Faculty & Staff

Departmental Faculty

	Ms. Crystal Brown \| email \| 936.294.4542 "Be the change you wish to see in the world."
	Dr. Emily Cabaniss \| email \| 936.294.4085 "We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world."
	Ms. Caron Cates \| email \| 936.294.1961 "Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead
	Dr. Jin Young Choi \| email \| 936.294.3424 "If we are to achieve a richer culture, in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place." -Margaret Mead
	Dr. Douglas Constance \| email \| 936.294.1514 Director of Undergraduate Studies "I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." -Antonio Gramsci
	Dr. Furjen Deng \| email \| 936.294.1515 Associate Chair "Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions." -C. Wright Mills
	Dr. Karen Douglas \| email \| 936.294.1513 "The Philosophers have interpreted the world in different ways. What matters is changing it." -Karl Marx
	Dr. Jeffrey Gardner \| email \| 936.294.2373 "The border became for me no longer a boundary line between two countries but rather a space of identity, a way of being." -R. Aida Hernandez Castillo
	Dr. Maki Hatanaka \| email \| 936.294.4432 "Objectivity is not about dis-engagement, but about mutual and usually unequal structuring, about taking risks in a world where 'we' are permanently mortal, that is, not in 'final control'." -Donna Haraway
	Dr. Tze-Li Hsu \| email \| 936.294.2675 "Vulnerability and inequality are a cumulative process, but there are always ways out." -Glen H. Elder, Jr.
	Dr. Amy Kirk \| email \| online only "The doer alone learneth," -Friedrich Nietzsche
	Dr. Jason Konefal \| email \| 936.294.1511 Department Chair "For education among all kinds of men [humans] always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent." -W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
	Dr. Olena Leipnik \| email \| 936.294.4087 "What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." -Blackfeet Tribe
	Dr. Lee Miller \| email \| 936.294.1517 Director of Internships Advisor for Minor in Community Leadership "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
	Dr. Mary Scherer \| email \| 936.294.4537 "Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves." -Zygmunt Bauman
	Dr. Zeinab Shuker \| email \| 936.294.3068 "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear" -Gramsci
	Dr. Bart Stykes \| email \| 936.294.4122 Director of Graduate Studies "America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live." -Jane Addams
	Dr. Gene Theodori \| email \| 936.294.4143 "The future never belongs to the youth but belongs to all individuals caught in the cumulation of trivial decisions." -Bill Burch
	Dr. Brooklynn Wynveen \| email \| online only "When we give proper weight to local conditions, any generalization is a working hypothesis, not a conclusion." -Lee Cronbach, 1975
	Dr. Jade Zimpfer \| email \| 936.294.4542 "The questions isn't who is going to let me, it is who is going to stop me." -Ayn Rand

	Ms. Crystal Brown \| email \| 936.294.4542 "Be the change you wish to see in the world."
	Dr. Emily Cabaniss \| email \| 936.294.4085 "We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world."
	Ms. Caron Cates \| email \| 936.294.1961 "Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead
	Dr. Jin Young Choi \| email \| 936.294.3424 "If we are to achieve a richer culture, in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place." -Margaret Mead
	Dr. Douglas Constance \| email \| 936.294.1514 Director of Undergraduate Studies "I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." -Antonio Gramsci
	Dr. Furjen Deng \| email \| 936.294.1515 Associate Chair "Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions." -C. Wright Mills
	Dr. Karen Douglas \| email \| 936.294.1513 "The Philosophers have interpreted the world in different ways. What matters is changing it." -Karl Marx
	Dr. Jeffrey Gardner \| email \| 936.294.2373 "The border became for me no longer a boundary line between two countries but rather a space of identity, a way of being." -R. Aida Hernandez Castillo
	Dr. Maki Hatanaka \| email \| 936.294.4432 "Objectivity is not about dis-engagement, but about mutual and usually unequal structuring, about taking risks in a world where 'we' are permanently mortal, that is, not in 'final control'." -Donna Haraway
	Dr. Tze-Li Hsu \| email \| 936.294.2675 "Vulnerability and inequality are a cumulative process, but there are always ways out." -Glen H. Elder, Jr.
	Dr. Amy Kirk \| email \| online only "The doer alone learneth," -Friedrich Nietzsche
	Dr. Jason Konefal \| email \| 936.294.1511 Department Chair "For education among all kinds of men [humans] always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent." -W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
	Dr. Olena Leipnik \| email \| 936.294.4087 "What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." -Blackfeet Tribe
	Dr. Lee Miller \| email \| 936.294.1517 Director of Internships Advisor for Minor in Community Leadership "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
	Dr. Mary Scherer \| email \| 936.294.4537 "Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves." -Zygmunt Bauman
	Dr. Zeinab Shuker \| email \| 936.294.3068 "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear" -Gramsci
	Dr. Bart Stykes \| email \| 936.294.4122 Director of Graduate Studies "America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live." -Jane Addams
	Dr. Gene Theodori \| email \| 936.294.4143 "The future never belongs to the youth but belongs to all individuals caught in the cumulation of trivial decisions." -Bill Burch
	Dr. Brooklynn Wynveen \| email \| online only "When we give proper weight to local conditions, any generalization is a working hypothesis, not a conclusion." -Lee Cronbach, 1975
	Dr. Jade Zimpfer \| email \| 936.294.4542 "The questions isn't who is going to let me, it is who is going to stop me." -Ayn Rand