
Affiliated Faculty
Mont Allen
Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Cultures & International Trade

Office: Faner 2031
Phone: (618) 453-5403
Email: montallen@siu.edu
Website
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Greek and Roman funerary sculpture, ancient sculptural tools and techniques, Greek mythology, Roman painting, Late Antique religions, intellectual history, and urban geography
William Babcock
Professor, School of Journalism

Office: COMM 1222
Email: wbabcock@siu.edu
Website
Ph.D., Southern Illinois University
Interests: Media ethics and public policy reporting
Francesca Dennstedt
Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Cultures & International Trade

Office: Faner 2022
Phone: 618-453-5426
Email:
francesca.dennstedt1@siu.edu
Ph.D., Washington University
Interests: Twentieth-century and contemporary Mexican literature and culture, Gender and queer theory
William Freivogel
Professor and Former Director, School of Journalism

Office: COMM 1210E
Email: wfreivog@siu.edu
Website
J.D., Washington University
Interests: Journalism, Media Law, Public Affairs and Policy
Nicholas Guardiano
Alwin C. Carus Archivist and Professor of Philosophy, Library Affairs

Phone: (618) 453-1499
Email: nguardia@siu.edu
Ph.D., Southern Illinois University
Interests: Philosophy of nature, Transcendentalism, the Hudson River School, and other American philosophers and artists
Michael Humphries
Associate Professor, English

Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
Interests: Cultural Studies and Literary Theory with a focus on mythology and early Christian literature; Classical and Early Christian Literature
David Johnson
Associate Professor & Classics Head, Department of Languages, Cultures & International Trade

Office: Faner 2037
Phone: (618) 453-5400
Email: mjohnson@siu.edu
Website
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Interests: Socratic literature, particularly Xenophon's Socratic works
Jun Kim
Assistant Professor, Recreation

Office: Pulliam 323B
Email: jkim@siu.edu
Ph.D., University of Utah
Interests: Philosophy of leisure and recreation
Yueh-Ting Lee
Professor & Program Director, Applied Psychology

Ph.D., State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University)
Interests: Cultural and ethnic studies; Social psychology; Cultural stereotypes and stereotyping
Jean-Pierre (J.-P.) Reed
Associate Professor, Sociology

Office: Faner 3426
Phone: (618) 453-7610
Email: reedjp@siu.edu
Website
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara
Interests: Sociology of Revolutions/Social Movements, Theory, Politics and Religion, and Culture
Rebecca Walker
Associate Professor, Communications Studies

Office: Communications Building Room 2002J
Phone: 618-453-1885
Email: r.walker@siu.edu
Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Interests: Feminist theory, Visual rhetoric