Lieutenant Colonel Melissa Ringhisen graduated from the United States Military Academy in May 1999 with a Bachelors of Science in International Relations and commissioned into the Military Intelligence Corps. She has served in Army units including: 501st Military Intelligence Brigade in the Republic of Korea; 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, GA; and 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) at Fort Drum, NY.
Mary M. Dalton is Professor of Communication at Wake Forest University where she teaches courses in critical media studies focusing on film and television. Her scholarly publications include articles, book chapters, and the books The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies, Teacher TV: Seventy Years of Teachers on Television, and the co-edited volume The Sitcom Reader: America Re-viewed, Still Skewed.
Janice Lancaster is a Teacher-Scholar Postgraduate Fellow in the WFU Department of Theatre and Dance, and also teaches Composition & Improvisation at the University of the NC School of the Arts. She has performed internationally with Shen Wei Dance Arts since 2005, and in projects with the San Francisco Symphony, Omaha Opera, Danielle Russo Performance
Gary Miller’s research considers both healthy behavioral lifestyle changes of nutrition and physical activity as well as bariatric surgery interventions in obesity and weight loss. Most of his work focuses on older adults with impaired physical function. He also has an active line of research in studying the impact that consuming beetroot juice.
Alisha J. Hines is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at Wake Forest University. She researches and teaches in the fields of American Slavery, the US Civil War & Reconstruction, and also Atlantic World History. Currently, she is at work on her book, tentatively titled Geographies of Freedom: Black Women’s Mobility and the Making of the Western River World.
Romance novels, fictional television, and fashion designs. These are just a few of the topics investigated by Lynn S. Neal. An award-winning teacher of Religious Studies, Neal’s innovative research examines how various forms of popular culture shape our understanding and experience of American religion in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
David Phillips (phillips@wfu.edu) is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1994. He received his PhD in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, and is co-founder of the Digital Humanities Initiative, as well as a strong supporter of the Humanities Institute.
Ulrike Wiethaus, Ph.D., holds a joint appointment as full professor in the Department of Religion and in the American Ethnic Studies Program. Her research interests focus on the history of Christian spirituality with an emphasis on gender justice and political history, and most recently, historic trauma, religion, and the long-term impact of US colonialism.
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad is Assistant Professor of Classics and Zachary T. Smith Fellow at Wake Forest University. Professor Gellar-Goad’s research focuses on Roman poetry, especially the funny stuff: Roman comedy, Roman satire, Roman erotic elegy, and — if you believe him — the allegedly philosophical poet Lucretius.
In Professor Hines’ course, she asks students to produce a 3-5 minute digital story that is based on their interpretation of an artifact that captures some component of identity and personal history as it relates to themes of the course such as race, ethnicity, religion, freedom, independence, migration, and more.