Colleges: Arts and Letters | Business | Education and Psychology | Health | Science and Technology

Departments in this College: Art | Anthropology and Sociology | English | Foreign Language and Literature | History | Mass Communication and Journalism | Military Science | Music | Philosophy and Religion | Political Science | Speech Communication | Theatre and Dance

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Elliott Pood
Department	Dean
Title	Dean
Phone	O 266-4316
E-mail	elliott.pood@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Conflict management, explosive safety, and communication
Research Areas	Conflict, explosive safety at airports and air shows

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Deanna Douglas
Department	Art
Title	Associate Professor
Phone	O 266-6939   H 271-7378
E-mail	deanna2d@aol.com
Degrees	M.F.A.
Expertise	Design.
Research Areas	Fine arts as well as graphic design

Will give an on-camera interview?	No
Name	Harry C. Ward
Department	Art
Title
Phone	O 266-6425
E-mail
Degrees	M.A.
Expertise	Drawing and painting
Research Areas	Drawing, painting and sculpture

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Laura Prange
Department	Art
Title	Visiting Professor
Phone	O 266-5387   H 579-9925
E-mail	laura.prange@usm.edu
Degrees	M.F.A.
Expertise	Sculpture
Research Areas

Will give an on-camera interview?	Maybe
Name	James G. Flanagan
Department	Anthropology and Sociology
Title
Phone	O 266-6887
E-mail	james.flanagan@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Ireland, Anthropological Theory, and New Guinea.
Research Areas	New Guinea kinship and Gaelic language.

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Angela Ball
Department	English
Title	Chair and Professor
Phone	O 266-4182   H 599-7797
E-mail	angball1@aol.com
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Creative writing, poetry, and modern and contemporary literature.
Research Areas

Will give an on-camera interview?	No
Name	Michael Salda
Department	English
Title	Associate Professor
Phone	(O) 266-4454
E-mail	michael.salda@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise
Research Areas	King Arthur

Will give an on-camera interview?	No
Name	Susan Malone
Department	English
Title	Associate Professor
Phone	O 266-5052   H 545-2426
E-mail	s.malone@usm.edu
Degrees	Ed.D.
Expertise	English education, technology and teacher’s education, young adult literature, and adolescent literacy
Research Areas	Technology and English education

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Joanne Burnett
Department	Foreign Languages and Literatures
Title	Associate Professor
Phone	O 266-4964
E-mail	joanne.burnett@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	French and second language acquisition, and teacher education.
Research Areas	Teacher beliefs, practices, and decision-making processes, and modern French history, culture and society 1870 to the present.

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	Jeanne Gillespie
Department	Foreign Language and Literature
Title	Assistant Professor
Phone	O 266-4964   H 544-4575
E-mail	jeanne.gillespie@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Colonial Latin America- Arts and Letters, conquest of Mexico- native voice, U.S. Hispanic poetics, Isleno work narratives and songs, women of the Americas- native voices, and folklore/children’s theater in Latin America.
Research Areas	Conquest of the Americas from native perspectives, cross-cultural communications, women’s voices in Latin America, and Latin Music.

Will give an on-camera interview?	No
Name	Leah Fonder-Solano
Department	Foreign Languages and Literatures
Title	Assistant Professor
Phone	O 266-6613
E-mail	leah.fonder-solano@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Spanish language and Latin American literature and culture.
Research Areas	Contemporary Latin American authors and foreign language pedagogy.

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	William K. Scarborough
Department	History
Title	Professor
Phone	O 266-4336   H 268-6629
E-mail	william.scarborough@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Antebellum Southern plantations, slavery, sectionalism, and civil war (1820-1865)
Research Areas	Agricultural History

Will give an on-camera interview?	Yes
Name	James Pat Smith
Department	History
Title	Professor
Phone	O 228-865-4590   H 228-832-8967
E-mail	jamespat.smith@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	History, Mississippi politics, civil rights, British Imperialism in Middle East Africa and Asia 19^th and 20^th centuries.
Research Areas	Chaired Democratic Party Study Commission from 1992-1993 on future of Democratic party and history of race relations.

Will give an on-camera interview?
Name	Cindy M. Brown
Department	School of Mass Communication and Journalism
Title	Assistant Professor
Phone	O 266-4260  H 271-2830
E-mail	cindy.brown@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Photojournalism; visual communication
Research Areas	Traditional research-photojournalism ethics; creative work: photo documenting religious diversity in Mississippi

Will give an on-camera interview?
Name	David R. Davies
Department	School of Mass Communication and Journalism
Title	Associate Professor
Phone	O 266-6237  H 261-3489
E-mail	david.davies@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D., 1997, University of Alabama
Expertise	Media history, specifically history of American newspapers in the 20^th century and press coverage of civil rights; writing and editing
Research Areas	“The Press and Race; Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement,” Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2001

Will give an on-camera interview?
Name	Dr. Phillip Gentile
Department	School of Mass Communication and Journalism
Title	Assistant Professor
Phone	O 266-4258  H 583-0677
E-mail	phillip.gentile@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Film studies
Research Areas	Representations of ethnicity, masculinity and gender

Will give an on-camera interview?
Name	Mazharul Haque
Department	School of Mass Communication and Journalism
Title	Professor
Phone	O 266-4284  H 268-3922
E-mail	m.haque@usm.edu
Degrees	Ph.D.
Expertise	Theory and research in mass communication involving cultural and critical studies, process and effects, instructional communication
Research Areas	Book, monograph, journal articles, book chapters on news, new technologies, cultural issues

Will give an on-camera interview?
Name	Charles Mayo