Class of 2019

Associate Professor
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts

Amy Earhart works with digital humanities, African American and African Diaspora literature and 19th century American literature and culture.

Associate Professor
Texas A&M School of Law

Brian Larson’s research interests include the study of rhetoric and argumentation, especially in legal and professional communication. He focuses on rhetorical and argumentation theory in context and practice, using text-analytic, computational and cognitive methods. His other research interests include the law of online contracts and empirical research methods.

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
College of Liberal Arts

Chaitanya Lakkimsetti’s work centers on gender, sexuality, law and citizenship. In her empirical and theoretical work, she employs transnational and intersectional approaches to study sexual and gender inequalities in a global context.

Associate Professor
Department of History
College of Liberal Arts

Felipe Hinojosa’s research and teaching interests include Latina/o and Mexican American studies, American religion, social movements, gender and comparative race and ethnicity.

Professor
Department of Communication
College of Liberal Arts

Heidi Campbell’s research focuses on the intersection of digital and mobile media, religion and digital cultures. Her expertise is in the social shaping of technologies approach and digital religion studies related to how religious groups negotiate their use of new technologies.

Associate Professor
Department of History
College of Liberal Arts

Hoi-eun Kim has engaged himself with the topic of German interaction with Asia in the second half of the nineteenth-century. Currently, he is interested in the social and cultural history of pharmaceutical products of the modern era from a global perspective.

Associate Professor
Department of Architecture
College of Architecture

An archaeologist and architectural historian, Kevin Glowacki has over 30 years of experience excavating and documenting sites in the Mediterranean. His most recent research focuses on vernacular architecture at the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age settlement of Kavousi Vronda and the formative stages of the Bronze-Age Minoan city of Gournia, both sites located in eastern Crete (Greece).

Professor
Department of International Studies
College of Liberal Arts

Melanie Hawthorne specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, with a special emphasis on prose fiction of the “Decadent” period and on women writers. She tends to emphasize how narrative expectations shape the stories we find compelling, and in particular the conventions of life-writing.