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Amin Alizadeh, PhD
Assistant Professor
Discipline: Human Capital Development
Area of Expertise: Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Well Being
Heather Annulis, PhD
Professor Emerita
Discipline: Human Capital Development
Area of Expertise: Change Leadership, Organizational Change Readiness, Coaching and Mentoring, Return
on Investment of Performance Improvement Programs
Bhagyashree Barhate, PhD
Assistant Professor
Discipline: Human Capital Development
Area of Expertise: Career Development, Leadership Development, Women, and Gen Z
Jonathan Beedle, PhD
Associate Professor
Discipline: Human Capital Development
Area of Expertise: Instructional Technology and Design
Greg Bradley, PhD
Teaching Professor
Discipline: Management
Area of Expertise: Research Methods and Design, Advanced Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence Integration,
Operations Management, and Strategy
Jacob Breland, PhD, SPHR
Director 銆ssociate Professor
Discipline: Management
Area of Expertise: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Talent Management, Workplace Civility, Bullying,
Sexual Harassment, Performance, Turnover
Quincy Brown, EdD
Associate Professor銆� Graduate Programs Coordinator
Discipline: Human Capital Development
Area of Expertise: Human Resource Development Research, Instructional Technology
Mary Funk, PhD, PMP
Associate Teaching Professor
Discipline: Human Capital Development
Area of Expertise: Workforce Development, Human Capital Development, Military Students, Student Success
Cyndi Gaudet, PhD
Professor Emerita
Discipline: Human Capital Development
Area of Expertise: Competency Model Development, Return on Investment of Performance Improvement, Leadership
Development
Abu Haddud, PhD
Associate Professor銆� IET/LTT Program Coordinator
Discipline: Industrial Engineering Technology
Area of Expertise: Industrial Engineering Technology, Logistics, Trade, and Transportation
John Lambert, DBA
Associate Professor
Discipline: Management
Area of Expertise:
Management, International Business, Export Planning and Compliance, Ethnocentrism
and Behaviorism, Military and Veterans
Dale Lunsford, PhD
Associate Professor
Discipline: Human Capital Development
Area of Expertise:
Quantitative Methods, Analytics, Information Systems, Ethics, Disabilities
Casey Maugh-Funderburk, PhD
Associate Professor
Discipline: Human Capital Development
Area of Expertise: Workplace/Organizational Communication, Persuasion, Leadership, Gender, Coaching,
and Mentoring
Joyce Powell, EdD
Assistant Director
Carsten Schmidtke, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor銆PT Program Coordinator
Discipline: Human Capital Development
Area of Expertise: Post-Secondary Workforce Education, Teaching and Learning in the Community College,
International Human Resource Development and Career Technical Education, and Career
Technical Education Theory
Joely Sellers, MEd
Graduate Programs Success Coordinator
Brandt Sleeper
Director, Visualization and Digital Multimedia Outreach
Dena Temple
Administrative Specialist
Shuyan Wang, PhD
Professor
Discipline: Human Capital Development
Area of Expertise: Technology in Curriculum Development, Educator and Employee Training, Online Course
Design, Effective Technology in Teaching, Learning Outcome Assessments, Program Evaluation
Yuanyuan Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Discipline: Industrial Engineering Technology
Area of Expertise: Industrial Engineering Technology, Logistics, Trade, and Transportation
Zikai Zhou, PhD
Assistant Professor
Discipline: Industrial Engineering Technology
Area of Expertise: Industrial Engineering Technology, Logistics, Trade, and Transportation