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Category: Faculty Profiles

  • Professor Jason Powell
    December 9, 2019 by

    Dr. Jason Powell is currently an associate teaching professor of Honors Humanities at Ball State University. He also serves as Vice President for the Beneficence Family Scholars.  What goals do you have for your courses? I guess the goal of my courses is to incite opportunity for transcendence. I know this sounds cheesy, romantic, even […]

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  • Professor Obed Frausto Gatica
    November 11, 2019 by

    Dr. Obed Frausto earned his PhD in Philosophy of Science; Social Studies of Science and Technology at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Dr. Obed Frausto has completed research fellowships at Harvard University in the United States, Cardiff University in Wales, and l’Université de Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis in Paris, France. In his doctoral dissertation, he worked […]

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  • Honors College Dean John Emert
    October 14, 2019 by

    Dr. John Emert is Dean of the Honors College, appointed July 1, 2017. He joined the Ball State Faculty after earning a B.A. in Mathematics and Music and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Tennessee.  He served previously as Chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences and then Associate Dean of […]

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  • Director of National & International Scholarships Dr. Barb Stedman
    April 15, 2019 by

    Barb Stedman grew up in northeastern Ohio but started becoming “Hoosierized” in 1977, when she came to Indiana to attend Taylor University. All of her degrees are in English, and her primary teaching and research interests have been in cultural studies and environmental literature, especially Indiana’s environmental literature. After teaching at several other institutions (including […]

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  • Professor Elizabeth Dalton
    March 11, 2019 by

    Elizabeth Dalton, Associate Professor of Honors Humanities, has been a Ball State faculty member since 1991. Her fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction essays have appeared in a number of literary journals, including Clockhouse Review, Glassworks, and Adanna. She lives on a homestead near Mooreland, IN, with her husband, John, two dogs, two cats, and eight […]

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  • Professor Timothy Berg
    March 11, 2019 by

    Dr. Timothy Berg grew up on an island off the coast of Florida and has lived in such places as the Atlanta, Georgia area, Washington, D.C., and his favorite place, New York City. He earned a B.A. in history from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in history from Purdue University in 1999. Later, […]

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  • Professor Alexander Kaufman
    March 11, 2019 by

    Alexander L. Kaufman is the Reed D. Voran Distinguished Professor of Honors Humanities and Professor of English at Ball State University, where he teaches in the Honors College. He is the author of The Historical Literature of the Jack Cade Rebellion, co-editor of Telling Tales and Crafting Books: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. Ohlgren […]

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