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  • MD 2208-Interdisciplinary Studies Department
    385 Cobb Ave, Kennesaw, GA 30144

Administration

Name
Position

  • Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of Philosophy

    skeltner@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-5984
    LB 416

  • Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

    lboettle@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3668
    LB 423

  • Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

    kschaab@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2126
    4111

  • Academic Program Support Specialist & Lecturer of Black Studies

    dkuyken2@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-5725
    LB 401

  • Office Manager

    jurquha1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-5724
    LB 401

Program Leadership

Name
Position

  • Director of MAST and Coordinator of Native American and Indigenous Studies and Associate Professor of English and American Studies

    mspiers1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6297
    EB 173

  • Luciane Rocha

    Associate Professor of Black Studies

    lrocha3@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2049
    LB 413

  • Interdisciplinary Studies Program Director and Leadership Studies Program Coordinator and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

    bbrook77@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-4830
    LB 411

  • Principal Lecturer of Sociology

    dfarr4@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7970
    SO 5006

  • Associate Professor of American and Latino Studies

    raguila6@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-4270
    LB 404

  • Associate Professor of Sociology

    bstarks3@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6710
    SO 3002A

  • Science, Technology and Society Coordinator and Lecturer of Interdisciplinary Studies

    tqueen4@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7449
    J 221

  • Education Abroad Program Coordinator

    breed58@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2668
    ALC 5600N

  • Principal Lecturer of English

    rharri81@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2244
    EB 226

Core Faculty

Name
Position

  • Associate Professor of American and Latino Studies

    raguila6@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-4270
    LB 404

    Areas of expertise: U.S. Latino/a Studies, Hemispheric American Studies, Mexicans in the Midwest & the U.S. South, Migration Studies, Popular Music, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnic Studies

  • Assistant Professor of Black Studies

    mbenn123@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    4120

  • Lynn Boettler

    Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

    lboettle@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3668
    LB 423

  • Benjamin Brooks

    Interdisciplinary Studies Program Director and Leadership Studies Program Coordinator and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

    bbrook77@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-4830
    LB 411

    Areas of expertise: Leadership Studies, ethics, interdisciplinarity, metacognition teaching & learning 

  • Miriam Brown Spiers

    Director of MAST and Coordinator of Native American and Indigenous Studies and Associate Professor of English and American Studies

    mspiers1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6297
    EB 173

    Areas of expertise: Native American and Indigenous literatures, Science Fiction, Comics and Graphic Novels, Modern and Contemporary American literature

  • Theodore Bullard

    Lecturer of Interdisciplinary Studies

    tbullar1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-4541
    LB 4131

    Areas of expertise: History, African Studies, African American History, race and ethnicity, social movements

  • Laura Davis

    Professor of English

    ldavis1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    4129

  • Professor of Psychology

    rdonova4@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6920
    SO 2016

  • Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

    sgiordan@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3886
    4116

    Areas of expertise: Feminist Science studies, Democratic Science, Science and Technology studies, Critical Science literacy, Critical Pedagogies

  • Professor of English

    lgugliel@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6764
    EB 106

    Areas of expertise: Rhetoric & writing studies, Feminist rhetoric, Feminist pedagogies, Gender & pop culture, Feminist leadership & administration, Professional development for students & faculty

  • Professor of American Studies

    rhill54@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7543
    4113

    Areas of expertise: Social Movement History, Prisons, Policing, Vigilantism, and Popular Culture 

  • Academic Program Support Specialist & Lecturer of Black Studies

    dkuyken2@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-5725
    LB 401

  • Nathalia Jaramillo

    Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

    njaramil@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    LB 422

    Areas of expertise: Latin American Studies, American Studies, Gender & Women's Studies

  • Felicia Mainella

    Lecturer of Interdisciplinary Studies

    fmainell@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-4504
    4123

  • Science, Technology and Society Coordinator and Lecturer of Interdisciplinary Studies

    tqueen4@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7449
    J 221

    Areas of expertise: Science, technology & society, Interdisciplinary Studies, Medical Ethics, Bioethics, Health Policy, Health Education, and Environmental Ethics

  • Luciane Rocha

    Associate Professor of Black Studies

    lrocha3@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2049
    LB 413

    Areas of expertise: Black Studies Theory and Praxis, Black Feminisms, State Violence, Anthropology of Emotions

  • Katharine Schaab

    Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

    kschaab@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2126
    4111

    Areas of expertise: Feminist Dystopias, Reproductive Justice, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

  • Coordinator of Latin American and Latin X Studies and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Spanish

    esilva@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3208
    LB 410

    Areas of expertise: Spanish, Latino Studies, Latino Film Studies, study abroad to Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Ecuador

  • Deborah N. Smith

    Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Studies

    dsmith1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6334
    LB 417

    Areas of expertise: Leadership, leadership education, students in transition, scholarship of teaching and learning

  • Assistant Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies

    lthom182@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6754
    SO 4117

    Areas of expertise: Legal history, reproductive health and medicine, histories of women and gender

  • Carlton Usher

    Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

    cusher@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    4110

  • Seneca Vaught

    Professor of History

    svaught3@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    4115

    Areas of expertise: Policy history, community engagement, applied historical methods, cultural diplomacy, and anti-racist pedagogy

  • Professor of Anthropology

    kwill254@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2373
    SO 4095

    Areas of expertise: Black Studies, Anti-Racism, Intersectionality, Social Movements, Community-based Research, Participatory Action Research, Black Brazilian Activism

  • Assistant Professor of Public Administration

    bwooten@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2198
    LB 404A

VITAL Faculty

Name
Position

  • Part-Time Instructor of Interdisciplinary Studies

    rbaldon1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    LB 401

  • Part-Time Instructor of Asian Studies

    wbelange@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    LB 401

  • Associate Professor of English and African Diaspora Studies

    rbradl14@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3219
    EB 167

  • Senior Lecturer of French

    nbrow152@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6366
    PS 239

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

    jcanty2@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    LB 401

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

    lceriell@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    LB 401

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Black Studies

    jdow6@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    LB 401

  • Part-Time Instructor of Political Science

    jdowns8@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6227
    SO 5045

  • Professor of English

    ldudenho@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6934
    EB 188

  • Lecturer of English

    lfergu28@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-5041
    R2 105

  • Lecturer of English

    bgravit3@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2660
    EB 111

  • Ombuds and Professor of French

    lguglie1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2229
    PS 131

  • Deniz Gumustekin

    Part-Time Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

    dgumuste@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6227
    LB 401

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Leadership

    bhasket1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    LB 401

  • Academic Program Support Specialist & Lecturer of Black Studies

    dkuyken2@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-5725
    LB 401

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

    merinne@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6183
    LB 422

  • Ashley McFarland

    Part-Time Instructor of Gender and Women¿s Studies

    amcfarl7@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    LB 401

  • Director, Supplemental Instruction and Learning Assistant Programs & Part-Time Instructor of American Studies

    alb1724@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6257
    ALC 4501

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Political Science

    nxm4943@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6227
    SO 5045

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Philosophy

    jmill214@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6131
    LB 401

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    nnartey@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6127
    HSE 59 – 115

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    oosebhah@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6127
    LB 401

  • Shaw Industries Distinguished Chair and Professor of History

    rpatton@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6714
    SO 4100

  • Part-Time Instructor of Science, Technology, and Society

    vpetrenk@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    LB 401

  • Part-Time Instructor of Interdisciplinary Studies

    kpressl1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    LB 401

  • Professor of Public Administration

    jpurce10@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2863
    SO 5071

  • Part-Time Instructor of American Studies

    aspivey7@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    LB 401

  • Executive Director, SAFE Center & Part-Time Assistant Professor of Gender and Women¿s Studies

    tsmit395@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6725
    HSE 48 (3499) 100

  • Part-Time Instructor of Gender and Women¿s Studies

    astew185@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    LB 401

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

    mvolpert@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    LB 401

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

    mwatki50@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    SO 2019

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