Faculty Experts

Marcus Hayes

Dean of the Creative School

James Wells

Edwin L. Minar Professor of Classical Studies and Coordinator of World Literature

Specialties: Ancient Greek Lyric Poetry, Creative Writing, Translation, and Environmental Humanities

James Bradley Wells is a poet, translator (ancient…

Seth Friedman

John D. Hughes Professor in Communication and Theatre

Seth Friedman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Theatre. He earned his Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from Indiana University…

Craig Pare

Professor of Music

Craig Paré, Professor of Music, conducts the DePauw University Band and Symphonic Band. Appointed to the Institute of Music faculty in 1993, Dr. Paré has…

Humberto Barreto

Professor of Business Analytics

Humberto Barreto is Professor of Business Analytics at DePauw University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor…

Jennifer Adams

Professor of Communication and Theatre and Chair of the Communication and Theatre Department

Jennifer Adams has a fellowship to conduct archival research on free speech issues. In particular she is researching World War I-era women radicals who…

Howard Pollack-Milgate

Professor of German Studies

Howard Pollack-Milgate, Professor of German, received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1998. He teaches German at all levels and has taught classes…

Amy Eremionkhale

Assistant Professor of Business Analytics and Director of the Business Analytics Program

Amy Eremionkhale is an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics at DePauw University. She has experience teaching several courses in economics, business…

CJ Gomolka

Associate Professor of Global French Studies, Director of the Global French Studies Program, and Global Language Coordinator

CJ received both a BA in French literature and a BM in piano performance at the University of Delaware. He continued at UD to receive an MA in Modern French…

Julia Brüggemann

Albert E. Crandall '56 Professor of History and Chair of the History Department

Julia Brüggemann is the Albert E. Crandall '56 Endowed Professor in History and the Chair of the Department of History. She earned her Ph.D. at Georgetown…

Carrie F. Klaus

Laurel H. Turk Professor of Modern Languages and Director of the Global Studies Fellows Program

Carrie F. Klaus specializes in writing by women, and by writers posing as women, in early modern France (sixteenth through eighteenth centuries). She is…

Lori Miles

Professor of Art and Art History

Lori Miles focuses on art making, mostly dealing with cultural memes – especially looking at the gap between sculpture and contemporary controversies.…

Farah Ali

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies

My primary fields of research are sociolinguistics and second/heritage language acquisition (S/HLA). While my work in these different areas extends over…

Derek Ford

Associate Professor of Education Studies and Chair of the Education Studies Department

I am associate professor of philosophy and history of education and teach courses on how education has, does, and can help us imagine, struggle for, and…

Sarah Rowley

Associate Professor of History

I am historian of the 20th-century United States, specializing in the histories of women, gender, and sexuality. For the past several years my research…

Harry Brown

Professor of English and Co-Director of the Environmental Fellows Program

Harry Brown has published three books. "Injun Joe’s Ghost" (2004) examines the figure of the Native American mixed-blood in American writing. "Videogames…

Jeffrey Dunn

Phyllis W. Nicholas Director of the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics and Associate Director of the Business Analytics Program

I am the Phyllis W. Nicholas Director of the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University. I am also an associate professor in the DePauw philosophy…

Jordan Sjol, PhD

Assistant Professor of Film and Media Arts

Media Publications: 

“Explosive Cinema” Film Series and How to Blow Up a Pipeline 35 MM premiere
Roxy Cinema. New York, NY. https://www.roxycinemanewyork…

Gregory (Greg) Schwipps

Professor of English

Greg Schwipps (’95) received his BA from DePauw University and his MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His essays and short fiction can…

Guangjun Qu

Hiram L. Jome Professor of Economics and Management

Specialties: Globalization, Trade, Tariff, Currency Exchange Rate, Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy, Asian Economies, Business, Investment, Geopolitics,…

David Gellman

Professor of History and Co-Director of the Asher Office of Undergraduate Research

I am a historian of colonial North America and the United States, with a particular focus on efforts to abolish slavery in the Revolutionary Era and in…

Erik Wielenberg

Blair Anderson and Martha Caroline Rieth Chair in Applied Ethics and Professor of Philosophy

Wielenberg holds a robust form of moral realism according to which (i) moral properties are sui generis, not reducible to other kinds of properties and…

Jennifer Heaven Mike

Visiting Global Studies Scholar and Hampton and Esther Boswell Distinguished University Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Dr. Jennifer Heaven Mike is a scholar and creative writer whose work exists at the rich intersection of law, gender, human rights, and artistic expression…

Ivelisse Rodriguez

Assistant Professor of English and Mary Rogers Field and Marion Field McKenna Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing