Priti P. Desai

Associate Professor, Child Life Department of Human Development and Family Science College of Health and Human Performance Phone: 252-328-2866 Email: desaip@ecu.edu Areas of expertise: psychological needs of hospitalized children, international perspectives in psychosocial care for children in health care settings, medical specialty camps for children with heart defects, academic and clinical child life experiences, diversity … Read more

Sharon Ballard

Associate Professor and Department Chair Department of Human Development and Family Science College of Health and Human Performance Phone: 252-328-4220 Email: ballards@ecu.edu Website: https://scholars.ecu.edu/display/F70072754 Areas of expertise: sexuality education, parent education, program development and evaluation, family life education

William Meggs

Professor Executive Vice Chair of Faculty, Research and Toxicology Department of Emergency Medicine Brody School of Medicine Phone: 252-744-2954 Email: meggsw@ecu.edu Website: https://emergency-medicine.ecu.edu/faculty/meggsw/ Areas of expertise: toxicology, inflammation, designer drugs, bath salts, emergency medicine

Charles R. Ewen

Professor Director, ECU Phelps Archaeology Lab Department of Anthropology Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Phone: 252-328-9454 Email: ewenc@ecu.edu Website: https://anthropology.ecu.edu/charles-ewen/ Areas of expertise: archaeology digs (Bath, Brunswick Town, Tryon Palace, Ft. Macon); pirates; Blackbeard; Lost Colony; cemeteries; fantastic claims

Jody Baumgartner

Professor Department of Political Science Thomas Harriot College of Arts & Sciences Phone: 252-328-2843 Email: baumgartnerjo@ecu.edu Website: https://politicalscience.ecu.edu/about/faculty-staff/baumgartner/ Areas of expertise: humor and politics, the vice presidency, campaigns and elections

Karin Zipf

Professor Department of History Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Phone: 252-328-1024 Email: zipfk@ecu.edu Website: https://history.ecu.edu/karin-l-zipf/ Areas of expertise: labor history, family history, history of law, forced apprenticeship laws in North Carolina, gender history, women’s history

Tuan Tran

Auxiliary Chair Director, BA/BS Program in Neuroscience Department of Psychology Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Phone: 252-328-6445 Email: trant@ecu.edu Website: www.ecu.edu/psyc/trant/ Areas of expertise: animal models of neurodevelopmental disorders, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, autism spectrum disorder, Alzheimer’s disease, behavioral neuroscience, developmental psychobiology

Samuel F. Sears


Professor Director, Graduate Studies Department of Psychology Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Phone: 252-328-6118 Email: searss@ecu.edu Website: https://www.ecu.edu/psyc/sears.cfm Areas of expertise: psychological aspects of cardiac disease, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, stress and the heart, quality-of-life research