Program Contacts 
McNair Graduate Opportunity Program
University of New Hampshire
Stoke Hall, A-103
11 Garrison Avenue
Durham NH 03824-3511
Phone: (603) 862-0088
Fax: (603) 862-1927
E-Mail: mcnair.program@unh.edu
McNair Program Staff
MARSHA M. GUILLORY BRYANT, Program Assistant
Phone: (603) 862-0088
E-mail: marsha.bryant@unh.edu
Marsha received her bachelor’s degree in 1996 from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her degree is in General Studies with minors in Psychology, Sociology and Health Science. Through her involvement with several non-profit organizations, she crossed over to education. In 1999, she completed the post- baccalaureate early education certification program at Louisiana State University.
After teaching for two and a half years, she enrolled in the Master of Education program at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. Marsha earned an M. Ed. in Early Childhood Education. Currently, she is an Ed. D. candidate at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in the Child and Family Studies Program. Her dissertation study will focus on the attitudes of pre-service teachers towards mathematics and the impact of their attitudes on the teaching methods used in their classrooms.
Marsha began her involvement with the McNair Graduate Opportunity Program at the University of New Hampshire as a Program Support Assistant in the spring of 2007. Marsha is married. Her husband, Timothy Bryant, is a faculty member at the University of New Hampshire. Together she and her husband have one adorable and brilliant son. When time permits, she enjoys playing tennis, cooking, watching professional and collegiate sports (especially football, basketball, tennis) and baking.
ANTONIO HENLEY, Director
Phone: (603) 862-0088
E-mail: mcnair.director@unh.edu
Although Antonio's academic background is in psychology, he crossed over to education through his professional involvement in federal TRIO programs, of which McNair is the capstone. Beginning as a tutor with the Educational Talent Search program while finishing the senior undergraduate year, he discovered his passion in connecting students to their own life goals. Upon graduation he was employed as a counselor for the Upward Bound program at Cameron University (where he earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees) and was promoted to Assistant Director. He later moved to New Hampshire to take an Associate Director position with the Upward Bound program at Keene State College before transitioning to the UNH community. He continues to immensely enjoy his work with TRIO programs as it allows him to practice his unique brand of recreational psychology.
Antonio is married and together he and his wife parent five saintly bundles of human joy. When time permits, he enjoys soccer, tennis and downhill skiing. Antonio is also an education Ph.D. candidate at the university.
DR. CÉSAR REBELLÓN, Senior Faculty Advisor
Phone: (603) 862-4850
E-mail: cesar.rebellon@unh.edu
Dr. Rebellon received his Ph.D. from Emory University in 2002. He is a faculty member in the sociology department. His primary research interest involves testing theories of crime and deviance using quantitative methods. In particular, he is interested in examining the manner in which the family and peer contexts influence delinquent behavior among adolescents. His recent publications appear in Criminology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and Justice Quarterly. His current research includes a project aimed at determining whether marijuana use really serves as a "gateway" to the use of "harder" substances, a project aimed at determining the degree to which parental physical abuse promotes delinquency, a project aimed at determining whether delinquency serves to attract the reinforcing attention of peer audiences, and a project examining the relationship between unemployment and crime.
KUHIO WALTERS, Intern Advisor
Phone: (603) 862-0002
E-mail: kuhiow@hotmail.com
Kuhio Walters is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of New Hampshire. His dissertation examines ways educators can use photography to teach writing. As a writing teacher, he is interested in the ways photography motivates our attitudes toward beauty, as well as the ways it can encourage particular kinds of personal and national remembering (and forgetting). As a hack photographer, he hopes to become both more artful and more accurate with his own camera. (At the moment, he will stick to teaching.)
Kuhio was a McNair scholar at California State University, Fresno, in 1998. His McNair research examined the writing habits of students who had failed the required, written exam in Fresno’s public high school system. Kuhio's time in those classrooms—working closely with those students, teachers, and his faculty mentor—helped him see literacy as a tool of power, and the teaching of writing as a way to put a bit of that power into the hands of students.
DESIREÉ WIESEN, Intern Advisor
Phone: (603) 862-0002
E-mail: drd33@unh.edu
Desiree' received her bachelor's degree in corrections and political science at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where she also received her M.A. in sociology. Her master's thesis entitled "From Grassroots to Business Suits" The Professionalization of the Battered Women's Movement explored tensions that domestic violence program employees may feel because of the grassroots foundation of the battered women's movement and the professionalization of their work. During the last year of her undergraduate study and through her master's degree she worked for Crime Victim Services, Inc. The non-profit victim service agency focuses on providing advocacy to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and general crime.
Desiree' is currently a Ph.D. student in sociology at UNH. When she is not studying, she enjoys spending time with her partner Christopher. Together they have been enjoying the process of getting to know New England.
