The C4I Affiliate Faculty is a community of MSU faculty members and staff who have a central interest in interdisciplinary research, teaching, and practice. C4I Faculty Affiliates represent a broad range of units on campus, including 10 colleges, and have access to small grant programs and networking opportunities. MSU faculty and staff apply for membership in the Affiliate Faculty in the fall of the year.
Kristin L. Arola
she/her
Associate Professor – Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures; Affiliate, Digital Humanities & American Indian & Indigenous Studies Program; Member, Multimodal Working Group
Christina Boyles
she/her
Assistant Professor of Culturally Engaged Digital Humanities – Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
Christina Boyles explores the relationship between disaster, social justice, and the environment, examining the impact of disaster response mechanisms on communities and envisioning new, more ethical, possibilities for the future.
Dr. NiCole T. Buchanan
she/her
Associate Professor of Psychology and Clinical Director/Founder of Alliance Psychological Associates, PLLC
Jennifer Carter-Johnson
she/her
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Law
James M. Chen
he/him
Justin Smith Morrill Chair in Law, Professor – School of Law, Counsel to Technology Law Group
Sung Soo Chung
he/him
Assistant Director of Institute for Global Health – College of Ost. Med.
Multidisciplinary approach for global health and One Health
Yuanfang Dai
she/her
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Writing – Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
Dai is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled Chinese Feminist Philosophy: Theorizing Chinese Feminism in Transcultural Contexts, which is a transdisciplinary writing project as it synthesizes and theorizes themes in Chinese feminist scholarship accumulated in multiple disciplines (such as history, sociology, philosophy, social science, comparative studies, religious studies, and cultural studies) in the past three decades.
Megan Dean
My current research focuses on the ethics of eating and engages with a range of philosophical traditions, psychological and sociological work, nutritional and diet research, as well as historical and literary analysis.
Valentina Denzel
she/her
Associate Professor of French – Romance and Classical Studies
I am currently analyzing the influence of the Marquis de Sade on DYI-cultures, including punk and comics, with a specific focus on second- and third wave feminist movements by combining a social, historical, political, philosophical, comparative and literary approach in studying these movements.
Laura Dilley
Alison Dobbins
she/her
Associate Professor of Integrated Performance Media Design – Theatre
Diane M. Doberneck
she/her
Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of Community Sustainability; The Center for Gender in Global Context, consulting and associate faculty; Diversity Research Network, member
I focus on interdisciplinary community-engaged scholarship (research and teaching & learning) and do that through research, professional development, workshops, mentoring, and consultations on campus and with other universities. My secondary interdisciplinary focus is on community engagement in conservation, sustainability, and rural community development, including in the rural West of Ireland’s Co. Mayo.
Heather Douglas
I am a philosopher of science who works on the relationships among science, values, and democratic publics. I am currently working on how to reconceptualize the relationship between science and society, away from a social contract model, towards one that captures the strengths and responsibilities inherent in empirical knowledge production, and shows more clearly the role broader society should play in that process.
Philip Effiong
he/him
Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and Integrative Arts & Humanities
The appropriation and performance of divine identities by autocratic rulers, and the audial and visual documentation of traumatic memories.
Kevin C. Elliott
he/him
Professor – Lyman Briggs College, Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife, and Philosophy, Member of National Academy of Sciences Committee on Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions
Max Evjen
Max Evjen works at the intersection of theatre, digital engagement, and museums.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Kathleen Fitzpatrick is director of MESH, a research and development unit at MSU focused on the future of digital scholarly communication, and she is director of Humanities Commons, an open-access network serving 29,000 scholars and practitioners across the humanities and around the world.
Steven Fraiberg
Jeremy Francis
he/him
Associate Clinical Professor of Law Writing Specialist – College of Law
Lissy Goralnik
she/her
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Community Engagement – Dept. of Community Sustainability
John Grey
Kathryn Houghton
Raven Jones Stanbrough
Deeply inspired by her daughter, Zuri Hudson, anti-racist instruction, the Civil Rights Movement, the Harlem Renaissance, social justice activism, and generational storytelling practices – Dr. Jones Stanbrough’s artistic and literary hankerings are inclusive of community outreach and teaching with joy.
Mary M. Juzwik
Zachary Kaiser
Mohammad Hassan Khalil
he/him
Associate Professor, Religious Studies Department; Adjunct Professor, College of Law, Director of the Muslim Studies Program
Sheril Kirshenbaum
she/her
Academic Specialist, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources – Community Sustainability
My research is at the intersection of science, policy and communication.
Ben Lauren
he/him
Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Culture; Director of Graduate Programs and Associate Chair
My scholarly interests are creative-critical rhetorics, institutional change, and experiential learning. I’m currently working on a new album about healing from trauma called Hold Me Down, which reimagines roots music as a way to explore the affective elements of genre.
Bethany Laursen
Bethany researches and facilitates knowledge integration in academia.
Sheng-mei Ma
Sheng-mei Ma (馬聖美mash@msu.edu) is Professor of English at Michigan State University in Michigan, USA, specializing in Asian Diaspora culture and East-West comparative studies.
Miles McNall
he/him
Director for Community-Engaged Research, Office for Public Engagement and Scholarship; Faculty at Dept. of Psychology
Dr. Georgina M. Montgomery
she/her
Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning – Lyman Briggs College
Engaged in an interdisciplinary NSF-funded project examining the impact of an inclusive climate on professional outcomes for under-represented scholars in academic STEM. Also working on a history of a long-term ecological site in Oxford, U.K., used for both scientific and artistic endeavors.
Sharlissa Moore
she/her
Associate Professor, International Energy Policy – James Madison College & College of Engineering
Perry Parks
Perry Parks is working to integrate humanistic perspectives such as history, philosophy, rhetoric, and art into journalism studies research, teaching, and practice.
Dr. Robert T. Pennock
he/him
University Distinguished Professor – Lyman Briggs College, Philosophy, Computer Science & Engineering; Director, The Vocational Virtues Project
A. Sean Pue
he/him
Associate Professor of Hindi Language and South Asian Literature and Culture, Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellow
Rocío Quispe-Agnoli
she/her
Professor of Hispanic Studies; Editor in Chief, REGS/Journal of Gender & Sexuality Studies
Listening to Native Latin America across the centuries.
Julie Sinclair
I am facilitating a doctoral fellowship focused on good practice in international collaborations. One piece of that is to highlight the growing role of interdisciplinary, international collaborative work.
Daniel T. Smith, Jr.
he/him
Assistant Professor – Theatre Studies
Dr. Sieg Snapp
she/her
Associate Director for the Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Professor – Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Chair of specializations in Ecological Food and Farming Systems & Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems.
David Stowe
In collaboration with MSU’s Institute of Global Health, I’m investigating the relationship between spirituality, religion, and human wellness.
Kaitlin Torphy
Ben Van Dyke
he/him
Associate Professor, Associate Chair, and Director of Graduate Studies in Art, Art History, and Design
Helen Zoe Veit
she/her
Associate Professor of History, focusing on Food, Culture, Science/Medicine, and Women & Gender
Judy Walgren
she/her
Associate Director, School of Journalism; Professor of Practice in Journalism, Project Manager and Creative Director for the Convergence for Innovative Energy Solutions grant
Brad Willcuts
he/him
Associate Professor of Musical Theatre and Choreography
Brad is researching Motion Capture, VR, AR and other digital connections between many areas in the humanities, specifically movement, social dance, acting, music and singing.
Laura Yares
she/her
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Trained in the interdisciplinary field of Religious Studies, Laura Yares’ current projects include a book on the history of the Jewish Sunday school in 19th century America, and a contemporary ethnographic study of Jewish cultural arts.
Wei Zhang
he/his
Associate Professor – Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Faculty – Environmental Science & Policy
Karin Zitzewitz
she/her
Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture – Department of Art, Art History, and Design
My most recent research on Indian contemporary art combines art historical and ethnographic methods in writing that cheerfully violates disciplinary boundaries that separate considerations of political economy from discussions of the artistic form.
Adam Zwickle
he/him
Associate Professor – Department of Community Sustainability, Environmental Science & Policy Program, School of Criminal Justice
My current research is focused on state and federal policy approaches towards sustainable natural resource management and climate change resilience.