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2020 Honorees


Paul Beck

Chapter Author of "Management Strategies for Sustainable Cattle Production in Southern Pastures"

Dr. Beck received both a bachelor's degree in animal science with an emphasis on business and an master's degree in animal science from Oklahoma State University. While employed at the University of Arkansas Southwest Research & Extension Center (SWREC), Paul completed his doctorate at the UofA in 2003...


Staci Bettes

Co-Author of "Technical and Professional Writing Genres: A Study in Theory and Practice"

Staci Bettes received her Master of Arts from Oklahoma State University, with emphasis on composition and rhetoric and technical writing. She has been a lecturer in the English department since 2012, teaching technical writing and composition I and II...


Beckie Bigler

Editor of "Marine Fire Fighting for Land-Based Firefighters" (Third Edition)

Beckie Bigler began her work as a senior editor at Fire Protection Publications in 2017 after many years as an educator. Beckie earned her doctorate in Spanish from the University of Kansas and has taught Spanish and English to students of all ages, adults to...


Errick Braggs

Graphic Designer of "Facility Fire Brigades" (Second Edition), "Chief Officer" (Fourth Edition) and "Fire and Emergency Services Company Officer" (Sixth Edition)

Errick Braggs started his career in 1995 after graduating from OSU-Institute of Technology with an associate degree in graphic design. He worked in the advertising agency industry for several years until after the birth of his first child when he transitioned his career path to...


Cindy Brakhage

Co-Author of "Marine Fire Fighting for Land-Based Firefighters" (Third Edition) and Editor of "Fire Service Hydraulics and Water Supply" (Third Edition) and "Rapid Intervention Teams" (Second Edition)

Cindy Brakhage is a senior editor at Fire Protection Publications (FPP). She is a graduate of Oklahoma State University. Cindy has a Bachelor of Arts in English, with an emphasis in technical writing. Cindy feels that working for IFSTA/FPP is an honor and a...


Ben Brock

Graphic Designer of "Marine Fire Fighting for Land-Based Firefighters" (Third Edition)

Ben Brock is a senior graphic designer with Fire Protection Publications at Oklahoma State University. He has been with Fire Protection Publications for 24 years, three of which as an intern while a student at Oklahoma State. He received his Bachelor of Fine...


Clint Clausing

Author of "Essentials of Firefighting" (Seventh Edition)

Clint Clausing has worked in the editorial department at Fire Protection Publications for 12 years. He graduated from OSU with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature in 1998. Clint has previously authored and/or edited FPP’s "Fire Investigator" (Second...


Brooke Coe

Author of "Sovereignty in the South: Intrusive Regionalism in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia"

Brooke Coe joined the OSU faculty in 2018 as an assistant professor of political science. She conducts research and teaches at the intersection of comparative politics and international relations. Her interests include comparative regional law and organizations...


Ki Cole

Co-Author of "Using R for Item Response Theory Model Applications"

Ki Cole is an assistant professor of research, evaluation, measurement and statistics at Oklahoma State University. She teaches graduate level educational statistics courses, including...


Skye Cooley

Co-Author of "Global Media and Strategic Narratives of Contested Democracy: Chinese, Russian, and Arabic Media Narratives of the US Presidential Election"

Dr. Skye Cooley has served as principle investigator and co-principle investigator on numerous projects funded by the Department of Homeland Security. His research specialty is in narrative analysis of foreign media coverage, with numerous...


Jay Dawes

Author and Editor of "Developing Agility and Quickness" (Second Edition)

Jay Dawes Ph.D., CSCS,*D, NSCA-CPT, ASCA-L2, FNSCA, is an assistant professor of applied exercise science in the Department of Health and Human Performance at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Dawes has worked as a university athletic performance coordinator, strength/performance...


Dursun Delen

Author of "Prescriptive Analytics: The Final Frontier for Evidence-Based Management and Optimal Decision Making" and Co-Author of "Analytics, Data Science, & Artificial Intelligence: Systems for Decision Support" (11th Edition)

Dr. Dursun Delen is the holder of William S. Spears Endowed Chair in Business Administration, Patterson Family Endowed Chair in Business Analytics, director of research for the Center for Health Systems Innovation and regents professor of management science and information systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. Prior to his academic tenure at OSU, he worked for a privately-owned research and consultancy company...


Lindsey Dugan

Curriculum Developer for "Facility Fire Brigades" (Second Edition)

Lindsey Dugan started as a student worker at Fire Protection Publications in 2014. She became a full-time instructional developer in 2016. She has a bachelor's degree in English from East Central University and a master's degree in professional writing from...


Kimberly Edwards

Editor of "Chief Officer" (Fourth Edition)

Born and raised in Oklahoma, Kimberly Edwards made quite a few stops before returning to work in Stillwater as a senior editor for Fire Protection Publications. Ms. Edwards spent 15 years in Washington, D.C. developing and implementing military and...


Ziad El Rassi

Editor of "Affinity Chromatography and Related Techniques"

Dr. Ziad El Rassi earned a Bachelor of Science in chemistry in 1972 and an education degree in 1973 from Lebanese University. He matriculated to Claude-Bernard University in Lyon, France for his doctorate in analytical chemistry in 1978. He then joined the...


Jeff Fortney

Author and Editor of "Facility Fire Brigades" (Second Edition) and Editor of "Essentials of Firefighting" (Seventh Edition)

Jeff Fortney is a senior editor at Fire Protection Publications (FPP). He has served as project manager on International Fire Service Training Association’s (IFSTA) "Plans Examiner" (First Edition), "Industrial Exterior and Structural Fire Brigades" (First Edition)...


Janice French

Co-Author, Editor and Lead Developer of "Essentials of Firefighting" (Seventh Edition)

Janice French has been part of Fire Protection Publication's Electronic Products Department since its beginning. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Davis, and a Master of Science and doctorate from Indiana University. All...


Beth Ann Fulgenzi

Curriculum Developer of "Fire and Emergency Services Orientation and Terminology" (Sixth Edition)

Beth Ann Fulgenzi is an instructional developer for Fire Protection Publications. Beth Ann has over 25 years of professional experience in technical writing and editing, curriculum design and development, proposal development and publications management...


Afshin Ghajar

Co-Author and Editor of "Heat and Mass Transfer - Fundamentals and Applications"

Dr. Afshin J. Ghajar is Regents and John Brammer Endowed Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University and an Honorary Professor of Xi'an Jiaotong University in Xi'an, China. He received his Bachelor of...


Laura Goodman

Co-Author of "A Guide to Plants Important for Quail in Oklahoma"

Laura Goodman is an assistant professor and rangeland extension specialist with Dwayne Elmore, a professor and wildlife extension specialist, in the Natural Resource Ecology and Management Department at Oklahoma State University. Both Laura and Dwayne work across the state...


Amanda Harrist

Co-Editor of "Biobehavioral Markers in Risk and Resilience Research"

Amanda W. Harrist is a professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science, focusing on child development. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Texas and her doctorate at the University of Tennessee in 1991. She joined the OSU HDFS faculty in 1998, where she continues to...


Joseph Hebert

Author of "Splitting Hives & Rearing Queens; Growing and managing your small apiary"

Dr. Hébert is a full-time faculty member of the Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology where he primarily teaches physics. He completed his doctorate in physics at the University of Texas at Dallas in 2000. He worked as an application physicist II at...


Sunderesh Heragu

Co-Author and Editor of "Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Definitions and Objectives"

Sunderesh S. Heragu is a Regents Professor and is the head of the School of Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University where he holds the Donald and Cathey Humphreys Chair. Previously, he was the Duthie Chair in Engineering...


David Hicks

Graphic Designer of "Rapid Intervention Teams" (Second Edition)

David graduated from Owasso High School in 1984 and attended Northeastern Oklahoma A&M where he earned his associate's degree in commercial art in 1986. He continued his education at Oklahoma State University where he earned his Bachelor of Fine...


Teresa Holder

Author of "That Damn Art Woman: Adah Robinson, Bruce Goff and the Controversy behind the Design of the Boston Ave M.E. Church South"

Teresa Holder received her bachelor of fine arts in the studio arts from Oklahoma State University and her master's in museum studies from the University of Oklahoma. She has worked at OSU since 2002, teaching foundations courses and...


Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

Co-Author of "Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Feedback Control - A Lyapunov-Based Approach"

Rushikesh Kamalapurkar received his master's and doctoral degrees in 2011 and 2014, respectively, from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. After working for a year as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Warren E. Dixon, he was appointed as...


Kerri Kearney

Co-Author and Editor of "Mothers as Keepers and Tellers of Origin Stories"

Kerri Kearney, M.B.A., Ed.D., is an associate professor of higher education and Student Affairs at Oklahoma State University with a research focus on invisible college students, including former foster youth. Through this book and other work, she explores diverse...


Matthew Keith

Curriculum Developer for "Fire Service Hydraulics and Water Supply" (Third Edition)

Matthew Keith is a curriculum developer at Fire Protection Publications. As a native of Stillwater, Matthew attended Oklahoma State University and graduated in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in rhetoric and professional writing. Matthew enjoys working for a...


Shelia Kennison

Author of "Psychology of Language" and Editor of "Processing Across Languages"

Shelia M. Kennison is a professor of psychology at Oklahoma State University. She earned her doctorate in psycholinguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a bachelor’s degree in linguistics and psychology from Harvard University. She is a...


Randy Kluver

Co-Author of "Global Media and Strategic Narratives of Contested Democracy: Chinese, Russian, and Arabic Media Narratives of the US Presidential Election"

Randolph Kluver is the associate provost and dean of the School of Global Studies and Partnerships and professor in the School of Media and Strategic Communication at Oklahoma State University. He also holds the Don and Cathey Humphreys Chair in...


Jeffrey Loeffert

Co-Author of "Flux" and "Soul Searching"

Jeffrey Loeffert serves as a professor and director of the Michael and Anne Greenwood School of Music at Oklahoma State University. A dedicated teacher, Loeffert is a past recipient of the Oklahoma State University College of Arts & Sciences Junior Faculty Award for...


Kimberly Loeffert

Co-Author of "Soul Searching"

Dr. Kimberly Goddard Loeffert serves as a clinical associate professor and graduate coordinator in the Michael and Anne Greenwood School of Music. She is also the College of Arts and Sciences’ Faculty Fellow for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion...


Kyle Lomenick

Videographer for "Essentials of Firefighting" (Seventh Edition)

Kyle Lomenick joined Fire Protection Publications in September 2018 as the multimedia producer for the E-Products team. Born and raised in Oklahoma, he has been doing professional photography for more than a decade and professional videography for five...


Michael Long

Co-Author of "Green Criminology and Green Theories of Justice An Introduction to a Political Economic View of Eco-Justice"

Michael A. Long is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Oklahoma State University. His research addresses social inequality using political economic theory as applied within the areas of environmental sociology, green criminology...


Holly Luetkenhaus

Co-Author of "Austentatious: The Evolving World of Jane Austen Fans," "Libraries Promoting Reflective Dialogue in a Time of Political Polarization" and "Teaching Undergraduates with Archives"

Holly Luetkenhaus is the director of Teaching and Learning for the Libraries at Oklahoma State University. She holds a master's in library science and a master's in English. Her research interests include information literacy and intersectional studies, first-year...


Sundararajan Madihally

Author of "Principles of Biomedical Engineering" (Second Edition)

Sundararajan Madihally received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering (first rank) from Bangalore University in India. He worked as a consultant to pharmaceutical companies and as a process engineer at...


John McGuire

Editor of "ESPN and the Changing Sports Media Landscape"

John McGuire (Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia) has research interests focusing on the sports media business, sports announcing and political journalism. Dr. McGuire most recently served as co-editor of...


Heather McLaughlin

Editor of "Engaging Helen Hacker: Collected Works and Reflections of a Feminist Pioneer"

Heather McLaughlin is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology. She joined Oklahoma State University after earning her doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 2013. Dr. McLaughlin studies gender inequality in three institutional contexts...


Douglas Miller

Author of "Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century"

Douglas Miller is an assistant professor of history at Oklahoma State University. His research focuses on Native American urbanity, mobility and work in the twentieth century. In 2019, as part of its Critical Indigeneities series, the University of North Carolina...


Leslie Miller

Author and Editor of "Fire and Emergency Services Company Officer" (Sixth Edition)

Leslie A. Miller is a native of Stillwater, Oklahoma, and she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English with honors from OSU. As an editor with Fire Protection Publications since 2002, she has been a technical writer and editor for many fire service training...


Tamara Mix

Co-Author of "Meet the Food Radicals"

Dr. Tamara Mix is the Laurence L. and Georgia Ina Dresser Professor of Rural Sociology at Oklahoma State University. She has research interests in environmental justice, social movements, and race, class and gender inequality. As a qualitative researcher...


Angel Muzik

Lead Instructional Developer of "Chief Officer" (Fourth Edition) and "Essentials of Firefighting" (Seventh Edition)

Angel Muzik has been an instructional developer at Fire Protection Publications since 2014. Before that, she worked as an educator for Stillwater Public Schools and the OSU College of Education. She earned both her bachelor's in elementary education and a...


Kelly Naas

Co-Author of "Essentials of Firefighting" (Seventh Edition)

Kelly Naas graduated from Oklahoma State University with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. She joined Fire Protection Publications in 2015 as an electronic products specialist. Before joining the eProducts team at FPP, she was a public school...


Franklin Norwood

Co-Author of "Meet the Food Radicals"

Dr. Norwood is the Barry Pollard, MD / P&K equipment professor in agribusiness. Since 2003, he has researched and taught in the Department of Agricultural Economics, covering issues from food preferences to...


Kristin Olofsson

Author of "Perceptions of Contentiousness: How Individual Traits Shape Environmental Policy Conflicts"

Dr. Olofsson specializes in environmental and energy policy. She uses a comparative research design to focus on the dynamics of policy coalitions and networks of policy actors engaged in policy making. She is a former National Science Foundation (NSF)...


Christy Olson

Editor and Lead Developer of "Fire and Emergency Services Company Officer" (Sixth Edition)

Christy Olson is a lead instructional developer at Fire Protection Publications. She is an honors undergraduate of Oklahoma State University’s English-creative writing program and has worked as a freelance English as a Second Language (ESL) copyeditor and...


Michael Palmer

Chapter Author of "Gradient Analysis of Ecological Communities" and Co-Author of "Spatial Scale and Biodiversity"

Mike joined the Botany Department (now PBEE) in 1989 as an assistant professor, after a doctorate from Duke University and a postdoctoral position at North Carolina State University. He retired in 2017 at the rank of...


Clint Parker

Graphic Designer of "Essentials of Firefighting" (Seventh Edition) and "Fire Service Hydraulics and Water Supply" (Third Edition)

Clint joined Fire Protection Publications in 2003 as a senior graphic designer. In 1999, he graduated from Oklahoma State University with a Bachelor of Arts. He has been the designer for more than 50 fire service training manuals, including “Essentials of Fire...


Aimee Parkison

Co-Author of "Girl Zoo"

Aimee Parkison holds a Master of Fine Arts from Cornell University and is the author of five books of fiction. Her most recent book, "Girl Zoo," is a collaborative experimental story collection co-authored with Carol Guess. Parkison’s fourth book, "Refrigerated...


Anuruddha Jayasekara Pathiranage

Co-Author, Editor and Mobile App Developer for "Essentials of Firefighting" (Seventh Edition)

Anuruddha Jayasekara Pathiranage is the mobile application developer for Fire Protection Publications at Oklahoma State University. He graduated from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka with a bachelor’s degree in engineering in 2011. After working as an...


Colin Pope

Author of "Why I Didn't Go to Your Funeral"

Colin Pope is a doctoral candidate at Oklahoma State University. His poems, essays and criticism have appeared in journals such as "Slate," "The Millions," "Rattle," "Best New Poets," "West Branch," "The Los Angeles Review" and others, and he's the...


Simone Rowe

Lead Instructional Developer of "Marine Fire Fighting for Land-Based Firefighters" (Third Edition) and Curriculum Developer for "Rapid Intervention Teams" (Second Edition)

Simone Rowe joined Fire Protection Publications as a lead instructional developer in 2014.  She has been a technical writer and editor for more than 15 years and has had previous careers in nursing and archaeology.  For fun, she enjoys digging in the dirt...


Chyla Rucker

Lead Instructional Developer of "Fire Service Hydraulics and Water Supply" (Third Edition)

Chyla Rucker is an instructional developer for Fire Protection Publications. Chyla has a background in higher education, trade education and journalism. She has a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism and a master’s in urban education both from Langston...


Ramesh Sharda

Co-Author of "Analytics, Data Science, & Artificial Intelligence: Systems for Decision Support" (11th Edition)

Ramesh Sharda is the vice dean of the Watson Graduate School of Management, Watson/ConocoPhillips Chair and a regents professor of management science and information systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. He has...


Louise Siddons

Co-Author of "Authenticity in North America: Place, Tourism, Heritage, Culture and the Popular Imagination"

Louise Siddons (Ph.D., Stanford University), associate professor of art history at Oklahoma State University, teaches courses in American and Native American visual and material culture, as well as the...


Justin Smola

Co-Author a Lead Developer of "Essentials of Firefighting" (Seventh Edition)

Justin Smola is the electronic products manager for Fire Protection Publications at Oklahoma State University. He began his career at Fire Protection Publications in 2007 after graduating Oklahoma State University with a degree in management information...


Libby Snyder

Editor of "Marine Fire Fighting for Land-Based Firefighters" (Third Edition)

Libby Snyder has been an editor at FPP since October 2009. In the office, Libby's favorite parts of a project are the puzzle-like tasks of coordinating all the pieces including formatting, language continuity and committee feedback. Outside of work, Libby likes to...


Ryan Souders

Graphic Designer of "Essentials of Firefighting" (Seventh Edition)

Ryan Souders hails from an entire family of OSU alumni, moving his own to Stillwater in 2011 when he accepted a graphic design position at his alma mater. An avid mountain biker, photographer, fly-fisherman and barely passable guitarist, Ryan enjoys...


Shannon Spaulding

Author of "How We Understand Others: Philosophy and Social Cognition"

Shannon Spaulding is an associate professor of philosophy at Oklahoma State University. Her general philosophical interests are in the philosophy of mind, philosophical psychology and the philosophy of science. The principal goal of her research is to...


Ginger Welch

Author of "How Can I Help? A Teacher's Guide to Early Childhood Behavioral Health"

Dr. Ginger Welch is a licensed psychologist, infant mental health mentor and clinical associate professor in Human Development and Family Science. Her research and clinical interests are in early childhood behavioral health, with particular emphasis on early


Michael Wieder

Author and Editor of "Fire Service Hydraulics and Water Supply" (Third Edition)

Michael A. Wieder currently serves as associate director of Fire Protection Publications (FPP) at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Mike also serves as executive director of the International Fire Service Training Association (IFSTA). Mike has...