Committees

• M.F.A. in Ceramics, University of Colorado at Boulder
• Certificate: Ceramics, Escola de Ceramica y Artesianias de La Bisbal, Catalonia, Spain
• Certificate: Ceramics, Escola de Ceramica y Artesianias de La Bisbal, Catalonia, Spain
• B.A. in Religious Studies, University of California at Berkeley

www.sandratrujilloart.com

I was born in Vallejo, California. I received my BA in religious studies from the University of California at Berkeley and received my MFA in ceramics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

I have had exhibitions in venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, the Grimmerhus Museum, Denmark, the Ann Linneman Gallery in Copenhagen, and the Palacio de Dom Manuel in Evora, Portugal – a UNESCO Heritage site.  I am a Fulbright-Hays fellow.  I have been a resident artist at national and international art centers such as the Archie Bray Foundation for the ceramic arts in Montana, where I was the recipient of the Lillian Fellowship; the OBRAS center in Holland, the OBRAS center in Portugal, the International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark, Quarry Tile Factory in Washington, The Mendocino Art Center in California, and the Ceramic Center-Berlin in Berlin, Germany. My art and academic contributions are included in journals such as Ceramic Arts and Perception, Drawing, ArtWeek, and Gastronomica – UC Press.  My two letterpress books FUNERAL FOOD (2019) and Trouble (2021) are collected in over 75 university special collections nationwide. I have lectured at public and private institutions and organizations such as the University of South Bohemia České Budějovice, the University of Anadolu, and universities. I am a Professor within the Department of Art at Georgia College and specialize in ceramics.

Ph.D., Biological Sciences, Auburn University

Molecular ecology and evolutionary biology, population genetics, biodiversity and conservation

https://www.weeselab.com

Ph.D., Nuclear Astrophysics, Yale University

Nuclear Astrophysics
Stellar Helium Burning
Solar Neutrino Production

Ph.D., Communication Studies, University of Nebraska

Dr. Jamie Downing teaches the fundamentals of public speaking and small group communication.

Ph.D, English, The Ohio State University

alexeblazer.com

Dr. Alex E. Blazer specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature and critical theory.  His publications include I Am Otherwise: The Romance between Poetry and Theory after the Death of the Subject; articles on contemporary American authors Paul Auster, Bret Easton Ellis, and Chuck Palahniuk; and an article on the cult film Donnie Darko.  He teaches modern and contemporary American literature, film, poetry, critical theory survey, focused studies in literary criticism (existentialism and phenomenology, reader-response criticism, Marxist criticism, psychoanalytic film theory), global horror film, and science fiction and philosophy.

• Identity Formation
• Social Inequality
• Civic Engagement in Higher Education 

Political Geography, Geography of Health, Geography of Middle East and North Africa

PhD, Mathematics, Florida Atlantic University

https://works.bepress.com/marcela-chiorescu/

Laurie Peebles is currently the Assistant Professor of Music Therapy and Graduate Coordinator at Georgia College. Laurie received a Bachelor’s of Music in Music Therapy and a Master’s of Music in Music Education at Converse College. She completed her music therapy internship with the Fulton County School System and she joined the music therapy team at The George Center for Music Therapy, in Atlanta, GA. From 2012 to 2014, Laurie served on the executive board as secretary of the Music Therapy Association of Georgia. In 2014, she began working as the music therapist on the Oncology units at Greenville Memorial Hospital, in Greenville, SC, a program funded by a LiveSTRONG grant. Beginning in 2016, she began providing music therapy services at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, FL providing music therapy services on the cardiology, neurology, and intensive care units. During this time, she also worked at the private music therapy practice Wholesome Harmonies Music Therapy, LLC in Miami, FL. In 2019, she was the recipient of the AMTA Music Therapy Perspectives Graduate Research Award for her research study Trends in Music Therapy Preprofessional Supervision: A Systematic Review. Laurie is completing her doctoral degree in music therapy at the University of Miami with her research interests focusing on personality in music therapy supervision.

Love, Pleasure, Friendship and the Good Life; Philosophy, Art and the Art of Living; Philosophy of Law; Ethics; and Social and Political Philosophy

Dr. Winchester has four published books:  Nietzsche’s Aesthetic Turn: Reading Nietzsche After Heidegger, Deleuze and Derrida (Suny, 1994); Aesthetics Across the Color Line: Why Nietzsche (Sometimes) Can’t Sing the Blues (Rowman & Littlefield,  2002); Ethics in an Age of Savage Inequalities (Lexington Press, 2015); and Eros, Pleasure, Friendship, and the Good Life (Palgrave, 2025).

B.S., University of Georgia

M.A.,Ph.D., University of Kentucky

Comparative psychology using House crickets

Perception and learning paradigms with pharmacological and environmental manipulations

Behavioral research studying tardigrades

PSYC 2300 - Science of the Mind

PSYC 2800 - Research Methods

PSYC 3300 - Behavioral Neuroscience

PSYC 4300 - How the Brain Tastes Wine (and more)

PSYC 4920 - Capstone: How Brains Taste Food

MFA, Theatre Design, Virginia Tech

Beate M. Czogalla is delighted to be a part of the Department of Theatre at Georgia College as the Assistant Professor in Theatre Design since the Fall of 2000. She has a BA and MA degree in Theatre from Giessen University (Germany) and an MFA degree in Scenography and Lighting Design from Virginia Tech. Her credits at GC include A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Glass Menagerie, The Wild Duck, Quilters, The Beggar's Opera, On The Verge, Our Town, Julius Caesar, The Dining Room, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Taming Of The Shrew, An Evening of Pinter, Pippin and The Illusion. 

Ms. Czogalla has designed internationally with credits at theatres in Giessen, Frankfurt, Bad Hersfeld and Stuttgart, Germany; Wroclaw and Warsaw, Poland; Lige, Belgium; Chepstow, Wales, Great Britain; Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and in the United States, and she is a founding member of the monumental Canadian outdoor theatre production, And Wolf Shall Inherit The Moon, mounted in Haliburton, Ontario every August. Since the Fall of 2000 she has worked as a Scenographer and Lighting Designer at The Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, South Carolina, and at 7 Stages in Atlanta, and since the summer of 2002 she has designed three shows per year for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival in Allentown/ Center Valley, Pennsylvania. 

She was the Resident Lighting Designer for the New Harmony Theatre from 1990 until 1997. Prior to that she worked at Actors Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky, The Road Company in Johnson City, Tennessee, and Playhouse 460 and the Studio Theatre in Blacksburg, Virginia. She has done concert and architectural lighting design and consulting for a variety of clients and has served as the Lighting Supervisor for the Lincoln Amphitheatre at Lincoln State Park, Indiana, from 1995 until 2000. As an active member of NASA's Teacher in Space/ Space Education Program she serves as a community volunteer conducting workshops for children and adults of all ages, and in late 2000 she was appointed as a Solar System Ambassador by JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/ NASA), a position she plans to hold for many more years. She is also a certified Advanced Open Water Diver and a passionate hiker and kite builder. 

Ph.D. French. (Minor: Spanish Peninsular Women Writers, and U.S. Latino Writers,) The Florida State University
 
D.E.A. (Postgraduate Diploma) Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France 

M.S.  Modern Language Education, Florida International University 

B.A. French, Florida International University 

Research: French Renaissance Poetry, U.S. Latino Literature, Diaspora Studies, Critical Disability Theory 

Languages Spoken: English, French, Spanish 

"As a department, we are always looking for ways to improve our curriculum to make it more relevant. I enjoy our consistent growth and development, our thematically innovative courses, and the curricular flexibility we are able to offer our students."

• MA degree in Type and Media, The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK), The Netherlands
• Postgraduate Certificate in Typeface Design, The Cooper Union, New York
• MFA in Studio Art, University of Nevada Las Vegas
• BFA (Cum Laude), Concentration in Graphic Design, Painting and Drawing, University of Nevada Las Vegas
• AA, (with Distinction), Truckee Meadows Community College
• Diploma of Vocational in Business Office Technology, Sierra Nevada Job Corps Center 

http://anbassadesign.com/

Abraham Abebe was born and grew up in Ethiopia. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Art, Graphic Design at the Georgia College & State University. He came to Georgia College with the opportunity to develop two new curricula for the BA in Art with Graphic Design Concentration and Graphic Design Minor, which included the development and approval of seven new courses. Both programs aimed at enhancing students’ proficiency in skills, creativity, and imagination. The curricula integrates both theoretical and practical methodologies, emphasizing the importance of critical thinking, visual communication, and problem-solving skills.

Abraham has previously taught Graphic Design, Design Fundamentals and Drawing courses at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He also oversaw the Design Fundamentals III (Digital) class while teaching at UNLV. His ongoing research interest is centered around library signage, wayfinding system, security printing design (specifically developing currency and passport), and multiscript type development (focusing on Ethiopic and Latin writing systems).

Most of his Ge’ez (Ethiopic) typefaces are currently used by Ethiopian television networks, electronic media, and print media outlets, including ARTS TV, Haleta TV, Awtar TV, Andafta Media, Zehabesha Media, Nahom Records, and Feteh (ፍትሕ) Magazine, the leading weekly Amharic publication in Ethiopia. Additionally, his typefaces have been used for the opening title sequences in popular TV series and films, such as Eregnaye (እረኛዬ) the widely viewed Ethiopian drama on ARTS TV, Sene Ena Segno (ሰኔ እና ሰኞ) a drama series on Fana Television, Min Litazez (ምን ልታዘዝ) a comedy series on Hagere TV, Tsedal (ፀዳል) a miniseries produced by Sewmehon Films and released on YouTube, Agafari (አጋፋሪ) a drama series being aired on DStv, and Doka (ዶቃ) a feature film released in theaters. His Ethiopic typefaces have also been used as a visualizer for the music albums, including “VI”, “IX:Harambe”, and “IX:Nor” by musician and producer Rophnan (Universal Records), “Lewit: ለውጥ” by Samon, “ESATU SE: እሳቱ ሰ” by musician and producer Jemberu Demeke, “Sew, Pt. 2 Hiwot: ሰው ክፍል ፪ ሕይወት” by Dawit Chernet, “FIRFIR: ፍርፍር” by musicians and producers Uno and Jemberu Demeke, “And Qal: አንድ ቃል” by Michael Belayneh, “Yenesew: የኔ ሰው” by musician Yenesew, “Dejazmach: ደጃዝማች” by legendary musician Kuku Sebsibe, and "AHUN: አኹን" a spoken word poetry album by Mallo.

As a studio artist, Abraham exhibits regularly both in the USA and abroad. His paintings, drawings, digital art, and installations have been featured in twelve solo and more than sixty group exhibitions.

Abraham is the author of an experimental typography book, “Professor Fuzo: Poems and Short Stories”, published in 2018, and a book of poetry, “Eggmel”, published in 2012. Both books were written in his native language Amharic.

Abraham holds an MA degree in Type and Media from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK), The Netherlands, Postgraduate Certificate in Typeface Design from the Cooper Union, New York, Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art and Bachelor of Fine Arts (Cum Laude) with concentration in Graphic Design, Painting and Drawing from the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Associate of Art Degree with Distinction from Truckee Meadows Community College as well as Diploma of Vocational in Business Office Technology from Sierra Nevada Job Corps Center.

Ph.D., Plant Biology, Ohio State University

Plant systematics, paleobotany

Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Colorado at Denver

Organic Chemistry - Aromatic Halides
Biochemistry - Protein Structure and Function

Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi

Chad Whittle, Ph.D., earned his Doctorate in Philosophy in Mass Communication from the University of Southern Mississippi (2018). He holds a Master of Arts in Communication and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Mass Media, with an emphasis in Broadcast/Journalism, from Valdosta State University, and graduated Cum Laude with Honors. 

Dr. Whittle's research has been published in the Journal of Radio & Audio Media, Electronic News, the Journal of Media Education, Carolinas Communication Annual, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, American Communication Journal, Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, and the Journal of Social Sciences Research. He was invited to write the foreward for the book, "Radio in the Movies: A History and Filmography," 2nd edition, and contributed to the textbook, Scripting Media, first edition.

He has presented at numerous regional and national conferences, including the Broadcast Educators Association (BEA), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Southeast Colloquium, Southern States Communication Association (SSCA), Popular Culture Association (PCA), the Georgia Communication Association (GCA), and the Mississippi Communication Association (MCA).

Dr. Whittle's research, "Why America is Downloading the News: A Study on Daily News Podcasts and Why U.S. Audiences Listen," was the most downloaded article in Electronic News for 2024.

He won the first-place prize for the debut paper category in the Curriculum, Assessment & Administration division at the 2023 BEA Convention for his paper "From Professor to Podcaster: A Step-By-Step Guide to Producing Podcasts to Help Expand Student Learning." 

At the 2023 AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, his GIFTS (Great Ideas for Teaching) presentation, "Around the World in One Semester: Assignments for Use in an International Media Course," was a competition winner for the 2023 AEJMC GIFTS competition.

At BEA 2024, he won second place in the Open Paper category in the Curriculum, Assessment & Administration division at the BEA 2024 Convention for his research "Exploratory Study on Using Podcast Lectures for an Online Course to Increase Student Engagement and Learning."

Dr. Whittle is the faculty advisor for the Georgia College Podcasting Club. 

Media Literacy, Professional Media Writing, Radio Operations, Media Management

Ph.D., English, University of California, Los Angeles

Dr. Julian Knox earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles. His teaching and research interests include British and Global Romanticism, literature and visual culture, Romanticism and popular music, children’s literature, theories and practices of translation, and the philosophy of time. He has published articles in the journals European Romantic Review, The Wordsworth Circle, The Coleridge Bulletin, Grave Notes, and The New German Review, and has contributed chapters to The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Memory in German Romanticism, Rock and Romanticism, and David Bowie and Romanticism. He is co-editor of the forthcoming essay collection Romanticism and Heavy Metal.

Environmental Anthropology
Political-legal Anthropology
Geological Anthropology
Anthropology of Disaster
Anthropology of Nepal, South Asia, and the Himalaya

Modern Europe, Russia and Soviet Union, Central Europe

PhD, Mathematics, University of Georgia

Pianist Owen Lovell has appeared as a soloist and critically acclaimed chamber musician in twenty-two U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.  Commercial releases include tracks with rock musician Kip Winger (2008, Frontiers Records) and ASCAP award–winning composer Randall Bauer (2016, Albany Records). Owen has performed in live broadcasts on Wisconsin Public Radio and Austin, Texas NPR affiliate, KUT–FM. He has worked with many prizewinning composers, most notably Lowell Liebermann, Michael Torke, Samuel Adler, Joan Tower, Dan Welcher, Eric Ewazen, David Maslanka, Denis Smalley, and Roberto Sierra. Owen maintains professional two–piano and violin and piano collaborations, delighting audiences in settings ranging from rural community churches to the Kennedy Center.

Dr. Lovell earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in piano performance from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, and holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin. His principal instructors included Boris Slutsky, Dr. Betty Mallard, Gregory Allen, and Julian Martin. Owen is an MTNA Nationally Certified Teacher of Music, serving actively on the executive board of its state and local affiliates, and is frequently in demand as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the United States.

Appointed in the fall of 2016, Dr. Lovell is an Associate Professor of Music and coordinates the keyboard area and Bobcat Keys after school program at Georgia College, the state’s designated public liberal arts university.  Additionally, he is a piano technician and the piano review editor for Larry Fine’s Acoustic and Digital Piano Buyer (www.pianobuyer.com and printed semiannually), the standard consumer reference for piano shoppers. He previously served on the keyboard faculties of the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, the University of Texas - San Antonio, and Texas State University.  Visit his YouTube channel for more information and links to recordings.

B.A., University Of California San Diego

M.S., Ph.D., University of Georgia

MFA, Dance, Arizona State University

Natalie King was born in Pell City, Alabama and studied as a teenager at the Alabama School of Fine Arts under the direction of Madame Sonia Arova. While at ASFA, she performed corps de ballet roles in Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, La Bayadere, and Swan Lake, as well as,attended Joffrey Ballet and American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensives. Upon graduation, she attended Sweet Briar College where she earned a Bachelor of Art in Dance, Elementary Education Certification K-6 and Dance Education Certification K-12. Professors Mark and Ella Magruder afforded her opportunities to train with artists, such as, David Dorfman, Dan Froot, Meredith Monk, Lynn Neuman, Sarah Skaggs, Doug Varone, and Petrus Bosman.

Mrs. King was then accepted into Arizona State University Graduate Dance Program where she coordinated the university’s community dance program, Moving Inventors, and was selected to teach major and non-major courses including, Dance for the Regular Education Classroom and Modern Dance Technique. In partnership with Arizona State University alumni Erica Neilson, she co-designed content for a web based E-book to enhance the scholarship of the online dance community and provide dance pedagogists with technology based solutions for content delivery. She has presented her curricula for national organizations, including Congress on Research in Dance, Popular Culture Association and National Dance Education Organization. Previously, Mrs. King taught dance for seven years in an inner city high school located in Phoenix, Arizona. There she fulfilled many roles as the dance director, professional learning community facilitator, instructional leader for the performing arts department and summer arts program director. Most recently, she has come full circle back into collegiate academia as the newest dance instructor within Georgia College State University’s Dance Minor Program where she teaches dance technique and theory courses.

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Oregon 

M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Oregon 

Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien (graduate degree), French Language, Literature and Linguistics; English Language, Literature and Linguistics, Universität Regensburg, Germany 

Research and teaching interests: New Materialist/Posthumanist Philosophy, the Climate Crisis/Ecocriticism, Theatre and Performance, Theories and History of Fascism and Sovereignty 

Languages Spoken: English, French, German. Reading proficiency: Spanish, Italian 

Regional Areas of Expertise: global/cosmic  

Academic Website 

"My favorite course is currently a virtual exchange course (MGLG 4950) on the Climate Crisis that is co-taught (in English) with students and faculty from the University of Jena, Germany and is open not only to WLC majors and minors, but to GC students from all fields. Make new friends and travel to Germany this coming summer from the safety of your laptop!"

• Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management & Leadership, University of Georgia 
• MFA, West Virginia University
• BFA, Slippery Rock University

Printmaking, Foundations, Community-Based Art, Senior Capstone

Ph.D. Biotechnology Science and Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Postdoctoral Training: Research - Dept. of Chemistry, UNC Chapel Hill; Teaching - Biotechnology Program, NC State University

mRNA translation, Ribosome Structure & Function, Regulatory RNA Structures, Transcriptomics, Cellular Stress Response, Chemical Biology

https://www.sengupta-lab.org

Ph.D., Nuclear Astrophysics, Yale University

Nuclear Astrophysics
Stellar Helium Burning
Solar Neutrino Production

 University of Georgia, Narrative Media Writing, M.F.A.

Film & TV Production, Media Literacy, Film Feature Writing

Ph.D, Folklore, Indiana University

Dr. Mary Magoulick teaches many courses on folklore, popular culture, and literature (including on myths and fairy tales). She has published in The Journal of American Folklore, The Journal of Folklore Research, The Journal of Popular Culture, and more. Her book, The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture was published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2022. She has traveled widely, including on a Fulbright in Croatia, and focuses on contextual approaches to studying human artistic expressions.

• Radical Criminological Theory
• Gender/Racial Biases with Criminal Justice
• Interpersonal Violence within Marginalized Groups

Europe since 1500, French Cultural, Enlightenment

PhD, Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh

Saxophone soloist, chamber musician, researcher, and pedagogue Andrew J. Allen has premiered more than two dozen works for his instrument from such composers as François Rossé, Robert Lemay, Fang Man, Jesse Jones, Greg Simon, and Jay Batzner. He has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra, the University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble, the Oklahoma State University Chamber Orchestra, and the University of Arkansas Wind Symphony, and has given performances throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, and Croatia.  Allen’s recordings include Step Inside: New American Music for Saxophone and Percussion and The Avenging Spirit, both on the Equilibrium label, and he is a featured soloist on Spring Shadows: Electronic Solo Works by Anne Neikirk on Ravello Records. Throughout his career, he has garnered considerable critical acclaim: The Instrumentalist has lauded Allen as “a master of all sizes of saxophone,” while The Saxophonist has hailed his "virtuosic saxophone performance,” and The Saxophone Symposium has cited his “complete control of the instrument.”

As an ensemble musician, Allen has performed with the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra, the Lone Star Wind Orchestra, the Bryan Symphony, the Midland Symphony, Symphony Orchestra Augusta, and the South Carolina Philharmonic. Present chamber ensemble activities include The Palmetto Saxophone Quartet, the percussion and saxophone group Rogue Two (with Gordon Hicken), and the flute and saxophone ensemble The Allen Duo (with Elise Naber Allen). As a commercial musician, Allen has served as a sideman with a diverse variety of artists including R&B luminaries The Temptations and country music legend Ronnie Milsap. 

Allen is one of the most active scholars and public pedagogues of the saxophone today. His has written for The Instrumentalist, Music Educators Journal, Teaching Music, The Saxophone Symposium, College Music Symposium, The NACWPI Journal, The American Music Teacher, JazzEd, and School Band and Orchestra, and his transcriptions and arrangements are available through Dorn Publications and Lovebird Music. Allen has presented clinics across the country, including at the state music education conventions of Georgia, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Texas, and he has given masterclasses and lectures at some of the most prestigious schools of music in the United States, including the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, Bowling Green State University, Duquesne University, and Shenandoah Conservatory, among many others. He is assistant editor of The Saxophone Symposium, the peer-reviewed journal of The North American Saxophone Alliance. 

Andrew J. Allen is Associate Professor of Saxophone and Coordinator of Winds & Percussion at Georgia College & State University, and he serves as President of the North American Saxophone Alliance.  His previous academic appointments include positions at Midwestern State University, Valley City State University, and Claflin University. Allen’s students have performed at national and regional conferences of The North American Saxophone Alliance, the American Single Reed Summit, the United States Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium, and at the state music education association conventions of Georgia and Texas. He was the recipient of the 2023-2024 Georgia College & State University College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, and he has been recognized as both an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and as a Sigma Alpha Iota National Arts Associate.

Allen holds degrees from Tennessee Technological University, Central Michigan University, and the University of South Carolina. His primary teachers include Phil Barham, John Nichol, and Clifford Leaman, and he has received additional instruction from Joseph Lulloff at the Brevard Music Center; Claude Delangle, Vincent David, and Arno Bornkamp at the European University of Saxophone; and Christine Rall at the Rascher Saxophone Quartet Workshop. Allen is a Conn-Selmer Artist-Clinician, a Vandoren Performing Artist, and a Key Leaves Endorsing Artist, and he performs exclusively on Selmer Paris saxophones and Vandoren mouthpieces, reeds, and ligatures. 

RELI 3500 Buddhist Traditions in Asia

GC1Y 1000 Critical Thinking: Religion and Non-violence

RELI 3950 Religious Epics

GC2Y - 2000 Global Perspectives: Religion and Reciprocity 

Caley Smith is a scholar of early South Asian religious history and political imagination. His work focuses primarily on the conceptual continuities and disruptions between the Vedas and emergent ascetic and householder traditions. His current book project, The Invisible Mask, explores the ritual impersonation of the god Indra and its influence on the recitation traditions of early Jainism, Buddhism, and Hinduism.

B.A./B.S., M.S., University of South Alabama

Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi

Ph.D. French, Stanford University 

M.A. French, University of Virginia 

A.B. French, University of Georgia 

Modern French Literature and Cultural History; Visual and Popular Culture; Translation; The First World War; Digital Humanities

"Getting to work with faculty, staff, and students who are as into languages and cultures as I am and from whom I learn something new (and cool) every single day."