Advising contacts in Arts and Sciences departments and units

Joseph Hellweg is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor of religion. He has worked among dozo hunters in Côte d’Ivoire ("Hunting the Ethical State," U. Chicago Press, 2011), N’ko healers in Guinea and Mali ("Living the City in Africa," eds. Obrist, Arlt & Macamo, LIT Verlag, 2013), and trans women and gay men in Côte d’Ivoire ("Public Religion and the Politics of Homosexuality in Africa," eds. van Klinken & Chitando, Routledge, 2016). He is past president of the Mande Studies Association and co-editor-in-chief of its journal, Mande Studies (Indiana University Press). He is deputy editor at the Journal of Religion in Africa (Brill) and co-editor of the “Religion in Transforming Africa” book series for James Currey/Boydell & Brewer (UK); and he has published in Africa, the African Studies Review, Africa Today, Afrique contemporaine, Journal of Africana Religions, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, JRAI, and in several edited collections.

Orenda Johnson earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Florida State University in 2005. She also holds a Master of Science in psychology from FSU and a Bachelor of Science from Stetson University. Johnson teaches a variety of undergraduate courses including Introduction to Neuroscience, Physiological Psychology, Sensation and Perception, and Biological Basis of Brain Dysfunction. She has previously taught Research Methods in Psychology, Neuroscience Methods, and a graduate course in neuroanatomy. Johnson also runs the Teaching Psychology Practicum which trains graduate students prior to teaching their own lecture courses. She currently serves as the psychology department’s director of undergraduate studies and the faculty adviser for the undergraduate honor society Nu Rho Psi.

Katherine Mooney is interested in the cultural history of citizenship in the United States – how it is imagined and made into political and legal discourse, how it plays out in people's daily lives. Her first book, Race Horse Men, examines the generations of Black men who worked with Thoroughbred horses from the colonial period to the 1920s. Her most recent book, Isaac Murphy, tells the story of Reconstruction and Redemption through the life of one of America's first superstar Black athletes.

Graduate advising for Interdisciplinary Humanities. Undergraduate Advising for Modern Languages and Linguistics.