Global Health - Faculty

At Manchester since: 2004
Education: Goshen College, 1992 (B.A); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999 (Ph.D.); University of Minnesota (postdoctoral)
Graduate Research Area: Structure and function of integral membrane proteins. Biodegradation of pollutants.
Courses Taught: Biochemistry, General Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Medical Practicum to Guatemala (January Session)
Current Research Interests: Enzymes that degrade environmental pollutants.

At Manchester since: 2017
Education: Saint Mary’s College, 2012 (B.S. Biology); Indiana University School of Medicine, 2017 (Ph.D. Cellular and Integrative Physiology)
Graduate research area: Mesenchyme Homeobox 2 regulation of fetal endothelial progenitor cell function.
Courses taught: Human Biology: Stages of Life, Fundamentals of Human Physiology, Introduction to Molecular Biology.
Current research interests: Chronic morbidities resulting from exposure to a diabetic intrauterine environment, teratogenesis of oral diabetic medications, maternal-fetal translational research.
Memberships & Affiliations: American Physiological Society, Indiana Physiological Society, Women and Hi Tech, Kappa Gamma Pi National Catholic College Graduate Honor Society, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, Beta Beta Beta National Biological Honor Society.

At Manchester since: 2007
Education: Manchester University, 1991 (B.A.); University of Notre Dame Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, 1992 (M.A.); University of Minnesota, 2000 (Ph.D.)
Graduate Research Area: Native American Philosophy and Communitarian Political Theory
Courses Taught: Ethical Decision Making, Philosophy of Civilization, Concerning Poverty, and Analysis of War and Peace
Current Research Interests: Gladdys Muir, the Church of the Brethren, and the historical development of peace studies.

At Manchester since: 2017
Education: University of California, San Diego, 2007 (B.A. Mathematics and Economics); University of California, Santa Barbara, 2017 (Ph.D. Environmental Economics)
Graduate Research Area: International environmental agreements and climate change, avoided deforestation, environmental domestic terrorism
Courses Taught: Principles and Intermediate Micro/Macro Economics, Health Economics, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Current Research Interests: Sustainable living communities, recycling market mechanisms, economic and environmental impacts of gas price cycling