People/gsaemann/
Expertise: Financial accounting standard-setting process, auditing, accounting information systems.

SALDIN, Dilano, Professor, Physics
Email: dksaldin@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6423
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/People/dksaldin
Expertise: X-ray and electron diffraction and crystallography, holography, surface physics, condensed matter physics.
Degrees: Ph.D., Physics, University of Oxford, 1976

SAMUELS, Lisa, Associate Professor, English
Email: lsamuels@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5910
Home Page: wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/Samuels/
Expertise: Poetry, experimental literature, 20th century Anglo-American literature, cultural attitudes about imagination and representation, geographical mobility, the use value of humanities education.
Degrees: Ph.D., English, University of Virginia

SANDER, Erika, Associate Professor, Human Movement Sciences
Email: esander@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-3806
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/CHS/faculty/sandere/sandere.html
Expertise: Motor development: human movement across the lifespan (early child development, children’s sports, adult fitness, senior adult fitness, etc). Title IX and women in sports: girls/women’s athletics and equity.
Degrees: A.B., California State University, Chico; A.M., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

SANDS, Peter, Associate Professor, English
Email: sands@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4416
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/~sands
Expertise: American literature, rhetoric, utopias and utopian studies, science fiction.
Degrees: B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

SANTIAGO-RIVERA, Azara, Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
Email: azara@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4795
Expertise: Group counseling, counseling theory and practice, and multicultural perspectives in counseling; competence in the counseling profession, and bilingual therapy; impact of environmental contamination on the biopsychosocial well-being of the Mohawks living in northeastern New York.

SAPP, Marty, Professor, Educational Psychology
Email: sapp@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6347
Expertise: Clinical applications of hypnosis, test anxiety, counseling and psychotherapy theories, counseling academically at-risk students, multicultural counseling, educational and psychological measurement, research methods and designs.

SCHERMER, Brian Kaplan, Associate Professor, Architecture
Email: bscherm@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-3815 (work), (414) 332-2374 (home)
Expertise: Architecture, the relationship between organizational and architectural change, large-client organizations and their management of complex building design and construction programs, challenges in contemporary architectural practice.

SCHNEIDER, Gail, Professor, Administrative Leadership
Email: gts@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4935
Expertise: Educational administration and school leadership; school reform and restructuring; and instructional leadership.

SCHNITZER, Stefan, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Email: schnitze@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-3146
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/Dept/Biology/Docs/Faculty/schnitzer.html
Expertise: Plant community ecology, tropical forest ecology, biology of invasive species.
Degrees: Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Pittsburgh

SCHULTZ, David H., Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Email: schultz@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5264 (work), (262) 375-1233 (home)
Expertise: Numerical methods for differential equations, finite difference methods, computational fluid dynamics.
Degrees: Numerical Analysis, 1970

SCHUSTER, Charles I., Professor, English; Associate Dean, Humanities, College of Letters and Science
Email: cis@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5293 (work), (414) 332-2091 (home)
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/People/cis
Expertise: Nonfiction prose (Richard Selzer, John McPhee, Jamaica Kincaid, Gretel Ehrlich, etc.), undergraduate educational reform, first-year experience, writing program administration, teaching of writing, writing across the curriculum, peer mentoring.
Degrees: B.A., English, The Ohio State University, 1967; M.A., English, Hunter College, CUNY, 1971; Ph.D., English Literature and Rhetoric/Composition, University of Iowa, 1978

SCHWABACHER, Alan W., Associate Professor, Chemistry
Email: awschwab@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4410 (work), (414) 962-7091 (home)
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/Dept/Chemistry/aws.htm
Expertise: Synthetic modeling of complex natural systems. Modeled the self-assembly process that nature uses to obtain complex structures from smaller building blocks; recently developed combinatorial approaches to preparing and evaluating many species all roughly designed to have the desired properties.
Degrees: B.S., Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978; Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Columbia University, 1985

SCHWARTZ, Mark D., Professor, Geography
Email: mds@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-3740 (work), (414) 963-4732 (home)
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/People/mds/
Expertise: Plant-climate interactions during the onset of spring in mid-latitudes, especially relating to phenology; synoptic climatology of North America, especially applications of air mass analysis; climatic change; assessing vegetation condition with remote sensing.
Degrees: B.S., Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University, 1980; M.S., Michigan State University, 1982; Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1985

SCHWARTZ, Robert A., Professor, Philosophy
Email: schwartz@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4719 (work), (414) 332-2194 (home)
Expertise: Philosophy of psychology, cognitive studies.

SCHWERTFEGER, Ruth V., Professor, German
Email: sword@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4547
Expertise: Documents written by German Jews in French internment camps.

SEERY, Carol, Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: cseery@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4291
Expertise: Stuttering and fluency disorders.
Degrees: Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Specialty Recognition in Fluency Disorders

SEIFODDINI, Hamid, Associate Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Email: seifoddi@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4442
Expertise: Lean Manufacturing; cellular manufacturing.
Degrees: Ph.D. in industrial engineering

SETTERSTEN, Lori, Clinical Assistant Professor, Nursing
Email: lorisett@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5461
Expertise: Women’s health, health behaviors, critical thinking, family nurse practitioner, women’s health nurse practitioner.
Degrees: Ph.D., UW-Madison

SHAW, C. Frank, Professor Emeritus, Chemistry
Email: cfsiii@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4411
Expertise: Structure and function of metallothioneins, metal-altered immune responses, pharmacology of gold-based therapeutic agents.
Degrees: B.S., Chemistry, University of Delaware, 1966; Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry, Northwestern University, 1970

SIEFF, Sherri, Clinical Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: slsieff@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4025
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/SAHP/faculty/sieffs/sieffs.html
Expertise: The relationship of oral and written language in the school-age population; identification of language-learning disabil­ities; development of effective strategies to facilitate oral and written language development, especially at the discourse level.
Degrees: Ph.D., Special Education, University of Southern California, 1983

SKOCZYNSKI, Christine, Staff Interpreter, Deaf/Hard of Hearing Program, Student Accessibility Center
Email: chrissko@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-3342 (work), (262) 375-8703 (home)
Expertise: Sign language interpreting.
Degrees: M.A., Gallaudet University

SMITH, Philip L., Professor, Educational Psychology
Email: psmith@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5286
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/People/psmith/
Expertise: Educational and psychological measurement and applied statistical methods.
Degrees: B.S., Chemistry, Indiana University, 1971; M.S., Educational Research, Indiana University, 1973; Ph.D., Educational Psychology: Measurement and Statistics, University of Illinois, 1976

SMITH, Roger O., Professor,Occupational Therapy
Email: smithro@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5625
Expertise: Measurement of disability and the application of assistive technology, the effectiveness of assistive technology interventions on the lives of people with disabilities.

Smuckler, Nancy, Lecturer, Educational Psychology, Health Care, AOC
Email: brilis@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6577 or (414) 229-6745
Expertise: Child and adolescent development; lifespan development; aging and memory; death, dying, and grief; learning skills, especially memory.
Degrees: B.A., M.S., Ph.D.

SNYDER, Ann C., Professor, Human Movement Sciences
Email: acs@uwm.edu
Phone: (414)229-6065
Expertise: Physiological responses to exercise and the adaptations that occur following physical training, fitness and health aspects of exercise and nutrition. Has worked with individuals from those just starting a fitness program to those who are world and Olympic champions. Has written the textbook Exercise, Nutrition and Health.
Degrees: Ph.D., Exercise Physiology, Purdue University

STAGG, Josef, Associate Professor, Architecture
Email: jstagg@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4032 (work), (414) 447-6746 (home)
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/~jstagg/
Expertise: Developed VirCom, Inc., a nonprofit medial laboratory dedicated to inner city education/training, planning and research into the application of digital technology to solving housing problems; use of “emergent technologies” (digital, information, telecommunication, virtual reality, etc.) for community planning, education and research.
Degrees: B.A., Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1970; Master of Environmental Design, Architecture and Human Behavior, Yale University, 1974; Ph.D., Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, 1984

Stamatelakys, Greg, Captain, R/V Neeskay, Great Lakes Water Institute
Email: skeg@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 382-1709
Expertise: Ship and small craft operation and voyaging on the Great Lakes, including navigation and cargo handling. History relating to early tugboat diesel engineering.

STEGALL, M. Scott, Assistant Professor, Health Sciences, Health Care Administration & Informatics
Email: sstegall@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6362
Home Page: www3.uwm.edu/chs/faculty/faculty.asp?facultyID=82
Expertise: Classification of health care organizations into types in search of successful strategic adaptation.
Degrees: M.H.S.A., Health Services Administration, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 1984; Ph.D., Health Service Organizations and Research, Virginia Commonwealth University-Medical College of Virginia, 1991

STEHLING, Carl, Information Systems Development Specialist, Information and Media Technology
Email: zces@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4145
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/~zces
Expertise: PeopleSoft Portal application development.
Other Expertise: The music of Turlough O’Carolan; arranging music for solo guitar performance.
Degrees: Bachelor of Music in classical guitar performance

STEWIG, John W., Professor Emeritus, Curriculum and Instruction
Email: jstewig@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5246/4814
Expertise: Visual literacy and children’s picture books, issues in children’s literature, language arts curriculum, drama in the curriculum.

STEZALA, Kim, Project Director, Center for Urban Initiatives and Research
Email: kimciz@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6453
Expertise: School selection in Milwaukee, especially helping parents of school-aged children understand the myriad K-12 schooling options (www.uwm.edu/EPIC).
Other Expertise: Director, EPIC (Empowering People for Informed Choices in Education). Director, COMPASS Guide, a college-readiness Web site and outreach program that hosts Milwaukee’s first and only online database of local scholarships (www.compassguide.org).
Degrees: B.A., Mass Communication, UW-Milwaukee, 1992; M.A., Urban Studies, UW-Milwaukee, 1999

STOCKBRIDGE, Richard, Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Email: stockbri@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-3528
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/~stockbri
Expertise: Probability, stochastic analysis.
Degrees: Ph.D, 1987; M.A., 1984; B.S., 1976

STOFFEL, Virginia (Ginny), Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy
Email: stoffelv@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5583 (work), (414) 352-3875 (home)
Expertise: Substance abuse interventions, motivational interviewing facilitating change, health and wellness through occupations, mental health and mental illness, Americans with Disabilities Act applied to persons with mental illness and substance abuse, occupational therapy.
Degrees: B.A., Occupational Therapy, College of St. Catherine, 1977; M.S., Educational Psychology, UW-Milwaukee, 1983

STOJKOVIC, Stan, Dean, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare; Professor, Criminal Justice
Email: stojkovi@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-6038
Expertise: Corrections, particularly prisons and jails; criminal justice administration and management; criminal justice leadership training and education; crime causation and criminological theory, research and evaluation of criminal justice policies, practices and programs.

STONE, Andrea J., Professor, Art History
Email: stone@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5014
Expertise: Mesoamerican art and archaeology, Maya art and hieroglyphic writing, Central American rock art, theory in non-Western art.
Degrees: B.F.A., Fine Art, University of Florida, 1975; M.A., Art History, University of Texas at Austin, 1977; Ph.D., Art History, University of Texas at Austin, 1983

STRICKLER, J. Rudi, Shaw Distinguished Professor, Biological Sciences
Email: jrs@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 382-1700
Expertise: Swimming and feeding performances of small aquatic animals.
Degrees: M.Sc., Natural Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1965; Ph.D., Natural Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1969

SUPRIYA, Karudapuram, Associate Professor, Journalism and Mass Communication
Email: supriya@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 213-8335
Expertise: Intercultural communication, international and global communication, cultural identity, culture of Indians and Indian immigrants in the West, Asian-American community issues; impact of British rule on India, issues regarding global civil society, outsourcing/offshoring jobs to India, contemporary, relevance of Mahatma Gandhi, global culture including Indian hip hop, East Indian identity represented on the Internet.
Degrees: B.A., M.A., M.A., Ph.D.

SURBER, John R., Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
Email: surber@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5097
Expertise: Human learning and memory, learning from text.
Degrees: B.A., Psychology, Occidental College, 1966; M.A., Educational Psychology, University of Illinois, 1976; Ph.D., Educational Psychology, University of Illinois, 1978

SURERUS, Kristene K., Associate Professor, Chemistry
Email: surerus@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-2977 (work), (414) 964-0865 (home)
Expertise: Chemistry of iron, with an emphasis on how iron is utilized by biological organisms.

SVERDRUP, Keith A., Associate Professor, Geosciences
Email: sverdrup@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-4017
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/People/sverdrup/index.html
Expertise: Seismology, tectonophysics.
Degrees: B.S., Geophysics, University of Minnesota, 1975; Ph.D., Earth Science (Tectonophysics), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1981

SWAIN, Rodney A., Associate Professor, Psychology
Email: rswain@uwm.edu
Phone: (414) 229-5329 (work), (414) 486-9597 (home)
Home Page: www.uwm.edu/People/rswain
Expertise: Behavioral neuroscience, central nervous system plasticity, the neurobiology/psychobiology of learning and memory, morphological and functional plasticity of CNS motor systems (cerebellum and motor cortex) in response to motor skill learning and exercise.
Degrees: Ph.D., Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Southern California, 1992

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