Suban Nur Cooley received her PhD in rhetoric and composition from Michigan State University in June 2020. She joins Ball State University to teach courses in the departments of both English and Women and Gender Studies. Her dissertation research was a multi-location geographic comparative study which focused on elder women of the Somali diaspora and […]

Mary O’Donnell earned a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition specializing in Language Program Direction from the University of Iowa. She also has a MA in Spanish literature from the University of Notre Dame. Most recently she coordinated the PreK-12 Foreign Language Teacher Licensure program at James Madison University and was the Director of Intermediate Spanish […]

Christopher Valesey joins us this fall to teach online sections of History 150, “The West in the World.” An early modern global historian, he received his PhD in Colonial Latin American History from Penn State University in 2019. While a graduate student, he served as an editorial assistant for the Hispanic American Historical Review. He […]

Here at the College of Sciences and Humanities, we love to highlight the new faculty members joining our team. Dr. John Millis is a new professor and department chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Dr. Millis’ broad area of research entails quantum mechanics, electromagnetics, and astrophysics. What is your journey to Ball State? […]

Dr. Soltz is an Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Public History Program. She specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. history, Jewish history, public history, museum studies, and digital history. In 2017, the Association for Jewish Studies Review published her first article “Just Miles Away but Worlds Apart: Examining Jewish Participation in Integration Programs at Black Mountain College and […]

Here at the College of Sciences and Humanities, we love to highlight the new faculty members joining our team. Dr. Ashley Kalinski is a new assistant professor in the Department of Biology. Her area of specialty is in immunology and neuroscience, and more specifically she studies neuroinflammation. What is your journey to Ball State? My […]

This fall Max Felker-Kantor joins us on the tenure-line as an Assistant Professor of History. He teaches courses in twentieth-century American and African American history with a focus on race, politics, and social movements. He is particularly interested in the policies and institutions of urban law enforcement and criminal justice systems since World War II. […]

The Department of Mathematical Sciences is pleased to welcome Dr. Steve Guo to the Ball State faculty. Dr. Guo is glad to be back in Indiana after several years away pursuing his doctorate at Georgia State University and serving as a visiting Assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara. He earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees […]

Here at the College of Sciences and Humanities, we love to highlight the new faculty members joining our team. Dr. Jonathan Watkins is a new assistant professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. His area of specialty is mathematics education, including equitable teaching practices and educational technology. What is your journey to Ball State? Prior […]