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

Philip Rothman

Professor Department of Economics Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Phone: 252-328-6151 Email: rothmanp@ecu.edu Website: https://economics.ecu.edu/faculty-staff/rothmanp-2/ Areas of expertise: the macroeconomy, the recession, the financial crisis, unemployment, inflation, exchange rates, international finance

Len Rhodes

Executive Director of Technology, Information and Operations Teaching Instructor, Department of Finance College of Business Phone: 252-328-6350 Email: rhodesi@ecu.edu Website: https://business.ecu.edu/faculty/rhodesi/ Area of expertise: Personal finance

Jonathan S. Morris

Professor Department of Political Science Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Phone: 252-328-1067 Email: morrisj@ecu.edu Website: https://politicalscience.ecu.edu/about/faculty-staff/morris/ Areas of expertise: American politics, political communication, political behavior, humor and politics, institutions, quantitative methods, public opinion, U.S. Congress