Introducing…
New Department Chairs and Directors

Kirsten Dellinger

Kirsten Dellinger (Interim Chair of Sociology and Anthropology)

  • Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Ph.D. in sociology from Texas
  • Interests: Gender, sexuality, work and qualitative methods

 

Bob Haws

Bob Haws (Chair of Public Policy Leadership)

  • Associate Professor of History
  • Ph.D. in history from Nebraska
  • Interest: American legal history

 

Paul Lago

Paul Lago (Interim Chair of Biology)

  • Professor of Biology
  • Ph.D. in entomology from North Dakota State
  • Interest: Insect systematics

 

Ted Ownby

Ted Ownby (Interim Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture) •

  • Professor of History and Southern Studies
  • Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins
  • Interests: Social and cultural history of the South

 

Joseph Ward

Joseph Ward (Chair of History)

  • Associate Professor of History
  • Ph.D. in history from Stanford
  • Interests: 16th- and 17th- century England, particularly London