AUM Faculty & Staff
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Samantha Rose
Cheerleading Coach
Agnitra Roy Choudhury
Associate Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Dr. Agnitra Roy Choudhury is an Associate Professor in the Economics department. Dr. Roy Choudhury received his PhD and MA in Economics from Binghamton University. His training is in applied microeconomics and applied econometrics. His research interests include studying the impact of regulations on health care, labor markets, and entrepreneurship. Currently Dr. Roy Choudhury’s research includes analyzing scope of practice regulations, Certificate of Need laws, and determinants of promoting entrepreneurship. His research papers have been published in peer-reviewed journals like Vaccine, Economic Letters, Applied Economics Letters, Health Policy, and Journal of Risk & Financial Management.
Mariano Runco
Associate Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Dr. Runco has been at AUM since 2009, after finishing his Ph.D. in economics at Arizona State University. He specializes in Microeconomic Theory and Empirical Economics and he teaches the econometrics sequence in the Master’s in Applied Economics program. He has also worked in the area of the Economics of Regulation. He is also actively involved in the business community as the president and owner of a real estate company in Montgomery, Alabama.
Angela Russell
Assistant Professor | College of Education
Dr. Angela Russell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and also serves as an advisor for the Outdoor Adventure Club and the Human Performance Research Group. Dr. Russell received her PhD in Human Performance from the University of Alabama and focuses her research on sport performance and body composition, including bone density and hydration status, in both general and special populations.
Faculty’s Expertise: Human Performance, Body Composition, Down Syndrome
Randy Russell
Assistant Professor | College of Sciences
Randy Russell is the Advisor for Pre-Physical Therapy studies. Additionally, Mr. Russell instructs students in Astronomy, Introduction to Physical Sciences, and Physics.
Chasity Sanders
Academic Advisor- Graduate Healthcare Administration and Master of Business Administration
Chasity Sanders
Academic Advisor- Graduate Healthcare Administration and Master of Business Administration | University College
George Schaefer
Department Chair and Professor | College of Education
Dr. George Schaefer is a professor and Chair for the Department of Kinesiology. Before coming to Auburn Montgomery, he worked within the business operations of a minor league baseball team and served in the public schools as a physical education teacher, coach and assistant athletic director. Dr. Schaefer’s research interests include risk and legal issues within sports and physical education as well as sport sales and marketing.
Faculty’s Expertise: Risk, Legal , Sales, Marketing
Cynthia Schmaeman
Lab Coordinator
B.S., Zoology and horticulture, Michigan State University
M.S., Biological sciences, Auburn University
I studied bat reproductive physiology and behavior as my master’s research and still have a fondness for bats.
