About WID Consultants
WID consultants offer support to the WAC Program and serve as liaisons between RC 2001 (Introduction to WAC) faculty and WID programs. WID consultants serve on panels discussing their writing and teaching and read scholarship on WID concerns, discussing their work with the WAC Program.
If you are interested in being a WID Consultant, please email Director Elizabeth Carroll (carrollel@appstate.edu).
Current WID Consultants
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Volha Kananovich
Volha Kananovich (Ph.D., National Academy of Sciences of Belarus; Ph.D., University of Iowa) is an assistant professor of digital journalism in the Department of Communication, where she teaches journalism and multimedia storytelling. In her scholarly work, Dr. Kananovich examines the role of political and media discourse in (de)legitimizing various forms of politically meaningful citizen engagement with the state across authoritarian and democratic contexts. Her award-winning research has been published in The International Journal of Press/Politics, American Behavioral Scientist, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism Studies, Mass Communication and Society, New Media & Society, and International Journal of Communication, among other peer-reviewed publications. In 2023, she was recognized by The Appalachian as the "Best Professor" in its "Best of Boone" readers' choice issue. -
Rebecca Lambert
Program Area or Teaching Focus
Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies Research Interests
Affect Theory; Feminist Coalitions; Feminist Anti-Racist Activism Education
Ph.D. in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Oregon State University
M.A. in Gender and Women's Studies, Minnesota State University, Mankato
B.S. in Public Affairs, Indiana University -
Matthew Robinson
Dr. Matthew Robinson has been with the Department of Government and Justice Studies since 1997, after earning his PhD in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Florida State University. He is the author of 25 academic books, most recently, Lessons in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), as well as more than 100 other publications in journal articles, books, encyclopedias, and newsletters. He has authored scores of op-eds in newspapers across the country and regularly appears in media stories of crime and criminal justice. Robinson was recently ranked the 19th most influential criminologist in the world by Academic Influence. When Dr. Robinson is not on campus, he is walking or hiking with his dog, Butterscotch, and wife, Briana, creating and brewing new beers as the Head Brewer at Ring Finger Craft Brews, or writing poetry. You can read his first novella, The Test (about a rookie police officer who aced every test in academy training and his field training placement but who is called back by superiors to "clarify an unresolved issue in his testing") as well as any of his 25 books of poetry, at Amazon.com! He also has a book of 120 poems published with Austin Macauley Publishing under the title, The Plunge. -
Matt Rogatzki
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Annkatrin Rose
I am interested in a group of plant proteins characterized by a "coiled-coil" structural motif. Coiled-coil proteins are typically involved in forming fibers and scaffolds in cells and help organize the shape, substructures, and movement of organelles within cells. In humans, mutations in coiled-coil proteins have been implemented in diseases such as cancer, muscular dystrophy, premature aging, and neurological defects. I am studying this group of proteins in plants to understand their role in an organism that does not possess muscle or nerve cells (where most long coiled-coil structures are found and studied in animals). The group of proteins that I am particularly interested in is the chloroplast coiled-coil proteins. Chloroplasts are photosynthetic organelles that are thought to have evolved from endosymbiotic prokaryotes. However, most prokaryotes do not contain long coiled-coil proteins of the type we find in eukaryotic cells. Therefore, their import into chloroplasts is intriguing and suggests that they may have played a crucial role in the evolution of early endosymbionts into the highly structured photosynthetic organelles we find today. The study of these proteins should provide further insight into chloroplast structure and function as well as the relationship between the organelle and the host cell.
Previous WID Consultants
2022-2023
Whitney Bevill, Humanities Librarian for Collection Management at App State's Belk Library and Information Commons
Melinda Bogardus, Nursing
John Craft, Graphic Communications Management
Corie Haylett, Business Communications
Jacqueline Tilton, Management
2021-2022
Ann Ward, Communication
Marc Kissel, Anthropology
Melissa Medaugh, Management
Sarah Beth Hopton, Rhetoric & Writing Studies (English)
2019-2021
Beth Ellington, Marketing & Supply Chain Management
Ellen Lamont, Sociology
Heather Waldroup, Art History & Honors College
Belinda Walzer, Rhetoric & Writing Studies (English)
2018-2019
Carol Babyak, Chemistry
Beth Fiske, Nursing
Paul Gaskill, Recreation Management
Damiana Gibbons Pyles, Curriculum & Instruction
Jonathan Sugg, Geography & Planning
2017-2018
Jeanne Dubino, English and Global Studies
Anna Cremaldi, Philosophy
Brooke Hester, Physics and Astronomy
Rick Klima, Math
Saskia van de Gevel, Geography & Planning
2016-2017
Rick Elmore, Philosophy
Jennifer Zwetsloot, Health and Exercise Science
Darci Gardner, French
Aleksander Lust, Government and Justice Studies
2015-2016
Margot Olsen, Applied Design
Della Marshall, Social Work
Megan Johnson, Library Sciences
Allison Harl, Rhetoric and Composition
Kim Becnel, Leadership and Education Studies
2014-2015
Emily Daughtridge, Theatre & Dance
Bill Schumann, Appalachian Studies
Brian Smentkowski, Government and Justice Studies
Jeanne Dubino, Global Studies
2013-2014
Rachel Forrester, Business and Professional Writing
Linda Johanson, Nursing
Joe Klein, Communication Sciences & Disorders
Tony Bly, History
2012-2013
Dee Parks, Computer Science
Jeff Tiller, Technology and Environmental Design
Rebekah Cummings, Family and Consumer Sciences
Ila Prouty, Art
2011-2012
Cameron Lippard, Sociology
Rodney Duke, Philosophy/Religion
Becky Batista, Health, Leisure, Exercise Science
Laura England, Sustainable Development
2010-2011
Katie Adams, Creative Writing
Leslie Cook, English Education
Tracy Smith, Curriculum and Instruction
Jim Young, Geography
2009-2010
Gabe Fankhauser, Music
Susan Perry, Health, Leisure, Exercise Science
Sarah Greenwald, Math
Amy Galloway, Psychology
Kathy Schroeder, Geography
2008-2009
Jammie Price, Sociology
Anna Ward, Theatre and Dance
Ray Williams, Biology
Sheila Phipps, History
Nikki Bennett, Chemistry