CEPR Faculty and Staff

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Counseling

Pamela A. Cogdal Chair and Clinical Professor Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1989 pcogdal@memphis.edu
Michelle Brasfield Associate Professor Ed.D., University of Memphis, 2015 rmwelch@memphis.edu
Melanie Burgess Assistant Professor Ph.D., Old Dominion University, 2019 M.Burgess@memphis.edu
Claire Dempsey Associate Clinical Professor Ed.D., University of Memphis, 2015 mcwllams@memphis.edu
Frances Ellmo Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Memphis, 2020 fellmo@memphis.edu
Taneshia Greenidge Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Florida, 2019 tgrnidge@memphis.edu
Patrick D. Murphy Assistant Professor Ph.D., Auburn University, 2018 pdmurphy@memphis.edu
Eraina Schauss Associate Professor Ph.D., George Washington University, 2011 eschauss@memphis.edu
Steven L. West Professor Ph.D., Texas Tech University, 2000 slwest@memphis.edu
Stephen Zanskas Associate Dean and Professor Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2007 szanskas@memphis.edu

Counseling Psychology

Sara K. Bridges Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Memphis, 1999 sbridges@memphis.edu
Madeline Brodt Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Boston, 2020 mbrodt@memphis.edu
Suzanne H. Lease Associate Professor Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1989 slease@memphis.edu
Richard Lightsey Professor Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1992 olightsy@memphis.edu
Rosie Phillips Davis Professor Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1977 rbingham@memphis.edu
Chrisann Schiro-Geist Professor Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1974 cschrgst@memphis.edu

Educational Psychology & Research

Sanchari Banerjee Assistant Professor of Teaching Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2023 sanchari.banerjee@memphis.edu
Alison A. Happel-Parkins Associate Professor Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2011 aahappel@memphis.edu
Leigh M. Harrell-Williams Associate Professor and Dean's Faculty Fellow Ph.D., Virginia Tech University, 2009 leigh.williams@memphis.edu
Yeh Hsueh Professor Ed.D., Harvard University, 1997 yehhsueh@memphis.edu
Eli Jones Assistant Professor Ph.D., Brigham Young University, 2016 eli.jones@memphis.edu
Christian E. Mueller Professor Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2006 cemuellr@memphis.edu
Susan Nordstrom Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2011 snnrdstr@memphis.edu
Mehmet Ozturk Assistant Professor of Teaching Ph.D., Virginia Tech University, 2001 maozturk@memphis.edu
Jennifer Renick Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology Ph.D., University of California Irvine, 2022 jrenick@memphis.edu
Karen Weddle-West Vice President of Student Success and Professor Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1982 kweddle@memphis.edu **Please note that Dr. Weddle-West is not accepting new students at this time
Denise L. Winsor Associate Professor Ph.D.,University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2008 dwinsor@memphis.edu
Yonghong Jade Xu Professor Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2003 yxu@memphis.edu

Main Office Staff

Talisa Anderson, M.Ed. Administrative Associate 2 tndrsn21@memphis.edu
Melynda Whitwell, M.S. Director of Admissions and Records mdlong@memphis.edu
Susan Kasperbauer Mascari, M.S. Reception and Outreach susan.mascari@memphis.edu
Kola Brown, M.A. Graduate Assistant klbrown@memphis.edu

University of Memphis Institute on Disability

Patrick J. Krolik, MBA Manager, Project FIRST prkrolik@memphis.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Doug Strohmer, Ph.D., CRC