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Affiliated Faculty and Staff
(* Denotes Applied Community and Economic Development Sequence core course faculty.)
Many of the faculty members at Illinois State University have experience with community and economic development in the United States and around the world. This list includes departmental chairs and graduate program advisors, Stevenson Center staff, and faculty most involved with the programs, either as sequence core instructors or instructors of required degree program courses. Please also see websites for the Departments of Economics, Politics & Government, and Sociology & Anthropology for further information on these and additional faculty members.
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* Dr. Frank D. Beck : Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Beck is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director of the Stevenson Center. He works in the area of community economic development, local policy, persistent poverty, and the effect of schools on the economic health of rural communities. Dr. Beck completed one of the first research projects on the socioeconomic impacts of state-designated enterprise zones. E-mail fdbeck@ilstu.edu |
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Dr. Lucinda McCray Beier: Ph.D., Lancaster University, Great Britain. Dr. Beier has served as director of the College of Arts and Sciences Research Office and director of the Applied Social Research Unit, an outreach organization which provides information, research, and programming services. She teaches courses in the Department of History in community development, history of medicine, and oral history.
E-mail lmbeier@ilstu.edu, Website |
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Beverly Beyer: M.S., Illinois State University; M.A. College of William & Mary. Ms. Beyer serves as Stevenson Center Assistant Director. She works with applicants to related degree programs and also coordinates community assistantships and internship placements. Ms. Beyer is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer ( Bulgaria) and has served with AmeriCorps and other non-profit organizations.
E-mail babeyer@ilstu.edu |
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Dr. Sherrilyn Billger: Ph.D., University of Illinois. Dr. Billger is an Assistant Professor of Economics whose research focuses on topics in labor economics, education, and applied econometrics. Her research on single-sex education and on incentive pay for teachers and administrators has been presented before the American Education Finance Association, Society of Labor Economists, and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. Professor Billger's research appears in Industrial Relations, Developments in School Finance, and Applied Economics Letters and has been funded by the USDA National Research Initiative. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Union College and has been named a Research Fellow at the Institute for Labor Studies (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. Email smbillg@ilstu.edu, Website
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Dr. Diane Bjorklund: Ph.D., University of California at Davis. Dr. Bjorklund is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Her areas of specialization include sociological social psychology, qualitative methodology, and the sociology of emotions. E-mail dlbjork@ilstu.edu |
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Martha Boudeman: B.S., Illinois State University. Ms. Boudeman serves as staff clerk for the Stevenson Center and supports the center’s operations. She has thirty years professional experience as an administrative assistant and an educator of children with learning differences.
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*Dr. Joan M. Brehm: Ph.D., Utah State University. Dr. Brehm is an Assistant Professor of Sociology. Her areas of specialization are natural resources/environment, community, and demography. Her current research focuses on an examination of the role of natural environment amenities in community attachment and their relationship to community well-being in rural areas. Future research interests include exploring the linkages between community well-being, locally-based food production systems, and environmental health, and continued examination of the role of natural environment amenities in community attachment within a variety of community contexts. Dr. Brehm teaches Contemporary Social Problems in Global Perspective, People in Places: Understanding and Developing Community, Introduction to Social Research Methods, and is developing future coursework in the area of society and environment.
E-mail jmbrehm@ilstu.edu, Website
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*Dr. Lon Carlson: Ph.D., University of Illinois. Dr. Carlson is an Associate Professor of Economics and the Undergraduate Program Director for the Department of Economics. His research on environmental economics and economics education has appeared in several outlets including Natural Resources Journal and the Journal of Economic Education. He has also co-authored numerous research reports on issues concerning environmental economics and a principles of economics text. He has held positions at Argonne National Laboratory and the U.S. General Accounting Office, and has worked as a consultant for a number of government agencies. Professor Carlson teaches courses in environmental economics, law and economics, principles of economics, and local economic development. E-mail lcarson@ilstu.edu
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*Dr. Robert W. Hunt: Ph.D., Princeton University. Dr. Hunt is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Stevenson Center Senior Faculty Fellow.
Dr. Hunt also serves as Faculty Advisor to the ACED Students' Association.
He has written extensively in the area of political participation and development, focused on the role of the "civil society" in development in Asia and Africa. He has consulted with the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the United Nations throughout the world, particularly on the role of community economic activity in development. In 1994, Dr. Hunt launched Illinois State University's Peace Corps Fellows/USA Program, the first in the nation in community and economic development (joint with Western Illinois University). E-mail rwhunt@ilstu.edu
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Dr. Nick Maroules: Ph.D., University of California, San Diego and J.D., Golden Gate School of Law, San Francisco. Dr. Maroules is Associate Professor of Sociology and past Chair of the Department of Sociology-Anthropology. His areas of specialization include sociology of law/law and society, trial processes/voir dire and venue, and criminology and juvenile delinquency. E-mail ngmarou@ilstu.edu |
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Dr. Hassan Mohammadi: Ph.D., Washington State University. Dr. Mohammadi is Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Economics. His fields of interest are macroeconometrics and monetary theory. Dr. Mohammadi has served as consultant to the United Nations and the United States Department of Agriculture. He is currently director of the Unit for Middle East and South Asian Studies at Illinois State. Dr. Mohammadi has taught a number of Advanced Monetary Theory courses at two universities in Iran. E-mail hmohamma@ilstu.edu, Website |
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Dr. Carlos Parodi: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Parodi is Professor and Graduate Coordinator of the Department of Politics and Government, and Director of the Unit for Latin America & Caribbean Studies. His professional interests include truth and reconciliation commissions, U.S. - Latin American relations, nationalism and globalization, and has included research with the Universidad del Pacifico and the Centro de Estudios y Promocion del Desarrollo (DESCO) in Peru. His most recent publication is The Politics of South American Boundaries (Praeger 2002).
E-mail cparodi@ilstu.edu
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Dr. James Payne: Ph.D., Florida State University. Dr. Payne is Professor of Economics and Department Chair. His research in applied time series econometrics, financial economics, and macroeconomics appears in numerous academic outlets including the Review ofEconomics and Statistics, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Southern EconomicJournal and Economics Letters. Professor Payne was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the Institute of Economics in Zagreb, Croatia and serves as co-editor for the Journal of Economics and Finance. His teaching experience includes monetary economics, macroeconomics applied econometrics and statistics. E-mail jepayne@ilstu.edu, Website
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Dr. Aaron Pitluck: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Pitluck is an Assistant Professor of Sociology. His areas of expertise include global development, economic sociology, globalization, and finance. His non-U.S. geographical areas of expertise are Southeast Asia, Asia-Pacific, and Europe. His primary research project is a study of how social forces structure the behavior of professional fund managers in the United States, Canada, and Malaysia. By studying such social forces on professional investors, Dr. Pitluck is interested in policy-making to shape fund managers' behavior in ways constructive to development. The second project is a study of real utopian financial markets, a study that includes case studies of the socially responsible investment movement and Islamic finance. He teaches Global Development & Economic Change and Economic Sociology. Dr. Pitluck welcomes research assistance or collaboration with Stevenson students. E-mail Aaron.Pitluck@ilstu.edu
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*Dr. Ali Riaz: Ph.D., University of Hawaii. Dr. Riaz is an Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and Government and is Associate Director, Unit for International Linkages. In August, 2007, he begins as Chair of the Department of Politics and Government. His areas of specialization include: South Asian politics, community development, religion and politics, and political communication. His articles appeared in scholarly journals such as Asian Survey, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Asian Profile, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and Media, Culture and Society. Dr. Riaz has four books in English and more than a dozen books in Bengali. His publications include State, Class and Military Rule: Political Economy of Martial Law in Bangladesh (1994) and God Willing: The Politics of Islamism in Bangladesh ( Lanham , MA : Rowman and Littlefield, 2004). His recent book is titled Unfolding State: The Transformation of Bangladesh (ON, Canada : de Sitters Publications, 2005). Dr. Riaz has received numerous awards including Dean's Award for Outstanding Scholarship 2004 and Outstanding College Researcher 2005.
E-mail ariaz@ilstu.edu, Website
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Dr. Mike Sublett: Ph.D., The University of Chicago. Dr. Sublett is a Professor of Geography and former Chair of the Department of Geography-Geology. He has been a member of the faculty at Illinois State since 1970 and coordinated the required internship program for undergraduate Geography majors in the non-teaching sequences since 1987. With a research focus on the Midwest , he has published monographs dealing with agricultural land tenure, creation of counties, and diffusion of the township form of government. In addition to the Geography of Illinois, he teaches Geographic Techniques, Field Geography, and Seminar in Geography.
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Dr. T.Y. Wang: Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Wang is Professor of the Department of Politics and Government and Director of Unit for International Linkages , ISU Office of International Studies and Programs . He was the Coordinator of the Conference Group of Taiwan Studies (CGOTS) of the American Political Science Association and a visiting professor at the Political Science Department, National Chengchi University , Taiwan , Fall of 2005. He is currently the co-editor of the Journal of Asian and African Studies . He has published three edited volumes and more than 20 book chapters and articles in such scholarly journals as the American Political Science Review , Arab Studies Quarterly , Asian Survey , Cambridge Review of International Affairs , International Journal of Public Administration , International Studies Quarterly , Issues and Studies, Journal of Asian and African Studies , Journal of Peace Research , and Journal of Political and Military Sociology . His current research focuses on Taiwanese national identity, cross-Strait relations and US policy towards China and Taiwan . Dr. Wang has received research grants from a variety of foundations, including the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Cultural Foundation and the World Society Foundation. He has been invited to conduct lectures and present papers in China , Germany , Taiwan and the United States . Dr. Wang is on the Advisory Board of the Korean Association of Public Policy and the Editorial Board of the Taiwanese Political Science Review. E-mail: tywang@ilstu.edu, Website
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Dr. Diane Zosky: Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Zosky will serve as Interim Chair of the Department of Sociology-Anthropology for the 2007-2008 academic year. An associate professor in the School of Social Work, Dr. Zosky has served as the Program Director/Coordinator for the School of Social Work 's Bachelor of Social Work degree program since 2001. Much of Zosky's research and practice focuses on the area of domestic violence and she was appointed President of the Board of Directors of Prevent Child Abuse-Illinois. E-mail dlzosky@ilstu.edu
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Updated July 2007
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