Graduate Faculty

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

John Sirard, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, B.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1991; M.S., 1997; Ph.D., South Carolina, 2003.

Sofiya Alhassan, Professor, B.S., Stetson, 1996; M.S., Auburn, 2000; Ph.D., 2004.

Katherine Boyer, Associate 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, 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.

Jane A. Kent, Professor, B.A., California State, 1980; M.A., 1983; Ph.D., Southern California, 1987.

Douglas Martini, Assistant Professor, B.S., Augustana College, 2008; M.S., Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2010; Ph.D., Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2015.

Mark Miller, Associate 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.

Sarah Roelker, Assistant Professor, B.S., Ohio State, 2012; M.S., 2015; Ph.D., 2017.

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.