Motoko Akiba, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis
Motoko Akiba is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education, Leadership and Policy Analysis. She conducts research on school safety, multicultural teacher education, and comparative and international education. Applying quantitative policy methods, her research program aims to produce policy-relevant knowledge useful for improving student learning and health.

Mary Bixby, The Learning Center
Mary Bixby is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Education in the department of Learning, Teaching and Curriculum and a Learning Resource Specialist at the MU Learning Center. She works with students to help them develop their learning strategies, and in 1989 she developed the campus First-Year Experience Course; which she instructs annually. Her research interests are adult literacy, how differently-abled (attention-disordered and learning disabled students) learn, and strategies for success, retention and graduation of underrepresented undergraduates.

Bill Bondeson, Philosophy
Bill Bondeson is Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy and Family and Community Medicine. He is also Consultant to the Vice Chancellor for Development and Alumni Affairs, Adjunct Clinical Professor of Nursing, and a member of the Center for Health Ethics. He teaches Introduction to Philosophy, Medical Ethics, and in the Honors College Humanities Sequence. He has published four books and numerous articles on health care, ancient philosophy, higher education and teaching.

Karen Cockrell, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis
Karen Cockrell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. She teaches courses on philosophic theories, professional ethics, and politics in education as well as a foundations of education course in the College of Education teacher preparation program. Her articles are published in the Journal of School Leadership, Teaching and Teacher Education, Journal of Teacher Education, Educational Administration Quarterly, and Journal of Higher Education. Cockrell is a member of the review panel for the Journal of American Indian Education.

Jonathan Hess, Communications
Jonathan Hess is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication. He instructs courses on personal and family relationships, communication ethics, and controversies in communication. Some of the topics addressed in his classroom include the ethics of teaching evolution vs. intelligent design in high school science classes, or providing health information vs. abstinence-based curriculum in sex education classes.

Elizabeth Hornbeck, Architectural Studies
Elizabeth Hornbeck is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Architectural Studies. She instructs courses including Architecture in Film, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture and Modern Architecture.

Victoria Johnson, Sociology
Victoria Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Davis with a designated emphasis in the Social Theory and Comparative History program. Her areas of specialization are social movements, historical and comparative methods, cultural sociology, political sociology and labor history.

Michael Porter, Communications
Michael J. Porter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Director of Special Degree Programs for the College of Arts and Science. He teaches an upper level course, Media Communication in Society, for majors in television criticism. His research interests focus on media literacy, analyzing the narrative structure of television programs, and gender representation in the media.

Jenice Prather-Kinsey, Accountancy
Jenice Prather-Kinsey is an Associate Professor in the School of Accountancy and an Administrative Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Vice Provost at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She teaches international accounting and cost accounting. She co-authors a textbook "Cost Accounting: Foundations and Evolutions", 6th edition with Thomson Southwestern Publishers.

Katherine Reed, Journalism
Katherine Reed is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism. She joined the journalism faculty after a five-year stint in Prague, Czech Republic, where she was the editor-in-chief of Prague Business Journal and an instructor at the Center for Independent Journalism. She taught news writing and reporting at Hollins University in Roanoke, Va., where she also worked as a copy editor and film/theater reviewer for the Roanoke Times. Reed received a master's degree in English and creative writing from Hollins University in Roanoke, Va., in 1991 and a bachelor's degree in journalism (news-editorial) from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1982.

Sharon Santus, Journalism
Sharon Santus is an Adjunct Instructor in the School of Journalism. She has worked as a reporter, projects editor and writing coach for newspapers in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Missouri and Germany. She has a bachelor's degree in sociology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and a master's degree in journalism with an international affairs concentration from Columbia University in New York. Her specialty is developing and producing in-depth reports and investigative journalism on social issues including the millions of Americans without health insurance, racial profiling, injustice inside America's courtrooms, and drug and alcohol addiction.

Deanna Sharpe, Personal Financial Planning
Deanna Sharpe is an Associate Professor and Certified Financial Planner Program Director in the Department of Personal Financial Planning. Her courses include Assessing the American Dream, a writing intensive course that evaluates the impact of values, choice, and social and economic trends on individual and family financial and economic well-being; Tax Planning and Employee Benefit and Retirement Planning in the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards registered curriculum, and family economics. Her research examines factors affecting family economic well-being. Recent work has analyzed wealth and income distribution, economic aspects of grandparents caring for their grandchildren and the financial impact on families of having a child with autism.

Daniel Wescott, Anthropology
Daniel Wescott is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, who received his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee in 2001. His research and teaching focus is in the area of human skeletal biology, with special interests in bioarchaeology, forensic anthropological methods, long bone biomechanics, and secular change. His research primarily concerns understanding human skeletal variation and how and why the skeleton changes through time within populations.

Elizabeth Wilson, Social Work
Elizabeth Wilson is a Clinical Instructor in the School of Social Work. She received her Bachelors and Masters of Social Work degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She teaches courses such as Introduction to Child Welfare; Community and Organization, Child Welfare Policy Programs. Her research interests include rights for victims of crime; grief work with violent crime victims; and vicarious trauma in crisis workers and advocates.