New UCCS faculty members

Beth Kumer - Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian - Kumer will coordinate all Internet resources, manage magazines and periodicals and act as the Education Librarian. She is from Neenah Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin Lacrosse with a bachelor's degree in History. She then received a master's in Library Science and a master's in Education from the University of Illinois. A recent resident to Colorado Springs, Beth has enjoyed exploring the local hiking.

Dr. Roger Louis Martinez - History Department - Martinez will teach European and Mediterranean History from 800 to 1700 C.E. Martinez's background in Spanish History enables him to teach also Islamic, African, Indian and Chinese History. He received his Ph.D. in History, an undergraduate degree in Humanities from the University of Texas in Austin and attended the University of California Berkeley for a master's in Public Policy.

Norah Mazel - Reference Librarian and Instructor - Mazel will act as the Biology, Chemistry, Math and Physics Librarian, as well as work at the reference desk in the library. Norah was born in Colorado Springs and attended Palmer High School. She graduated from Mt. Holyoke in Western Massachusetts with a bachelor's in Mathematics and received her master's degree in Library Science from the University of Illinois. She enjoys knitting and science fiction.

Dr. Zachary Mesyan - Mathematics Department - Mesyan's specialty is noncommutative algebra, but he teaches several different classes. He graduated with honors from Brown University with a bachelor's in Mathematics and Philosophy.  Mesyna's received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and wrote a dissertation called, "On Endomorphism Rings of Infinite Direct Sums of Modules."

Dr. Jeffrey Montez de Oca - Sociology Department - Montez de Oca will teach Social Theory, Social Inequalities, Urban Food Security, Film and Media and The Sociology of Sports. The sociology of sports during the Cold War is his specialty. Montez de Oca received a bachelor's degree in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley, a master's in Cinema Studies from NYU and a Ph.D. in Sociology from USC.

Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding - Women's and Ethnic Studies Department - Spaulding will teach this fall's hip-hop class, the Performance of Identities, Women Writers of the African Diaspora and Comparative Men and Masculinities. Her particular interests are modern American Literature, gender and critical whiteness studies. Spaulding graduated from Clark University with a bachelor's degree in English, Purdue University with a master's in English and a Ph.D. in American Studies.