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The following is by subject and not necessarily by department.
Ancient Mediterranean Studies
- Geoff Bakewell: Ancient Greece and its history, literature and religion
- Joseph Jansen: Athenian political and economic history
- Ariel Lopez: Late Antiquity, ancient/late antique Egypt, Coptic, papyri
- Susan Satterfield: Roman Republican history and religion
- David Sick: Spoken Latin, comparative mythology, early Christianity
Art and Art History
- Victor Coonin: Renaissance, Baroque and Medieval art history
- Karl Erickson: Art, studio art, digital art, animation, video
- Erin Harmon: Painting, self-portraiture, pop culture
- David McCarthy: Modern, contemporary and American art history
Biology
- Michael Collins: Ecology, wildlife biology, ornithology, invasive species, conservation biology, evolution
- Terry Hill: Biology of fungi, microbiology, cell biology
- Mary Miller: Genetics and cancer biology
Business-Commerce-Economics-Finance-Management
- Dee Birnbaum: Personnel/human resource management, occupations and careers, health care careers, nursing shortage, hospital administration, employee motivation, leadership, organizational design, organizational performance and attitudes
- Marshall Gramm: Regulation, mortgage lending, betting markets, equine industries
Chemistry
- Darlene Loprete: Biochemistry
- Larryn Peterson: Organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry
Educational Studies
- Zachary A. Casey: Multicultural education, race and racism, teacher education, critical pedagogy, equity in schools, teacher professional development
- Laura Kelly: Education, literacy, bilingual education, English as a second language
- Laura Taylor: Early/Elementary literacy, high-stakes testing, literacy policy, writing instruction
English
- Gordon Bigelow: Nineteenth century British and Irish literature, cultural studies
- Marshall Boswell: Twentieth century American literature, contemporary fiction, creative writing
- Lori Garner: Old English language and literature; oral traditions
- Scott Newstok: Shakespeare, adaptation, lyric poetry, rhetoric
- Leslie Petty: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century American literature, feminist theory, cultural studies, feminist activism in American fiction
- Jason Richards: Early and antebellum American literature, Gothic studies, critical race theory
- Rashna Richards: American film history, critical theory, transnational cultural studies, visual culture
- Seth Rudy: Eighteenth century British poetry & prose, encyclopedism genre
- Brian Shaffer: Twentieth century British literature and Irish literature
- Caki Wilkinson: Twentieth century American literature, contemporary poetry, creative writing
Health Equity
- Duane T. Loynes Sr.: Bias in healthcare, clinical determinants of health, racial disparities in health conditions/access/delivery
- Peter Hossler: Health equity, health care safety net, COVID-19, the nonprofit sector, opioid crisis
- Kendra G. Hotz: Health disparities caused by structural injustice (racism, poverty), social determinants of health (housing, food, transportation, environmental hazards), religion and health, bias in healthcare settings and the history of medicine
History
- Timothy Huebner: American South, U.S. Constitutional/legal history, American civil war/reconstruction
- Sarah Ifft Decker: Medieval Europe; Jewish history; women and gender
- Jeffrey Jackson: Modern Europe, modern France, history of jazz, urban history, history of natural disasters
- Jonathan Judaken: History of Ideas, Jews and Judaism, existentialism, racism, anti-Semitism, Holocaust
- Tait Keller: Environmental history, war and society
- Michael LaRosa: Contemporary Latin America, Colombia, Catholic Church history
- Seok-Won Lee: Modern Asia
- Charles W. McKinney Jr.: African American history, civil rights movement, 20th century social and political history, social change in the United States
- Robert Saxe: U.S. history since 1945, World War II, and U.S. political history
- Lynn Zastoupil: Modern Britain, India/Pakistan, European intellectual history
International Studies
- Dee Birnbaum: Women in the Middle East, Middle East culture, the meaning of amulets, symbols and dress in the Middle East and Central Asia
- Stephen Ceccoli: International relations, international political economy, comparative public policy, pharmaceutical industry
- Chien-Kai Chen: Political economy of East Asian countries, international politics of East Asia, China’s domestic politics and foreign relations, China-Taiwan-US relations, Taiwan studies
- Shadrack W. Nasong′o: African politics, international relations, comparative politics, conflict studies, ethnicity and nationalism, democratization, social movements
- Amy Risley: Latin American politics, comparative politics, migration policy, children’s rights, civil society and social movements
Mathematics and Computer Science
- Eric Gottlieb: Algebraic combinatorics
- Chris Mouron: Topology, continuum theory, discrete dynamical systems
- Betsy Sanders: Virtual environments, computer graphics, animation, and image processing
- Christopher Seaton: Orbifolds, singular spaces, symplectic quotients, differential geometry, differential topology, invariant theory
- Catie Welsh: Computational biology, bioinformatics, data mining
Modern Languages and Literatures
- Eric Henager: Spanish language and Spanish-American literature
- Alexandra Kostina: Russian language and literature, linguistics, Russian folklore
- Han Li: Chinese language and literature, contemporary Asian media and cinema, material culture
- Abou-Bakar Mamah: French language, Francophone Sub-Saharan African literature and film, African diaspora, migrations studies
- Elizabeth Pettinaroli: Spanish-speaking cultures and language, environmental humanities, extractivism, colonialism and neocolonialism, globalization, Spatial studies, visual culture and literature
- Yinyin Xue: Chinese language and literature, modern China, East Asian popular culture, Sinophone cinema, environmental humanities
Music
- John Bass: Jazz studies, regional music studies, music history, guitar
- Carole Blankenship: Voice, vocal literature, American music, the songs of Paul Bowles
- Thomas Bryant: Piano, music theory and literature
- Courtenay Harter: Prokofiev′s piano sonatas, music theory, music history, oboe, English horn, chamber music (woodwind quintet), orchestra, wind ensemble
- Vanessa Rogers: Music, opera, classical music, pop music
- William Skoog: Conducting, choral studies and literature
Philosophy
- Daniel Cullen: Political Ideologies; Liberalism and Conservatism; Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom; Ethical Dimensions of Public Policy Issues; American Constitutionalism and Civic Education
Physics
- Shubho Banerjee: Theoretical physics, material science
- Brent Hoffmeister: Ultrasonics, medical physics
- Dave Rupke: Astronomy and astrophysics, climate change
- Ann Viano: Solid state physics, biomaterials
Politics-Government-Law-American Scene
- Marcus Pohlmann: Education policy, racial politics, civil rights, civil liberties
- Stephen Wirls: Congress, American politics, political theory, U.S. Constitution, city charters
Psychology
- Rebecca Klatzkin: Binge eating disorder, relationship between neuroendocrine and cardiovascular stress responses and food consumption
- Natalie Person: Educational psychology, instructional technologies, artificial intelligence
- Katherine White: Psychology and aging, language and cognition
Religious Studies
- Thomas Bremer: Religious history of the Americas, sacred space, religious tourism
- Patrick Gray: New Testament, religious conversion, Christianity, the Bible and popular culture
- Stephen Haynes: Holocaust studies, religion and racism, addiction and recovery, mass incarceration
- John Kaltner: Arabic, Islam, Catholicism, Bible
- Steven McKenzie: Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), archaeology and the Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls
- Bernadette McNary-Zak: Early Christianity
- Sarah Rollens: Early Christianity, historical Jesus, Gospels, apocalyptic thought, ideas about the afterlife, religion in ancient Rome, the formation of the Bible, theories of religious belief and practice
- Brooke Schedneck: Buddhism, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Meditation, Religious Tourism
Urban Studies
- Austin Harrison: Housing, urban policy, neighborhood change (structural disinvestment, gentrification), community development/community organizing, urban development
- Kendra G. Hotz: Faith and health, Christian ethics, history of Christian theology; healthcare equity
- Duane T. Loynes Sr.: Black communities and law enforcement, Black philosophy and religion, Christian history and theology, social protest movements (e.g., Black Lives Matter)