Professor Lovett has studied abroad at the John Cass School of Art in London England, London Poly tech in London England and The Sarah Lawrence Summer Abroad Art Program in Lacoste, France. She has traveled in Africa, Europe and Guatemala. She is bilingual in Spanish. Her teaching experiences include teaching pre-school through senior citizens, special needs children (with emotional and/or physical special needs), juvenile delinquents, teaching in traditional and non-traditional settings, in English and in Spanish, in the northeast and southeast within the USA and in Guatemala. She teaches art education and is involved with children's art programs in the community.

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Nan Fairley, associate professor of journalism in the Auburn University Department of Communication and Journalism, teaches a variety of courses ranging from news writing to newspaper management. Before joining the Auburn journalism faculty in 1992, she worked for a variety of newspapers across the South.

She is the founder and co-director of Auburn University’s High School Summer Journalism Workshop, now in its sixth year. Fairley helped initiate and is involved with the innovative Tiger/Cub mentoring project, which places AU students in writing partnerships with area high school students. She is the adviser of the Auburn University Association of Black Journalists, a campus chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, and she serves as chair of the Department of Communication and Journalism’s diversity committee.

Dr. Allison M. Plumb is an assistant professor in the department of Communication Disorders at Auburn University. She teaches courses in the area of child language development and disorders. Her research interests include improving early identification and intervention for children with delays, particularly children with autism spectrum disorders. She has presented her research at national and international levels and is an ASHA certified speech-language pathologist with over 10 years of experience working with preschool and school-age children with communication disorders..

Joanne Tong is an Assistant Professor in the English Department. Her current project, Imperial Fortunes: Britain and the Romance of China, focuses on British literary and cultural representations of China from the early eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. In her teaching, she enjoys incorporating Chinese, German, and Nigerian literature into her World Literature II course, as well as anglophone and postcolonial literature into her British literature courses. She has also taught for Women's Studies, devoting units to transnational feminism in her Feminist Theory course.

Gilda Socarrás, assistant professor of Spanish Linguistics and Coordinator of the Elementary Spanish Program, teaches a variety of linguistics and Spanish courses like Introduction to Spanish Teaching, History of the Spanish Language, and Syntax.

As the Coordinator of the Elementary Spanish Program, she is in charge of training graduate students in the M.A./M.H.S. Program on how to become effective Spanish teachers. One of her goals is to create awareness on diversity in the language classroom and how it affects/enhances learning outcomes. She is currently developing a link between graduate student training and community service in local schools to facilitate the integration of Hispanic monolingual children into the American school system. She is the Foreign Languages Department diversity representative.

Dr. Carter's research interests are in the history of the civil rights movement, the history of the American South since the Civil War, and U.S. history since 1945. He is particularly drawn to the role of race and ideology in shaping American history. Carter is the author of "The Williamston Freedom Movement: Civil Rights at the Grass Roots in Eastern North Carolina, 1957-1964," an article in the North Carolina Historical Review (January, 1999), which won the Robert Diggs Wimberly Connor Award given by the Review for the best article published in that journal in the preceding year. His biographical sketches of civil rights leaders Andrew Young and Julian Bond appear in the two-volume reference collection Civil Rights in the United States, edited by Waldo Martin and Patricia Sullivan (Macmillan, 2000). More recently he has written the foreword to Frye Gaillard's Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy (University of Georgia Press, 2007) and contributed an essay entitled "Romper Lobbies and Coloring Lessons: Grassroots Visions and Political Realities in the Battle for Head Start in Mississippi, 1965-1967" to the collection Making a New South: Race, Leadership, and Community after the Civil War, edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Barton C. Shaw (University Press of Florida, 2007).

David Odom is Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Auburn University.   Prior to joining the Auburn faculty in 2006 he was a graduate teaching assistant at the Florida State University and the University of Colorado.  He also taught privately for ten years in Atlanta, GA and Tallahassee, FL.  He is an active chamber musician and has collaborated with members of renowned ensembles including the Manhattan String Quartet, the Takacs Quartet, and the Budapest Quartet. 

Dr. Odom has an extensive orchestral background having performed with orchestras across the US.  He is currently Principal Clarinet of the Atlanta Opera Orchestra and of the Columbus (GA) Symphony Orchestra.  He performs regularly as a substitute and extra musician with many orchestras in the southeast region and has recorded with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra and the Atlanta Opera Orchestra.  He received the Doctor of Music degree from the Florida State University in 2005 where he studied with Frank Kowalsky. 

Dr. Odom teaches applied clarinet, woodwind skills, and music appreciation. Whether teaching a future performer or future engineer, he emphasizes the power music has to uplift and unite. “The language of music crosses all borders and knows no boundaries. It can at once celebrate our differences and underscore our commonality.”

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Dr. Anthony Gadzey has been an Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science of Auburn University since 1996, and in 2005, he was appointed the Director of the Africana Studies Program. He joined the department in 1994 after five years in Texas A&M University. He holds Licentiate In Theology, the University of Ghana, Bachelor of Science (hons) in Political Science at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and a Master’s in International Affairs at the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Canada. He earned another Master’s and a Doctorate in International Relations at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. His book, The Political Economy of Power: Hegemony and Economic Liberalism, The Macmillan International Political Economy Series, London: Macmillan Press Ltd. 1994 (Paperback, 1996), deals with US hegemonic power following World War II. He has published a number of articles on development, Islamic Terrorism, and globalization. His teaches at both the graduate and undergraduate levels: International Relations Seminar, Global Political Economy Seminar, Development Economics, The Politics of Economic Relations, U.S. Foreign Policy, The European Union, Introduction to International Relations, Introduction to World Affairs, Introduction to Political Economy, and Introduction to Africana Studies. Dr. Gadzey hails originally from Ghana and is now a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Dr. Shuler has been active in anthropological research and issues of the diversity for over 15 years. Her current recent research explores the biological consequences of enslavement during the African Diaspora and focuses on health, nutrition, and quality of life for enslaved Africans who lived at Newton Plantation (a large 17-19th century sugar plantation in Barbados, West Indies). Caribbean sugar plantations have long been documented as the most brutal conditions of slavery, and Shuler’s work offers the first large-scale systemic study of health and nutrition from historic individuals on Barbados. Her research indentified previously undocumented incidences of genetic diseases, high rates of activity-related stressors, and wide-spread generalized infection at the site. Furthermore, she collected new data in support of earlier studies that demonstrated poor dental health and low life expectancy at the archaeological site, and supporting archival records of rampant acute epidemics, malnourishment, and high rates of localized chronic infections in the West Indian sugar workers. Shuler is currently completing research into the relationship of rare genetic defects in the population for evidence of social relations, identity, and population movement. In addition to her Caribbean research, Dr. Shuler has conducted research on the health and social statuses of sixteenth-century Maya children in the archaeological record through a collaborative project at the site of Tipu in west-central Belize and the role of sex differences in health among Native American agriculturalists during the Mississippian period in the southeastern United States. Dr. Shuler is a new faculty member at Auburn in 2007-08 and teaches courses in the Auburn University core curriculum (Anth 1000: Introduction to Anthropology) and the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work (Introduction to Physical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, and History of Anthropological Theory).

Daydrie Hague (AEA , SAG, AFTRA) is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Co-Director of the BFA Performance Program. Diversity activities include two years as the director of a collaborative theatre program with Auburn University Theatre and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Lee County, producing original works as well as The Story of Harriet Tubman.

Ms. Hague created the role of Emma in the premiere of Strange Fruit , Story of an Alabama Lynching written and directed by Dyann Robinson. She has directed The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers a play about sexual and racial identity, as well as Speak Truth to Power, Voices from Beyond the Dark by Ariel Dorfman, a profile of Human Rights activists with a multiracial cast. Ms. Hague is currently working with the NSF sponsored Auburn Advance team which seeks to promote the hiring, retention and promotion of women in the STEM disciplines, as well as coaching ESL and transgender clients in voice and speech.

Wiebke Kuhn is the IT Manager for the College of Liberal Arts and provides technical support for many teaching, research and outreach initiatives. She helped with the Quilts of Gees Bend in Context project and is providing support to the CLA diversity team through public and private web sites, podcasts, and other online materials.