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Michel Aaij
Associate Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Michel Aaij is a Dutch native who received an MA and a Ph.D. with a specialization in Old English language and literature from The University of Alabama in 2003. Before that, he studied philosophy, physics, and English at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He is co-editor, with Shannon Godlove, of the volume of Saint Boniface in the series Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition. In addition, he has published articles on the veneration of Saint Elisabeth (of Thuringia), on teaching the Old and Middle English versions of the biblical romance of Judith, and on the poetic language used by the Poets of the Confederacy. His interests include the Old and Middle English literature, world literature, the study of saints, and, a recent development, the use of medievalist tropes in the American South. He has taught most all the survey literature and freshman composition classes, Old English language and literature, Chaucer, Beowulf and Film, various linguistics classes including History of the English Language and Advanced English Grammar, and European Post-WW2 novels.
He is currently at work on a study of Sidney Lanier and his adaptation of the matter of King Arthur, and on a biography of Clifford Lanier, Sidney’s brother and at one time a well-known Montgomerian. He has also published book reviews on a wide range of topics including linguistics, review articles on Boniface and Elisabeth, and encyclopedic articles on authors ranging from Bede to Adso of Montier-en-Der, author of a well-known biography of the Antichrist.
Dr. Aaij likes his dog, and he likes food. He plays the air guitar, having hands that are too delicate for the real guitar. He is an administrator on Wikipedia where he acts against commercialization, sexism, online bullying, and ethnic hatred, and has blocked over 34,000 abusive editors and accounts; he is currently ranked 88 on the list of most active editors and has written over 1,600 articles.
Haley Adams
Advising and Recruiting Manager
Heather Adams
UNIV Lecturer, Coordinator of Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies
Heather Adams
UNIV Lecturer, Coordinator of Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies | University College
Robert Adams
Assistant CIO
Darlene Adkins
Assistant Professor | College of Business
Dr. Adkins is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Auburn University at Montgomery, where she has been teaching since 2020. Dr. Adkins earned a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Kennesaw State University, with a dissertation focused on the impact of regulatory interventions on broker-dealer audit quality. She also holds a Master of Accountancy from Virginia Commonwealth University, an MBA from Old Dominion University, and multiple certifications, including a Certificate in Public Administration.
Dr. Adkins brings over two decades of experience in both academia and industry, having held teaching positions at institutions like the University of Tennessee at Martin and Box Hill College Kuwait. In addition, she has extensive industry experience, including roles in finance and auditing for organizations such as the Department of Health and Human Services, Lynchburg Community Action Group Inc., and public accounting firms. Her research interests focus on accounting curriculum development, audit quality, and the PCAOB inspection process.
Mosisa Aga
Professor | College of Sciences
Ph.D. in Mathematics (2006) – Wayne State University
M.A. in Mathematical Statistics (2004) – Wayne State University
M.Sc. in Mathematics (1992) – Addis Ababa University
Mosisa Aga is a professor in the Department of Mathematics in School of Sciences. His research interest includes time series analysis, bootstrap approximation methods and Gaussian long memory processes.
Michelle Aitken
Lecturer | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Michelle Aitken is a Lecturer in the Department of English and Philosophy where she primarily focuses on teaching English Composition. She earned both her Bachelor of Arts in English and Master of Liberal Arts with an English focus from AUM. She started teaching as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in 2019, before transitioning to her full-time Lecturer role in 2022. Her speciality is Gothic Lit and Dark Romanticism, with a specific focus on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. She also has a vested interest in Queer Studies. Additionally, she enjoys editorial work and has served in several editorial positions over the years, starting as a student editor on the Filibuster (now Common Thread). Since 2018, she’s worked as an Assistant Editor on Thirteen Bridges Review (formerly THAT Literary Review). She was also selected as an HHMI summer fellow in 2024.
Jason Alexander
Lead Material Handler
Deanne Allegro
Assistant Professor | College of Education
Deanne Allegro’s experience in the profession of nutrition ranges from training on USDA nutrition survey tools at the USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center as a NIH Research Trainee, to leading a state-wide food security survey as part of a national research study seeking to understand how COVID affected food availability, to owning and running a true farm to table restaurant. Through all of these experiences, she is uniquely able to provide students with skills and opportunities to understand the vast field of nutrition.
Faculty’s Expertise: Community Nutrition, Food Insecurity, Food Systems, Food Patterns
