Faculty Directory
Mark Rigsby
Professor
Areas of Expertise
Ceramics, Sculpture, Art Exhibition Curation and Gallery Management
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Performing and Visual Arts
Discipline: Art and Design
George Hurst Building (GHB) 114
Dr. Ramesh Rijal
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
Host-Pathogen Interaction; Bacterial Pathogenesis; Dictyostelium discoideum and Macrophage Biology, Drug Discovery
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Biological, Environmental, and Earth Sciences
Discipline: Cell and Molecular Biology
Johnson Science Tower (JST) 618
Dr. Peter Rogers
Professor
Areas of Expertise
Heavy civil construction, Water and wastewater systems, smart infrastructure, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), public works management, WASH in developing countries.
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Construction and Design
Discipline: Construction Management
Chain Technology Center (TEC) 238
Dr. Brenda Rowe
Professor
Areas of Expertise
cybersecurity law, legal issues in criminal justice, death penalty jurisprudence, and criminal procedure
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Criminal Justice, Forensic Science, and Security
Discipline: Criminal Justice, Forensic Science, and Security
Keltoum Rowland
Senior Lecturer
Areas of Expertise
French, Study Abroad
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Social Science and Global Studies
Discipline: World Languages
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) LAB 449
Dr. Alexander Russakovsky
Professor
Areas of Expertise
Cello, Chamber Music
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Music
Discipline: Music Performance
Marsh Hall - Fine Arts Building (FAB) 209
Dr. Douglas Rust
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
Music Theory
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Music
Discipline: Music Academic
Marsh Hall - Fine Arts Building (FAB) 212a
Dr. Maureen Ryan
Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
modern and contemporary American Fiction
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
Liberal Arts Building (LAB)
Dr. Eric Saillant
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
Conservation genetics and genomics of marine organisms, Aquaculture Genetics/genomics, Breeding programs
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Coastal Sciences
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory 210B Aquaculture Research and Laboratory Bdg. Cedar Pt
Dr. Candice Salyers
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
solo performance, dance performance as a humanitarian effort, modern technique, site-specific performance, composition
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Performing and Visual Arts
Discipline: Dance
Theatre and Dance Building (TAD) 206
Rafael Sanchez-Alonso
Emeritus
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Social Science and Global Studies
Discipline: World Languages
Edward Sayre
Professor
Areas of Expertise
Labor Economics, Development Economics, Health Economics
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Social Science and Global Studies
Discipline: Economics
Hillary Scales-Lewis
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
Acting, Acting for Film & Television, Musical Theatre, Industry Readiness, Voice
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Performing and Visual Arts
Discipline: Theatre
Dr. Jake Schaefer
Professor
Areas of Expertise
Ecology, Evolution, Ichthyology
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Biological, Environmental, and Earth Sciences
Discipline: Ecology and Organismal Biology
Johnson Science Tower (JST) 1007
Dr. Charlie Scheer
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
Policing, workforce management, police legitimacy, recruitment & retention, training
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Criminal Justice, Forensic Science, and Security
Discipline: Criminal Justice, Forensic Science, and Security
Arthell Kelley Hall (AKH) 117
Dr. Bernd Schroeder
Professor
Areas of Expertise
Ordered Sets, Graph Theory, Harmonic Analysis, Probability Theory, Undergraduate Curriculum Development
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Discipline: Mathematics
Southern Hall (SH) 309
Professor Jeremy Scott
Associate Teaching Professor
Areas of Expertise
Relativity, Particle, Nuclear, Scattering, High Energy
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Discipline: Physics and Astronomy
Chain Technology Center (TEC) 229A
Dr. Partha Sengupta
Assistant Teaching Professor
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Computing Sciences and Computer Engineering
Discipline: Computer Science
Dr. Glen Shearer Jr
Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
Cell and Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Physiology
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Biological, Environmental, and Earth Sciences
Discipline: Cell and Molecular Biology
Johnson Science Tower (JST) 501-A
Professor Mary Sheffer
Professor
Areas of Expertise
Multimedia Journalism, Sports Media, Social Media, Media Management
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Media and Communication
Discipline: Journalism, Public Relations, and Advertising
College Hall (CH) 305D
Dr. Ahmed Sherif
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
Cryptography and network security; Cybersecurity; Security and privacy-preserving schemes in Autonomous Vehicles(AVs), Vehicular Adhoc Networks(VANETs), Internet of Things (IoT) applications, and Smart Grid Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) network.
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Computing Sciences and Computer Engineering
Discipline: Computer Engineering
Chain Technology Center (TEC) 329
Dr. Alan Shiller
Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
Marine geochemistry, trace elements, methane, radium/radon, oceanography, rivers, estuaries
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Discipline: Marine Science
Stennis Space Center 1020-131
Ery Shin
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
Modernism, Continental Philosophy, Gender and Sexuality Studies
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 340