Ph.D. Art History (African Art): Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
M.A. Art History (The Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas): University of East Anglia, (UEA) Norwich, England
B.A. Hons., Fine Art, Theatre, & Education: University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania
Certificate in Fine Art & Education, Butimba Teachers’ College, Tanzania
Teachers’ Certificate, Korogwe Teachers’ College, Tanzania
Biography
A teacher by profession, Fadhili Mshana began teaching at Georgia College in 2002. Previously he taught at a primary school, a teacher training college, and at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Research interests include indigenous, modern, and contemporary art history and visual cultures of Africa, particularly Tanzania. Current research concerns Western Christian mission art patronage of African artists.
Fadhili Mshana’s work has received numerous fellowships and awards including a Fulbright Scholarship for his dissertation research among the coastal peoples of Tanzania. He is the author two books namely, African Artists under Mission Patronage: Focus on Tanzania, Lexington Books, 2023, and The Art of the Zaramo: Identity, Tradition, and Social Change in Tanzania, Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2016. Mshana is also the author of journal articles and book chapters on Tanzania art, including in the ground-breaking exhibition and book with the same name, Shangaa: Art of Tanzania. A practicing visual artist, his work has featured in group shows in Tanzania, Cuba, Denmark, and the United States.
Courses taught at Georgia College are African Art and Islam, African Art History, Art Criticism: From Plato and Kant to Post-Modernism, Art of the African Diaspora, Contemporary African Art, Life and Death in Ancient Egypt, From Renaissance to Modern World, The Ancient & Medieval Worlds,Fine and Applied Arts in Civilizations, Teaching Multiculturalism thru Art: K-12, and Understanding Visual Art. He has also taught on faculty-led summer study abroad program in Paris.
Ph.D., Speech Communication, Louisiana State University
Teaching
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.
Biography
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.
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.
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Min Su Kim, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Administration, Masters of Public Administration Coordinator
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.
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
Areas of Expertise
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.
Favorite Part of WLC
"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."
