Alessandro Cunsolo
Position title: Teaching Faculty III
Email: cunsolo@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 263-2637
Website: Scholar
Instructional Staff
Instructional staff who are not temporary (e.g. not outside TAs).
Carrie Francis
Position title: Dir of Intro & Service Courses
Pronouns: she/her
Email: cfrancis2@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-8696
Mitch McNanna
Position title: Teaching Specialist
Email: mcnanna@wisc.edu
Website: Observational Cosmology
Steve Narf
Position title: Lecture Demonstration
Email: srnarf@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-3898
Websites: Lecture/Demo, Physics Museum
Jim Reardon
Position title: Director of Undergraduate Program
Email: reardon@physics.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-0945
Jeffrey Schmidt
Position title: Distinguished Teaching Faculty
Email: jrschmi2@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 890-2004
Benjamin Spike
Position title: Director of Active Learning
Email: btspike@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-2052
Websites: Home Page, REACH Program
Dr. Spike oversees the implementation of active learning techniques in large-enrollment service courses including Physics 103 and 104. Since joining the physics department in January 2017, Dr. Spike led the transition to design-based laboratory activities in Physics 103/104. Dr. Spike received his Ph.D in physics from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2014, having previously earned a B.S. in physics and mathematics from UW-Madison in 2007. Before returning to Madison, he previously served as Academic Coordinator & Lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley.