Contact Team members at:

MATRIX
Michigan State University
310 Auditorium
East Lansing, MI 48824-1120
Phone: (517) 355-9300
Fax: (517) 355-8363

 

Dean Rehberger
Project Coordinator
E-mail: rehberger@mail.matrix.msu.edu
Home Phone: (517) 347-7372

Dr. Rehberger received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1992. He is Assistant Professor of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University. His research interests include American studies methods, nationalism, Civil War, American studies/literature 1800-1950. He is Associate Director of Matrix. Mr. Rehberger's recent publications include: Living Texts on the Web: A Return to the Rhetorical Arts of Annotation and Commonplace, Weaving the Virtual Web, NCTE 1999, and Introduction to the Civil War Novel Cudjo's Cave (1863), U of Alabama P, 2000.

 

Scott Pennington
Project Assistant (Education, Computer and Interface Design)
E-mail: pennin33@msu.edu

Scott Pennington is a web and educational specialist at MATRIX. He has taught Internet design and research at Michigan State University and has designed sites for MSU faculty and departments, several state organizations and numerous commercial sites. He specializes in faculty training, instructional technologies and online educational resources. He is currently working on the National Gallery of the Spoken Word and is project leader for Africa Online, a resource of primary documents, course materials, and educational development tools for K-12 educators (Civics, Social Studies, and History).

 

Bartek Plichta
Project Assistant (Library and Engineering)
E-mail: plichtab@msu.edu

Bartek Plichta is a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at MSU. He has taught and done research in sociolinguistics, syntax, and applied phonetics. His current areas of interest include morphosyntactic and phonological variation in African American English and American Polish. He has designed a web site for the USIS Civic Education Project, "Civitas: Internet Civic Education for Poland."

 

Joe Cords
Project Secretary (Scheduling, Travel, and Updates)
E-mail: cordsj@msu.edu

Joe has worked for Matrix/H-Net since July of 1999. Joe’s duties include providing clerical support for the office, managing high volumes of e-mail correspondence and database entry, greeting visitors and providing assistance, scheduling appointments, supervising student employees, ordering office supplies, as well as other inter-office duties. Previously, Joe was in the Supply and Fiscal Division of the U.S. Navy, where he was stationed in Okinawa Japan. He lived in San Diego for the last 8 years before becoming part of our team.

 

Jacque Shoppel
Project Back-Up Contact
Email: shoppell@msu.edu

Jacque is an Administrative Assistant at MATRIX. She has worked at Michigan State University since 1984. Jacque joined Matrix/H-Net in March, 1996. Jacque is responsible for the accounting records for MATRIX, including budget forecasting, account reconciliation, grant reporting, and serving as liaison with MSU’s accounting and contracts & grants departments, and various federal granting agencies including NSF, NEH, USIA, USIS.