The Addiction Studies minor is purposefully interdisciplinary. Faculty from a range of different disciplines and areas of expertise contribute to the minor with approved courses offered from within their respective departmental course lists each semester.
| Name | Department | Title | Topical Foci | Office | Contact Email |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. Damien Arthur | Political Science and Public Adminstration | Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Policy | Public Administration; Program evaluation; Budgetary politics; Nonprofit management; Public policy processes; Leadership; Community-based learning | 739G Smith Hall | arthur133@marshall.edu |
| Deeidra Beckett | Social Work | Graduate Assistant Instructor | Substance use and Social Work | GA Office, Prichard Hall | gravely22@marshall.edu |
| Dru Bora | Criminal Justice & Criminology | Professor | US drug control policy; Drug crime connections | Smith Hall 733 | bora@marshall.edu |
| Jonathan D. Day-Brown | Psychology | Assistant Professor | Physiological psychology; Sensation and perception; Animal behavior; Psychopharmacology; Opioid-exposure effects on visual system development; Visual signal processing; Interactions between visual and limbic systems; Visual neuroscience; Evolutionary aspects of drug use and effects | Harris Hall 314 | daybrown@marshall.edu |
| Jo Dee Gottlieb | Social Work | BSW Program Director, Professor | Viewing substance use and understanding addiction and recovery from a social work, bio-psycho-social perspective | Prichard Hall 310 | gottlieb@marshall.edu |
| Brian A. Hoey | Sociology & Anthropology | Professor in Anthropology | Bio-cultural approaches to health; Culture and environment; Community development; Ethnographic methods; Migration; Disaster studies | Smith Hall 739D | hoey@marshall.edu |
| Marianna Footo Linz | Psychology | Professor | linz@marshall.edu | ||
| Kelli Larson | Social Work | – | – | – | – |
| Gary Mcilvain | College of Health Professions | – | – | – | – |
| Liz Pacioles | Health Science | Assistant Professor | Health behavior change; incorporation of lifestyle changes (exercise, mindfulness, recreation) into treatment | Gullickson Hall 100C- | caseyel@marshall.edu |
| Kristin Steele | English | Visiting Assistant Professor | Addiction literature, especially memoir, autobiographical novel, and novel; Autobiography and scriptotherapy; Representations of Substance Use Disorders and addiction in news media and popular culture; Rhetoric and addiction | Corbly Hall 456 | steele47@marshall.edu |
| Blair Thornton | Health Sciences | Associate Professor | Physiological and behavioral drug effects; harm reduction strategies; in-patient and out-patient treatment methodologies | Gullickson Hall 100D | thorntonb@marshall.edu |
| Stephen T. Young | Criminal Justice & Criminology | Assistant Professor | Critical rural criminology; State allowed environmental crime; Media depictions of rural populations; Rural drug policy with focus on Appalachian region | Smith Hall 734 | young250@marshall.edu |
| Kim White | Social Work | – | – | – | – |
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