Faculty Development Advisory Council
Council Members:
Eileen Elrod, English Department
Eileen Razzari Elrod, Associate Professor of English, came to SCU in 1992 after completing a Ph.D. in English at UC Davis, following an undergraduate degree in English and Religious Studies at Chico State. Professor Elrod teaches courses in American literature, Women s Studies, and Composition. She has authored scholarly articles and book chapters on religion, race and gender in U.S. literature before 1900, and on U.S. autobiography. Her book, Piety and Dissent: Race, Gender and Biblical Rhetoric in Early American Autobiography is forthcoming in 2007 with University of Massachusetts Press. She is an active associate with the Center for Multicultural Learning.
Brad Joondeph, Law School
Brad Joondeph is Associate Professor of Law at Santa Clara University and the School of Law's Associate Dean for Faculty Development. He currently serves on the University Research Committee. He received his J.D. from Stanford Law School and his A.B. from Stanford University. From 1999 to 2000, he clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the Supreme Court of the United States. He teaches about constutional law, the Supreme Court, and federal taxation. His publications focus on American constitutional development and judicial behavior.
Dale Larson, Counseling Psychology Department
Dale Larson is Professor and former chair of the Department of Counseling Psychology. He did his undergraduate work in psychology at the University of Chicago and received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from U.C. Berkeley. His interest areas bridge counseling and health psychology, including counseling skills theory and training, stress management, self-concealment, and end-of-life care. He has published extensively in these areas. Professor Larson has been a Summer Scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and has lectured and conducted research in Europe as a Fulbright Scholar. In 2001, he was Senior Editor and a contributing author for Finding Our Way: Living With Dying in America, a 15-article national newspaper series funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that appeared in 170 newspapers, reaching 7 million Americans.
Nam Ling, Computer Engineering Department
Nam Ling is Professor of Computer Engineering and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development for the School of Engineering. He earned his doctorate from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1989. He has more than 130 publications in the fields of video coding and systolic arrays, and is the primary author of the book, Specification and Verification of Systolic Arrays. He was named Distinguished Lecturer twice and received a Best Paper Award (First Place Winner) for his work by the IEEE, the world’s largest engineering professional society. Two of his and his team’s proposals on video coding were adopted into the international standard. At Santa Clara, he has received several faculty recognition awards from the University and the School of Engineering.
Meir Statman, Finance Department
Meir Statman is the Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and his B.A. and M.B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on behavioral finance, which attempts to understand how investors and managers make financial decisions and how these decisions are reflected in financial markets. His many articles have been published in such top journals as The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Financial Economics, The Review of Financial Studies, and The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Meir serves on several journal editorial boards and advisory boards, and has received numerous awards for his research and teaching.
Tim Urdan, Psychology Department
Tim Urdan is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Liberal Studies. He came to Santa Clara in 1996 after completing his Ph.D. in Education and Psychology from the University of Michigan. His research interests include student motivation, cultural influences and variation in motivation and achievement, and educational reform. He is the author of dozens of articles and chapters on motivation, educational reform, and standardized testing and currently co-edits (with Frank Pajares) a book series called "Adolescence and Education."
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