Miami University

John J. Burke is the director of the Gardner-Harvey Library on the Middletown Campus. He holds an M.S. in library science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and a B.A. in history from Michigan State University. John has worked for Miami since 2002.

Doug Curry has served as the Director of the Recreational Sports Center since 2002. He began at Miami University in 1995 as the Director of Intramural and Club Sports program. Prior to coming to Miami Doug worked ten years in YMCAs in Atlanta, GA, Clearwater, FL, and Dayton, OH. Doug received his Masters of Arts Degree from Miami and Bachelor of Arts in Education from Mount Vernon Nazarene University. Doug currently serves on the Oxford Visitors Convention Bureau, TRI Board and is treasurer for the Mid American Recreation Sports Directors Association. Outside interest include motorcycle touring, skiing, hiking, biking, and spending time with family.

Curator of the McGuffey Museum at Miami University in Oxford, OH, Stephen Gordon holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in history from Miami University.  Over the past thirty years, Stephen has worked in the cultural resource management profession.  A native of Ohio, Steve’s research interests include local and regional architecture, craft and building technology, especially vernacular buildings, barns and the study of regional material culture.

Melanie Hoffmann is employed as an associate at the DARS (Degree Audit Reporting System) Center on the Oxford Campus. She works providing support and training for the Course Applicability System (transfer.org). Melanie is a 2003 graduate of Miami University with degrees in Management Information Systems and Decision Sciences. She has worked at Miami since 2003.

Dr Mehidizadeh is a senior Research Scholar at Scripps Gerontology Center. Her association with Scripps began in 1989; prior to that she taught for a year and worked at Academic Computer Services (an office that no longer exists) for 7 years. Her work at Scripps is related to examining the impact of aging individual on his/her family, the state and the economy. She is a graduate of University of Cincinnati and has been living in Oxford since 1976.

Karen O’Hara is employed by IT Services as a technical writer and the coordinator of the Knowledge Base (http://kb.muohio.edu). On the Hamilton campus, she teaches technical communication, serves as the liaison for part-time faculty, and is part of the Saturday Select hybrid course initiative. Karen received both her Masters in Technical and Scientific Communication and her Bachelors in Liberal Arts/Music from Miami.

Ted Pickerill is the Farmer School of Business’ Assistant Dean for Administration.  He has served at Miami University in various capacities since 1999, when he was assigned to Miami’s Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps Unit as his final tour in a twenty-year Naval career.  In addition to university administration, Ted has spent time in the classroom instructing courses in general business, organizational behavior, naval science and calculus.

Anne Schauer came to Miami in July of 2004 as Assistant Director for Research in the Office for the Advancement of Research and Scholarship (OARS). One of her primary responsibilities is to assist faculty and staff with the development and submission of grant proposals to external funding agencies to support their scholarly research and teaching activities. Prior to coming to Miami, she worked in Research Administration for over 12 years at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, the University of Cincinnati and at Bradley University in Peoria, IL. She received her M.A. in Human Service Administration from Bradley in 1998, and a B.A. in General Science and Art from Brandeis in 1979, with a 3-year stint in the Master of Architecture Program at the University of Texas at Austin between the two. When she is not engaged in grant-related activities, she can usually be found buried in one of several art projects involving painting, stained-glass or pottery. She also enjoys sewing, cooking and gardening, and try to get away with her wonderful husband on at least two camping-hiking trips each year.

A 25-year Miami university staff member, Barry has been the Music Librarian at Amos Music Library, Center for Performing Arts, since 1989, and was previously Music/Media Catalog Librarian at King Library. He was also a technical and public services librarian at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois for four years. He serves on committees of the Music Library Association, Midwest Chapter, and has written book reviews for Library Journal and other journals in the music and library fields in addition to contributing articles to the Encyclopedia of Censorship and Illinois Libraries. Outside interests include singing in the Cincinnati May Festival Chorus and the former Oxford Choral Ensemble, playing piano, baking, bike riding, walking, and antiquing.