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

Peter Francia


Professor, Department of Political Science Director, ECU Center for Survey Research Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Phone: 252-328-6126 Email: franciap@ecu.edu Website: http://myweb.ecu.edu/franciap/francia.html Areas of expertise: campaign finance (money and politics); interest groups (especially labor unions) and protest movements; public opinion and voting behavior; polling and survey research; presidential and congressional elections