Faculty Directory
![Joyce Inman](/_resources/digital-measures/faculty-images/joyce-inman.jpg)
Dr. Joyce Inman
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
Composition and Rhetoric
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
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![Sherita Johnson](/_resources/digital-measures/faculty-images/sherita-johnson.jpg)
Dr. Sherita Johnson
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
African American Literature and Southern Literature
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
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![Nicolle Jordan](/_resources/digital-measures/faculty-images/nicolle-jordan.jpg)
Nicolle Jordan
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
British literature; 18th-century British literature; women's writing; women's literary history; landscape studies
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
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![Philip Kolin](/_resources/digital-measures/faculty-images/philip-kolin.jpg)
Dr. Philip Kolin
Emeritus
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
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Dr. Brian LaPierre
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
History of Modern Russia
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: History
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![Courtney Luckhardt](/_resources/digital-measures/faculty-images/courtney-luckhardt.jpg)
Dr. Courtney Luckhardt
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
medieval history, 300-1500 CE
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: History
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![Katya Maslakowski](/_resources/digital-measures/faculty-images/katya-maslakowski.jpg)
Dr. Katya Maslakowski
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
Modern British History, History of the British Empire, History of Science and Medicine, Military History, Gender and Sexuality Studies
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: History
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![Bafumiki Mocheregwa placeholder](/_resources/digital-measures/faculty-images/_faculty-profile-placeholder.jpg)
Dr. Bafumiki Mocheregwa
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
Military History of Africa, The Cold War and Decolonization in Africa, Social and Political Histories of Africans
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: History
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Dr. Joseph Nefcy Cheatle
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
Composition, Rhetoric, Professional Writing, Technical Communication, English
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
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![Leah Parker](/_resources/digital-measures/faculty-images/leah-parker.jpg)
Dr. Leah Parker
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
Medieval literature, Old and Middle English, disability studies, history of Christianity
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
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![Jennifer Peterson](/_resources/digital-measures/faculty-images/jennifer-peterson.jpg)
Dr. Jennifer Peterson
Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Expertise
Poetry and poetics; Anglophone Postcolonial Poetry; Teaching First-Year Composition; Teaching Developmental Writing
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
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![Joseph Peterson](/_resources/digital-measures/faculty-images/joseph-peterson.jpg)
Dr. Joseph Peterson
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
Modern France, Imperialism, Religion, and Muslim-Christian encounter
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: History
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![Brad Phillis](/_resources/digital-measures/faculty-images/brad-phillis.jpg)
Dr. Brad Phillis
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
Medieval Flanders; the crusades; social studies pedagogy
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: History
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![Maureen Ryan](/_resources/digital-measures/faculty-images/maureen-ryan.jpg)
Dr. Maureen Ryan
Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
modern and contemporary American Fiction
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
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![Ery Shin](/_resources/digital-measures/faculty-images/ery-shin.jpg)
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Dr. Amy Slagle
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
Christianity (Eastern Orthodoxy), sacred arts and material culture, religious conversion, afterlife beliefs, modern occultism
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: Philosophy and Religion
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![Paula Smithka](/_resources/digital-measures/faculty-images/paula-smithka.jpg)
Dr. Paula Smithka
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
Philosophy of Science--biology; Social/Political Philosophy
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: Philosophy and Religion
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![Emily Stanback](/_resources/digital-measures/faculty-images/emily-stanback.jpg)
Dr. Emily Stanback
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
British Romanticism, 18th- and 19th-century literature, disability studies, health humanities / medical humanities, histories of medicine and science
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
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![Gary Stringer](/_resources/digital-measures/faculty-images/gary-stringer.jpg)
Professor Gary Stringer
Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
English Renaissance Literature; textual and bibliographical studies
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
![Heather Stur](/_resources/digital-measures/faculty-images/heather-stur.jpg)
Dr. Heather Stur
Professor
Areas of Expertise
Diplomatic history, military history, US since 1945, Cold War, Vietnam War, Global War on Terror, women, gender, international relations
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: History
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Dr. Charles Sumner
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
20th and 21st century British Literature
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
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![Kenneth Swope](/_resources/digital-measures/faculty-images/kenneth-swope.jpg)
Professor Kenneth Swope
Professor
Areas of Expertise
Late Imperial Chinese military, political, and social history; Comparative Military History
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: History
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