David L. Smith

Associate Professor German Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Phone: 252-328-5524 Email: smithdav@ecu.edu Website: https://foreign.ecu.edu/about-us/david-l-smith/ Areas of expertise: German, Austrian literature, culture and society; Early Modern and Enlightenment thought

Susanne Lenné Jones

Associate Professor Department of Foreign Languages and Literature Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Phone: 252-737-2390 Email: jonessu@ecu.edu Website: https://foreign.ecu.edu/about-us/susanne-lenne-jones/ Areas of expertise: German film; German language and culture at all levels; German literature; Holocaust; fairy tales; German humor; race; German translation

Birgit Jensen

Associate Professor German Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Email: jensenb@ecu.edu Phone: 252-328-6539 Website: https://foreign.ecu.edu/about-us/birgit-jensen/ Areas of expertise: 19th century literature and culture of Germany, educational and vocational systems of Germany, current events in Germany, flipped learning, mastery learning, 21st century learning

James F. Anderson

Professor Department of Criminal Justice Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Phone: 252-328-4192 Email: andersonja@ecu.edu Website: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/just/jamesandersonphd.cfm Areas of expertise: legal rights of prisoners, criminology, crime and public health care, epidemiological approaches to the study of crime, alternatives to incarceration, legal rights of criminal justice professionals, and crime as an epidemic.

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