Core Counseling Psychology Faculty

Carolyn Barber, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor
(accepting doctoral students for 2008-2009 academic year)

Social interactions in secondary-school contexts, social and motivational aspects of gifted education, educational inequality, large-scale database analysis.

Ph.D. University of Maryland.

LaVerne Berkel, Ph.D. - Associate Professor
(accepting doctoral students for 2008-2009 academic year)

Domestic violence issues, religious issues, and African American health issues.
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University.

Chris Brown, Ph.D. - Associate Professor
(accepting doctoral students for 2008-2009 academic year)

Master's Program Coordinator. Career development of special populations, sports psychology, assessment methods for counseling. Ph.D. University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Changming Duan, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Director of Training
(accepting doctoral students for 2008-2009 academic year)

Counseling and social psychology, empathy, multiculturalism, cross-cultural values.
Ph.D. University of Maryland-College Park.

Gail Hackett, Ph.D. - Provost

Social cognitive career theory, academic achievement and vocational development, and gender and ethnicity in counseling.

Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University.

Malcolm Linville, Ph.D. - Professor

Individual/couple therapy, child/adolescent therapy, school counseling, gerontological counseling.
Ph.D. University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Jacob Marszalek, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor
(accepting doctoral students for 2008-2009 academic year)

Assessment in psychology and education (including instrument validity and reliability), computerized adaptive testing, the theory and application of psychological flow, quantitative methodology, and research design.
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Nancy L. Murdock, Ph.D. - Professor, Division Chair

Interpersonal approaches to counseling, social cognition and counseling process, professional issues, women's issues, family systems theory.
Ph.D. Virginia Commonwealth University.

 
Johanna Nilsson, Ph.D. - Associate Professor
(accepting doctoral students for 2008-2009 academic year)

International students and refugee/immigrants' mental health and acculturation, women's issues, and multicultural supervision.
Ph.D. Western Michigan University.

Robert D. Paul, Ph.D. Emeritus faculty member.  Human sexuality, professional ethics, consultation and supervision.
Ed.D. University of Florida.

Chia-Chih "DC" Wang, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor
(accepting doctoral students for 2008-2009 academic year)

Attachment, family systems, and multicultural issues.
Ph.D. University of Missouri-Columbia.

Debra Woodard - Assistant Teaching Professor

School counselor preparation and the development of professional leadership. The role of the school counselor in small, professional learning communities. The elimination of barriers to student success. especially in urban settings. The relationship of school counseling to the learning and leadership potential of all students. Cultural and multicultural issues and the celebration of diversity. Social advocacy.