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Katrina Bell-Jordan
Katrina
Bell-Jordan
Interim President of the University; Professor
Communication, Media and Theatre
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5700
Expertise
Dr. Katrina Bell-Jordan’s teaching has emphasized media history and media literacy; studies in journalism and news writing; communication theory and mass communication theory; rhetorical theory and criticism; public address; and persuasion. She has additional teaching interests in cultural studies, gender studies, political communication, and popular culture.
Courses Taught
CMTM 465: Mass Communication Theory
CMTC 414: Seminar in Organizational Communication
CMTC 404: Communication Theory
CMTC 367: News Writing
CMTM 365: Contemporary Issues in Mass Media
CMTC 322: Rhetorical Theory & Criticism
CMTC 310: Persuasion
CMTM 265: Mass Media and Society
CMTM 165: Broadcasting and New Media
CMTM 105: Introduction to Journalism
CMTC 101: Public Speaking
CMTC 100: Introduction to Communication
Research Interests
Dr. Katrina Bell-Jordan’s research falls within the areas of cultural studies, media studies, and rhetorical studies. More specific emphasis is on race and representation in the media; intersections of gender and race; Black feminist thought and African-American women’s communicative experiences; identity and performance in media; and the rhetoric of popular culture. Specific attention has been given to humor in stand-up comedy, political cartooning and film/television parody.
Education

Ph.D. Ohio University, School of Interpersonal Communication (Rhetorical Studies & Media Studies)

M.A. Ohio University, School of Interpersonal Communication (Rhetorical Studies)

B.S.J. Ohio University, E. W. Scripps School of Journalism (News Editorial Journalism)

Selected Publications

Bell-Jordan, K. E.  (2011). Still subscribing to stereotypes: Constructions of black masculinity in popular magazines.  In M. P. Hopson, & R. L. Jackson (Eds.), Masculinity in the Black imagination: Politics of communicating race and manhood.  New York: Peter Lang Publishing.     

Bell-Jordan, K. E.  (2010). Forward.  In J. Tischauser, Anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias in American newspapers: How they reported the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah and Israeli-Hamas wars (pp. i-iv).  Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press.

Bell-Jordan, K. E. (October, 2008). Black.White and a Survivor of The Real World: Constructions of race on reality TV.  Critical Studies in Media Communication, 25(4), 353-372.

Bell-Jordan, K. E.  (December, 2007).  Speaking fluent “joke”:  Pushing the racial envelope through comedic performance on Chappelle’s ShowPerformance Research, 12(3),74-90.

Bell, K.E., Orbe, M.P., Drummond, D.K., & Camara, S.K. (Winter, 2000). Accepting the challenge of centralizing without essentializing: Black Feminist Thought and African American women’s communicative experiences. Women’s Studies in Communication, 23 (1), 41-62.

Bell, K. E. (1998).  The more they change, the more they remain the Same: Representations of African American womanhood on Living Single. In T. McDonald, & T. Ford-Ahmed (Eds.), Nature of a sistuh: Black women’s lived experiences in contemporary culture (pp. 197-222). Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

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Sudha Srinivas Ph.D.
Sudha
Srinivas
Ph.D.
Acting Associate Provost and Professor of Physics
Academic Affairs
Physics
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5638
Expertise
Computational Condensed Matter Physics, STEM Education and Higher Education Administration.
Courses Taught
College Physics
University Physics
Modern Physics
Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics
Honors Introduction to the Sciences
Research Interests
The goal of my research in Condensed Matter Physics is to understand, at microscopic levels, the origin of the properties that make these materials useful in present and future technologies. In STEM education, I lead projects on improving student success in STEM, through pedagogical and student support initiatives.
Education

Ph.D. (physics), State University of New York at Albany, 1995
M.S. (physics),  Pune University, (India), 1987
B.Sc. (physics), Miranda House, University of Delhi (India) 1985

Selected Publications
  1. Assessing Computational Thinking across a Pre-service STEM Curriculum, R. F. Adler, J. Hibdon, H. Kim, S. Mayle, B. Pines, and S. Srinivas, Education and Information Technologies, 28, 8051 (2023)
  2. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Incorporating Computational Thinking in STEM Courses for Preservice Teachers, J. Slate, R. Adler, J. Hibdon, S. Mayle, H. Kim, and S. Srinivas, Book Chapter, Integrating Digital Technology in Education, Ed. R. M. Reardon and J. Leonard, Information Age Publishing (Charlotte, NC, 2019)
  3. Retention and Student Success in STEM through a Mentoring Scholarship Program at an Urban HSI, S. Srinivas, P. H. Acioli, K Voglesonger, N. Nicholson, J. Hibdon, N. Wrinkle, and D. Rutschman, Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Mentoring Institute Conference, editor N. Dominguez, pg. 1154-1157 (University of New Mexico, 2015).
  4. Silver and Gold mediated nucleobase bonding, P. H. Acioli and S. Srinivas, Journal of Molecular Modeling 20, 2391 (2014).
  5. Experiential Learning of Classical Mechanics Through Molecular Dynamics,  P. H. Acioli and S. Srinivas, Proceedings of the World Conference on Physics Education, Istanbul, Turkey, editor M. Taşar, p 385-396 (Pegem Akademi, 2013).
Background
  • Acting Associate Provost, Northeastern Illinois University 2023-present
  • Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeastern Illinois University (2022-2023)
  • Acting Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeastern Illinois University (2017-2022)
  • Associate Dean, College of Graduate Studies, Northeastern Illinois University (2017)
  • Director, Student Center for Science Engagement, Northeastern Illinois University (2012-2014)
  • Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Northeastern Illinois University (2014-present)
  • Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Northeastern Illinois University (2008-2014)
  • Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Northeastern Illinois University (2005-2008)

Room C 120, Academic Affairs
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Office Hours
Monday through Friday: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Main Campus
Curriculum Vitae
Tim Libretti
Timothy
R
Libretti
Acting Associate Dean
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5823
Courses Taught
ENGL 101 Writing I
ENGL 203 World of Fiction
ENGL 218 American Literature: Beginnings -1865
ENGL 219 American Literature: 1865-Present
ENGL 345 Practical Criticism
ENGL 357 Land, Labor, and Literature
ENGL 369 American Realism
ENGL 371 Studies in Women's Literature
ENGL 381 African-American Literature
ENGL 382 Chicana/o Literature
ENGL 410 Literary Method and Practice
ENGL 430 Studies in Literary Criticism
ENGL 448D Hawthorne and Melville
ENGL 449M Studies in the American Novel
ENGL 449N Ethnic Literatures
ENGL 468 US Literary Modernism and Its Other
WGS 301E The Radical Feminist Imagination
Research Interests
US Literature, Working-Class Literature, Multi-Ethnic Literature, Marxism
Education

PhD  English, University of Michigan, 1995
MA   English, University of Michigan, 1991
BA    English summa cum laude, Cornell University, 1989

 

Selected Publications

Books
The Making of U.S. Warking-Class Literature and Consciousness: The Nations, Genders, and Sexualities of U.S. Proletarian Literature from the 1930s to the Present (forthcoming from University of Mississippi Press).

Articles and Chapters
"A Proletarian Book of Laughter and Remembering: The Cry and the Dedication and the Inter/National Class Struggle" in Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan, ed. Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao, University Press of America, 2016.

"Dis-Alienating the Neighborhood: The Representation of Work and Community in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," in Revisiting Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, eds. Kathy Merlock Jackson, Steven M. Emmanuel. North Carolina: McFarland Press, 2016.

"Beyond the Innocence of Globalization: The Abiding Necessity of Carlos Bulosan's Anti-Imperialist Imagination."  Kritika Kultura, no. 23 (Summer 2014). On-line.

"'Verticality is such a risky enterprise': Class Epistemologies and the Critique of Upward Movility in Colson Whitehead's The Intiutisionist," in Class and Culture in Contemporary Crime Fiction, ed. Julie H. Kim. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2014, pp. 201-224.

"'A Broader and Wiser Revolution': Refiguring Chicago Nationalist Politics in Latin Amercan Consciousness in Post-Movement Chicana/o Literature" in Imagined Transnationalism: Latina/o Literature, Culture and Identity, eds. Francisco Lomelí, Marc Priewe, and  Kevin Concannon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 137-155.

"Modernism and Politics" in Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, ed M. Keith Booker. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005, pp. 176-180.
 

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Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Voglesonger measures water quality parameters at Gompers Park.
Kenneth
M.
Voglesonger
Ph.D.
Associate Professor; Director, Student Center for Science Engagement
Earth Science
Student Center for Science Engagement
College of Arts and Sciences
Other Academic Areas
(773) 442-6053
Expertise
Aqueous Geochemistry, Geochemistry of Life in Extreme Environments, Environmental Geology
Courses Taught
ESCI 123 Environmental Geology
ESCI 109W Muddy Waters: Chicago's Environmental Geology
ESCI 207 Global Climate and Weather
ESCI 306 Rocks and Minerals
ESCI 311 Mineralogy
ESCI 327 Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry
ZHON 194 Honors Introduction to the Sciences
Research Interests
Aqueous Geochemistry, Geochemistry of Life in Extreme Environments, Environmental Geology
Education

Ph.D. Arizona State University

B.S. State University of New York at Stony Brook

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Amanda A. Dykema-Engblade
Amanda
A.
Dykema-Engblade
Associate Professor, Interim Associate CAS Dean
Psychology
College of Arts and Sciences
Expertise
Social Psychology/Small Group Performance and Decision Making, and Psychology of Food.
Courses Taught
General psychology
Social Psychology
Social Psychology Lab
Psychology of Food
Service Learning
Research Interests
Transactive Memory Systems; Impression formation as a function of diet and food type (e.g., “healthy” versus “unhealthy”)
Education

M.A. and Ph.D. - Loyola University, Chicago

B.S. - Grand Valley State University

Selected Publications

Sánchez-Johnsen, L., Dykema-Engblade, A., Rosas, C., Calderon, L.,Rademaker, A., Nava, M., & Hassan, C. (2022). Mexican and Puerto Rican Men’s Preferences Regarding a Healthy Eating, Physical Activity and Body Image Intervention, Nutrients (Special Issue: Cardiometabolic Health in Relation to Diet and Physical Activity: Experimental and Clinical Evidence), 14(21). 

Sánchez-Johnsen, L., Dykema-Engblade, A., Nava, M., Rademaker, A., & Xie, H. (2019). Body Image, Physical Activity and Cultural Variables among Latino Men. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action.

Craven, M., Keefer, L., Rademaker, A., Dykema-Engblade, A., & Sánchez-Johnsen, L. (2018). Social Support for Exercise as a Predictor of Weight and Physical Activity Status among Puerto Rican and Mexican Men: Results from the Latino Men’s Health Initiative. American Journal of Men’s Health.

Sanchez-Johnson, L., Craven, M., Nava, M., Alonso, A. Dykema-Engblade, A., Rademaker, A., & Xie, H. (2017). Cultural Variables Underlying Obesity in Latino Men: Design, Rational, and Participant Characteristics from the Latino Men’s Health Initiative. Journal of Community Health (pg 1-13).

Tindale, R.S., Smith, C.M., Dykema-Engblade, A., Kluwe, K. (2012).  Good and bad group performance: Same process - different outcomes.  Submitted to Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (GPIR): Special Issue in Tribute to Jim Davis.

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David Nissim-Sabat
David
Nissim-Sabat
Director of Pre-Professional Advising
College of Arts and Sciences
Expertise
Pre-Professional Advising (pre-health & pre-law) Grade Appeals for the College of Arts and Sciences Freshman/Transfer Orientation
Education

M.Ed. - Depaul University
BA - Purdue University

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Bruce A. Mace
Bruce A.
Mace
Office Support Specialist
College of Arts and Sciences

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Peter
Goldman
Office Administrator
Expertise
Yes
Education

BA NEIU 2007

Background

Art

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Debra
Williams
MPA
Administrative Assistant
College of Education
Expertise
College expenses, budgeting and purchasing, financial analysis, and endorsement reviews.
Education

The Art Institute of Chicago
Design Analysis, Certificate

DePaul University
Computer Science / Information Systems, (Completed Coursework for M.S.)

Illinois State University
Business Administration, B.S.

Master of Public Administration

Background

Ms. Williams has extensive business experience and has held positions such as staff systems analyst and team leader in the financial services sector.

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