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Dr. Chris Field is an Assistant Professor of English at Tennessee State University. He is originally from Dayton, Ohio, but he comes to TSU by way of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, where he studied for his PhD. He has taught a variety of literature and composition classes examining themes as diverse as traumatic representations in literature, rhetoric in sports, and American popular culture. When he is not hard at work researching or teaching, he enjoys watching the Cincinnati Bengals and the Cincinnati Reds, and he considers himself a “huge comic book nerd.” Dr. Field earned his PhD in Literature from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Deborah J. Burris-Kitchen, Ph.D. is a Professor of Criminology and Department Chair at Tennessee State University in Nashville. She is the author of Female Gang Participation (Edwin Mellen Press, 1997). She also co-authored an article on racism in higher education in the College Student Journal (2000). Her publications also include a book titled Short Rage: an autobiographical look at heightism in America (2002). She also has a book chapter (July 2010) titled Pathways to prison: Implications for the Health and Mental health in the African American Community in Handbook for African American Health Psychology: Evidence-based treatment and prevention practices (edited by Robert Hampton & Ray Crowell); From Slavery to Prisons: A Historical Delineation of the Criminalization of African Americans (2010); and a journal article titled Short Rage Revisited (2018). Dr. Burris –Kitchen is also an activist who fights against violence, racism, exploitation, greed, and capitalism.
Dr. Terrance McNeil in an assistant professor of Educational Leadership in the College of Education. He is the coordinator of the MS and EDS programs in Instructional Leadership. Dr. McNeil also works with the National Science Foundation both as a reviewer for the Presidents Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching (PAEMST) and the Co-PI for Research with the Tennessee Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (TLSAMP). He has worked with hundreds of graduate students on academic writing, created three dissertation bootcamps and is currently serving on four dissertation committees.
Dr. Emily Murray is an assistant professor of English in the department of Languages, Literature and Philosophy. She is the faculty adviser for the English Club, Words of Worth, as well as an academic adviser in the department. She hold a PhD in early modern literature from the University of South Carolina.
Dr. Ghan Bhatt is an associate professor in the department of Mathematical Sciences at Tennessee State University. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from Iowa State University. Prior to coming to TSU, he was a visiting assistant professor at Rose- Hulman Institute of technology and the director of instructional computing at Michigan tech. His area of research is applied mathematics. Much of his research focuses on signal processing and image compression