
Faculty Affiliates
Faculty Affiliates
KAREN BULLOCK
Professor
Social Work
Research and Scholarly Areas: cancer care; oncology; hospice and palliative care; cultural competence; gerontology; behavioral health.
CHRISTY BYRD
Assistant Professor
Teacher Education and Learning Sciences
Research and Scholarly Areas: campus racial climate; students learning about diversity and culture; social justice education.
QIANA R. CRYER-COUPET
Assistant Professor
Social Work
Research and Scholarly Areas: father involvement; kinship care; adolescent health and well-being.
CELESTE CURINGTON
Assistant Professor
Sociology and Anthropology
Research and Scholarly Areas: social inequality, including inequalities by gender and gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, and citizenship.
JESSICA DECUIR-GUNBY
Professor
Teacher Education and Learning Sciences
Research and Scholarly Areas: race and racial identity (including Critical Race Theory); research methods (with an emphasis on Mixed Methods); emotions and education (with a focus on race).
ELAN HOPE
Assistant Professor
Psychology
Research and Scholarly Areas: sociopolitical development, critical consciousness, racial identity, and racial discrimination among youth from marginalized communities.
EBONY JONES
Assistant Professor
History
Research and Scholarly Areas: histories of Atlantic world slavery; the transatlantic slave trade; imperial crime and punishment.
OWEN J. KALINGA
Professor
History
Research and Scholarly Areas: Lake Malawi/Northern Zambezia region.
ARION KENNEDY
Assistant Professor
Molecular and Structural Biochemistry
Research and Scholarly Areas: obesity; diabetes; metabolism; immunology.
MOSES KHISA
Assistant Professor
Political Science and Africana Studies
Research and Scholarly Areas: comparative and international political economy focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa.
KEVIN RICHARDSON
Assistant Professor
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Research and Scholarly Areas: philosophy of language; metaphysics.