Faculty Highlights

Our faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts excel in teaching, mentorship, grant writing and scholarship. Here are a few faculty news highlights from this year.

Alisha Reaves

Encouraging cultural immersion in French language learning

Alisha Reaves talks Francophone culture and studying abroad.

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Nicole Fabricant

CLA professor researches environmental issues in South Baltimore

Nicole Fabricant inspires students in her anthropology classes through real-world research.

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Donn Worgs

Passion for youth engagement drives Donn Worgs’ Mitten Professorship

TU’s new Mitten professor engages students with youth activists in Baltimore and beyond. 

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Christian Koot

Elevating Voices

Christian Koot's Unearthing Towson’s History Project aims to enrich the university’s present and future by seeking the voices of those missing from its past.

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Elyshia Aseltine

Professor

Aseltine

Elyshia Aseltine, Professor of Criminal Justice, received a grant from the University of Baltimore and Ascendium Education for her project on Identifying and Scaling Programmatic Technical Assistance Resources in Higher Education in Prison. She is helping TU build a Reentry Services Roadmap in collaboration with Bowie State University and University of Baltimore—a statewide model for supporting reentry on college campuses across the University System of Maryland.

 

Suat Cubukcu

Assistant Professor

Cubukcu

Suat Cubukcu, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, secured a $113,900 grant from the DHS through their Excellence Center, NCITE,  for the project Defining the Logic and Risk of Terrorist UAS Attacks in the United States. Over the course of a year, the interdisciplinary team produced three rapid review reports addressing (1) the logic and emerging trends in terrorist use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), (2) risk factors in terrorist adoption of UAS, and (3) knowledge gaps and vulnerabilities tied to future threats.

Victoria (Vicky) McAlister 

Associate Professor

McAlister

Vicky McAlister, Associate Professor of History, secured $85,000 in funding for two major projects. She received a Franklin Grant from the American Philosophical Society to support research in Ireland. Additionally, she was awarded a year-long residential fellowship from the Folger Institute to complete her second monograph, The Insular Globe: Animals and Landscapes of Colonization, Ireland c. 700–1700.

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Faculty Books