Ohio University: Honors Tutorial College:Directors of Studies

Directors of Studies

This page lists the current directors of studies and includes their profiles and contact information. Go directly to a specific director's profile by selecting a program of study from the list below.

Programs of Study

Anthropology — Dr. Nancy Tatarek Art History — Dr. Jennie Klein
Biological Sciences — Dr. Soichi Tanda
Business Administration — Dr. Raymond Frost
Chemistry — Dr. Lauren McMills
Classics — Dr. Ruth Palmer
Communication Studies — Dr. Judith Lee
Computer Science — Dr. David Juedes
Dance Prof. Marina Walchli
Engineering Physics — Dr. David Tees
English — Dr. Marsha Dutton
Environmental and Plant Biology — Dr. Harvey Ballard
Film — Prof. Jeanette Buck
French — Dr. Lois Vines
Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences — Dr. Chao-Yang Lee
History — Dr. Paul Milazzo
Journalism — Dr. Bernhard Debatin
Mathematics — Dr. Todd Eisworth
Media Arts and Studies — Dr. Arthur Cromwell
Philosophy — Dr. D. Scott Carson
Physics and Astronomy — Dr. Thomas Statler
Political Science — Dr. Julie White
Social Work — Dr. Richard Greenlee
Sociology —Dr. Debra Henderson
Spanish — Dr. Betsy Partkya
Theater — Dr. William Condee

Anthropology

Dr. Nancy Tatarek
(740) 593-1378
Bentley Annex 149
tatarek@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph.D.: The Ohio State University 1999

Bio / Publications
Dean, Dorothy; Tatarek, Nancy E.; Rich, Jeremy; Powers, Robert; Brogdon, B.G.; and Lewis, Bradley. Undefeated by Surgery: The Utility of Post-Surgical Foot and Ankle Radiographs as a Basis for Identification: Focus on the Ankle. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine, April 2004. Online edition published 9/2004; printed edition expected 10/2004.

Sciulli, Paul W., Lease, Loren R., Brown, Boyd P., Tatarek, Nancy E. A Preliminary Investigation of Population Dynamics of the Upper Ohio Valley: AD 1200-1650. Archaeology of Eastern North America (2003) 31:1-14.

Rich, Jeremy; Tatarek, Nancy; Powers, Robert; Brogdon, BG; Lewis, Bradley; and Dean, Dorothy. Using Pre- and Post-Surgical Foot and Ankle Radiographs for Identification. Journal of Forensic Sciences, Nov. 2002. Vol. 47, No. 6.

Art History

Dr. Jennie Klein
(740) 593-4283
Siegfried Hall 436
kleinj1@ohio.edu

Credentials
B.A. Art History: Rutgers University
M.A. Art History: Northwestern University
Ph.D. Art History: University of Southern California

Biological Sciences

Dr. Soichi Tanda
(740) 593-2270
Life Sciences Building 215
tanda@ohio.edu

Credentials
B.S. Biology: Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, 1980
M.S. Zoology: Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, 1982
Ph.D. Zoology: Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, 1985

Bio / Publications
Sun, X., L. Huang, M. R. Van Doren, and S. Tanda, 2003 Isolation of amorphic alleles of the lesswright gene by P element-mediated male recombination in Drosophila melanogaster. Drosophila Information Service 86: 79-83.

Dworkin, I. M., S. Tanda and E. Larsen, 2001 Are entrenched characters developmentally constrained? Creating biramous limbs in an insect. Evolution and Development. 3: 424-431.

Apionishev, S., D. Malhotra, S. Raghavachari, S. Tanda, and R. S. Rasooly, 2001 The Drosophila UBC9 homologue lesswright mediates the disjunction of homologues in meiosis. Genes to Cells 6: 215-224.

Business Administration

Dr. Raymond Frost
Professor & Chair of Management Information Systems
740-597-2902
Copeland 209A
frostr@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph.D.: 1992, University of Miami. Business administration with computer information systems concentration.
M.S.: 1986, University of Miami. Computer science.
B.A.: 1983, Swarthmore College. Philosophy.

Bio / Publications/Awards
Strauss, J., El-Ansary, A., and Frost, R., E-Marketing (3rd Edition), Prentice Hall, 2003.
Frost, R. and Strauss, J., Building Effective Web Sites, Prentice Hall, 2002.
Frost, R. and Strauss, J., Prentice-Hall’s E-Marketing Guide, Prentice Hall, 2001.
Honors Tutorial College Distinguished Mentor Award, 2005
Presidential Teaching Award, 2004-2007.
Senior Class Teaching Award, 2003.
University Professor Teaching Award, 2002-2004.
College of Business Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award, 2001 & 2002.

Chemistry

Dr. Lauren McMills
(740) 517-8494
Clippinger Hall 136A
mcmillsl@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph. D.: Michigan State University

Bio / Publications
The Lithium-Sodium-Methylamine System: Does a Low-Melting Sodide Become a Liquid Metal?" M. G. DeBacker, E. B. Mkadmi, F. X. Sauvage, J.-P. Lelieur, M. J. Wagner, R. Concepcion, J. Kim, L. E. H. McMills and J. L. Dye J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 1997.

"87Rb, 85Rb, and 39K NMR Studies of Alkalides, Electrides, and Related Compounds." J. Kim, J. L. Eglin, A. S. Ellaboudy, L. E. H. McMills, S. Huang, and J. L. Dye J. Phys. Chem. 1996, 100, 2885.

"Lithium-Ethylamine and Lithium-Sodium-Ethylamine Systems: A Nonmetallic Liquid Electride and the Lowest Melting Fused Salt." M. G. DeBacker, E. B. Mkadmi, F. X. Sauvage, J.-P. Lelieur, M. J. Wagner, R. Concepcion, J. L. Eglin, R. A. Guadagnini, J. Kim, L. E. H. McMills and J. L. Dye, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1994, 116, 6570.

Classics

Dr. Ruth Palmer
(740) 597-2108
Ellis Hall 210F
palmerr@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph.D.: University of Cincinnati, 1989

Bio / Publications
Models in Linear B Landholding: an Analysis of Methodology, in J. Bennet and J. Driessen (eds.), A-NA-QO-TA Studies presented to J. T. Killen, Minos 33-34 (1998-1999), Salamanca 2002, 223-250.

Wine in Bronze Age Crete: the Textual Evidence, 95-104, in A. K. Mylopotamikaki (ed.) Oinos palaios hedupotos: to kretiko krasi apo ta proistorika os ta neotera khronia, Hypourgeio politismou archaeiologiko institouto Kretes 2002.

Trade in Wine, Perfumed Oils and Foodstuffs: The Linear B Evidence and Beyond, 125-138, in V. Karageorghis and Ch. Stamatakis (eds.) Sea Routes Interconnections in the Mediterranean 16th-6th c. BC. Proceedings of the International Symposium, Rethymnon, Crete Sept. 29-Oct. 2, 2002.

Communication Studies

Dr. Judith Lee
(740) 593-4844
Lasher Hall 111
leej@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph.D.: (English/American Studies) and M.A.: (English), The University of Chicago

B.A. (English), Oberlin College.

Bio / Publications
Author of Defining "New Yorker" Humor (2000), Garrison Keillor: A Voice of America (1991), afterword to The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1996) in the Oxford Mark Twain, and co-editor of The Midwest (Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures, 2004) and Beyond the Two Cultures: Essays on Science, Technology and Literature (1990).

Computer Science

Dr. David Juedes
(740) 593-1596
321B Stocker Hall
juedes@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1994

Bio / Publications
Author of "The Complexity of Polynomial Time Approximation" (with L. Cai, M.
Fellows, and F. Rosamond), Theory of Computing Systems, accepted for publication; "Approximation Algorithm for Periodic Real-Time Tasks with Workload Dependent Running-Time Functions" (with F. Drews, D. Gu, L. Welch, K. Ecker, and S. Schomann), Real Time Systems, accepted for publication; "Tight lower bounds for certain parameterized NP-hard problems" (with J. Chen, B. Chor, M. Fellows, X. Huang, I. Kanj, and G. Xia), Information and Computation 201 (2005), pages 216-231; "Baire category and nowhere differentiability for feasible real functions" (with J. M. Breutzmann and J.H. Lutz), Mathematical Logic Quarterly, 50 (2004) No. 4/5, pages 460-472.

Dance

Dr. Marina Walchli
(740) 593-1829
Putnam 117
walchli@ohio.edu

Credentials
B.F.A. Dance: Ohio University, 1977
M.F.A. Dance, Human Physiology and Special Education: Ohio University, 1981
Pilates® Method of Body Conditioning, 1996

Engineering Physics

Dr. David Tees
(740) 593-1694
Clippinger Labs 357A
tees@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph. D. (Physics), January, 1996 - McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
M. Sc. (Atmospheric Physics), October, 1989 - McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
B. Sc. (Physics), June, 1986 - McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

Bio / Publications
Tees, D.F.J. and D.J. Goetz. Leukocyte adhesion: An exquisite balance of hydrodynamic and molecular forces. News in Physiological Sciences, 18:186-190, 2003.

Tees, D.F.J., K.-C. Chang, S. D. Rodgers, and D. A. Hammer. Simulation of cell adhesion to bioreactive surfaces in shear: the effect of cell size. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 41:486-493, 2002.

Tees, D.F.J., J.T. Woodward, and D.A. Hammer. Reliability theory for receptor-ligand bond dissociation. Journal of Chemical Physics, 114:7477-7482, May 1, 2001.

English

Dr. Marsha Dutton
(740) 597-2752
Ellis Hall 354
dutton@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of Michigan, 1981
M.A.T., English Literature, University of Kansas, 1974
Non-degree student, Faculte Libre de la Theologie Protestant, Paris, 1964-65
A.B., English, French, Philosophy, University of Kansas, cum laude, 1964

Bio / Publications
"The Medici Connection: Gilbert of Hoyland's Sermons on the Song of Songs in Renaissance Italy." C"teaux, 52 (2001): 93-120. (Presented at the 1998 Cistercian Studies Congress.)

"The Works of Gilbert of Hoyland: The Manuscripts and Printed Editions." Cistercian Studies Quarterly 35 (2000): 161-86.

"Chaucer's Two Nuns." Monasteries and Society in Medieval England. Harlaxton Medieval Studies VI. Ed. Benjamin Thompson. Stamford (Eng): Watkins, 1998. 21-37.

Environmental and Plant Biology

Dr. Harvey Ballard
(740) 593-4659
Porter 406
ballardh@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996

Bio / Publications
Peirson, J. A. , P. D. Cantino, and H. E. Ballard, Jr. 2005. A. taxonomic revision of Collinsia (Lamiaceae) based on phenetic analyses of morphological variation. Systematic Botany, in press.

Ballard, H. E., Jr., D. S. Feller, and G. L. Nesom. 2005 ["2004"]. Cliff Cudweed at specific rank in Pseudognaphalium (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae). Sida 21(2): 777-779.

Rothwell, G., M. Van Atta, H. E. Ballard, Jr., and R. Stockey. 2004. Molecular phylogenetic relationships among Lemnaceae and Araceae using the chloroplast trnL-F intergenic spacer. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30: 378-385.

Film

Prof. Jeanette Buck
(740) 593-1323
Lindley 388
buckj@ohio.edu

Credentials
M .F.A. Film, Ohio University

Recent Works
"Out of Season"

"There Are No Strangers"

French

Dr. Lois Vines
(740) 593-2776
Gordy Hall 267
vinesl@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph. D., Georgetown University: French Literature with Minor in Linguistics.

Bio / Publications
Valery and Poe, A Literary Legacy. New York: New York University Press, 1992. (This book was published in Japanese in 2002)

Poe Abroad: Influence, Reputation, Affinities. Ed. and author. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999.

A POW's Memoir of the First World War. Ed., Oxford, UK: Berg, 2004.

Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences

Dr. Chao-Yang Lee
(740) 593-0232
Grover Center W225
leec1@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph.D. Cognitive Science: Brown University, 2000
A.M. Linguistics: Brown University, 1997
B.S. Psychology: National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1992

History

Dr. Paul Milazzo
(740) 593-4359
Bentley Annex 449
milazzo@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph.D. University of Virginia
M.A. University of Virginia
A.B. Amherst College

Bio / Publications
Professor Milazzo joined the faculty of the Ohio University Department of History in the fall of 2001, where he specializes in twentieth century American history. His areas of concentration include politics, political institutions, and federal policy, particularly after 1945.

His publications include "U.S. Water Pollution," in Char Miller, et al., eds., Water and the Environment Since 1945: Global Perspectives (Detroit: St. James Press/Gale Publications, 2001), pp. 257-63 and "The Environment," in Julian Zelizer, ed, The American Congress: The Building of Democracy (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2004), pp. 601-615. His book, Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945-1972 will be published by the University of Kansas Press in Fall 2006.

Journalism

Dr. Bernhard Debatin
(740) 593-9809
Scripps Hall 118
debatin@ohio.edu

Credentials
Dr. phil., Philosophy, Technical University Berlin (Germany), 1994
M.A., Mass Communication, Free University Berlin (Germany), 1988

Bio / Publications
Kommunikations- und Medienethik (co-edited with Rüdiger Funiok). Constance: UVK Verlag, 2003.

Kommunikation in der Informationsgesellschaft: Vom digitalen Buch zum computergestützten Lernen (co-edited with Siegmar Gerber). Leipzig: Universitätsverlag, 2001 (CD-ROM with a booklet)

Metaphor and Rational Discourse (co-edited with Timothy R. Jackson and Daniel Steuer). Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1997

Mathematics

Dr. Todd Eisworth
(740) 597-2711
Morton Hall 552
eisworth@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph.D. (Mathematics) University of Michigan, 1994

Bio / Publications
T. Eisworth, On ideals related to I[λ], Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 46 (2005) no. 3, 301-307.

T. Eisworth and P. Nyikos, First countable, countably compact spaces and the Continuum Hypothesis. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 357 (2005), 4329-4347.

T. Eisworth and S. Shelah, Successors of singular cardinals and coloring theorems I. Arch. Math. Logic 44 (2005) no. 5, 597-618.

Philosophy

Dr. D. Scott Carson
(740) 593-4588
Ellis Hall 220B
carsond@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph.D. Philosophy: Duke University, 1996
Classics at Duke
Duke University Center for Philosophy of Biology
Ph.D. Classics: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986
Philosophy at UNC-CH
M.A. Classics: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981
B.A. Classics and History: Kent State University, 1978
Philosophy at Kent

Bio / Publications
Aristotle on Meaning and Reference. History of Philosophy Quarterly 20.4 (October 2003) 319-337.

Aristotle on Existential Import and Nonreferring Subjects. Synthese 124 (2000) 343-360.

Some Comments on Education and Computer Technology. Classical World 91.6 (1998) 513-520.

Physics and Astronomy

Dr. Thomas Statler
(740) 593-1722
Clippinger Hall 335
statler@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph.D.: Princeton University, 1986

Bio / Publications
Statler, T. S., Emsellem, E., Peletier, R. F., and Bacon, R. 2004, Long-Lived Triaxiality in the Dynamically Old Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4365: Limits on Chaos and Black Hole Mass, MNRAS, 353, 1-14.

Salow, R. M. and Statler, T. S. 2004, Self-Gravitating Eccentric Disk Models for the Double Nucleus of M31, ApJ, 611, 245-269.

Statler, T. S. and McNamara, B. R. 2002, A 15-Kiloparsec X-Ray Disk in the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1700, ApJ, 581, 1032-1038.

Political Science

Dr. Julie White
(740) 593-1333
Bentley Annex 227
whitej@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin, 1996
A.B.: Barnard College of Columbia University

Social Work

Dr. Richard Greenlee
(740) 593-1292
Morton Hall 557
greenlee@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph.D. Social Work: The Ohio State University, 1991
M.A. Social Work: The University of Pittsburgh, 1980
B.S. Criminology: The University of Maryland, 1978

Sociology

Dr. Debra Henderson
(740) 593-1382
Bentley Annex 137
henderd2@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph.D.: Washington State University, 1996

Bio / Publications
Henderson, Debra A. and Ann R. Tickamyer. Forthcoming. The Intersection of Poverty Discourses: Race, Class, Culture, and Gender. Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity. University.

Tickamyer, Ann R., Julie White, Barry Tadlock, and Debra A. Henderson. Forthcoming. The Spatial Politics of Public Policy: Devolution, Development and Welfare Reform. Chapter L. Lobao, G. Hooks, and A.Tickamyer (eds.). Spatial Inequality. NY: Suny Press.

Henderson, Debra A., Ann R. Tickamyer and Barry L. Tadlock. 2005. The Impact of Welfare Reform on the Parenting Role of Women in Rural Communities. Journal of Children and Poverty. 11(2): 131-147.

Spanish

Dr. Betsy Partyka
(740) 593-4844
Gordy Hall 231
partyka@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph.D. 20th- Century Spanish-American Literature, Oral Narrative & Folklore: University of Oxford, England, 1991
M.A. Spanish Literature: University of Michigan, 1983
M.A. French Literature: Middlebury College, 1983 (summers)
B.A. Spanish and French: Ohio Wesleyan University

Bio / Publications
La novela historica colombiana de mujeres chapter in: La narrativa historica de escritoras latino americanas. Ed. Gloria Da Cunha-Giabbai. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 2004.

Una nueva generación de escritoras paraguayas rompe el silencio autoritario. [A New Generation of Paraguayan Women Writers Breaks the Authoritarian Silence]. La Nacion (Paraguayan newspaper), 2002. (Reprint of 1999 article published in refereed journal)

Viaje intimo al Itinerario del deseo and An Intimate Journey through Renee Ferrer's Itinerary of Desire. Forward to Itinerario del deseo/Itinerary of Desire by Renee Ferrer. Translation done by Betsy Partyka. Asuncion, Paraguay: Alta Voz, 2002, 7-22.

Telecommunications

Dr. Arthur Cromwell
(740) 593-0741
RTV Building 225
cromwell@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph.D. Telecommunications: Ohio University
M.A. Telecommunications: Ohio University
B.A. History: Howard University

Bio / Publications
The Black Frontier

Theater

Dr. William Condee
(740) 593-1315
Lindley Hall 102
condee@ohio.edu

Credentials
Ph. D. from Columbia University
A.B. and M.A. from Vassar College

Bio / Publications
Theatrical Space: A guide for Directors and Designers, Scarecrow Press, 1995

Coal and Culture: The Opera House in Appalachia, Ohio University Press (Forthcoming)