An Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Texarkana, Corrine Hinton teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in writing, composition studies, qualitative research, and the teaching of writing. Corrine received her doctorate in English with an emphasis in rhetoric and composition from Saint Louis University and has been teaching writing at the college level since 2005. Her primary research interest lies in student veterans’ repatriation and writing experiences from the military to higher education. She has published her work in the collection, Generation Vet: Composition, Student-Veterans, and the Post-9/11 University (Utah State University Press) and in the veterans special collection of Composition Forum (Fall 2013). Hinton is Assistant Editor of the Journal of Veterans Studies, the first academic journal dedicated to interdisciplinary work with student veterans. Corrine also serves as Elizabeth Dole Foundation Fellow for the state of Texas to raise awareness of and advocate for military veteran caregivers. She is the proud wife and caregiver to a retired combat Marine and the daughter of two retired Air Force veterans.
Dr. Melillo is a Health Science Specialist at James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, Tampa, FL. She has over 25 years of nursing experience in a variety of environments, including oncology, mental health and brain injury rehabilitation. She has over 15 years of research experience within the VA with a focus on cognition, community reintegration and program development. Her primary research goal is to advance the science of community reintegration in Veterans with disabilities. Dr. Melillo is committed to contributing to the evidence base and developing interventions for improving community reintegration among Veterans with a range of disabilities, including traumatic brain injury.
Dr. Rosellen Roche is a physician and social anthropologist who is a tenured Associate Professor of Primary Care, Department of Family Medicine, Ohio University's School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio in association with the Cleveland Clinic. Throughout her career, Dr. Roche has had a passion for community engagement and health promotion with the allied health professions. Some of her unique collaborative work includes mediation work between military agencies and paramilitary bodies, patient-centered collaborations with US and UK military medical personnel, and novel applications of simulation technology in the medical education curriculum, particularly in environments of stress and trauma.
Matt Fossey is the Director of the Veterans and Families Institute for Military Social Research at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He has researched and written widely on health and veterans issues. He has a background in UK national health policy and service delivery. He is particularly interested in demonstrating research impact.
Matt studied Social Work at the University of Birmingham and worked as a Mental Health Approved Social Worker for seven years. He was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex, assisting in the delivery of their MSW programme. In 2004 he joined the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMHE) and was a member of the national service improvement team. He moved to the Department of Health where he was the Deputy Director of the flagship Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme, helping to convert an idea into a £1/2 billion nationally-delivered service.
He has extensive expertise in the UK voluntary sector, including working with the mental health charities Mind and Rethink Mental Illness as National Stakeholder Manager on the national anti-stigma campaign "Time to Change". He has also held a number of local and national trustee appointments including The Ripple Pond and Health Watch Essex (Vice Chair)Matt is a member of a number of national and international working groups on military and veteran related matters. He was a team member of the NATO research group exploring military to civilian transition and is currently co-chair of the NATO military sexual violence research panel. Matt is also a member of the international ministerial working group considering wellbeing in the military and veterans communities.
Matt has written widely including publications on veterans' health and wellbeing, mental health and liaison psychiatry, including a number of key publications with economist Michael Parsonage. Matt is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA) and a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Educators.
Christine Timko is a Senior Research Career Scientist, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) Service; Senior Investigator, HSR&D Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care system, and Clinical Professor (Affiliated), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Bryan Lee Miller is an associate professor of criminal justice at Clemson University and recent Fulbright Scholar at Tampere University. He earned his Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of Florida and his research and teaching interests are in drugs & society, corrections, and criminal justice policy. He is Chair of the Drugs and Alcohol Research Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Science, Associate Editor of the American Journal of Criminal Justice, and President of the Southern Criminal Justice Association.
Rita Phillips is a lecturer in Psychology at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK and completed her PhD at Oxford Brookes University. As part of her research, she examines perceptions of UK veterans in UK society, and as part of a BPS grant, perceptions of US veterans in US society. Rita has worked as a Fellow at the University of Oxford as part of the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series: “Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation”, and, at Oxford Brookes University as part of the “Veteran Poetry Workshops”. At conferences, her research was distinguished with awards such as the “Military Section Paper Award” (Eastern Sociological Society, Boston) and the “Emerging Scholar Award” (Berkeley University).
Kate Hendricks Thomas is a health researcher focused on military and veteran wellness. She is on the faculty of George Mason University's Department of Global and Community Health. She is the author of several books on veteran health and can be reached at her website: https://DocKate.com.
At Eastern Kentucky University I serve in dual roles as the Director of the Kentucky Center for Veterans Studies (KCVS) and as the First-Year Courses Administrator (FYC). My primary responsibilities include designing curricula, supporting retention, tracking academic success, training faculty, and establishing relationships between academic units and community partners.
KCVS emerged from the program in Veterans Studies I designed in 2011—the nation’s first. We provide students moving into careers serving veterans with an enriching academic experience coupled with service learning and professionalization. KCVS offers an interdisciplinary Veterans Studies Minor and University-level Certificate. Students contribute to an impressive oral history collection housed in the William H. Berge Center, and they have access to a mentorship program, internship opportunities, and a student organization—the Veterans Studies Alliance. We focus heavily on service learning.
As First-Year Courses Administrator, I support the retention and academic success of first-year college students. I design first-year seminars for in-person, online, and hybrid environments, supporting the needs of faculty in 120+ courses housed in seven different colleges or academic units. We track the cognitive and non-cognitive growth of thousands of first-year students, and through classroom instruction, extracurricular programming, and advising the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society, I try to provide each student with community and support as they adapt to college life.
My research interests are rooted in literary theory, social theory, and psychoanalytic trauma theory. I am particularly interested in the real impact of representations of veterans in literature, film, and the mainstream media. From 2011-2015, I founded and led Military Experience and the Arts, a non-profit which has held two national symposia and published hundreds of veterans’ creative works. During this time, I was also a VFW Service Officer, an Interviewer for the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, and a “Project America” Workshop Leader for the ArtReach Foundation. I deployed twice to Iraq with the US Army in 2003 and 2005.
I am working on a manuscript entitled Veteran Identity: Heroes, Wounded Warriors, and Veteran Storytellers in the Wake of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. My short works have appeared in places like The New York Times, American Imago (Johns Hopkins), The Forum for Modern Language Studies (Oxford), Writing on the Edge (UC-Davis), and War, Literature, and the Arts (USAF).
Bonnie Fox Garrity, EdD is a Professor of Business at D'Youville College in Buffalo, NY. She is also the Director of Internal Affairs of the Veteran and Military Affiliated Research Center at D'Youville College,
Ellis is a freelance writer and essayist. His work has been published in Relief Journal, Able Muse Review, Embodied Effigies Magazine, Ginosko Literary Journal, Jonah Magazine, and others. He was awarded a grant from the Fulbright Program and a teaching fellowship at Saint Mary's College of California, where he earned an M.F.A. Ellis was an editor for Warriors Always Ready Inc., a nonprofit benefitting veterans, reservists, and national guardsmen in the San Francisco Bay Area. He serves in the United States Army Reserve, where he frequently jumps from planes in flight.
Dr. Eric B. Fretz holds a dual PhD in Psychology and Education from the University of Michigan, along with several other degrees. He is retired from 20 years of commissioned service in the U.S. Navy, including three deployments to two wars. He teaches the core course for UM's #1 ranked undergraduate Entrepreneurship minor, and teaches in Psychology, Education, and Engineering as well. He is federally appointed as the State Director for the Selective Service System in Michigan, and serves the community in a variety of volunteer roles including (but not limited to): running two veteran charities, directing the mentor program for the Washtenaw County Veterans Treatment Court, a founder and board member for the Michigan Military and Veteran Hall of Fame, and the Chairman of the State of Michigan's Veteran Community Action Team 9 which serves 60,000 veterans across six counties. He and his wife, Dr. Jennifer Fretz, live on the Huron River on the outskirts of Ann Arbor with their three children.
James M. Dubinsky is an associate professor of Rhetoric and Writing in the Department of English at Virginia Tech (VT). He was the founding director of the department’s Professional Writing program and of VT Engage, the University’s service-learning and civic engagement center. He has served in all leadership positions in the Association for Business Communication, and since 2011, he has been serving as the Executive Director. Equally important, Jim is retired from 28 years of service in the U.S. Army, and has been working to build a Veterans in Society focus at Virginia Tech. He is the founding Chair of VT’s Veterans Caucus, and served in that position from 2014 to 2019. Jim has been honored with awards at the college and university levels for teaching, scholarship, and outreach. His work has appeared in scholarly publications such as Business Communication Quarterly, Technical Communication Quarterly, Issues in Writing, the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, and Present Tense. He is the author of Teaching Technical Writing: Critical Issues for the Classroom.
Dr. Kathryn A. Broyles graduated with her Ph.D. in Composition from Indiana University of Pennsylvania where she also completed the core curriculum in TESOL. She has been teaching online and developing curriculum for cyber classrooms since 2000, transitioning to full-time, online teaching in 2009 when she took up the post of Director of General Studies at American Military University. She currently serves as Professor of Humanities assigned to the Program in Philosophy & Religion. Her present writing instruction responsibilities center graduate writing and research, graduate capstone mentorship, and writing across the curriculum. Her research interests are varied, but nearly always reflect her commitment to veterans studies, to gender studies, and to the success of first-generation college students.
I am a professor of social work at a small public university in Connecticut. In addition to my research on Post 9/11 veterans, I provide pro bono clinical services to veterans.
A first-generation college student, Dr. Eduardo Tinoco holds a Doctor of Education degree from the USC Rossier School of Education, a Master of Library and Information Science Degree from San Jose State University, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree, in English, from California State University, Northridge. His dissertation title "Exploring the Satisfaction, Experiences, Institutional Support of Student Veterans in Transition to Higher Education: A Case Study" is available through the USC Digital Library: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu
Twenty-five years of experience in the entertainment, finance, and education fields enhance Ed's work as a Business Librarian at the USC Libraries. Ed is also a 2012 participant, and graduate, of the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Leadership Institute for Academic Libraries (LIAL). He is currently serving his third term as a member of the Board of Directors of the Paralyzed Veterans of America Research Foundation and is a former Los Angeles Public Library Commissioner and senior USC Libraries administrator.
Prior to pursuing his education, Ed served with the United States Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment and Ranger Training Brigade. He continues to remain active with many veterans’ groups at USC and beyond.
Professor Jeremy M. Teigen (Ph.D. University of Texas, B.A. University of Wisconsin) is a former Fulbright Scholar, the director of the political science program at Ramapo College of New Jersey, and teaches courses on American government and electoral phenomena. His writes on elections, political participation, and the politics of military service, publishing articles in Armed Forces & Society, European Security, Political Communications, Political Geography, Political Research Quarterly and other venues. His book Why Veterans Run: Military Service in American Presidential Elections, 1789-2016, is published by Temple University Press. His research has been featured in media coverage of American elections, in sources such as The New York Times, NPR, US News and World Report, The Weekly Standard, and elsewhere. He served in the US Air Force for four years in Strategic Air Command.
Dr. Liam Corley is a Professor of English at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His book, Determined Dreamer, Bayard Taylor and America’s Rise, was published in 2014 by Bucknell University Press. He is a veteran of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, and his work on literature and war has been published in War, Literature, & the Arts, College English, the Journal of Veterans Studies, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. His current project, The Voice of the Veteran in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century American Literature, has received a year-long research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Professor and chair of the history department at Marquette University. Specialist in Civil War era. Author of Sing Not War: The Lives of Union & Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America (UNC, 2011), and America's Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace (Georgia, 2014). Author, editor, and co-editor of eighteen additional books on Civil War era and children's history. Former editor of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. Guest Editor for special issue on veterans for Journal of the Civil War Era.
Alexis Hart is an Associate Professor of English and the Director of Writing at Allegheny College, where she regularly teaches an introduction to literature course focused on Post-9/11 war literature and a community-engaged seminar that connects first-year college students with local military members and veteran-focused organizations. A U.S. Navy veteran, Hart commissioned through Naval ROTC at the University of Rochester as a Supply Corps officer in 1993. After receiving her professional training at the Navy Supply Corps School (NSCS) in Athens, Georgia, Hart reported to her first ship, the USS ESSEX (LHD-2) in San Diego in 1994. After 36 months aboard the ESSEX, Hart returned to Athens as an instructor at NSCS. While serving at NSCS, Hart began attending graduate school at the University of Georgia (UGA). In 1999, Hart resigned her commission and began attending UGA full-time and earned her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition in 2003. Hart has published scholarly work on veterans' issues, and was the co-recipient, with Roger Thompson, of a Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Research Grant to study veterans returning to college writing classrooms. In 2017, Hart and Thompson's article “Veterans in the Writing Classroom: Three Programmatic Approaches to Facilitate the Transition from the Military to Higher Education” received the Richard Braddock Memorial Award, which is presented to the author(s) of the outstanding article on writing or the teaching of writing in the CCCC journal, College Composition and Communication (CCC) during the year ending December 31 before the annual CCCC Convention. The article was also selected for publication in The Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2018. Hart is a co-founder of the CCCC Standing Group “Writing with Former, Current, and Future Members of the Military,” served as co-chair of the CCCC Task Force on Veterans, and was competitively selected to participate in the 2016 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute “Veterans in Society: Ambiguities and Representations" held at Virginia Tech. At Allegheny, Hart is the faculty advisor for the Army ROTC club and the Allegheny Veterans Services (AVS) student group.
Shane Hammond is a practitioner and scholar in higher education with over twenty years of experience in administration and leadership, including Student Affairs, human resource management, policy analysis, strategic planning and assessment and the application of student centered, high impact retention and completion practices. Shane has been a practitioner in both the public and private sectors of higher education throughout his career.
Now serving as Graduate Program Director and Lecturer in Higher Education at the University of Massachusetts College of Education, Shane continues his work in administration, curriculum design and teaching, supporting comprehensive student learning and international development in higher education. His teaching includes courses in Student Affairs practice, student development theory, community college leadership and higher education foundations for the Department of Education Policy, Research and Administration.
Shane's empirical research of student veterans in higher education has been nationally recognized and published in peer reviewed academic journals and online forums. His scholarly interests include the development of policy and institutional levers for promoting access to higher education for historically marginalized student populations nationally and internationally.
Bonnie Fox Garrity, EdD is a Professor of Business at D'Youville College in Buffalo, NY. She is also the Director of Internal Affairs of the Veteran and Military Affiliated Research Center at D'Youville College,
