Faculty and Staff
Associated Faculty
Mary Bohlen
Associate Professor, Communication
M.A. Public Affairs Reporting, Sangamon State University (UIS)
Email: mbohl3@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7362
Office: UHB 3023
Teaching Interests: print journalism and media effects.
Leanne Brecklin
Associate Professor, Criminal Justice 
Ph.D. Criminal Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago
Email: lbrec1@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7784
Office: PAC 376
Teaching Interests: Victimization, gender and crime, research methods and statistics, rape prevention.
Barbara Burkhardt
Assistant Professor, English
Ph.D. English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email: bburk1@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-6779
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Cecilia Stiles Cornell
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D. History, Vanderbilt University
Email: cornell.cecilia@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7430
Office: UHB 3055
Teaching Interests: 20th-century U.S. history, U.S. foreign relations, policy history, the Cold War and the transition on the home front from World War II to the postwar era.
Lan Dong
Assistant Professor, English
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Email: ldong4@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-8334
Office: UHB 3071
Teaching Concentration:
transnational feminism, Asian American women and literature, female heroism in China.
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Kathryn Eisenhart
Associate Professor, Legal Studies
J.D., DePaul University College of Law
Email: eisenhart.kathryn@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7882
Office: PAC 352
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Dyanne Ferk
Associate Professor, Business Administration
Ph.D. Business Administration - Management
SPHR – Senior Professional in Human Resource Management
Email: ferk.dyanne@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7929
Fax: (217) 206-7534
Office: UHB 4074
Lynn Fisher
Associate Professor, Sociology/Anthropology
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Michigan
Faculty Personal Website
Email: fisher.lynn@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7938
Office: UHB 3042
Teaching Interests: Ecological anthropology, European prehistory, archaeology of late hunter-gatherers and early farmers in Central Europe, prehistoric technology, hunting and gathering societies.
Kim Furumoto
Assistant Professor, Legal Studies
J.D. Ph.D
E-mail: kbf@uis.edu
Telephone: (217) 206-6561
Office: PAC 340
Tena Helton
Assistant Professor, English
Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D. American Literature and Women's & Gender Studies, Louisiana State University
Email: thelt2@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7441
Office: UHB 3070
Teaching Interests: U.S. literature, U.S. regional literatures and cultures, literary and cultural theory, film.
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Dr. Roxanne Marie Kurtz
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. Philosophy - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email: rkurt3@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-8218
Office: UHB 4042
Nithyakala Karuppaswamy
Assistant Professor, Human Development Counseling
Marriage and Family Therapy Co-Coordinator
Ph.D., Purdue University
Areas of Specialization: Multicultural Counseling; Racial Identity Development; Self-of-the Therapist Issues; Spirituality and the Intersection of Western and Eastern Worldviews in Therapy; Couples and Family Therapy
E-mail: nkaru01s@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7569
Office: BRK 349
Jennifer Manthei
Assistant Professor, Sociology/Anthropology
Ph.D. University of Arizona
Interests: cultural and medical anthropology; race, class, gender, adolescence, and Brazilian studies
Email: jmant2@uis.edu
Phone: 217 206-7584
Office: UHB 3032
Dr. Karen Mooney
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University
Teaching Interests: Courses in developmental psychology, psychology of gender
E-mail: kmoon3@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-8337
Office: UHB 3132
Karen Moranski
Associate Professor, English
Associate Vice Chancellor, Undergraduate Education
Ph.D. English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Email: moranski.karen@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7440
Office: PAC 524
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Rosina Neginsky
Associate Professor, Liberal Studies/Individual Option, Women's Studies, English
Ph.D. English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email: neginsky.rosina@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7431
Office: UHB 3027
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Lynn Pardie
Professor, Psychology
Associate Vice Chancellor, Graduate Education
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Faculty Personal Website
Email: pardie.lynn@.uis.edu
Phone: 217 206-7230
Office: UHB 3139
Sheryl Reminger
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Ph.D., University of Arizona
Areas of Specialization: Clinical Neuropsychology, Geropsychology, Pediatric Neuropsychology, Neuroimaging, Neurological Effects of Cancer Treatment, and Cognitive Impact of Chronic Disease.
E-mail: sremi2@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-8011
Office: UHB 3123
Hazel Rozema
Associate Professor, Communication
Ph.D. Communication, University of Kansas
Email: hroze1@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7297
Office: UHB 3022
Teaching Interests: Interpersonal/organizational communication, public relations, family and interracial communication, gender communication, gender equity, race relations, and teaching strategies for courses dealing with racism and sexism.
Nancy Scannell
Associate Professor, Business Administration
Chair, Women’s Studies Scholarship Committee
Faculty Personal Website
Email: scannell.nancy@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7915
Fax: (217) 206-7543
Office: UHB 4055
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Tih-Fen Ting
Assistant Professor & Chair, Environmental Studies
Ph.D. Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan
Areas of Interest: Resource ecology and conservation, population-environment interactions, ecosystem management, and sustainability studies.
Phone: (217) 206-7876
Email: tting1@uis.edu
