Curricula Vitae in SMT PALMETTO COLLEGE

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Soumyadip (Dip) Acharyya Assistant Professor		Soumyadi Acharyya is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics with the Division of Science, Mathematics and Engineering at USC Sumter.
Chase Steven Aunspach Instructor		Chase Aunspach is an Instructor of Speech Communications in the Division of Arts & Letters, USC Sumter.
Erin Laine Baribeau Instructor	Modern & Contemporary Political Theory, American Politics, Race & American Politics	Erin Baribeau earned a Ph.D. from University of Michigan (2014)
Dr. Mary Ellen Bellanca, PhD Professor	English	A specialist in British literature and nature writing, Dr. Bellanca has published a book entitled Daybooks of Discovery: Nature Diaries in Britain, 1770-1870 (University of Virginia Press, 2007). Among her other publications are articles on the journals of Gerard Manley Hopkins and George Eliot and the poetry of Alexander Pope and Anna Barbauld. She is also the author of a book and article about the beginning of rural electric service in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Park Bucker Professor
Sher B Chhetri Assistant Professor		Sher Chhetri is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics in the Division of Science, Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, USC Sumter.
Mrs. Gowoon Choi Instructor		Gowoon Choi is a Physics Instructor at the University of SC Sumter campus.
Elizabeth P Costello Senior Instructor	Math Instruction	Dr. Beth Powers-Costello's has a Master of Science Degree in Mathematics from UMass Lowell and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in French and Secondary Education with a minor in Greek and Latin from UMass Lowell. She has also taken several computer science courses. She first came to USC Sumter in 1991. She teaches a variety of math courses–Calculus I, Calculus 2, Calculus 3, Calculus for Business Administration and Social Sciences, Finite Math, College Algebra and Basic Concepts Elementary Math I & II
Blane Dasilva Assistant Professor
Dr. David Fred Decker Associate Professor		My specialty is African history with a particular focus on 19th century Sudan. My second field of study is the Middle East. I regularly teach introductory courses in European history and Geography as well.
Chris Defossez Assistant Professor
Sunshine Dempsey Instructor		Sunshine J. Dempsey is an English Instructor, Dual Enrollment in the Division of Arts and Letters, USC Sumter.
Wanda Fenimore Associate Professor	Public Communication	Wanda Little Fenimore is an Associate Professor of Speech Communication in the Division of Arts and Letters, USC Sumter.
Dr. Pearl Fernandes, PhD Professor	Sexually transmitted infections among college students, Genetics of Peromyscus	Associate Dean at University of South Carolina Honors College
Jessica (Jessie) Freyermuth Assistant Professor		Jessie Freyermuth is an Instructor of Music in the Division of Arts & Letters, USC Sumter.
Vincent Patrick John Frontero Instructor		Vincent Frontero is an Instructor of English in the Department of Division of Arts and Letters at the USC Sumter campus.
Dr. Kajal Bose Ghoshroy Professor	Plant Physiology, Virology, Natural History	Fungal interactions and biological control of plant diseases. Plant Stress Physiology: including heat stress, chilling stress, heavy metal stress, drought stress and other abiotic stress tolerance mechanisms in economically important plants. Plant Virus interactions.
Dr. Kristina Grob Dept Chair/Associate Professor	feminist philosophy, intersection of philosophy and literature	Kristina Grob is primarily an ethicist with interests in feminist philosophy and the intersection of philosophy and literature. I write about the role silence plays in moral transformations, and about the ways patterns of silence structure our lives.
Hayes D. Hampton Professor	Spiritual autobiography, Rhetoric and popular culture, Magical and occult literature	I hold the Ph.D. in English from the University of South Carolina, and most of my recent research has involved rhetoric and popular culture. I have published and presented on spiritual autobiography, magical and occult texts, gender studies, American literature, and pedagogy. My current work focuses on the industrial/dark ambient band Coil and the intersections of magic, rhetoric, and gender in their work and its cultural contexts.
Tania Hazra Assistant Professor	Mathematical biology	Tania Hazra is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics in the Division of Science, Mathematics, and Engineering and Division of Business Administration and Economics, USC Sumter.
Rebecca A. Hillman Professor	Mathematics	Becky tutored mathematics at both Corning Community College and Coastal Carolina University, and has five years experience as an instructor at both Coastal Carolina University and North Carolina State University. She won two awards for excellence in teaching at NCSU.
Margaret (Laura) Laura Hughes Instructor		Laura Hughes is an Instructor of Art in the Division of Arts and Letters Departments, USC Sumter.
Robert A. Jenkins Senior Instructor		Austin Jenkins is a native of Camden, SC. He received a BS in Biology Education from The Citadel, then a MS (Entomology) and PhD (Forest Resources) from Clemson University. At USC Sumter, Jenkins teaches Natural History of South Carolina and Environmental Biology.
Daniel A. Kiernan Senior Instructor		Kiernan is presently a biology instructor at the University of South Carolina in Sumter and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Instruction & Teacher Education at the University of South Carolina in Columbia under the direction of Dr. Christine Lotter. His dissertation research focuses on how inquiry-based teaching as opposed to more traditional forms of teaching, impact students in the college science classroom
Dr. Andrew James Kunka Professor	Twentieth-Century British Literature, Graphic Novels, Film Studies	Andrew Kunka has been a member of the USC Sumter English department since 2001. Dr. Kunka's research interests include First World War literature, 19th and 20th century British novels, graphic novels, popular culture, and film, especially film noir, war movies, and horror films.
Sarah McDaniel Instructor		Sarah McDaniel is an Instructor of Nursing at USC Sumter.
Bruce McFarling Instructor		Bruce McFarling is an Instructor of Economics at USC Sumter.
Donald Ray McManus Department Chair/Professor		Ray McManus is widely published, award-winning poet and writer. His primary research fields are creative writing pedagogy, Southern Literature, Irish Literature, and poetry.
Damien Picariello Associate Professor	Political Science	Damien K. Picariello is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina Sumter. He received his B.A. from Baruch College, City University of New York, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Eric Michael Reisenauer Professor	British Empire, Victorian religious ideas, Nationalism and national identity, Nineteenth-century racial theory	Dr. Reisenauer's research interests include issues concerning the British Empire, nationalism and national identity, nineteenth-century racial theory, and Victorian religious ideas.
Mark Roberts Senior Instructor	Biology	Mark Roberts is a Senior Instructor of Biology in the Division of Science, Mathematics and Engineering, USC Sumter.
Dr. Michael Sonntag Dean		My research has examined young children's understanding of life and death concepts, the cognitive underpinnings of metaphor and irony comprehension in young children, the development of paranormal beliefs, terror management theory, and the scholarship of assessment and teaching. In 2014 I left Maine to assume the role of Regional Campus Dean of USC Sumter.
Hendrikus E. Van Bulck Professor	Business Adminitration, Economics	Hennie has published over seventy scholarly and professional articles in the United States and Europe. His current research and publications focus on business valuation and electronic message boards. He received the 2012 South Carolina Governor's Professor of the Year Award for two-year colleges.
Sami Varjosaari Assistant Professor		Sami Varjosaari is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at USC Sumter.
Dr. Anthony Vasaturo Assistant Professor		Anthony Vasaturo is an Assistant Professor at University of South Carolina Sumter.
Brittany P Wallace Instructor		Paige Wallace is an Instructor of English in the Department of Division of Arts and Letter, USC Sumter.
Jennifer Weed Instructor