Steve Wilson, Ph.D.

Associate Dean of Liberal Arts
Tulsa Community College
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Dr. Steven Harmon Wilson is Associate Dean of Liberal Arts at Tulsa Community College’s Metro Campus. Previously, he was tenured as Associate Professor of History at Prairie View A&M University in Texas. Wilson received his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Rice University, where he focused on American legal and constitutional history. He also earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Rice. Before becoming a historian, Dr. Wilson was employed at the National Security Agency (NSA) and at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He is the author of The Rise of Judicial Managements in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1955-2000 (University of Georgia Press, 2003), and several articles on Mexican American civil rights, including “Brown Over ‘Other White’: Mexican American’s Legal Arguments and Litigation Strategy in Desegregation Litigation” (Law and History Review, vol. 21.1, March 2003), and “Some Are Born White, Some Achieve Whiteness, and Some Have Whiteness Thrust Upon Them: Mexican Americans and the Politics of Racial Classification in the Federal Judicial Bureaucracy” (in Colored Men and Hombres Aqui: Hernandez v. Texas and the Energence of Mexican American Lawyering, MA Olivas, ed. Arte Pulico, 2006).

Steven R. Yussen, Ph.D.

Professor, Institute of Child Development
University of Minnesota

Steven Yussen has a 35–year history in higher education, spanning work as a professor of Educational Psychology, Psychology, and Child Development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Iowa, and the University of Minnesota. At two of the universities, he also served for 16 years as dean of their Colleges of Education, from 1991–1998 (Iowa) and 1998–2006 (Minnesota). As dean, he hired more than 100 faculty, raised $30 million in private fundraising efforts, and (at Minnesota) led a unit with 500 faculty and staff. At Wisconsin, he also served as chairperson of the Department of Educational Psychology (1984–1987). Dr. Yussen has published more than 70 scholarly research articles, book chapters, and books in the field of developmental and educational psychology, and he is particularly well known for his work on cognitive development, memory, and reading comprehension. His honors include: service as Associate Editor of two major journals — Child Development and Journal of Educational Psychology; selection as a Guggenheim Fellow; appointment as a Fulbright Fellow at the Hebrew University; selection as a Spencer Fellow; election to the Iowa Academy of Education; and service on the boards of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, the Holmes Group (Midwest Vice President), the Great Cities’ Council of Deans (Vice President), the Iowa Business, Education, and Labor Roundtable, and the Minnesota PreK–16 Statewide Education Partnership. He has supervised twenty Ph.D. students and more than forty master’s students, and the five editions of his widely read textbook of Child Development, co-authoried with J. Santrock, were read by more that 200,000 students worldwide. He earned his doctorate in child psychology from the University of Minnesota.