2004 Symposium on Graduate Education: Challenges, Choices, Careers - Speakers
Speakers
Scott Ahlgren is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois. He received his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Colorado, and held several academic positions prior to his appointment at Illinois in the fall of 2001. He has twenty-seven research publications in Number Theory and a wide range of teaching experience. His research and educational programs are currently supported by a five-year CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation.
Rebecca Bryant is the Director of the Graduate College Career Services Office, where she is responsible for establishment of resources, workshops, and events to aid graduate student professional and career development. She is also active in the Electronic Thesis Deposit implementation workgroup and previously spent two years working on the UI Integrate Project. Bryant holds degrees in music from Butler University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She earned a PhD in musicology at the University of Illinois, and her dissertation was entitled "Shaking Big Shoulders: Music and Dance Culture in Chicago, 1910-1925." Her research on jazz age social dance practices has been published in journals and presented at national and international musicology conferences.
Matti Bunzl is Associate Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Illinois, and he also serves as Director of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH). He is the author of Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna (2004) and the co-editor of Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (2000) and Worldly Provincialism: German Anthropology in the Age of Empire (2003). Bunzl received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1998, and did his undergraduate and master's work at Stanford University.
Lynell Cannell is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Core Network Systems Engineering Department at Lucent Technologies in Naperville, Illinois. Her current job responsibilities include defining requirements for third-generation wireless networks. She previously has held engineering and technical management positions in the areas of systems engineering, architecture, software development, development support, testing, and customer acceptance in wireless and international wireline projects as a member of Bell Labs/AT&T/Lucent Technologies. In her initial Bell Labs work in the early eighties, she designed and developed the cell site call processing software for the first commercial cellular system in the United States. Dr. Cannell received a B.S. in the teaching of physics (1969), an M.S. in physics (1970), and a Ph.D. in experimental nuclear physics (1976) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a visiting assistant professor of physics at Illinois Benedictine College for two years and spent over two years doing post-doctoral work in nuclear physics at the University of Pennsylvania before joining Bell Labs in 1980.
Greg DeNardo is an Associate Professor of Music Education in the University of Illinois School of Music. He received his BS in Music Education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and his MM and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1986 to 1996, DeNardo was a member of the music education faculty at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where his responsibilities included teaching courses and supervising field experiences in the areas of music for special learners and elementary general music. In addition, he was coordinator of graduate studies for the BGSU College of Musical Arts for four years. He has presented workshops and clinics at state, regional, and national meetings of MENC. His research in music cognition has been published in journals and presented at national and international music education conferences, and his most recent articles appear in Illinois Music Educator, Journal of Research in Music Education, and Psychomusicology.
Andrew Gewirth is a professor in the Chemistry department at the University of Illinois. He received his AB from Princeton University in 1981 and his PhD from Stanford University in 1987. He joined the Illinois faculty in 1988 after postdoctoral work at the University of Texas, Austin. Research in his group focuses on the structure and reactivity of surfaces and interfaces by using local probe microscopes such as the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) in conjunction with electrochemical, spectroscopic, and vacuum surface science methods to examine processes occurring on metal and semiconductor surfaces both immersed in redox-active solutions and in other relevant environments.
Angela Graham serves as Vice President of the Battle Creek Community Foundation. In that capacity, she has several administrative responsibilities within the organization as well as providing staff leadership and support for project initiatives and grants in the areas of Health, Education, and Arts and Culture. She is also responsible for coordinating and executing internal and external planning efforts, as well as research, evaluation and development. Prior to coming to Battle Creek, Graham was with Temple University where she served as a special assistant to he dean of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. Upon moving to Battle Creek, she worked under contract with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and also served with the United Arts Council of Calhoun County in the grantmanship area before assuming her role with the Battle Creek Community Foundation. Additionally, she has worked in planning, policy, non-profit administration, and development. Graham holds an EdD from Temple University in Philadelphia where her research focused on public policy in the arts and humanities. She holds two degrees from the University of Illinois: an undergraduate degree in Performing Arts History and a master's degree in Library and Information Science. Graham's research has been published and presented at professional conferences.
Marybeth Hallett is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Illinois and has worked at the University of Illinois Counseling Center since 1994. She has served as Assistant Director for over 6 years and will assume the role of Training Director later this year. Hallett received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin where she focused her research on women's career development and dual-career relationships. Her dissertation was entitled "Factors that Contribute to the Desire Among University Women for a Role-Sharing Dual-Career Marriage" and she has written both articles and book chapters on dual-career relationships. Her work is now focused on providing clinical services to students on this campus and on training doctoral students in the provision of psychotherapy.
Paula Havlik received her BA ('77) and MA ('79) degrees from the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois. She has been a UI staff member since 1984, serving in public relations, development and alumni affairs positions for a variety of units, including WILL-AM-FM-TV, the Office of Women's Studies, Allerton Park and Conference Center, and the School of Social Work. In her current role as the UI Alumni Association's Associate Director for Club & Constituent Programs, she oversees relationships with college and department-based alumni associations and regional alumni chapters throughout the world.
Melanie Loots is Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her responsibilities include policy development, strategic and tactical planning for the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, work with faculty and staff to implement the University Policy on Conflicts and Interest on the Urbana campus, and liaison to several cross-disciplinary campus units. Loots has served on several panels and committees, including the National Science Foundation's review panels, NASA SEDAC user working group, the NRC Committee for CODATA, and NSF's Advisory Committee for the Office of International Science and Engineering, as well as organizational and program committees for technical conferences. From 1991-2000, she directed the Applications Division of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Loots received her PhD in Organometallic Chemistry in 1979 from Princeton University. Her thesis was titled "The Nickel-Catalyzed Conjugate Addition of Alkenyl Zirconium Compounds."
Ladona Martin-Frost is an instructor of music at Millikin University. She is currently completing her dissertation "Becoming Bolivian Through Music: State, Institutional, and Informal Influences on Bolivian Youth Music" at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her field research took place during two pre-dissertation projects in Bolivia in 1995 and 1997, and sixteen months of dissertation research in Cochabamba, Bolivia in 1999-2000, funded in part by Fulbright-Hays. Besides Latin America and Latin American immigrant communities in the U.S., her research interests include African musics, musical nationalism, music learning, music and social identity, and youth culture. She taught at the University of Illinois and Illinois Wesleyan University before coming to Millikin. Other teaching experiences include classroom and private trumpet and piano instruction in Kansas, Missouri, Paraguay, and France. A Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Grant supported a portion of her fieldwork in Cochabamba, Bolivia during 1999-2000, and she served for two years as Assistant Editor for the journal Ethnomusicology. Martin-Frost has presented papers at regional and national meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
Maresi Nerad is the director of the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE) at the University of Washington, Seattle and Associate Research Professor in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Program in the College of Education where she teaches in the higher education program of the college. From 1988 until 2001, Dr. Nerad was in charge of research at the Graduate Division at Berkeley, where she undertook various studies on graduate education in the U.S. and abroad, including examinations of factors affecting time to degree and doctoral attrition and a national study on the career paths of doctorates. Presently she is undertaking a national survey entitled "Social Science PhDs-Five Years Out," which focuses on PhDs experience with current job satisfaction, job search efforts, work/life choices and dilemmas, and retrospective doctoral program evaluation. Other publications on graduate education include several chapters for books, articles in Science, in the Bulletin (MLA), the Communicator (CGS), and an anthology with Garland Press, Graduate Education in the United States (1997). In 1999, SUNY Press published The Academic Kitchen: a Social History of Gender Stratification at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Nerad received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and her master's degree in political science from the Technical University in Darmstadt, Germany. Her research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, NSF, the Getty Grants Program, and the Ford Foundation. She has served on numerous national advisory committees (NSF, NRC, AAU), and she has been an invited speaker at national and international conferences on graduate education.
Sarah Projansky is Associate Professor in the Gender and Women's Studies Program and the Unit for Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is author of the award-winning book Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture (2001, NYU) and co-editor of Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek (1996, Westview). She has published essays in Cinema Journal, Signs, and various anthologies. She is currently working on a book about girls and popular culture. Projansky received her PhD in Cinema Studies from the University of Iowa in 1995.
Irina Vasenkova is a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Cell and Structural Biology at the University of Illinois. Prior to this appointment, Vasenkova was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia. She earned her doctorate in November 2000 from the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia and her master's degree in 1997 from Novosibirsk State University. Vasenkova has numerous conference presentations and journal publications to her credit and her research interests focus on nervous system development and functional organization, stress and adaptation in insects, and genetic regulation of neuroendocrine and cellular stress reactions.
Carl Zangerl has worked for New England Financial/ MetLife in Boston, Massachusetts for the past 21 years, and is currently the Director of Field and Executive Communications for the organization. In this position, he is responsible for all company communications, including two magazines, the company Web site, online newsletters, and an online information portal. Prior to this position, he served as the company's E-business Strategy Officer and the Information Officer, where he redesigned the company's Web site, wrote all corporate speeches, and served as the project manager for several critical company-wide initiatives. Zangerl holds a PhD (German History) and a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois and master's degrees from the University of Michigan (History) and New York University (Public Administration). Prior to his tenure at New England Financial, Zangerl served as the Director of Scholars in Transition, where he developed a training program for graduate students and faculty in the humanities exploring career options outside academia. He was also the Chief of Staff for the New York University College of Arts and Sciences, where he has budgetary and administrative oversight responsibilities and was an Instructor of European and German History at Stanford University and Purdue University.