Committees

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

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

PhD, Mathematics, Florida Atlantic University

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

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.

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.

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

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

Ph.D. Spanish and Latin American Studies, Duke University 

Research: Globalization and Cosmopolitanism in Latin America, Theories of Economics and Aesthetics, Pan-American and Hemispheric Narrative 

Languages Spoken: English and Spanish 

Regional Areas of Expertise:  Latin America, specific focus on Colombia and Chile

"I am especially interested in taking students abroad and allowing them to apply what we learn in class to real world contexts. This includes job shadowing opportunities and developing their cultural knowledge through excursions and meetings with local guides and scholars."

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 two published books: Ethics in an Age of Savage Inequalities (Lexington Press, 2015) and Eros, Pleasure, Friendship, and the Good Life (Palgrave, 2025).

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., Communication Studies, University of Nebraska

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

PhD, Mathematics, University of Georgia

Ph.D., Plant Biology, Ohio State University

Plant systematics, paleobotany

Pianist Owen Lovell has appeared as a soloist and critically acclaimed chamber musician in twenty 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.

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., 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.

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

Organic Chemistry - Aromatic Halides
Biochemistry - Protein Structure and Function

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

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!"

B.A., University Of California San Diego

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

Modern Europe, Russia and Soviet Union, Central Europe

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., Cell Biology, Yale University

Intracellular trafficking, secretory pathways

Ph.D., Chemistry, Brown University

Chemical Education
Molecular Recognition
Bio-Relevant Synthetic Polymeric Materials

Ph.D., Speech Communication, Louisiana State University

Teaching Rhetoric and Mass Communication courses - Theory and Research, Comm Theory, Small Group, Media Literacy, Critical Analysis of the Mass Media. In previous semesters, he had also taught Fundamentals of Public Speaking, Disaster Rhetoric, Interpersonal Communication, and the Rhetoric Capstone.

Dr. Michael Dreher (B.A., North Central College; M.A., University of Iowa; Ph.D., Louisiana State University) has taught courses in media, rhetoric, research methods, and public speaking. His research interests center on the role rhetoric plays in a variety of disciplines such as mathematics, religious and political discourse, and in disaster communication. He is also interested in the practical and rhetorical aspects of web accessibility. His most recent publication was a chapter in the book Arguing with Numbers: Intersections of Rhetoric and Mathematics, published by Penn State University Press. 

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.

• State and Local Government Financial Management
• Public Finance and Budgeting
• Policy and Program Evaluation
• Quantitative Research Methods

Historical, Cultural, and Ethnic Geography

PhD, Mathematics Education, University of Georgia

Dr. Youngmi Kim, a South Korean soprano, is an Associate Professor of Music and the Voice Area Coordinator at Georgia College and State University. She previously taught at Radford University in Virginia and Wilberforce University in Ohio. Dr. Kim received her education at the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) at the University of Cincinnati, earning a DMA and MM, and at Ewha Womans University in Korea, where she obtained a BM degree.

Dr. Kim has been honored with numerous accolades, including first prize at the William C. Byrd Young Artist Competition and third prize at the Louisville Bach Society Gerhard Herz Young Artist Competition. She reached the finals of The Lyndon Woodside Solo Competition, where she won the Richard Westenberg Award for 18th-Century Stylistic Interpretation. During her time at CCM, Dr. Kim received the Emilie Dieterle Award and was a recipient of several graduate scholarship awards. She has also been a featured soloist in numerous productions, with her exceptional voice being praised by San Francisco Classical Voice as "one of those silvery, 'strand-of-pearls'-type voices." The Columbus Dispatch complimented "the liveliness of her voice," while The Flint Journal commented that "from [Ms. Kim's] petite frame and gentle presence bellowed a forceful, yet graceful and flowing voice." Music in Cincinnati also praised that "[Youngmi Kim's] clear, flexible voice brought beauty and substance to everything she sang... Her coloratura was every bit as spectacular as his in their mutual cadenza, earning them a warm round of applause."

A versatile artist, Youngmi Kim is an accomplished interpreter of early music. She frequently performs as a vocalist with the Catacoustic Consort, an acclaimed Cincinnati-based early music chamber ensemble. Dr. Kim has also performed with other significant period performance ensembles, including La Donna Musicale and Apollo's Cabinet. She is featured on the recording "Le Stagioni (The Seasons): Virtuoso Italian Madrigals" with the early music ensemble Gravitación. Dr. Kim has participated in the Vancouver Early Music Festival and L'Accademia D'amore in Seattle, where she worked with celebrated early music specialist Stephen Stubbs.

As a recitalist and chamber music artist, she has performed in prestigious venues such as Spivey Hall, the Franz Liszt Museum in Hungary, the Newton Free Library in Boston, the Moss Arts Center in Virginia, and Weil Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York. She has also performed and given masterclasses at numerous universities, including University of South Florida (FL), Queens University of Charlotte (NC), Augusta University (GA), Murray State University (KY), the University of Texas, Arlington (TX), Lee University (TN), Toccoa Falls College (GA), Ewha Womans University (Seoul, Korea), Ball State University (IN), Central State University (OH), and the University of Mount Union (OH).

Dr. Kim has appeared as a soloist with the Richmond Symphony, Flint Symphony, Honolulu Symphony, Kentucky Symphony, Lebanon Symphony, and Louisville Bach Society. She is a frequent performer in her native Seoul and has collaborated with the Korean Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra on numerous occasions, notably with conductor James Judd. Dr. Kim was also featured as a soprano soloist in Brahms's German Requiem with the Seoul Philharmonic under the direction of maestro Myung-Whun Chung.

Biography: Dr. Manian has a PhD in Economics. Her research focuses on South Asia. She is currently the chair of the Department of Philosophy, Religion and Liberal Studies.

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. Spanish Literature, Arizona State University  

M.A. Spanish, Arizona State University  

B.A. Spanish, University of North Carolina at Asheville 

Research: Early Modern Spanish and Contemporary Latin American Literature, Cervantes, Book Illustration, Medical Interpretation and Translation   

Languages Spoken:  English, Spanish  

Regional Areas of Expertise: Transatlantic: Spain, Latin America, and U.S.

"My favorite aspect of Georgia College is how the liberal arts focus helps students establish diverse career paths. I particularly enjoy working with students to develop cultural competence and communicative skills."