Students will have the opportunity to study with distinguished faculty from departments and programs in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters.
Executive Committee
Faculty Affiliates

Shane Christian Eason, BFA,MFA
Associate Professor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters
School of Communication and Multimedia Studies

Alejandra Abad
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Anthony Abbate, NCARB, AIA, LEED AP
Professor
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Architecture

Don Adams
Professor
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Camila Afanador-Llach
Associate Professor, Graphic Design
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Visual Arts and Art History
Fort Lauderdale Campus | HEC 1009E

Eerang Ahn
Adjunct Professor, piano
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Stephanie Anderson, MFA
Assistant Professor of Creative Nonfiction
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English

Nicole Anslover, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director, History Symposium Series
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History

Ivy Ashe
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Burton Atkins, Ph.D.
Instructor
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Political Science

Prisca Augustyn, Ph.D
Germanic Linguistics
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Laura Backstrom
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters
Sociology
Boca Raton Campus | CU 259

Mehrdad Sedaghat Baghbani
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design
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Visual Arts and Art History
Fort Lauderdale Campus | HEC 1008F

Nicholas Baima, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
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Philosophy

Stacey Balkan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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English

Matt Baltrucki, Master of Music
Assistant Professor of Music
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Commercial Music

Joey Bargsten, Ph.D
Professor
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School of Communication and Multimedia Studies

Barclay Barrios, Ph.D.
Professor; Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies
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English

Evan Bennett, Ph.D.
Professor
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History

Eric L. Berlatsky, Ph.D.
Professor of English, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Studies | DAA Committee
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English
Boca Raton Campus | Culture and Society Building - 97 232J

Monica Berovides-Hidalgo
Director of Worship
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Music

Géraldine Blattner, Ph.D
Professor
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French Studies

Daniel Bolojan
Associate Professor & Director of The Creative AI Lab
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Architecture

Ann Branaman, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair | CSP Committee
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Sociology

Amy Broderick, MFA, BA
Professor of Painting and Drawing, Head of Drawing
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Visual Arts and Art History

Clifford T. Brown, Ph.D
Professor
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Anthropology

Cornelia Brubeck, M.M.
Adjunct Instructor
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Music

Ayşe Papatya Bucak
Associate Professor | Director of English Internships
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English

Oliver Buckton
Professor; Department Chair
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English

Carla Calarge
Associate Professor
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Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature

Jean Martin Caldieron, Ph.D
Professor
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Architecture

Jane Caputi, Ph.D
Professor
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Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Cynthia Carrico, MA
Instructor
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School of Communication and Multimedia Studies

DaLaine Chapman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in Music Education | Coordinator of Music Education
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Stephen Charbonneau, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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School of Communication and Multimedia Studies

Kuo-pei Cheng-Lin, M.M.
Adjunct Professor
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Music

Clarissa Ann Chenovick, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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English

Joseph Choma, Ph.D
Professor | Director of Foldable Structures & Materials Lab | DAA Committee
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters
Architecture | Comparative Studies

Dr. Frédéric Conrod, Ph.D
Professor | CLL Committee
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Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature

Peter Cruise, Ph.D.
Affiliate Associate Professor | Executive Director | LeRoy Collins Public Ethics Academy
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters
School of Public Administration

James Cunningham, Ph.D.
Associate Professor | Professor of Music
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters
Music

Stephanie Cunningham, MFA, BFA
Associate Chair, Head of Graphic Design, Professor
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Visual Arts and Art History

Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, Ph.D.
Professor
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English
Boca Raton Campus

Christian Davenport, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
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Anthropology
Boca Raton Campus

Marc Decker, Ph.D., DMA
Associate Professor of Music | Associate Director of Bands/Director of Athletic Bands
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Brandy DeMil
Instructor
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Theatre and Dance

Susan Dorchin, M.A.
University Instructor
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Music

Nannetta Durnell-Uwechue, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters
School of Communication and Multimedia Studies

Meredith A. B. Ellis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Chairperson
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters
Anthropology
Resident visiting faculty have included the following:
- Linda Martín Alcoff, Syracuse University, feminist philosopher
- Gloria Anzaldúa, University of California Santa Cruz, Chicana writer
- Susan Buck-Morss, Cornell University, art critic and social theorist
- Randy Conner, University of California at Berkeley, queer theorist
- Nawal El Saadawi, Cairo, Egypt, activist and novelist
- Stanley Fish, University of Illinois, Chicago, scholar and theorist of literature and law
- Anna Camaiti Hostert, La Sapienza University, literary scholar
- Vincent Leitch, University of Oklahoma, literary and cultural theorist
- Jane Shaw, Oxford theologian and Episcopalian priest
- Dessima Williams, Brandeis University, Caribbean women’s rights advocate
Lecturers have included the following:
- Anthony Appiah
- Drucilla Cornell
- Jeffrey Escoffier
- Jack Goody
- Christopher Hitchins
- Russell Jacoby
- Juliet Mitchell
- Val Plumwood
- Jeremy Rifkin
There are also regular visits from leading environmentalists, bioethicists, journalists, political figures, novelists, poets and cultural critics.