School of Humanities and Sciences

The School of Humanities and Sciences offers academic programs of excellence in the humanities and STEM disciplines, promoting scholarship among faculty-mentors and students to prepare disciple-scholars for advanced study, civic engagement, vocational success, and a well-lived life. The school offers an array of major and minor undergraduate degree programs, courses in the university’s general education program, discipline-specific student honor societies, and graduate degree programs.
Departments
Faculty
Associate Dean
Bryant Mathews, PhD, Mathematics
Professors
Mark Arvidson, PhD, Mathematics
Joseph Bentz, PhD, English
Matthew Berezuk, PhD, Chemistry
Patricia Brown, PhD, English
Charles Chen, PhD, Biology
David Dyer, PhD, Biology
Diana Pavlac Glyer, PhD, English
Nori Henk, PhD, Sociology
Kevin Sheng-Lin Huang, PhD, Chemistry
Soeun Kim, PhD, Statistics
Carole Lambert, PhD, English
Bryant Mathews, PhD, Mathematics
Bradley McCoy, PhD, Physics
Christopher Noble, PhD, English
Windy Petrie, PhD, English
Sarah Richart, PhD, Biology
Cahleen Shrier, PhD, Biology
Rico Vitz, PhD, Philosophy
David Weeks, PhD, Political Science
Associate Professors
Aisha Chen, PhD, Engineering
Philip Cox, PhD, Chemistry
Douglas Hume, JD, Political Science
Christine Kern, PhD, English
David Miyahara, PhD, Sociology
Lu Ruan, PhD, Computer Science
Ethan Schrum, PhD, History
César Aroldo Solórzano, PhD, Modern Languages
Caleb Spencer, PhD, English
Willetta Toole-Simms, PhD, Biology
Sándor Volkán-Kacsó, PhD, Physics
Jennifer Young, PhD, Chemistry
Assistant Professors
Elijah Roth, PhD, Chemistry
Marian Saleh, MA, MS, Biology
Ryan Somers, PT, DPT, Biology
Faculty Emeriti
Thomas Allbaugh, PhD, English
Nancy Brashear, PhD, English
Richard Christopherson, PhD, Sociology
Eric Drewry, JD, PhD, English
Mark Eaton, PhD, English
Richard Eckhart, PhD, Computer Science
David Esselstrom, PhD, English
Christopher Flannery, PhD, Political Science
Emily Griesinger, PhD, English
Bradley Hale, PhD, History
Paul Hertig, PhD, Global Studies
Scott Kinnes, PhD, Biology
Bryan Lamkin, PhD, History
Jon Milhon, PhD, Biology
Daniel Palm, PhD, Political Science
Carrie Peirce, PhD, Sociology
Richard Robison, PhD, TESOL
Samuel Sambasivam, PhD, Computer Science
Richard Slimbach, PhD, Global Studies
Bruce Spalding, PhD, Biology
James White, PhD, Chemistry
Mary Shepard Wong, PhD, TESOL