Faculty
![]() McFarlane Family Distinguished Professor in Interdisciplinary Education & Writer-in-Residence & North Carolina Poet Laureate (2012-2014) Watauga Residential College Department of Cultural, Gender, and Global Studies Areas of Research: Creative Writing, The Poetry of Witness, Prison Literature, Arts & Humanities Initiatives for Military Veterans and their families. 828-262-2441bathantjr@appstate.eduhttps://watauga.appstate.edu/faculty-and-staff
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Lecturer in Spanish Areas of Research: Jewish-Muslim-Christian Relations in Spain 828.262.7452 |
Full Professor Department of Mathematics Areas of Research and Service: Jewish communities pre-WWII. 828.262.2363 |
Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy and Religion Areas of teaching and research: Ancient Israelite History and Culture; Second Temple Judaism; Ancient Rabbinic Judaism; the history of the use and influence of the Bible in Jewish communities. 828.262.6610 |
Full Professor Department of English, Interim Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies (Fall 2019) Areas of Research and Teaching: Holocaust Studies, Memory Studies, Professional Writing. 828.262.2253 |
Senior Lecturer, Department of History and Department of Interdisciplinary Studies (formerly CGG) Areas of teaching and research: Genocide studies, trauma theory, human rights, and cross-cultural conflict studies 828.262.6541 |
Leon Levine Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies (on Leave, Fall 2019), Full Professor, Department of History Areas of Research and Teaching: Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Modern German History, Modern Jewish History, Global Transatlantic Protest Movements in the Twentieth Century, and History and Theory. 828.252.2311 |
Assistant Professor Department of Communication Areas of Research and Teaching: Holocaust Survivor Oral History and Ethnography, Compassionate Communication, Interpersonal and Intercultural Storytelling, Mindfulness. 828.262.2481 |
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology Areas of Related Teaching and Research: Settler colonialism, genocide, and Native America; critically engaged anthropology; environmental justice; cultural politics of energy extraction; critical indigenous studies. 828.262.2268 |
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Full Professor Department of Management, Walker College of Business Areas of Research and Service: Entrepreneurship, Cross-cultural Management, modern Hebrew instruction 828.262.7314 |
Emeriti Faculty
Department of English Former Co-Director |
Department of History Former Co-Director |
Department of Philosophy and Religion |
Department of History |
Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures Former Director |