College of Social and Natural Sciences

Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice

She has been an instructor in the sociology department at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale for the past three years, where she is finishing her doctorate. She holds an MA in sociology from Western Illinois University and an undergraduate degree in sociology and anthropology from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Her areas of interest include criminology, deviance, culture, gender theory and social movements.

Assistant Professor, Economics

A research assistant for the past three years in the University's of Manitoba's applied economics department, where she's pursuing her doctorate specializing in health economics, statistics and microeconomics. She holds a master's degree in economics and an undergraduate degree in mathematics from South Dakota State University. Her dissertation research (on the use of business tax incentives as an economic development policy) was recognized this summer at the American Agricultural Economics Association annual meeting, placing first in the graduate student extension competition.

Assistant Professor, American Multicultural Studies

She is a scholar and educator of Korean Adoption, Asian American Studies, American race relations, and American Studies. Her Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Minnesota American Studies Department is titled "Korean Looks, American Eyes: Korean American Adoptees, Race, Culture and Nation." For this research, she traveled throughout the United States and to South Korea to interview adult Korean adoptees. She also developed and taught the first college course on Korean adoption in the United State. Park Nelson also organizes and participates in public engagement work and community-based education focusing on transnational and transracial adoption in the United States.

Assistant Professor, Biosciences

A post-doctoral research fellow in the biological science department at NDSU for the past four years, he holds a doctorate in biochemistry from John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK, and a master's in plant pathology and undergraduate degree in biology from Hull University in the UK. He's also worked as a post-doctoral research assistant at Glasgow University in Scotland and as a research technician at the University of London's Wye College.

Assistant Professor, Mathematics

A research assistant in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics department last year at the University of South Florida, Tampa, where he earned his doctorate in statistics and served as a teaching assistant for five years. A former mathematics teacher at St. George's College in Kingston, Jamaica, he earned both his master's and undergraduate degrees in mathematics from the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. His research interests include microarray data analysis, mixture distributions, biostatistics and extreme value theory.