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Dr. Anthony Milburn received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. While having formally studied and taught in all of the degree-granting disciplines housed within the Department of Humanities, his areas of expertise include American, African American and Native American, Russian/Soviet, Asian and World History, Literature, and Philosophy. In addition, to teaching in th...[Read more]
Dr. Amy Hobbs Harris is the Humanities Department chair and Professor of English. She received her Ph.D. in American Literature in 2005 from the University of Maryland, College Park. She has published on Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and the Progressive Era Woman’s Club movement. Her current research on American poetry performances in the early...[Read more]
Mike Gormley has a Bachelors degree from Columbia University and a Masters degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Mr. Gormley teaches several journalism and media courses. Prior to joining the Central State faculty in 2002, Mr. Gormley worked as a television reporter in Alaska, Hawaii, Florida, and North Carolina. He has received a wide varie...[Read more]
Dr. Roger Anderson received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University (Columbus) specializing in Foreign, Second, and Multilingual Education. He received his BA and MA in African Studies/French from the Ohio University (Athens), and an MA in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language from Middlebury College. As a native monolingual, English speaker, Roger is an avid language learner. He ...[Read more]
E: amilburn@centralstate.edu Dr. Carol Bargeron, Associate Professor of History, comes to Central State University from Texas State University, where she inaugurated a systematic program in Middle East history and Arabic language study, as well as taught World Civilization. She specializes in Islamic and Modern Middle East history and will establish those fields of interest within the Department of Humanities ...[Read more]
Dr. G. Jahwara Giddings received his Ph.D. in African American Studies from Temple University in 2000 and is an expert in African American nationalist history, Pan-African cultures and Afrocentric pedagogy and Service Learning. Dr. Giddings is the author of Contemporary Afrocentric Scholarship: Toward a functional cultural philosophy (2003) and has won numerous travel grants...[Read more]
Yuegen David Yu, Ph.D. Dr. Yuegen (David) Yu was born in China, received his B.A. in philosophy from Zhejiang University, and M.A. in history from Tianjin University, both in China; and earned a Ph.D. in history from West Virginia University. Before joining the CSU faculty, he taught history and humanities for nearly a decade at Tianjin University of Science and Technology, and the Unive...[Read more]
Dr. Obiwu Iwuanyanwu (AKA “Obiwu”) studied in Nigeria at Abia State University and the University of Jos, and in the United States at Syracuse University. He earned a Ph.D. in English (with distinction) at Syracuse, where he wrote his dissertation on Lacanian analytic and South African literature. Obiwu is the author of four books on poetry, diaspora studies, and criticism, includi...[Read more]
Dr. Ken Hayes is the Writing Program Coordinator and an Assistant Professor of English. B.A., M.A., Wright State University, Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, (*2017) E: khayes@centralstate.edu Dr. Jonathan Holmes is an Assistant Professor of English. B.A., The Ohio State University M.A., Ohio University Ph.D., The Ohio State University, (*2016) E: jholmes@centralstate.edu Dr. Vincent Haddad is an Assistant Professor of English and received his Ph.D .from Wayne State University in 2016. He teaches surveys of American and African American literature and special seminars on Detroit, race and comics, and the Black Lives Matter Movement. He has published peer-reviewed scholarly articles on these topics in the journals Inks, The Comparatist, ImageTexT...[Read more]
Dr. María del Mar Gámez García is an assistant professor of Spanish at Central State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish and an M.A. in Spanish, both from the University of Cincinnati. She teaches Basic Spanish courses and other Minor in Spanish courses at CSU on Spanish and Latin American literature, cinema, and culture. Her resear...[Read more]
Professor Sarah Armstrong Jones is an adjunct professor of English. She holds a B.A. in English and a M.A. in English and Education. She has taught at CSU since 2014. She is currently pursuing an Ed.D. in Transformational Leadership.Her personal interests include reading, mostly fiction or autobiography; writing poetry and short shorts; playing with her my dog, a Lhasa Apso nam...[Read more]
Professor William Abbott received his MA from East Tennessee State University (2002) and his MFA from Miami University. Mr. Abbott is the author of Let Them Eat MoonPie, a history of poetry competitions in the Southeast in the 1990s, and has published poetry in Radius, The November 3rd Club, Yellow Chair Review, and The Sow's Ear. He teaches creative writing and poetry. His web...[Read more]
Dr. Roger Anderson
Instructor
Rhaslyn McGhee
Instructor
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Anthony Milburn
Assistant Professor
Dr. Anthony Milburn received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. While having formally studied and taught in all of the degree-granting disciplines housed within the Department of Humanities, his areas of expertise include American, African American and Native American, Russian/Soviet, Asian and World History, Literature, and Phil...[Read more]
Carol Bargeron
Associate Professor of History
Dr. G. Jahwara Giddings
Professor
Dr. Yuegen David Yu
Assistant Professor
Dr. Obiwu Iwuanyanwu
Assistant Professor
Dr. Katie Shinkle
Assistant Professor
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Dr. Ken Hayes
Assistant Professor of English and Writing Program Coordinator
Dr. Jonathan Holmes
Assistant Professor of English
Dr. Vincent Haddad
Assistant Professor of English
Dr. PJ Carlisle
Assistant Professor
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Dr. María del Mar Gámez García
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Terri Barker
Instructor
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Professor Sarah Armstrong Jones
Instructor
Professor William Abbott
Assistant Professor
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