Faculty Marshal History

Prior to 1978, there was no Faculty Marshal at the College of Charleston. It is unclear what prompted the decision to establish the position, but in the 1978 Commencement program, a Faculty Marshal was listed among the processional for the first time. Though no name was published, institutional memory confirms that Harry Freeman, the beloved Professor of Biology and Chair of the Biology department, was the first Faculty Marshal at the College of Charleston. Professor Freeman served as Faculty Marshal for over a decade, until Professor William (Bill) Lindstrom assumed the role in 1990. Dr. Lindstrom had been a faculty member in the Department of Physics before serving as the Dean of Undergraduate Studies, and then as Director of Enrollment Management. 

In 2002, after Dr. Lindstrom had served for 12 years as Faculty Marshal, the role passed to Professor Lynn Cherry, who joined the College in 1991, and at present continues as an active faculty member in the Department of Communication, of which she is a founding member. Like her predecessors, Dr. Cherry served a 10-year term from 2002-2011, and a 3-year term from 2013-2016, with Dr. Alison Smith of the Department of French, Francophone & Italian Studies, stepping in during the 2012-2013 academic year.

In 2016 Professor Devon Hanahan, faculty member of the Department of Hispanic Studies, succeeded Dr. Cherry, and served through the 2023 Spring commencement ceremonies.  Professor Hanahan is responsible for creating the Cistern Closet, which provides free, gently used commencement attire for students.

Beginning in Spring 2023, a new tradition was established that names the annual recipient of the William V. Moore Teacher-Scholar Award to the position of Faculty Marshal.

Faculty Marshal

Tim Barker

Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Tim Barker graduated from Saint Olaf College with a chemistry degree and holds a Doctorate degree in organic chemistry from the University of California, Irvine. Since August 2013, he has taught in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the College of Charleston. Tim’s research focuses on the development of new organic reactions. Tim has received external research grants to fund his research from the following agencies: the SC IDeA Networks and Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) program, the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, and Organic Syntheses PUI grant program. Tim is currently the chair of the local South Carolina American Chemical Society chapter. Tim received the Michael J. Auerbach Award for Excellence in Student Research Mentoring in 2021 and the William V. Moore Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Award for the College of Charleston in Spring 2024. When not in the lab, Tim enjoys spending time with his family.

School of the Arts

Hsin-Ching Wu

Assistant Professor, Arts Management

Hsin-Ching Wu specializes in nonprofit arts and cultural management, public policy, and social equity. Her research addresses topics such as national arts branding initiatives, artists' contributions to public value, digital branding for government public relations, and issues affecting immigrant and marginalized populations. Recognized with the Best Paper by Emergent Arts Administration Educator award by the Association of Arts Administration Educators, she also serves on the board of Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts. Dr. Wu, a Founders’ Fellow of the American Society for Public Administration, holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. With experience in university gallery collection management and private art collections, she explores diverse narratives in cultural institutions. She has also been a research affiliate at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

School of Business

Peter T. Calcagno

Professor, Economics

Peter Calcagno earned his B.S. in Economics and History from Hillsdale College and Ph.D. in Economics from Auburn University. He is currently a Professor of Economics at the College of Charleston. He is the founding director of the Center for Public Choice & Market Process, an undergraduate free market center. The Center includes the Market Process Scholars, a multi-year mentoring program focused on research and study of markets and professional development. He is a Public Choice and Public Policy Project Fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research. He serves as the Treasurer of the Public Choice Society and president of the Classical Liberals in the Carolinas. He has served on the board of the Association of Private Enterprise Education. His primary research areas are applied microeconomics, specifically public choice economics and political economy. Before CofC, he taught at Wingate University, Jacksonville State University, and Georgia State University.

School of Education

Kelley Mayer White

Program Director, Early Childhood Education

Kelley Mayer White is professor of early childhood development in the Department of Teacher Education. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in early childhood and elementary literacies, social and emotional development and creating effective learning environments. Her teaching is centered on fostering student autonomy, belonging and competence. Dr. White researches the impact of teacher-child relationship quality and classroom climate on children’s learning and development. She also serves as director for early childhood undergraduate and graduate programs. In her free time, Kelley enjoys reading, running and spending time at the beach with her husband and two young daughters.

School of Health Sciences

Tom Carroll

Senior Instructor, Health & Human Performance

Tom Carroll is an accomplished educator with a rich background in teaching and administration. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1991 from the College of Charleston and later obtained his master's degree from Auburn University. With eleven years of teaching experience at Woodward Academy in Atlanta, Georgia, Tom began his tenure at the College of Charleston in 2003. Currently, Tom serves as the Associate Chair of the Department of Health & Human Performance and the Director of the Physical Activity and Lifetime Movement Program. His dedication to education and student development is evident through his leadership and commitment to the college community. Outside of his professional life, Tom enjoys staying active with his family. He and his wife, who is also a graduate of the College of Charleston, are proud parents of five children.

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Mark Long

Professor of Political Science

Trained in Ireland, Spain and the U.S., political geographer Mark Long is professor of political science and curator at large and academic liaison at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. He also directs the College’s Geography program and makes getting students out into the world a priority through study abroad programs all across Europe, most recently to study Brexit on the ground in the UK. His research is concerned with intersections between visual culture and place, and he has written about street art, editorial cartoons and landscape photography. In his work as a curator, Long has curated exhibitions of fine art photography from Antarctica to Afghanistan to the American West, by award-winning American and international artists. The catalog for his co-curated exhibition Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South won the Alice Award in 2019. Free time is given over to music, cycling, soccer, hiking and reading, ideally with his wife, Olga and teenage daughter, Nela.

School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs

Margaret Keneman

Assistant Professor of French

Margaret Keneman is an assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies, affiliate faculty in Linguistic Studies and coordinator for the Beginning and Intermediate French Program. She conducts research in the field of applied linguistics and teaches all levels of French including the required writing course for newly declared majors and minors as well as advanced courses designed in partnership with the Center for Applied Linguistics in Besançon, France. She has also co-designed a First Year Experience learning community that offers experiential learning opportunities with the Huguenot Society of South Carolina, the South Carolina Historical Society, the Addlestone Library Archives and Special Collections, and the Alliance Française of Charleston. She completed her Bachelor’s in English and French at Clemson University and earned her doctorate in French and educational studies from Emory University.

School of Engineering, Computing, and Mathematics

RoxAnn Stalvey

Senior Instructor, Computer Science

Honors College

Lancie Affonso

Honors Faculty Fellow & Director of ELLC

Lancie Affonso ’96 is a first-gen graduate of the College of Charleston and an alumnus of the Honors Program. He completed his IMBA from USC’s Darla Moore School of Business in 1998. After working with a startup, he returned to the College of Charleston in 2001 to continue his interdisciplinary lifelong learning journey by teaching and mentoring FYE students in Computer Science, Business, and Honors. He currently serves as an honors faculty fellow and director of the Honors Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community (ELLC.) He is the recipient of the 2022 Distinguished Undergraduate Mentor Award. In his free time, he has been spotted in a CofC T-shirt walking across the cistern or biking on campus or downtown.

Graduate School