News Experts List
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University of South Florida Media Experts
Welcome to USF’s list of faculty experts for use by the media or groups looking for speakers. The names on this list represent just a small portion of the faculty members who comprise our highly accomplished teaching staff. They can serve as excellent sources for analysis, opinions and comments on news, current events or feature story topics. We will continue to add new names to this list of experts, so be sure to check back on a regular basis.
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| Name | Areas | Phone | College | Department |
| Agrawal, Manish | Software quality; electronic intermediaries; development of agent-based systems for negotiations and fraud detection | n/a | College of Business | Information Systems and Decision Sciences |
| Aikins, Stephen | Public financial management and economic policy; public information systems management; citizen centered e-government; governmental audit and risk management | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Government & International Affairs |
| Akiwumi, Fenda | Resource policy and management; resource extraction and conflict; mining, environmental and social change; water, cultural diversity and sustainability issues; gender and water-based sustainable livelihoods; Africa; Africa-African diaspora development linkages; diversity in geographic education in US | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Geography |
| Allen, Tammy | Work-family balance; flexible work arrangements; career development; mentoring relationships; organizational citizenship; occupational health | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Psychology |
| Aranda, Elizabeth | Immigration and migration; Latino communities in U.S. and Florida; race and ethnic relations; Puerto Ricans in the U.S.; emotional health of immigrants Latinos; South Florida immigrants; sociology of families | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Sociology |
| Arnold, Kristin | Television production; producing; directing; documentaries; sports production; live television | (813) 974-6796 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Mass Communications |
| Baer, Roberta | Medical Anthropology; nutritional anthropology; cultural aspects of diabetes, cancer, and stress; race and health disparities; cross cultural and lay–professional concepts of disease and illness; international development | (813) 974-0805 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Anthropology |
| Bahr, Ruth | Speaker identification; intra-speaker and inter-speaker variability; speech sound development and disorders; vocal disorders; early literacy | n/a | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Communication Sciences and Disorders |
| Balfour, Alan | Employment relations; union-management relations; organizational leadership; international cultural differences | (813) 974-1785 | College of Business | Management & Organization |
| Barnett, Michael | Managerial decision making | (813) 974-1714 | College of Business | Management & Organization |
| Bartesaghi, Mariaelena | Conversational dynamics; language and social interaction; health communication; social construction of reality; institutional and social narratives | (813) 974-6822 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Communication |
| Berkman, Karen | Autism spectrum disorders; positive behavior support; person centered planning | n/a | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Child and Family Studies |
| Berndt, Donald J. | Information systems programs; database communications; database systems; medical informatics; health informatics | n/a | College of Business | Information Systems and Decision Sciences |
| Borman, Kathryn | Science education in K-12; educational anthropology; urban schools-communities; research and evaluation with an emphasis on science education; Appalachia | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Anthropology |
| Brandon, Thomas | Tobacco use dependence; cigarette smoking; smoking cessation; addictions | (813) 745-1751 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Psychology |
| Brescia, Pablo | Spanish; history and theory of Latin American short fiction; twentieth century Mexican and Southern Cone narrative and Colonial Mexico; interrelationships between film and literature and philosophy and literature | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | World Languages |
| Brinkmann, Robert | Human alteration of the environment; sinkholes; karst systems; Florida geography; pollution; climate change policy; sustainability | (813) 974-4939 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Geography |
| Brown, Lisa | Disaster mental health; assessment and intervention for older adults; mood and anxiety disorders; suicide; dementia; long-term care | (813) 974-0098 | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Aging and Mental Health Disparities |
| Brulotte, Gaëtan | French language; French and Francophone literature, especially twentieth and twenty firstt century; Quebec literature and culture; love and literature; sexuality and literature; history of love and sexuality; literary criticism and theory; short story; creative writing | (813) 974-2782 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | World Languages |
| Bryant, Bruce | Training and certification of Florida’s child welfare trainers; administration of Florida’s child welfare professional certification program; child welfare pre-service and in-service training | n/a | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Mental Health Law and Policy |
| Burns, Kelli | Advertising; public relations; social media; popular culture | (813) 974-6799 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Mass Communications |
| Butchart, Garnet | Cultural trends; stories about mass media; media ownership; philosophy of communication | (813) 974-2052 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Communication |
| Castaneda, Heide | Social inequality and medicine; critical medical anthropology; immigrant and refugee health; undocumented migrants; transnational labor migration; NGOs and humanitarian aid; constructs of citizenship; Europe; Germany; Mexican migration to the U.S. | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Anthropology |
| Chitwood, Ava | Archaic Greek literature and philosophy; Greek and Latin languages, literature and culture | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | World Languages |
| Christy, Annette | Baker Act; civil commitment policy and research; interaction of mental health and justice systems; guardianship policy and research, specifically as it relates to persons with mental illnesses; veterans with mental illness; veterans involved in the criminal justice system; specialty courts; mental health courts; veterans courts | n/a | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Mental Health Law and Policy |
| Cissna, Kenneth N. | Interpersonal communication; dialogue | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Communication |
| Cobb, Sarah | Pediatrics; school health; community health; children’s mental health; quantitative methodology | n/a | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Child and Family Studies |
| Cohen, Cynthia | Conflict resolution; employment rights; labor relations; organizational justice | n/a | College of Business | Management & Organization |
| Coovert, Michael | Computers in the workplace; social media; multimodal technologies; team performance; impact of technology on individuals and organizations | (813) 974-0482 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Psychology |
| Cummings, William | Southeast Asia | (813) 974-1087 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | History |
| Davis-Salazar, Karla | Post-secondary anthropology education; pedagogy in anthropology; curriculum development and instruction assessment; anthropological archaeology; human-environment interaction; water management; Maya | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Anthropology |
| DeJonge, Michael | History of Christianity; history of Christian thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Dietrich Bonhoeffer | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Religious Studies |
| Desmarais, Sarah | Severe mental illness and criminal justice outcomes; family violence prevention and intervention; short-term violence risk assessment and management; jury knowledge and decision making; trauma and memory | n/a | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Mental Health Law and Policy |
| Diehl, Sylvia | Autism spectrum disorders; augmentative and alternative communication; developmental disabilities; pediatric language; language and literacy | (813) 974-9816 | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Communication Sciences and Disorders |
| Discenza, Nicole Guenther | Old English language and literature; Middle English language and literature; Anglo-Saxon cosmology and geography; translation studies | (813) 974-1887 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | English |
| Donchin, Emanuel | Cognitive neuroscience; electropysiological neuroimaging; augmented cognition; the brain's executive control system; brain computer interfaces | (813) 760-7114 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Psychology |
| Duke, Eric | African American, Caribbean, and Black-African Diaspora History; Black internationalism and Diaspora politics; race, nationalism, and nation-building; black radicalism; decolonization; intra-racial relations; identity construction | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Africana Studies |
| Dyl, Joanna | US environmental history; urban environmental history; US West; natural disasters | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | History |
| Edwards, Yancy | Marketing segmentation; database marketing; direct marketing for cross-selling; internet marketing; market structure analysis; Bayesian methods, spatial model | n/a | College of Business | Marketing |
| Fleming, John | Creative fiction writing | (813) 974-9567 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | English |
| Fox, Gordon | Plant ecology and evolution; conservation biology; population biology; fire ecology | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Integrative Biology |
| Fridell, Lorie | Law enforcement issues; use of force; violence against police; racial profiling | (813) 974-6862 | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Criminology |
| Friedlander, Edward | News writing; reporting; newspaper and magazine feature writing; photojournalism; mass communications and society | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Mass Communications |
| Frisch, Stefan | Speech production; speech perception; language processing; psycholinguistics; linguistics; phonetics; phonology; speech science; acoustics; articulation; speech technology | n/a | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Communication Sciences and Disorders |
| Fuller, Sally | Organizational culture; issues of fairness; employment law; organizational diversity | (813) 974-1766 | College of Business | Management & Organization |
| Gebhardt, Gary | Marketing strategy and implementation; managerial decision making; organizational change; marketing processes within organizations | n/a | College of Business | Marketing |
| Gibbons, Michael | Political theory; American political thought; the American founding and constitutional convention; civil-military relations; religion and politics | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Government & International Affairs |
| Golombisky, Kimberly | Gender and diversity issues in public discourse; mass communications; popular culture; education | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Mass Communications |
| Grewal, Gurleen | Postcolonial literatures; literature of the indian Diaspora; Toni Morrison; African American literature; feminist criticism; nature writing; contemplative pedagogy | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | English |
| Guida, Wayne C. | Computational chemistry; computational biochemistry; synthetic organic chemistry; medicinal chemistry | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Chemistry |
| Guignon, Charles | Continental philosophy; phenomenology; hermeneutics; existentialism; post-structuralism; Heidegger; philosophical study of psychology and psychotherapy theories | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Philosophy |
| Hall, Cheryl | Classical, modern and contemporary political theory; environmental political theory; feminist political theory | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Government & International Affairs |
| Harwood, Valerie | Water quality microbiology; microbial ecology; vibrios and vibrio vulnificus; pathogens; waterborne disease; sewage pollution; microbial source tracking | (813) 974-1524 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Integrative Biology |
| Herbert, Gregory | Evolutionary theory; paleoecology; extinction; evolutionary arms races; predation; marine biology; conservation paleobiology; paleoclimatology | (813) 974-9023 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Geology |
| Himmelgreen, David | Biological anthropology; medical anthropology; maternal and child health; nutritional assessment; food insecurity and hunger; child growth and development; obesity and chronic disease; hypertension; nutrition education; nutrition and HIV/AIDS; HIV/AIDS prevention evaluation; behaviorally based intervention research; Costa Rica; Southern Africa; India; United States | (813) 974-1204 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Anthropology |
| Hirsh, Elizabeth | Modern and contemporary literature | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | English |
| Hopler, Jay | Poetry writing; poetry (American, world, all time periods); mystery, detective and crime fiction | (813) 974-9565 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | English |
| Hunter, Delroy | Investments; international finance; empirical asset pricing; corporate finance | (813) 974-6319 | College of Business | Finance |
| Hyer, Kathryn | Organization, staffing, training, policies and financing of long-term care; impact of state and federal regulations on assisted living and nursing home residents’ quality of care and quality of life | (813) 974-3232 | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences | Aging Studies |
| Ickes, Scott | Brazil; Brazilian history; Latin American history; race; class; gender; politics; culture; identity | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | History |
| Jiang, Xiaomei | Experimental condensed matter physics; continuous wave laser spectroscopy; organic electronic materials and optoelectronic devices; colloidal quantum dots; nanostructure device physics and engineering; solar energy applications | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Physics |
| Johnson, David | Cold War culture; the US since 1945; history of sexuality; gay and lesbian civil rights movement; the Johns Committee; consumer culture | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | History |
| Jones, Joni | Electronic commerce; pricing models for information goods; information markets; analysis and design of business systems | n/a | College of Business | Information Systems and Decision Sciences |
| Jones, Shayne | Juvenile delinquency and justice; white collar crime; legal decision-making, including juries and judges; personality and crime; psychopathic personality disorder; eyewitness testimony; expert testimony; violence risk assessment; police lineups; false confessions; civil law and trials, including medical malpractice | (813) 974-9556 | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Criminology |
| Jorgensen, Danny | Sociology of religion; science and religion; cults and sects; new American religions; Latter Day Saints (Mormons) and other Restorationists; Neopaganism and Witchcraft (Western occultism and esotericism); Scientology; Anabaptists (Amish, Mennonites); Shakers | (813) 974-1848 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Religious Studies |
| Karlins, Marvin | Time management; leadership; personal motivation; crew resource management in aviation; psychology of gambling; aging | (813) 974-1746 | College of Business | Management & Organization |
| Karver, Marc | Clinical child psychology; child and adolescent psychotherapy and mental health services research; psychotherapy treatment process research; clinician behaviors and decision making; assessment of child and adolescent strengths; child and adolescent suicidality; suicide prevention | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Psychology |
| Kelton, Andrea | Accounting information systems; behavioral accounting; the effects of technology on human decision processes | n/a | College of Business | Accountancy |
| Kim, Myung | Laser and optical physics; digital holography; optical tomographic imaging; biomedical imaging applications; photon echo; laser spectroscopy; quantum interference | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Physics |
| Kimmerle, Erin | Biological anthropology; forensic anthropology, aging; variation; skeletal trauma | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Anthropology |
| Kimonis, Eva | Psychopathy; antisocial/criminal behavior and juvenile delinquency; sexual offending; emotion; childhood maltreatment | n/a | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Mental Health Law and Policy |
| Kissi, Edward | Comparative genocide; human rights; twentieth century African history (Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa); twentieth century US relations with Africa | (813) 974-7784 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Africana Studies |
| Kumar, Anand | Marketing communications’ effectiveness; customer satisfaction; customer delight; consumer reactions to new technology, products and services; consumer emotions; brand strategies | n/a | College of Business | Marketing |
| Latowsky, Anne | Medieval French language and literature civilization French language, literature, and culture; contemporary France | (813) 974-3257 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | World Languages |
| Lee, Min-Dong Paul | Insitutional theory; social movement theory; diffusion of innovations; stakeholder human resources management; strategic corporate social responsibility; cross-cultural management; religion and capitalism; business ethics | (813) 974-1721 | College of Business | Management & Organization |
| Levin, Bruce | Managed behavioral health care; mental health policy; graduate behavioral health education; mental health informatics | n/a | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Child and Family Studies |
| Lucas, Linda | Women and work; gendered consequences of globalization; gender and economic development; gendered choice of undergraduate majors | n/a | Honors College | |
| Lynch, Michael | Environmental and corporate crime and regulation; radical criminology; racial bias and criminal justice; effect of imprisonment rates on crime rates | (813) 974-8148 | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Criminology |
| Madrigal, Lorena | Biological anthropology; human demography; population genetics; human biology; Costa Rica | (813) 974-0817 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Anthropology |
| Martin, Lynn | Ecological physiology; immunology | (813) 974-0157 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Integrative Biology |
| Martinez Tyson, Dinorah | Medical anthropology; cultural aspects of cancer/cancer survivorship; health disparities; Latino health; community-based participatory research; cultural adaptation; program planning and evaluation | (813) 974-0723 | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Aging and Mental Health Disparities |
| Mayberry, Maralee | Sociology of education; feminist science studies; political sociology; social movements | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Sociology |
| McColm, Gregory | General mathematics and statistics questions; logic and computer science; geometry in two or three dimensions (especially in nanoscience and materials science); combinatorics (finite structures and counting problems); probability; philosophy of education and science | (813) 974-9550 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Mathematics and Statistics |
| McCook, Kathleen de la Peña | Human rights and libraries; social justice and librarianship; libraries building communities; poverty and library services; adult lifelong learning literacy; theories of reading; libraries as cultural heritage institutions; public librarianship | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Library & Information Science |
| McEvoy, Cathy | Memory performance in normal aging; implicit and explicit influences on memory; techniques for memory improvement; application of basic memory research to understanding cognition in deaf and hearing-impaired adults | n/a | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences | Aging Studies |
| McIlvane, Jessica | Coping with stress and chronic illness (vision impairment, arthritis, daily hassles, Osteoarthritis) in adulthood; stress-buffering effects of social relationships on well-being | n/a | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences | Aging Studies |
| Michaels, Charles | Workplace isolation; part-time employment; alternative employment; assessment center technique | (813) 974-9513 | College of Business | Management & Organization |
| Mieczkowski , Thomas | Drug testing; terrorism; forensics | n/a | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences | Criminology |
| Mitchell, Mozella | Literature and theology; African American religious history; African and Afro-Caribbean religions; issues in Caribbean religions; comparative mysticism; women and religion; new testament theology; contemporary religious thought; liberation theologies; African American religious thinkers; Malcolm X; Martin Luther King, Jr. | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Religious Studies |
| Murray, William | Ancient history; ancient Greece and Rome; classical archaeology; ancient Greek and Roman war; ancient Mediterranean maritime history and archaeology; ancient naval warships and warfare | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | History |
| Murthy, Uday | Data modeling and design methodologies for accounting systems; auditing computer-based systems; expert systems; group support systems in accounting | (813) 974-6523 | College of Business | Accountancy |
| Nord, Walter | Organizational behavior studies | (813) 974-1787 | College of Business | Management & Organization |
| Ottanelli, Fraser | US radical experience; labor; immigration; the Italian Diaspora; communism; Italy | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | History |
| Pantzalis, Christos | International corporate finance; corporate finance; market efficiency | (813) 974-6357 | College of Business | Finance |
| Parnes, Dror | Corporate creditworthiness; credit risk issues | n/a | College of Business | Finance |
| Peters, Roger | Treatment of dually diagnosed offenders; substance abuse treatment; screening and assessment approaches; evaluation of substance abuse treatment effectiveness; alternative case processing approaches, such as drug courts; knowledge adoption and application strategies | n/a | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Mental Health Law and Policy |
| Pluckhahn, Thomas | Eastern United States prehistory; Mesoamerican prehistory; cultural resource management; settlement pattern studies; household archaeology; environmental anthropology; ceramic analysis; GIS applications for anthropology | (813) 974-1523 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Anthropology |
| Qi, Jianping | Financial intermediation; corporate finance theory | n/a | College of Business | Finance |
| Richards, Christina | Plant ecological genetics and genomics; ecological and evolutionary epigenetics; plant ecophysiology; conservation genetics; global change biology | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Integrative Biology |
| Riedling, Ann | Information literacy skills; information literacy assessment strategies and techniques; social informatics in adolescents and teens; the impact of school libraries on academic achievement | (813) 974-7650 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Library & Information Science |
| Robinson, Dahlia | Financial accounting; corporate governance; auditing | n/a | College of Business | Accountancy |
| Rogers, Catherine | Second-language speech perception and production; perception of foreign-accented speech by native listeners; speech perception by cochlear implant users; effects of age and hearing loss on speech perception; speech technology | (813) 974-7423 | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Communication Sciences and Disorders |
| Rohr, Jason | Community and population ecology; conservation; ecotoxicology; disease and parasite ecology; ecology of climate change; behavioral ecology; biodiversity; pollution; pesticides; environmental science | (813) 974-0156 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Integrative Biology |
| Roman, Diana | Volcanoes; earthquakes; source processes of volcanotectonic earthquakes; volcano-fault interaction; forecasting volcanic activity through volcanic stress field analysis; structure and evolution of magma transport and storage systems | (813) 974-2838 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Geology |
| Romero-Daza, Nancy | HIV/AIDS; women's health; health problems in the inner city; infant mortality; drug abuse; commercial sex; Costa Rica; Southern Africa; United States | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Anthropology |
| Schonfeld, Martin | Philosophy of climate | (813) 974-5698 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Philosophy |
| Simeon-Jones, Kersuze | Francophone studies; Africa and the Caribbean; comparative Afro-Caribbean studies; african diaspora; women’s history within the diaspora; black internationalism; historical and literary analyses of socio-political movements | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Africana Studies |
| Sincich, Terry | Applied statistical modeling; stuctural equation analysis; statistical education | n/a | College of Business | Information Systems and Decision Sciences |
| Skrzypek, Leslaw | Approximation theory; classical analysis; functional analysis; minimal projections; Lp spaces | (813) 974-1268 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Mathematics and Statistics |
| Skvoretz, John | Theoretical methods; group processes and social psychology; network analysis and modeling | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Sociology |
| Solomon, Paul | Promotion; services marketing | (813) 974-5995 | College of Business | Marketing |
| Stuart, Nathan | Managerial accounting; cost-benefit analysis; incentives; performance measurement | n/a | College of Business | Accountancy |
| Surrency, Steven | American Sign Language; interpretation; ethical decision making; general linguistics; applied linguistics | n/a | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Communication Sciences and Disorders |
| Sutton, Ninon | Corporate finance; mergers and acquisitions; agency theory; market efficiency; corporate governance | n/a | College of Business | Finance |
| Tykot, Robert H. | Archaeological science; Mediterranean prehistory; old world archaeology; ancient diets around the world; bone chemistry; exchange studies; obsidian; marble; Sardinia; Sicily | (813) 974-7279 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Anthropology |
| Vanden, Harry | Latin America/Latin American politics including Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, Central America and Cuba; US-Latin American relations; comparative politics, especially the global south; terrorism, democratization and new social and political movements in Latin America | (813) 974-2683 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Government & International Affairs |
| Vaz, Kim | Counseling parents and students; counseling techniques in various settings; applications of psychoanalytic therapy in schools; community's cultural responses to trauma; feminist, multicultural, and intersectionality theories in counseling; role of counseling professionals in adult lifelong learning; feminist and public pedagogy | n/a | College of Education | Psychological and Social Foundations |
| Vergon, Keren | Children’s mental health; systems of care for children; trauma; methodology and evaluation | n/a | College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Undergraduate) | Child and Family Studies |
| Wedge, Lei | Corporate governance; corporate finance; investments; the mutual fund industry | n/a | College of Business | Finance |
| Welker, Robert F. | Business Law; collective bargaining | (813) 974-6548 | College of Business | Accountancy |
| Wells, E. Christian | Applied archaeology; economic anthropology; theory of ritual economy; cultural and ecological aspects of human/soil dynamics; microscale activity analysis using soil chemistry; quantitative and formal modeling; prehistory of Mesoamerica and Central America | (813) 974-2337 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Anthropology |
| Werder, Kelly | Public relations; strategic communication management; crisis communication; relationship management; communication campaign development; service learning | (813) 974-6790 | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Mass Communications |
| White, Nancy-Marie | Gulf Coast prehistory; Apalachicola-lower Chattahoochee Valley prehistory and early history; origins of complexity; coastal vs. interior settlement; gender in anthropological perspective; public archaeology; cultural resources management | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Anthropology |
| Williams, Thomas | Medieval philosophy and theology; Augustine; Anselm; Peter Abelard; Thomas Aquinas; John Duns Scotus; philosophy of religion; Episcopal Church; Anglican Communion; Anglicanism | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Religious Studies |
| Williamson, Ken | Community engagement; participatory action research; identity; grassroots political organization; Brazil; United States | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Anthropology |
| Zarger, Rebecca | Sociocultural anthropology; environmental anthropology; ethnoecology; ethnographies of childhood; anthropology of education; public engagement in environmental policy; conservation; migration and environmental change; environmental education; Central America; Caribbean | n/a | College of Arts and Sciences (Undergradute) | Anthropology |
