Graduate Faculty

Jane A. Kent, Professor and Chair of the Department, B.A., California State, 1980; M.A., 1983; Ph.D., Southern California, 1987.

Sofiya Alhassan, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, B.S., Stetson, 1996; M.S., Auburn, 2000; Ph.D., 2004.

Katherine Boyer, Assistant Professor, B.S., Queen's, Canada, 2001; Ph.D., Calgary, Canada, 2006.

Stuart R. Chipkin, Research Professor, B.S., Emory, 1978; M.D., New York Downstate Medical Center, 1982.

Edward Debold, Associate Professor, B.S., Seton Hall, 1992; M.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1997; Ph.D., Marquette, 2002.

Wouter Hoogkamer, Assistant Professor, B.S., Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 2003; M.S., 2006; M.S., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2010; Ph.D., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2014.

Gwenael Layec, Assistant Professor, B.S., Universite Montpellier I, Montpellier, France, 2002, M.S., 2004; Ph.D., Universite de la Mediteranee, Marseille, France 2008.

Mark Miller, Assistant Professor, B.S., Colorado, 1992; M.S., 1994; Ph.D., Vermont, 2002.

Amanda Paluch, Assistant Professor, B.S., Ohio State, 2009; Ph.D., South Carolina at Columbia, 2014.

Katie Potter, Assistant Professor, B.S., Suny, New Paltz NY, 2008; M.S., UNC, Greensboro, NC, 2010; Ph.D., USC, Columbia SC 2014.

John Sirard, Assistant Professor, B.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1991; M.S., 1997; Ph.D., South Carolina, 2003.

Richard van Emmerik, Professor, B.S., Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1984; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990.

Faculty Emeriti

Patty S. Freedson, Professor Emerita, 2017

Joseph Hamill, Professor Emeritus, 2016

Adjunct Faculty

Michael A. Busa, Director, Human Testing Center, Institute for Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Graham E. Caldwell, Associate Professor (retired), Department of Kinesiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Edward C. Frederick, President, Exeter Research Inc., Brentwood, New Hampshire.

Paul M. Juris, Executive Director, Cybex Research Institute, Cybex International Inc., Medway, Massachusetts.

Kate Lyden, Biomedical Research Associate, Misfit Inc., Burlingame, California.

Rajakumar Nagarajan, Magnetic Resonance Physicist, Human Magnetic Resonance Center, Institute for Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Christopher J. Palmer, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Kinesiology; Chief Technology Officer, US Warfighter Systems, Revision Military, Canada.

Gary E. Riccio, Founder, Nascent Science and Technology, LLC., North Carolina.

Lawrence M. Schwartz, Isenberg Professor of Integrated Science in Biology.

Scott Selbie, Director of Research, C-Motion, Germantown, Maryland.

Brian Umberger, Professor, Movement Science; Director, Locomotion Research Laboratory, University of Michigan.

Sarah Witkowski, Associate Professor of Exercise and Sports Studies, Smith College.