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Mara C. Tieken

Associate Professor of Education

college access and persistence, community and parent engagement, community organizing, education organizing, education reform, educational equity, higher education, portraiture, race and class in rural communities, rural communities and schools, rural education

Paul E. Schofield

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Environmental Ethics, ethics, History of Modern Philosophy (esp. Moral and Political), Philosophy of Film, Political Philosophy

Emily W. Kane

Professor of Sociology

childhood studies, community-based research, gender and childhood, gender and parenting, gender and sexuality in the U.S., higher education and the public good, poverty and social policy, public sociology, publicly-engaged scholarship, race and class in the U.S., scholarship on community-engaged pedagogy, sociology of family, sociology of gender

Austin C. Smith

Associate Professor of Economics

Economics of Education, Health Economics, labor economics

Timothy J. Dugan Jr.

Associate Professor of Theater

acting, acting on film, arts education, collaboration, contemporary American drama, directing, Fitzmaurice Voicework, improvisation, Michael Chekhov Technique, performing arts as individual and cultural expression, public speaking, Shakespeare, stage combat, theater and film, voice and speech training for actors

Justine K. Wiesinger

Associate Professor of Japanese

Rebecca Herzig

Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies

digital cultures, gender and sexuality in STEM, higher education, interdisciplinary research methods, material culture, race and racism in STEM, science and technology studies, social studies of medicine, transnational feminisms, US social and cultural history

Krista M. Aronson

Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the Faculty

psychology, psychometric assessment

Carrie Diaz Eaton

Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies

coevolution, complex adaptive systems, Critical AI literacy, development of teaching practice, disease modeling, evolutionary theory, higher education, Interdisciplinary STEM education, Mathematical and Computational Biology, resource-user networks

Jonathan J. Cavallero

Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies

Bollywood, film and television studies, film festivals, issues of diversity equity and inclusion in pedagogy, issues of race and ethnicity in film and television, Italian Americans and media, media aesthetics, media authorship, U.S. cultural history