By Topic

Unless otherwise indicated, all speakers are at the Mansfield campus, telephone area code 419, or you may reach them at their e-mail address.

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B
Berra, Tim M.
Professor Emeritus, Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology
755-4310 or berra.1@osu.edu
• Charles Darwin: The Man
• Life History of the Australian Salamanderfish:
Fishing With a Shovel and a Firetruck
• Recovery and Preservation of a Megamouth Shark from Western Australia
• Chasing Nurseryfish and Avoiding Crocodiles in Australia's Northern Territory
Consultant
• Fish Identification, Ecology of Streams

Bradley, Joan E.
Lecturer, Biology
755-4357 or bradley.1@osu.edu
• Accessibility of Science Labs to Students with Disabilities
• Universal Design of Instruction: Using 3-D Models in Teaching

Bucci, Terri Teal
Assistant Professor, Education: Teaching and Learning
755-4243 or bucci.5@osu.edu
• Teaching Mathematics through the Process Standards:  Representa tions, Reasoning/Proof, Connections, Communications, and Problem Solving
• Teaching Mathematics through Modeling
• Grant Writing:  Finding, Creating, Writing, & Evaluation
• Using Backwards Design in Organizations and Schools
• Education in Developing Countries

Buckley, JF
Assistant Professor, English
755-4281 or buckley.1@osu.edu
• Nineteenth-century American literature and culture
• Popular heroes such as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett
• The western hero from his beginnings in the dime novel to Hollywood film
• Women writers of nineteenth-century America and their sentimental and domestic novels
• The New-England Transcendentalists s

Burke,Victor Lee
Associate Professor, Sociology
755-4260 or burke.60@osu.edu
• Ideas of Success and Motivations of the Super-Rich
• Lifestyle of the Rich and Famous
Consultant
• Personal Business and Corporate Coach

C
Callahan, Cynthia A.
Associate Professor, English
755-4242 or callahan.138@osu.edu
• African American Literature and Culture
• The Culture of Adoption and Kinship in the United States, including Transracial Adoption, Domestic and International
• Ethnic American Literature
• Multiracial Identity

Constantinou, Stavros
Associate Professor, Geography
755-4335 or constantinou.1@osu.edu
• Ethnicity, with special emphasis on Greek Americans
• Geography of Southern Europe
• Migration (Greek and Cypriot)

Copenhaver-Johnson, Jeane
Assistant Professor, College of Education & Human Ecology
419-755-4270 or copenhaver-johns.1@osu.edu
• Young Children's Understandings of Race:  Understanding How Adults can Facilitate Racial Understandings
• Encouraging Young Children's Literacy Development
• No Child Left Behind:  The Potential Consequences for Children of   Poverty

Costa, Ozeas S.
Assistant Professor, School of Earth Sciences
419-755-3908 or costa.47@osu.edu
• Brazil:  Culture and nature in a land of contrasts:
• How good is Your water
• Water:  How much do we need and how much is available
• Using GIS for managing natural resources
• Using GIS for prevention of natural disasters
• Using GIS in the health sector
• GIS for managing public utilities
• Life and change at the Ohio River Basin

D
Dahlstrand, Frederick C.
Associate Dean
Associate Professor, History
755-4222 or dahlstrand.1@osu.edu
• American History
• History of Women in America
• History of American Religion

Delagrange, Susan
Assistant Professor, Rhetoric and Digital Media
755-4235 or delagrange.2@osu.edu
• Computers and Culture
• Business and Professional Writing
• Web Sites, Wikis, Blogs - What is the Internet For?

E
Ellis, Mark
Professor, Music
755-4278 or ellis.10@osu.edu
• Three Revolutions in Music
• The Myth of Giftedness in Music

F
Fisher, Terri
Associate Professor, Psychology
755-4280 or fisher.16@osu.edu
• What to expect when your child becomes a teenager
• Talking to your teenager about sex
• What every parent should know about child development
• Family foundations of sexuality
• Sex differences:  myths and realities
• Sexuality across the life-span

Foster, Thomas
Assistant Professor, Psychology
755-4273 or foster.11@osu.edu
• Subcultures of Violence in America
• The Hidden Costs of Illegal Immigration

H

Hack, Tyler
Coordinator of Athletics and Recreation
755-4040 or hack.14@osu.edu
• Creating an Effective Style of Coaching
• Sports in Contemporary America
• The importance of goal-setting to success in Sports

Hall, Sid
Program Mgr., Fisher College of Business & Lecturer
755-4351 or hall.20@osu.edu
• Individuals and Retirement Programs for Small Businesses
• Personal Financial Planning
• MIS Project Management & Methodology
• Business Educational Opportunities at OSU-M
Consultant
• Financial Services/Retirement Plans: Small and Business and Non-Profits
• MIS Project Mangement

Hartz, Glenn
Professor, Philosophy
755-4354 or hartz.1@osu.edu
• Business Ethics
• Medical Ethics
• Religion
• Technology and Human Values
• Philosophy

Hunt, Ralph
Assoc. Professor, English
755-4250 or hunt.6@osu.edu
• How to Write a Play in 896 Difficult Lessons
• Modern Drama
• Writing the Short Story
Consultant
Editing Manuscripts of Most Types

J
Johnson, Lynn
Associate Professor of Educational Teaching and Learning
755-4271 or johnson.5@osu.edu
Consultant
• Child Development, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education

Jones, Norman
Assistant Professor, English
755-4028 or jones.2376@osu.edu
• Christianity and Homosexuality
• What Has Athens To Do with Jerusalem? The Place of Christianity in Public Universities

K
Kennedy, Gary
Professor of Mathematics
755-4291 or kennedy.28@osu.edu
• Jared Mansfield

Kramer, David W.
Assistant Professor Emeritus, Evolution, Ecology and
Organismal Biology
419-756-1260 or kramer.8@osu.edu
• How Did the Buckeye Become Ohio's Tree?
• How to Improve Your Study Skills
• How to Choose a College, then Succeed There
• Plants of Christmas: Legends and Biology
• Weeds
• What's in a Name? (understanding scientific plant names)
• Botany for Gardeners
• Strawberries Aren't Berries, but Tomatoes Are! (the biology of fruits)

L
Lehman, Barbara A.
Professor, Teaching and Learning
755-4263 or lehman.1@osu.edu
• Children's Literature and the South African Context
• An American in South Africa: Experiences of a Fulbright Scholar
• Recent African American Children's Literature
• Multicultural and Global Children's Books

Leonard, Pamela
Coordinator, Career Services & Community Service Work-Study
755-4234 or leonard.46@osu.edu
• Career Planning: Self Assessment and Career Exploration
• Career Planning: Becoming More Competitive through Leadership, Community Service and Internship Experiences
• Career Planning: The MBTI and Career Development
• Job Search Strategies & Techniques • Getting Started
• The Art of Resume and Cover Letter Writing
• Sources of Job Listings

M
Mazzocco, Philip
Assistant Professor of Psychology
755-4352 or mazzocco.6@osu.edu• Racism
• Color-Blind Racism
• Racial Disparity

McGovern, Barbara
Associate Professor, English & Department Coordinator
755-4272 or mcgovern.2@osu.edu
• Alas! a Woman that Attempts the Pen: Reflections on Early English Women Writers
• Uncle Tom's Cabin -- The Book that Made the Civil War

Moody, Rhonda
Lecturer, Spanish
755-4265 or velez.30@osu.edu
• The Latin American Holocaust
• Operation Just Cause: The U.S. Invasion of Panama
• The Psychology of the Oppressed: Dual Victimization as a Recurrent Theme in Latin American Literature
• Suicide as an Alternative to Enslavement: The Indigenous Reaction to the Conquest

N
Nickey, David
Associate Professor Emeritus, Geology Sciences
755-4279 or nickey.1@osu.edu
• Fossils, Near Fossils and Nonfossils

O
O'Brien, Thomas V.
Associate Professor, Education
755-4358 or obrien.243@osu.edu
• Schooling in Americ
• The Politics of Education
• Approaches to Teaching

P
Phelps, Christopher
Assistant Professor, History and Political Science
755-4380 or phelps.51@osu.edu
• The Rise and Fall of Racial Segregation

Poggo, Scopas S.
Assistant Professor, African American & African Studies
755-4202 or poggo.1@osu.edu
• The Changing Patterns of Marriage Among the Kuku People of Southern Sudan, 1880-2002
• Kuku Traditional Regligion before the Arrival of Christianity, 1880-1915
• From Military Rule to Multi-Party Democracy in Africa
• The Root causes of the Sudanese Civil Wars, 1965-2003
Consultant
• African History
• Modern Middle East
• African-American Studies
• Sudanese History
• Medieval Islamic History

Popa, Gabriela
Visiting Assistant Professor, Math and Physics
755-4036 or popa.26@osu.edu
• Physics
• Nuclear Physics
• Mathematical methods for Physicists
• Nuclear Models
• Group Theory Applicatinos in Nuclear Physics
• Heavy Deformed Nuclei
• Modern Physics

Putikka, Bill
Associate Professor of Physics
755-4319 or putikka.1@osu.edu

S
Sharma, Vinod
Professor Economics755-4245 or sharma.3@osu.edu• International Economics
• Employment Discrimination
• Developing Economics of Asia and Eastern Europe

Smith, Eileen M.
Director, Center for Corporate and Community Education
755-4383 or smith.1394@osu.edu
• Workforce Development

Stewart, Rick
Academic Advisor
755-4231 or stewart.9@osu.edu
• Preparing for College
• Academic Problem Solving
• Strategies for Academic Success in College
• Setting Goals Related to Academic Planning
• Returning to College after an Extended Absence

T
Tanner, Heather
Assistant Professor, History
755-4368 or tanner.87@osu.edu
• Power, Piety & Production - Medieval Women
• Islam & the West
• Popular Piety in the Middle Ages
• The 12th Economic Take Off

Thrasher, John
Associate Professor, Art
755-4384 or thrasher.1@osu.edu
• From Lake Beds to Your Home......and Beyond, Clay in Art and Industry
Consultant
• Ceramics
• Glaze Calculation & Coloration
• Components of coloration in glazes
• Drawing
• Mural Painting
• Sculputural Fabrication Using a Variety of Materials & Techniques

Tovey, David
Associate Professor, Music
755-4264 or tovey.2@osu.edu
• Issues and Trends in Sacred Music
• Organ Recitalist and Choral Clinician
• Multicultural Education Mexican Culture
• Musical Leadership for Elementary Classroom Teachers