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Meet the AHSS Faculty

Undergraduate Faculty

Department of Fine Arts and Communication

Ben Bruflat, DMA
Program Director, Music

Adam Dean, PhD
Program Director, Communication and Media

Charlie Gee, PhD
Faculty, Communication and Media

Michael Giles, MFA
Department Chair and Program Director, Art
Faculty, Art

Joe Gill, MFA
Faculty, Communication and Media
Faculty Athletics Representative 

Risa Hircovsky, MFA 
Faculty, Art

Young Kim, DMA 
Faculty, Music 

Department of Humanities

Carson Benn, PhD
Program Director, Appalachian Studies
Faculty, History

Steve Cowan, PhD
Department Chair and Program Director, Philosophy and Religion
Faculty, Philosophy and Religion

Jessey Gilley, PhD
Program Director, Geography
Faculty, Geography

William Hardy, PhD
Lincoln Scholar and Director, The Abraham Lincoln Center for Leadership and Public Policy
Faculty, History

Stephanie Holyfield, PhD
Program Director, History
Faculty, History

Joanna Neilson, PhD
Assistant Dean
Faculty, History

Debra Salata, PhD
Faculty, History

Department of Literature and Language

Rebecca Brackmann, PhD
Faculty, English

Tom Bragg, PhD
Faculty, English

Jacques Debrot, PhD
Faculty, English

Abigail Heiniger, PhD
Department Chair
Faculty, English

Sandra Weems, PhD
Faculty, English
Program Director, Honors Scholars Program

Pat Wensink, MFA
Faculty, English
Director, Mountain Heritage Literary Festival

Department of Social Sciences

Kelsey Braun, PhD
Faculty, Psychology

Savannah Campbell, PsyD
Faculty, Psychology

Jim Charles, PhD
Program Director, Undergraduate Criminology and Criminal Justice
Faculty, Criminology and Criminal Justice

Lee Gilroy, PhD
Program Director, Undergraduate Psychology
Faculty, Psychology

Benjamin Mabry, PhD
Program Director, Political Science
Faculty, Political Science

Martin Sellers, PhD
Dean
Faculty, Political Science

MaryAnn Thrush, PhD
Department Chair
Faculty, Criminology and Criminal Justice

Department of Social Work

Ann-Marie Buchanan, PhD, MSW, LMSW
Department Chair and Program Director, Social Work
Faculty, Social Work

Kristy Lee, MSW, LMSW
Field Coordinator
Faculty, Social Work

Graduate Faculty

Edward "Trey" Asbury, PhD
Graduate Programs Coordinator and Program Director, Graduate Psychology
Faculty, Graduate Psychology

Kevin W. Jennings, PhD
Program Director, Graduate Criminal Justice
Faculty, Graduate Criminology and Criminal Justice

Heather Roberson, PhD
Program Director, Graduate Public Administration
Faculty, Graduate Public Administration