Actually new here this past summer, John Allen joins the English department this fall as an assistant professor. Last year he taught at Beloit College and has graduate teaching experience at Marquette University and UW-Milwaukee, where he earned his master’s and Ph.D., respectively. He completed his undergraduate work in English and communications at St. Norbert College, DePere, WI. His dissertation on How the Other Half Lives: Representations of Homelessness in American Literature reflects his career research focus. In addition to teaching, Allen has been an editor with The Cream City Review, a writing tutor, a research assistant at both St. Norbert and Marquette, and a debate coach at Premontre High School in Green Bay.
Kathleen Bubinas will head the anthropology track at UW-Waukesha following the departure of Gladis Kaufman. A 1973 graduate of the University of Illinois-Chicago in anthropology, she went on for a master’s degree in archaeology from Southern Illinois University and completed a certificate in Women’s Studies at UW-Milwaukee in 2000, a year before she received her Ph.D. in anthropology there. She has taught at the College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL, and at North Central College, Naperville, IL, as well as at UW-Milwaukee as a graduate assistant. While she has been on archeological digs, her research interests lie in urban ethnic communities and labor markets, Asian American studies, South Asian populations in the US, women in the workplace, migration, transnationalism, and globalization.
Previously a patrolman and police detective for 30 years, Michael L. Durfee has been teaching college since 1998. He graduated magna cum laude in 1984 from UW-Milwaukee with a major in criminal justice and minor in political science and earned a master’s degree in 1988. He has taught at Marian College, Fond du Lac, at UW-Milwaukee, -Sheboygan, -Fond du Lac, -Oshkosh, and –Washington County, at Mount Senario College, and at WCTC. This semester he will teach American government as an associate lecturer here.
An associate lecturer in English this semester, Chris Head earned both his bachelor’s from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and master’s degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana, summa cum laude. He has worked as a graduate teaching assistant and student advisor at Illinois.
In 1970-71, A. Thomas Honeyager was a Dean’s List student at UW-Waukesha, and he comes back this fall as a geography lecturer. He transferred to UW-Whitewater for a bachelor’s in biology with a minor in geography, and went on to UW-Milwaukee to complete a master’s degree in botany in 1978 and finally a Ph.D. in geography in 1992 with a specialization in biogeography. He has been an adjunct professor at Carroll College since 1995 and earlier taught at UW-Milwaukee as a graduate assistant. In addition, he has worked for a couple of nurseries, for Generac Corporation, and for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
UW-Waukesha alumnus Darrel Johnson is returning as an associate lecturer in geography this semester. He was here right after high school in 1983-84 and again in 1990-91 when he was on course to earn a degree. He holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UW-Milwaukee in atmospheric sciences and has taught at Carroll College, WCTC, and UW-Milwaukee. Experienced in several computer languages, he tracks meteorological fronts and serves as a vice president of the Greater Milwaukee Chapter of the American Meteorological Society.
Mary Margaret “Duffy” Kasum will return to teach French here this fall. She last did that in 1970-72. She also will teach a Spanish class. She has been an assistant professor of foreign languages at Cardinal Stritch University since 1986 and chaired the department from 1986-96 and 1999-2000, developed the ESL certification program and honors program there and spearheaded study abroad programs in France, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Spain. Kasum earned her bachelor’s degree in French and mathematics from Notre Dame College, her master’s from UW-Milwaukee and is a doctoral candidate at the Universidad de San José, Costa Rica. She’s also studied in France and Mexico as well as at several US universities.
This semester Michael Mattek will teach both here and at Marquette University, where he completed his master’s degree in 1996 in English and American literature and from which he expects to receive his Ph.D. this year. He earned his bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in history in 1994 from UW-Whitewater. His dissertation demonstrates his additional interest in American cultural history: Brisbane & Beyond: Revising Social Capitalism in Mid-Nineteenth Century America. He’s made presentations on Brisbane and the Associationism movement, writing the entry on Albert Brisbane for the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Antebellum Writers I. Also interested in a segment of current culture, he teaches dance at the Gary Allen Studio in Milwaukee.
Joining the Study Center as writing specialist, Laura Misco returns to Wisconsin after three years in North Carolina, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. While there, she worked as a teaching assistant and lecturer, a writing instructor, and a high school mentor and tutor and served an internship in a program for gifted young writers. She holds a 1996 bachelor’s degree in English with an emphasis in writing from UW-Madison. In Madison, she worked as a survey research specialist and tracking specialist.
With special interest in Irish contributions to modern British literature, Patrick Mulrooney comes to UW-Waukesha with experience as a teaching assistant in freshman composition and introduction to fiction. He graduated in English from St. John’s University, minoring in psychology, earned his master’s degree at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, and took his Ph.D. in 2001 from Marquette University. He wrote his dissertation on Christians and Mimics in W.B. Yeats’ Collected Poems. His interests cover 20th century British poetry and fiction, American literature, cultural studies, ecocriticism, and contemporary theory.
Alayne Peterson, who holds an MFA in creative writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will be an English lecturer here this fall. She graduated cum laude from Hiram College, Ohio, with majors in continental philosophy and English literature and went on for a master’s degree in English from the University of Toledo, Ohio. Peterson has taught at Columbia College Chicago, Terra Community College, Fremont, OH, and at the University of Toledo. She also has worked as an assistant at a Chicago advertising agency and research associate for a global investment banking firm.
Seth Rankin has taught geography in the UW Colleges since 1990 and previously on this campus in 1995 and 1998 but also at the Fox Valley, Rock and Washington County campuses. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UW-Milwaukee, where he served as a teaching assistant, and did additional post-graduate work at the University of Saskatchewan, where he also has taught. He has held research positions with companies in Wisconsin and Saskatchewan, primarily working in population analysis.
A mathematics lecturer at UW-Fond du Lac since 1985, David Schudson will teach here this semester. He also has taught in several state correctional institutions and in high school in Whitefish Bay and at Milwaukee Jewish Community School. A graduate of Shorewood High School, he earned a bachelor’s degree in math from UW-Madison in 1979 and master’s in math education in 1980. He also has taken computer language training at Marquette University. Schudson is a member of the Greater Milwaukee Bridge Association and American Contract Bridge League.
A mechanical engineer with experience teaching at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where she completed her master’s degree in engineering management in 1992, Debra Smith will teach a course in mechanics here this semester, freeing Luis Rodriguez to chair the department. Smith graduated from UW-Madison in 1980 and has held positions with Waukesha Pump, Allis Chalmers, Enerpac, U.S. Controls Corp., Johnson Controls, and Milwaukee Electric Tool. Currently she is a production support engineer on contract with GE Medical Systems.
Returning lecturer Timothy Thering will teach several courses in U.S. history here this semester. He first taught here in fall 2000. He received his Ph.D. in 2001, completing both undergraduate and graduate studies at UW-Madison. Solidly grounded in American history, he had an interest in international relations as an undergraduate and spent his junior year abroad at Karl Marx University, Budapest, Hungary. He also has taught at Carroll College. For the past two years he has been working as a photo research and editorial assistant at the Wisconsin Historical Society and also did the copy editing on A Wisconsin Journey, published by Gibbs-Smith Publisher, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Now a doctoral student in economics at UW-Milwaukee, Bin Wang earned his first degree in engineering at the Wuhan Institute of Cartography in China. He later studied in his homeland at the Nanjing University-Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese & American Studies and in 1997 earned a master’s degree in economics from Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China. He has taught macroeconomics and statistics at UW-Milwaukee and here will teach macro and introductory economics. His research looks at “Stock Return Predictability: A Time-Varying Parameter Approach Using Panel Data.”
Podiatrist Paul Zillgitt will teach physiology and heredity courses here this fall. He earned his first bachelor’s degree in biology from UW-Eau Claire and then went to UW-Madison for the physician’s assistant degree program and later completed his degree in podiatry at the Dr. William M Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine, Chicago, serving as a teaching assistant in microbiology and physiology. He did a two-year surgical residency at Loretto Hospital in Chicago and established a private practice in St. Charles, IL, from 1996-2000. Two years ago he joined Milwaukee Health Services as the clinical manager of diabetic care, wound care, and podiatric services. |
