NAME

David Asbury

TITLE

Associate Professor of Music

Specialty

Guitar, Music Theory, Music Technology

NAME

Lamiyah (LB) Bahrainwala

TITLE

Assistant Professor of Communication Studies

Specialty

Whiteness; anti-Muslim sentiment; precarity; feminist surveillance approaches

NAME

Michael Bray

TITLE

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

Reggie Byron

TITLE

Associate Professor of Sociology

Specialty

Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation Stratification; Employment and Campus Climates; Criminology; Quantitative and Qualitative Methods

NAME

Sergio Costola

TITLE

Associate Professor of Theatre

Specialty

Theatre History, Dramaturgy

NAME

Carlos De Oro

TITLE

Associate Professor of Spanish

Specialty

Contemporary Latin American Film, Literatures, and Cultures

NAME

Abby Dings

TITLE

Associate Professor of Spanish

Specialty

Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Interactional Competence

NAME

Erika Grajeda

TITLE

Mellon Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow

NAME

Patrick Hajovsky

TITLE

Associate Professor of Art History

Specialty

Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin America

NAME

Jethro Hernandez Berrones

TITLE

Associate Professor of History

Specialty

Modern Mexico, Latin America, Medicine, Science, Pubic Health, Medical Education, Homeopathy, Global Scientific Networks, Traditional/Popular Healing, Popular Science, Spiritualism/Spiritism

NAME

Phil Hopkins

TITLE

Professor of Philosophy

Specialty

Research: Critical Theory (Culture, Race, Police), Phenomenology of Body, Process Ontology     Teaching: Embodied Self, Identity

NAME

Katie Howard

TITLE

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Specialty

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

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

Kathleen Juhl

TITLE

n/a

Specialty

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

NAME

Jim Kilfoyle

TITLE

Associate Professor of English

Specialty

Eighteenth-century British literature, postcolonial literature, literary theory

NAME

Maria R. Lowe

TITLE

Professor of Sociology

Specialty

Race and racism, racialized spaces, neighborhood surveillance studies, campus climate research (race, gender, and sexual orientation), the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, 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

Allison R. Miller

TITLE

Associate Professor of Art History

Specialty

Chinese art and archaeology

NAME

Alicia Moore

TITLE

Associate Professor of Education

Specialty

Multiculturalism/Culturally Responsive Teaching; Differentiated Instruction for diverse populations; Early Childhood Best Practices

NAME

Sandi Nenga

TITLE

Professor of Sociology

Specialty

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

NAME

Valerie Renegar

TITLE

Associate Professor of Communication Studies

Specialty

Rhetorical theory and criticism, feminist movements, third wave feminism, environmental rhetoric, Kenneth Burke.

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

María de los Ángeles Rodriguez Cadena

TITLE

Associate Professor of Spanish

Specialty

Contemporary Mexican and Latin American Literature and Culture, Cultural memory, Cultural complexes, Historical fiction in literature, film and television, Mexican television and film female directors, Feminist Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Nature and Culture, Environmental Humanities.

NAME

Catherine Bourland Ross

TITLE

Professor of Spanish

Specialty

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

NAME

Eric Selbin

TITLE

Professor of Political Science

Specialty

Comparative Politics (Comparative Revolutions; Contentious Politics; Latin American and Caribbean Politics; Ideologies); International Politics (Peace and Conflict; IR Theory); Political Sociology.

NAME

Brenda Sendejo

TITLE

Associate Professor of Feminist Studies

Specialty

Anthropology of religion, Mexican American spiritualities and indigenous heritage, gender and racialization, and Chicana feminisms. Geographic specialization: U.S. - Mexico Borderlands, Central and South Texas.

NAME

Emily Sydnor

TITLE

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Specialty

political communication, political psychology, political behavior, public opinion