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

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

Brad Lockerbie


Professor Department of Political Science Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Phone: 252-328-1066 Email: lockerbieb@ecu.edu Website: http://myweb.ecu.edu/lockerbieb/ Areas of expertise: national elections and voting behavior, presidential nomination contests, public opinion, politics, political forecasting

Jamie Brown Kruse

Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics Director, Center for Natural Hazards Research Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Phone: 252-328-5718 Email: krusej@ecu.edu Website: https://economics.ecu.edu/faculty-staff/krusej/ Areas of expertise: risk, health, wind hazard economics; disease management; response to hazards; floods; flooding

Andrea Kitta

Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies Department of English Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Phone: 252-328-2832 Email: kittaa@ecu.edu Website: https://english.ecu.edu/people/faculty/andrea-kitta/ Areas of expertise: Cultural history of vaccination, the anti-vaccination movement, modern medical folklore, folklore of medicine, patient/doctor communication, urban legends, folklore, Slender Man, the supernatural, ghosts