Emeritus faculty
Sandra Christenson Sandra Christenson
- Professor Emeritus
- chris002@umn.edu
Sandra Christenson is a professor emeritus in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota.
Ernest Davenport Ernest Davenport
- Professor Emeritus
- lqr6576@umn.edu
Professor Emeritus Ernest Davenport decided to pursue his doctorate to study both learning and measurement as a way to better understand individual differences on standardized test scores.
Mark Davison Mark Davison
- Professor Emeritus; American Guidance Service, Inc./John P. Yackel Professorship in Educational Assessment and Measurement
- mld@umn.edu
Mark Davison is a professor emeritus in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota.
Robert delMas Robert delMas
- Professor Emeritus; quantitative methods in education; CEHD Distinguished Teaching Award
- delma001@umn.edu
Dr. Robert (Bob) delMas retired in May 2022 after over 30 years of significant contributions to the field of statistics education; the University of Minnesota; and countless students of statistics (some he will never meet).
Stanley Deno Stanley Deno
- In memoriam
Deno began his career at the University of Delaware, researching the impact of instructional objectives on students' learning.
Joan Garfield Joan Garfield
- Professor Emeritus, CEHD Distinguished Teaching Award
- jbg@umn.edu
Joan Garfield has combined her teaching and research interests into one focus: exploring how to improve student learning of statistics.
Michael Harwell Michael Harwell
- Professor Emeritus, CEHD Distinguished Teaching Award
- harwe001@umn.edu
Dr. Harwell's research interests lie in developing meta-analytic effect sizes and tests, the role and impact of conceptual and empirical models for socioeconomic status, and researching nonparametric estimators and tests.
Thomas Hummel Thomas Hummel
- Professor Emeritus
- humme001@umn.edu
Thomas Hummel programs computers and investigates how the choice of a research method affects the conclusions drawn from data.
Susan Hupp Susan Hupp
- Professor Emeritus
- shupp@umn.edu
After serving for six years as an assistant professor in the special education department at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, Susan Hupp came to the University of Minnesota in 1985.
David Johnson David Johnson
- Professor Emeritus
- johns010@umn.edu
David Johnson is Co-Director of the Cooperative Learning Center. For the past 40 years, he has served as an organizational consultant to schools and businesses throughout the world. He is a practicing psychotherapist. Johnson held the Emma M.
Frances Lawrenz Frances Lawrenz
- Professor Emeritus
- lawrenz@umn.edu
Francis Lawrenz's major research focus is science and mathematics program evaluation. Lawrenz's evaluations utilize a variety of techniques to best fit the needs of a given situation and usually involve mixing methods in a variety of ways.
Geoffrey Maruyama Geoffrey Maruyama
- Professor Emeritus
- geoff@umn.edu
Maruyama was a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota.
Scott McConnell Scott McConnell
- Professor Emeritus
- smcconne@umn.edu
Through research, Scott McConnell and his colleagues have developed Individual Growth and Development Indicators, tools that allow teachers to efficiently monitor young children’s language and early literacy development.
Anthony Pellegrini Anthony Pellegrini
- Professor Emeritus
- pelle013@umn.edu
Anthony Pellegrini's research and teaching are generally concerned with children’s development and include specific interests in children’s play, children's sex segregation, social dominance, and aggression.
John Romano John Romano
- Professor Emeritus
- roman001@umn.edu
John Romano's research and writing has had a particularly strong focus on the science and practice of preventive interventions to reduce psychological distress and problems of living.
Susan Rose Susan Rose
- Professor Emeritus
- 612-624-6387
- srose@umn.edu
Sue Rose's research has focused on information access for students who are deaf or hard of hearing, with an emphasis on language development, reading, and modality of coding language input.
S. Jay Samuels S. Jay Samuels
- In memoriam
In 1953 S. Samuels graduated from Queens College in New York City with a degree in elementary education and taught for more than ten years in New York and California. During that time, he taught all grades except first grade.
Thomas Skovholt Thomas Skovholt
- Professor Emeritus
- 612-625-3573
- skovh001@umn.edu
Dr. Thomas Skovholt felt fortunate to have a career in counseling psychology, one of the broadest of the applied psychology specialties.
Robert Tennyson Robert Tennyson
- Professor Emeritus
- 612-626-1618
- rtenny@umn.edu
Robert Tennyson is a professor emeritus of educational psychology and technology in learning and cognition. Tennyson's published works range from basic theoretical articles on human learning to applied books on instructional design and technology.
Patricia Veach Patricia Veach
- Professor Emeritus
- veach001@umn.edu
Patricia Veach's research focuses on training and supervision of human service professionals, in particular mental health counselors and genetic counselors; process variables in helping relationships (e.g.
Kay Wahl Kay Wahl
- In memoriam
The emphasis of Kay Herting Wahl's professional career was on public education: as a teacher, school counselor, and associate professor. As a K-12 school counselor, she became interested in higher education training programs for school counselors.
James Ysseldyke James Ysseldyke
- Professor Emeritus
- jim@umn.edu
Jim Ysseldyke is Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology. Ysseldyke educated School Psychologists and researchers for more than 43 years. He advised and mentored more than 100 doctoral and Ed.S.
Steve Yussen Steve Yussen
- Professor Emeritus
- syussen@umn.edu
Steve Yussen's interests are broadly in cognitive development, instructional psychology—particularly reading, and the intersection of schooling and children’s development.
