AUM Faculty & Staff
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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
Agnitra Roy Choudhury
Associate Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Dr. Agnitra Roy Choudhury is an Assistant Professor in the Economics department. Dr. Roy Choudhury received his PhD and MA from Binghamton University. His training is in applied microeconomics and applied econometrics. His research interests include studying the impact of regulations on health care and labor markets. Currently Dr. Roy Choudhury’s research includes analyzing Scope of Practice regulations and Certificate of Need laws. In addition to studying health care and labor market regulations, Dr. Roy Choudhury has projects ranging from entrepreneurship to the impact of legalizing of cannabis on public health. His research papers have been published in peer-reviewed journals like Vaccine, Empirical Economic Letters, Applied Economics Letters, and Journal of Risk & Financial Management. In his free time, he enjoys exercising, cooking, and spending time with his friends.
Neil Seibel
Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Neil David Seibel is a Kentucky native who now calls Alabama home. He is a proud member of Actors Equity with directing and acting credits at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Mill Mountain Theatre in Virginia, Denver Center Theatre Company, Theatre Aspen, Arvada Center, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Alley Theatre in Houston, Theatre Under The Stars, Actors Theatre of Louisville, at En Garde Arts Off Broadway and HERE in NYC. For PBS, he originated the role of Lewis in the TV musical PASSAGES: LEWIS AND CLARK. As a playwright, he has developed several solo and ensemble works with productions throughout the United States and Europe. As an educator he is a frequent invited instructor and often summers with the MFA Playwrights Lab at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. He earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Drama from the University of California, Irvine and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Northern Kentucky University. Seibel designed the performance curriculum at Auburn University Montgomery and has taught classes in acting, voice and movement since 2008.
Jason Shifferd
Senior Lecturer | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Jason Shifferd is a lecturer for the Auburn University at Montgomery Department of English & Philosophy. He primarily teaches English Composition and helps in curriculum design for the English Composition Program, including the creation of several assignments in the AUM edition of Writer/Designer and the creation of multiple Composition II themes, such as Fake News and Conspiracy Theories. He has also taught English Literature and has previously served as a writing tutor for the AUM Learning Center. A two-time alumnus of AUM, he earned his Bachelor of Arts in English in 2009 and his Master of Liberal Arts in 2014. His master’s thesis, available online and in print at the AUM library, is entitled The Case for Humor in the Classroom: An Annotated Bibliography. He has also published essays of literary criticism for Critical Insights including “Humor in the Autobiographical Writings of Maya Angelou: Maya Meets Mr. Julian” (2016) and “Maxine Peake’s Female Hamlet: A Survey of Responses” (2019). As a graduate student in 2013, he worked as a research assistant for the Department of Sociology and helped to publish the article “Who Lives Where: A Comprehensive Population Taxonomy of Cities, Suburbs, Exurbs, and Rural Areas in the United States” (2016) for The Geographical Bulletin. In 2019, he co-led a presentation on the AUM English Composition Program’s Teaching-for-Transfer curriculum at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Pittsburgh. He is currently working on a creative writing side project and looking into options for pursuing a PhD.
Eric Sterling
Distinguished Research Professor, MLA Program Director | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
