NAME

Erika Berroth

TITLE

Associate Professor of German

NAME

Michael Bray

TITLE

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Specialty

Political Philosophy; Critical Theory

NAME

Melissa Byrnes

TITLE

Associate Professor of History

Specialty

Modern European History, France and the French Empire, Migration, Muslims and the Islamic World, Human Rights, Humanitarianism

NAME

Eileen Cleere

TITLE

Professor of English

Specialty

Victorian literature and culture, the novel, film studies, feminist studies.

NAME

Elaine Craddock

TITLE

Professor of Religion

Specialty

Hinduism; Feminism and Religion; Tamil literature; Religion and the Body

NAME

Kristyn Goldberg

TITLE

Visiting Instructor of Communication Studies

NAME

Erika Grajeda

TITLE

Mellon Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow

NAME

Laura Hobgood

TITLE

Professor of Religion

Specialty

Animals in the history of the Christian tradition; human-dog history; contemporary religious-ethical issues related to other-than-human animals; religion and ecology; environmental studies; Ecofeminism; human-animal studies; alternative religious experiences (i.e. cycling as religion)

NAME

Phil Hopkins

TITLE

Professor of Philosophy

Specialty

Research: Critical Media Studies: Ancient Greek philosophy, Teaching: Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Literature, Philosophy of Science

NAME

Katie Howard

TITLE

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Specialty

Feminist Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Affect Theory, History of Philosophy

NAME

Jessica Hower

TITLE

Associate Professor of History

Specialty

Early Modern Europe, Britain and Ireland, The British Empire, The Atlantic World, Comparative Colonialism, Women & Gender

NAME

Joseph E. Hower

TITLE

Assistant Professor of History

Specialty

U.S. History, Labor and Politics in Modern America, Social Movements, Urban History, Policy History

NAME

Melissa Johnson

TITLE

Professor of Anthropology

Specialty

Topical: Nature, the more than human and the human; Race and Racism; Environment; Conservation; Development; Social Theory; Environmental History; Tourism; Gender. Area: Belize; Caribbean; U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; Central Texas

NAME

Kathleen Juhl

TITLE

Professor of Theatre

Specialty

Acting, Directing, Voice, Dialects, Alexander Technique, Performance Studies, Theatre for Social Justice, Feminist Performance

NAME

Joshua Long

TITLE

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies

Specialty

Urban Studies, Environmental Politics and Policy, Climate Justice, Spatial Theory and Place-Based Studies, Sustainability Discourses

NAME

Maria R. Lowe

TITLE

Professor of Sociology

Specialty

Race and racism, surveillance studies, community and urban sociology, campus climate research (race, gender, and sexual orientation), the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, social movements and activism, and gender inequalities and identities.

NAME

Shannon Mariotti

TITLE

Professor of Political Science

Specialty

19th Century American Transcendentalism, American Political Thought, Critical Social Theory (20th century Marxism and the Frankfurt School), Democratic Theory and Practice, Democratic Pedagogy, Gender Politics and Feminist Political Theory, The Politics of Romanticism and Modernism, Neoliberalism, Buddhist Political Theory and Buddhist Modernism, Contemplative Practices and Embodied Social Change. 

NAME

Ken Mello

TITLE

Associate Professor of Religion

Specialty

• Native American religious traditions
• Folklore
• Contemporary Native Identity
• Sacred Space
• Gender and Sexuality
• Myth and Narrative
• Other non-textual religious traditions.

NAME

Helene Meyers

TITLE

Professor of English and Holder of McManis University Chair

Specialty

Jewish American Literature and Film, Feminist Theory, Gothic Studies, Interdisciplinarity and the Liberal Arts in the 21st Century

NAME

Sandi Nenga

TITLE

Professor of Sociology

Specialty

Children and youth; social class; volunteer work and civic engagement; qualitative methods

NAME

Aaron Prevots

TITLE

Associate Professor of French

Specialty

All levels of French language, literature and culture. French feminisms; poetry; novels; music; film; translation. Interdisciplinary coursework including through International Studies and the Paideia program.

NAME

Omar Rivera

TITLE

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Specialty

Latin American Philosophy (Pre-Columbian to 21st Century, including Latin American Marxisms), Latinx Philosophy,19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy (especially Phenomenology and Hermeneutics), Decolonial Philosophy (Epistemology, Race Theory, Feminist Theory), Aesthetics (including Latin American and Latinx Art), Ancient Greek Philosophy

NAME

Catherine Bourland Ross

TITLE

Professor of Spanish

Specialty

Post-Franco Spanish literature, twentieth and twenty-first century peninsular Spanish literature and film. 

NAME

Kimberly Smith

TITLE

Professor of Art History

Specialty

Modern German and Austrian art; feminist art history; art historiography