Matthew Crain is an Associate Professor of Media and Communication. His research, writing, and teaching focus on the political economy of media, advertising, and consumer surveillance. He is the author of Profit Over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet (Minnesota, 2021) and a number of journal articles about the commodification of attention, data brokers, ad tech, political manipulation, and media ownership.

Andrew Hebard is an Associate Professor of English with a focus on late-nineteenth-century American literature. He has published articles in American Quarterly; Law, Culture, and the Humanities; African American Review; Arizona Quarterly; Studies in American Naturalism; and the Mark Twain Annual among other journals. His book, The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885-1910 (Cambridge, 2013), examines how American literature conventionalized legal forms of sovereignty and administration. His recent work examines the relationship between literary aesthetics and corruption in the Progressive Era state, and he has also recently published a series of articles and book chapters on aesthetic apprehension and statistical thought.

Emma Estridge is a senior honors student majoring in creative writing and professional writing with minors in English literature and Spanish. She is the Co-Editor for the Inklings Arts & Letters magazine. Her honors thesis is an archival-based creative project about the West Virginia Mine Wars. Her other research interests include early-twentieth-century history and the societal and cultural effects of storytelling.

Emma Estridge is a senior honors student majoring in creative writing and professional writing with minors in English literature and Spanish. She is the Co-Editor for the Inklings Arts & Letters magazine. Her honors thesis is an archival-based creative project about the West Virginia Mine Wars. Her other research interests include early-twentieth-century history and the societal and cultural effects of storytelling.

Parker Green is a junior honors student majoring in English and strategic communication with a minor in political science. Her research interests include the politics of storytelling, the literacy crisis in the digital age, and how collective memory is shaped. She additionally writes for The Miami Student.

Kathryn Hippe is a senior studying Journalism with a minor in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. She is a staff columnist for The Miami Student Newspaper. Her research interests include media consumption, cognitive processing, cultural temporality and everyday perception. Her other interests include creative writing and literacy.

Jinming Li is a senior from Beijing, China majoring in Media and Communication. She is a student assistant for the Asian American History Project. Her research interests include digital media, advertising, storytelling, media production, and the ways media shapes identity, culture, and public meaning.

Lilly McClelland is a senior honors student studying diplomacy and global politics, environmental science, and French. Her research interests include social and political interaction with the environment and international humanitarian efforts.

Venezia McHenry is a junior honors student majoring in creative writing and journalism. She is a senior staff writer for The Miami Student newspaper and assistant editor for The Miami Student magazine. Her research interests include sustainability and conservation, the role of journalism and media throughout history, women in literature, and the role of environments and mental health.

Charlotte Melville is a senior honors student majoring in English Literature and Philosophy. She is involved on the leadership team of Sigma Tau Delta and is a peer consultant at the Howe Writing Center. Her research interests include medical ethics, Existentialism, feminism, and philosophies of death, with her honors undergraduate thesis covering Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy of aging.

Sam Meola is a senior majoring in philosophy, political science, and history. He serves as treasurer for the Armstrong Student Center Board and is the former recipient of the Linda Singer Scholarship for Philosophy. His research interests include axiology, political theory, and Michele de Montaigne's influence on contemporary political thought.

Jacob Moeller is a senior art and architecture history major with a minor in history. He serves as a student representative on the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum steering committee. His research centers on the stained glass firm Emil Frei & Associates and its collaborations with mid-century churches.

Kerigan Moore is a senior studying History & Professional Writing with a minor in American Studies. She currently works at the Howe Center for Writing Excellence and is a HASS Scholar. Her research interests include child advocacy, American religious history, and the creation of identity through writing.

Ann Elizabeth Armstrong is Associate Professor of Theatre. She teaches dramatic literature, theatre history, theatre for social change, and community-based theatre. She has created a series of public humanities projects based on the history of Freedom Summer in 1964 with grants from the Ohio Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is currently co-editing a collection of essays, “Devising Theatre for Social Change: Creative Tools for Critical Times” (Bloomsbury Methuen). In addition to facilitating Theatre of the Oppressed, she has created location-based games, site specific performances, theatre about climate change, and digital storytelling with community groups.

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Andrew Casper is Professor of Art History. He specializes in Renaissance and Baroque art of southern Europe and its transatlantic intersections, especially religious imagery in Italy in the late 1500s and early 1600s. He is the author of Art and the Religious Image in El Greco’s Italy (Penn State, 2014) and An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy (Penn State, 2021), which won the 2022 Roland H. Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society. His research has been supported by the American Philosophical Society, Fulbright Program, Howard Foundation at Brown University, National Endowment for the Humanities, and others.

Wietse de Boer is the Phillip R. Shriver Professor of History. He is a specialist in the cultural and religious history of medieval and early modern Europe. He is the author of The Conquest of the Soul: Confession, Discipline, and Public Order (2001), Art in Dispute: Catholic Debates in the Age of Trent (2022), and eight (co-)edited books. His current work concerns materiality, mediality, and sense perception in late-medieval and early-modern religious thought and practice.

Mack Hagood is Professor of Media and Communication. As a media theorist, he specializes in the cultural origins and social effects of audio technologies. He is author of Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control (Duke UP, 2019) and the producer and host of Phantom Power, a long-running podcast about sound on the SpectreVision Radio network. In 2024, he was awarded a Public Scholar grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is currently writing a book about listening for Penguin Press.

Michael Hicks is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department specializing in the philosophy of mind and language. He joined Miami's faculty in 2014. Recently he has been focused on the history of 20th century philosophy, especially concerning the relationship between language and mind. His work has appeared in leading philosophy journals like Synthese, Philosophical Studies, and the Journal for the History of Analytic Philosophy.

Lizzie Hutton is Associate Professor of English and Director of Miami's Howe Writing Center. Her research focuses on writing, reading and literacy practices and conceptions, particularly in post-secondary contexts, and she has published studies in journals including College Composition and Communication and Across the Disciplines. She is also the author of a book of poetry, She'd Waited Millennia (selected by New Issues Press as Editor's Choice), and she continues to publish poems in journals including Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, and the Florida Review, where she was also awarded the Humboldt Prize.

Erik Jensen is an Associate Professor of History, focusing on early 20th-century Germany. His first book, Body by Weimar: Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity (Oxford, 2010) argued that sports reshaped key social and cultural ideals after the First World War. He has finished curating and editing the Weimar Republic section of the “German History in Documents and Images” website and is working on a deep biography of the half-Jewish German tennis player and pioneering journalist Paula von Reznicek, whose life reflected the turbulent twentieth century.

Joe Johnson is a Professor of Psychology and is trained as a cognitive and mathematical psychologist. His main research focus is judgment and decision making, with an emphasis on how shifting attention contributes to the development of differential preferences and decision behaviors. He uses methods such as eye-tracking and mouse-tracking to better understand the underlying processes behind observable outcomes. His work has been published in journals such as Psychological Review; Cognitive Psychology; Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics; Behavior Research Methods; and many more.

John Tchernev is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Journalism & Film. His research examines audience responses to story elements in narratives, as well as persuasive messages embedded in narratives, in both dramatic and comedic forms (e.g., satire). He also studies media multitasking and its effects on learning and well-being. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Media Psychology, Communication Research, the Journal of Communication, and Human Communication Research.

Liz Wilson is a Professor in the Global and Intercultural Studies Department. She researches sexuality, life-transitions, and family formation in the religions of South Asia. Wilson has published three monographs and two edited volumes. Public facing essays penned by her have appeared in The Conversation and Dharma World. Wilson’s scholarly work has appeared in journals such as Religion and Gender and Religion Compass. In 2023, she co-directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Muslims in America’s Midwest.