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  Jun 25, 2025
 
2011-2012 Graduate Studies Bulletin 
  
2011-2012 Graduate Studies Bulletin [Archived Catalog]

College of Education


Educational Leadership and Policies

Professors
Katherine Chaddock, Ph.D., University of Utah, 1994
D. Zachary Kelehear, Ed.D., North Carolina State University, 1993
Chris P. Plyler, Ph.D., Florida State University, 1978
Kenneth R. Stevenson, Ed.D., University of Florida, 1973
 
Associate Professors
Edward P. Cox, Ed.D., Northern Illinois University, 1976
Michelle A. Maher, Ph.D., George Mason University, 2001
Michael F. Welsh, Ed.D., University of South Carolina, 1984
 
Assistant Professors
Christian Anderson, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2007
Peter Moyi, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2006
Doyle Stevick, Ph.D., Indiana University, 2006
 

Educational Studies
 
Professors
William Brown, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1985
James C. Carper, Ph.D., Kansas State University, 1977
Erik Drasgow, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996
Margaret B. Gredler, Ph.D., Florida State University, 1971
Huynh Huynh, Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1969, 
Robert Johnson, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1995
Craig Kridel, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1980
Les Sternberg, Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1973
Mitchell Yell, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1992
 
Associate Professors
Christine A. Christle, Ed.D., University of Kentucky, 2003
Christine Distefano, Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1998
Kellah Edens, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1992
Kathy Evans, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1989
Donna M. Gibson, Ph.D., University if North Carolina at Greensboro, 2000
Joshua Gold, Ph.D., Kent State University, 1991
Xiaofeng Liu, Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1999
Kathleen J. Marshall, Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1983
Ellen Potter, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1974
Michael A. Seaman, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1990
Cheryl Wissick, Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1990
 
Assistant Professors
Bethany Bell-Ellison, Ph.D., University of Florida, 2008
Kara Brown, Ph.D., Indiana University, 2006
Michelle Jay, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006
Catherine L. Packer, Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2006
 

Instruction and Teacher Education
 
Professors
Gloria Boutte, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1992
Diane E. DeFord, Ed.D, Indiana University, 1978, John E. Swearingen Professor of Literacy Education
Edwin Dickey, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1982
Susi S. Long, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1995
Heidi Mills, Ed.D., Indiana University, 1986, John C. Hungerpiller Professor of Education
Diane Stephens, Ph.D., Indiana University, 1986, John E. Swearingen Professor of Education
 
Associate Professors
Nathan Carnes, Ph.D., Miami University of Ohio, 1996
Amy Donnelly, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1991
Nancy Freeman, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1996
Rhonda B. Jeffries, Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1994
Pamela Jewett, Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2004
Tasha T. Laman, Ph.D., Indiana University, 2004
Susan L. Schramm-Pate, Ph.D., Miami University of Ohio, 1997
Mary Styslinger, Ph.D., Kent State University, 2000
Stephen Thompson, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2002
Irma Van Scoy, Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1987
David Virtue, Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2002
Kenneth E. Vogler, Ed.D., University of Massachusetts-Lowell, 2000
 
Assistant Professors
Angela Baum, Ph.D., Iowa State University, 2000
Megan Burton, Ph.D., University of Alabama, 2006
Elizabeth Costello, Ph.D. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2007
Tambra Jackson, Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2006
Amy Johnson, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005
Herman T. Knopf, Ph.D., University of Florida, 2004
Julia Lopez-Robertson, Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2004
Christine R. Lotter, Ph.D., Indiana University, 2005
Sandra Schmidt, Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2008
Lucy Spence, Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2006
Jennifer L. Wilson, Ph.D., University of Missouri, 2004
Jan Yow, Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2007
 

Physical Education and Athletic Training
 
Professors
Karen E. French, Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1985
 
Associate Professors
Murray F. Mitchell, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1988
Eva Monsma, Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1999
Lynda M. Nilges, Ph.D., Florida State University, 1995
 
Assistant Professors
Thomas Dompier, Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2004
Tina J. Hall, Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2003
Toni M. Torres-McGehee, Ph.D., University of Alabama, 2006
Collin A. Webster, Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2006

A listing of faculty with term appointments to graduate faculty status is available at http://gradschool.sc.edu/facstaff/faculty.asp.