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Christina Kilby's research specialization is Tibetan Buddhism. In this field, she was awarded a fellowship by the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia to apply analytical bibliography (the study of books and manuscripts as physical objects) to Tibetan literary materials. She can speak broadly to the role of Buddhism in Tibetan culture both historically and in the context of the modern Chinese state.
She is also developing new research and courses on the intersections between religion and the global refugee crisis, such as religious ethics of hospitality, religious meaning ascribed to migration experience, policies of inclusion and exclusion based on religious affiliation, and the role of faith-based refugee relief and resettlement organizations. 
She earned her bachelor's degree in religious studies from Davidson College, her master of theological studies degree from Harvard Divinity School, and her doctorate in history of religions from the University of Virginia. She received a Fulbright-Hays fellowship in 2013-14 and has conducted extensive fieldwork among Tibetan communities in China, India, Nepal and the United States. 

Kirkpatrick's interests revolve around one central question: What is the most effective way to teach students how to build secure and robust computer systems that will benefit society? Answering this question requires examining complex technical issues with the help of insights from cognitive psychology, learning sciences, and ethics. He also believes it is vital for computer scientists to play an active role in addressing the societal impacts of their work and broadening participation in computing. 
Within the technical domain of computer science, his research experience has focused on computer system security, contextual access control, operating systems & virtualization, and embedded systems. All of these areas hold great promise for improving the human experience, but they also introduce significant risks. When teaching and discussing these subjects, Kirkpatrick emphasizes the need for critical analysis that weighs the benefits and costs of these technologies. 
Kirkpatrick serves as an officer of the Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE) for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the computer science professional society with over 100,000 members worldwide. In this role, he helped to rewrite the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct in 2018, has created (and continues to create) supporting materials to help computer scientists learn how to apply these principles, and has presented workshops on integrating ethics into the computer science classroom. He also serves as a member of the Plagiarism & Ethics Committee for the ACM Publications Board. 
Kirkpatrick received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science at Indiana University, a master's degree in computer science and engineering at Michigan State University and a doctorate in computer science at Purdue University. 

David C. Kirkpatrick (PhD, University of Edinburgh) has written or co-edited multiple books that explore intersections of politics, religion, and social movements—with the University of Pennsylvania Press (2019), Rutgers University Press (2022) and his current book project with Oxford University Press (expected in 2023). This book, Blood and Borders, explores how stories and images of violence shaped voting constituencies and participation in the U.S. public square. He has also produced leading research with scholars from around the world—at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies in Germany, funded by the German government (UNC Press, 2022), at Dartmouth College funded by the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023), and at Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge.
Dr. Kirkpatrick’s research speaks to the increasing diversity of the U.S. voting public, how religion impacts political discourse and engagement, as well as the diversity and importance of Latino communities in the United States.

With a background in sciences studies and popular culture, Klein’s scholarship and teaching focuses on the configuration and cultural representation of science and technology, science fiction literature and film, and the use of narrative in medical and health-related settings. Klein serves as the coordinator of the cross-disciplinary medical humanities minor, which provides students with a humanistic and social study of illness, health and the body.
He received a doctorate in science and technology studies from Virginia Tech; a master's in technical communication from Rensselaer; and a bachelor's in biology from the University of Arizona.

Alessandro Palermo is an expert in the seismically safe design of buildings and bridges, with an additional focus on sustainability. He holds twos patents in mass timber construction, one of which is consider the basis for the advancement of seismically resilient technologies for timber construction and adopted in several buildings around the world.
Palermo has expertise in material degradation and potential mitigation strategies. For example, one of his recent projects aims to improve the lifespan of bridges by using innovative materials and by understanding the impact of corrosion on a bridge’s seismic performance. He also has done work on using waste materials, such as tires and glass, to improve the seismic performance of concrete structures.  
Palermo expertise branches out to digital construction as well. He is currently working on an extensive testing program to quantify the performance of 3D Printed concrete houses during earthquakes, the Achilles’ heel of the technology.

Christensen is a national policy leader for the field of robotics and has testified before Congress on the subject. He is the head of a nationwide effort to draft a robotics roadmap and explore the field’s potential to transform U.S. society. Most recently, he served as Director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech. Christensen's research covers computer vision, artificial intelligence and robotics, and his primary emphasis has been on a systems-oriented approach to machine perception, robotics and design of intelligent machines. He and his team seek solutions that are theoretically sound, with well-defined implementations that can be evaluated in realistic situations. He has worked with a number of industry partners, including Boeing, KUKA, iRobot, BMW and Apple.


 
Before joining UC San Diego as director of the Contextual Robotics Institute at the Jacobs School, he was the founding director of Institute for Robotics and Intelligent machines (IRIM) at Georgia Institute of Technology (2006-2016). He has published more than 350 contributions across AI, robotics and vision. Christensen received the Engelberger Award 2011, the highest honor awarded by the robotics industry. He was also awarded the "Boeing Supplier of the Year 2011" with 3 other colleagues at Georgia Tech. Christensen is a fellow of American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He received an honorary doctorate in engineering from Aalborg University 2014.

 

Kondrad currently teaches Human Lifespan Development and a pedagogy course for undergraduate teaching assistants.
Kondrad’s research explores young children’s social and cognitive development.
Kondrad also does research in the scholarship of teaching and learning. She is interested in pedagogical techniques that help students manage test anxiety; curb academic dishonesty; and promote student learning in large, lecture style courses.  
Kondrad earned a bachelor's degree in psychology at the College of William and Mary, a master's degree in cognition, action, and perception at Arizona State University, and a doctorate in developmental psychology at the University of Virginia.

Kozak teaches classes on principles of marketing and advanced professional selling. He has also taught services marketing and entrepreneurship.
Kozak earned a bachelor's degree in marketing at the Univeristy of Maryland and a master's degree in marketing from Loyola University Maryland.

Marianne Mason (doctorate, University of Georgia, linguistics) is a scholar in the areas of language and the law/forensic linguistics, discourse/conversation analysis, translation/interpreting studies, and game theoretic pragmatics. Dr. Mason studies police-lay person exchanges, specializing in the discourse of police interviews/interrogations and the intersection between case law and contemporary police interrogation practices in the United States and abroad. Her work has appeared in numerous peer reviewed journals in the areas of linguistics, criminology, law, communication, and translation/interpreting studies. She is also a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (Fellow ’18). Her latest co-edited publication, The Discourse of Police Interviews (2020), explores the sociolegal, cognitive, and discursive framework of popular police interview techniques employed in the United States and abroad and the discursive practices of institutional representatives that can influence the construction and quality of linguistic evidence.
Her current area of research takes a corpus-based and game theoretic approach to the analysis of case law and forensic discursive exchanges. This research will be featured in her forthcoming book, Police Interrogation, Language, and the Law (2023), with Cambridge University Press.
Dr. Mason is also on the editorial board of Translation and Interpreting Studies: The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association. She is also a board member of the Society for the Study of Translation and Interpretation (SSTI)/National Association of Judiciary Interpreters & Translators/NAJIT.

May’s research focuses on the interactions between physical, chemical and biological processes in river systems. Specifically, she explores hydrologic and geomorphic processes that shape river systems and the role of disturbance in aquatic ecosystems. Of particular interest are mountain stream communities, brook trout habitat, American eels and freshwater mussels. 
May received a bachelor's degree in natural resources from Humboldt State University, a master's degree in forest hydrology from Oregon State University and a doctorate in fisheries science from Oregon State University.

Current research in Virginia and West Virginia includes natural history and conservation studies of two endangered plant species, the shale barren rock cress (Bochera serotina) and piratebush (Buckleya distichiophylla). Additionally, I am conducting studies on a plant species known from only one population in Virginia, Michaux’s gladecress (Leavenworthia uniflora). A major part of each of these studies involves pollination experiments and flower-visitor observations. Floristic surveys in Rockingham County and other parts of the Shenandoah Valley also comprise some of my Virginia studies.
My Galápagos research has taken a variety of directions. Over the years, my work has concentrated on the reproductive biology of Galápagos natives and endemics. However, I am currently involved in a systematics study of a few members of the Galápagos endemic flowering plant genus Scalesia. My colleagues and I, using morphological and molecular data are attempting to determine the boundaries of these species, and whether they are capable of forming fertile hybrids.
Dr. McMullen is author of the book, Flowering Plants of the Galápagos, published by Cornell University Press. 

Dr. McMullen earned his doctorate at the University of Maryland, his master's at JMU and his bachelor's at Eastern Mennonite University.

Merkel is an associate professor and preservation officer for JMU Libraries. She has taught as an adjunct for the University of North Texas, Virginia Military Institute, and James Madison University with courses ranging from preservation of library materials to visual art and art history.
Merkel is a member of the Special Collections team supporting researchers, class visits, exhibits, and conservation and stabilization of unique and fragile materials. She oversees repair of circulating library collections as well as binding of scores for the Music Library. 
Merkel earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in sculpture and art history from the University of Notre Dame, and a master of fine arts degree in painting at James Madison University. She completed a collections care & maintenance training program at the University of Missouri Kansas City, archival certification from the Academy of Certified Archivists, and disaster recovery training from the Foundation of the American Institute for Historic and Artistic Works and the National Conservation Training Center.

Mollica holds a B.A. in Communication from Temple University and an M.S. in Communication from Purdue University. With over 25 years of experience in television, radio, and public relations, he is a seasoned specialist in strategic communication. Mollica has worked in the Philadelphia and New York media markets, covering major milestones in news and sports, including the World Series, Stanley Cup Playoffs, and NBA and NFL playoffs. In 2003, he was instrumental in launching Fox 麻豆传媒 Radio, where he led coverage of significant events such as the 2003 East Coast blackout, the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election Night.
As an award-winning public relations professional, Mollica has worked with a wide range of clients in the areas of manufacturing and environmental communications, retail, finance, healthcare, economic development, and the nonprofit sector. He has developed and adapted crisis communication plans for environmental and healthcare clients and led training sessions on the local, state, and federal levels of government on social media best practices. In 2016, he was feted with a Gold Award from the Hermes Creative Awards for "The Secrets of Power Pitching." He has also appeared on media outlets nationally and internationally for his expertise in the areas of social media strategy, sports marketing, crisis communications, and politics. He previously taught at American University in Washington, D.C.
 

Parrish is an associate professor of writing, rhetoric, and technical communication at James Madison University. His research interests include the rhetoric of science, environmental communication, animal studies, nature writing, and the history of rhetoric. Parrish is the author of Adaptive Rhetoric: Evolution, Culture, and the Art of Persuasion, and co-editor, with Kristian Bjørkdahl, of Rhetorical Animals: Boundaries of the Human in the Study of Persuasion. He has published articles in a variety of journals, including Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Literature Compass, Rhetoric Review, POROI, and The Evolutionary Review. He is currently finishing a monograph, on the subjects of animals, persuasion, and the senses, which is under contract with the University of Chicago Press for publication in their "Animal Lives" series.

Pattie's research interests include managing expatriates, leadership and strategic human resources. In 2022, Pattie won the Madison Scholar award for his research. He also consults with organizations on improving people management. Pattie is involved in numerous civic organizations and served two terms on the Augusta County Board of Supervisors. 
Pattie earned his doctorate from the University of Texas at Arlington, an MBA from George Washinton University and a bachelor's degree from Texas Christian University.

Dr. Saunders is the director of JMU's Human Performance Laboratory. His research over the past decade has focused on the role of various nutritional interventions to promote improved performance and recovery in endurance athletes. This has included investigations of contemporary nutrient intake strategies during exercise (i.e. the effects of glucose+fructose ingestion, carbohydrate mouth-rinsing, carbohydrate+protein co-ingestion, caffeine), and nutrients consumed in the post-exercise period (i.e. carbohydrate, protein, antioxidants and chocolate milk).
Saunders earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at East Tennessee State University and his doctorate at the University of Georgia.

With an expertise in Eastern Europe, the European Union and the rise of “Madame Ministers” in the world, Scherpereel can comment on the happenings in Europe and the implications for the rest of the world as well as the role of female leadership on the global stage. He is currently the Director of the European Union Policy Studies masters program, a one year program based in Florence, Italy, that gives students a specialization in the politics of the European Union. Through the program he posts concise videos explaining current EU issues.
He received his doctorate and master's from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his bachelor's from the University of Notre Dame.

Currently researching undecided voters using dial testing, political communications professor, Dan Schill, worked with CNN to dial-test undecided voters in crucial swing states for each of the presidential and vice-presidential debates. Schill’s expertise also includes media and politics, social media and political stagecraft–or how the candidates’ appearances during events affect viewers.
He received his doctorate and his master's from the University of Kansas, and his bachelor's from the University of North Dakota.

Schubert is the associate dean of academic engagement at JMU Libraries, helping coordinate the work of teams such as Digital Scholarship & Distinctive Collections, Ask the Library service, liaison librarians and Music Library. She has previously served as the director of Research & Education Services and the Health Sciences & Nursing Librarian.   
Schubert’s research has focused on the information behaviors of nursing and health students, teaching evidence-based practice, and academic libraries administration activities, such as onboarding, change management and succession planning.  
Schubert earned a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from the University of California, Irvine and a master's in library and information science from San Jose State University. 

Michael Seth is a professor of history at James Madison University where he has taught courses on Korea, Asia and world history since 1998.  His research is on Korean history, including South Korea’s educational and economic development, and on North Korea. He has also done research on states with limited recognition.  
His publications include: Education Fever: Society, Politics and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea (2002), A Concise History of Korea (Second edition 2016), and North Korea: A History (2018). He is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean History (2016) and co-editor of A History of Korean Education(2015).  Outside of JMU Seth has worked with international human rights organizations, and as a consultant on educational development projects.
He has a doctorate in history from the University of Hawaii. Before coming to JMU he lived and worked in Africa and in East Asia for fourteen years.