COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
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- Administrative Specialist / HTC Student Recreation & Convocation Center
HTC Student Recreation & Convocation Center 145 | 843-349-2126 | acartrett@coastal.edu
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- Competitive Sports Coordinator / HTC Student Recreation & Convocation Center
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- Artist of Gullah
- Co - Associate Director / Assistant Professor, Ceramics and Studio Art
Ashlyn Pope is an African American sculptural artist of Gullah descent working with ceramics and textiles. She received her BFA from Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia, in Ceramics and Printmaking, and she earned her MFA in Ceramics from Penn State University in 2019. Pope is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Coastal Carolina University.
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- Senior Assistant Director
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- Assistant Director, Grant Center for Real Estate and Economics
- Lecturer / Assistant Director, Grant Center for Real Estate and Economics
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- Administrative Specialist
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- Outdoor Recreation Coordinator / HTC Student Recreation & Convocation Center
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- Director, Student Success and Transition
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- Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies
Charles Norton is a linguist, interdisciplinary scholar, and Hip Hop teaching artist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He holds a PhD in Aesthetics from Université Paris Nanterre and an MA in French & Anthropology from the University of Arizona. Most recently he was a Visiting Professor at Morehouse College. He has also taught full-time at the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and the University of Paris. Norton's research investigates human rights and empowerment in global Hip Hop cultures, and he has extensive experience working internationally, including three tours of service with the US Peace Corps (Cameroon, Haiti, and Rwanda) and a stint as a Faculty Research Adviser at the University of Rwanda's Gikondo campus's Center for Language Enhancement.
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- Administrative Specialist
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- Assistant Professor, Anthropology
- Associate Professor, Anthropology
David Palmer is an anthropological archaeologist specializing in historical archaeology. A Registered Professional Archaeologist (RPA) since 2002, Palmer has experience from historical and prehistoric projects in the U.S. Southeast, New England, Arizona, California, and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. In addition to university-level teaching and research, Palmer has also worked in the area of cultural resources management (CRM) for private companies and tribal government and as a regional archaeologist.
Education
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
M.A., Anthropology, Louisiana State University
B.A., Archaeological Studies, Boston University
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- Lecturer / External Engagement Coordinator
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- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Associate Professor, Anthropology and Geography
I am not afraid to try because I am not afraid to fail. Failure is an inherent feature of success."-Gillian Richards-Greaves
Biography
Dr. Gillian Richards-Greaves is an Associate Professor of Anthropology. Richards-Greaves' research interests include musical, cultural, linguistic, and ritual expressions of the African Diaspora, particularly of the English-speaking Caribbean. Over a period of five years (fall 2005-spring 2010), she conducted a multi-site, transnational, comparative dissertation research project on the African Guyanese pre-wedding ritual named kweh-kweh, in which she examined African Guyanese's constructions of ethnic identities and rediasporization in New York City. She has since expanded her research on the African Diaspora to include the Gullah-Geechee of South Carolina; she is currently participating in a research project that examines African retentions and cultural traditions of the Gullah-Geechee people of Sandy Island and their relatives in surrounding areas. Richards-Greaves has drawn on interdisciplinary training and research to published peer reviewed articles, book chapters, and other scholarly essays. She is also currently working on her first monograph titled "'Come to My Kwe-Kwe': Ritual Performance and African Guyanese Rediasporization in the United States," which will be published by the University Press of Mississippi.
Education
Ph.D., Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington (2013)
Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, Bloomington (2013)
B.A. - M.A., Music Education, Hunter College-CUNY (2004)
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- Associate Professor
- Chairman
- Department of Management and Decision Sciences
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- Assistant Professor, Spanish
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- Lecturer / Director, Wall Fellows Program
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- Director, Wall Center Career Services
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- Interim Assistant Vice President for Community Building, Outreach, and Student Media
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- Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies
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- Lecturer / Graduate Programs Manager
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Outdoor Recreation Graduate Assistant / HTC Student Recreation & Convocation Center
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- Assistant Professor, Communication, Media, and Culture
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- Chairman / Professor
- Department of Marketing and Hospitality, Resort, and Tourism Management
- Professor of Marketing / Chair, Department of Marketing and Hospitality, Resort, and Tourism Management
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- Career Services Program Assistant
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- Director of University Recreation / HTC Student Recreation & Convocation Center
HTC Student Recreation & Convocation Center 145E | 843-349-2832 | jody@coastal.edu
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- Intramural Sports Graduate Assistant
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- Director of Advising and Student Support
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- Director of Internships, Service Learning, and Employer Engagement
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- Assistant Director of Career Services / Coordinator of Employer Engagement for Students & Alumni
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- Director of Marketing and Communication
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- Assistant Director of Career Services / Coordinator of Career Exploration and Marketing
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- Graduate Programs Advisement Coordinator
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- Administrative Coordinator
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- Associate University Counsel - Transactions
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies, History
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- Coordinator of Aquatics and Safety
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Associate Dean / Professor of Marketing / Director, Graduate Programs and Executive Education
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- Associate University Counsel and Director of University Compliance
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Myrtle Beach Council Member and Owner, Big Mike 's Soulfood
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- Associate Dean of Student Success / Professor
- Associate Dean of Student Success / Professor of Marketing
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- Career and Professional Development Coordinator
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Director of Student Support
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- Professor of Political Science
- Professor, Politics
Richard Aidoo, Ph.D. is a Professor of Political Science at Coastal Carolina University, where he teaches international and African politics. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (International Relations and Comparative Politics) from Miami University in Ohio. His research looks at the politics of economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recently, Aidoo's work has focused on engagements between countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Particularly, how African countries continue to work with both Western neoliberal arrangements and the global economic agenda of countries like China.
He has widely written on China-Africa relations, and other political and economic development issues in Africa. Aidoo is the co-author of "Charting the Roots of Anti-Chinese Populism in Africa"(2015), and editor of "The Politics of Economic Reform in Ghana" published in 2019.
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Ph.D. Political Science (International Relations and Comparative Politics)
Interesting Facts
Aidoo is an ardent advocate for education abroad. As part of his programs to Africa and Europe, he teaches a bi-annual thematic course that incorporates the International Student Festival in Trondheim (ISFiT), which allows students to combine course work at CCU with travel to Trondheim, Norway for one of the world's largest student gatherings.
Teaching Areas
Contemporary African Politics
International Relations
International Political Economy
China-Africa Diplomacy
Politics of Developing Economies
Globalization and Human Security Issues
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- Director, Grant Center for Real Estate and Economics / Professor
- Professor / Director, Grant Center for Real Estate and Economics
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Inaugural Chair of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission
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- Intramural Sports Coordinator
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- Facility Coordinator / HTC Student Recreation & Convocation Center
HTC Student Recreation & Convocation Center 210 | 843-349-2835 | swfaulk@coastal.edu
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Hospitality, Resort, and Tourism Management Director, Clay Brittain Jr. Center for Resort Tourism
- Director of the Clay Brittain
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- Chairman
- Co - Founder
- Chairman and Professor, Anthropology and Geography
- Professor
Susan Bergeron is the Chair and a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Geography. Susan earned her Ph.D. in Geography from West Virginia University, and her dissertation is entitled "Engaging the Virtual Landscape: exploring the development of a spatial experience engine for historical landscape analysis." Dr. Bergeron also holds an M.A. in Geography from West Virginia University, an M.A. in History from Syracuse University, and a B.A. in History from Duke University. Her research interests include virtual heritage, immersive simulation through video game technology and 3D landscape reconstruction, geovisualization, GIScience and the humanities, and geospatial technologies in education.
Dr. Bergeron has co-authored book chapters on the Geospatial Web and GIS and geovisualization in the humanities. Her research into the development of immersive 3D landscapes as platforms for representing humanities knowledge has focused on the development of Virtual Hampton, an immersive 3D landscape representation of Hampton Plantation, embedded with digital stories of those who lived and worked there. Along with Dr. Ron Green, a colleague in Religious Studies at CCU, Dr. Bergeron was awarded an ASIANetwork Student-Faculty Fellowship grant to travel to Japan in May 2020 on a research trip with students to begin fieldwork for her current project in virtual heritage - the Virtual Shikoku Pilgrimage. This ongoing project is involving students in the process of designing and developing an immersive 3D platform to explore the landscape of the Shikoku pilgrimages, and tell the stories of the pilgrims' experiences, the places they visit, and the impact of the pilgrimage as part of Japan's cultural heritage.
Education
Ph.D., Geography, West Virginia University
M.A., Geography, West Virginia University
M.A., History, Syracuse University
B.A., History, Duke University
Interesting Facts
Dr. Bergeron is a co-founder and co-host of the award-winning podcast VerySpatial: https://veryspatial.com/.
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- Assistant Professor
- Co - Associate Director / Assistant Professor, English
Tabitha Lowery is an assistant professor at Coastal Carolina University. Within the English Department, she currently teaches African American literature courses. Her work focuses on recovering alternative representations of early Black authors by examining the cultural values of various kinds of readers and editors from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries.
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- Associate Director ( Fitness and HTC Center ) HTC Student Recreation & Convocation Center
HTC Student Recreation & Convocation Center 145B | 843-349-2815 | tjosey@coastal.edu
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- Lecturer, Sustainability and Coastal Resilience
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- Fitness Graduate Assistant / HTC Student Recreation & Convocation Center
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- Assistant Professor, Educational Studies
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- Assistant Director of Accessibility and Disability Services
Dr. Tim Fischer is a jazz guitarist, composer, and educator who has performed across the United States as well as in Europe. Growing up in Los Angeles, Tim had the good fortune to study and perform with many of the great musicians that call the city home. The lessons learned during his formative years in Los Angeles are compiled on his debut album as a leader, Due South, which features his original compositions and arrangements performed by a mix of friends from both the West Coast and Midwest.
Tim is active in jazz education, having presented his research on the Miles Davis first quintet at Northwestern University, University of Southern California, California Institute of the Arts, Eastern Washington University, Pasadena City College, and the Seattle Jazz Guitar Society. He is the coauthor of Jazz Guitar Duets (Mel Bay Publications); his writing has also appeared in Just Jazz Guitar Magazine.
Tim has worked as an adjudicator for the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival and as an instructor of combos and big bands for the Monterey Jazz Festival's Summer Jazz Camp. An experienced computer programmer, Tim has also presented clinics on website development and online marketing for the music and design schools at California Institute of the Arts. Prior to joining CCU, he taught music at several colleges throughout Los Angeles and St. Louis. Tim holds a doctorate in music from the University of Southern California.
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D.M.A., Studio/Jazz Guitar, minor in Musicology, University of Southern California
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- Director of Career Services
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Director Emeritus of the Joyner Institute
A resident of Georgetown, South Carolina, Zenobia Harper is an artist and the founder of the Gullah Preservation Society. She has worked as an Artist in Residence with the South Carolina Arts Commission, and her art is featured in numerous galleries and in many private collections. Growing up Gullah, Harper was gifted with all of the rich foundations that the culture has to offer. Now she's actively working to preserve it for future generations.