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HU Faculty are listed alphabetically with contact information. You can also search for faculty by department (e.g. "E" for English faculty).  Click on a name for further biographical information and a downloadable headshot.

Faculty A-G             Faculty H-O           Faculty P-Z

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B

Bergler, Tom
•Associate Professor of Ministry and Missions
•Email: tbergler@huntington.edu
•Phone: 260.359.4285
•Areas of Expertise: American religion and popular culture, youth culture, history of youth, history of youth ministry, religion in adolescence and young adulthood

Burson, Susie
•Assistant Professor of Education
•Email: sburson@huntington.edu
•Phone: 260.359.4150
•Areas of Expertise: How to prepare your child for kindergarten, early childhood education, discovery and inquiry learning in elementary science, science fairs and use of the scientific method
 

C

Clark, Lance
•Associate Professor in Communication
•Email: lclark@huntington.edu
•Phone: 260.359.4281
•Areas of Expertise: Media, media effects, pop culture, film studies, politics

D

Doughty, Del
•Associate Professor of English
•Email: ddoughty@huntington.edu
•Phone: 260.359.4245
•Areas of Expertise: Modern and contemporary literature, especially the novel, haiku, writing and information technologies, pacifism and nonviolence, race and gender in contemporary literature
•Specific writers and books: James Joyce, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid.

F

Fairchild, Mark
Professor of Bible and Religion
•Email: mfairchild@huntington.edu
•Phone: 260.359.4235
•Areas of Expertise: New Testament studies, Historical Jesus, Q, Paul and the early Christian church, Greco-Roman culture, ancient Jewish culture, biblical archaeology, Greek and Roman worlds from 500 BC to 100 AD, historical and modern Islamic faith.
 

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Heller, Jack
•Assistant Professor of English
•Email: jheller@huntington.edu
•Phone: 260.359.4219
•Areas of Expertise: Christianity and literature, Christianity and drama/theatre, Shakespeare, African American literature, Bob Dylan, critiques of worldview studies, First Amendment and censorship, and Christianity and scholarship

J

Jones, Karen
•Associate Professor of Ministry and Missions
•Email: kjones@huntington.edu
•Phone: 260.359.4270
•Areas of Expertise: Adolescent, youth, or teen culture, behaviors, beliefs, ministry, benefits of volunteerism or service, youth ministers, short-term missions

M

MacDonald, Carla
•Assistant Professor of Social Work
•Email: cmacdonald@huntington.edu
•Phone: 260.359.4220
•Areas of Expertise: Parenting training titled “Redirecting Children’s Behavior”; certified to offer either one-hour to five-week workshops

Myers, Bob
•Assistant Professor of Worship Leadership
•Email: bmyers@huntington.edu
•Phone: 260.359.4318
•Areas of Expertise: Christian worship, the Lord’s Table, emerging worship, church music, romanticism in worship songs, hymnology, and “prodigal” children

N

Nalliah, Ruth
•Associate Professor of Chemistry
•Email: rnalliah@huntington.edu
•Phone: 260.359.4203
•Areas of Expertise: Chemical demonstrations for children through high school students, science history anecdotes, chemistry of dyes and pigments, relationships between faith and science.

O

O'Donnell, Jim
•Associate Professor of Business
•Executive-in-Residence
•Email: jodonnell@huntington.edu
•Phone: 260.359.4236
•Areas of Expertise: Investments, friendships, men's ministry, health care, illness, cancer, heart problems.
 

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S

Smith, Jerry
•Professor of Physics and Chemistry
•Email: jsmith@huntington.edu
•Phone: 260.359.4207
•Areas of Expertise: Nuclear physics and radiation hazards . . . served ten years during 1970s by appointment of the Governor on the Indiana Emergency Radiation Response Team.

U

Urschel, Linda
•Professor of English
•Email: lurschel@huntington.edu
•Phone: 260.359.4244
•Areas of Expertise: Oral history, literature, women's studies, "urban legends," regional dialects, writing instruction, American literature

W

Webb, Jeffrey
•Associate Professor of History
•Email: jwebb@huntington.edu
•Phone: 260.359.4243
•Areas of Expertise: Current state of Christianity and the church, world religions and different concepts of God, American religious history, Founding fathers, American Revolution and Constitution, U.S. foreign policy, American politics/elections, race and immigration in the U.S., how to get published, writing for popular audiences

Winter, Margaret
•Director of the Department of Nursing
• Assistant Professor of Nursing
•Email: mwinter@huntington.edu
•Phone: 260.359.4360
•Areas of Expertise: Nursing, transcultural nursing

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