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Haiyun Ma
Assistant Professor
History
History
hma4@uncc.edu

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Joseph Marinello
Lecturer
Criminal Justice
Colvard 5068
jcmarin1@uncc.edu

Research Interests: Mentally Disordered Offenders. Domestic Violence Rehabilitation. Behavioral Modification for Substance Abusers. Mental Health Courts as an alternative to incarceration.
Website: www.menstoppingviolence.com
Community Involvement: United Family Services - Men 4 Change Program. Coaching Boys Into Men. 26th Judicial District Mental Health Court. Mecklenburg County NOVA Batterer's Intervention Program. UNCC Take Back The Night

Noah Mark
Assistant Professor
Sociology
490G Fretwell
nmark@uncc.edu

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Jonathan Marks
Professor
Anthropology
214 Barnard
jmarks@uncc.edu

Research Interests: Primate / Human evolution, race, molecular genetics and evolution, history of studies of human evolution and variation, anthropology of science, critical studies in human genetics.
Website: http://personal.uncc.edu/jmarks/
Community Involvement: ?Charlotte Now? with Mike Collins, 7 Jan 2007 CBC Radio, Currents, 10 Sept 2007. LiveScience, 7 Dec 2007. Vermont Public Radio, 22 Jan

Ian Marriott
Associate Professor
Biology
386A Woodward Hall
imarriot@uncc.edu

Research Interests: The initiation of immune responses.
Website: http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/Faculty/Marriott/index.htm
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Biemann Martin
Visiting Research Engineer/OptoeleCenteronics
Optoelectronics Center

brmartin@uncc.edu

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Walter Martin
Associate Professor
Geography and Earth Sciences
433 McEniry
wemartin@uncc.edu

Research Interests: Applied Climatology, Air Quality, Air Quality Modeling
Website: http://www.geoearth.uncc.edu/people/wmartin/index.html
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Susan Masse
Academic Advisor
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
324C Fretwell
semasse@uncc.edu

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Richard McAnulty
Associate Professor
Psychology
4047 Colvard
rdmcanul@uncc.edu

Research Interests: Sexual behavior, sexual disorders, sexual abuse, antisocial behavior, pedophilia, sexual deviance.
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Community Involvement: Consultant: Summit House, Sentencing Services. Advisory board member, State Employees Credit Union (Southpark branch).

Sean McCloud
Assistant Professor
Religious Studies
215 Macy
spmcclou@uncc.edu

Research Interests: American religions, theories and methods for the study of religions, combinative and new religious movements, social theory, religion and class, religion and media, religion in the contemporary U.S., religion and politics, religion and popular culture
Website: http://www.religiousstudies.uncc.edu/spmcclou/
Community Involvement: has given community talks and media interviews,serves on community lecture series board

Heather McCullough
Director of Lang Resource Center
Language and Culture Studies
438 College Of Education
hamccull@uncc.edu

Research Interests: Instructional and information technology; use of instructional technology in foreign language and culture teaching; issues in humanities and technology
Website: http://lrc.uncc.edu
Community Involvement: I am collaborating with the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County to develop learning activities for their Teen Island in Second Life.

Mary McDermott-Castro
Lecturer
Language and Culture Studies
405 College Of Education
mfcastro@uncc.edu

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Website: http://languages.uncc.edu/spanish-full/78-mary-frances-castro-.html
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James McGavran
Professor
English
290L Fretwell
jhmcgavr@uncc.edu

Research Interests: 1. British Romantic Era, esp. intergenerational issues in late-18th.-early 19th.-c writers; 2. Creative Nonfiction/Nature Writing; 3. Children's Literature, esp. Romantic influences; 4. Gender Theory
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Mary McKenzie
Lecturer
Sociology
460A Fretwell
mfmckenz@uncc.edu

Research Interests: Crime and deviant behavior in society
Website: http://personal.uncc.edu/mfmckenz
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Shepherd McKinley
Lecturer
History
229 Garinger
swmckinl@uncc.edu

Research Interests: US History: South Carolina phosphate and fertilizer industries, southern industrialization, emancipation, Reconstruction, Redemption, southern conservatives 1865-1920, southern business and labor 1865-1920, convict labor, Jim Crow, industrial pollution, and advertising.
Website: http://history.uncc.edu/shepherd-mckinley.html
Community Involvement: Coordinator, AP US History Alliance, UNC Charlotte and CMS. Member, University Advisory Council, Charlotte Teachers Institute (Yale National Initiative), UNC Charlotte, Davidson College, and CMS. North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Advisory Committee. Coordinator, National History Day, Southwest Piedmont District. Leader, National Humanities workshops, US History Consortium (Cleveland County Schools, NC), Teaching American History Grant, US Department of Education.

Julie McLaughlin
Assistant Professor
Sociology
490H Fretwell
jkmclau2@uncc.edu

Research Interests: Aging and the lifecourse, sociology of mental health, medical sociology, and family transitions
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Ross Meentemeyer
Associate Professor
Geography and Earth Sciences

rkmeente@uncc.edu

Research Interests: GIScience & spatial analysis. Landscape ecology. Biological invasions & disease ecology. Land change modeling. Human-environment interactions. Environmental modeling with GIS.
Website: http://www.geoearth.uncc.edu/people/rmeentemeyer
Community Involvement: Development of decision support tools for understanding processes and impacts of urban growth in North Carolina.

T.Lawrence Mellichamp
Professor & Dir. UNCC Botanical Gardens
Biology
McMillan Greenhouse
tlmellic@uncc.edu

Research Interests: rare and endangered plant species; carnivorous plants; landscaping with native plants; environmental consulting
Website: http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/Faculty/Mellichamp/index.htm
Community Involvement: Home landscape consulting, give programs to botanical and horticultural groups in the region, and Environmental consulting

Kirk Melnikoff
Assistant Professor
English
290E Fretwell
kbmelnik@uncc.edu

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Qingmin Meng
Lecturer
Geography and Earth Sciences
Geography & Earth Science
qmeng1@uncc.edu

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Jon Merkert
Lecturer/Sr. Instr. Analyst
Chemistry
226 Burson
jmerkert@uncc.edu

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Katherine Metzo
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
476 Fretwell
kmetzo@uncc.edu

Research Interests: Russia, Mongolia, Ecological and Economic Anthropology, Buddhism, shamanism, Applied Anthropology
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Community Involvement: Habitat for Humanity Multifamily Task Force

Mary Michael
Visiting Assistant Professor
Psychology
Psychology
mmicha10@uncc.edu

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Susan Michael
Lecturer
Chemistry
140 Burson
smichael@uncc.edu

Research Interests: I am interested teaching organic chemistry laboratories to students with various educational needs.
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Community Involvement: I volunteer weekly at Catawba Springs Elementary School.

Roslyn Mickelson
Professor
Sociology
490N Fretwell
rmicklsn@uncc.edu

Research Interests: sociology of education; stratification and education; comparative and international education; political economy of school reform; the intersection of race, class, and gender with school processes and outcomes; education policy; diversity, educational equity, and the law; research methods; evaluation research.
Website: http://www.sociology.uncc.edu/rmicklsn
Community Involvement: CMS volunteer; Friendship Trays volunteer; work with North Carolina Center for Civil Rights on educational rights for all children; work with the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity; social science advisory board member Poverty & Race Research Action Council.

Tammy Mielke
Assistant Professor
English
English
tmielke@uncc.edu

Research Interests: Children's and Adolescent Literature, Graphic Novels, New Media, Film Studies, Video Games, Post Colonialism
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Community Involvement: Chair of Child Care Educational Board Steering Committee

Elizabeth Miller
Assistant Professor
English
Fretwell 250A
ermiller@uncc.edu

Research Interests: Critical Applied Linguistics; Second Language Learning; Discourse Analysis; Sociocultural Theories of Language Learning
Website: http://www.english.uncc.edu/ermiller/
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Martha Miller
Professor
Language and Culture Studies
424 College Of Education
mlmiller@uncc.edu

Research Interests: 19th and 20th century Spanish literature, especially poetry; literature and culture in post-Civil War Spain; song traditions in Spain and Spanish America
Website: http://languages.uncc.edu/spanish-full/100-martha-miller.html
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Gregory Mixon
Associate Professor
History
209 Garinger
gmixon@uncc.edu

Research Interests: African American History, Comparative History and the African Diaspora, African American, Southern, and United States Urban History, Racial Violence. Current Projects: Black Southern State Militias, 1865-1910 in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, an
Website: http://www.history.uncc.edu/mixon.htm
Community Involvement: Member: Friendship Baptist Church Board Member: Historic Latta Plantation Consultant: Historic Brattonsville

Stanislav Molchanov
Professor
Mathematics and Statistics
355G Fretwell
smolchan@uncc.edu

Research Interests: Spectral theory(expecially, spectral theory of random operators). Mathematical physics of disordered systems(intermittency,localization,homogenization. Applied probabilty (diffusion processes, Markov models)
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Samuel Monder
Assistant Professor
Language and Culture Studies
404 College Of Education
samonder@uncc.edu

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Website: http://languages.uncc.edu/spanish-full/101-samuel-monder.html
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Tyrel Moore
Professor
Geography and Earth Sciences
466 McEniry
tgmoore@uncc.edu

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Margaret Morgan
Associate Professor
English
260B Fretwell
mpmorgan@uncc.edu

Research Interests: Writing Program Assessment Technical Communication
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Community Involvement: COMMITTEES WAC Task Force, 2008 Faculty Committee on General Education, Chair, 2008-2010 STATE-WIDE COMMITTEES Faculty Assembly: 2002-2008; Secretary, 2003- 2006; Chair Faculty Development Committee, 2006-2008 BRIDGES Leadership

Chikako Mori
Lecturer
Language and Culture Studies
459 College Of Education
cmori@uncc.edu

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Website: http://languages.uncc.edu/japanese-full/102-chikako-mori.html
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Dan Morrill
Professor
History
122 Garinger
dlmorril@uncc.edu

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Anita Moss
Professor
English
255B Fretwell
awmoss@uncc.edu

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James Mottonen
Senior Research Associate
Physics and Optical Science
353 Grigg
jmottone@uncc.edu

Research Interests: Protein structure and function, structural bioinformatics, biochemistry.
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Patrick Moyer
Associate Professor
Physics and Optical Science
324 Griggs
pjmoyer@uncc.edu

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David Mozina
Lecturer
Religious Studies
Religious Studies
dmozina@uncc.edu

Research Interests: Chinese Religions, Daoism (Taoism), Buddhism, Popular Traditions in Contemporary South China, Japanese Religions
Website: http://www.religiousstudies.uncc.edu/dmozina/
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Mary Muesing
Lecturer
English
265D Fretwell
memuesin@uncc.edu

Research Interests: Technical Communication, Visual Argument, Layout Design, Rhetoric
Website: http://www.english.uncc.edu/muesing.html
Community Involvement: Assistant Director of Rhetoric and Writing, Member of ATTW, CPTSC

Pinku Mukherjee
Associate Professor/ Irwin Belk Dist. Scholar in Cancer Research
Biology
Biology
pmukherj@uncc.edu

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Jennifer Munroe
Assistant Professor
English
255C Fretwell
jamunroe@uncc.edu

Research Interests: Early modern English women writers, material culture, ecocriticism, sixteenth and seventeenth century English poetry, gender and science in the seventeenth century in England, gender and film
Website: http://www.english.uncc.edu/munroe.html
Community Involvement: UNCC Shakespeare in Action Center; Shakespeare At Risk (CMS)

Michael Murphy
Lecturer
Chemistry
139 Burson
mmurphy@uncc.edu

Research Interests: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Organocopper Reaction Mechanisms; Environmental Analytical Chemistry
Website: http://www.chemistry.uncc.edu/faculty/50-murphy-michael-d.html
Community Involvement: Catawbalands Conservancy Steward; Charlotte Area Bicycle Alliance