AHSS Faculty Speakers Bureau
AHSS Faculty listed below are available to speak on topics of their expertise. If you would like to invite them as a speaker, please feel free to reach out to the Dean's Office @ 717-871-7160 or AHSS@millerville.edu for more information.
Dr. Barry Atticks
Music Technology
Music Production
Modern Music Education
Concert Production
Music Recording
Dr. Kirsten Bookmiller
Responses to Major International Disasters
Disasters and World Politics
Climate Change Impacts and World Politics
Disaster Risk Reduction
Dr. Robyn Davis
Colonial America
Revolutionary America
Early American Republic
Science and Technology to 1850
Dr. Ronald Frankum
Vietnam War
Second World War
First World War
Cold War
American Diplomacy in the 20th Century
Dr. Leslie Gates
Arts Education
Assessment
Standardized Testing
Arts Integration
Dr. Jeffrey Gemmell
Choral Conducting and Repertoire
Choral Music Education
Choral Conductor as Voice Teacher
The Functional Unity of the Singing Voice
Kinesthetics in Vocal/Choral Instruction
Early American Moravian Music
The Music History of Late 18th to Early 19th Century Lititz, PA
Dr. Jessica Hughes
Disability Rights
Disability Pride
Neurodiversity
Dr. Stacey Irwin
Children's Media
Documentary
Digital and Media Literacy
Dyslexia Advocacy
Film and Cinema
Leadership
Local Media/Broadcasting History
Philosophy of Technology
Screenwriting
Social Media
Dr. Victoria Khiterer
The Russian War Against Ukraine
Russian-Ukraine Relations (1917 to Present)
The Holocaust of Jews in Kyiv (Babyn Yar)
The History of Jews in Kyiv
Jews in Modern Ukraine
Professor Heidi Leitzke
Contemporary Art
Artists
Exhibitions
Public Art
Community-based Art Projects
Dr. Justin Mando
Rhetoric & Composition
Science Writing/Science Communication/Rhetoric oF Science
Writing about places
Susquehanna River
Environmentalists
Sustainability
Experiential Learning
Hydraulic Fracturing/Fracking
Invasive Species (especially rhetoric related)
Intellectual risk-taking
Dr. Adyanga Onek
Africa
Humanitarian Emergencies
Human Rights
Political Violence
War
Insurgencies
Dr. Marie Nicole Pareja Cummings
Ancient technologies
Afro-Eurasian Exchange
Blue Monkey Wall Paintings from the Aegean Bronze Age
Mythological Interconnections in the Bronze Age
Bronze Age Shipwrecks
Seafaring Neanderthals in the Aegean
Identifying Food, Drink, and Dye Residues from Bronze Age Pottery
The Bronze Age and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Death and Burial: What Our Practices Tell Us About the Living
Dr. Carla Rineer
American Literature to 1950, especially 19th century women writers
British and American Modernism
Aftican-American Literature
American Religion
19th Century Periodicals
Gothic Fiction
Critical Theory
Ephemera - Valentines, Ads, "true confession" magazines, "true crime" magazines, paperback novels from the 1940's onward about teenage behavior
Dr. Carrie Lee Smith
Medical Sociology
Sociology of Reproduction and Birth
Families
Sex and Gender
Community-Based Research
Dr. Robert Spicer
Free Speech/First Amendment
Political Campaigns
Political Deception
Journalism
Media Studies and Criticism
Media Literacy
New Media Technologies
Dr. Lowery Woodall III
College Radio
College Media Clubs
Radio Production
Comic Books
Cult television/film
Professional Wrestling