Huntingdon announces new facultyMontgomery, Ala.—The Huntingdon College Office of Academic Affairs
has announced the names of seven faculty who have been awarded
first-time tenure-track positions and one new visiting professor who
will join the College this fall. The newest Huntingdon faculty
members are:
- Dr. Wesley Brown, visiting assistant professor of mathematics
- Dr. Clinton Curry, assistant professor of mathematics
- Dr. Joy Beggs Harbin, assistant professor of teacher education
- Dr. Elizabeth Hutcheon, assistant professor of English
- Dr. Kristi Lyn Jones, assistant professor of biology
- Dr. David Laughlin, assistant professor of sport science
- Ms. Mandy McMichael, assistant professor of religion
- Ms. Anneliese Spaeth, assistant professor of mathematics
Brown earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Birmingham-Southern
College, where he served as an undergraduate teaching assistant, and
Master of Science and doctoral degrees from Auburn University, where
he served as a graduate teaching assistant. His area of
specialization is discrete mathematics.
Curry taught at Huntingdon during the 2011–2012 academic year as a
visiting assistant professor of mathematics. He earned Bachelor of
Science, Master of Science, and doctoral degrees at the University
of Alabama-Birmingham. Before joining Huntingdon, he lectured for
Stony Brook University (New York). Curry was named Outstanding
Ph.D. Student in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at
UAB, 2009, and was awarded First Prize in Session, UAB Graduate
Research Days, 2007 and 2009.
Harbin comes to Huntingdon after completing her doctorate in
education at Samford University. She earned undergraduate
credentials at Athens State College and graduate and Education
Specialist degrees from the University of North Alabama. Since 2005
she has worked as an intervention specialist and taught third,
fourth, and fifth graders in the Title I Targeted Assistance Reading
and Mathematics Program at McBride Elementary School in Muscle
Shoals, Alabama, for which she also served as program coordinator.
Harbin, a teacher since 1983, has also headed classrooms for Webster
Elementary School and McBride Middle School in Muscle Shoals; Moody
Middle School, Moody, Ala.; Elgin Elementary School, Anderson Jr.
High School, and Central High School, Florence, Ala.; and Northwest
Shoals Community College. She was named Teacher of the Year for
McBride Elementary School, for Muscle Shoals City Schools, and for District VII, State of Alabama, in
2012.
Hutcheon, who taught at Huntingdon as a visiting assistant professor
of English during the 2011–2012 academic year, earned her doctorate
degree at the University of Chicago; completed a Master of Studies
in Women's Studies and a Master of Studies in Research Methods in
English at the University of Oxford, St. Cross College, Oxford,
England; and a bachelor's degree in English with honors, magna cum
laude, at Georgetown University. She has taught for the University
of Chicago and Lake Forest College (Illinois).
Jones earned a Bachelor of Science with a major in marine biology
from Auburn University; a Master of Science in fisheries biology
from Auburn University; and a doctorate in biochemistry and
molecular biology from the University of Miami. She has taught for
the University of the Incarnate Word and served as a research
technician for the University of Miami, Michigan State University,
the University of South Alabama, and the USDA-Dauphin Island. She
earned a Dauphin Island Sea Lab Fellowship. Her research focuses on
DNA damage repair and microbial genetics. She plans to combine
bioinformatic techniques and bench work to involve Huntingdon
undergraduates in continued research in these area.
Laughlin comes to Huntingdon from teaching and research positions at
the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Washington University (St.
Louis), and Ithaca College, where he also served as a graduate
assistant baseball coach. He completed his undergraduate degree
with a major in communication from William Jewell College
(Missouri); graduate degree in exercise and sport sciences from
Ithaca; and doctorate in sport psychology and motor behavior from
UT-K. He has written and presented on the topic of the effects of
self-controlled feedback on athletic skills and performance. After
completing his undergraduate degree, he volunteered for a year as an
educational aide and reading tutor for AmeriCorps before continuing
his education.
McMichael is completing her Ph.D. in religion from Duke University
specializing in American religious history. Her doctoral
dissertation, "Religion, Miss America, and the Construction of
Southern Womanhood," was funded, in part, by a Louisville
Dissertation Fellowship from the Louisville Institute, one of eight
such fellowships awarded nationally. McMichael earned her Bachelor
of Arts summa cum laude from Judson College and Master of Divinity
and Master of Theology degrees from Duke University. She has taught
for Judson College's Religion Department, Duke University's Thompson
Writing Program, and Duke Divinity School in addition to serving as
a visiting professor for Huntingdon during the 2010–2011 academic
year.
Spaeth was a summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa graduate in mathematics,
applied physics, through the Honors Program at Xavier University
(Ohio), where she earned the Robert F. Cissel Award for Outstanding
Mathematics Majors, the Clare Boothe Luce Scholarship for Women in
Science, the St. Francis Xavier Scholarship, and the Frederick A.
Hauck Physics Research Award. She completed the graduate program and is completing her doctoral program at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests are
harmonic analysis and applied harmonic analysis, frame theory, and
quantization algorithms.
Huntingdon College, grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition of the
United Methodist Church, is committed to nurturing growth in faith,
wisdom, and service and to graduating individuals prepared to
succeed in a rapidly changing world. Founded in 1854, Huntingdon is
a coeducational liberal arts college. The College motto, "Enter to
grow in wisdom; go forth to apply wisdom in service," is inscribed
in stone above the front door of John Jefferson Flowers Hall.
Ranked in the top tier of regional colleges by U.S. News and
World Report and consistently listed in the Princeton
Review's "The Best Colleges: Region by Region," Huntingdon has
for two years been recognized on the President's Higher Education
Community Service Honor Roll and is listed on the National Register
of Historic Places.
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