Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Details

Dr. Cindy Benge

Title: Assistant Professor of Reading

Office Location: Education Building (ED), Room 133
Phone: 575.562.2151
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Elisa Chino

Title: Administrative Assistant/Special Programs Office Coordinator

Office Location: Education Building (ED), Room 105
Phone: 575.562.2491
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Dr. Michele Crockett

Title: Associate Professor of Elementary Education

Office Location: Education Building (ED), Room 134
Phone: 575.562.4311
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Dr. Mary Daughrity

Title: Associate Professor of Elementary Mathematics

Office Location: Education Building (ED), Room 159
Phone: 575.562.2481
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Dr. Tala Karkar Esperat

Title: Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction

Office Location: Education Building (ED), Room Roswell
Phone: 575.562.2491
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Education

  • B.A.-- Teaching English as a Second Language Bethlehem University
  • M.P.A.-- Public Administration Lamar University
  • Ph.D. -- Curriculum and Instruction Texas Tech University

Research Interests

Dr. Karkar-Esperat's research agenda is focused on preservice teachers' literacies, online literacies, coaching of teachers, teaching pedagogies, and literacy assessment.

Geni Flores

Title: Instructor, Coordinator of TESOL and Bilingual Education

Office Location: Education Building (ED), Room 138
Phone: 575.562.2765
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Dr. Olga Gould

Title: Assistant Professor, Reading

Office Location: Education Building (ED), Room 139
Phone: 575.562.2207
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Education

  • B.A.--English as a Second Language and Teaching Foreign Languages State Pedagogic University, RF
  • M.A.--English as a Second Language and Teaching Foreign Languages State Pedagogic University, RF
  • M.Ed.--Reading Education Florida Atlantic University
  • Ph.D.--Curriculum, Instruction, and The Science of Learning State University of New York, University at Buffalo

Research Interests

Dr. Gould's research interests include multimodality, reading comprehension, social semiotics, and socio-cultural constructivism.

Dr. Mary Kallus

Title: Associate Professor of Reading/Literacy, Curriculum and Instruction Department Chair

Office Location: Education Building (ED), Room 103
Phone: 575.562.2219
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Education

  • BA--English and History Texas Tech University
  • M.Ed.--Language/Literacy Education Texas Tech University
  • Ph.D.--Curriculum and Instruction Texas Tech University

Research Interests

Dr. Kallus' research interests include content area literacy, disciplinary literacy, adolescent literacy, intertextuality, and the use of children?s literature in the classroom.

Dr. JD Procter

Title: Assistant Professor of TESOL/Bilingual Education

Office Location: Education Building (ED), Room 135
Phone: 575.562.2977
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Dr. David Tompkins

Title: Assistant Professor of Elementary Education

Office Location: Education Building (ED), Room Roswell
Phone: 575.562.2491
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Dr. Mark Viner

Title: Associate Professor of Educational Technology, C&I Graduate Coordinator

Office Location: Education Building (ED), Room 136
Phone: 575.562.2538
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Vitae: Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D., Educational Computing, Design and Online Learning, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
  • MS, Educational Computing, Design and Telecommunications, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
  • Bachelor of Science, Biology with emphasis in Natural Science, Mount Senario College, Ladysmith, WI
  • Associates Degree of Arts, Visual Communications, Western Wisconsin Technical College, La Crosse, WI

Bio

Currently, Dr. Mark Viner is an Assistant Professor of Educational Technology at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU). At ENMU, Dr. Viner educates undergraduates and graduate students in the area of integrating technology into classroom practices. In addition, his experiences include working extensively with K-12 administrators, principals and teachers in providing sustained professional development in the area of technology integration. Dr. Viner has a passion or Project-based Learning and Inquiry-based learning environments using technology.