Faculty

Mildred Allen, 1986
Professor of Music
B.M. (1956), University of Mississippi; M.M. (1958), New England Conservatory of Music. Interests: voice, opera.

Judith H. Cox, 1988
Associate Professor of German
B.A. (1972), University of Kansas; M.A. (1977), Ph.D. (1986), University of Texas at Austin. Interests: German cultural history and twentieth century German literature (East and West).

Natalie M. Davis, 1972
Professor of Political Science
B.A. (1968), Stetson University; Ph.D. (1976), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; L.H.D. (1991), Stetson University. Interests: comparative politics: Western Europe Communist systems, elite behavior, survey research and design, American political parties, Southern politics, public administration.

Terry Goodrick, 1989
Jack G. Paden Professor of Psychology
B.A. (1976), Earlham College; M.A. (1978), Ph.D. (1986), Ohio State University. Interests: developmental psychology, perceptual development, creativity, cross cultural psychology.

Susan K. Hagen, 1976
Mary Collett Munger Professor of English
A.B. (1969), Gettysburg College; M.A. (1972), University of Maryland; Ph.D. (1976), University of Virginia. Interests: Chaucer, Middle English poetry, gender studies, interdisciplinary studies.

Steven S. Hendley, 1988
Professor of Philosophy
B.A. (1978), Rhodes College; M.A. (1980), Vanderbilt University; M.A. (1981), Ph.D. (1987), Duquesne University. Interests: phenomenology, existentialism, post modernism, political philosophy.

Edward Shannon LaMonte, 1987
Howell Heflin Professor of Political Science
B.A. (1965), Harvard College; M.A. (1968), Ph.D. (1976), University of Chicago. Interests: public policy process in the United States, urban government and politics, public administration.

Matthew A. Levey, 1993
Associate Professor of History
B.A. (1978), Clark University; M.A. (1980), University of Michigan; M.A. (1984), Ph.D. (1991), University of Chicago. Interests: China, Japan, intellectual history.

Dominique Linchet, 1994
Associate Professor of French
B.A. (1984), Faculte Notre Dame de la Paix, Belgium; M.A. (1986), Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; Ph.D. (1995), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Interests: impact of the discovery of America in France, history of the romance languages, women in medieval literature.

William E. Nicholas, 1972
Professor of History
B.A. (1964), M.A. (1966), Trinity University; Ph.D. (1970), Tulane University. Interests: recent U.S. history, Latin America, civil rights.

Robert Lee Shelton, 1968
Professor of Art
B.F.A. (1961), Memphis State University; M.A. (1963), University of Alabama. Interests: printmaking, film.

H. Wayne Shew, 1978
Ada Rittenhouse Snavely Professor of Biology
B.A. (1971), University of North Carolina at Wilmington; M.A. (1974), Ph.D. (1977), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Interests: molecular genetics, mycology, microbiology, field botany.

David J. Smith, 1983
Professor of Music
B.M. (1969), Westminster Choir College; M.M. (1976), Peabody Conservatory of Music; D.M.A. (1986), University of Texas at Austin. Interests: voice, choir, vocal literature.

Barry Spieler, 1994
Associate Professor of Mathematics
B.A. (1983), Tufts University; M.S. (1986), Ph.D. (1992), Ohio State University. Interests: topology, geometry, geometric methods in group theory, symmetry groups.

Sandra L. Sprayberry, 1988
Robert E. Luckie, Jr., Professor of English
B.A. (1979), M.F.A. (1983), University of Alabama; Ph.D. (1988), Florida State University. Interests: twentieth century literature, creative writing, ethnic and gender studies.

David W. Ullrich, 1986
Professor of English
B.A. (1975), Marquette University; M.A. (1976), Ph.D. (1986), University of Wisconsin-Madison. Interests: romanticism, framed narratives, critical theory, contemporary popular culture.