People of Project MORE

The People of Project MORE

Boyd Davis, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator

Boyd Davis is Cone Professor at UNCC, and coordinates Applied Linguistics. Principal investigator for Project More, Dr. Davis works with teachers to assess their classroom needs and helps them develop successful ways to instruct their ELL and at-risk students. As part of the ongoing work to develop a regional corpus of narrative and conversation, Dr. Davis also conducts research on Alzheimer's discourse.

John A. Gretes, Ph.D.
Design and Technology
Consultant

John Gretes is Professor in the
College of Education, Department of Educational Research and Technology, where he not only guides graduate students to certification and higher degrees, he guides the rest of UNCC's faculty in developing technology assessment. He developed Passport activities for NCTeach, co-directs FIPSE projects across the UNCC campus, and has extensive experience with international students http://cie.ed.asu.edu/volume2/number3/ http://education.uncc.edu/fipse/

Lisa Russell-Pinson, Ph.D.
Project Manager

Lisa Russell-Pinson serves as Project Manager of Project MORE. As project manager, Dr. Russell-Pinson oversees the collection of narratives for the project and the development of materials from those narratives. Her research interests include corpus linguistics, written medical discourse, pedagogical grammar and ESL/EFL teacher training.

Josianne L. Bigham, M.A.
Assistant Project Manager

Josianne Bigham serves as Assistant Project Manager of Project MORE. Her duties for the project include overseeing the day-to-day administration of the grant, editing project materials and training project staff. Ms. Bigham, who earned an M.A. in English-Children's Literature, has experience tutoring ESL and has traveled widely in Europe.

Kimberly A. Bailey, M.A.
Assistant Project Manager

Kim Bailey serves as Assistant Project Manager of Project MORE. Her duties for the project include overseeing the day-to-day administration of the grant, editing project materials and training project staff. Ms. Bailey, who earned an M.A. in English-technical writing, has extensive experience in conducting interviews with multicultural populations and has traveled widely in Africa.

Qun Su, M.Ed.
Research Assistant

Qun Su came from China. She serves as Research Assistant of Project MORE. Her duties for the project include selection, evaluation, and design of technology-deliverable interfaces, developing & maintaining the website of Project MORE. Ms. Su, who earned an M.Ed. in Instructional Systems Technology, has experience in instructional design and Web-based instruction.

Chris Dunfee
Transcriber and Editor

Chris Dunfee lives in Denver, NC, where her passion for gardening extends to environmental activism. A former medical transcriber, Chris has advanced work in TESL.

Krystal Blanton
Tagging Coordinator

Krystal Blanton's MA program in Applied Linguistics, which includes coursework in ESL and the Gerontology Certificate, has led her to work with international seniors. For Project MORE, Krystal has developed and supervised metadata and tagging, and is the project's audio czarina.

Project MORE Consultants

Margo Gross, Grants Specialist

Anita Moss, Ph.D. Project Materials Evaluator

Blair Rudes, Ph.D. Program Assessor

Stephen Westman, MLS, UNCC Digital Initiatives Librarian

Dena Shenk, Ph D. Intergenerational Materials Supervisor

Project MORE Staff, 2003-04 and 2004-05

Phyllis Adams, Tagger

Erin Bradford, Transcriber, Editor, and Tagger

Jonathan Champ, Technical Research Assistant

Sue Diehl, Editor

Jonathan Smart, Editor

Siobhan Johnson, Editor

Natascha Krueger, Interviewer (German)

Khahil Mjahed, Interviewer (Arabic)

Louise Murray, Materials Designer (Intergenerational)

Adnan Salaka, Interviewer (Bosnian)

Jenny Towell, Intern

Holly Ericson, Intern

Evelyn Valladares, Interviewer and Editor (Spanish)

Project MORE Advisory Board:

Lil Brannon, Ed.D. Department of English and Department of Middle, Secondary and K-12 Education

Barbara Edwards, Ph.D. Department of Reading and Elementary Education

Michael Green, Ed.D. Department of Reading and Elementary Education

John Gretes, Ph.D. Office of Information Technology

Sallie Ives, Ph.D. Center for Teaching Excellence

Cy Knoblauch, Ph.D. Department of English

Anita Moss, Ph.D. Department of English

Theresa Perez, Ph.D. Department of Middle, Secondary and K-12 Education

Blair Rudes, Ph.D. Department of English

Mark West, Ph.D. Department of English

Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System Liaisons:

Terri Mozingo, Ph.D. Middle School Assistant Superintendent

Kathy Meads, Ph.D. Director of Second Language Curriculum

Jennifer Pearsall, Second Language Resource Teacher

Project MORE Mini-Grant Recipients (2004):

Lil Brannon, Ph.D., for the UNCC Writing Project and the Taiwan Professional Development Seminar

Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Cabarrus County teachers delivering training/materials at the Taiwan Professional Development Seminar

Karen Haag, Liliana Gismondi, Tammy Russ, Catherine McCaskill,

Tammy Brown, Barbara Boal [materials are at the PDSeminar site linked above]

John Staunton, Ph.D., Department of English and English Education

Tony Scott, Ph.D., Department of English: Composition and Rhetoric

Jennifer Munroe, Ph.D., Department of English: British Literature

Ralf Thiede, Ph.D., Department of English: Applied Linguistics

Project MORE Mini-Grant Recipients (2003-2004):

Susannah Brown, Ph.D. Department of Art

Nodghia Fesperman, National Writing Project/University Writing Center

Dawson Hancock, Ph.D. Department of Educational Leadership

John Staunton, Ph.D. Department of English and English Education

Oscar Lansen, Ph.D. Department of History

Project MORE Mini-Grant Recipients (2002-2003):

Christiane Bongartz, Ph.D. Department of English, Applied Linguistics Program

Ann Gonzalez, Ph.D. Department of Language and Culture Studies

Roy Jenks, American Studies Program

Oscar Lansen, Ph.D. Department of History

Project More Staff and Consultants, 2002-03

Kim Bailey, Assistant Project Manager

Pat Ryckman, MLS. Archives Specialist

Ian Brailsford, Research Assistant

Juyoung Bae, Interviewer (Korean)

LaDon Bost, Hardware/Software Support

Somer Burgin, Editor

Meihsiu Chen, Technology Intern

Yuangshan Chuang, Ph.D. Interviewer (Chinese)

William Dennis, Technology Research Assistant

Elena Efremova, Interviewer (Russian)

Mayako Karakisawa, Interviewer (Japanese)

Caroline Linse, Ed.D., Co-Developer and Consultant

Jennifer Lain, Transcriber and Editor

Grayson Midulla, Technical Writing Intern

Jennifer Norman, Transcriber and Editor; Multi-Media Support

Kaushal Satish Shah, Consultant (Gujarati)

Joan Stone, Editor

Crystal Sherrod, Transcriber and Editor

Dena Teeter McFadden, Research Assistant

Lee Vang, Interviewer (Hmong)

Banu (Betty) Valladares, Interviewer and Editor (Spanish)

Yi Lin Wang, Interviewer (Shanghainese)

Regina Young, Transcriber and Editor; Interviewer (English)