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College of Education Counseling, Educational Psychology and Research
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Counseling

  • Pamela A. Cogdal
  • Richard K. James
  • Stephen Leierer
  • Daniel Lustig
  • Nancy J. Nishimura
  • Ronnie Priest
  • Dewaine Rice
  • Douglas C. Strohmer
  • Stephen Zanskas

Counseling Psychology

  • Rosie P. Bingham
  • Sara K. Bridges
  • Sharon Horne
  • Suzanne H. Lease
  • Richard Lightsey
  • Chrisann Schiro-Geist
  • Douglas Strohmer

Educational Psychology
and Research

  • Lisbeth A. Berbary
  • Corinna Ethington
  • Forooz Faghihi
  • Yeh Hsueh
  • Terry Ishitani
  • Martin H. Jones
  • Susan Magun-Jackson
  • Christian E. Mueller
  • Ernest A. Rakow
  • John Smart
  • Karen Weddle-West
  • M. Anne White
  • Denise L. Winsor
  • Yonghong Jade Xu
Faculty and their Research Interests
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Lisbeth A. Berbary, Ph.D., CTRS, University of Georgia, Athens (2008). Qualitative methodology, creative analytic practices, post-structural and feminist theories, gender studies, community social health, and inclusive leisure spaces.

Sara K. Bridges, Ph.D., The University of Memphis (1999). Counselor training, couples and family therapy, human sexuality, and constructivist theory.

Pamela A. Cogdal, Ph.D. Southern Il. University-Carbondale (1989). Career and work-life balance, practice outcomes, assessment, suicide prevention and couples/relationship issues.

Corinna Ethington, Ph.D. Virginia Tech (1985). Statistics and research methods, women in quantitative fields, college effects on students.

Forooz Faghihi, Ph.D. University of Memphis (1998). Educational Research, school reform and student learning, higher education and graduate student retention, cross cultural study of aging.

Sharon Horne, Ph.D., University of Georgia (1998). International consultation, domestic violence; gay lesbian, and bisexual counseling, and gender issues.

Yeh Hsueh, Ed.D. Harvard University (1997). Development of children, cross-cultural study of preschool, development of developmental psychology, and instructional media.

Terry Ishitani, Ph.D. University of Iowa (2000). Policy analysis in higher education, institutional research, college success and longitudinal research designs.

Richard K. James, Professor. Ph.D. Indiana State University (1974). Crisis intervention, elementary school counseling, and anger management.

Martin H. Jones, Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington (2007). Learning and cognition, academic motivation, self-regulated learning, peer and social influences on motivation, and social functioning of students with learning disabilities.

Suzanne H. Lease, Ph.D., Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (1989). Career counseling with racial and ethnic minorities, masculine ideologies and work/intimate relationships, multicultural counseling, spirituality in the LGBT population and their families.

Stephen Leierer, Ph.D. Florida State University (1993). Strong interest inventory, counselor clinical judgments, disability identity, and college career course interventions

Richard Lightsey, Ph.D, University of Maryland (1992). Resilience, the relationship between stress and depression, stress and coping strategies.

Daniel Lustig, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison (1995). Family adjustment and adjustment to disability.

Susan Magun-Jackson, Ph.D. University of Memphis (1996). Retention/attrition in higher education, Life-span development, at-risk college students, instructional design and technology.

Christian E. Mueller, Ph.D. The University of Kentucky (2006). Adolescent development, cognitive development and cognitive processes, giftedness and talent development, motivation.

Nancy J. Nishimura, Ed.D. The University of Alabama (1991). Counseling biracial children and basic counseling techniques.

Ronnie Priest, Ph.D. The University of Alabama (1990). Victims of sexual abuse, multicultural counseling and community counseling issues.

Ernest A. Rakow, Ph.D. University of Chicago (1974). Teacher evaluation and innovative uses of statistics.

Dewaine Rice, Ed.D. Memphis State University (1980). Moral development of young adults, student affairs issues and clinical hypnosis.

Chrisann Schiro-Geist, Ph.D. Northwestern University (1974). Rehabilitation counseling and the development of international counseling programs.

John Smart, Ph.D. University of Kentucky (1971). Higher education, institutional research, and college environments.

Douglas Strohmer, Ph.D. (1979) Michigan State University. Clinical judgment and decision-making, medical decision-making and the Internet, personality assessment, counseling process, professional identity, men in counseling, and disability issues.

Karen Weddle-West, Ph.D. University of Tennessee (1982). Cultural diversity, minority teachers, child psychology, infant development, adolescent pregnancy, at-risk children.

M. Anne White, Ph.D. University of Memphis (2001). Life-span development and college student development.

Denise L. Winsor, Ph.D. University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2008). Early childhood development, specifically developing a systems framework involving epistemological and theory of mind development in very young children; personal epistemology of pre-service teachers and how it influences their instructional techniques in the classroom; literacy and argumentation.

Yonghong Jade Xu, Ph. D. The University of Arizona (2003). Statistics and quantitative research methods; large-scale data analysis with statistical and data mining approaches; comparison of different data analysis methods.

Stephen Zanskas, Ph.D. Michigan State University (2007). Development of consultation skills in graduate rehabilitation counseling education programs, the psychosocial aspects of disability, professional issues and ethics

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