Honors College

phone: 512-245-2266

email: galloway@txstate.edu

bio: Dr. Heather Galloway is a professor of Physics and teaches a wide range of classes including: University Seminar, Freshman Physics, Modern Physics, and Building a Greener Future: One Home at a Time. Her research and professional activities focus on science education and her favorite part about being the Honors Dean is reading honors theses and mentoring our incredible students.

Email: rmh109@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-2266

Research interests: Modern European and American Intellectual History, Social and Protest Movements since the 1960s, Counterculture, Utopia

Bio: Ron Haas received his PhD in History from Rice University in 2007.  An intellectual historian of Modern Europe and the United States, Ron is particularly interested in radical and utopian thought in the 1960s and 1970s, and he has written extensively on the May ’68 movement in France, French Maoism, and Guy Hocquenghem, a prominent radical and  philosopher of the French ’68 generation who spearheaded the early gay liberation movement of the 1970s.

phone: 512-245-2266

email: jm1952@txstate.edu

bio: Jordan Morille is an Associate Professor of Instruction, award-winning playwright, novelist, script doctor, and content creator. He earned his MFA in Dramatic Writing from Texas State University in 2015. His first novel, The Blacktop Lagoon, released in 2022, and his podcast - GMWKS - is available on all platforms. He is the Region 6 chair of the National Playwriting Program for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and currently teaches courses in Playwriting, Screenwriting, Dramatic Adaptation, Southern Gothic Storytelling, and Creative Arts. 

phone: 512-245-2266

email: petert@txstate.edu

bio: Peter Tschirhart received his Ph.D. in the Critical & Comparative Studies of Music from the University of Virginia and his B.M. from Rice University. His research, which lies at the intersection of music and architecture, explores the emergence of the sound map: graphical schemes and musical notation that make affordances for the spatial—not just sonic—aspects of musical composition and performance. Outside of work, Dr. Tschirhart is a recreational runner and biker who may often be seen puttering around campus on his beloved Brompton. He is also an avid travel and coffee geek who is deeply (some might say suspiciously) dedicated to the mission and aesthetics of “third-wave” coffees.