Susan H. Allen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Political Science

I am an associate professor of political science at the University of Mississippi. I received my Ph.D. in political science at Emory University and bachelor's degree from Guilford College. In my research, I explore economic sanctions, air power, and the consequences of conflict. Other work contributes to the scholarship on international institutions (particularly the United Nations), interactions between national governments and opposition groups, the human consequences of military and economic conflict.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Women and armed conflict

Marie Barnard, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Administration and Research Assistant Professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dr. Barnard earned a masters degree in epidemiology from the University of Tennessee and a Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi conducting research on intimate partner violence and community pharmacy practice. Her research explores the intersection of sex and gender with public health issues.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Sex and gender-based medicine, intimate partner violence and health outcomes, women and public health

Francis D. Boateng, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Legal Studies

Dr. Francis D. Boateng is an assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology in the Department of Legal Studies, University of Mississippi and a research fellow for Africa Institute for Crime, Policy & Governance Research. He received his MA and PhD in criminal justice and criminology from Washington State University, and is currently working on several projects testing the organizational justice and support theories in a comparative context. He is also developing a book manuscript (under contract with Routledge) that looks at U.S. immigration policy and National Security. Dr. Boateng’s main research interests include comparative criminal justice, comparative policing, Police legitimacy, international security, victimology, quantitative research, crime, law and justice. In addition to presenting papers at professional conferences such as American Society of Criminology (ASC), Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS), and Western Association of Criminal Justice (WACJ), he has published extensively. His recent publications have appeared in a number of well-respected journals, including Crime & Delinquency, Prison Journal, Policing & Society, Policing: An international Journal, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, International Studies Criminal Research Justice Review, Journal of the Institute of Justice and International 

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Female Police Criminality: Nature and Extent of Crimes Committed by Female Police Officers

Vanessa Charlot, MFA

Assistant Professor of Creative Multimedia

Vanessa Charlot is an Assistant Professor of Creative Multimedia at the School of Journalism and New Media, an award-winning photographer, speaker, filmmaker, curator and United States Army veteran. Her work focuses on the intersectionality of race, politics, culture, and sexual/gender expression to explore the collective human experience. She has worked throughout the U.S., the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia. Her photographs have been commissioned by the New York Times, Gucci, Vogue, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Oprah Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Apple, New York Magazine, Buzzfeed, Artnet News, The Washington Post, and other national and international publications.

Professor Charlot has exhibited at the Frost Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota, The Women’s Museum of Costa Rica and the National Museum of Anthology in Mexico. Her work is also held in the Library of Congress Collection. Professor Charlot regularly lectures at the International Center of Photography and is the recipient of the International Women’s Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award for 2021. She also leads identity-based and trauma-informed safety trainings for journalists covering war and conflict for media-leading institutions. She was an Emerson Collective Fellow.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests:  Visual representation of Black women and queerness within photography

Beth Ann Fennelly, M.F.A

Professor of English and Poet Laureate of Mississippi

Beth Ann Fennelly, Poet Laureate of Mississippi, teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Mississippi, where she was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year. She’s won grants and awards from the N.E.A., the United States Artists, a Pushcart, and a Fulbright to Brazil. Fennelly has published three poetry books: Open House, Tender Hooks, and Unmentionables, a book of nonfiction, Great with Child, and The Tilted World, a novel she co-authored with her husband, Tom Franklin. Her newest book is Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs (W.W. Norton, Oct. ’17). Fennelly and Franklin live in Oxford with their three children.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Women's literature, gender and sexuality

Amy Fisher, J.D., M.S.W.

Associate Professor of Social Work

Amy Fisher is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Mississippi. Her primary research interests include learning and development in social work education, exploring cognitive development, and other processes, and issues related to race and service delivery. Her teaching is focused on clinical practice classes in the MSW program, making use of both her social work experience in and her experiences practicing law. Her clinical social work practice experience includes mental health counseling with individuals, families, and groups, with an emphasis on substance use and misuse--particularly with involvement in the justice system. Amy currently serves as Diversity Liaison for the School of Applied Sciences to the Office of Diversity and Community Engagement at UM.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Currently studying anti-oppressive social work practice and education.

Deidra Jackson, Ph.D.

Visiting Instructor of Writing

Deidra Faye Jackson, who earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Mississippi, teaches first-year writing and graduate higher education courses. She researches faculty perceptions of scholarly productivity, writing groups as faculty development, and faculty persistence within "publish or perish" R1 universities. She is a Visiting Instructor of Writing and holds a master's and bachelor's degree in journalism. A former newspaper editor and reporter in North Carolina and Mississippi, she currently is a contributing writer for Inside Higher Ed. She also has presented research at the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and (forthcoming) the Association of Rhetoric and Writing Studies. She has co-authored and authored articles in the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship and the Journal of Contemporary Research in Education, respectively. Daily, she is motivated to persevere by her Gen Z son, Jackson, with whom she lives in Oxford, Miss.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Gender and race influences in publishing persistence, as well as faculty relationships and collegiality as they relate to scholarly productivity.

Karen Kate Kellum, Ph.D.

Instructional Associate Professor of Psychology, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Chair of Psychology

Kate Kellum currently serves as the Associate Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Mississippi. She holds a masters degree in education from Purdue University and a doctoral degree in psychology from the University of Nevada Reno. She has considerable experience in assessment of educational and research activities, time- series research design, and performance measurement/ improvement. She has been consulting with schools, universities and non-profits in the USA and UK for over 20 years to improve their ability to measure learning outcomes and organizational performance. Kate regularly designs and conducts research related to student learning outcomes and student preference. Kate is an active presenter at national and international conferences.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Advancement and Pay Equity, bringing data analysis to women's and LGBTQIA+ projects

Annette S. Kluck, Ph.D.

Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Leadership & Counselor Education

Annette S. Kluck, PhD, is the Dean of the Graduate School and a Professor of Counseling and Leadership Education at the University of Mississippi. She previously worked at Auburn University (2006-2019) serving as a faculty member in the nationally accredited Counseling Psychology program, directing/co-directing the program from 2011-2019, and leading efforts to advance gender equity as the Assistant Provost for Women’s Initiatives within the Office of Inclusion & Diversity (2017-2019). Currently, she serves as an Associate Editor for Psychology of Women Quarterly. Her research focuses on women’s issues including body image, disordered eating and sexual behavior and concerns. She studies how sociocultural risk factors may place some women at greater risk for developing problems in these areas with an emphasis on family-based messages about size and shape, internalization of societal messages that place women’s value in their ability to be perfect and pleasing (often sexually) to others and perceived expectations for attractiveness and behavior. Kluck also examines how intersecting identities inform these experiences in women. Kluck earned her bachelor’s degree in 2001 from Nebraska Wesleyan University and her master’s (Psychology, 2003) and doctoral (Counseling Psychology, 2006) degrees from Texas Tech University.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Body Image, Disordered Eating, Sexuality, Sexual Behavior and Concerns

Frances C. Kneupper. Ph.D.

Associate Professor of History

Frances C. Kneupper specializes in Medieval European History, with an emphasis on spirituality, gender, and culture. Her first book was titled The Empire at the End of Time: Identity and Reform in Late Medieval German Prophecy (Oxford University Press, 2016). She has since published on spiritual women in the Middle Ages including an article in the Washington Post, “The Southern Baptist Convention’s Case against female pastors is centuries old” (June 22, 2023) https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/06/22/southern-baptist-convention-female-pastors. She is currently preparing a book titled Prophecy and the Battle for Spiritual Authority (1380-1400), which considers the claims and actions of prophetic women, reformers and outsiders at the end of the fourteenth century. She is also organizing an international conference for September 2024 on Prophetic Women from a Global Perspective, which aims to spotlight the role of spiritual women as cultural influencers and history makers.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Spirituality, gender, and culture in Medieval European History

Natalia Kolesnikova, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Economics

Natalia Kolesnikova received her Ph.D. in Economics and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to coming to the University of Mississippi she was a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Her research focuses on labor economics and applied microeconomics.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Women's labor supply

Deanna Kreisel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English

Before coming to the University of Mississippi, Deanna Kreisel taught at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver for 13 years. She works on feminist theory, political economy, environmental criticism, and the 19th-century British novel. Her first book, Economic Woman: Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2012. She is currently working on a book entitled Sustainability and Utopian Form in Victorian Literature and Culture 1840-1905. More information about her scholarship and publications is available on her website: www.deannakreisel.com.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Feminist and queer theory, eco-feminist theory

Erika LeBlanc, Ph.D., LPC,

Associate Professor of Leadership and Counselor Education

Erika L. Schmit is an Associate Professor of counseling at the University of Mississippi. Her clinical background included work with children, adolescents, and adults in community agencies, schools, and inpatient hospital settings. Her passion lies in clinical mental health counseling, specifically working with individuals at risk for suicidality. Her primary research interests include clinical mental health, suicidality prevention, intervention, and training, and sexuality in women. As an educator, Dr. Schmit loves to work with masters and doctoral students to develop critical thinking skills as well as a strong professional counselor and researcher identity. Dr. Schmit is an active member in several counseling organizations. She serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling and on the editorial board of several other journals. Dr. Schmit recently co-authored a textbook, Counseling Youth: Systemic Issues and Interventions.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests:  Sexuality development in women; religious trauma, purity culture, and shame; mental health and sexual health in women.

Tess Lefmann, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Social Work

Tess Lefmann received her Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of Tennessee. Her research agenda focuses on maternal and child health disparities, beginning with inequalities in the prenatal environment that lead to discrepancies in postpartum health promotion behaviors. Particularly, on the structural and cultural barriers that contribute to the glaring racial and economic disparities in breastfeeding behavior.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Intersectionality of birth, breastfeeding, and motherhood

Jennie Lightweis-Goff, Ph.D.

Instructor of English

Jennie Lightweis-Goff earned a Ph.D. in English, as well as Graduate Certificates in Gender Studies and Africana Studies, from the University of Rochester. Since 2016, she has been an Instructor of English on UM's branch campuses, where she teaches film studies, feminist theory, southern studies, and the full historical scope of American Literature. Her dissertation won the Susan B. Anthony Award for the Best Dissertation in Gender and Women's Studies and the SUNY Press Dissertation / First Book Prize in African-American Studies in 2010. It was published as Blood at the Root: Lynching as American Cultural Nucleus by the SUNY Press in 2011. Presently, she is at work on a monograph called Captive Cities: Urban Slavery in Four Movements. Essays from this project have appeared in American Literature and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. A partisan of New Orleans literature and culture, Lightweis-Goff has published on the city in the journals Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Quarterly, minnesota review, and the edited collections Small Screen Souths and Southern Comforts.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Incarcerated women, spectacles of gender and punishment, prison pedagogy, public humanities, prisons as "publics," the public/private binary.

Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson

assistant professor of History

Dr. Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson is a historian of modern Britain and empire, focusing on histories of the family, class, and gender and sexuality. She received her PhD from Northwestern University in 2016. Her first book, Working-Class Raj: Colonialism and the Making of Class in British India (Cambridge 2023), is a history of British working-class families from a global perspective, exploring the intersections between class, race, sexuality, and migration in imperial experience and memory. Dr. Lindgren-Gibson teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in modern European and imperial history, the history of gender and sexuality, food history, and public history.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Histories of friendship in empire through the lens of gender and sexuality studies.

Gregory J. Love, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Political Science

Gregory J. Love is Associate Professor of Political Science and Affiliated Researcher of the Latin American Public Opinion Project at Vanderbilt University. He is also co-director of the Executive Approval Project and the Southeast Latin American Behavioral Workshop. He holds a Ph.D. and B.A. from the University of California, Davis. Dr. Love’s work focuses on the intersection of mass political behavior and elite identities, actions, and institutions, particularly in Latin America. His recent publications and ongoing projects look at the role of leader gender and democratic accountability in the developed and developing world. Work from this project and others appear in numerous academic journals, books, and popular press outlets. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Center for the Study of Conflict and Social Cohesion (Chile), and the Latin American Studies Association. Dr. Love’s teaching interests align with his research endeavors. Recent courses have examined the politics of Latin America and the role of mass movements and identities in shaping individual behavior.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: The role of gender in political leadership and the interesection of gender and racial/ethnic identity in public opinion from a comparative perspective.

Diane Marting, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Spanish (Modern Languages)

Dr. Diane Marting received her advanced degrees in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University and specializes in 20th-century literature, film, and culture from Latin America in Spanish, Portuguese but also examines some French feminism. Her books have promoted knowledge of women writers from Spanish America primarily, but also Clarice Lispector from Brazil, and LGBTQIA+ issues and writers from Latin America more recently.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Latin American women writers, female sexuality, cultural representations of gender expansive and transgender people

Amy McDowell, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Amy McDowell studies and teaches the intersection of religion, gender, sexuality, and popular culture. Her previous work focused on how young Christian men use punk rock music to construct religious space in secular settings and on how Muslim youth use punk to resist anti-Muslim racism. She published this research in Gender & Society, Sociology of Religion, Qualitative Sociology, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. McDowell’s current research takes a qualitative approach to understanding the relationship between American evangelical church culture and gender politics in the Deep South.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Sociology of gender, sexuality, and religion, particularly religious conservatism.

Katie McKee, Ph.D.

Director, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, and McMullan Professor of Southern Studies and Professor of English

Kathryn McKee is a nineteenth-century Americanist with a specialty in the postbellum U.S. South. She is the author of Reading Reconstruction: Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post-Civil War South (2019) and co-editor, with Deborah Barker, of American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary (2011).

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Women's literature

Ty McNamee, PH.D.

Assistant Professor of Higher Education

Ty McNamee is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Higher Education at The University of Mississippi. Growing up as a gay, poor and working-class student on a farm/ranch in rural Wyoming greatly influenced Ty’s research interests. He uses critical, sociological, and anthropological lenses to conduct qualitative research on higher education access, success, and equity for rural students, particularly those from poor and working-class backgrounds and those who are queer, as well as college teaching and learning and faculty development at rural postsecondary institutions. Outside of his research, Ty co-founded and ran the Rural Education and Healthcare Coalition, a Teachers College, Columbia University student, faculty, and staff network focused on rural education and healthcare programming and research. He also actively serves in professional organizations, including the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Ty received his doctorate in Higher and Postsecondary Education from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2022, his Master of Arts in Higher Education and Student Affairs from the University of Connecticut in 2015, and his Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Wyoming in 2013.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests:  Interactions between queer identity and rural identity in higher education; Queer, rural students in higher education

Ann Monroe, Ed.D.

Associate Dean and Professor in the School of Education

Ann Monroe is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor in the School of Education at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Monroe received her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Mississippi. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.  Before her time at UM, Dr. Monroe was a third-grade teacher with the Hamilton County School System in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She comes from a family of educators and believes wholeheartedly in the transformative power of teaching and learning.

Dr. Monroe has received multiple honors from the School of Education, including the Outstanding Teacher Award and the Outstanding Student Service Award. She was named the Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher for the University of Mississippi in 2018. Dr. Monroe is proud to be on the faculty at UM, where she and her colleagues prepare Mississippi’s next generation of teachers.

Dr. Monroe teaches a variety of courses, including education foundations, curriculum development, and assessment. Her research focuses on how teachers can promote pride and minimize shame in their classroom activities and lessons. 

Molly Pasco-pranger, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair of Classics

Dr. Pasco-Pranger taught Classics at the University of Puget Sound (1998-2002) and Wesleyan University (2002-2006) before joining the University of Mississippi faculty in 2006; she has served as department chair since 2013. In 2018 she was awarded the Cora Lee Graham Award for Outstanding Teaching of Freshmen.

Dr. Pasco-Pranger's earliest research focused on Ovid’s Fasti and its engagement with the Roman religious and political calendar and culminated in a book Founding the Year: Ovid’s Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar (Brill 2006). She has since published several articles on gender, writing, and desire in Roman amatory verse, and another set of articles centering on the literary and social persona of Cato the Elder. This last is connected to an ongoing research interest in masculinity and aging in ancient Rome. Her most recent article treats women’s public nudity in the early Roman empire in connection with a set of ritual contexts and social spaces. She is currently working on a set of two very damaged poems found in a medieval manuscript that may trace back to female poet of the age of Domitian.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Gender in Classical Roman Empire

Eva Payne, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of History

Eva Payne is a historian of the 19th- and 20th-century U.S. with a focus on women, gender, and sexuality and the U.S. in transnational perspective. She is an Assistant Professor in the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History at the University of Mississippi. Payne’s current book project asks how and why many American reformers came to see sexual issues – including prostitution, the legal age of consent, venereal disease, and sex trafficking – as central international humanitarian and political problems in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: History of sexual commerce and labor; the relationship between gender, sexuality and the state

Susan Pedigo, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Biochemist.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Women in STEM fields, Cultural definitions of self

Anne Quinney, Ph.D.

Professor of French (Modern Languages)

Anne Quinney is Professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages at The University of Mississippi where she regularly offers courses in the history of French cinema, 19th-21st century French and Francophone literature, and special topics in French culture. She earned a B.A. in Literature and Society from Brown University and a Master’s in Modern French Literature from Université Paris 8. She received her Ph.D in French Studies from Duke University in 2000. She has written several articles on French writers Alexandre Dumas, Eugene Ionesco, Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Marguerite Duras. She has published two books, Le goût de la révolte and Paris—Bucharest, Bucharest—Paris: Francophone writers from Romania, as well as a English translation of French psychoanalyst J.B. Pontalis’ autobiographical work, Fenêtres. Currently she is working on a manuscript that explores the significance of editorial censorship and translation in the marketing of Franco-Algerian writer Albert Camus to an American reading public.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: French and Francophone cinema by Women Directors, Gender and French Film, Women's autobiography in France, French feminisms

John Rash, MFA

Assistant Professor of Film Production and Southern Studies

John Rash is a filmmaker, photographer, and video artist who has worked as visual storyteller and educator in the United States and China. John earned his M.F.A. in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University. His research and teaching explore cultural outsiders, counter culture communities,  and environmental topics through lens-based media informed by documentary traditions. John is the founder and curator of the Southern Punk Archive which lives at the University of Mississippi Library Archives and Special Collections and online at the Southern Documentary Project (www.southdocs.org).  He was the recipient of the Soul of Southern Film award from Indie Memphis Film Festival in 2018 and continues to exhibit his work in festivals, galleries, and museums internationally.

Sudeshna Roy, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry

Sudeshna Roy is an Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy in the Department of BioMolecular Sciences at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. she is passionate about developing new therapeutics for the treatment of drug-resistant bacterial infections. She particularly focuses on tuberculosis, which is a major global health burden resulting in 1.5 million deaths globally every year. She and her team utilize an interdisciplinary approach to develop new antibacterials to combat the problems of antibiotic resistance that renders the clinically used antibiotics ineffective when treated for diseases caused by deadly bacteria.

Sudeshna Roy received her Bachelor of Science in chemistry from St. Stephen’s College in India and a Master of Science in organic chemistry from the University of Delhi in India. She obtained her Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her dissertation focused on synthesizing complex natural products with potential use in cancer treatment. Sudeshna expanded her focus to a more applied field of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery during her postdoctoral tenure first at the University of Kansas and then at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During her postdoctoral tenure, she worked on different disease areas such as cardiovascular, cancer, and antiviral therapeutics development.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests:  Tuberculosis treatment outcomes in women and children

Asmaa Shehata, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Arabic

Asmaa Shehata is an Assistant Professor of Arabic in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Mississippi. She earned her degrees in Linguistics from Ohio University (M.A.) and the University Utah (Ph.D.). More recently, she received her M.A. in Religious Studies with specialization in Gender Studies from the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include second language phonology with particular focus on cross-language speech perception and production. Her book, Women’s Rights in Islam: A Critique of Nawal El Saadawi’s Writing, is forthcoming and explores the Egyptian feminist scholar’s arguments within an Islamic framework regarding gender-specific verses of the Qur'an.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests:  Gender and language, feminist exegesis of the Qur'an, and women’s rights and religious beliefs

Carrie Veronica Smith, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Carrie Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Mississippi.  She is also the inaugural Isom Center Fellow.  She holds a masters degree in Experimental Psychology from the College of William & Mary and a doctoral degree in Social Psychology from the University of Houston.  Her research falls into three main areas: (a) The role of the self and motivation in people’s relationships (friendships, romantic and sexual relationships, families, professional relationships), especially through the lens of Self-Determination Theory, (b) Situational and individual determinants of perceptions of daily experiences, such as social interactions and sexual interactions, and (c) The influence of sex, gender, and ambivalent sexism on social perception, social interaction, and personal and professional well-being.  She has presented her work at regional, national, and international conferences and has over 30 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters to her credit.  In addition to her academic endeavors, her campus service has included serving as the chair of the Diversity Committee in the Department of Psychology, volunteering on advisory boards and work groups associated with Greek Life, and working on the Non-Tenure Track Task Force on issues of shared governance.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Personal Relationships and Sexuality

Bryan Smyth, Ph.D.

Instructional Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Bryan Smyth is Instructional Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. His research deals primarily with phenomenology and Critical Theory, and how these traditions intersect methodologically with regard to nature and history, especially in terms of embodiment, agency, and how these relate to feminist and other forms of radical social critique. In addition to numerous peer-reviewed articles, his publications include Merleau-Ponty’s Existential Phenomenology and the Realization of Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2014), an annotated translation of Merleau-Ponty’s Le monde sensible et le monde de l’expression (Northwestern, 2020), and a co-edited volume of essays on phenomenology and Marxism (Lexington, 2021). Among other things, he is currently preparing a monograph entitled Incarnating the Good: Rethinking Heroism as an Embodied Phenomenon.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests:  Feminist Epistemology; Feminist Ethics and Political Philosophy; Phenomenology of Embodiment and Intercorporeality

Alysia Burton Steele, MA

Assistant Professor of Journalism

Alysia Burton Steele is a multimedia journalist and author of the book “Delta Jewels: In Search of My Grandmother’s Wisdom,” a finalist in the 2015 Jessie Redmon Fauset Book Awards for nonfiction.

The book has been featured in The New York Times, NBC.com, USA Today, Chicago Sun-Times, National Public Radio, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Essence, theroot.com (owned by The Washington Post), Free Lance-Star,  The Clarion-Ledger and Southern Living. NYT bestselling author Bishop T.D. Jake’s featured her story in his Docu-Series.

She received her bachelor of arts degree in journalism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and her master’s degree in photography from Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication.

Steele has worked as a staff photographer/multimedia producer at The Columbus Dispatch, a picture editor at The Dallas Morning News and deputy director of photography/picture editor at The Atlanta-Journal Constitution.

Steele spent five weeks documenting life in South Africa, Uganda and the Ivory Coast, where her images were featured in Habitat for Humanity’s 25th anniversary coffee table book. While working as a photographer at The Columbus Dispatch, she won the 2004 James Gordon Understanding Award for photographic excellence for her month-long assignment inside the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya.

In 2006, she was part of the photo team that won the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News for their Hurricane Katrina coverage where she served as a picture editor. For three consecutive years, she did the picture editing and layout/design for the Arnold Schwarzenegger Sports Classic coffee table book.

She also did picture editing for the National Urban League and designed their 100th commemorative poem booklet written by Maya Angelou. She’s won numerous awards for her photography and picture editing.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Women’s oral histories

Afton Thomas

Associate Director for Programs at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture

Afton Thomas holds a bachelor’s degree in theatre from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a master’s degree in theatre with an emphasis on children’s theatre education from Sacramento State University. She is currently working toward an Education Doctorate (EdD) in Higher Education Administration from the University of Mississippi. In 2014 she began work at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture as project coordinator with the Southern Foodways Alliance and served in this position for 4.5 years. Afton’s professional experience includes theatre education, hospitality management, human resources, and project management. In her current role as associate director for programs, Afton supports faculty and the Center’s institutes with the planning and execution of conferences, workshops, and special events.

James Thomas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Sociology

James M. Thomas (JT) received his PhD in Sociology, with a Graduate Minor in Women's and Gender Studies, from the University of Missouri in 2011. He has authored more than fifteen articles and book chapters, as well as three books. His latest book, Are Racists Crazy? (NYU Press, 2016), has been featured in The New Yorker, Pacific Standard, and Slate magazine.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Intersectionality in affective labor; intersectionality in housing insecurity

Don Unger, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Writing & Rhetoric

Don Unger’s research addresses the relationships among embodied experience, technological innovation, and grassroots activism. Currently, he is working with the Marks Project, located in Quitman County, on a community-centered digital literacy program. Additionally, he is conducting historical research about the Poor People’s Corporation, a network of Black worker-owned and -operated cooperatives in Mississippi from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s. He serves as the Co-Managing Editor of Spark: A Journal of Activism in Writing, Rhetoric & Literacy Studies and as the Social-Media Editor for Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society. His scholarship has appeared in Computers & Composition, Constellations: A Cultural Rhetorics Publishing Space, and Teacher-Scholar-Activist, as well as in the edited collection Thinking Globally, Composing Locally: Rethinking Online Writing in the Age of the Global Internet. He teaches courses in community writing, writing for digital media, and feminist pedagogy.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: embodiment, feminist and womanist pedagogies, activism, community engagement

Ana Velitchkova, PH.D.

Croft Associate Professor of Sociology and International Studies

Ana Velitchkova is a Croft Associate Professor of Sociology and International Studies. Dr. Velitchkova’s research focuses on global sociology and theory. She is interested in violence, citizenship, inequality, social movements, community, and culture. Her first line of research examines transnational social movements. She shows how a transnational social movement can contribute to both social change and social continuity. Velitchkova’s violence research addresses the question: Why do persons engage in violence? She has developed two new theories of violence. In her newest line of research, Velitchkova focuses on the role of citizenship in creating global inequalities. She argues that the citizenship regime represents a global caste system.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests:  How gender matters in pathways to violent extremism

Note: Dr. Velitchkova was selected as part of the 23-25 cohort, but deferred for a year as she will be on a full-year sabbatical.

Marc Watkins, MFA

Lecturer in Writing and Rhetoric

Marc Watkins is a writer, editor, teacher, and even an occasional carpenter. He's had the pleasure of seeing his fiction and nonfiction works published in over a dozen little magazines, and some of his pieces have been honored in "Best of" series like the prestigious Pushcart Prize. Since 2011, he's been sharing his passion for writing at the University of Mississippi, where he is a lecturer within the Department of Writing and Rhetoric. He has been awarded a Pushcart Prize for his writing, a 2018 Blackboard Catalyst Award for Teaching and Learning, and a 2022 WOW Fellowship. When it comes to research, Marc's interests are diverse, covering AI in education, OER, open pedagogy, creative writing, digital humanities, and grant writing.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests:  Reproduction of bias in the generative outputs of large language models and develop strategies for faculty and students to minimize such bias.

Jay Watson, Ph.D.

Howry Chair of Faulkner Studies and Professor of English

Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies Jay Watson, a native of Athens, Georgia, received his B.A. degree from the University of Georgia (1983) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University (1985, 1989). He joined the English department in 1989 and was promoted to Professor of English in 2007. During the 2002-2003 academic year he served as Visiting Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland, and he has since been honored with the UM Faculty Achievement Award (2012), the UM Liberal Arts Professor of the Year award (2014), and the UM Humanities Teacher of the Year award (2014), and in 2013 he was a finalist for the Southeastern Conference Professor of the Year Award. His publications include two monographs, Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner (U of Georgia P, 1993) and Reading for the Body: The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893-1985 (U of Georgia P, 2012), and seven edited or coedited collections: Conversations with Larry Brown (UP of Mississippi, 2007), Faulkner and Whiteness (UP of Mississippi, 2011), Faulkner’s Geographies (UP of Mississippi, 2015), Fifty Years after Faulkner (UP of Mississippi, 2015), Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas (UP of Mississippi, 2016), Faulkner and History (UP of Mississippi, 2017), and Faulkner and Print Culture (UP of Mississippi, 2017). His articles on southern literature and film, law and humanities, and psychoanalytic theory have appeared or will appear in PMLA, American Quarterly, American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, American Imago, Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Quarterly, The Faulkner Journal, The Flannery O’Connor Review, The Cormac McCarthy Journal, and numerous other journals and essay collections, including American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary, Faulkner and the Media Ecology, The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945, William Faulkner in Context, Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South, Approaches to Teaching the Works of Cormac McCarthy, and the Cambridge History of the Literature of the U.S. South. He was a co-founder and, from 1995 to 2000, co-editor of Journal x: A Journal in Culture and Criticism. From 2009 to 2012 he served as President of the William Faulkner Society, and since 2012 he has directed the annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha conference at the University of Mississippi. He and his wife, Susan, have two children, Katherine and Judson.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Gender and sexuality in the US South, Southern women's writing

Brooke White, MFA

Professor of Art

A native of Hampstead, NH, Brooke White lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where she is Professor of Art and Area Head of Imaging Arts in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Mississippi. The intersection of place, memory, and time dominates my artistic investigations. I employ a range of photographic approaches including experimental, documentary, portraiture, and video, to investigate topics surrounding, family and loss, identity and nature, motherhood and art. My work explores the landscape as both a private and public space, reflecting both the internal and external forces that impact our identity and connection to place. White’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most notably at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA and the Mamia Bretesche Gallery, Marseilles & Paris, France. She has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Bangalore, India and her work has been published in Give and Take: Motherhood and the Creative Process, Aint Bad Magazine, Southern Cultures UNC Press, Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photographs from the Do Good Collection, and the Oxford American.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests:  Landscape, nature, motherhood, creative practice

Nancy Wicker, Ph.D.

Professor of Art and Art History

I am an art historian and archaeologist, and my interdisciplinary research focuses on the art of Scandinavia during the Early Medieval Period, from the Migration Period of the 5th and 6th centuries through the Viking Age, c. 750–1100. I have co-edited three books on gender and archaeology, including Situating Gender in European Archaeologies (2010), and I have also published on female infanticide during the Viking Age. Currently I am investigating patrons and clients who sponsored or purchased Viking art, artists and artisans who made the works, women and men who used and viewed the objects, and also the humans and anthropomorphic deities who were the subjects depicted in Viking-Age art. I have been a Visiting Professor at Uppsala University and I am the first woman elected to foreign membership in the Philosophical-historical Section of the Royal Society of Humanities at Uppsala, Sweden. I am also the first (and only) American chosen for membership in the Sachsensymposion, an international archaeological society. My research has been supported by fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Getty Foundation, the American-Scandinavian Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, as well as grants from several American and Scandinavian funding agencies. Currently I am a Co-Chair of the international working party, Archaeology of Gender in Europe, and I serve on the Editorial Board for Gesta, the journal of the International Center of Medieval Art. I am a co-director of Project Andvari, an international collaborative project supported by two Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The goal of this project is to create a free digital portal that will provide online integrated access to dispersed collections of early medieval (4th–12th centuries) artifacts of northern Europe.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Gender in European archaeology, Infanticide world-wide, Representations of women in ancient and medieval art

Caroline Wigginton, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English

Caroline Wigginton is associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of In the Neighborhood: Women’s Publication in Early America (Massachusetts 2016) and the co-editor of Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions (Oxford 2012). She is currently at work on a new book, Indigenuity: Native Craftwork and the Material of Early American Books, which examines the aesthetic, material, and imaginative influence of Native craftwork on American book history and decorative arts manuals. With Alyssa Mt. Pleasant and Kelly Wisecup, she co-edited a joint special issue forum for the William and Mary Quarterly and Early American Literature on Materials and Methods in Native and Indigenous Studies. Her publications have appeared in numerous journals and collections.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Early American and Nineteenth-Century Women's Literatures; Indigenous Queer and Gender Studies; Histories of Feminism and Women's Activism

Amanda Winburn, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Leadership and Counselor Education

Amanda Winburn, Ph.D., SB-RPT, NCSC, NCC is currently serving as an Assistant Professor within the Department of Leadership and Counselor Education. Dr. Winburn has over a decade of experience working with children in various settings. Dr. Winburn is a licensed educator, counselor, and administrator. Over the last 8 years, she has been actively involved in play therapy at the University of Mississippi both at the clinical setting as well as actively conducting research within the field. Other research interest include school counseling, wellness, and advocacy.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Educators and Advocacy

Kenya Wolff, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education

Dr. Kenya Wolff grew up in East Africa as the daughter of an anthropologist and a teacher/missionary. She credits this unique upbringing for exposing her to academia and the transformative power of education and service. Dr. Wolff, joined Ole Miss as an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education in 2016. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Education from Chaminade University (Honolulu), a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education from Texas Woman's University and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of North Texas. Dr. Wolff teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in early childhood education.Dr. Wolff ‘s experience as a classroom teacher and administrator allows her to bring real-world knowledge to the students she teaches at Ole Miss. Dr. Wolff’s research utilizes critical qualitative methodologies and focuses on social justice across various social contexts of childhood. For example, her dissertation research examined corporate marketing as central curriculum for today’s globalized child. She has written several subsequent articles on marketing to young children and the impact materialism has on children within today’s globalized world. She currently has several studies underway, including one on the use of yoga in preschool settings, a study on teacher perceptions of gender and sexuality in early childhood and an investigation on administrative decisions to recommend alternative schools for young children.In addition to research, Dr. Wolff currently holds a position on the editorial board for the Southern Early Childhood Association Journal, Dimensions and serves as an associate editor for the journal, International Critical Childhood Studies. She is also mother to Grace (16) and Ethan (12) who inspire her daily to strive for a more just and equitable world for children everywhere.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Gender in Education, Gender in Marketing

Pria Williams, PhD (they/them or she/her)

Instructional Assistant Professor of Theatre & Gender Studies

Dr. Wood is deeply invested in understanding how the stories people tell themselves affect human behavior and thought. With a background in both academic and creative work in the theatre, as well as film theory and performance studies, their research focuses on cross-cultural avant-garde, cognitive science, popular culture, and gender within the US, Europe, and Japan during the 20th and 21st centuries. They have presented work on the shared corporeal topography of Butoh dance and live zombie performances and the cognitive effects of certain kinds of dramatic language. Their publications include works on gender representation in theatre (Into the Woods) and film (Aliens), as well as performance and book reviews. They are excited to be shifting over to a joint appointment between the Department of Theatre & Film and the Gender Studies program.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Gender is representation in popular culture, women's avant-garde

Ann Abadie, Ph.D.

Associate Director Emerita, Center for the Study of Southern Culture

Born in Greenville, South Carolina, Ann Abadie received her bachelor’s degree in English and History from Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Abadie earned her doctorate in English from the University of Mississippi, where she later served on the committee that planned the Center for the Study of Southern Culture (CSSC). Since the CSSC’s debut in 1977, she has served crucial roles, including associate director, as well as associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and Mississippi Encyclopedia. For the first decade of its existence, Abadie served on the SFA’s board of directors. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.

Joe Turner Cantu, MFA

Professor of Theatre Arts

Joe Turner Cantú, Professor of Theatre Arts, is an actor trainer, director, and playwright in the Department of Theatre & Film and was Artistic Director of Oxford Shakespeare Festival for ten years. Joe's actor-training book, In The Moment: the Process of Training Actors, was published in 2015, Nautilus Publishing. Joe’s 2016 play, Eternity for the Time Being, is in the development process and received a staged reading in February of 2016. His professional playwriting credits include Rock and Betty Dance, winner of a Rockefeller playwriting award, having premiered at Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, Texas. From Maine to Arizona, his professional directing and artistic directing background is extensive. In July 1995, the North American Cultural Institute of Perú brought Joe to Lima to direct a professional Spanish-language production of Tennessee Williams' La Noche de la Iguana at the Teatro Bi-Nacional. In 2003, Joe returned to Lima, Perú with an Ole Miss cast and staff in a Spanish-translation production of The Glass Menagerie (El Zoo de Cristal) by Tennessee Williams, invited to represent the U.S.A. at the International Theatre Festival in Lima. Joe has taught at Northern Arizona University, the University of Texas, the University of Michigan and at his alma mater, Southern Methodist University, where he earned his MFA in Acting. In 2006, Joe was the recipient of the Cora Lee Graham Award (Outstanding Teacher of Freshmen), awarded by the College of Liberal Arts. Joe and his husband, Eddie Upton, Registrar at the School of Law, live in Oxford, Mississippi. For detailed info, see his website: joeturnercantu.com.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: LGBTQ dramatic literature in American culture, Theatre

Ann Fisher-Wirth, Ph.D.

Professor of English and Director of the Environmental Studies Minor

Ann Fisher-Wirth was an Army brat and lived in Washington, D.C., Germany, Pennsylvania, and Japan before her family settled in Berkeley, California. She went to college and graduate school in Claremont, California, and taught at Virginia before coming with her husband Peter Wirth to Oxford in 1988. She is a poet whose fifth book, Mississippi (Wings Press 2018) is a poetry/photography collaboration with Maude Schuyler Clay. Ann is also coeditor (with Laura-Gray Street) of the groundbreaking Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity UP 2014). She has had senior Fulbrights to Switzerland and Sweden, has had artist residencies at Djerassi, Hedgebrook, The Mesa Refuge, and CAMAC in France, and was Anne Spencer Poet in Residence at Randolph College in 2017. A former Black Earth Institute Fellow, she now serves on its board. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi, where she also directs the Environmental Studies minor--and she teaches yoga in Oxford, MS. Her family includes five grown children and six grandchildren.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Women and the environment, American women environmental writers, women-authored ecopoetry.

Gloria Kellum, Ph.D.

Vice Chancellor Emerita of University Relations and Professor Emerita of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Gloria Kellum is married to Jerry Kellum, and they have two daughters, Kate Kellum married to Jason Finch, and Kelly Kellum Weems is married to William Weems. They have three grandchildren, Cecilia Grace, Bennett Basil, and Sophie Maelynn Weems. Dr. Kellum retired as the Vice Chancellor of University Relations and Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at The University of Mississippi in June 2009. With Chancellor Robert Khayat and a team of alumni and UM staff, she helped coordinate the Commitment to Excellence Campaign which raised more than $525.9M for Ole Miss. She coordinated development, public relations and special events and completed directing the $240 million MomentUM Campaign in December 2008. She has taught at Ole Miss for more than 40 years and, in 1975, received the Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award. In addition to teaching and research, she has been active in state and national professional organizations. She received her Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Ph.D. in Speech Language Pathology from Louisiana State University. In 2004, she was inducted into LSU’s Alumni Hall of Distinction. In 2011, she received the Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the highest honor given by this national organization.

Gloria has been active in her church and many nonprofit organizations in Oxford and Northeast Mississippi. She continues to consult with the University of Mississippi Development and Foundation. In addition, she is an active grandmother who spends a good bit of time in New Orleans with her grandchildren.

Elizabeth Payne, Ph.D.

Professor Emerita of History

Professor Payne is the author of Reform, Labor, and Feminism: Margaret Drier Robbins and the Women’s Trade Union League (University of Illinois Press, 1988), which explores how, in the early 20th century, working women and wealthy and middle-class allies joined together in the Women’s Trade Union League to unionize women workers, bring their problems to public attention, and secure protective legislation. She is also a co-editor of Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, Volume 1 (University of Georgia Press, 2003) and Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, Volume 2 (University of Georgia Press, 2010). Volume 1 of Mississippi Women enriched our understanding of women’s roles in the state’s history through profiles of notable, though often neglected, individuals. Volume 2 explores the historical forces that have shaped women’s lives in Mississippi.

Additionally, Professor Payne has worked on a variety of oral history projects about women in North Mississippi which include:

NORTH MISSISSIPPI WOMEN’S HISTORY PROJECT
An oral history project that interviewed women in North Mississippi, mostly in Union County, to learn about their lives and experiences growing up in the region.

MAKIN’ DO
A documentary film on the women of North Mississippi.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: American Progressivism, Women, Religion

Rene Pulliam, MFA

Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Film

Since 1993, René Pulliam has been head of the BFA program in Musical Theatre at the University of Mississippi. She received her BA in Music from Whittier College in 1972 and her MFA in Dance/Choreography from Mills College in 1992. She has directed and/or choreographed hundreds of musicals across the United States, including the West Coast premiers of Smile, Closer than Ever, and Over Here. She has been awarded the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for her choreography on No, No Nanette and Good News. Her performance credits include television (The Carol Burnett Show), commercials (Dr. Pepper), and touring companies (The King and I, Godspell). She apprenticed with the late rhythm tap dancer Eddie Brown and has shared the stage with such tap legends as Honi Coles, Jimmy Slyde, Bunny Briggs, and the Nicholas Brothers. She is an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voice Work and has recently published her research, "Training the Musical Theatre Performer: Finding a Unified Breath," in the Voice and Speech Review.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: LGBT Voice, Theatre, Dance

Sheila Skemp, Ph.D.

Clare Leslie Marquette Professor Emerita of American History

Sheila Skemp received her B.A. in History from the University of Montana in 1967, and her Ph.D. in History from the University of Iowa in 1974. After having taught at a number of colleges and universities in the Midwest and the Northeast, she came to the University of Mississippi in 1980. She served for two years as Acting Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women. Her book-length publications include, William Franklin: Son of a Patriot, Servant of a King (Oxford, 1990); Benjamin and William Franklin: Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist (Bedford, 1994): Judith Sargent Murray: A Brief Biography with Documents (Bedford, 1998); and First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Women’s Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009). In 2009, Professor Skemp received the University’s Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Teaching and Research. She has been the Clare Leslie Marquette Professor of American History since 2008. She has also been designated an OAH Distinguished Lecturer for the academic years 2010-2013.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Colonial and Revolutionary America, Intellectual, Women

Debra Brown Young, Ph.D.

Associate Dean Emerita, Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College

Dr. Debra Young earned her Ph.D. in English from Tulane University in 1986.  Her M.A. in English is from the University of Alabama, and she is a graduate of Mississippi State (B.S. English Education).  From 1986 – 1995 she was a member of the English department at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, serving as department chair from 1992-1995.  A native Oxonian, Dr. Young came home to Oxford in 1995, working first in the Office of Research and then joining the Honors College in 2000.  Initially charged with facilitating the University’s participation in national scholarship competitions, Dr. Young worked with students winning (and not winning) Fulbright, Gates, Goldwater, Mitchell, Marshall, Rhodes, and Udall scholarships.  In 2015, she passed “national scholarships” along to Mr. Tim Dolan, and now oversees the SMBHC’s evolving curricular and extracurricular interest in water security, as well as assisting in advising students and overseeing SMBHC efforts to explore 21st-century configurations for honors and 21st-century opportunities for honors students.