Augustana College (Illinois) - Notable Faculty

Notable Faculty

Accounting

• Pamela Druger is the S. James Galley Endowed Chair in Accounting.

Art History

• Cathy Goebel is a professor, the Paul A. Anderson Chair in the Arts and current chair of the Department of Art History. Dr. Goebel oversees collaborative research and publication of faculty and student essays related to Augustana College Art Museum exhibitions. One example of this is her recent work to coordinate Origins of Modernity, a project that integrated first-year studies with essays from the Augustana community and an elaborate art exhibit and catalogue, as well as a community convocation event.

Chemistry

• Pamela Trotter is the Robert W. Beart Endowed Chair in Chemistry having been a leader in student-faculty collaboration at Augustana College, having organized summer research programs involving students from the departments of biology, pre-medicine, chemistry and education since 2002.

Communication Sciences & Disorders (CSD)

• Kathy Jakielski is an Associate Professor of (CSD), director of the Augustana Center for Speech, Language and Hearing, and the Florence C. and Dr. John E. Wertz Chair in the Liberal Arts and Sciences. Dr. "J" - as she is called by her students - is a noted clinician and scholar examining Childhood Apraxia of Speech.

English

• Karin Youngberg is a professor and the Conrad Bergendoff Chair in the Humanities, Augustana's first endowed faculty position. Dr. Karin Youngberg joined the English department in 1967, and in 1980 became the first woman elected to chair the Faculty Senate. The Phi Beta Kappa Augustana graduate has a long association with East Hall Press, which gives students hands-on experience in book publishing.
• Jason Peters holds the Dorothy J. Parkander Chair in Literature. Recent publications include "Wendell Berry: Life and Work" (University Press of Kentucky, 2007).

Geology

• William R. Hammer is a noted paleontologist who found the first dinosaur, Cryolophosaurus, in Antarctica. Dr. Hammer is the Fritiof M. Fryxell Chair in Geology.

Geography

• Norm Moline is the Edward Hamming Professor of Geography. Norm has co-directed the college's fall term in East Asia since that program started in 1974, which was the first time China opened its borders to the West for educational purposes.

History

• Van J. Symons is a noted scholar of China, with his focus on the Q'ing dynasty. Dr. Symons is the Executive Director of ASIANetwork and the William A. Freistat Chair for Studies in World Peace.
• Lendol Calder, professor of history, became the second member of the Augustana faculty to earn Professor of the Year honors from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Dr. Dorothy Parkander, professor emerita of English, was so honored in 1992 and Dr. Calder was recognized in 2010.
• Jane Simonsen is an Associate Professor of History and Women's & Gender Studies, which she serve is the program chair starting with the 2010-2011 school year. Dr. Simonsen is the current president of the Mid-America chapter of the American Studies Association.
• Thomas Mayer is a Professor of History, specializing in the 16th and 17th Europe. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has held numerous fellowships including at Harvard University and Villa I Tatti in Florence. During the 2007-08 academic year he was a fellow of the American Academy in Rome where he researched Galileo's trial.

Mathematics

• Tom Bengtson is the Earl H. Beling Chair in Mathematics and mentors 4-5 students, designated Beling Scholars, conducting research projects in mathematics. These students present their research at state and national mathematics conferences, as well as the Augustana Celebration of Learning.

Sociology

• Peter Kivisto is a noted sociologist, former editor of the Sociological Quarterly, and author of over a dozen books on immigration, ethnic and racial studies, and social theory, most recently "Illuminating Social Life" (fifth edition, Pine Forge Press, 2010) and the forthcoming "Race and Ethnicity: The Basics (with Paul Croll, Routledge, 2012). Dr. Kivisto is the president (2010–2011) of the Midwest Sociological Society, holds the Richard A. Swanson Chair in Social Thought and chairs the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Welfare at Augustana. Other members of the Department:
• Paul Croll is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Augustana College. His research, focusing on whiteness, critical race theory, race and ethnic relations, social inequality, quantitative research methods, and statistics, has appeared in the journals Social Forces, Social Problems, and The American Sociologist. He has been influential in the management of the American Mosaic Project Survey.
• Marsha Smith - Gerontologist and scholar of Asian Studies - is a board member of ASIANetwork (2008–2011) and former president of the Illinois Sociological Association (ISA).
• Vicki Sommer - Social Welfare and Gender Studies professor - is also a former president of the ISA and a current board member of the American Men's Studies Association (AMSA). Dr. Sommer was also the program chair for the Women's & Gender Studies program and institute at Augustana for twelve years.