Full-time Faculty

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  • Marty Abruzzo

    Marty Abruzzo

    Student Services Coordinator

    Career counseling, academic advising, teaching, social justice initiatives and preparing college students for their education and beyond.

B

  • Sophia Balakian

    Sophia Balakian

    Assistant Professor

    Migration and borders, humanitarianism, securitization, kinship and family, East Africa, the Horn of Africa, North America

  • Hideko Hamada Bassett

    Hideko Hamada Bassett

    Academic Advisor

    Assistant Professor

    Social & Emotional Development; Emotion Socialization; School Readiness

C

  • Jeremy M. Campbell

    Jeremy M. Campbell

    Instructor

    Culture, land tenure, and the environment in Amazonia; Indigenous and local knowledge systems; environmental justice; sustainability science and policy; ethnography and sociocultural theory.

  • Christopher Carr

    Christopher Carr

    Instructor

    Leadership policy with STEM and higher education

  • Felicia L. Carr

    Felicia L. Carr

    Instructor

    19th-Century American Popular Culture, Digital Literacy, Digital History

  • Benedict Carton

    Benedict Carton

    Associate Professor

    Africa, South Africa, transnational race, imperialism, cultural and oral history

  • Cher Weixia Chen

    Cher Weixia Chen

    Associate Professor

    International Studies, Legal Studies, and Social Justice and Human Rights

  • David Powers Corwin

    David Powers Corwin

    Assistant Professor

    LGBTQ+ Studies; friendship studies; television studies; trauma rhetoric; Appalachian Studies; gender and sexuality in higher education

D

  • Kelly Dunne

    Kelly Dunne

    Executive Director

    Instructor

    History, Childhood Studies, and Education

E

  • Kim Eby

    Kim Eby

    Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs & Development.

    Community Psychology, Leadership, Faculty Development

F

  • Elizabeth Freeman

    Elizabeth Freeman

    Associate Professor

    Wildlife conservation, behavioral endocrinology, behavioral ecology

  • Samuel L. Frye

    Samuel L. Frye

    Assistant Professor

    Community development, housing access and rights, social policy, hyperlocal governance, entrepreneurship and leadership, and the production of space and place.

  • Al Fuertes

    Al Fuertes

    Professor

    Facilitation and dialog, global education, psychosocial trauma healing, conflict resolution/transformation, theology of struggle, liberation theology, peacebuilding, anti-human trafficking, and displacement issues

G

  • Austin Gallas

    Austin Gallas

    Graduate Lecturer

    Police reform, public sexuality, undercover surveillance, sex work, New York City, social history, archives

  • Diana Carolina García Gómez

    Diana Carolina García Gómez

    Postdoctoral R & T Fellow

    Childhood Studies, Children's Rights, Political Subjectivities and Children, Global Studies, Media Studies, Transitional Contexts.

  • Pamela Watkins Garner

    Pamela Watkins Garner

    Professor

    Social and emotional development of young children

  • Michael Gilmore

    Michael Gilmore

    Associate Professor

    Ethnobiology, community-based conservation, biocultural diversity, sustainable development

H

  • Janet Ha Poirot

    Janet Ha Poirot

    Assistant Professor

  • Sharrell Hassell-Goodman

    Sharrell Hassell-Goodman

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    First-generation college students, Black women in higher education, DEI pedagogy, anti-racist research approaches, social justice advocates in higher education, identity and leadership, and critical participatory action research, and anti-racist/ decolonial research methods

  • Susan Howard

    Susan Howard

    Assistant Professor

    Design-thinking, One Health, global health, sustainability, conservation decision-making, application of social marketing, game-based learning and emerging digital and social technologies for behavior change

J

K

  • Younsung Kim

    Younsung Kim

    Professor

    Environmental governance, climate change policy, corporate environmentalism and public policy, public policy analysis and evaluation

  • Misty Krell

    Misty Krell

    Director of Academic Affairs

    Instructor

L

  • Nicholas Lennon

    Nicholas Lennon

    Director of Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) / Adjunct Professor

    Leadership, Behavioral Ethics, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Ethics, Ethical Decision-Making, Values

  • Nance Lucas

    Nance Lucas

    Associate Professor

    Ethics, positive psychology, and leadership

M

  • Wendi N. Manuel-Scott

    Wendi N. Manuel-Scott

    Professor

    Race, gender, the African American experience, and the history of black women in the Atlantic World

  • Shayna Maskell

    Shayna Maskell

    Associate Professor

    Popular and youth culture, music, social movements, and subcultures.

  • Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron

    Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron

    Assistant Professor

  • Jim McLean

    Jim McLean

    XR Technology | Computational Media | Generative AI

  • Sara Montiel

    Sara Montiel

    Associate Director of Student Services

    Instructor

    Higher education access and retention; first- and second-generation immigrant students; first-generation college students; and women in higher education leadership.

  • Julia G Morelli

    Julia G Morelli

    Instructor

  • Janette Muir

    Janette Muir

    Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education / Associate Professor

    Political communication

O

  • Julie E. Owen

    Julie E. Owen

    Associate Professor

    the intersections of leadership identity and women’s adult development, critical and emancipatory research methods, the scholarship of liberatory leadership teaching and learning.

S

  • Laura Aileen Sauls

    Laura Aileen Sauls

    Assistant Professor

    land rights, forests, biodiversity conservation, climate change, extractive industries, migration, earth observation, political ecology, Central America

  • Julia Madeleine Shadur

    Julia Madeleine Shadur

    Assistant Professor

    Social-emotional development, emotion regulation, parenting, family systems, substance use, children of caregivers with substance use disorders

  • Sharon Spradling

    Sharon Spradling

    Academic Program Coordinator

    Instructor

    Conservation, Sustainability, Geographic Information Sciences, Biogeography, Medical Geography, Entomology

T

  • Kenneth Thompson

    Kenneth Thompson

    Professor

    Literature and popular culture, history of technology and business.

  • Mark Thurston

    Mark Thurston

    Associate Professor

    well-being, consciousness, mindfulness, holistic health, and personal transformation

U

  • Gregory Unruh

    Gregory Unruh

    Arison Chair in Values Leadership

    Associate Professor

    Sustainable Business Strategy and Social Innovation

V

  • Levi Van Sant

    Levi Van Sant

    Assistant Professor

    Environmental Justice; Food and Agriculture; Sustainability; Conservation Science and Policy; Critical Theory

W

  • Andrew Wingfield

    Andrew Wingfield

    Associate Professor

    Fiction and nonfiction writing, sustainability studies

  • Thomas C Wood

    Thomas C Wood

    Associate Professor

    Conservation Studies

Y

  • Aoi Yamanaka

    Aoi Yamanaka

    Academic Advisor

    Associate Director of Academic Services

    Assistant Professor

    social justice issues in higher education, cultural leadership, and civic engagement in a diverse environment