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College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities (CASSH)

Our People

Dean

Marie Moeller

Specialty areas:

Higher Ed Theory/Practice; Professional & Technical Writing; Medical/Scientific Rhetorics & Writing; Feminist Rhetorics; Disability Studies; Grant Writing

Associate Dean

Kate Hawkes  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Photography

Dean's Office Staff

Tommy Knoche

Specialty areas:

Executive Assistant- CASSH

Volunteer Pole Vault Coach Men's Track and Field

Britta Osborne
Antoni Walker  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Budget and Financials

Human Resources

 

Visual and Performing Arts

Pete Rydberg

Specialty areas:

Arts / Educational Administration, Stage Directing, Musical Theatre, Theatre History, Theatre Theory

Antonio Jasiczek

Specialty areas:

Traditional Irish Music 

Faculty Fellow

Departments

Archaeology & Anthropology

Department Chair

David Anderson  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Egyptian archaeology, Late Prehistoric period Native America, origins of complex society, technology in archaeology, 3D documentation of archaeological remains.

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Terry Lilley  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Poverty, Sex Work, Violence and Violence Prevention, Social movements, Sociological theory

Academic Department Associate

Katie Olan

Communication Studies

Department Chair

Kate Lavelle  Office hours

Associate Department Chair

Ashley Edwards  Office hours

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Darci Thoune  Darci Thoune saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Writing Program Administration, First-Year Writing, Composition Pedagogy, Feedback, Assessment, and Fat Studies.

Associate Department Chair

Bryan Kopp  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Rhetoric & writing studies; professional & technical communication/writing; writing pedagogy; science of learning; teaching & learning with artificial intelligence (AI)

Academic Department Associate

Global Cultures & Languages

Department Chair

Omar Granados  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Contemporary Latin American and Latino literature and cultural studies, Caribbean studies, film studies, migration studies and literary translation.

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Víctor Macías-González  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Latin American, Mexican, and Latinx histories, through the prisms of gender and sexuality.  Latin Americanists study the pasts of nineteen different countries in the Americas, plus the Philippines, Spain, and the U.S.A.  I trained on nineteenth-century Mexico, especially the Porfiriato (1876-1911) and the U.S. Southwest.  My scholarly interests include diplomacy, transnational migration, Mexican diaspora, consumption and material culture, masculinity,  transgender history, Latin@s in the Midwest, the homophile movement, and LGBTQ+ history of the Midwest.    Service interests include increasing Latino access to higher education, graduate, and professional programs, as well as LGBTQ+ public history programs.   I serve on various professional groups in my field.  I chair the U.S.-Canada Organizing Committee of the International Historians of Mexico Conference, and serve on the organizing committee of REDMUGEN, the network for historians of women, gender, and sexuality in Mexico.  I have served on the American Historical Association's Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession, and on the board of the American Historical Association's Committee on LGBTQ History, which has recently morphed into the LGBTQ+ History Association.  For information, see: http://clgbthistory.org/

Academic Department Associate

Tammy Klein  Office hours

Military Science (ROTC)

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Jonathan Borja  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Flute, Music History 

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Sheryl Ross

Specialty areas:

Philosophy of Art, Philosophy and Film, Philosophy of Food, and Ethics

Academic Department Associate

Political Science & Public Administration

Department Chair

Adam Van Liere  Adam Van Liere saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Global governance and international organization, foreign policy and global diplomacy, active learning, international education, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Academic Department Associate

Department Chair

Ale Quartiroli  Ale Quartiroli saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology & Counseling Psychology

  • professional training, development, and practice in sport psychologists,
  • self-care and wellbeing in sport psychologists and other professionals,
  • cultural competence, humility, and safety in psychology practitioners,
  • identity in psychology practitioners,
  • performance psychology in esports,
  • organizational culture and wellbeing in sport and health organizations.

Associate Department Chair

Grace Deason

Specialty areas:

Social Psychology (political psychology, gender)

Academic Department Associate

Jane Fredrick  Office hours

Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Department Chair

Terry Lilley  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Poverty, Sex Work, Violence and Violence Prevention, Social movements, Sociological theory

Academic Department Associate

Alec Lass  Office hours

Sociology & Criminology

Department Chair

Lisa Kruse

Specialty areas:

Criminology and Criminal Justice: evidence-based practices, pre-trial, racial and socioeconomic inequities in the system, school resource officers, diversion programs, drug-treatment courts and substance use/mental health issues.

Surveillance: sex offender registry, pretrial/post-adjudication surveillance, social media and other means of personal surveillance

Methods: qualitative and quantitative methods, evaluation/applied research

Academic Department Associate

Student Affairs Administration

Department Chair

Becki Elkins  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Higher education organization and governance; higher education history; student affairs law and policy; assessment of student learning and program efficiency; social class identity; and college students in recovery.

Academic Department Associate

Theatre & Dance

Department Chair

Laurie Kincman  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Stage Management, Arts Administration, Dramaturgy

Academic Department Associate

Graduate Program directors

Cybersecurity

Program Director

Jennifer Butler Modaff  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Organizational and Professional Communication

School Psychology

Program Director

Adrienne Loh

Specialty areas:

Program Director, McNair Scholars Program (2101 Centennial Hall)

Program Director, School Psychology Program (349A Graff Main Hall)

Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry: Physical & Biophysical Chemistry, NMR, Peptide and Protein structure (4034 Cowley Hall)

Program assistant

Taylor Wirkus  Office hours

School Psychology Online

Program Director

Jocelyn Newton  Jocelyn Newton saysMeet with me

Specialty areas:

School Psychology; Assessment; Early Childhood Assessment and Intervention; Child & Adolescent Psychopathology

Student Affairs Administration

Program Director

Jörg Vianden  Office hours

Specialty areas:

I study college student persistence as well as men and masculinities in higher education. I am the author of Got Solidarity? Challenging Straight White College Men to Advocate for Social Justice, published by Routledge in 2020. 

Program assistant

Student Affairs Administration & Leadership

Program Director

Tori Svoboda  Tori Svoboda saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

intersections of gender, racial/ethnic, and social class identities; orientation, transition and retention programs; program assessment; budget management; supervision; social justice education

Program assistant

Student Affairs Administration: Higher Education Leadership

Program Director

Tori Svoboda  Tori Svoboda saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

intersections of gender, racial/ethnic, and social class identities; orientation, transition and retention programs; program assessment; budget management; supervision; social justice education

Program assistant