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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.

Merie Kirby
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
  • Merrifield Hall, Room 120A

Dr. David Cason
Associate Teaching Professor
Specialties: Civil Rights in America, History of Education, American Politics, Leadership
  • david.cason@UND.edu
  • 701.777.2219
  • Merrifield Hall, Room 120B

Hamzat Koriko
Honors Teaching Fellow
Specialties: Educational Foundations, Multiculturalism, theater, Postcolonialism, Gender, Playwright.
  • amoussa.koriko@UND.edu

  • 701.777.2219
  • Merrifield Hall, Room 120C

Maggie O'Leary
Honors Teaching Assistant
  • mary.oleary@und.edu
  • 701.777.2219
  • Merrifield Hall, Room 120D
Paula Cox
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
  • O'Kelly, Room 8

Honors Program
Merrifield Hall, Room 120
276 Centennial Drive
Grand Forks, ND 58202
P 701.777.2219
honors@UND.edu
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