Ph.D. Music Theory, 1978, The University of Iowa
M.A. Composition, 1973, The University of Iowa
B.M. Composition, 1971, The University of Tulsa

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Gordon McQuere, Phone: (785) 670-1561
Email: gordon.mcquere@washburn.edu

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Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Bruce D. Mactavish
Bruce D. Mactavish received his education from Winter Park High School, Winter Park, Florida, Furman University, and the University of Mississippi. Prior to joining the History Department at Washburn, he taught at the University of Alabama and Kansas University. Dr. Mactavish teaches survey classes in American history, Civil War America, American West, African-American history and the Market Revolution in comparative perspective. He is an Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and acting chair of the Mass Media Department. Current research projects include an invited essay on reconstruction and gilded age Kansas for Kansas History, a study of the impact of the Civil War on a southern community, a book manuscript focusing on community life in nineteenth-century northern Mississippi.
    Dr. Mactavish and his wife, Margaret Hawthorne, along with two horses, two cows, four dogs, and one cat live along the Santa Fe Trail in rural Osage county where they raise gourds, pheasants, and sunflowers.

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Ph.D., History, 1993, University of Mississippi
M.A., History, 1988 University of Mississippi
B.A., History, 1983, Furman University

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Bruce Mactavish , Phone: (785) 670-1636
Email: bruce.mactavish@washburn.edu

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Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Laura Stephenson
Laura A. Stephenson received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Goucher College. Both her master’s and Ph.D. are in clinical (child) psychology from the University of Kansas. She completed her predoctoral internship training at the Texas Research Institute for Mental Sciences, Houston Child Guidance Center and the M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas. Dr. Stephenson joined the Washburn Department of Psychology faculty in 1985 and teaches undergraduate courses in abnormal psychology, child psychopathology, and psychology of marriage and family processes. Her graduate course offerings have included child, family, and marital therapy; intellectual and diagnostic assessment of children; and internship supervision. Her research interests are in child clinical psychology, family therapy, and health psychology. Dr. Stephenson was appointed Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 2004.

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Ph.D., Clinical (Child) Psychology, 1985, University of Kansas
M.A., Clinical Psychology, 1982 University of Kansas
B.A., Psychology, 1978 Goucher College

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Laura Stephenson, Phone: (785) 670-1633
Email: laura.stephenson@washburn.edu

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