Honors Program Staff and Core Faculty
Work closely with award-winning faculty who light up the classroom and are passionate about teaching.
The faculty will connect with you one-on-one, advise and mentor, and serve along-side you in the community.
Director
Specialties: Interdisciplinary and hybrid approaches to themes and topics, Genocide in the 20th
Century and literature of witness, Medical humanities, Gender Studies, Science writing,
Speculative fiction, Unusual narrative strategies, Contemporary post-apocalyptic narratives,
Creative writing: poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, dramatic forms, Monster Theory,
fairy tales, and folklore in literature and pop culture.
- merie.kirby@UND.edu
- 701-777-2219
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Merrifield Hall, Room 120A
Associate Teaching Professor
Specialties: Civil Rights in America, History of Education, American Politics, Leadership
- david.cason@UND.edu
- 701.777.2219
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Merrifield Hall, Room 120B
Honors Teaching Fellow
Specialties: Educational Foundations, Multiculturalism, theater, Postcolonialism, Gender, Playwright.
- 701.777.2219
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Merrifield Hall, Room 120C
Honors Teaching Assistant
- mary.oleary@und.edu
- 701.777.2219
- Merrifield Hall, Room 120D
Administrative Associate
- paula.cox@UND.edu
- 701.777.2219
- Merrifield Hall, Room 120
Honors Program Affiliated Faculty
Yee Han Chu
Academic Support and Fellowship Opportunities Coordinator
- yee.chu@UND.edu
- 701-777-4436
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O'Kelly, Room 8