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Lester Charles Seigel
, 1993
Joseph Hugh Thomas Professor of Music
B.M. (1980), Birmingham-Southern College; M.M. (1983), D.M.A. (1991),
University of Colorado, Boulder. Interests: choral music, opera and
musical theatre, conducting, music philosophy and aesthetics.
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.
Kevin Shook
, 2005
Associate Professor of Art
B.F.A (2002), University of Akron; M.F.A. (2004), University of Delaware.
Interests: printmaking, drawing, sculpture, digital media.
Robert J. Slagter
, 1985
Professor of Political Science
B.A. (1974), M.A. (1977), Ph.D. (1990), Southern Illinois University.
Interests: politics and societies of Southeast and East Asia, development
studies and comparative cultures, American politics, research methods.
Timothy B. Smith
, 2006
Associate Professor of Art History
B.A. (1992), M.A. (1994), University of South Carolina; Ph.D. (2002),
Florida State University. Interests: fifteenth-century Italian art, Etruscan
and Roman art and archaeology, the cult of relics in the Renaissance,
queer visual culture, art and viewer reception.
Amelia G. Spencer
, 2008
Associate Professor of Education
B.S. (1985), Birmingham-Southern College; M.A. (1986), M.A. (1990),
University of Alabama; Ph.D. (1993), University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. Interests: differentiation of curriculum, autism,
international internships, fiction involving individuals with
exceptionalities.
Janie Spencer
, 1986
Professor of Spanish
B.A. (1974), Samford University; M.A. (1977), Ph.D. (1982), University
of Alabama. Interests: twentieth-century Spanish theatre, Spanish
grammar, Argentine literature.
Kathleen Spies
, 1999
Professor of Art History
B.A. (1992), St. Olaf College; M.A. (1994), Ph.D. (1999), Indiana
University. Interests: American art 1850-1950, American studies, issues
of gender, race, and class.
