Dr. Lydia Mattice Brandt
Department of Art
Research and Teaching Interests: American Art and Architectural History, Historic Preservation, Cultural Landscapes
Dr. Duncan Buell
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Research and Teaching Interests: Digital Humanities, Mobile Applications, Critical Interactives
Dr. Lana A. Burgess
Faculty Curator, McKissick Museum and
Director, Museum Management Certificate Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Museum Studies, 20th Century American Art, Controversial Exhibitions, Cultural
Reception and Interpretation in Museums, Identity Politics, and Contemporary Outsider
Art
Dr. Heidi Rae Cooley
Department of Art and Film & Media Studies Program
Teaching and Research Interests: Mobile Technologies, Digital Humanities, Biopolitics, History and Theory of Documentary
Dr. Mark Garrett Cooper
Department of English and Film & Media Studies Program
Research and Teaching Interests: Hollywood Cinema (in a global context), Newsfilm, Managerial Culture
Dr. Kenneth G. Kelly
Department of Anthropology and
Coordinator, Certificate in Historical Archaeology
& Cultural Resource Management
Research and Teaching Interests: Historical Archaeology of the African Diaspora, African Archaeology, Caribbean
Plantations
Laura Kissel, MFA
Director of Film and Media Studies Program, Department of Art
Research and Teaching Interests: Documentary Film Theory, Orphan Films and Media Archaeology, Landscape and Environment
Dr. Jennifer A. Marshall
School of Library & Information Science and
Coordinator, Joint Program in Public
History and Library & Information Science
Research and Teaching Interests: Archival Studies, particularly Appraisal; Preservation Administration; Record Keeping,
Accountability, and Memory
Dr. Page Putnam Miller
Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Public History
Research and Teaching Interests: Archival and Information Policy, Historic Preservation and Public Policy
Dr. Amy Mills
Department of Geography
Research and Teaching Interests:
Social Theory and Space/Place; Landscape Studies; Nationalism and Modernity in Urban
Space; Gender, Identity, and the City
Lynn Robertson
Executive Director Emeritus, McKissick Museum
Research and Teaching Interests: Museum Studies, Management of Museums and other Cultural Institutions
Dr. Sara Schwebel Department of English
Research and Teaching Interests: Children’s and Young Adult literature
Dr. Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff
Department of History
Research and Teaching Interests: U.S. Cultural and Intellectual History, History of Race Relations in the United
States
Dr. Steven D. Smith
Director, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology
Research and Teaching Interests: Cultural Resource Management, U.S. Military History, the American Revolution, African-American
Military History
Saddler Taylor
Curator of Folklife & Research, The Folklife Resource Center, McKissick Museum
Research and Teaching Interests: Communal Foodways, Folk Music in Contemporary Society, Folklife Genres, Audio and
Video Field Documentation, Digital Media in the Modern Archive