Tuskegee university 2014 College of Arts and Sciences Research Directory

Professor Rhonda Collier holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Vanderbilt University. Additionally, she has a B.S. and M.S. in Industrial and Health Systems Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Georgia Tech, respectively. She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She is committed to the Macon County community as well as the exchange of ideas with countries that are in the Global “South.” Her interdisciplinary approach considers community outreach, health disparities, women’s history, and social action.

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   Collier, Rhonda. “From Hip Hop to Hip Hope: Art and Public Theology.” Walking Together: Christian Thinking and Public Life in South Africa. Ed. Joel Carpenter. Abilene Christian University Press. 2012.
   
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   Collier, Rhonda. “’Over the Rainbow’: Finding Home in Cleage’s West End Atlanta.” Pearl Cleage and Free Womanhood: Essays on Her Prose Work. Ed. Aisha Francis and T. Foster-Singletary. McFarland. 2012.
   
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   Collier, Rhonda. Las Consecuencias de la Obesidad en la Salud [The Health Consequences of Obesity]. Tuskegee Area Health Education Center, Inc and Central Alabama Veterans Health Care Systems. June 2012.
   
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   Collier, Rhonda. Guest Editor. Obsidian Journal:Literature of the African Diaspora. Vol. 13. No 1. Spring/Summer 2012.  ISSN 0888-4412.http://obsidian.chass.ncsu.edu/ojs/index.php/obsidian/index.
   

EVANS

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  Classical Greek and Latin literatures
  
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  Medieval literature
  
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  Literary theory
  

Professor Richard Evans obtained his B.A. in Latin from the University of South Carolina, the M.A. and M. Phil. in Classics from Columbia University and the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of South Carolina.

Assistant Professor, English

College of Arts and Science

E-mail: revans@mytu.tuskegee.edu

Office Phone: 334-727-8101

Office Address: Room 70-314

John A. Kenney Hall

Tuskegee University Tuskegee, AL 36088

1. 
   “Greek, Too,” Laetaberis: The Journal of the California Classical Association, New Series No. XIV, 2000-2005.
   
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   “Chrysoloras’ Greek: The Pedagogy of Cultural Transformation.” American Classical League Newsletter, Vol. 25, No. 2, Winter 2003. On-line posting. Internet. January 2003. http://txclassics.org/greek.htm.
   
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   “Greek, Too, A Presentation to the California Classical Association—South.” On-line posting. Internet. February 2002. http://www.txclassics.org/greek.htm.
   
4. 
   “Greek, Too: The Recovery of Greek in American Schools,” Classics Technology Center on the Web. On-line posting. Internet. November 2001. http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/showcase/evans1.html.
   
5. 
   “A Call for Greek in School: Recovery of a Renaissance Tradition,” Texas Classics in Action Winter 2000.
   

Reprinted in Athenaze Newsletter, Spring 2000.

National Committee for Latin and Greek, American Classical League. On-line posting. Internet. January 6, 2000. http://www.promotelatin.org.

Texas Classics Association: Greek, Too. On-line posting. Internet. June 2000. http://www.txclassics.org/greek.htm.

6. 
   “Ennius” in The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Latin Writers. Ed.Ward Briggs. Vol. 211, 1999.
   
7. 
   “Xenophon” in The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Greek Writers. Ed.Ward Briggs. Vol. 176, 1997.
   

FISHKINResearch Fields:

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  19^th Century British Literature
  
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  Henry James and Problems Involving the Post Civil War Family
  
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  Memory in the Literature of Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and August Wilson
  
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  Anglophone Cameroon Literature in the Age of Globalization
  

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  Dr. Festus Ndeh
  

Troy University

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  Dr. Bill F. Indi
  

Tuskegee University

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  Dr. A. Ankumah
  

College of Arts and Science

E-mail: fishkinb@mytu.tuskegee.edu

Office Phone: 334-727-8931

Office Address: Room 70-308

John A. Kenney Hall

Tuskegee University Tuskegee, AL 36088

Biographical Sketch:

Professor Benjamin Hart Fishkin received his Ph.D. from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa in May of 2009. He now teaches at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Alabama. His current research focuses on British Literature in the nineteenth century. Dr. Fishkin is currently exploring memory and the issue of psychological trauma in literature. This topic involves how characters grapple with unpleasant occurrences and what they must do to be free of them.

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   The Undependable Bonds of Blood: The Unanticipated Problems of Parenthood in the Novels of Henry James, Saarbrucken, Germany, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011.
   
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   Stephen Wilhoit’s A Brief Guide to Writing from Readings: An Anthology, (Book Review) Pearson, 2010.
   
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   “Romantic Warrior, by Frank Akenten.“ (Book Review) Artistry Employs, 2009.