Alexander Blewett III School of Law
Anna-Margaret Goldman
Professor of Practice
Department of Public Administration and Policy
Anna-Margaret Goldman is a Professor of Practice at the University of Montana in the Department of Public Administration and Practice. She has her Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Alabama. Her work is focused on increasing college access, mentoring, and K-12 and university partnerships.
Kekek Stark
Assistant Professor
Alexander Blewett III School of Law
Kekek is a Turtle Mountain Ojibwe and member of the Bizhiw (Lynx) Clan. He is a former president of the Minnesota American Indian Bar Association. He is a Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow and alumnus of Hamline University School of Law. Kekek served as the Attorney General for the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. Prior to assuming his role with the Lac Courte Oreilles Tribe, Kekek served as an Attorney/Policy Analyst for the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission. Kekek has served as board member of the Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Institute, the Bad River Head Start Policy Council, the Anoka-Hennepin Indian Education Committee and Nawayee Center School.
College of Business
Elizabeth Kohl
Assistant Professor
Department of Accounting and Finance
An Assistant Professor in the accounting and finance department, Elizabeth Kohl engages in empirical, economics-based research emphasizing sustainable reporting, voluntary disclosure, labor, sport and auditing. Dr. Kohl is excited to join the University of Montana family and to bring both her professional and academic experiences to the classroom.
Steven Mitsuda
Assistant Professor
Department of Accounting and Finance
Steven Mitsuda is joining us from Stanford University, where he just finished his Ph.D. in Accounting. He has a BS degree in Accounting and a MAcc from Brigham Young University. His research interests include financial reporting quality, earnings management, management incentives and compensation, and audit quality. Steven is excited to work with the wonderful faculty and students at the UM College of Business.
College of Health
Katie Hoffman Holick
Lecturer
Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Katie Holick is a native Montanan who proudly graduated from the University of Montana with a BA in Psychology, a BS in Microbiology, and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience. Since her time at UM, Katie has held positions as a tenure-track faculty member at the University of Great Falls, a Postdoc with the United States Army Institute of Chemical Defense, and most recently enjoyed a position as a Professor of Practice at Lehigh University. As an instructor Katie strives to create an inclusive and active learning environment for all of her students and is thrilled to be back at UM.
Bryan Loyd
Assistant Professor
School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
Brian Loyd, PT, DPT, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science and the director of the Community-based Activity, Mobility, and Participation (CAMP) lab. Brian teaches neuroscience, vestibular rehabilitation and aging across the lifespan. His research is focused in the area of improving community function for older adults and individuals with vestibular impairment.
Marketa Marvanova
Acting Dean of the College of Health
Dean and Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy
Dr. Marvanova serves as Professor and Dean of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy of the University of Montana as of Feb. 24, 2020. Prior to this appointment she served as a Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice at North Dakota State University School of Pharmacy. She is a Board-Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist and Geriatric Pharmacist and Fellow of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists. She has completed MSPharm, Pharm.D. and Ph.D. (Pathological Neurobiochemistry) degrees from the Charles University (Czech Republic) as well as a Ph.D. (Neuropharmacology) from the University of Eastern Finland. She also completed a medical research fellowship in neuropharmacology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and a Parkinson’s disease traineeship at Northwestern University. Her clinical expertise is neuropsychiatry and geriatrics and she has practiced at a variety of inpatient and outpatient clinical settings.
Sarah Reese
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
Sarah Reese is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work. Broadly, her research and teaching focus on community-based social work interventions to promote child and family well-being, with a specific focus on behavioral interventions for perinatal substance use disorder.
College of Humanities and Sciences
Larry Hufford
Dean and Professor
College of Humanities and Sciences
Originally from Iowa, Hufford has lived in the West for most of his adult life. He earned his doctorate in botany from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986. After postdoctoral research experiences at the University of Zurich and the University of Arizona, he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota-Duluth in 1989 and then moved to Washington State University in 1993. Hufford was the Herbert L. Eastlick Distinguished Professor at WSU, where he directed the Marion Ownbey Herbarium and the Conner Museum of Natural History before joining UM. As an evolutionary biologist, his research has focused on plant diversity in the American West. Hufford is an avid reader with wide-ranging interests in the arts, humanities and sciences.
Erim Gómez
Lecturer
Division of Biological Sciences
Erim Gómez will be teaching Wildlife Biology here at UM. He earned his master’s from Washington State University and will be defending his Ph.D. this fall. Gómez uses social media for environmental education efforts, is active in diversity efforts on campus and has been asked to serve as an advisor of UM LatinX Student Union.
Beverly Piggott
Assistant Professor
Division of Biological Sciences
Beverly Piggott originally hails from Wisconsin, where she received her bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She then went on to complete her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan studying neural circuits and behavior with Dr. Shawn Xu. Beverly recently finished her postdoc at the University of California in San Francisco with Dr. Yuh Nung Jan, where she examined the role of ion channels in neural development and brain tumors. She is very excited to continue this research as an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Montana.
Heather Voorhees
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Studies
Heather Voorhees, Ph.D. (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies department, studied print journalism as an undergraduate, then worked for seven years as writer and editor for local newspapers and magazines. She earned her master's degree in Strategic Journalism from University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and has more than eight years of experience in the field of corporate communications. Her research interests include interpersonal health communication, chronic illness identity, social support and illness disclosure.
Boris Fishman
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Boris Fishman is the author of the novels “A Replacement Life” (which won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal) and “Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo,” both New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and “Savage Feast,” a family memoir told through recipes, all from HarperCollins. His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Saveur, Vogue, Travel + Leisure,
and many other publications. Previously, he taught creative writing at Princeton University. He lives in
Missoula, Montana, where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Montana.
Scott Arcenas
Assistant Professor
Department of History and Department of World Languages and Cultures
Scott Lawin Arcenas is an ancient historian who specializes in Greek political and economic history c. 600-300 BCE. His current research examines the nature, frequency and intensity of political violence in the roughly 1,100 city-states inhabited by the ancient Greeks. At the University of Montana, he teaches courses on Greek and Roman history, classical languages and literature, and the history of the premodern Mediterranean. Before arriving at UM, he taught at George Mason University and Dartmouth College.
Mark Heirigs
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Mark Heirigs is an Assistant Professor in the Department is Sociology. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Iowa State University. His research interests include psychopathy, homicide and suicide.
James Tuttle
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Dr. James Tuttle is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Montana, beginning his appointment in the fall 2020. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Tuttle worked as an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Saint Francis (Indiana). In 2018, Dr. Tuttle was awarded a Ph.D. in Sociology (with a concentration in Crime, Deviance and Social Control) from North Carolina State University. Dr. Tuttle’s previous research concentrates on theoretical and empirical issues involving cross-national variation in homicide rates. His current research builds upon these areas of inquiry, examining the correlates of homicide trends, government use of coercive social control, and the impact of economic deprivation on aggregate crime rates.
Phyllis J. Washington College of Education
Stephanie Reid
Assistant Professor
Department of Teaching and Learning
Stephanie Reid is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Montana. Prior to pursuing her doctorate degree in Learning, Literacies and Technologies at Arizona State University, Stephanie taught middle-schoolers Language Arts and Reading for 15 years in both England and the United States. Her research and scholarship focuses on literacy pedagogy in elementary and middle school classroom contexts.
W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation
Will Rice
Assistant Professor
Department of Society and Conservation
Will Rice is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Society and Conservation and Parks, Tourism and Recreation Management Program at the University of Montana. His research focuses broadly on the provisioning of recreational ecosystem services in parks and protected areas. More specifically, he is interested in the personal and social outcomes demanded by wildland recreationists and developing tools to help measure and manage visitor demand for natural amenities.