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Biographical Notes on Individual Contributors
Stan Aeschleman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Appalachian State University where he has been since 1989. Dr. Aeschleman received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky and served on the faculty at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis before joining the faculty at Appalachian. He has published articles in the areas of rehabilitation psychology, applied behavior analysis, and the experimental analysis of behavior.
Lewis (Bud) Barker received his A.B. in Psychology from Occidental College in Los Angeles, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from The Florida State University. As a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Baylor University for 28 years, Barker taught thousands of students in eighteen different undergraduate courses, as well as eight different graduate and five different laboratory courses. During that time he directed a number of graduate student's master's theses and doctoral dissertations in the area of animal learning. Much of this research has been published in numerous research articles, book chapters, and edited books. In addition, he has textbooks in animal learning and general psychology, and is writing a textbook in Biological Psychology. For the past three years, as a Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Auburn University, Barker teaches Introduction to Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, and various graduate seminars. He has an extended family of four daughters and their significant others, and two grandchildren, all living in Texas.
Bill Buskist lives, works, and plays in Auburn, Alabama and takes occasional extended side-trips to work and play in western North Carolina. He is an active member of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and truly enjoys his affiliation with his STP colleagues and friends. Like Professor Moore, he loves to teach, and throughout his two decade (and change) career, he's enjoyed nearly every moment of being a teacher.
Andrew Christopher received his undergraduate degree in economics from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida in 1992, after which he completed an M.B.A. with a specialization in organizational behavior from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He received his Ph.D. in 1999 with a specialization in social/personality psychology from the University of Florida under the guidance of Barry Schlenker. While at Florida, he also worked extensively with Richard Griggs conducting research on the introductory psychology course. After graduating from Florida, Andrew spent two years at Anderson College in South Carolina, where he won Teacher of the Year in his first year there. Currently, Andrew is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Albion College in Albion, Michigan, where he teaches introductory psychology, organizational psychology, research design and analysis, social psychology, and social psychology in cinema. His research interests include the influence of affluence cues on social perception, materialism, and the Protestant work ethic. In addition, he continues to conduct research on the teaching of psychology, with a particular interest in issues related to introductory psychology, statistics, and research methods. His research has appeared in journals such as Teaching of Psychology, the Journal of Economic Psychology, and the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
Randy Ernst will teach psychology next fall at Lincoln North Star High School. He is co-author with Charlie Blair-Broeker of Thinking About Psychology (a textbook for high school psychology), a co-author of the National Standards for the Teaching of High School Psychology, a co-editor of the fourth volume of the APA Activities Handbook for the Teaching of Psychology, and author of the 1994 edition of College Board's Guide for Teaching Advanced Placement Psychology. Randy has served as Chair of TOPSS Executive Board, as an external panelist of APA's Board of Educational Affairs, and is a Question Leader at the annual AP Psychology Reading. He is an author or editor of several TOPSS unit plans, and is a co-chair of the Positive Psychology Teaching Task Force. Randy is a recipient of the APA's Division 2 Teaching Excellence Award, the University of Nebraska's Distinguished Educator Award, and Time-Warner's "Crystal Apple" National Teacher Award. He lives in Nebraska, with his wife Sherri and their three intelligent daughters.
Amy C. Fineburg has been a high school psychology teacher in Birmingham, Alabama, for eight years. Since attending a National Science Foundation summer institute in 1997, she has been actively involved in promoting the teaching of psychology by serving as an instructor at the 1999 NSF Summer Institute for Teaching the Science of Psychology, as a member-at-large for TOPSS, as a reader for the annual AP Psychology Reading, as co-chair of the Positive Psychology Teaching Task Force, and as co-director of the Alabama Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools workshops. She is the author of the Teacher's Edition and author/compiler of the Teacher's Resource Binder for Thinking About Psychology by Charlie Blair-Broeker and Randy Ernst. She is also the author of the 2003 edition of the College Board's Guide for Teaching Advanced Placement Psychology and the TOPSS unit plan for positive psychology. Amy has presented posters and workshops at national, regional, and local teaching and psychological association conferences and is one of the 2002 recipients of the TOPSS Excellence in Teaching awards. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with her husband Ben and their young son Micah Samuel.
Robert W. Hendersen is Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department at Grant Valley State University. He has published work in learning, memory, and instructional computing. During the time he has been chair of his department, the department has grown rapidly from 15 faculty members to 34, so Hendersen has considerable experience with the needs of faculty who are just beginning their teaching careers. Hendersen is on the Steering Committee of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology.
Bill Hill received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Georgia in 1979 and has been on the faculty at Kennesaw State University (KSU) since then. During his tenure at KSU he has been a full-time teaching faculty member, Psychology Department Chair (1988-1994), Associate Vice-president for Academic Affairs (1998-2002), and Acting Vice-president for Academic Affairs (April-July, 2002). In the fall of 2002, he assumed the position of Director of the KSU Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, which coordinates faculty development programs at KSU. In addition to directing CETL, he also teaches some courses in the Psychology curriculum. In 1989 he founded, and continues to coordinate, the annual Southeastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology and he is a co-coordinator for the upcoming "Taking Off: Best Practices in Teaching Introductory Psychology" conference to be held in September, 2003. He has also been active in a variety of leadership roles in the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP), Division Two of the APA, serving as STP President in 2001-2002. He received the KSU Distinguished Teaching Award in 1985 and is a Fellow of APA Divisions 1 (General Psychology), 2 (STP) and 52 (International Psychology).
Steve Hobbs is a Professor at Augusta State University, where he served as chair of the Department of Psychology for twelve years. He began the process of reinventing himself as a full-time faculty member in 2001. Steve is a mental health advocate and conducts research on the biological aspects of learning and addictions. He has received his university's top teaching and service awards, has served as national chair of the Council of Undergraduate Psychology Programs (CUPP), and is president-elect of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA).
Pamela E. Johnson, Ph.D., is Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. Prior to moving to Baltimore, she spent 9 years at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA. She has been a member of the academy for the past 9 years and has extensive experience as a student mentor. Her students have presented papers and abstracts at the annual meetings of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, American Psychological Association, Southeastern Psychological Association, Georgia Psychological Association, and National Medical Association. In addition, her students have presented their research at the Atlanta University Center Psychology Research Day, Research in Minority Institution (RIMI) Conference, and Leadership Alliance Summer Conference.
James H. Korn is Professor of Psychology at Saint Louis University. In 1965 he received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie-Mellon University) in physiological psychology. The events of the late 1960s led him into his commitment to teaching, and to St. Louis in 1974. Over the past 30 years his scholarly work included topics in adult development, program evaluation, research ethics, and the history of psychology. He has served as President of Division 2, and is a Fellow of the Division and of Division 1 (General).
Eric Landrum is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. His research interests center on facilitating student learning-designing situations and environments that maximize opportunities for success. He has over 180 conference presentations, over 45 scholarly publications, and has written 6 books. His teaching/education-related work has appeared in journals such as Teaching of Psychology, Contemporary Psychology, Educational and Psychological Measurement, the Journal of College Student Development, the Journal of Research and Development in Education, and College Student Journal. He is the lead author of The Psychology Major: Career Options and Strategies for Success, 2nd edition (2004, Prentice Hall). At Boise State, he teaches General Psychology (classroom and online), Introduction to the Psychology Major, Statistical Methods, Research Methods, Cognitive Psychology, Advanced Statistical Methods, Learning, and Psychological Measurements. He served as Psychology Department Chair from 1996-2000. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and a Fellow of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Division Two). He also served as National President of the Council of Teachers of Undergraduate Psychology. In May 2002, he was awarded the Boise State University Foundation Scholar's Award for Teaching, the highest award for teaching on campus.
Margaret (Marky) A. Lloyd is Professor of Psychology at Georgia Southern University, where she teaches Social Psychology, Personality Psychology, Psychology of Adjustment, Psychology of Gender, and Careers in Psychology. She is a recipient of GSU's Award for Excellence for Contributions to Instruction and The Ruffin Cup, presented annually to the outstanding teacher-scholar in GSU's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. She has taught for 30 years, including 13 years' experience as a department chair (at GSU and Suffolk University). She is the co-author (with Wayne Weiten) of Psychology Applied to Modern Life and maintains a Website on careers in psychology (<http://www.psywww.com/careers>). She is a past President of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and former Executive Director of the Society's Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology. She is currently serving as one of the Society's two representatives to APA's Council of Representatives. She has also served on APA's Board of Educational Affairs and was a member of the BEA Task Force on Undergraduate Psychology Major Competencies. She received her B.A. in psychology from the University of Denver and her M.A. and Ph.D. in personality and social psychology from the University of Arizona.
Harold Moon is professor emeritus at Augusta State University where for 25 years he was professor of psychology with stints in various administrative positions. Earlier, he was assistant/associate professor at Auburn University for eight years. His scholarly interests include teaching, history of psychology, ethics, and learning. Harold received his B.S. from Auburn University in 1956 and his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 1962. He served one year as a clinical intern at the University of Tennessee Medical School and two years as a clinical psychologist in a community mental health center in Alabama. Harold has been a member of numerous professional organizations, serving as president of several at the local level and also of the Alabama Psychological Association, the Southeastern Psychological Association, and Psi Chi. He is a fellow APA and charter member of APS.
Jeff Norby received his B.A. in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 1994 and his M.S.Ed. in school counseling in 1996 from the University of Wisconsin-Superior. He served as the worksite coordinator in the ProTech Youth Apprenticeship Program at Cloquet High School (Minnesota) and the Fond du Lac Ojibwe School (Minnesota) from 1994-95. Upon completion of his counseling degree, Jeff served as high school guidance counselor at Shawano High School (Wisconsin) from 1996-2000. After working in public education for six years in "non-teaching" roles, and observing and interacting with many teaching professionals, Jeff concluded that he had chosen the wrong profession. He returned to class at Cardinal Stritch University-Milwaukee, where he obtained his broad field social science teaching certificate in 2000. Jeff is currently in his fourth year teaching at Hudson High School (Wisconsin), where he teaches five sections of Advanced Placement psychology. Coming to teaching through a very untraditional route, he is grateful for the many rich rewards that teaching brings to his life, and regularly encourages his senior students to choose their life's work with great consideration.
Joe Pear received a B.S. in psychology from the University of Maryland and an M.A. and Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the Ohio State University. He is currently a Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Studies in the Department of Psychology at the University of Manitoba, where he has been since receiving his Ph.D. in 1966. His areas of specialization include learning and basic and applied behavior analysis. In addition to numerous articles and chapters, he has published a book on behavior modification (with Garry Martin) and a book on learning. A third book on history and systems is currently in press. He has been teaching using CAPSI and researching it for the past 20 years.
David J. Pittenger has been a department head since receiving his Ph.D. From The University of Georgia in 1989. David began his career at Marietta College, a private liberal arts college in southeastern Ohio. He moved to the headship for the Department of Psychology at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2000. David received the Teaching Excellence Award: Early Career from Division Two of the American Psychological Association in 1987 and received the McCoy Professor of Psychologyfor Teaching Excellence while at Marietta College. David's research interests include the partial reinforcement extinction effect and persistence phenomena in humans, coping strategies used by care givers who tend to persons with long-term illness, and ethical problems within behavioral research.
Erin Rasmussen is an assistant professor at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, where she teaches Conditioning and Learning, Learning Laboratory, Drugs and Behavior, and Introductory Psychology. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, with a minor in Behavioral Pharmacology and Behavioral Toxicology, from Auburn University. She continues to study the effects of environmental contaminants on behavior, and currently is examining how environmental enrichment plays a role in modulating the effects of prenatal methylmercury exposure. She is also interested in exploring the teacher-researcher distinction in academia and dissemination of career-related information to students at her current institution.
Marcia Rossi is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Former Acting Chair of the Department of Psychology and Sociology at Tuskegee University. She has served on the faculty at TU for eleven years. She teaches courses in Introductory Psychology, Experimental Psychology, History of Psychology, Theories of Learning, Social Psychology, and Applied Behavior Analysis. She has presented papers and published in the areas of cultural diversity issues as well as in the area of flight simulator training technology. She is responsible for the installation of Psi Chi at Tuskegee University, and has served as the advisor since its installation in 1992. She is a member of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Southeastern Psychological Association, and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology of the American Psychological Association.
Jerry Rudmann holds a PhD in Educational Psychology from University of Southern California. He was an industrial psychologist for Rockwell International, then left in 1977 to begin teaching psychology at Irvine Valley College in Irvine, California. While continuing to teach at Irvine Valley, Jerry is also supervisor of institutional research at nearby Coastline College. Dr. Rudmann has served as the National President of Psi Beta, was STP's community college teacher of the year in 1997, and currently serves on PT@CC's executive committee.
Lauren F. V. Scharff is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she has been teaching since January, 1993. She completed her Ph.D. in Human Experimental Psychology in December, 1992 from the University of Texas at Austin. At SFA, she has coordinated initiatives to reorganize new faculty orientation, create teaching circles, and write a faculty "survival guide." In her department, she established a graduate teaching seminar for students who desire to instruct courses while in graduate school. She regularly teaches introductory psychology, research methods, physiological psychology, and perception courses. She has received several college and university level awards for her university initiatives and her teaching. Her major research interests include text readability, visual search and depth perception, although her students continually shift her research efforts to new directions. For the past five years she has collaborated with researchers at NASA-Ames to create a metric to predict text readability. In her community, she has been a coordinator and/or presenter since 1994 at the Annual Expanding Your Horizons Career Day for Girls. She has a wonderful husband, a four-year-old son, two dogs and two horses who all help her stay well-balanced.
Tina Vazin is an Assistant Professor and has served as the Interim Chairperson in the Department of Foundations and Psychology at Alabama State University for the past 5 years. She teaches courses in Inferential Statistics, Research Methods, Sensation and Perception, and Developmental Psychology. Her research interests include health disparities including HIV prevention and drug abuse. She is the principal investigator for a research project funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services evaluating the effectiveness of abstinence education in the prevention of adolescent pregnancy and HIV infection. She is co-principal investigator of a campus-based evening child study center and Project Director of a pilot research project funded by the National Institute of Health evaluating methods to reduce reproductive health disparities. She serves as a board member on the Alabama Association for Behavior Analysis.
Earl D. Walker, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. He has been a member of the department for over 30 years and has guided the development of hundreds of research projects. He and his students have presented papers at meetings of the American Psychological Association, Eastern Psychological Association and American Psychosomatic Society. This past April, the Carolinas Psychology Conference Committee recognized him for his outstanding mentoring and service.
Ken Weaver is beginning his ninth year as chair of the Department of Psychology and Special Education at Emporia State University. He is the university's Roe R. Cross Distinguished Professor, the recipient of the 2002 Robert S. Daniel Award for Teaching Excellence from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, and the 2001 Regional Faculty Advisor Award from Psi Chi. He also is President-elect of the Southwestern Psychological Association.
Valerie Whittlesey is a Professor of Psychology and Former Chair of the Psychology Department at Kennesaw State University. Dr. Whittlesey served as Chair of the department for four years and has served on the faculty at KSU for ten years. She teaches courses in Developmental Psychology, Social Issues in Psychology, Careers in Psychology, and Senior Seminar in Psychology. She has published articles in the areas of Developmental Psychology, Department Assessment, and Diversity in Psychology and has published a book, Diversity Activities for Psychology. Dr. Whittlesey is currently Associate Program Chair for the Society for the Teaching of Psychology of the American Psychological Association and is on the Executive Committee for the Southeastern Psychological Association.
William Douglas Woody completed his doctoral work with Wayne Viney at Colorado State University. He recently moved from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire and is now Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Northern Colorado. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of psychology and the law, social psychology, and history and systems of psychology. He is the recipient of university-level and national teaching awards.
About the Editors
Vincent Hevern graduated from Fordham College and received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Fordham University in 1985, the same year he was licensed as a psychologist by New York State. For 8 years he both taught psychology and practiced as a clinician in New York City. He moved to Le Moyne College in 1991 where he is Associate Professor and former chair of the Psychology Department. At Le Moyne he has taught a broad array of clinical and non-clinical courses. His most recent research interests include the narrative perspective in the social sciences and the pedagogical implications of emerging digital technologies such as the Internet. He is the founding Internet Editor for STP for which he has developed and maintained several online sites since 1997 (the STP Homepage and OTRP Online). He is a Fellow of APA in Division 2.
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