AUM Faculty & Staff
Directory
Michael Burger
Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Named Mississippi Humanities Teacher of the year when he taught in that state, Michael Burger teaches advanced courses in ancient, medieval, and early modern Europe at AUM. He is the author of Bishops, Clerks, and Diocesan Governance in Thirteenth-Century England: Reward and Punishment (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and books with the University of Toronto Press: The Shaping of Western Civilization (2 volumes, third edition, 2024); Reading History (2022); as well as editing Sources for the History of Western Civilization (2 volumes, third edition, 2024). His articles have appeared in Law and Liberty as well as specialized historical journals. He earlier served AUM as Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He once lived in what had been a twelfth-century chapel, which is probably the only interesting thing about him.
Don Chon
Distinguished Research Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Dr. Don Chon received his Ph.D. degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Florida State University. Dr. Chon has taught at the Department of Criminal Justice and Sociology at AUM since Fall 2011. Dr. Chon is a known researcher in international and comparative criminology and criminal justice, including cross-national study of homicide, sexual assault, fear of crime, and criminal justice policy. Dr. Chon has published three books and over forty journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedias, and book reviews with widely regarded publishers.
Andrew Cortell
Department Chair, Professor of Political Science
Andrew Cortell
Department Chair, Professor of Political Science | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Andrew Cortell is Chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration and a Professor of Political Science. His primary area of specialization is international relations. His teaching and research focus on globalization, international organizations, international norms, and national institutions. His work has been published in leading journals such as International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, the Review of International Studies, and Comparative Political Studies among others. He is the author of Mediating Globalization: Domestic Institutions and Industrial Policies in the United States and Britain. He spent many years as a faculty member at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where he received the Teacher of the Year Award and chaired the Department of International Affairs. Previously, he was an Olin Fellow in Economics and National Security at Harvard University. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science and a M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, and a B.A. with honors in History from Wesleyan University.
Jordan Dominy
Assistant Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Dr. Jordan Dominy joined the AUM faculty in August 2024. His research and teaching expertise are in American and US Southern literature and culture. He has taught courses in those subjects, popular culture studies, and film, and so far at AUM he has taught courses in literary theory and criticism, African American literature, and first year composition. His book, Southern Literature, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Modern America, was published in 2020 by the University Press of Mississippi and includes chapters on authors ranging from William Faulkner to Alice Walker. Dr. Dominy’s recent publications have focused on the work of the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023).
A Georgia native, Dr. Dominy enjoys learning about Alabama history, places, and culture from his students and colleagues. When not teaching, reading, or writing, Dr. Dominy dabbles in many interests, but he particularly enjoys woodworking and playing games or watching television with his family and friends.
Stephanie Dugger
Assistant Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Dr. Stephanie Dugger is a poet and creative nonfiction writer whose collection of poetry, Either Way You’re Done (2017), was published by Sundress Publications and chapbook, Sterling (Paper Nautilus, 2015), was winner of the Vella Chapbook contest. Dr. Dugger’s poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Baltimore Review, Mid-American Review, Poet Lore, Poetry International, Spoon River Poetry Review, Tampa Review, and other journals. Dr. Dugger teaches Creative Writing, Composition, and Literature at AUM and also serves as Creative Nonfiction editor for Thirteen Bridges Review.
Tathagata Dutta
Lecturer, International Student Success and Retention Coordinator
Tathagata Dutta
Lecturer, International Student Success and Retention Coordinator | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Lee Farrow
Chair; Distinguished Research & Distinguished Teaching Professor
Lee Farrow
Chair; Distinguished Research & Distinguished Teaching Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Dr. Lee A. Farrow was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is a first-generation graduate. She specializes in Russian History and has published a number of articles and books over her 25-year career at Auburn University at Montgomery. Some of her publications are Alexis in America: A Grand Duke’s Tour, 1871-72, Seward’s Folly: A New Look at the Alaska Purchase, and The Catacazy Affair and the Uneasy Path of Russian American Relations. She also has given many public lectures on various aspects of Russian history and literature. She has served in various administrative positions, including as Associate Dean and Director of a teaching and learning center. She is in her fifth year as Chair of the Department of History and World Cultures.
David Feltmate
Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Dr. David Feltmate is Professor of Sociology at Auburn University at Montgomery. He is a sociologist of religion by training and researches the intersections of religion, popular culture, and ideology in the United States of America with a particular focus on humor. Dr. Feltmate is the author of two books on religion and humor; Drawn to the Gods: Religion and Humor in The Simpsons, South Park, and Family Guy (New York University Press 2017) and Religion and Humour: An Introduction (Routledge 2024) and various articles and edited book chapters. He is also the editor of the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, the series editor for the Wiley series in Religion and Popular Culture, and a co-chair of the Religion and Popular Culture Unit at the American Academy of Religion. Dr. Feltmate teaches courses at all levels to AUM students, including Introduction to Sociology (SOCI 2000), Social Problems (SOCI 2010), Human Sexuality (SOCI 2050), World Religions (RELI 2010), Social Theory (SOCI 3000), and Sociology of Religion (SOCI 4360) to undergraduate students and Social Theory (SOCI 6000) and World Religions and Terrorism (HSEM 6320) at the graduate level. He has also taught a variety of special topics courses, such as Religion and Popular Culture and Cults and New Religious Movements. He is also a martial arts instructor at The Martial Arts Center in Pike Road, AL.
William Fenn
Department Chair; Associate Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
William Fenn has worked at Auburn University at Montgomery since 2011. He received his MFA in Studio Art from the University of California at Santa Barbara and his BA in Art from California State University, Fresno. He is a photographer whose work includes use of artificial intelligence, digital practices, and analog processes such as black and white film, color film, and 19th century alternative techniques like wet-plate, cyanotype, and platinum printing.
Angela Fowler
Lecturer | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Angela Fowler teaches writing and literature courses, specializing in research methods and 19th century British literature. She likes to research and write about nineteenth-century literature, Sherlock Holmes, and gothic literature. She often injects popular culture themes into her composition courses, as she considers media literacy vital to critical thinking. A graduate of both Mississippi State University (undergraduate and Master’s) and Auburn University (PhD), she has enjoyed teaching at AUM since 2015. She is currently writing a scholarly companion to Arthur Conan Doyle for McFarland Publications. In her spare time, she loves traveling, reading science fiction and fantasy, watching horror movies, and trying out recipes from her mother’s recipe book.
Heath Fowler
Senior Lecturer | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Heath Fowler has taught English at Auburn University at Montgomery since Fall of 2013. He teaches composition courses as well as “Business and Professional Writing” and “Technical Writing.”
Heath graduated from Mississippi State University in December of 2003 with a B.A. in Communication and a double emphasis in Journalism and Public Relations. He worked in newspapers for 7 years, serving as a copy editor, page designer, and assistant copydesk chief at the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal for four years before working as a copy editor and page designer at the Montgomery Advertiser for three years.
He then left newspapers to continue his education at Auburn University, earning his Master of Technical and Professional Communication degree in May of 2013, minoring in Rhetoric and Composition. He continued his studies while teaching at AUM, earning his Certificate of Teaching Writing in Fall of 2019.
Outside of academia, his interests include music, travel, and attending sci-fi/fantasy conventions. He lives in Montgomery, Alabama, with his wife, Dr. Angela Fowler, and their dog, Goofy.
