AUM Faculty & Staff
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Foster Roberts
Department Chair, Associate Professor | College of Business
Dr. Foster Roberts is the Chairperson and Associate Professor of Management in the Department of Business Administration at the College of Business, Auburn University Montgomery. Before joining Auburn University Montgomery, he served as an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Southeast Missouri State University. Dr. Roberts holds a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Mississippi, along with an MBA and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Auburn University Montgomery.
With extensive experience in teaching, Dr. Roberts specializes in strategic analysis, business strategy, business ethics, small business management, and entrepreneurship. His research interests focus on social innovation, social entrepreneurship, leadership, team dynamics, and management history. His work has been published in esteemed academic journals, including the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Management Decision, Business Horizons, and Journal of Management Education. He has also presented his research at prestigious conferences such as the Academy of Management, Southern Management Association, and North American Management Society.
In addition to his academic pursuits, Dr. Roberts is deeply involved in the professional community. He currently serves as the President of the North American Management Society, a division of MBAA International. He previously held a position on the Executive Committee of the Academy of Management’s Management History Division from 2013 to 2020, representing Student and Junior Faculty interests. Dr. Roberts is also a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Management History and the Journal of the North American Management Society.
Kashera Guy Robinson
Assistant Clinical Professor/Social Work Field Director
Kashera Guy Robinson
Assistant Clinical Professor/Social Work Field Director | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Kashera Guy Robinson, DSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Work educator with more than 25 years of experience in the areas of juvenile justice, child welfare, mental health, and school social work.
Dr. Guy Robinson is an expert on the topic of urban school social work and has written a number of articles on this specialized area of practice. She has collaborated on a number of webinars and at professional conferences on school social work topics. Dr. Guy Robinson is actively involved in several professional social work organizations and has served in a number of leadership roles in these organizations including District President, District Vice President, District Parliamentarian, Chairperson of Membership, and Specialty Practice Section Committee Member.
Dr. Guy Robinson’s research interests include exploring the issue of chronic absenteeism among minority school-aged youth residing in urban communities, examining how the historical traumas of transgenerational poverty and racism continue to impact this demographic, and exploring ways that trauma-informed interventions can help these youth. Her teaching interests include introductory social work courses and school social work-related topics.
Ben Rogers
Lab Coordinator | College of Sciences
B.S., Zoology, Auburn University
M.S., Biology, University of Arkansas
Bio: Ben Rogers is a biology lab coordinator for beginning biology labs at AUM. His primary area of interest in biology is birds of prey. He studied the dynamics of a winter bald eagle roost in Arkansas for his master’s degree under the Dr. Douglas James at the University of Arkansas. He is a former zoo keeper, and has also worked for the Peregrine Fund’s aplomado falcon re-introduction project in southeast Texas. Some of his other research work involved Mitchell’s satyr butterfly surveys, salamander body sizes, and sexual dimorphism in red-tailed hawks.
He maintains a strong interest in biology education, along with a fascination for weird insects and fossil hunting.
Timothy Rohan
Telecommunications Technician
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
