Faculty Profiles
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Dr. Mark Bonta, Associate Professor of Geography and coordinator of the MALS Globalization Studies track.
Dr. Bonta is a geographer with degrees at Penn State (B.A), University of Texas-Austin (M.A.) and Louisiana State University (Ph.D.). He is the author of two scholarly books and over 30 articles, and has given over 60 presentations at professional conferences in the US and abroad. He has a broad range of research interests, including environmental justice & critical geographies of conservation and development, ethno-ornithology, ethno-ecology, historical geography of Honduras and of the Lower Mississippi Valley , and geophilosophy and Continental thought with an emphasis on the work of Gilles Deleuze. His graduate courses include Cultural Geography, Geography of Religions, regional courses on Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East, seminars in the History of Geographic Thought, Professional Geography, and Advanced Research Methods in Geography, as well as field courses in the US South, Guatemala, and Honduras. Dr. Bonta is also the director of the Institute for Environmental Justice and Community-Based Conservation at the Center for Community and Economic Development, where he is Senior Faculty Associate.
Contact him: mbonta@deltastate.edu
Website: http://ntweb.deltastate.edu/mbonta/
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Dr. William Hays, Professor of English & Division Chair, Languages and Literature. Bill is the coordinator of the MALS Evolving Human Voices: Studies of the Written Word track.
Contact him: whays@deltastate.edu
Office Phone: 846-4084 |
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Dr. Debarashmi Mitra, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Community Development and coordinator of the MALS Gender and Diversity Studies track.
Dr. Debarashmi Mitra earned her MA in International Service from the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the Institute of Roehampton, University of Surrey and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. Her research and publications focus on issues related to gender, globalization, women and work, community building, human rights, and transnational social movements. She offers a variety of courses related to gender and diversity studies including sociology of gender, gender in global perspective, gender issues in South Asia, race, class and gender, and social change and globalization. In addition to her supervisory role in the MALS, Dr. Mitra is also the coordinator of the Master of Science in Community Development track.
Contact her: dmitra@deltastate.edu
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Dr. Clint Tibbs, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and coordinator of the MALS Philosophy track.
Dr. Eugene Clinton Tibbs studied biblical languages (Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Aramaic), ancient near eastern languages (Akkadian), and biblical criticism at The Catholic Univeristy of America in Washington, D.C., 1996-2002 (MA), 2002-2005 (Ph.D.). His scholarly interests focus on early church history, the development of Trinitarian doctrine in the fourth century, Patristics, especially Athanasius and the Cappadocian Fathers, early Christian pneumatology, development of the canon of Scripture, history of natural philosophy, and science, technology, and philosophy in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. He teaches biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek on an alternating basis and offers two upper-level courses every semester from the following: ethics, philosophy of religion, eastern religious tradition, western religious tradition, biomedical ethics, history of western philosophy (two semesters), a history of women philosophers, philosophy and the paranormal, introduction to logic, and philosophy and consciousness.
Contact him: ctibbs@deltastate.edu
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Dr. James Tomek, Professor of French and coordinator of the MALS Religious Studies track.
Dr. Tomek recently completed a Masters in Theological Studies from Spring Hill College to complement PhD in French Literature from Duke University. He teaches French and English language and literature, specializing in elementary intermediate French and surveys of French literature. His interdisciplinary classes in twentieth century literature and critical theory help students deepen reading skills in the intertextual study of film, philosophy, theology, music, art, and business.
Dr. Tomek recently organized the Mississippi Philological Association 2012 meeting at DSU (http://ntweb.deltastate.edu/jtomek/programMPA.htm), at which Pultizer Prize-winning author Richard Ford gave reading. Dr. Tomek is currently immersed in the study of French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas.
Contact him: jtomek@deltastate.edu
Website: http://ntweb.deltastate.edu/jtomek/ |
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Dr. Charles Westmoreland, Assistant Professor of History and coordinator of the MALS Mississippi Delta Studies track.
Dr. Charles (Chuck) Westmoreland has been a member of the DSU faculty since 2009. He earned his B.S. in History from Ferrum College (1998), M.A. in History from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte (2000), and Ph.D. in History from the University of Mississippi (2008). His primary teaching and research interests are in modern U.S. history with an emphasis on the American South. He is currently working with the University of Georgia Press on the publication of his book manuscript entitled “Southern Pharisees: Prayer, Public Life, and Politics in the South, 1955-1996.” Dr. Westmoreland’s book will examine how religion, particularly the practice of prayer, has shaped southern public life and politics by focusing on the Civil Rights Movement and school prayer controversies that engulfed the region since the 1950s and 1960s. Dr. Westmoreland is currently the News and Notices editor for the Journal of Mississippi History and has published book reviews in the Journal of Southern History, Journal of Southern Religion, and H-South. Since 2009, he has taught the following upper-level and graduate courses: Historiography, Religion in America, Sports in American Culture and Society, The New South, The U.S. in the 1960s, The U.S. since 1945, and The History of Jim Crow.
Contact him: cwestmoreland@deltastate.edu |
