Department of Focused Inquiry

College of Humanities and Sciences

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Katy Hanggi

Chair

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Elizabeth Fagan

Associate Chair

and Associate Professor

ancient history and archaeology

material culture

narratives

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Michael Abelson

Professor

and Faculty Development Coordinator

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Melissa Allen

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow

Media and identity construction

college student development theory

identity development of LGBTQ+ college students

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Bonnie Boaz

Associate Professor

Service Learning

Multimodal Composition

Digital Media

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Tara Bray

Associate Professor

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Rachel Brown

Graduate Teaching Assistant

literature as physical artifacts

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Tara Shea Burke

Assistant Professor

Ungrading

Multimodal and Multigenre Writing

Queer Lit and Contemporary Poetry

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Joe Cates

Assistant Professor

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Frank Cha

Associate Professor

multiethnic communities in the US South

Asian American studies

racial equity in higher education

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Jason Coats

Assistant Professor

Anglo-American modernist literature

poetry

literary theory

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Leslie Cohen-Gee

Assistant Professor

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Jason Corner

Associate Professor

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Meriah Crawford

Professor

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Michaux Dempster

Assistant Professor

and Common Book Coordinator

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Ywone Edwards-Ingram

Assistant Professor

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Jennifer Selman Flanagan

Associate Professor

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Jamie Fueglein

Assistant Professor

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Joshua Galligan

Assistant Professor

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Julianne Guillard

Associate Professor

and Curriculum Coordinator

Critical pedagogy

Leadership studies

Qualitative research

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Mary Lou Hall

Associate Professor

Power Dynamics and Learning in the American Classroom/ Race

Class and Ethnicity in American Higher Ed

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Blayne Harcey

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow

Material Culture

Asian Religions and Cultures

Cultural Heritage and International Development

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Christian Horlick

Associate Professor

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Christopher Jackson

Associate Professor

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Joan Kalyan

Assistant Professor

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Jake Khoury

Assistant Professor

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Jason Kirby

Assistant Professor

American Roots Music

Popular Music in Media

Film Soundtracks

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Jo-Jo Koo

Assistant Professor

critical thinking

ethics

philosophy

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Beth Kreydatus

Professor

Environmental justice

community and socially engaged teaching

U.S. history

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Sara Laws

Assistant Professor

20th-century

American Poetry

Transpacific Poetry

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Deidra Lee

Assistant Professor

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Kiara Lee

Assistant Professor

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Hilary Levinson

Assistant Professor

and Coordinator, UTA Program

Memory and Monuments

Latin American and Latinx Literature

Translation

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José Peña Loyola

Post Doctoral Teaching Fellow

Creative writing

Eco-criticism

Contemporary Latin American literature and art

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Troy A. Martin

Associate Professor

social and cultural foundations of education

social theory

sociology of education

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Chris Martiniano

Instructor

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Andrew Marx

Associate Professor

Legal Studies

Critical Thinking

Ethics

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Julianne McCobin

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow

20th and 21st Century American literature

cultural studies

gender studies

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Mark Meier

Instructor

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Jeffrey Murray

Professor

and Textbook Coordinator

Metacognition

Peer Mentoring

Habits of Mind

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Brandi Neal

Assistant Professor

semiotics

music

sampling

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Thomas J. Nelson

Associate Professor

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William Notter

Associate Professor

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Vicki Pallo

Professor

Composition &

Multimodal Communication

Eighteenth- &

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Ayden Parish

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow

Neurodiversity

Critical Disability Studies

Semiotics

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Kristin Reed

Professor

Public Education Policy

Advocacy-Oriented Pedagogy

Interdisciplinary Arts Education

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Kirk Richardson

Associate Professor

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Stephanie Rizzi

Affiliate Faculty Member

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Courtney Sviatko

Instructor

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Harry Szabo

Assistant Professor

Composition Studies, Rhetoric

Children's Literature

19th and 20th Century American Literature

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Allison Tharp

Assistant Professor

Alternative Grading

Rhetoric

Protest Movements

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Judy Topich

Assistant Professor

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Virginia Wray Totaro

Associate Professor

and Assessment Coordinator

Student Learning

Outcomes Assessment

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Amy Tudor

Assistant Professor

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Matthew James Vechinski

Coordinator of Academic Programming, University College

and Associate Professor

experiential learning

design thinking

collecting/curation

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Anne "Carver" Weakley

Assistant Professor

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Larry Williams

Assistant Professor

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Paul Yoon

Associate Professor