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John Baugh
 Director of African and African American Studies

John Baugh, Ph.D., is able to provide perspective on the historic 2008 presidential race and issues related to the first African American candidate from a major party to run for the office. Baugh, author of Beyond Ebonics: Linguistic Pride and Racial Prejudice, a significant piece of work on the Ebonics ...

Expertise: Race and politics, linguistics, linguistic profiling

Direct contact: (314) 935-5690
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jbaugh@wustl.edu

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Garrett Duncan
 Associate Professor of Education

Garrett Duncan studies conditions that attribute to success and failure among black students in public schools, especially in competitive settings. He examines academic and social issues, with a special focus on high-stakes testing, education reform, violence, and racial disparities in achievement ...

Expertise: education reform, high stakes testing, racial disparities, social issues, urban schools

Direct contact: (314) 935-8740
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gaduncan@wustl.edu

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Alan Glass
 Director of Student Health and Counseling

Dr. Glass joined the staff of Student Health and Counseling in January, 2004. A graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School, he completed a pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. He practiced emergency medicine for several years before entering the field of college heath. ...

Expertise: student health, men's health, sexual health, leadership education, mental health

Direct contact: (314) 935-9626
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alan_glass@aismail.wustl.edu

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Bob Hansman
 Artist-in-Residence, School of Architecture

An accomplished artist, Hansman is nationally renowned for his work with under-privileged inner-city youth. He is the founder of "City Faces," a community arts program offering year-round drawing classes in a St. Louis housing project, and is active with other area arts organizations. His work has ...

Expertise: City Faces, Hewlett Program, architecture and society, art and education, community activism, stained glass, urban youth

Direct contact: (314) 935-7221
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hansman@architecture.wustl.edu

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Robert Koff
 Director, Center for Advanced Learning

Robert Koff is the director of the Educational Skills Initiative in the office of the vice chancellor for students, which is an initiative that focuses on ways to expand the intellectual interests and educational skills of undergraduates with a focus on incoming freshmen. He is an expert in the challenges ...

Expertise: education, school reform, No Child Left Behind, standardized tests, school boards

Direct contact: (314) 935-5946
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rkoff@wustl.edu

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Steven Krantz
 Professor and Chair of Mathematics in Arts & Sciences

Steven G. Krantz, Ph.D., is professor and chair of mathematics. He received the Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974. Several complex variables; harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, geometry, interpolation of operators, complex function theory, and real analysis are among his specialties. ...

Expertise: harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, geometry, interpolation of operators, complex function theory

Media assistance: (314) 935-5272 / dlutz@wustl.edu

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Matthew Kreuter
 Professor

Matt Kreuter is a leading national public health expert in the field of health communications.

Expertise: Health communication, cancer prevention and control, health disparities

Direct contact: 314-935-3701
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mkreuter@wustl.edu

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John McCarthy
 Professor of Mathematics

John McCarthy's field is a kind of analysis called operator theory, which he defines as the study of matrices in infinite dimensional space. It is most directly linked to quantum mechanics, a physics theory involving elementary particles such as the electron that predicts the outcomes of physical ...

Expertise: mathematics, pure mathematics, operator theory, quantum mechanics

Direct contact: (314) 935-6753
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mccarthy@wustl.edu

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Mark McDaniel
 Professor of Psychology in Arts & Sciences

McDaniel, an expert on human learning and memory, is co-author of Memory Fitness: A Guide for Successful Aging. Published in 2004, the book offers the lay person an overview of what scientific research suggests will happen to our memory capabilities as we age. McDaniel's most significant research ...

Expertise: memory, aging and memory, learning, recall, forgetfulness, retrieval, memorization, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-8030
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mmcdanie@artsci.wustl.edu

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R. Keith Sawyer
 Associate Professor of Education

R. Keith Sawyer is one of the country's leading experts on the science of creativity. He studies creativity, everyday conversation, children's play and everyday social life. He is particularly interested in group dynamics and collaboration. He is the author of numerous books including Pretend Play ...

Expertise: creativity, everyday conversation, childhood, childhood development, innovation

Direct contact: (314) 935-8724
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ksawyer@wustl.edu

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William Tate
 Chair and Professor of Education in Arts and Sciences

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Expertise: human resource development in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education, urban studies, race and American education

Direct contact: (314) 935-6730
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wtate@wustl.edu

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Karen Tokarz
 Professor of Law and Professor of African & African American Studies and

Karen Tokarz is a leader in both national and international clinical education, as well as an expert in civil rights mediation and the law of employment discrimination. She was instrumental in building the School of Law's top ranked clinical legal education program, which she has directed since 1980. ...

Expertise: alternative dispute resolution, civil rights mediation, clinical legal education, law of employment discrimination, elderlaw, legal education

Direct contact: (314) 935-6414
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tokarz@wulaw.wustl.edu

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James V. Wertsch
 Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts & Sciences

James V. Wertsch, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences.In addition, he holds joint appointments in Education, the Russian Studies Program, and the Program in Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Psychology, all in Arts & Sciences. Heis the director of the McDonnell International ...

Expertise: Russia and former Soviet Union, collective memory, identity, international studies, psychology, education

Direct contact: (314) 935-9015
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jwertsch@wustl.edu

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Bob Wiltenburg
 Dean of University College in Arts & Sciences


Expertise: adult education, continuing education, liberal arts, poets, Ben Jonson, English composition, John Milton, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-4806
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rewilten@artsci.wustl.edu

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