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Dr. Monika Alston Miller
Dean, Division of Arts and Humanities | Program Chair, Communication, Division of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Black Women's Political History, Public Speaking & Presentation Design, Women's Speeches
Dr. Diana Amos
Associate Professor of Voice & Musical Theatre, Division of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: International Opera Performance, Musical Theater Studies & Performance, Vocal Studies
Dr. Julia Baker
Professor of Chemistry, Division of Health, Mathematics, & Sciences
Expertise: Health, Mathematics, & Sciences
Dr. Derek Bedenbaugh
Assistant Professor of English, Division of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: 19th Century British Literature, Gender Studies
Dr. Nadine Brooks, DNP, MSN, RN, CCRN, CNML
Chief Nursing Administrator/Program Director/Nursing, Division of Health, Mathematics, & Sciences
Expertise: Health, Mathematics, & Sciences
Dr. Tamara L. Burk
Professor of Communication | Director of the Center for Leadership & Social Change | Director of PLACE Fellows and Leadership Studies Programs, Division of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Pedagogy, Leadership Education, Communication & Culture, Social Justice
Aldrena Hicks Corder, MFA
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Art, Division of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Graphic Design, Diversity & Inclusion in the Arts
Dr. Brennan Davis
Assistant Professor of Education, Division of Education
Expertise: Secondary Literacy, Literacy Methods across Content Areas, Writing, Writing Instruction in Secondary Education
Dr. Wayne L. Davis
Program Chair of Criminal Justice, BA | Program Director of Criminal Justice, MA–Online, Division of Social Sciences
Expertise: Social Sciences
Erika R. Dawkins
Director of Public Relations/Lecturer of Public Relations, Office of Advancement
Expertise: Crisis Management, Media Ethics, New Media, PR Practices
Dr. Christine Hait
Professor of English, Division of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Film & Literature, Literature of the American South, Paris in Film & Literature
Dr. Melissa Heidari
Martha Youmans Edens Professor of English, Division of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: New Orleans Author Grace King, Women's Autobiography, American Gothic Literature