Phone:(334) 844-2183
Email: gramban@auburn.edu
Office: Haley Center 2046
Mailing Address: Haley Center 2046
Auburn University, AL 36849-5203

Dr. Gramberg has served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Auburn University, Auburn, AL since 2005. She has administrative responsibility for 4 Associate Deans, 12 Department Heads and Chairs, the Director of Draughon Center for Arts and Humanities, an 8 member Information Technology Team, a large administrative staff, over 5000 students, approximately 400 faculty members, 9 buildings, and a budget of over $50 million (including endowments). Dr. Gramberg has been a Professor of German at Auburn University since 1993.

Gramberg, A. K., M. Boehringer, and C. Bongartz. “Language Learning and Intercultural Training: The Impact of Cultural Primers on Learners and Non-Learners of German,” Journal of Language for International Business 15.2 (2004): 1-18.

Gramberg, A. K. “Business Culture: The Implicit Message in Persuasive Discourse,” Handbook for German in Business and Engineering.  Waldsteinberg, Germany: Heidrun Popp Verlag, (2002): 126-141.

Gramberg, A. K. “German for Profit: Foreign Language for Sale,” Journal of Language for International Business   12.1 (2001):27-36.

Gramberg, A. K. “German for Business and Economics,” Clearinghouse Center for Applied Linguistics 74.6 (2001): 317-22.

Gramberg, A. K. and B. Cothran. “Business German, the Next Step: The Birth of a New Discipline,” Die Unterrichtspraxis 33.2 (2000): 148-71.

Phone:(334) 844-2191
Email: relihco@auburn.edu
Office: Haley Center 2046
Mailing Address: Haley Center 2046
Auburn University, AL 36849-5203

Professor Relihan received her PhD from the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses primarily on sixteenth-century prose fiction and Shakespeare. She has published Fashioning Authority: The Development of Elizabethan Novelistic Discourse (1994) and, as editor, Framing Elizabethan Fictions: Contemporary Approaches to Early Modern Narrative Prose (1996), as well as articles on Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, and Robert Greene.

In 1994 she won the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts Award for Teaching in the Humanities. She is currently at work on studies of the representation of geographic and cultural difference in Elizabethan fiction and on the sixteenth-century female reading audience.

Cosmographical Glasses: Geographic Discourse, Gender, and Elizabethan Fiction. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2004.

Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexualities in England, 1570-1640, co-edited with Goran V. Stanivukovic. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's, December 2003.

Framing Elizabethan Fictions: Contemporary Approaches to Early Modern Narrative Prose, Kent State University Press, 1996.

Fashioning Authority: The Development of Elizabethan Novelistic Discourse, Kent State University Press, 1994.

"Liminal Geography: Pericles and the Politics of Place," Philological Quarterly 71 (1992): 281-99.

Phone:(334) 844-2182
Email: bobrope@auburn.edu
Office: Haley Center 2046
Mailing Address: Haley Center 2046
Auburn University, AL 36849-5203

Paula Bobrowski is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Executive Director of the Women’s Leadership Institute at Auburn University.  She holds a Ph.D. in Marketing from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, and MBA from the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, and BSN from the University Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon. She has been teaching since 1996 and has an extensive professional experience nationally as well as international in healthcare prior to her academic career. 

 

Gateway to Business, 3rd edition (with Pamela L. Cox, Ph.D.): Pacific Crest: Corvallis Oregon, 2001.

“Parent School Satisfaction: Ethnic Similarities and Differences (with Dr. Barry Friedman and John Geraci) accepted for publication in the Journal of Educational Leadership Vol. 44, No. 5 2006 pp. 471-485.

“Enhancing the First Year-Experience for Business Students: Student Retention and Academic Success” (with Pam Cox et. al) Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management. 2005

“Power Tools for Teams: A model for Improving the Teamwork Skills of First-Year Business Students” (With Pamela L. Cox) Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management. Spring 2004 Vol5, No. 3.

Phone:(334) 844-2159
Email: winnjoh@auburn.edu
Office: Haley Center 2046
Mailing Address: Haley Center 2046
Auburn University, AL 36849-5203

Dr. Winn is an active researcher in the areas of film and media history.  He primarily analyzes the communication of race and class through filmic texts.  Dr. Winn teaches the history courses on the American film industry and international film, as well as two popular courses that cultivate students' appreciation for film art. One of the most popular courses in the major is Media and Society, in which Dr. Winn concentrates on analyzing media depictions of race, class, and gender. He is also the Executive Director of the Southern States Communication Assn and the Vice-Chair of the Mass Communication Division of the National Communication Association.

BOOKS

Winn, J. E. (2007). The American Dream and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group.

Winn, J. E. & Brinson, S. L. (Eds.). (2005).Transmitting the Past: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Broadcasting. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press.

PUBLICATIONS

Winn, J. E. Targeting alien filmmakers for deportation in 1930s Hollywood. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. (Under Review).

Winn, J. E. Documenting racism in an agricultural extension film. Film and History (Under Review).

Winn, J. E. & Rentz, D. (2006). You got to stay in: Communication norms among players at Winnerland Greyhound Racetrack and the American Dream.  The McNeese Review, 44, 35-52.

Phone:(334) 844-6123
Email: slatocd@auburn.edu
Office: Haley Center 2046
Mailing Address: Haley Center 2046
Auburn University, AL 36849-5203

Dr. Christa Slaton is a Professor in the Department of Political Science with Interests in Public Law, Non-Judicial Conflict Resolution, Political Thought, Electoral Behavior and Public Opinion, and Women in Politics.

She fills a new position in the college, where she is in charge of educational initiatives in the college, space allocation, graduate studies and outreach.

In 2007, she received the Auburn University Award for Excellence in Faculty Outreach for her work with the community of Uniontown. > Slaton's involvement with university outreach began long before her arrival at Auburn in 1993. While at the University of Hawaii in the 1980s, she was one of the designers of a method of deliberative public opinion polling and helped establish the first neighborhood justice center in Hawaii. A native of South Carolina, Slaton earned her Ph.D. in political science in 1990 and taught at Georgia Southern University before joining the political science faculty at Auburn three years later.

At Auburn, before joining the dean's office in the College of Liberal Arts, she served as director of the master of public administration progam and director of the elections administration progam in the Department of Political Science.

with Ted Becker, The Future of Teledemocracy: (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000).

with Steven Woolpert and Edward Schwerin, Transformational Politics: Theory, Study, and Practice (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998).

with Diane Hite, Patricia Duffy, David Bransby, “Consumer Willingness-to-Pay for Biopower: Results from Focus Groups, Biomass and Bioenergy (2007).

“The University Role in Civic Engagement: Serving as a Spark to Community Building,” Higher Education Exchange (2005), pp. 34-42.

“Interdependence and Ethics in Elections: The Case of the Butterfly Ballot,”(with Robert Montjoy) Public Integrity 4:3 (2002), pp. 195-210.