Elay Shech Aurora Juliet Weaver Department of Philosophy, Department of Communication Assistant Professor Disorders, Assistant Professor – Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh – Ph.D., Ohio University – M.A., University of Pittsburgh – Au.D., Ohio University – B.A., Boston University – B.S., Ohio University Research interests: philosophy of Research interests: developmental science, philosophy of physics, psychoacoustics, auditory training, philosophy of mathematics, auditory working memory bioethics, the role of values in science

Diana Sisson School of Communication and Journalism, Assistant Professor – Ph.D., University of South Carolina – M.S., Virginia Commonwealth University – B.S., Virginia Commonwealth University Research interests: public relations, organization-public relationships, relationship management, ethics, social media

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www.cla.auburn.edu Melissa Estes Blair Anton DiSclafani Leigh Gruwell Brian Nowell Department of History, Department of English, Department of English, Department of Psychology, Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Lecturer – Ph.D., University of Virginia – M.F.A., Washington University in – Ph.D., Miami University – Ph.D., University of Georgia – M.A., University of Virginia St. Louis – M.A., Florida State University – M.S., University of Georgia – B.A., University of Kentucky – B.A., Emory University – B.A., Florida State University – B.S., University of South Florida Research interests: US women’s Research interests: fiction and creative Research interests: multimodal Research interests: interpersonal face and gender history, post-1945 US nonfiction composing, feminist rhetorics, digital and body attraction, developmental political history rhetorics, writing program understanding and prevention of administration, research bullying, multimodal deception Brett Remkus Britt Benjamin Fagan methodologies detection, media effects on morality Department of Political Science, shifting, positive cognitive Department of English, Visiting Assistant Professor Andrea Kelley reprogramming – Ph.D., University of Delaware Assistant Professor School of Communication and – Ph.D., University of Virginia – M.S., Auburn University Journalism, Assistant Professor Michael Pendowski – B.A., University of Iowa Montgomery – Ph.D., Indiana University Department of Music, Research interests: African – B.A., Troy University – M.A., Indiana University Assistant Professor American literature, early American Research interests: international – B.A., Columbia University – D.M.A., Eastman School of Music literature, print culture norms, human rights, gender and Research interests: US cinema and – M.M., Northwestern University sexuality screen culture, media history and – B.M.E., Northwestern University criticism, critical race theory, Julia Charles Research interests: theoretical study of cultural studies jazz saxophonists in the 20th century, Department of English, Jonathan Fisk Assistant Professor composition of instrumental and folk Department of Political Science, chamber music, video and film scoring – Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Assistant Professor Michael Koliska – M.A., University of Massachusetts – Ph.D., Colorado State University School of Communication and – M.A., North Carolina A&T State – M.P.A., University of Kansas Journalism, Assistant Professor University Tal Peretz – B.S., Morningside College – Ph.D., University of Maryland Department of Sociology, – B.A., Bennett College Research interests: environmental, – M.S., University of Illinois at th th Anthropology and Social Work, Research interests: 19 and 20 energy and water policy, state and Urbana-Champaign century African American literature, Assistant Professor local government, fracking, public – M.A., Otto-von-Guericke – Ph.D., University of Southern African American literary movements, administration/management, University Magdeburg, Germany black women writers, critical race California intergovernmental relations/ Research interests: transparency and – M.A., University of Southern studies, early African American print federalism trust in journalism, algorithmic culture California transparency in digital and social – B.S., Pennsylvania State University media, negotiating legitimacy between Research interests: social inequality, Eun Ji “Angie” Chung Nikki Gross news institutions and audiences intersectional feminism, social justice School of Communication and Department of Music, movements, men and masculinities Journalism, Assistant Professor Assistant Director of Athletic Bands Rose McLarney – Ph.D., Syracuse University – D.M.A., University of South Department of English, Rachel Perry – M.S., Northwestern University Carolina Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Languages and – B.A., Ewha Womans University – M.M., West Virginia University – M.F.A., Warren Wilson College Literatures, Lecturer Research interests: strategic – B.M., West Virginia University – B.A., Warren Wilson College – PgCert., University of Virginia communication, organizational Interests: conducting, music Research interests: contemporary – M.A., University of Virginia communication, multicultural public education, musical arts poetry, Appalachian and Southern – B.A., University of Virginia relations, crisis communication literature and culture, ecopoetics Research interests: feminist and queer critical theory, literary instances of female suicide, intertextuality, Kate Craig Jonathan Green Harrison Meadows comparative literature Department of History, Department of Foreign Languages and Department of Foreign Languages Assistant Professor Literatures, Lecturer and Literatures, Daren E. Ray – Ph.D., University of California – Ph.D., University of Illinois Visiting Assistant Professor Department of History, Los Angeles – M.A., University of Illinois – Ph.D., University of Colorado at Assistant Professor – M.A., University of California – B.A., Brigham Young University Boulder – Ph.D., University of Virginia Los Angeles Research interests: medieval and early – M.A., Auburn University – M.A., University of Virginia – B.S., California Institute of modern German literature, – B.A., Furman University – B.A., Brigham Young University Technology Reformation Era prophetic texts, early Research interests: early modern Research interests: Islam and Research interests: medieval European printing, quantitative methods in Spain, theater, folklore, the history ethnicity in Africa, world history, history, history of Christianity, science book history of ideas historical linguistics and history, digital humanities

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