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Caroline Beatty, Associate Professor and Director of Bands
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Band, Music Education, Ensemble Performance, Conducting Pedagogy, Ensemble Rehearsal Techniques
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Lynn Brinckmeyer, Professor and Director of Choral Music Education
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Choral Music: Treble Voices and Children's Voices, Music Education/Teacher Education, Leadership, Music Advocacy, Assessment
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Mary Ellen Cavitt, Professor and Assistant Vice President for Academic Services
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Music Education, Instrumental Music Education, Japanese Bands: Student-Self Regulation, Rehearsal Techniques
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Teri Evans-Palmer, Associate Professor
School of Art and Design, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Art Theory and Practice, K-12 Art Education, Engagement, Teacher Self-efficacy, Humor, Pre service Teacher Dispositions, Museum Education, Immediacy, Emotional Intelligence
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Marian Houser, Professor
Department of Communication Studies, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Communication Assessment, Communication Theory & Research Methods, Nonverbal Communication, Relational Conflict, Gender & Communication
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Gordon Jones, Senior Lecturer
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Balinese Gamelan, Composition, Music Education, World Music, Music and Dance, Music and Theatre
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Kelly Kaufold, Associate Professor 
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Scholarly research, IRB submissions; survey research; focus groups, panels; experimental design; content analysis; media economics; media audiences; persuasion; theories of mass communication & persuasion; pedagogical research
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Ana Martínez, Assistant Professor
Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Mexican, Latinx, and Latin American Theatre and Performance; Site-specific Performance; Scenography and Performance Design
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Sean Justice, Assistant Professor
School of Art and Design, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Visual Arts & Computer Science, Computer Science Education for Teachers, Programming as Literacy, New Materialisms
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Vlasta Silhavy, Senior Lecturer & Head of BFA Theatre Certification
Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Secondary Education, Theatre in Education, Creative Drama, Youth Summer Camps, Career & College Readiness and Mentorship programs
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Amanda Soto, Associate Professor of Music Education
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  World Music Pedagogy, Cultural Diversity & Social Justice in Music Education, Bimusical Sensibilities of Children, Technology in Music Education, Mexican & Mexican American Music, Children's Musical Culture
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Dan Tamir, Associate Professor 
Department of Computer Science, College of Science and Engineering
Areas of Interest:  Computer Science, Mobile app design, Virtual reality, Usability, Data Compression, Data Analytics, Image Processing
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Lynn Ledbetter, Professor 
School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Violin, Chamber Music, Violin Literature, Chamber Music Literature, String Pedagogy, Music Performance
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Nicole Wesley, Associate Professor
Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest: Community building through performance (The JUSTICE Project), interdisciplinary pedagogical and artistic approaches to art-making (The Bassanda Project) and Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) methodology
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Jon Zmikly, Senior Lecturer
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, College of Fine Arts and Communication
Areas of Interest:  Web Design, HTML/CSS, Social Media Consulting, Video Editing, Digital/Online Strategy
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