New Faculty 2012


Berkita Bradford, Ph.D.

Berkita Bradford, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Division of Administration and Economics, has taught in the areas of lodging and event planning management for the past seven years. Her background includes a B.S. in Hotel Restaurant Management, an M.P.A with a concentration in Human Resource Management and a Ph.D. in Hospitality and Tourism. Her research interest is in the areas of entrepreneurship, diversity and heritage tourism.



Keith Cozine, Ph.D.

Keith Cozine, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Homeland and Corporate Security, joins us in the Division of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies. Dr. Cozine earned an M.A. in Criminal Justice and a Ph.D. in Global Affairs from Rutgers University where he also served as a Guest Lecturer. He comes to us from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with over a decade of law enforcement and intelligence experience. His areas of specialization are border security and international cooperation to combat transnational crime and terrorism.



David P. Hedlund, Ph.D.

David P. Hedlund, Ph.D., joins us as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Sport Management. Dr. Hedlund earned his Ph.D. from Florida State University. He has over 15 years of domestic and international experience in sport, business and education. His areas of sport expertise and research include management, marketing, consumer behavior and coaching.



Ying Liu, Ph.D.

Ying Liu, Ph.D., Division of Computer Science, Mathematics and Science, joins us as an Assistant Professor. He received his B.S. in Environmental Biology from Nanjing University, China, and master's degrees in Bioinformatics and Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005. His current research projects include text mining of medical literature databases, creation of databases for biological applications, computational systems biology and data mining for better understanding of genomic/proteomic and medical data. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed research papers in various journals and conferences.