Curricula Vitae in SA PALMETTO COLLEGE

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Dr. Francis Marion Burns Assistant Professor		Dr. Francis Marion Burns is an Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department, USC Salkehatchie.
David Cherry Instructor	Business	David Lee Cherry, Sr. is an Instructor in the Busisess Department, USC Salkehatchie.
Dr. April Cone Assistant Professor		April Cone, DNP, MSN, RN is Dean of USC Salkehatchie.
Dr. David W. Dangerfield Associate Professor	History - 19th Century US South, South Carolina History	My work examines free persons of color in rural South Carolina during the long 19th-century and explores how their complicated social and economic positions closely resembled their non-elite white neighbors. I study circumstances when class and social ties proved more important than race - and allowed free people of color to have more freedom than antebellum law allowed. And, my work examines their remarkable strategies for carving out greater degrees of freedom for themselves and their families
Frances Fowler Instructor
Carmela V. Gottesman Associate Professor	Psychology	My research is in the field of visual perception and memory. I study schematic processes involved in perceiving scenes and the effect of these processes on memory. My work focuses on perception and memory for spatial layout. Currently, I am studying the possible differential effects of schematic processing on implicit and explicit memory.
Kirsten Thomas Iden Lindmark Assistant Professor		Kirsten Iden, Ph. D. is an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of English, USC Salkehatchie.
Allen Jeevan Kanapala Instructor		Allen J Kanapala is an Instructor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Engineering, Computer Science Department, University of SC Salkehatchie.
Dr. Eran Kilpatrick Professor	Forest Ecology, Community Ecology, Wetland Ecology	Dr. Kilpatrick's research expertise and interests are focused on the response of reptiles, amphibians, birds, small mammals, and vascular plants to forest management practices including prescribed burning and other fuel reduction treatments. He has conducted research in a varieity of terrestrial and wetland habitat types in the Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and Blue Ridge physiographic provinces.
Wei-Kai Lai Professor	Functional Analysis, Mathematical Inequalities, Recreational Mathematics	My research focuses on geometric properties of positive tensor products, Banach lattices, and positive operators. I also advise our undergraduate students for their research. Under grad research topics include mathematical inequalities, mathematical games and puzzles.
Christopher Bryan Love Associate Professor	English	Dr. Love's expertise is English Renaissance Drama / Theater History, with a focus on the roles of the children's companies in the London theatrical marketplace during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Other scholarly interests include Early English and Early American literatures; Early Modern print culture; the American Renaissance; and First-Year Composition.
Ahron Mack Instructor	Communications
Conrad C. Mehlenbacher Professor		Conrad (Dutch) Mehlenbacher is a Professor in the Art and Theater Department, USC Salkehatchie. He has earned a M.F.A., University of South Carolina, A.B.T, University of South Carolina, M.A., Vanderbilt University, B.A., Vanderbilt University.
Dr. Sarah E. Miller Associate Dean		Sarah Miller, PhD is an Interim Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs and Professor of History in the Department of History, USC Salkehatchie.
Dr. Justin Kyle Mogilski Associate Professor		Dr. Justin Mogilski has joined the USC Salkehatchie campus as a psychology professor for the fall 2018 semester. With a bachelor’s degree from Albright College, a master’s from Bucknell University and a Ph.D from Oakland University, Dr. Mogilski will teach both introductory and upper level psychology courses on both campuses.
Christopher L. Nesmith Associate Professor	Nineteenth century American literature and travel writing, Children's and young adult literature, Digital humanities	I am currently working on projects that deal with nineteenth and early twentieth century travel writing for children and the construction of national identity. I am also interested in online learning and incorporating technology into the classroom to improve student learning.
Fidele F. Ngwane Professor	Mathematics	His research interests include discrete mathematics, combinatorics, and computational algebra. His most recent research project involved fibonacci numbers and fibonacci sequences play a key role in many areas of mathematics and other sciences. Many inequalities satisfied by Fibonacci sequences have been established. In this paper we prove a new Fibonacci inequality using Candido's identity.
John Peek Senior Instructor	criminal justice	Peek has been employed at USC Salkehatchie since 1997 where he teaches courses in criminal justice. He became as full-time faculty member in 2010 following his retirement from South Carolina Probation, Parole and Pardon Services.
Dr. Melissa J Rack Assistant Professor		Melissa J. Rack, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the English Department, USC Salkehatchie. Her education includes: 2015 Ph.D. in English Literature and Renaissance Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; 2008 M.A. in English and American Literature, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; 2006 B.A. with Honors in English Literature, University of South Florida, Tampa
Carley Robertson Assistant Professor
Rodney J Steward Associate Professor		Rodney Steward is an Associate Professor in the History Department, USC Salkehatchie.
Dr. Yasmina Adriana Vallejos-moreno Assistant Professor		Yasmina Vallejos, Ph. D. is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Spanish Department, USC Salkehatchie.