Department of Anthropology
Stephen Brighton, Assistant Professor
Dr. Brighton has taught at the Center for Rural Irish Studies in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Illinios State University, and also in Boston University’s Archeology Department. He earned his Ph.D. in archeology from Boston University. He is teaching ANTH 240: Introduction to Archaeology.

Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Hanno Petras, Assistant Professor
Dr. Petras is a sociologist who received his Ph.D. from Christian-Albrechts University in Germany, and continued onto postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University. He has taught at Hopkins’ Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence and at Towson State University. He is teaching CCJS 699F: Special Criminological Problems: Longitudinal Data Analysis with Latent Variables.

Department of Economics
Christopher McKelvey, Assistant Professor
Dr. McKelvey earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has taught at UCLA and worked as a researcher at the Rand Corporation. He is teaching ECON 416: Theory of Economic Development, and ECON 615: Economic Development of Less-Developed Areas.

Department of Geography
Naijun Zhou, Assistant Professor
Dr. Zhou earned a masters of science at Beijing University in China before attending the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he received a masters degree in computer sciences and a Ph.D. in geography. He has been an instructor at Beijing University and a researcher at the University of Wisconsin. He is teaching GEOG 398Q: Special Topics in Geography: Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Geographic and Environmental Sciences.

Department of Government and Politics
Paul Huth, Professor
Dr. Huth was most recently a professor of political science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has also taught at Harvard University. He earned both his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. He is teaching GVPT708A: Seminar in International Relations: International Relations Theory.

Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
Monita Chatterjee, Assistant Professor
Dr. Chatterjee most recently worked as a scientist at the Department of Auditory Implants and Perception at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles. She earned a Ph.D. from the Institute for Sensory Research in the Department of Bioengineering and Neuroscience at Syracuse University. She is teaching HESP 722: Experimental Audiology and HESP 848: Seminar in Audiology: Cochlear Implants.

Yasmeen Shah, Assistant Professor
Dr. Shah holds a Ph.D. in communication sciences and disorders from Northwestern University. She gained teaching experience and worked as a researcher at Northwestern University’s Aphasia and Neurolinguistics Research and Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Research Laboratories. She is teaching HESP 406: Speech Pathology III.

Wei Tian, Assistant Professor
Dr. Tian received a Ph.D. in speech and hearing science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before attending the University of Illinois, she earned a bachelors of medicine, the equivalent of a D.D.S., and finished three-years of graduate study in China, where she also worked as an oral and maxillofacial surgeon. At the University of Illinois, she was an instructor and a researcher. She is teaching HESP 614: Orofacial Anomalies.

Department of Psychology
Jens Herberholz, Assistant Professor
Dr. Herberholz has taught and worked as a research scientist at Georgia State University’s Department of Biology and Center for Behavioral Neuroscience. He received a Ph.D. in natural sciences from the Technical University in Munich, Germany, continuing on to a postdoctoral research position at Georgia State. He is teaching PSYC7 89C: Special Research Problems: Topics in Neuroscience.

Cheri Ostroff, Professor
Dr. Ostroff was most recently a professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College, in the Department of Organizational and Leadership, Social-Organizational Psychology Program. She earned a masters of arts and a Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from Michigan State University. She has also taught at Arizona State University and the University of Minnesota. She will teach a graduate seminar in the spring.

Ty Tashiro, Assistant Professor
Dr. Tashiro received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Minnesota. He most recently taught in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is teaching PSYC 692: Assessment in Counseling Psychology I.

Amanda Woodward, Professor
Dr. Woodward earned her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University , after which she held a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University. She was most recently a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. She is teaching PSYC 798J: Graduate Seminar: Development of Social Cognition.

Department of Sociology
Patricia Hill Collins, Professor
Dr. Collins holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Brandeis University, and a M.A.T. in social science education from Harvard University. She was a professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where she had also served as department chair. Her teaching experience has included positions at Northern Kentucky University, Tufts University and Boston College, among others. She is teaching SOCY 729B: Advanced Special Topics in Substantive Theory: Critical Race Theory.