AUM Faculty & Staff
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Samar Khan
Senior Accountant - Special Projects
Matthew Killmeier
Department Chair; Associate Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Matthew A. Killmeier (Ph.D. University of Iowa) is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication and Theatre. His research focuses on theatre of the imagination: radio and audio drama. Recent work has considered conspiracy-investigative horror podcasts (i.e., The Black Tapes), 1930s-40s horror radio dramas, and World War II morale dramas. He teaches Media and Culture, Opinion Writing, Horror Film, and Intercultural Communication. Off the clock he likes to read, watch films, cook, shop at thrift stores, hike, and woodwork.
William Kilpatrick
Enrollment Manager Coordinator
Duk (Daniel) Kim
Department Chair; Professor | College of Sciences
Ph.D. (2003) Chemistry, Florida International University
MS (1987) Chemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
BS (1985) Chemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Dr. Daniel Kim is an organic Chemist. His current research interests lie in using ultrasound to accelerate slow chemical reactions, removal of resisting pollutants in polluted water. He applies ultrasound to measure the antioxidant capacity of natural materials. His background experience has a broad spectrum from synthesis of unusual organic compounds, nuclear chemistry using nuclear reactors or particle accelerators, environmental remediation using advanced oxidation technologies, and modification of solid materials using accelerated particle beams. Dr. Kim is the Chemistry Chair and advisor of the Chemistry Club.
Eunyoung Kim
Associate Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Dr. Eunyoung Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Theatre at Auburn University at Montgomery. She specializes in public relations and sport communication, with research focusing on public relations, sport fandom, and social media engagement. Dr. Kim teaches courses in public relations, sport communication, and media research methods, and she advises the AUM chapter of the Public Relations Council of Alabama (PRCA-AUM).
Jongheon Kim
Professor | College of Business
Dr. Jongheon Kim is an Associate Professor in Information Systems at Auburn University Montgomery. He completed a B.S. in Biotech Engineering from Ajou University, Suwon, Korea, and received a B.S. in Economics from the University of Iowa. He earned his MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska, USA. He has mainly worked on the personal utility and human interaction of Information Systems using behavioral theories. His research topics include social network systems, mobile platforms, virtual reality, cloud business, etc.
Erin Klash
Associate Professor | College of Education
Dr. Erin Klash is an Associate Professor of Elementary Education. She teaches a variety of foundations of education courses to students in an array of programs. Her qualitative research interests include topics related to strategic teaching and assessment/evaluation.
Faculty’s Expertise: Strategic Teaching, Instructional Strategies, Assessment/Evaluation, Qualitative Research
Robert Klevay
Associate Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
I received a BA in English and Classics from Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, MI. I received my MA and PHD from the University of Delaware in Newark, DE. My PHD dissertation was on Henry David Thoreau’s satirical treatment of classical literature (Greek and Roman writers) throughout his works. I personally really enjoy the writing of 19th century American writers like Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville and Louisa May Alcott, and that’s why I chose a dissertation during this time period, knowing that it would mean teaching writers like this down the line. I’m also partial to Roman writers like Virgil, Horace, and Ovid.
I’ve taught several sections of English Composition II (most recently on Writing About Film, formerly on Travel and Tourism), Survey of the Literature of the Western World I and II (now World Literature I and II), Business Writing, and upper level courses on Transcendentalism and Travel, Thoreau’s Legacy, Greek and Roman Myth, Roman Literature, Thoreau’s Walden, Women and American Romanticism, Mythology and Folklore, Fantastic Voyages and Self-Discovery, Shakespeare in America, and most recently Rome and the English Renaissance since joining AUM in 2009. I’ve also taught several different variations of both American literature surveys. I’ve published work on Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton, and Southern writer Barry Hannah. I recently published a short introduction to Mark Twain’s classical reading in The Mark Twain Journal and a short article on Thoreau scholarship and the Anthropocene for The Anthropocene: Approaches and Contexts for the Literature and the Humanities edited by my colleague, Seth Reno. I’ve also introduced several films (especially silent ones) for AUM’s CLASS Film Series.
Dr. Pia Knigge
Assistant Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Pia Knigge completed her undergraduate studies and Master’s Degree in Political Science with concentrations in comparative politics and political behavior at the University of Bamberg in Germany. Before she moved to the United States to pursue a doctoral degree in political science at the University of Kentucky, she interned with the German parliament (Bundestag) and the Commission of the European Communities (now European Union), and worked at a research institute affiliated with the University of Mannheim dedicated to the analysis of European public opinion polls (Eurobarometer). Her research and teaching interests are located at the intersection of political science and psychology focusing on public opinion, political behavior, political extremism, civic engagement, and the study of race and ethnicity.
Alex Koda
Coordinator
