Contributors to June AE-Extra
[Issue 6-7/2007]

Lynne Fukuda, an instructor of Anthropology at Windward Community College, a part-timeinstructor of Biology at Hawaii Pacific University, and an instructor at Central Texas College, based in Hawaii at Schofield Barracks.  Ms Fukuda is a regular contributor to this journal in her monthly column, “The View from Here.”  Her previous column, "Fukuda's Chalkboard," can be found in the January-August 2002 editions of this journal, as well as various other writings in the 2001 editions.

Susan Jones, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU), College of Education.  She was Co-Principal Investigator of a Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) grant.  She has worked with a major multimedia software development company.  Her primary research interest is effective technology integration in the teaching and learning process.  Currently, Dr. Jones is writing her first technology text.

Dan Lukiv, M.Ed., teaches English and creative writing at McNaughton Centre, Quesnel, BC, Canada. He is a poet, novelist, short story and article writer, and an independent education researcher. His writing has appeared over two thousand times in 18 countries. His formal apprenticeship as a writer includes intensive personal direction from masters such as Canada's Professor Robert Harlow, the USA's Paul Bagdon, and England's D. M. Thomas. He edits a literary journal, CHALLENGER international, which focuses attention on young, up-and-coming Canadian poets. He also edits The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education. He is married and has four daughters.

Wendy Dickinson, PhD, is the Coordinator of Mathematics at the Ringling School of Art and Design. Dr. Dickinson teaches statistical graphing, visual mathematics, and geometry. Her research interests include statistical methodology, program evaluation, student assessment, and statistical software applications for data analysis and graphical display.

Elizabeth Haller, is a PhD candidate in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and a PhD Teaching Fellow at Kent State University.  Ms. Haller recently received the Kenneth R. Pringle Research Fellowship.  She also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Academic Exchange Extra.  Her full biography is located on the Editorial Staff page of this issue.

Anthony Onwuegbuzie, PhD, is professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling at Sam Houston State University. He teaches courses in qualitative research, quantitative research, and mixed methods. His research topics primarily involve disadvantaged and under-served populations such as minorities, children living in war zones, students with special needs, and juvenile delinquents.  He also writes extensively on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodological topics. Dr. Onwuegbuzie has secured more than 200 refereed journal articles and book chapters.

J. Karen Reynolds, PhD, is currently working as an assistant professor of educational psychology at Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada. She is in her twenty-first year of recovery with bipolar disorder.

Noel Sloboda is an instructor of English at Penn State York.  He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis.  His work on film versions of Hamlet was published in Studies in the Humanities.  Sloboda has contributed to Literary Contexts, the Encyclopedia of American Literature, and the Student’s Companion to American Literary Characters.  His poetry has been featured, or is forthcoming, in FRiGG, Waterways, Ghoti, and Tipton Poetry Journal.  Recently, Sloboda served as dramaturge for the Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival’s King Lear. 

S. Purcell Woodard, PhD, is the director of the Early Identification Program for Graduate and Professional Studies and the associate director of the Ronald E. McNair Program at the University of Washington.  Both programs serve undergraduates who are low income, underrepresented, and/or first-generation college; both programs prepare these students to pursue and excel in post-baccalaureate education.  Steve’s poetry has appeared earlier in this and other journals, including Multicultural Education, Taboo, and the Journal of Critical Inquiry into Curriculum and Instruction, as well as in the book, Becoming multicultural educators:  Personal journey toward professional agency.