If you are interested in working with me as a potential dissertation advisor, you will find the information available through this page quite helpful. In order to make the dissertation process as effective and enjoyable for both of us as possible, I ask all the people with whom I'm working to keep the following in mind:

1. Before contacting me, check to see if the areas in which I conduct research coincide with the area of the study you would like to conduct. I will only supervise dissertations that fall into my research areas. You can find a list of the general areas in which I have a research interest on the Research page of this web site.
2. If your area of research interest coincides with one of my areas of interest, please contact me by email or phone to ask me to add your name to my Dissertation Tracking System (DTS) queue. GSCIS policy stipulates that dissertation correspondence be conducted via the DTS. Please be aware that you can only work with one advisor at a time and the DTS enforces that policy by limiting a student to being listed in only one instructor's DTS queue at a give time.
3. Please download the "Problem Directed Research Outline" and "Problem Statement Development Guideline" available on this page. Use the "Problem Statement Development Guideline" to develop a pre-idea paper.
4. Be sure to submit the pre-idea paper and all other dissertation documents and correspondence via the DTS.
5. You can generally expect to receive feedback from me on pre-idea papers and idea papers within two weeks of submission. I generally need about a month to review the longer documents (dissertation proposal and dissertation report).