Core Faculty

Sanaz Aghazadeh

E.J. Ourso College of Business

Department of Accounting 

Research Interests: Auditor judgment and decision making 

 

Inessa Bayazev

College of Music & Dramatic Arts

School of Music

Research Interests: Russian and Soviet music, music and politics, intersections between art and music 

 

Annemarie Galeucia

Communication across the Curriculum

College of Humanities and Social Sciences 

Research Interests: Material culture, public culture, power paradigms and structures, globalization, universal design for learning, pedagogy 

 

 

Roy Heidelberg

E.J. Ourso College of Business

Department of Public Administration

Research Interests: public policy, state theory, bureaucracy, government and artificial intelligence 

Achim Herrmann

College of Science

Department of Geology & Geophysics

Research Interests: Environmental biogeochemistry, global environmental change, Earth Systems History, Paleobiology 

 

 

Jan Hodzinski

College of Human Sciences & Education

School of Kinesiology 

Research Interests: Sensorimotor/motor control with emphasis on controlling the whole body of people with and without neurological declines 

William Ma

College of Art & Design

School of Art 

Research Interests: Art history, Asian art, China, cultural exchange, material culture, theory of ornamentation, museums, Jesuit history 

Robert Mann

Manship School of Mass Communication 

Research Interests: Political history 

Paul Miller

College of the Coast & Environment

Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences 

Research Interests: Coastal meteorology, hydroclimate, land-atmosphere interactions 



Jim Ottea

College of Agriculture

Department of Entomology

Research Interests: 
Insecticide Toxicology 

Lance Porter

Manship School of Mass Communication 

Research Interests: Social Media Effects, Corporate Political Advocacy 

 

Melissa Thompson

College of Human Sciences & Education

School of Kinesiology 

Research Interests: Human anatomy 

 

Clint Willson

College of Engineering 

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: Environmental Fluid Mechanics; River Engineering; Physical and Numerical Modeling of Rivers 

Michelle Zerba

College of Humanities & Social Sciences

Departments of English and World Languages and Literatures

Research Interests: Greek literature and philosophy, classical reception, the ancient mystery cults, 19th C and modernist classicisms