Curricula Vitae in UN PALMETTO COLLEGE

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Joe Anderson Instructor	Mathematics	Joe Anderson is an Instructor of Mathematics at USC Union.
Ms. Gale J Ashmore Instructor		Mrs. Ashmore has been teaching Spanish for more than thirty years. She began her career teaching at the high school level and in 2009 joined the University of South Carolina system as an Adjunct Instructor at USC Upstate. In 2018, she joined the faculty at USC Union where she teaches on multiple campuses, including Union, Laurens, and Clinton High School. In addition, she uses beaming technology to teach on multiple campuses at the same time.
Dr. Majdouline Aziz Associate Dean	Sociology	Dr. Aziz joined USC Union in 2014 as an Assistant Professor of Sociology, where she also served as the Director of the Student Academic Success Center from 2015 until 2020 when she earned tenure and to the rank of associate professor and transitioned into the role of Interim Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs. During her time at USC Union, she has enjoyed developing and teaching new classes and has maintained an active research agenda focusing on religious identity development.
Monica Covan Instructor	Nursing
Jolie C. Fontenot Assistant Professor
Avery M. Fouts Associate Professor		Avery M. Fouts is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at USC Union.
Professor Randall Ivey Senior Instructor	English	Randall Ivey is a Senior Instructor English at USC Union.
Tekla Johnson Assistant Professor		Tekla Johnson is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at USC Union.
Andrew Kettler Assistant Professor		Andrew Kettler is an Assistant Professor of History at USC Union.
Kathleen Anne Klik Assistant Professor		Kathleen Kilk is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Division of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education, USC Sumter.
Dr. Stephen Lowe Professor	Legal and Constitutional History, African American Civil Rights Litigation, Southern History	Steve Lowe is a Professor of History and Director of Liberal Studies and Organizational Leadership in the Department of USC Union and Palmetto College Columbia, USC Union.
Dr. Randy Lowell Dean	Cognitive Psychology, Skilled Reading Behavior, Second Language Reading	Randy worked on semantic and phonological effects in working memory and on studies of attention and talking. He graduated in December 2004, taught English in Spain and began graduate school in Fall 2006. He is currently an Assistant Professor at USC-Union, where he continues to study cognitive processes underlying skilled reading behavior in one's native and non-native languages, memory representations resulting from the reading experience, and the role of implicit bias in perception and memory.
Dr. Steven Phillip Lownes Associate Professor	Lusophone and Hispanic Cultural Studies, Service-Learning, Translation and Interpretation	Dr. Lownes began teaching at USC Union in August 2019. Formerly, he was the Assistant Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute at the University of Georgia, where he administered $1.9 million for the Federal Department of Education’s Title VI National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies grants. He has lived, conducted research, and worked in Spain, Argentina, and Brazil. He has taught Spanish and Portuguese at several universities.
David Mitra Instructor		David Mitra is an Instructor of Mathematics at USC Union.
Dr. Lee Gresham Morris Assistant Professor	Biodiversity/Ecology, Anatomy and Physiology, Neuroscience	Lee Morris is an Assistant Professor of Biology at USC Union.
Sandy G Phillips-Long Instructor		Sandy Phillips-Long is a Biology Instructor at University of South Carolina Palmetto College in Union, South Carolina.
Courtney Pinnell Instructor		Courtney Pinnell, RN, MSN, CEN is a Nursing Faculty in the Department of Nursing at USC Union.
Andrew Pisano Associate Professor	English	Dr. Andrew Pisano is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Union.
Dr. Emily Smith Schafer Associate Professor		Emily Schafer earned her PhD in International Family and Community Studies from Clemson University in 2019. She earned her MA in Clinical Psychology from Wheaton College in 2005. She earned her BS in Experimental Psychology from University of South Carolina, Honors College in 2003.
Dr. Christine Sixta Rinehart Professor	Political Science, Women's and Gender Studies	My work focuses on international security including international terrorism, counterterrorism, and US foreign policy. My areas of expertise are the Middle East and Latin America.