Curricula Vitae in BFT Humanities

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
James Griesse Associate Professor	Contemporary Cuban narrative and Latin American gender and sexuality studies	James Griesse, PhD is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at USCB. He earned an undergraduate degree in Spanish at Dartmouth College, an MA in Spanish at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a PhD in Spanish at The Catholic University of America. The title of his dissertation is Utopia and Postmodernism in Recent Latin American Fiction.
Dr. Timothy MacDowell James Professor	Legal History, Social Theory, World History	Timothy M. James joined USCB as an Assistant Professor of History in 2006. He teaches courses in World Civilizations, Modern Latin America, Cultural History, Comparative Slavery, and the History of Human Rights. His current research interests include Mexican constitutional history, Mexican liberalism, cultural and social theory, Mexican migration, and the history and theory of human rights.
Dr. Robert Landrum Professor		Dr. Landrum's research interests center around seventeenth-century Scotland, early modern nationalism and national identity; Scottish and British religious dissent, and witchcraft and European women's history.
Ben Nelson Associate Professor	Spanish and colonial Spanish Literature, prose and drama, cultural history during the early modern period	Dr. Benjamin Nelson is Assistant Professor of Spanish at USC-Beaufort. An accomplished educator, Dr. Nelson has written extensively about Spanish language and literature. Dr. Nelson's teaching and research interests lie in the Spanish Monarchy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the cultural history of Spain and Latin America, the Spanish Empire and geographical spaces within prose narratives.
Mr. Lukasz Dominik Pawelek Associate Professor	U.S. Latino and diasporic literature, literary representations of nostalgia, collective memory and globalization	Lukasz Pawelek, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and German in the Department of Humanities at University of South Carolina Beaufort. His research interests encompass U.S. Latino and diasporic literature, literary representations of nostalgia, collective memory and globalization, and the evolving Latinx identity in the United States; secondary field of interested: Post-Wall Ostalgie memoir and film.
Professor James Sidletsky, MFA Assistant Professor		Jim Sidletsky earned his M.F.A.from Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia.
Murray W Skees Associate Professor		Murray W Skees is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities, University of SC Beaufort.
Dr. Juanita Villena-Alvarez, PhD Professor	European Literature, Foreign Language in Business, Teaching Millenial Students	Juanita Babet Villena-Alvarez, PhD is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Director of USCB International Programs as well as the USCB Beaufort College Honors, while teaching as a full professor of French, Spanish, and Global Studies. From 2007-2016, she was Chair of Humanities/Fine Arts. In 2012, she received the Carolina Trustee Professorship 2012 (UofSC Board Trustees) and in 2010 she was awarded the South Carolina Governor’s 2010 Professor of the Year.