Jill Adelson
Department: Educational and Counseling Psychology

Jill Adelson will join the CEHD as an assistant professor. She is completing her Ph.D. in educational psychology with a joint emphasis in measurement, evaluation and assessment and gifted education from the University of Connecticut, where she also earned a certificate in quantitative research methods in psychology. Adelson's research involves studying and applying advanced methodologies, including propensity score analysis, hierarchical linear modeling, structural equation modeling and instrument design. Her first book, Letting Go of Perfect: Overcoming Perfectionism in Kids, (co-authored with Hope E. Wilson) was released in May.

Janet Calvert
Department: Teaching and Learning

Jan Calvert is the Coordinator for the University of Louisville's Alternative Certification program. She received her Ed.D. in Educational Administration from the University of Louisville. She is an experienced school administrator, having served over twenty years in Kentucky public and private schools as a school principal. She also served as a Highly Skilled Educator for the Kentucky Department of Education and as a Priority School Manager for the Jefferson County Public Schools with an emphasis on providing support to troubled schools. Most recently, she served as an Assistant Professor at Bellarmine University where she trained both teacher and principal candidates in curriculm, instruction, assessment and administrative best practices.

Ginevra Courtade
Department: Teaching and Learning

Ginevera Courtade is an assistant professor of special education. She received her Ph.D. in special education from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, where she worked as a research associate. While a special education faculty member at West Virginia University, Courtade specialized in moderate and severe disabilities. Her research interests include access to the general curriculum for students with moderate and severe disabilities.

Ann Herd
Department: Leadership, Foundations and Human Resource Education

Ann Herd is an assistant professor in the department of Leadership, Foundations and Human Resource Education. She earned her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In addition to serving as a full-time faculty member and program director (e.g. U.S. Air Force Academy, Marymount University, University of Maryland), Ann has served as an executive coach, research analyst and trainer and workshop facilitator for organizations such as Lockheed Martin Corporation and Tennessee Valley Authority. Her research interests include leadership development, feedback processes in organizations, the use of assessments in executive coaching, and coaching needs of transitioning military service-members.

Craig Hochbein
Department: Leadership, Foundations and Human Resource Education

Craig Hochbein is an assistant professor of K-12 administration and leadership. He earned his Ph.D. in educational administration from the University of Virginia. Hochbein's research interests include school performance, educational reform and the process of school change. He is currently examining schools with declining academic performance to discover preventative measures and improved methods to turn these schools around.

Kristi King
Department: Health and Sport Sciences

Kristi McClary King is an assistant professor of health education. She received her Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her research has included developing interventions that motivate sedentary women to be physically active; studying whether using a heart rate monitor might increase high school students' activity in physical education classes; quantifying elementary school children's physical activity time and behaviors during recess; and currently, how after-school programming affects a child's academic performance and physical activity.

Timothy Landrum
Department: Teaching and Learning

Tim Landrum is an associate professor of special education. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was also an associate professor and senior scientist on the research faculty. His research interests include classroom and behavior management and the translation of research in to practice. He was recently a member of the Council for Exceptional Children's working group on evidence-based practices in special education and vice president of the council's research division.

Mark Leach
Department: Educational and Counseling Psychology

Mark Leach is a professor and training director, earning his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Oklahoma. He is an associate editor of the American Psychology Association journal Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, and the author or co-editor of six books. His research focuses on diversity, both nationally and internationally, with specific interests that include forgiveness, comparative ethics, international counseling issues, culture and suicide, and spirituality and religion.

G. Richmond Mancil
Department: Teaching and Learning

Rich Mancil directs the Kentucky Autism Training Center (KATC) and is an assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning. He received his Ph.D. in special education from the University of Florida where he conducted research and taught online courses. Mancil's research focuses on children with autism spectrum disorders and their families; he is particularly interested in social communicative behaviors. Mancil has been published many times and presented nationally and internationally. In addition, he serves on editorial boards for journals, including Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities.

Lori Norton-Meier
Department: Teaching and Learning

Lori Norton-Meier is an associate professor at the University of Louisville in literacy education. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Language, Literacy, and Culture from the University of Iowa. Her research interests include early childhood literacy and the role of play in a child’s developing literacy, family literacy practices, inquiry curriculum, and media literacy particularly related to gender. She has multiple publications in literacy studies including two books on the intersection between science inquiry and literacy practices.

Jesse Owen
Department: Educational and Counseling Psychology

Jesse Owen is an assistant professor who received is Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Denver. He recently was an assistant professor in the counseling psychology program at Gannon University. Owen conducts research in two areas: romantic relationships and psychotherapy process and outcome. Recently he has been examining interventions to assist individuals and couples in making better relationship decisions. He also examines cross-cultural factors and cultural ruptures that influence therapy outcomes.

Susan Peters
Department: Teaching and Learning

Susan Peters is an assistant professor of mathematics education. She completed her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis in mathematics education at Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests lie in the areas of teacher knowledge and statistics education. Her dissertation explored the conceptions of statistical variation exhibited by secondary mathematics teachers who are recognized leaders in AP statistics. Peters hopes to use the results to design and implement programs facilitating secondary mathematics teachers' development of statistical knowledge.

Caroline Sheffield
Department: Teaching and Learning

Caroline Sheffield is an assistant professor and social science education. She received her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis in social science education from the University of South Florida, where she served as a visiting instructor in the Department of Secondary Education. Prior to that, Sheffield taught middle grade social studies in Jacksonville and Tampa, FL. Her research centers on 21st century literacy in the social studies. She is especially interested in how social studies teachers can use digital technology to encourage a student's higher order thinking.

Melissa Shirley
Department: Teaching and Learning

Melissa Shirley is an assistant professor of science education. She holds degrees in biological sciences from Carnegie Mellon University and Case Western Reserve University, as well as a degree in educational administration from the University of Dayton. After teaching a variety of high school science courses for nine years, Shirley is completing her doctoral degree at the Ohio State University, where she worked with the Classroom Connectivity in Promoting Mathematics and Science Achievement (CCMS) research project. Her dissertation is focused on aspects of formative assessment in secondary science classrooms where the teacher and students use interactive hand-held communication technology.

Kristen Wilson
Department: Leadership, Foundations and Human Resource Education

Kristin Bailey Wilson is an assistant professor of higher education. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis with an emphasis in Higher and Continuing Education from the University of Missouri. She is an experienced community college practitioner working as a faculty member, division chair, faculty senate chair and academic dean in Missouri and Pennsylvania. Wilson's research interests include community college transfer issues, baccalaureate attainment for students beginning at community colleges, and college access and attendance policies.