Georgia Highlands College has announced the appointment of five new tenure-track faculty members for the fall semester 2013.
Elizabeth Dose has been named assistant professor of psychology and will be based on the Cartersville campus. She previously held teaching positions at Dayton (Fla.) State College, where she served as professor of psychology; the University of Central Florida, where she held the position of visiting professor of clinical psychology; and Seminole Community College in Sanford, Fla., where she held an adjunct position teaching psychology and career counseling. From 2001 until her move to Cartersville she was in private practice, providing counseling and educational services in Heathrow, Fla. Dose earned a Doctor of Philosophy in clinical psychology from Southern California University, a Master of mental health counseling from Troy State University in Ohio and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of Central Florida. She is listed in "Who's Who in America" and "Who's Who Among
America's Teachers." She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and the American Counseling Association.
Bentley Gibson is appointed assistant professor of psychology. She comes to GHC from Emory University where she is a doctoral candidate in psychology. She also holds a Master of Arts in psychology from Emory and a Bachelor of Psychology from Spelman College. She has spent extensive time on research covering the development of racial and gender preferences across cultures, implicit and explicit racial attitudes and the psychology of group biases. She has taught a variety of psychology courses as a teaching assistant and a teaching scholar both at Emory and Spelman. She is a member of the Metro-Atlanta Association of Black Psychologists, the Society for Research in Child Development Association, the Center for Mind, Brain and Culture at Emory and the Southeastern Psychological Association. She will be based on the Paulding campus, and will begin her official duties in January.
Chris Hart joins the faculty as an instructor of mathematics. He comes to GHC from Middle Tennessee State University, where he was also an instructor. He served as a graduate teaching assistant and tutor at Western Carolina University. Before attending graduate school he taught high school math at North Forsyth High School in Winston-Salem, N.C.; South Granville High School in Creedmoore, N. C. and Chattooga County High School in Summerville. He holds a Master of Science in applied mathematics from Western Carolina University and a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Berry College. He will be headquartered in Douglasville
Kathy Hunt has been appointed instructor of mathematics, and will work primarily on the Cartersville campus. She comes to Georgia Highlands from Shorter University, where she served as assistant professor of mathematics for the 2012-2013 academic year. She also was an adjunct instructor at Shorter from 1999 to 2012 while teaching at Cedartown High School. She was a high school math teacher at Cedartown from 1983 to 2012. Hunt earned a Master of Science in secondary education from West Georgia College (now the University of West Georgia) and a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Berry College. Hunt is a member of the National Educators Association, the Georgia Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Applied Math Association of Georgia.
Deidre Markham has joined GHC as a lecturer in nursing at the WellStar facility in Marietta. She was previously employed at various mental health facilities in the greater Atlanta area, including Willowbrooke at Tanner in Villa Rica, Peachford Hospital in Dunwoody and WellStar Cobb Behavioral Health in Austell. She holds a Master of Science in nursing from Western Governors University and a Bachelor of Science in nursing from Georgia Baptist College of Nursing. She is a veteran of the United States Air Force Guard, having received an honorable discharge in telecommunications.
Sarah Tesar comes to Georgia Highlands from Tulane University in New Orleans, where she taught chemistry to undergraduate students as she worked toward her doctorate. She will serve as assistant professor of chemistry, and will be based at the Marietta campus. Tesar earned her Doctor of Philosophy in chemistry from Tulane and her Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from the University of Illinois in Chicago. She received several awards during her time at Tulane, including the IBM Corporation Fellowship in Computational Science, the Links with Industry and National Labs Funding Award and the Trebellas Teaching Award in General Chemistry Laboratory. Aside from the research she undertook as she pursued her Ph.D., she was also a visiting researcher at the Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of British Columbia.
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