Diana Barber, the department’s  newest faculty member, will be teaching the Leven School’s law classes this fall, among others. Barber holds a J.D. from Mercer University and will bring more than a decade of teaching experience at Georgia State University's Robinson College of Business and three decades of hospitality law experience to the Leven School, including numerous years as the Vice President and Associate General Counsel for the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company.

 

Danelle Dyckhoff, the Department of First-Year and Transition Studies welcomes its newest assistant professor of English.  A Northern California native, Dyckhoff earned her B.A. in English from California State University, Sacramento before relocating to Los Angeles to begin a graduate program in English at Loyola Marymount University. Over the last ten years, she has taught first-year courses in literature, composition, and communication, and worked to develop several initiatives for supporting first-generation college students at LMU.

 

Dyckhoff holds a Ph.D. in English from Claremont Graduate University and specializes in 20th and 21st-century American historical fiction. Her research interests include representations of 19th century U.S. empire; spectrality and haunting in narratives of American culture and history; and first-year, first-generation college experiences and identities.

 

​​Felicia Mainella is the newest lecturer in the Department of Leadership and Integrative Studies.  Mainella will serve as a lecturer in Leadership Studies. She earned a Ph.D. in Counseling & Personnel Services with a concentration in Leadership Development and Ethics from the University of Maryland in 2003 and has held faculty positions at William Peace University and Virginia Commonwealth University as well as the Director of the Center for Student Leadership and Public Service at Bradley University.

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Adrienne McBroon, the new coordinator for the Office of Transition Programs (OTP), was welcomed by the staff in June. McBroom recently graduated with her Masters in Professional Counseling with a concentration in College Student Affairs and University College from the University of West Georgia.  She received her undergraduate degree in Mass Communications from East Tennessee State University.

​Lisa McKinney is the new Administrative Specialist in the Michael A. Leven School of Culinary Sustainability and Hospitality. McKinney comes to us from Georgia Northwestern Technical College, where she taught ESOL and GED classes for 16 years.  She and her husband operate Etcetera Farms, a small organic market/garden in Gordon County.

 

Marie Powell will begin her role as INTS Advisor on July 1 (no photo). Powell has worked for KSU as an advisor in the Math Department and, most recently, in the GATES office.