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Kimberly (Kim) Tran, PhD, HSP-P is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Fayetteville State University. She is also a licensed psychologist in the State of North Carolina with a private practice in the community. Her research, teaching and clinical practice areas are framed by a multicultural and affirmative lens focused on military/veteran/family mental health, college student behavioral health, suicide, trauma/PTSD/MST/anxiety/depression, substance use disorders, chronic pain management, stress resilience and mind-body-spirit wellness. While at Fayetteville State University, Kim won both the Department of Psychology Excellence in Teaching and College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher of the Year awards.
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Shaily Patel is an historian of early Christianity who studies ancient magic, Graeco-Roman religions, and how Christians fashioned their identity by negotiating two opposing cultural trends: the charismatic allure of the magician figure and the simultaneous vilification of that same figure in Roman literature of the period. Magic made Christianity in a lot of ways, and Shaily likes to think about all the different ways identities are constructed in the ancient world. She earned an MA from the University of Chicago and an MTS from Vanderbilt Divinity School before completing her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently, she serves as Assistant Professor of Early Christianity at Virginia Tech.
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Dr. E. Patrick Johnson is Dean of the School of Communication and Annenberg University at Northwestern University. A scholar/artist, Johnson performs nationally and internationally and has published widely in the areas of race, gender, sexuality and performance. Johnson is a prolific performer and scholar, and an inspiring teacher, whose research and artistry has greatly impacted African American studies, Performance studies, and Gender and Sexuality studies. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of several award-winning books, including his most recent two: Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History (University of North Carolina Press, 2018) and, Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women (Duke UP, 2019).
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Heidi McCann is currently a full-time doctoral student working on a degree in Educational Research and Policy Analysis, aiming for a December 2020 graduation. She has worked for over 25 years at libraries in higher education including UMass Amherst and Amherst College - mostly in Reference and Instructional Services, but also as a Serials Cataloguer in Technical Services and within Archives and Special Collections. The last 14 years of her career were at a community college in Central Massachusetts where she finished her tenure as Dean of Library and Academic Support Services, overseeing tutoring and placement testing, in addition to library services. She was very involved with ACRL New England throughout her time working as a librarian, and remains committed to the mission of community colleges.
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Thomas Phillips is a composer, novelist, and teacher known for the minimalist aesthetic that informs his work. In addition to numerous music releases, installations, and collaborations in dance and theater, he is the author of novels, short story collections, and scholarly monographs, recent examples of which focus on literary horror and cultural theory. Having completed graduate work in Helsinki and Montreal, he currently lives in the US, where he teaches literature at North Carolina State University.
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Since 2015, Robert D. Newman has served as president and director of the National Humanities Center, working to broaden the Center's scholarly mission, diversity, programming, and educational outreach as well as to encourage vibrant public engagement with, and national advocacy for, the humanities. Dr. Newman was previously Dean of the College of Humanities, Professor of English, and Associate Vice President for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Utah and also has held faculty appointments at the University of South Carolina, Texas A&M University, and the College of William and Mary. A literary scholar by training, Newman's scholarship has focused on twentieth-century English literature and culture and narrative theory. He has published six books, numerous articles, reviews, and poems, and, for the past nineteen years, he has been General Editor of the “Cultural Frames, Framing Culture” series published by the University of Virginia Press. Recently, he was celebrated as a Distinguished Alumnus at both Penn State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. National Humanities Center website - https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NationalHumanitiesCenter/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/natlhumanities
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