Curricula Vitae in BFT Social Sciences

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Dr. Kimberly Kathleen Cavanagh Associate Professor	Anthropology	Kimberly Cavanagh is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of South Carolina-Beaufort under the Department of Social Sciences.
Dr. Deborah Jacqueline Cohan, PhD Professor	sociology	Her research interests involve domestic and sexual violence, race and ethnicity, feminist theory and practice, service learning and civic engagement, creative nonfiction, how sociology and memoir intersect, and the scholarship of teaching and learning with an emphasis on transformative and feminist pedagogy.
Dr. Cindy J. Lahar Professor	Psychology, Cultural Psychology, SE Asia (Cambodia)	Cindy Lahar is a Professor of Psychology at the University of South Carolina Beaufort.
Kyle Messick Assistant Professor		Kyle J. Messick, PhD is a social psychologist specializing in psychology of religion and music culture studies. Within psychology of religion, he has researched atheism, the functions of the secular sacred, and he has studied prayer using novel approaches, including eye-tracking technology and a mock fMRI. He directed a documentary on the use of labyrinths as spiritual tools, and assisted in a second documentary exploring the spirituality of buskers in Las Vegas.
Summer Roberts Associate Professor		Summer Roberts, PhD is an Associate Professor and the Program Coordinator for Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities. She also serves as the Gerontology Certificate Coordinator, direct USCB’s Quality Enhancement Program, Students Connected: Fieldwork for the Future, and oversee Graduation with Leadership Distinction in Community Engagement(GLDCE). She earned a B.S. in Public Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology and both her M.S. and Ph.D. in Sociology from FSU.
Dr. Caroline Elizabeth Sawyer Associate Professor	communication, broadcasting, digital media	Dr. Caroline Elizabeth Sawyer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences, University of SC Beaufort.
Jayne Violette Professor	Communications	Jayne Violette is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences, University of SC Beaufort.