Honors Faculty
Fisher faculty are dedicated, highly credentialed professionals who consistently make the advancement of scholarship in their respective fields a top priority.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: 18th-century literature, legal history, theater, place-based studies, historical fiction
Associate Professor and Academic Division Chair, Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Professor
Areas of Interest: Intersection of animal behavior, ecology, and physiology of a variety of bird species
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and Assistant Director, Honors Program
Areas of Interest: Mathematical games, actuarial mathematics, inquiry-based learning in mathematics
Professor and Director, Honors Program
Associate Professor; Chair, Department of Political Science and Legal Studies
Director of Global Education and Study Abroad
Associate Professor; Chair, American Studies Department; Interim Program Director, African American Studies
Areas of Interest: anti-racism, social justice, DEJI, activism studies; autobiography and memoir studies; Black women’s literature and cultural history; dialogue studies (circle processes, non-violent communication, restorative practices, race and gender dialogues, Sustained Dialogue); immigration and refugee studies (fiction, memoir); pedagogy theory (place-based, community-engaged, Black feminist); and race, racism, and whiteness studies.
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: African American Literature, African Literature, Speculative Fiction, Queer Theory, Black Feminist Thought, Rhetoric of Social Movements
Adjunct Professor
Areas of Interest: Film studies, American film history, queer film and feminist film theory, cultural studies in film, Hitchcock
Office:Basil 022A
Email:dsutherland@sjf.edu
Professor and Academic Division Chair, Humanities
Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: creative writing, visual art practice, contemporary literary publishing, gender, and masculinity
