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Jonathan Babcock, Associate Professor and Associate Director of Choral Activities
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Choral Conducting, Choral Pedagogy, Choral Repertoire, Vocal Technique
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Ana Baer, Associate Professor
Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Ballet Technique, Dance Video, Choreography
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Caroline Beatty, Associate Professor and Director of Bands
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Band, Music Education, Ensemble Performance, Conducting Pedagogy, Ensemble Rehearsal Techniques
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Natalie Blackman, Lecturer
Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Acting, Voiceover, Accents and Dialects, Civic Engagement, Applied Theatre, Theatre in the Community, Theatre for Social Change, Social Justice, Mental Health First Aid, Shakespeare, Solo Performance, Singing, Musical Theatre
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Lynn Brinckmeyer, Professor and Director of Choral Music Education
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Choral Music: Treble Voices and Children's Voices, Music Education/Teacher Education, Leadership, Music Advocacy, Assessment
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Tricia Burke, Associate Professor
Department of Communication Studies, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Social Support, Social Influence, Health Behaviors, Stress, Loneliness, Romantic Relationships, Family Relationships
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Mary Ellen Cavitt, Professor and Assistant Vice President for Academic Services
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Music Education, Instrumental Music Education, Japanese Bands: Student-Self Regulation, Rehearsal Techniques
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Thomas Clark, Professor and Director of the School of Music
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Composition, Music Theory, Contemporary Music, Computer Music, Arts Administration
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Stephanie Dailey, Associate Professor
Department of Communication Studies, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Organization Identity and Identification; Organizational Socialization; Information Seeking; Technology Use in Organizations; Narratives; Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
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Erina Duganne, Associate Professor
School of Art and Design, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  History of Photography, Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, Race and Representation, Art and Activism
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Tahir Ekin, Associate Professor
Department of Computer Information Systems and Quantitative Methods, McCoy College of Business
Areas of Interest:  Statistics, Decision Making, Healthcare, Medical Fraud, Resource Allocation, Bayesian Modeling, Simulation-based Stochastic Optimization, Statistical Medical Fraud Assessment
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Teri Evans-Palmer, Associate Professor
School of Art and Design, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Art Theory and Practice, K-12 Art Education, Engagement, Teacher Self-efficacy, Humor, Pre service Teacher Dispositions, Museum Education, Immediacy, Emotional Intelligence
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Rebekah Fox, Associate Professor
Department of Communication Studies, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Power and Control in Organizations, U.S. Nursing shortage, Nursing Work, Freedom of Expression, Environmental Praxis, Rhetoric of Food Waste, Political Communication
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Hank Hehmsoth, Associate Professor of Practice
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:   Music Technology, Jazz, Composition, Piano, Arranging, Grammy, Jazz Fulbright, MacDowell
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Vanessa Higgins, Associate Professor
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Media Effects, Political Communication, International Communication, Transnational Media, Latin American media, Latino media, Agenda-setting and Public Opinion, Journalists' roles, Digital Media, Research Methods
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Kaitlin Hopkins, Head of Musical Theatre
Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Mental Health of Visual and Performing artists, Life Skills and Stress Management for University Students, Vocal Health, Musical Theatre
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Marian Houser, Professor
Department of Communication Studies, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Communication Assessment, Communication Theory & Research Methods, Nonverbal Communication, Relational Conflict, Gender & Communication
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Gwendolyn Hustvedt, Professor
Family and Consumer Sciences, College of Applied Arts
Areas of Interest: Textiles, Chemistry, Sustainability, Consumer Science, Household or Wearable Technology, Survey Research, Behavioral Economics
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Adah Jones, Professor of Flute
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Flute Performance and Pedagogy, Flute Choir
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Gordon Jones, Senior Lecturer
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Balinese Gamelan, Composition, Music Education, World Music, Music and Dance, Music and Theatre
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Sean Justice, Assistant Professor
School of Art and Design, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Visual Arts & Computer Science, Computer Science Education for Teachers, Programming as Literacy, New Materialisms
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Kelly Kaufold, Associate Professor 
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Scholarly research, IRB submissions; survey research; focus groups, panels; experimental design; content analysis; media economics; media audiences; persuasion; theories of mass communication & persuasion; pedagogical research
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Lynn Ledbetter, Professor 
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Violin, Chamber Music, Violin Literature, Chamber Music Literature, String Pedagogy, Music Performance
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Jessica Mallios, Associate Professor
School of Art & Design, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Visual Art, Philosophy, Physics, Materials Science
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Joey Martin, Professor, Associate Dean and Director of Choral Activities
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Peter Louis van Dijk, Choral Music
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Ana Martínez, Assistant Professor
Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Mexican, Latinx, and Latin American Theatre and Performance; Site-specific Performance; Scenography and Performance Design
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Kevin Mooney, Senior Lecturer
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Musicology, Music history, American music, Texas music, Women in Music, Jazz; 19^th Century Art Song, Music and Identity, Oral history
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Dave Nolan, Regents' Teacher
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Photojournalism, Film, Digital Media, Visual Communication, Learning
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Judy Oskam, Professor and Director
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Communication Campaigns, Professional Development, Documentary/Video Development, Online Education
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Todd Oxford, Associate Professor of Saxophone
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Applied Saxophone Performance and Chamber Music, Saxophone Soloist, Classical World Chamber Music Recording
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Hyuna Park, Assistant Professor
School of Art and Design, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Interdisciplinary Design, Social Design, Design Thinking, Design Education, Healthcare
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Jim Price, Senior Lecturer and Head of Playwriting
Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Performing Arts, Playwriting, Musical Theatre, Acting, New Play Development
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Sandhya Rao, Professor and Assistant Dean for the Graduate College
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Diffusion and growth of new media technologies in Asia with particular emphasis on India
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Liz Rodda, Associate Professor
School of Art and Design, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Contemporary Art, Time-based media, Video, Sound, Intervention, Appropriation, Digital Culture
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Raul Rodriguez, Associate Professor
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Brass Pedagogy, Tuba, Euphonium, Chamber Music, Music Performance, Education 
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Aimee Roundtree, Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Promotion in the College of Liberal Arts
Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
Areas of Interest: Usability Research, Technical/Science/Medical/Visual Communication, Digital Media, Health, Nonprofit
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Nico Schüler, University Distinguished Professor of Music
School of Art and Design, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Music Analysis, Interdisciplinary Aspects of Modern Music, Methods and Methodology of Music Research, Computer-Applications In Music, Pedagogy of Music Theory And History, Creativity, And Music Historiography
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Patricia Shields, Professor
Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts
Areas of Interest:  Public Policy, Public Administration, Peace Support Operations, Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding, Civil-military Relations, Research Methods, Pragmatism applied to policy and administration, women and gender issues.
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Sara Shields, Lecturer
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Video editing, video production, photography, web design, graphic design, social media
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Vlasta Silhavy, Senior Lecturer & Head of BFA Theatre Certification
Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Secondary Education, Theatre in Education, Creative Drama, Youth Summer Camps, Career & College Readiness and Mentorship programs
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Amanda Soto, Associate Professor of Music Education
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  World Music Pedagogy, Cultural Diversity & Social Justice in Music Education, Bimusical Sensibilities of Children, Technology in Music Education, Mexican & Mexican American Music, Children's Musical Culture
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Dan Tamir, Associate Professor 
Department of Computer Science, College of Science and Engineering
Areas of Interest:  Computer Science, Mobile app design, Virtual reality, Usability, Data Compression, Data Analytics, Image Processing
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Melinda Villagran, Professor and Director of Translational Health Research Initiative
Department of Communication Studies, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Health Communication, Patient-Provider Interaction, Organizational Communication, Medication Adherence, Community-based Health Interventions, Veterans, LGBTQIA
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Susan Weil, Associate Professor
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Civil rights, race and mass media
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Nicole Wesley, Associate Professor
Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Community building through performance (The JUSTICE Project), interdisciplinary pedagogical and artistic approaches to art-making (The Bassanda Project) and Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) methodology
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Keith Winking, Professor
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Trumpet and Jazz Education
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Jon Zmikly, Senior Lecturer
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Web Design, HTML/CSS, Social Media Consulting, Video Editing, Digital/Online Strategy
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