Full-time Faculty

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  • Ann L Ardis

    Ann L Ardis

    Dean

    Professor

    British modernism; technologies of culture; periodical press history; gender

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  • LaNitra M Berger

    LaNitra M Berger

    Associate Professor

    Art of the African Diaspora, African-American art history, South African modern art, Intersections of the African and Jewish Diasporas, lynching photography, art and social activism, African and African American Studies, social justice and international education, women artists, racial injustice and public monuments and memorials

  • Theresa Gielissen Bloodworth

    Theresa Gielissen Bloodworth

    Instructor

    English as a Second Language, English for Academic Purposes, Business English

  • Lisa C Breglia

    Lisa C Breglia

    Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs

    Associate Professor

    Globalization; Energy, Environment and Sustainability; Political economy of resources; Museums, Heritage, Cultural Policy; Tourism; Mexico, Latin America; Ethnography

  • Alecia Bryan

    Alecia Bryan

    Director of Advancement Communication

    Instructor

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  • Charles Chavis

    Charles Chavis

    Assistant Professor

  • Janice M. Cohen

    Janice M. Cohen

    Director, Finance & Research Operations

    Instructor

  • Danny Collier

    Danny Collier

    Director of IT and Web Development

    Assistant Professor

  • David Powers Corwin

    David Powers Corwin

    Assistant Professor

    LGBTQ Studies; feminist and queer theory; friendship studies; television studies; trauma rhetoric; gender and sexuality in Appalachia; role of gender equity centers in higher education

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  • Raymond M Davis

    Raymond M Davis

    Associate Director for Major Gifts

    Instructor

  • Kimberly S Dight

    Kimberly S Dight

    Executive Director of Finance and Human Resources

    Instructor

  • Shannon C. Donohue

    Shannon C. Donohue

    Associate Director of Development

    Instructor

  • Caitlin Dungan

    Caitlin Dungan

    Instructor

    Digital rhetoric, empathy and video games, intersections of queer theory and video games, performativity and embodiment in gaming, the queer history of horror

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  • Kristen Koehler

    Kristen Koehler

    Assistant Dean, Strategic Communications and Marketing

    Instructor

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  • Rachel E Lindsey

    Rachel E Lindsey

    Assistant Director, Career Education, Career Services and CHSS Undergraduate Academic Affairs

    Instructor

  • Angelina Locker

    Angelina Locker

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Biocultural archaeology; migration; kinship; social complexity, legitimization of power; isotope geochemistry; ancient DNA; memory; place-making; mortuary archaeology; archaeological science; human-environment interaction; resilience; household and settlement archaeology. Geographic foci include Belize, Mesoamerica, and Romania.

  • Troy J. Lowery

    Troy J. Lowery

    Director of Student Outreach

    Instructor

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  • Alice Magelssen-Green
  • Erin McSherry

    Erin McSherry

    Assistant Dean for Student Success

    Instructor

  • Leeya Mehta

    Leeya Mehta

    Instructor

    Nationalism, intergenerational trauma, and breaking cycles of violence through individual and civic agency. Mehta's column, The Company We Keep, on the reading and writing life, appears in the Independent, exploring the life of social justice and the contemporary imagination.

  • Irene Mills

    Irene Mills

    Associate Director of Budget

    Instructor

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  • Shyam V Patel

    Shyam V Patel

    Assistant Professor

  • Rashmi Pershad

    Rashmi Pershad

    Associate Director of Pre-Award Research Administration

    Instructor

    Research administration:operations, proposal submission, training and compliance

  • Christy L Pichichero

    Christy L Pichichero

    Director of Faculty Diversity

    Associate Professor

    Early Modern, Enlightenment, Revolutionary History, Literature, Art, & Music of the French Empire; Theories, Histories, and Practices of African Diaspora; Slavery & its Afterlives; War & Culture; Critical Race & Mixed-Race Studies; Gender & Sexuality; Human Rights & Social Justice; Theater; Film; Digital Humanities; Medical History; History of Emotion; Women’s Writing & History; History of News & Information Networks; Critical Pedagogy; Inclusive Pedagogy & Curricular Design; Student/Faculty Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Wellbeing; Faculty, Graduate, Undergraduate Recruitment, Retention, & Mentoring; Academic and Community Activism, Academe & Politics.

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  • Marguerite Rippy

    Marguerite Rippy

    Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs

    Associate Professor

    Classic cinema, Orson Welles and the origins of "truthiness" in performance, transindigenous adaptations of Shakespeare, and performing gendered and racialized sexualities from Shakespeare to Hollywood.

  • Andrew E Rudd

    Andrew E Rudd

    Assistant Professor

    Basic Course

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  • Michele S. Schwietz

    Michele S. Schwietz

    Associate Dean for Research

    Instructor

    Internationalization of the Academic Profession, Qualitative and Ethnographic Research, Higher Education Administration

  • Olga Shchepina

    Olga Shchepina

    Associate Director, Post Award Services

    Instructor

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