New Faculty in the School of Liberal Arts

2003

Bonnie Blankenship
Associate professor
Department of Health and Kinesiology
Degree: Ph.D., University of South Carolina
E-mail: bblanke@sla.purdue.edu
Research interests: Teacher education program assessment, student teaching, teacher induction

Julia Chester
Assistant professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
Degree: Ph.D., Oregon Health and Science University
E-mail: jchester@psych.purdue.edu
Research interests: The use of behavioral, genetic, and pharmacological approaches to study the neurobiological processes that influence the development of alcoholism

King Chung
Assistant professor
Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences
Degree: Ph.D., Northwestern University
E-mail: kingchung@purdue.edu
Research interests: Amplification and speech recognition and related issues, especially hearing and cochlear implants

Reeshad Dalal
Assistant professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
Degree: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
E-mail: rsdalal@psych.purdue.edu
Research interests: Employee mood, attitudes, and behavior at work, applied psychometrics, and research
methods

Jessica Bigazzi Foster
Assistant professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
Degree: Ph.D., Rice University
E-mail: jfoster@purdue.edu
Research interests: Examination of individual and collective experiences of the interaction between work and family, and analysis of related organizational policies and systems

Viktor Gecas
Professor and department head
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Degree: Ph.D., University of Minnesota
E-mail: vgecas@soc.purdue.edu
Research interests: Family relations, socialization, parent-child interaction, self-concept formation, identities

R. Douglas Hurt
Professor and department head
Department of History
Degree: Ph.D., Kansas State University
E-mail: dhurt@sla.purdue.edu
Research interests: American agricultural and rural history, the American West, and the Midwest

Sorin Matei
Assistant professor
Department of Communication
Degree: Ph.D., University of Southern California
E-mail: smatei@yahoo.com
Research interests: New media, spatial analysis, research methods

Glenn Parker
Professor
Department of Political Science
Degree: Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Research interests: Evolution of political institutions and the application of economic models to explain the behavior of special interests, politicians, and voters

Venetria Patton
Associate professor and
Director of African American Studies and Research Center
Department of English and African American Studies
Degree: Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
E-mail: vpatton@purdue.edu
Research interests: African American literature and women writers of the African Diaspora

Deborah Rotman
Assistant professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Degree: Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst
E-mail: drotman@purdue.edu
Research interests: Historical and industrial archaeology; political economy; social relations of class, gender, and ethnicity; historical material culture; public archaeology; nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Eastern United States

Michael Salvo
Assistant professor
Department of English
Degree: Ph.D., Texas Tech University
E-mail: salvo@sla.purdue.edu
Research interests: Information architecture, virtual culture, online pedagogy, rhetoric and technology, representations of the Holocaust

Michael Schmitt
Assistant professor of psychological sciences
Department of Psychological Sciences
Degree: Ph.D., University of Kansas
E-mail: schmitt@psych.purdue.edu
Research interests: Responses to group-based social inequality, social identity

Amanda Seidl
Assistant professor
Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences
Degree: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
E-mail: aseidl@purdue.edu
Research interests: Language acquisition, linguistics