Directory
Graduate Students
Advisor(s)
Administrative Staff
Core Faculty



Stephanie Troutman Robbins
Department Head, on sabbatical for AY 22-23
Research Faculty

Claudia Powell
Associate Research Social Scientist, SW Institute for Research on Women
Affiliated Faculty

Kamran Talattof Ph.D.
Professor, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, School of Middle Eastern/North

Beverly A. Seckinger MFA
Professor, School of Theatre, Film & Television


Maritza Cardenas
Director of Global Studies; Associate Professor, English (Tenured)

Javier Duran Ph.D.
Director, Confluence Center - in the Office of the Vice President for Research
Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese

Jill Guernsey de Zapien
Director, Border/Transborder and Binational Public Health

Leila Hudson
Associate Professor, Modern Middle East Culture & Political Economy

Mary Jo Fox Ph.D.
Professor and Research Social Scientist, American Indian Studies

John Paul (JP) Jones
Dean, International Education
Professor, Geography/Regional Devel (Tenured)
Professor, Public Health (Non-Tenure Eligible)

Mary Koss Ph.D.
Regents’ Professor for Department of Health Promotion Sciences

Meg Lota Brown
Associate Dean, Professional Development
Professor, English (Tenured)
Associate Vice Provost, Academic Affairs

Susan M. White Ph.D.
Professor of Film and Literature, Department of English

Jill M. Williams
Director, Women in Science and Engineering Program

Maha Nassar
Associate Professor, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Jadwiga Pieper Mooney Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History

Denis Provencher
Head, Department of French & Italian Professor of French

Hai Ren Ph.D.
Associate Professor, East Asian Studies and Anthropology


Tyina Steptoe
Associate Professor, History (Tenured)
Associate Professor, Applied Intercultural Arts Research - GIDP (Non-Tenure Eligible)
Emeritus Faculty

Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy Ph.D.
Professor of Women's Studies and English

Patricia MacCorquodale Ph.D.
Professor and Dean Emerita, Honors College

Judy Temple Ph.D.
Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and English