Affiliate Faculty

Associate Professor Beth Murray, Ph.D., coordinates the program in Theatre Education.  With deep practical roots in both K-12 and community-based arts, Beth has worked extensively in school and community settings creating and researching arts-based multimodal literacy environments for and with youth. She has been a public-school theatre teacher, a freelance teaching artist, a program development […]

Julia Robinson Moore (Ph.D., Michigan State University) joined the Department of Religious Studies at UNC Charlotte in 2005. She teaches courses in African American religion, religions of the African Diaspora, and racial violence in America.  Her first book, Race, Religion, and the Pulpit: Reverend Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit (2015), explores how Second Baptist Church of […]

I am an urban-economic geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist who studies the geographic dimensions of migration, work, and sustainability. More specifically, I seek to understand who moves where and why in a global context, how individuals and groups experience and navigate work differently across space, and how places create human and social capital for sustainable […]

Dr. Brian Arreola is Professor of Voice & Opera Workshop at UNC Charlotte. He has appeared in lead and supporting tenor roles with opera companies across the US and Europe, including Minnesota Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Opera Carolina, Toledo Opera, New Orleans Opera, Grachtenfestival (Netherlands), Iford Opera (UK), and others. His singing of the […]

Ashley L. Tate is a director, choreographer, educator, and performer from Saint Louis, Missouri.  She is an assistant professor of dance at UNC Charlotte, an affiliate faculty member with the Department of Africana Studies, and founder, artistic director, and executive director of Ashleyliane Dance Company (ADC). ADC is a professional performance organization based in St. Louis, MO […]

Mira Frisch, Professor of Cello and Director of String Chamber Music at UNC Charlotte, previously taught cello and chamber music at Truman State University in Missouri and at the summer festival Musicale della Toscana in Italy. She has performed as a recitalist and chamber musician throughout the United States and in Bermuda, Italy, and France. Her recordings as […]

Assistant Professor of Architectural History Matthew Gin is a historian of 18th-century European architecture and visual culture. Of particular focus in his scholarship are actors, objects, and forms of expertise that sat on the edges of architectural practice in the early modern period. His current book project, Paper Monuments: The Politics of Ephemeral Festival Architecture in Enlightenment France, is […]

Education PhD: Writing and Rhetoric, Michigan State University, 2022MA: Technical Communication, Texas Tech University, 2017BA: English, Professional Writing, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2014 Research Interests Brief Bio I’m a rhetoric and writing researcher who uses qualitative methods and digital cultural rhetorics methodologies to understand the colonial intimacies between science, technology, and medicine. I […]

Margaret M. Quinlan (Ph.D., Ohio University) is a Professor of Communication and a Core Faculty Member of the Interdisciplinary Health Psychology Ph.D. Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Quinlan is the Director of an Interdisciplinary Program, Health & Medical Humanities and received the Harshini V. de Silva Graduate Mentor Award (2023) […]

Education Areas of Interest My areas of research interest include African American literature of the nineteenth century (specifically narrative studies), and African American women’s writing. I am currently working on articles about black women and mobility as portrayed through literature in the nineteenth century and representations of motherhood in post-emancipation African American literature.  Selected Publications […]