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Birmingham-Southern College Catalog 2014-2015
Leo Pezzementi
, 1985
Professor of Biology
B.A. (1975), LaSalle College; Ph.D. (1982), State University of New York
at Stony Brook. Interests: cellular and molecular neurobiology of
cholinergic systems.
G. Shane Pitts
, 1998
Jack G. Paden Professor of Psychology
B.S. (1992), Athens State College; M.A. (1995), Ph.D. (1997), University of
Alabama. Interests: cognitive and social psychology, research methods,
perception, statistics, critical thinking, and related courses.
Duane H. Pontius, Jr.
, 1999
T. Morris Hackney Professor of Physics
B.S. (1981), Birmingham-Southern College; Ph.D. (1988), Rice University.
Interests: physics education research, Jupiter’s magnetosphere, space
weather, ballet, sailing.
Janice Joy Poplau
, 1971
Associate Professor of Library Science
B.A. (1970), Gustavus Adolphus College; M.A. (1971), University of
Minnesota. Interests: interlibrary loan and information delivery,
cataloging, classification.
Benjamin C. Posey
, 2011
Instructor of Music
B.M. (2004), Samford University; M.A.E. (2007), University of Alabama at
Birmingham.
Guangjun Qu
, 2012
Assistant Professor of Economics
B.A. (2001), Chongqing Technology and Business University; M.A. (2005),
Chongqing University; Ph.D. (2010), Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale. Interests: international trade and finance, open economy
macroeconomics, economic growth and development, money and
banking, Asian economies.
Richard Rector
, 2009
Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A. (1995), University of Virginia; M.A. (2003), Ph.D. (2007), University
of Alabama at Birmingham.
David Resha
, 2010
Assistant Professor of Media and Film Studies
B.A. (2000), Vassar College; M.A. (2004), Ph.D. (2010), University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Interests: documentary film, television advertising,
film exhibition.
