Faculty listed by Alphabet
Research Areas : Physical Cultural Studies
Research Focus : Social Injustices and Inequalities, Sociology of Sport, Health, and Physical Activity
Research Summary : Sports and late capitalism; Cultural Studies; Contemporary cultural theory; Globalization and sport; For more information please see Physical Cultural Studies Website or Dr Andrews' research webpage.
Research Areas : Physical Cultural Studies
Research Focus : Qualitative Research Design and Methods, Social Injustices and Inequalities, Sport and Cultural Studies
Research Summary : Adam is a member of the PCS Research Group in the department of Kinesiology. His research advances the critical and theoretical study of physical culture by interrogating the cultural and political economies of sport and the active body. He is currently working toward completing his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Otago in New Zealand entitled "Sons of Samoa - Football, Postcolonial Subjectivity, and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberal Athletic Labor Markets." His project is an ethnographic exploration of interconnections between football, Samoan identity, and historical and contextual power relations.
Brown, Elizabeth
Instructor, Kinesiology
Research Areas : Exercise Physiology
Research Focus : Molecular Aspects of Exercise
Research Summary : Dr. Eva Chin is an Assistant Professor in Kinesiology. She received her PhD in Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo in Canada and then completed postdoctoral fellowships in Physiology at the University of Sydney in Australia and in Molecular Cardiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Prior to coming to the University of Maryland Dr. Chin worked for Pfizer Global Research & Development as a Principle Scientist in the Frailty and Diabetes therapeutic areas. She then became an Associate Director working with teams on early stage clinical trials for novel Obesity and Osteoporosis drugs. Dr. Chin's research emphasis is on calcium signaling in skeletal muscle and the role that calcium plays in both maintaining muscle force output and regulating muscle gene expression. By understanding how calcium signals in skeletal muscle, this research may help in optimizing exercise and drug prescriptions for treating age-related muscle wasting, muscle atrophy due to neuromuscular disease and insulin resistance in diabetics. To date, she has 35 publications, most in top-tier journals, and a number of them very highly cited (one more than 600 times already).
Clark, Jane
Professor and Dean, Kinesiology / Office of the Dean
Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience
Research Focus : Developmental Motor Control, Motor Development, Movement Disorders
Research Summary : Jane E. Clark was appointed dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Health on July 1, 2012. She is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and previously served as chair of that department for ten years. Her work focuses on understanding the development of movement control and coordination in motor skills. Using a dynamic systems approach, Dr. Clark and her colleagues have demonstrated that the newly walking infants limbs, like those of the adult walker, act like coupled nonlinear limit cycle oscillators at both the intralimb and interlimb levels of coordination. Her current research examines the role of sensory information in the development of upright posture and locomotion in infants.
Research Areas : Exercise Physiology
Research Summary : Sam is a recent MA program graduate who is a part of the Exercise Physiology (KNES 360) laboratory instruction team.
Research Areas : Physical Cultural Studies
Research Focus : Sociology of Sport, Health, and Physical Activity
Research Summary : Dr. Friedman's research focuses the relationship between sport and governance in the postindustrial city with a perspective informed by cultural studies and cultural geography. By examining sports facilities such as stadiums and arenas, he is concerned with the ways in which space expresses and (re)produces power relationships, social identities, and societal structures. His research has been recognized by the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport and has been published in the Sociology of Sport Journal, Journal of Urban Affairs, Journal of Sport History, and Economic Development Quarterly. For more information, please visit the Physical Cultural Studies website.
(301) 405-2490
2144 E SPH Bldg.
Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience
Research Focus : Computational Motor Neuroscience, Motor Control, Motor Learning, Neural Modeling
Research Summary : Dr. Gentili's research focuses on the investigation of functional non-invasive brain biomarkers, which assess the level of cognitive-motor performance and learning when humans interact with new dynamics or kinematics tools. Another aspect of his research is to develop bio-inspired control systems able to learn to manipulate anthropomorphic robot limbs (arm/finger), while at the same time incorporating the main biomechanical features of human movement. These two research fields contribute to the development of next generation smart prosthetics.
Ginsberg, Andrew
Instructor, Kinesiology
Introduction : Drew Ginsberg has his Bachelors in Applied Exercise Science from Springfield College and his Master's in Physical Education from Manhattanville College. For four years he was an assistant men's lacrosse coach at Manhattanville College in Purchase New York. He has also taught middle and high school health and physical education, and has coached high school soccer in New York State.
Research Areas : Exercise Physiology
Research Focus : Aging, Cardiovascular Exercise Physiology, Exercise Intervention, Exercise and Genomics
Research Summary : Jim Hagberg, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr Hagberg is also the Co-Chair of the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board (IRB). He is also a Professor of Geriatrics/Gerontology in the Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine and Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center. His major academic emphasis is research and teaching and he is and has been funded by NIH, the VA, the American Heart Association, and the US Olympic Committee. His graduate students, both Masters and Doctoral, are intimately involved in his research grant projects. His current research addresses the effect of acute and chronic exercise on circulating angiogenic cells, a type of adult stem cell that has recently been recognized as a novel cardiovascular disease risk factor. His work involves functional, gene expression, and molecular studies under cell culture and ex vivo conditions using a number of pharmacologic inhibitors and activators in these cells isolated from a wide range of active and inactive individuals. Dr. Hagberg is also deeply committed to undergraduate teaching as evidenced by his KNES 260 course entitled "Science of Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health" that he teaches as part of the campus-wide liberal arts CORE program. Dr Hagberg was one of six campus-wide UMCP Distinguished Scholar-Teachers for 2002-2003. In 2002 Dr Hagberg also received the University System of Maryland Regent's Award for Research. He also was awarded the American College of Sports Medicine Citation Award in 2004.
Hatfield, Bradley
Professor & Chair, Kinesiology
Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience
Research Focus : Aging, Exercise Psychophysiology, Exercise and Genomics, Sport Psychology
Research Summary : Dr. Hatfield and his research team investigate exercise and sport psychology issues from a cognitive neuroscience or biological psychology perspective. Their research focuses on 1) health-related issues such as the effect of exercise on the aging brain and the protective effects of physical activity on brain processes that underlie memory and executive function. An important question is whether the neurobiological benefits of exercise are more prominent in those individuals who are genetically at risk for dementia and Alzheimer's disease. The research team also addresses 2) issues related to human performance in order to understand critical brain processes underlying superior cognitive-motor performance, how emotion alters the brain and the quality of performance, and the management of stress in high-performance individuals such as competitive athletes and specialized military personnel.
Hurley, Ben
Professor, Kinesiology
Research Areas : Exercise Physiology
Research Focus : Aging, Exercise Intervention, Integrative Exercise Biology, Physical Activity Intervention
Research Summary : My research interests consist of the effects of aging, diet and exercise training on risk factors for age-related diseases and disability.
Hwang, Sung Jae
Post Doc, Kinesiology
Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience
Research Focus : Biomechanics, Motor Control, Movement Disorders
Introduction : My research focuses on multisensory integration and characterizing dynamic human postural control by multiple input stimuli. This research can provide the most effective methods to discern the integration of sensory information by the central nervous system.
Cognitive Motor Neuroscience Lab (COGMO Lab)
Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program (NACS)
Research Focus : Sport Psychology
Research Summary : Dr. Iso-Ahola's research interests and activities are two-fold: (1) Social psychological factors in athletic performance (e.g. mental training), and (2) social psychology of exercise and health (e.g. motivation for exercise). He has published four books and over 70 research articles in refereed journals and chapters in edited books. He has received 3 prestigious research awards and has been invited to serve as distinguished visiting professor in Australia, Canada, Finland, Holland, and New Zealand.
Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience
Research Focus : Computational Motor Neuroscience, Motor Control, Movement Disorders, Sensorimotor Integration
Research Summary : In my laboratory, we study how the brain combines sensory information about the environment and one's own body movement to better understand patient populations with neurological disease and injury that lead to balance problems.
Jette, Shannon
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
Research Areas : Physical Cultural Studies
Research Focus : History of Sport and Physical Activity, Qualitative Research Design and Methods, Social Injustices and Inequalities, Sociology of Sport, Health, and Physical Activity
Research Summary : Dr. Jette's research interests include the sociology of health, gender and physical activity; feminist poststructuralist theory; and historical aspects of medicine and the body. She is currently utilizing feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis to explore how pregnant women of differing socio-cultural backgrounds discursively construct and experience health, physical activity and pregnancy weight gain. Overall, Dr. Jettes research agenda is linked by a consistent focus on the multiple ways that active bodies are articulated into the operation of social power, with the aim of illuminating power inequalities and giving voice to subjugated knowledge(s). For more information see the Physical Cultural Studies website (http://www.umdpcs.org/).
Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience
Research Focus : Computational Motor Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Motor Control, Sensorimotor Integration
Introduction : My research focuses on the neural control of movement. The behaviors I study include walking and the postural control of standing in humans and swimming in lampreys. My emphasis is on system-level models that illuminate key aspects of neural control and the use of empirical data to develop and test such models.
Kwon, Hyun Joon
Post Doc, Kinesiology
Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience
Research Focus : Biomechanics
Research Focus : Cardiovascular Exercise Physiology, Exercise Intervention, Physical Activity Epidemiology, Physical Activity Intervention
Research Summary : For the past 20 years, Dr. Lindle has been involved in the health and fitness field as an educator, researcher, and consultant. Currently, she is the health and wellness consultant to various government, corporate and non-profit agencies including the United States Secret Service (USSS), NAVY, United States Air Force (USAF), District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services (DCFEMS) , Montgomery County Fire and Rescue (MCFR), National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC), Center for Disease Control (CDC), YMCA of the USA, and SportFIT Training Center. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the Kinesiology Department, at the University of Maryland, School of Public Health, where she teaches a variety of exercise physiology courses. Her research focus has been in the areas of muscle physiology, biomechanics, and genetics. Her current reserach interests are in the area of occupational fitness of firefighters, law enforcement officers and the military.
American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM, National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), American Council on Exercise (ACE), International Association of Fitness Professionals (IDEA)
Research Focus : Sport Consumer Psychology
Research Summary : Dr. McDaniel holds an affiliate appointment with the Department of Communication. His teaching and research are focused on marketing and media phenomena, in the area of sport management. He has presented his work to a number of academic groups including: The American Marketing Association, The Association for Consumer Research, The American Academy of Advertising, The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the North American Society for Sociology of Sport and the North American Society for Sport Management.
Miller, Ross
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience
Research Focus : Motor Control, Motor Development, Movement Disorders
Research Summary : Dr. Oliveira's research seeks to characterize the developmental process of finger force control that aims to understand changes in the neuromechanical variables as motor control develops.
Introduction : Dr. Palla-Kane is the Director of Undergraduate Programs in the Department of Kinesiology. Research: Dr. Palla-Kane is interested in studying the impact of diversity in the delivery of quality physical education, and she has studied physical education teachers' perceptions and attitudes toward teaching students with disabilities and with culturally-diverse backgrounds. Dr. Palla-Kane's dissertation "Adapted Physical Education Specialists perceptions of diversity issues in the delivery of Adapted Physical Education Services in California Urban Schools" was the first in the field of Adapted Physical Education to explore attitudes and experiences teachers toward students with diverse backgrounds.
Phillips, Jennie
Lecturer/Advisor, Kinesiology
Research Areas : Exercise Physiology
Research Areas : Exercise Physiology
Research Focus : Exercise Intervention
Research Summary : Trained as an exercise physiologist, Dr. Rogers' research interests are the effects of aging on skeletal muscle structure, function and metabolism. Dr. Rogers is currently the Human Subjects' Liaison for the Department of Kinesiology with the Institutional Review Board at the University. He can be contacted with questions about the process of human subjects review of research projects in the department.
Romeo, Andrea
Instructor, Kinesiology
Introduction : Andrea Romeo is an alumna of the Kinesiology program at the University of Maryland, College Park. She loves sports, especiall the Terps. She is in her 5th year as the assistant field hockey coach at Broadneck High School. Andrea is also an advisor in the department.
Roth, Stephen M.
Associate Professor, Associate Chair & Graduate Director, Kinesiology
Research Areas : Exercise Physiology
Research Focus : Aging, Exercise and Genomics, Molecular Aspects of Exercise
Research Summary : Dr. Roth's areas of interest include understanding the role of genetic variation (and environmental interaction) in determining inter-individual differences in exercise responses, skeletal muscle traits, and other health-related phenotypes; as well as understanding the role of exercise/physical activity in modifying DNA structure (e.g., telomere length, DNA methylation). He directs the Functional Genomics Laboratory.
Functional Genomics Laboratory
Affiliate Faculty, NACS Program
Introduction : Dr. Scott has been on the faculty in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, College Park for the past sixteen years. He serves as an instructor and as the Coordinator of the Kinesiological Science program in the Department of Kinesiology. Dr. Scott has presented at local, state, regional and national AAHPERD conventions. In addition he has presented at the Black Faculty and Staff Association Conference at the University of Maryland and at the American Association of University Women annual conference.
Shim, Jae Kun
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience
Research Focus : Biomechanics
Research Summary : Our research is currently focused on biomechanics and motor control of (1) hand and digits and (2) persons with lower extremity amputations as well as their applications to medicine, rehabilitation, and ergonomics. We are especially interested in understanding the CNS control mechanism for motor redundancy, developments of motor functions in typically developing children as well as children with developmental coordination disorder, developmental changes and intervention & adaptation of motor functions in elderly persons and the persons with neurological/genetic disorders or stroke, and physiological and biomechanical risk and interventions of persons with lower extremity amputations. We use techniques of biomechanics, motor control, neurophysiology, and exercise physiology: kinematic analysis using motion capture systems, kinetic/dynamic analysis, neuromuscular training, TMS, EMG, MEG, MRI, optic fiber Bragg grading (FBG) force sensors, 6-D kinetic pen, cardiovascular exercise, neuromuscular training, epidemiology, etc.
Neuromechanics Laboratory (NML)
Fischell Department of BIoengineering Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science (UM Medical School)
Smith, J Carson
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience
Research Focus : Aging, Exercise Intervention, Exercise Psychophysiology, Physical Activity Intervention
Research Summary : Dr. Smith is focused on understanding how exercise and physical activity affect human brain function and mental health. Dr. Smith's investigations use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) to examine brain function in people at risk for Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Smith, his team of investigators, and collaborators are interested in the potential efficacy for exercise to affect brain function and memory in healthy older adults at genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease, as well as in patients diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). The ultimate goal is to provide evidence for exercise to delay conversion to Alzheimer's disease and protect against age-related cognitive decline. In addition, Dr. Smith examines how acute and chronic exercise or physical activity may alter emotional reactivity, attention allocation, and cognitive function among patients with anxiety and/or depressive mood disorders. Visit http://www.exerciseforbrainhealth.com/ for more info.
Exercise for Brain Health Laboratory
Maryland Neuroimaging Center; Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program; Women's Health Initiative Study
Spangenburg, Espen
Associate Professor, Kinesiology
Research Areas : Exercise Physiology
Research Focus : Integrative Exercise Biology, Molecular Aspects of Exercise
Research Summary : The primary goal of Dr. Spangenburg's NIH-funded laboratory is to understand the influence of sex steroids on molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate skeletal muscle, hepatic, and adipose tissue function. In particular, the laboratory emphasis is focused on defining cellular signaling mechanisms that are altered by sex steroids that influence metabolic function.
Molecular Systems Lab
Interdisciplinary Training Program in Muscle Biology. School of Medicine; Graduate Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology; UMB Nutrition and Obesity Research Center; Baltimore Diabetes Research Training Center Molecular and Cell Biology Graduate Group, College Park, MD
Research Areas : Physical Cultural Studies
Research Focus : Sport and Cultural Studies
Research Summary : Dr. Damion is a member of the Physical Cultural Studies Research Group in the Department of Kinesiology. For more information see the Physical Cultural Studies website.
Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience
Research Focus : Motor Development
Research Summary : Dennis Vacante, NBCT/CAPE is a National Board Certified Teacher/Certified in Adapted Physical Education. He is also a Regional Itinerant Liaison for Adapted Physical Education for Prince George's County Public School system. He has taught Adapted Physical Education for 37 years. He worked 28 years teaching elementary students who have orthopedic impairments. He presently works with high school students who have intellectual disabilities and with elementary students who have autism spectrum disorders. Besides teaching the Adapted Physical Education course (Knes-333) Dennis is the coordinator of the Children's Developmental Clinic which services 75-85 children with various disabilities in the areas of motor development, language, social skills, and reading. Students interested in volunteering for the clinic which runs each Saturday morning in the School of Public Health Building can find more information on our website: http://www.sph.umd.edu/KNES/cdc/ The Children's Developmental Clinic will begin spring training in the matted gym (ground floor of School of Public Health Bldg.) at 8:30 am on Saturday, February 2, 2013 (casual dress for participation in lively fun activities). Clinic will run every Saturday morning through April 20th with no Clinic on March 23rd (UMD Spring Break). Clinician volunteers will gain experiential knowledge, learning how to work with children with disabilities. Students can also receive college credit for this service/study experience. Every clinician receives a free tee shirt and a certificate verifying volunteer service hours. Most of all, each volunteer will experience the satisfaction of helping a child who has special needs.
Research Areas : Cognitive Motor Neuroscience
Research Focus : Aging, Exercise Psychophysiology, Exercise and Genomics, Sport Psychology
Research Summary : Jo Zimmerman is an instructor in the Department of Kinesiology. She earned her undergraduate and master's degrees from George Mason University, and has held the ACSM Health Fitness Specialist certification since 1996. Jo has been working in the health and fitness industry for nearly 20 years and teaching for over 14 years. UMD courses vary by semester, but may include KNES 157N/O, KNES 161N, KNES 200, KNES 350, KNES 332, and KNES 497.
